Ke$ha has been threatening to rawk out for quite a while, so with the help of some elusive (to her) electric guitars and Stooges icon Iggy Pop, the pop singer finally gets to show off her snarl with the newly leaked "Warrior" track, "Dirty Love." And just before 2013 ended, might as well start off the new year with a nasty bang, the LA-born singer premiered the filtered grainy video for "Dirty Love" ("my favorite on the record," she's said) on YouTube. According to Ke$ha's track-by-track commentary, she loves this song "because we're just screaming about sex."
Pop's 1977 debut solo long player, "The Idiot," was cited by Ke$ha as one of "Warrior"'s main musical influences when she was constructing the album's sound, so it's not a major surprise that she ended up collaborating with the veteran rocker on this track. "Dirty Love" was inspired by Pop's music and draws from garage rock and punk rock and celebrates the lack of fancy things in favor of something more raw. It finds Ke$ha sporting a rockier tone to her vocals, influenced by her love of '70s music. Whilst the "TiK ToK" singer's previous records were dominated by synth sounds and the use of Auto-Tune and incorporate more guitar-based songs on "Warrior."
In a recent Billboard cover story, she said she was so adamant about proving herself that she first contemplated making "Warrior" a rock album. Speaking with UK radio station Capital FM, the singer described the experience of recording with Iggy as "insane." She continued: "It was amazing because, for me, saying something nice about someone, that's being polite. But to actually [work]... with someone that's putting both of your names and making a piece of art together, and you kind of have to respect one another for that. So I obviously respect the hell out of him, but for him to respect me enough to actually put his name on something and collaborate with me was incredibly flattering as an artist."
The song is a gnarly rocker with lots of distortion and Ke$ha's "out-there" visual is death by glitter, which is the the 26-year-old singer's directorial debut as she acting a fool, rocking garter belts, rainbow-colored hair and writhing around on the floor, plays a stripper, ripping her clothes off, shows off her hot booty to the masses. She also gets doused in champagne, which she spits at the camera, as well as dancing with a pair of transvestite dancers, as the mighty rock beat takes over her. Dirty, indeed. Yes, it's Ke$ha through and through. The clip closes with sound bytes from a news cast about smut peddlers!
Pop's 1977 debut solo long player, "The Idiot," was cited by Ke$ha as one of "Warrior"'s main musical influences when she was constructing the album's sound, so it's not a major surprise that she ended up collaborating with the veteran rocker on this track. "Dirty Love" was inspired by Pop's music and draws from garage rock and punk rock and celebrates the lack of fancy things in favor of something more raw. It finds Ke$ha sporting a rockier tone to her vocals, influenced by her love of '70s music. Whilst the "TiK ToK" singer's previous records were dominated by synth sounds and the use of Auto-Tune and incorporate more guitar-based songs on "Warrior."
In a recent Billboard cover story, she said she was so adamant about proving herself that she first contemplated making "Warrior" a rock album. Speaking with UK radio station Capital FM, the singer described the experience of recording with Iggy as "insane." She continued: "It was amazing because, for me, saying something nice about someone, that's being polite. But to actually [work]... with someone that's putting both of your names and making a piece of art together, and you kind of have to respect one another for that. So I obviously respect the hell out of him, but for him to respect me enough to actually put his name on something and collaborate with me was incredibly flattering as an artist."
The song is a gnarly rocker with lots of distortion and Ke$ha's "out-there" visual is death by glitter, which is the the 26-year-old singer's directorial debut as she acting a fool, rocking garter belts, rainbow-colored hair and writhing around on the floor, plays a stripper, ripping her clothes off, shows off her hot booty to the masses. She also gets doused in champagne, which she spits at the camera, as well as dancing with a pair of transvestite dancers, as the mighty rock beat takes over her. Dirty, indeed. Yes, it's Ke$ha through and through. The clip closes with sound bytes from a news cast about smut peddlers!
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