Ke$ha Gets Glittertastic On "Take It Off" Video

Our favorite hot mess Ke$ha keeps her outrageous factor going and is finally gotten off her arse and released a video for new single "Take It Off," the fourth single off her debut album, "Animal." The track seems to embody relentless, carefree hedonism at its best, and Ke$ha definitely has her own kind of flare, sound, look, and overall uniqueness that sets her apart from other artist.
"Take It Off" was initially written about when Ke$ha was attending a drag show, and how she became really turned on by transvestite men taking their clothing off. The song is an upbeat dancepop song that uses heavy amounts of auto tune and utilizes an electro infused beat. With a crazy chalk-filled dance party in a drained swimming pool, the Paul Hunter-directed clip is truly a dirty free-for-all. Ke$ha explained the video is "about me and all my hot vampire babe friends breaking into a hotel on another planet, roll around in glitter, and at the end we all turn into this beautiful stardust. Once you take it all off, all your inhibitions, your clothes, we're all made up of the same thing." She added that the video "isn't just about taking off your clothes and rolling in glitter. It's also about taking off your inhibitions and being raw and real."
The 23-year-old brash singer-songwriter is more than just a ton of fun or a one-trick party girl. Raised in Nashville by her semi-famous but often struggling songwriter mother, Ke$ha grew up alternating between living on food stamps and hanging out in recording studios. She fell in love with country music and was determined from an early age to be a rock star. By her senior year of high school, she had been accepted to study psychology at Columbia, but instead dropped out to move to L.A. and pursue music. Her gamble paid off. Her breakthrough came in early 2009 after appearing on Flo Rida's No.1 single "Right Round." "When I first heard my voice on 'Right Round' on the radio, I started screaming and crying," Ke$ha says.
Musically, her successful chart-topping debut "Animal" is of the dance-pop genre, while incorporating elements of electro and electropop in its production and beats, which was seven years in the making and resulted in Ke$ha's accumulating over two hundred songs by the time of its release, with fourteen making the final cut, is shaping up to be an edgy collection of hard-hitting electro-pop songs, made all the more irresistible by their high-octane punk energy and Ke$ha's irreverent lyrics and attitude. "I want my music to be fun, unapologetic, rowdy, quirky, humorous, and interesting," she says, "but with substance behind it. I'm an emotional person underneath all my fronting. I want people to listen to it and feel like they can relate." Not surprisingly, the songs showcase Ke$ha's flair for storytelling, though her choice of subject matter isn't exactly conventional.