Ke$ha - Animal album review (and stream the WHOLE album FREE)
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Ke$ha stares confrontationally from Animal’s sleeve in all her nose-ringed glory, sporting a style that’s more ‘morning after the night before’ than ‘eight hours a night and five a day’. Her songs involve vomming in Paris Hilton’s closet and brushing her teeth with Jack Daniels and she uploads videos of herself stealing from charity bins. Forget aspirational figures or girls-next-door, Ke$ha’s success seems to herald the arrival of a whole new breed of pop star. But whilst critics sneer and prudes shirk, Ke$ha’s trashtastic image may just be a smokescreen that’s having the last laugh – Kesha Sebert’s actually an industry veteran (scoring co-writes for The Veronicas and Miley Cyrus) with enough demos floating around the web to suggest she could have put out a 30-track version of Animal with no significant drop in quality. That is to say, Animal is bloody good stuff.
Imagine Amanda from Ugly Betty and Lindsay Lohan got together and in-between all the partying, getting wasted and being papped knickerless, managed to record an album. Say they used Fergie’s persona as inspiration. The results might just sound like Animal, except it’s unlikely they’d cook up songs as catchy as this. These are choruses designed to do one thing and one thing only – Get. Inside. Your. Head. And possibly never get out again. They’re more likely to infect your brain than a zombie invasion.
Tik Tok is a drawling romp through a wild weekend that you never want to end, Your Love Is My Drug boasts an arms-aloft chorus euphoric in its awesomeness, the punch-the-air pogo-ing ‘woahs’ of Party At A Rich Dude’s House epitomise frat party better than any dictionary definition ever could and the tale of a love-rat who ‘should have kept it in your pants’ in Kiss N Tell may go down as one of Dr Luke’s most thrilling and exhilarating productions to date. Backstabber boasts a mean, almost tango-esque hook with even the slower songs (Hangover, Blind) displaying Sebert’s inimitable ability to unearth a chorus worthy of stomper status.
The lyrics may be juvenile (kicking men to the curb unless they look like Mick Jagger, pissing in the Dom Perignon and spending Dinosaur telling an ‘old man’ to ‘get a CAT scan’) but mostly, endearingly so. The few missteps include Stephen, complete with harmonies that sound like Glee gone bad, and the playground chants of Dinosaur (guessing Ke$ha won’t be Help The Aged’s ambassador any time soon), largely of note for showing Ke$ha can spell dinosaur… several times. But just when you think there’s little substance to Sebert’s raps and glam-trash styling, up pops Animal (the song). With a whooshy chorus set to make you go weak at the knees, it’s an absolute stonker of a pop record in anyone’s books.
Animal is slightly grubby, the aural equivalent of the naughty magazine stuffed furtively in a brown mac, but the music glitters as brightly as Ke$ha’s eye make-up. Her sudden international chart success may have all the hallmarks of a whirlwind romance, and who knows quite how long this filthy love affair might last, yet we’re enjoying the ride for now very much indeed.
What's your verdict on Animal?
Anon_Cel
Easily one of the best albums I’ve heard in a while. I actually really like Dinosaur and Stephen but not many other people seem to. The only song I’m not ‘feeling’ is Animal which everyone seems to love. Maybe that’s just me being a bit backwards. This album is almost guaranteed to be huge, I just hope she picks the right songs as singles.
Libby_GAGA
Fabulous Album. I love all of her songs, and i know this album will do great. Brilliant, i love Ke$ha.
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P.Bateman:)
Ok… soo i shall start with this…
* anyway soo this album does indeed as she says makes you wanna grab the glitter and dance until you sweat even if you dont wanna 
the biggest thing of 2010?! you bet your bottom dollar. but personally for me after seeing her at T4 and her showcase the highlight of 2009 
I got into Ke$ha when hearing songs like slow motion and backstabber for first time and i worried when i heard about her making an album because she might of lost some of the rawness to her music *haha rawness like a dinosaur
Dinasour has slowed down a little but i still love it
The inclusion of 3oh3! is amazing on blah blah blah and im so happy it the next single.. can you all say number 1?!
sooo i love Ke$ha i have her name tattooed on my wrist which before people heard animal i got a lot of stick for but now people wana talk about her
Rachel
I first listened to Ke$ha’s album about three weeks ago as I managed to obtain it here in the UK before its release date next week. So far I have only listened to the first half of the album, but am very impressed. She is different but she can pull it off - it doesn’t sound tacky or anything. Very well put together song/lyrics too. Your Love Is My Drug catches me at the end of the song!!
y0david6
take me off is my favourite track on the album
BOYLICIOUSSS
LOVE Ke$ha! Best buy in a while!
Frickin’ love Take It Off, Your Love Is My Drug and Backstabber < 3
EMILY!!!x
I have Ke$ha’s album and its AMAZING!
D-I-N-O-S-A-YOU-ARE a dinosour!
lol x
xclairey
I downloaded this album the other week and I love it! My favourite song is ‘Take It Off’, I love it.