Your Love Is My Drug -- Ke$ha

• Song: Your Love Is My Drug
• Artist: Ke$ha
• Album: Animal
• Rating: 3 1/2 Stars

Ke$ha: another addition to the long list of pop starlets which boast of names such as Britney, Katy, and Gaga.  In Ke$ha's Your Love Is My Drug, she once again attepts to both stand out from and blend in with her illustrious collegues.

The main plot point of the song can be found in the name: his love is her drug.  Ke$ha is obsessed with him and, it might be a lack of sleep or perhaps something more serious.  She sees him everywhere, even in her dreams.  She always hopes that he will be there.  She is like an addict for him.  She is like an addict for him.  He is special, and she thinks about him all the time.  People are telling her that she should give him up, but she cannot.  What she suffers from his absence washes away when he is there, and when he is gone, her world comes crashing down.  He is her drug.

The song is played in the style of a pop song from the late 90's or early 00's.  The only flaw being the final piece, where she states for the final time that his love is her drug, while laughing, and then randomly says that she likes his beard.  This final piece seems sloppily written, performed, and placed.  It is completely different from the quality of the rest of the song, begging the question, why?  The quality portions of the song however, are well-done, and provide an excellent addition to Ke$ha's previous single, Tik Tok.  The song has a heavy baseline, and the lyrics and sound make Your Love Is My Drug as addictive to the listener as Ke$ha's obsession is to her.

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Tik Tok -- Ke$ha

• Song: Tik Tok
• Artist: Ke$ha
• Album: Animal
• Rating: 3 1/2

Tik Tok is the first single, and superhit from Ke$ha's dubut album, Animal.  While other artists are writing hit songs about depression and struggling through issues, Tik Tok shows us that good times can sell too.
Tik Tok is primarily about partying.  In the song Ke$ha talks about how when she wakes up in the morning she feels fabulous, like Diddy,* She is going to party and have fun, and she is going to do it all night.  Guys are always calling her and her friends, but she has nothing to do with them unless the guys are rich and hot.  She is not going to stop partying until she sees the sun or until the police make her stop, and does not have any problems unless she has "plenty of beer."  She is popular, and confident, because the party is nothing until she arrives.
In Tik Tok, Ke$ha accomplishes a great feat for a pop/dance artist in having just enough in the music without going overboard.  At the beginning of the song, only a synthesizer plays, after which the beat follows continuously.  During the bridge, the music slows, allowing Ke$ha to speak about how the music breaks and builds her.  Afterwards, the synthesizer briefly abandons the beat and vocals, providing an additionally youthful and fun moment.  With music so catchy and lyrics so period relevant, it is easy to see why Tik Tok is such a big hit.
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