If you read this here blog regularly, then you know that I have quite the tumultuous relationship with Ke$ha. We’ve gone through several ups and downs, and it certainly hasn’t been easy, but I think that finally we’ve reached an understanding. See, she just did an interview with Billboard, and after she talked (joked? I can’t be sure) about banging her first groupie, she shared this story:
At a recent show, she pulled a boy onto the stage-something she does midway through each performance-but it was Ke$ha who was left speechless. “He started crying and he told me that the only reason he was alive was because of my music,” she says. “He’d never felt accepted for who he was, and through my songs he realized that there are people out there who will love him for exactly who he is, and so he decided to come out of the closet.” It was this interaction, however brief, that convinced Ke$ha (born Kesha Rose Sebert) to ignore the critics and focus on her fans. “I’m doing this to make people happy,” she says, “and that’s translating. Quite frankly, that’s the reason I think I was put on the planet this lifetime. I’m here to make music, so the fact that it’s resulting in a positive change is the ultimate payoff for me.”
So really, this girl can offend our senses all she wants to (and she does), but if she’s saving kids’ lives while she does it, then I think we can all buck up and take it, don’t you?