Ke$ha performs in Atlantic City - Neon Limelight
It was slightly uncomfortable watching partygirl pop star Ke$ha open on Rihanna‘s ‘Last Girl On Earth’ tour Saturday (August 14) at the Borgata Event Center in Atlantic City. Not because her stage set up looked as though the props of Halloween’s past had come to rot and die or because her two male backup dancers could star in a Nair commercial (they totally wear short-shorts), but because the audience was made up of mostly teen girls, many of whom were with their parents.
These parents made classic “OMG, this language!!” faces as Ke$ha, decked out in a graphic tee, gold sparkly daisy dukes, fishnet stockings, and black boots, opened with “Blah Blah Blah,” which contains the classy line, “Don’t be a little bitch with your chit chat/Just show me where your d*ck’s at.”
Despite the appalled look on their life-givers’ faces, the teens in the audience seemed to enjoy every glitter-filled minute of Ke$ha’s show, though you’d get the sense she really set out to appeal to the drunken stumblers in attendance.
"Animal"
Funny enough, the two demographics think alike. The teens and the completely inebriated weren’t concerned with Ke$ha being a true vocalist, a good dancer, or singing lyrics with any meaning — none of those aspects were present in K$’s 20 minute set. Give them a danceable beat and choruses you can sing along to and they’re happy.
They don’t think of Ke$ha as that artist; that was made sorely apparent when Ke$ha, with her hair wild and wavy, got behind her keyboard and took a moment to try to be a serious musician on her ballad, “Animal,” and the crowd immediately grew still, silent, bored. Besides that misstep, K$ doesn’t try to take herself too seriously either. She was much more comfortable being crass and crude and stripping her dancers down to their star-spangled skivvies in the filthy glitter orgy that was “Take It Off,” the love-drunk rave that was “Your Love Is My Drug,” and “Dinosaur,” which played out like an elementary school musical on hallucinogens.
By the ending number,”TiK ToK,” Ke$ha’s annoying yet record-breaking and chart-topping debut single, nearly everyone in the audience was dancing along like they didn’t have a care in the world, but had plenty of beer. Unlike what Ke$ha says in the song, the party eventually did stop, and thankfully it did as even some parents, embarrassingly enough, started dancing along. Things were about to get even more uncomfortable.
Goodbye and good night. This review was hilarious!
Were we at the same show? I don’t think we were. In fact after seeing the show I googled reviews of the tour and found the New York Times’ review of the show at Madison Square Garden. It basically said Rihanna’s set stiff and unauthentic while Ke$ha’s was pure joy, which was exactly what I felt about the AC show.