Hordern Pavilion, Sydney, NSW
Thursday March 10
Blissfully ignorant parents who thought Ke$ha’s lyrics didn’t get any more filthy than what was played on NOVA got a rude awakening last night.
Opening with Sleazy, the 23–year-old LA native hit the stage wearing what could only be described as lingerie on acid. Her stage lit up one laser at a time revealing her mohawk’d guitarist and drummer elevated high within her stage scaffolding.
Tiny tots with glitter-speckled cherub faces held tight to their parent’s hands while Ke$ha sang “beats so fat gonna make me come, all over your face." Parents cringed and gasped under the strobe lights.
Ke$ha threw up her two middle fingers before Take It Off where she stood behind her decks and played DJ. “I wanna see you all on your very worst behavior,” she screamed before strumming a few chords on an electric guitar. She may not be the best musician or dancer for that matter (she made even the simplest of choreography look a little sloppy), but watching her on the stage and bask under the fleuro lime-light, it was clear this was where she was meant to be.
“Are you guys ready to blow the motherfucking roof off this motherfucking place?!” she asked. Shirtless dancers with oversized flash cameras stalked the stage for Dirty Picture and confetti exploded either side of the stage for Blow. Ke$ha sprayed the audience with the beer she sipped on, cartwheeled and hilariously licked and bit her keyboardist. “This song is about this bitch who stole my car,” she said before Backstabber.
For all the drag and hysterical insanity happening onstage, the highlight was her latest album’s title track. “I eat men coz I'm a motherfucking cannibal! Don't fuck with crazy bitches boys, they'll eeeeeat you!” she screamed.
Her minions then proceeded to tie a dancer to a large wooden X and tear his 'fake' limbs off, the X then spun around to reveal a skeleton. The riot continued through tracks Animal, Dinosaur and a song about an ex-boyfriend who refused to go to “the bum zone” with her, entitledGrow A Pair. Ke$ha chose a very willing kid from the audience, tied him to a chair and had a dancer wearing a giant penis rub its balls in the poor kids face. “It’s Mr. Penis!” she hollered.
Final tracks Your Love Is My Drug and Tick Tock were like a mini, super-confined Mardi Gras, with flags flying, balloons bouncing through the crowd and glitter absolutely everywhere. Mothers walked their tired little ones out through the gates and their faces said it all: ‘I hope to god she doesn’t turn out like her..’
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