10-14-2010, 10:55 AM
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Ok, the final answer:
The lyric is glitter, and the song is about drag shows.
Ke$ha - "Take It Off"
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Is it possible there is a Ke$ha single with a bit of lyrical depth? "Take It Off" is not grand philosophy, but it does have a point to make. It is also gloriously catchy aimed directly at the party dance floor. For those who thought Ke$ha was a one trick pony, it's looking more and more like those opinions are unfounded. "Take It Off" consolidates the Ke$ha world view in another catchy pop hit.
Ke$ha says that her inspiration for "Take It Off" was being turned on by seeing transvestite men taking their clothes off in a drag show. Jumping off from that one event the song manages to expand out into an anthem about free expression. "Take It Off" is a celebration of the power of the night, and a bit of alcohol, to help shed inhibitions of the daytime. Followers of Lady Gaga's Monster Ball Tour will be familiar with this point of view.
Musically, the heavy drench of auto tune goes a bit overboard here. However, the beat is incessant and, like all of Ke$ha's hits, irresistibly catchy. With the volume turned up and the chorus encouraging you to "take it off," you may just feel inspired to follow the commands. The ultimate effect by the end of the song is very cathartic as it hints strongly that there is more to "take off" than simply clothing.
Despite rather withering criticisms in some quarters, Ke$ha remains one of the most successful pop artists of the year. The likelihood is that "Take It Off" may become her fourth song of the year to inhabit the pop top 10. She can also add partial credit for 3OH!3's top 10 hit "My First Kiss." Ke$ha's attitude of casting aside inhibitions and partying like an everyday person clearly resonates beyond a core audience of "freaks" as mentioned in "Take It Off." There is a component of glitter and glam to Ke$ha's music, but she remains grounded in what might even be ordinary or somewhat ugly at times, and that is where the shock and uniqueness of her music lies.
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SongFacts.com Ke$ha - Take it off
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This is a track from L.A.-born, Nashville-raised singer-songwriter Ke$ha's debut album, Animal. Ke$ha had already had some success as a songwriter (Miley Cyrus' "The Time Of Our Lives") and as a featured vocalist (Flo-Rida's "Right Round") before the release of the album and its lead single, "TiK ToK."
Ke$ha told Esquire magazine that she wrote this song, "about when I went to a drag show, and how really turned on I was by these transvestite men taking clothes off. I was like, What does that even make me?"She explained why she is fascinated by trannies. "It's like my new pick. I'm really fascinated by them. Because I feel like my music stands for the ultimate statement of irreverence. 'We don't give a f--k/we don't give a f--k' is one of the lines in the song, and it's true: Me and my friends, no matter how beautiful or not, it's just whatever. So I see these transvestites who are in my video, and I went to one of the drag shows, and I was like, That's taking it to a whole new level."
The song's music video was directed by Paul Hunter and Dori Oskowitz. It features Kesha and some male and female pals dancing around in a mosh pit while slowly turning into star dust as they "Take It Off". The singer explained to Phoenix New Times: "[It's] about me and all my hot vampire babe friends breaking into a hotel on another planet, and at the end we all turn into this beautiful stardust. Once you take it all off, all your inhibitions, your clothes, we're all made up of the same thing."
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