When I read the jokey title of "Grow a Pear," one of the songs on Ke$ha's new EP, Cannibal, I laughed out loudand then instantly felt like a hypocrite. After all, I'd admonished Katy Perry for similar swipes at would-be suitors' masculinity. Then, after hearing the song's utterly ridiculous lyrics, I realized the difference: Perry sheepishly, some might say cynically, skirts outright offensiveness by thinly veiling her homophobia and misogyny in more palatable, PG-rated portions, serving them with a vapid pout and her tits pushed up to her chin. Perry is a good Christian girl trying to make a buck (or a whore pretending to be a good Christian girlbut whatever); Ke$ha, on the other hand, is authentic, unapologetic trash (sometimes literally: She wore a trashbag to the VMAs). Also, she uses the word "mangina."
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Of course, Ke$ha Ro$e $ebert isn't any more talented than Katy Hudson Brand, and her songs aren't any catchier.
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So if Katy Perry is the cocktease who leaves you with a peck on the cheek at the end of the night, Ke$ha at least gives you a happy ending.
