Ke$ha’s?”Crazy Kids”?video is set up for perfection:?a catchy?tune, the #1 crazy kid herself in booty shorts and?gold teeth,?a crowd of bearded chunkers?dancing by a pool,?and Will.I.Am’s?disembodied, hologrammed head in?an astronaut suit.
It’s magic waiting to?happen … but, unfortunately,?it never actually does.
For a song about letting loose, the video is disappointingly boring. Basically, Ke$ha struts through a scuzzy party house,?looking like a Weird Al Yankovic spoof of herself, in giant clown glasses and big chunky cornrows.
There are a few interesting visuals, including a refrigerator that appears to be stocked with?forties of pee, a winky eye tattoo on the palm of Ke$ha’s hand,?and an awesome pool party scene, complete with fat ladies in inner tubes and all the Styrofoam noodles a 6-year old could dream of. It’s all overshadowed, though,?by the song’s terrible lyrics and Ke$ha’s even worse rapping.
“I’m fresher than that Gucci / Them boys, they want my coochie / I say ‘Nope, I’m no hoochie’ / Your home girl hatin’, I say ‘Who she?'”
“Ke$ha don’t give two fucks / I came to start that ruckus / And you wanna party with us / ‘Cause we crazy motherfuckers.”
I can struggle?through the Gucci/coochie/hoochie, but she loses me with “ruckus.” It’s too quaintly anachronistic coming from the?glitter-dipped, pee-soaked?mouth of America’s nasty girl. It’s a word a granny would use and therefore should not be rhymed with “fuck.”
Will.I.Am’s hologram cameo is the best part of the video … and that, in and of itself, is sad.
YeahNoDon't says
You obviously just don’t get it.