We’d like to welcome back Ke-dollar-sign-ha to the Museum today, who luckily for us has been absent from this Museum aka Wasteland of Entertainment for a while.

But fear not, Ke-U.S.-currency-symbol-ha is back and ready to be horrible to a whole new level.

We bring you to her latest iTunes chart-topping single, “We R Who We R”.
In case the name of the song doesn’t make you frustrated enough, get excited for this tidbit of information.  In several interview and nonsuch, K-$$$-a has discussed the following: 

Ke$ha wrote the song in the wake of the news that bullying had led to multiple suicides of gay youth. Kesha explained that she wanted the song to become a pride anthem; “I wanted to inspire people […] to be themselves. It’s a celebration of any sort of quirks or eccentricities.”

She elaborated, “I was really affected by the suicides that have been happening, having been subject to very public hatred [myself]. I have absolutely no idea how these kids felt. What I’m going through is nothing compared to what they had to go through. Just know things do get better and you need to celebrate who you are. Every weird thing about you is beautiful and makes life interesting. Hopefully the song really captures that emotion of celebrating who you are.”

Wow, so that’s kind of nice to hear… Ke-whocares-ha is finally doing something to promote good and justice and equality.  How sweet of her to think of the recent gay suicides as she wrote yet another popelectrotrash tune.

Only one issue… the song was written by her and her scholarfest management in August - September, and was slated for a late October release.

The gay suicides started receiving national news about a week after Tyler Clementi’s death… the suicide happened on September 22nd.  News headlines weren’t made until the very end of the month.

So basically, her whole blurb on how she had the gay community in mind was a huge lie.  Perfect.

And in case you feel like maybe she’s somehow a prophet or did have some rainbow pride support going on in her writing of this tune, we suggest you consult the lyrics.

(The following analysis comes from our friends over at Vice Magazine’s ViceBlog):

Hot and dangerous
If you’re one of us, then roll with us
‘Cause we make the hipsters fall in love
And we’ve got hot-pants on enough
And yes of course because we’re running this town just like a club
And no, you don’t wanna mess with us

Commentary: “So bullied teenage gays make hipsters fall in love? And wear hot pants? And run “this town just like a club”? Wait, does anyone run any town like a club? What does that even mean? And gays are dangerous? Is that some kind of AIDs thing? Because, if it is, that’s sort of offensive.”

We’re dancing like we’re dumb
Our bodies go numb
We’ll be forever young
You know we’re superstars
We are who we are!

Commentary: ” “We’ll be forever young”?  Seriously Kesha? In a song that’s (allegedly) about suicide you’re gonna go there?”

I’m just talkin’ truth
I’m telling you ’bout the shit we do
We’re sellin’ our clothes, sleepin’ in cars
Dressin’ it down, hittin’ on dudes (HARD!)

Commentary: “So gays sell their clothes? And they sleep in cars? And aren’t you alienating lesbians a little with the “hittin’ on dudes” part?

Now, are we sure we’re talking about gays here and you didn’t just write another shitty song about partying and then change it at the last minute to get some free promo? Because if you did, then that’s kinda awful.”

So there you have it.  Thanks again to ViceLand for providing us with some lyrical commentary, and for making the title of their article “Kesha on Gay $uicide”.