4. Kesha - "Tik Tok"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iP6XpLQM2Cs I don't know why I don't hate Kesha. She seems like the perfect recipient for my hostility. She makes mindless, trashy pop music as told from the perspective of someone with a pill dependency and a strict one shower per month rule. And she used to spell her name with a dollar sign. Maybe it's because I want to believe she crafted her persona from watching the deleted Kid Rock scenes from Joe Dirt and listening to Lady Gaga tracks as played through a blender. But Kesha always struck me as just another harmless girl who thought, "Hey, I have working lips and no Bachelor's degree, where's my music career?" She doesn't make good music, but at least songs like "Tik Tok" possess enough drunken, ballsy swagger to convince me for just a moment that maybe she's not using auto-tune, that's just what an untrained pop singer sounds like after her eighth Vodka Red Bull. Again, this song is not a good song, by any stretch of the imagination. But I'm more willing to embrace the sound of Kesha pummeling my eardrums with a herpes hammer because she at least sinks admirably into the role of Confused Cocaine Addict Auditioning For American Idol In The Back Of A Smelly Van.