The Marxism of Kesha

[Apoi_Viitor]

http://www.songmeanings.net/songs/view/3530822107858849476/

I don't need you or your brand new Benz
Or your bougie friends
And I don't need love, looking like diamonds
Looking like diamonds
I don't need you or your brand new Benz
Or your bougie friends
And I don't need love, looking like diamonds
Looking like diamonds

discuss.

[shaderabbit85]

I'm not sure renouncing mercedes benz or diamonds in conjuction with using the word "bougie" makes her a marxist, or even class-conscious. Anti-materialist, perhaps, but marxist? I am surprised to read this though, given that I've heard (unfortunately) her other songs....

[Tablo]

I thought the term was widely known.. :/

[Niccolò Rossi]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bYvt0boSRXQ

How do you embed these things?

Nic.

[Sir Comradical]

Be careful, the interpretation of this song could cause a split.

[Widerstand]

Always loved Ke$ha :3 she's so prole.

I mean just look at Blah Blah Blah, it's "reverse"-sexism (objectification of men).

[Stand Your Ground]

Always loved Ke$ha :3 she's so prole.

I mean just look at Blah Blah Blah, it's "reverse"-sexism (objectification of men).
It really is. I can't fucking stand how popular bullshit music is. This garbage is all my girlfriend listens to.

[WeAreReborn]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bYvt0boSRXQ

How do you embed these things?

Nic.
Take the code after ?v= then just use put in between the [YOUTUBE|.

[Property Is Robbery]

This garbage is all my girlfriend listens to.

same here comrade, I understand your pain

[gorillafuck]

It really is. I can't fucking stand how popular bullshit music is. This garbage is all my girlfriend listens to.
I think he was kidding.


Ke$ha's music is really obnoxious.

[Burn A Flag]

Am I the only one here who doesn't know what bougie means? I know what bourgeois means, is that supposed to be the same or something?

[Comrade Wolfie's Very Nearly Banned Adventures]

Am I the only one here who doesn't know what bougie means? I know what bourgeois means, is that supposed to be the same or something?

It's and abbreviation grandpa.

[Pirate Utopian]

Yes.

Also, this: http://www.revleft.com/vb/ke-ha-daughter-t133704/index.html?

[L.A.P.]

Big deal, she used one big word and now all of the sudden she's a revolutionary genius?

[Blackscare]

http://www.operatorchan.org/r/src/r10466_fuck%20this%20thread%20outta%20here.jpg

[Aloysius]

I actually enjoy Ke$sha's music...But Lady Gaga is the devil.

[scarletghoul]

I like Ke$ha, she makes good party music and sometimes thats all you want. Dont see a huge contradiction between that and a bit of political consciousness.
(though i have noticed more socialism creeping into popular mainstream music in the past few years. seeing rihanna and mao in the same video was the highlight of 2009 in my pathetic life)

[L.A.P.]

I like Ke$ha, she makes good party music and sometimes thats all you want. Dont see a huge contradiction between that and a bit of political consciousness.
(though i have noticed more socialism creeping into popular mainstream music in the past few years. seeing rihanna and mao in the same video was the highlight of 2009 in my pathetic life)

An image of Mao Zedong was in a Rihanna music video!? What's it called?

[Pirate Utopian]

Run this Town, it's on the back of Jay-Z's jacket.

[The Count]

Marxists usually don't have dollar signs in their name.

[Stand Your Ground]

I think he was kidding.


Ke$ha's music is really obnoxious.
I know, I was a agreeing.

[Rotfront]

Kesha is as marxist as Britney Spears.

[EvilRedGuy]

We all know Britney Spears is a marxist. :lol:

LEAVE COMMUNISM ALONE.

[Tomhet]

I like Ke$ha, she makes good party music and sometimes thats all you want. Dont see a huge contradiction between that and a bit of political consciousness.
(though i have noticed more socialism creeping into popular mainstream music in the past few years.
Well said Comrade!

[Cane Nero]

I don't need you or your brand new Benz
Or your bougie friends
And I don't need love, looking like diamonds
Looking like diamonds
I don't need you or your brand new Benz
Or your bougie friends
And I don't need love, looking like diamonds
Looking like diamonds

discuss.

In the place where I came from, she is the bougie.
She's hot but her music is a pain in the ass.

[red1848]

I doubt Kehsa even knows the definition of "bougie" she probley didnt even write the song and if she did she probley used a thesaurus because she couldnt come up with a rhyme for Benz. On the slight chance that she knowns anything about socialism or communism she is probley just a poser like so many people now a days are because its "cool" to be on the frindge of society. She is just like every other celebrity out there they think its cool to belive in a cause i doubt she would give up her millions when or if the revoulution comes.

[Elfcat]

http://www.elfcat.net/Ke$ha_Marx.jpg

But seriously, if you want some imagery, how about P!nk's Raise Your Glass. In particular one of the themes in this video has P!nk dressed in red and challenging a banker to a sumo match.

http://www.elfcat.net/P!nk_Banker_Sumo.jpg

[Spawn of Stalin]

Pink can explode for all I care. Ke$ha4life.

[Bad Grrrl Agro]

same here comrade, I understand your pain
OMG! Be happy you don't have to deal with me then.

[Bad Grrrl Agro]

Always loved Ke$ha :3 she's so prole.

I mean just look at Blah Blah Blah, it's "reverse"-sexism (objectification of men).
I just love her because she's fucking awesome. I like Katy Perry more though.

[RedScare]

I did a double take when I read the topic, and I was not disappointed.

[Raúl Duke]

Marxists usually don't have dollar signs in their name.

Unless they're Maoists...

I bet I've seen some usernames here in the past with the $ sign in them.

I really don't care much for Kesha or her music; I guess it's better than many Lady Gaga songs (except a few of her hits, which beats Kesha's music).

[Axle]

I like Ke$ha, she makes good party music and sometimes thats all you want. Dont see a huge contradiction between that and a bit of political consciousness.
(though i have noticed more socialism creeping into popular mainstream music in the past few years. seeing rihanna and mao in the same video was the highlight of 2009 in my pathetic life)

Rage Against the Machine. Public Enemy. The Coup.

Those bands are examples of socialism in music. A pop star putting Mao in one of her videos is not. By that logic, every person with a Che shirt is a Communist revolutionary.

[La Comédie Noire]

"bougie" is a slang term amongst the black community which is synonymous with "rich, well off". It's also used against the small black middle class in the United States.

[Futility Personified]

She uses psuedo-rebellious imagery like homages to punk styles and inverting the American flag, but that doesn't make her a rebel, just a lass with a clever producer/director or a good business brain of herself knowing how da yoof like to feel like rebels. Chucking in a term like bougie is just adding to that. Nothing erodes class consciousness like Kesha!

[Jazzhands]

I like Ke$ha, she makes good party music and sometimes thats all you want.

FUCK. YOU. (http://www.cracked.com/funny-4433-ke24ha/)

Seriously guys? She has a dollar sign IN HER FUCKING NAME.:cursing:

[Pirate Utopian]

I wish I had an S in my name so I could put a doller sign in it.

Cause I'm so cash. :cool:

[brigadista]

just seen her on the tv for the first time -

the woman is an idiot

[Aldemor]

I hardly see how this makes her class concious. She's still raking in millions of dollars for her auto-tuned drivel. She's a (untalented) pop star, she's signed to a large record label and produces mass marketed "music" for Sony. Yeah, a real Marxist :rolleyes:.

[Widerstand]

I hardly see how this makes her class concious. She's still raking in millions of dollars for her auto-tuned drivel. She's a (untalented) pop star, she's signed to a large record label and produces mass marketed "music" for Sony. Yeah, a real Marxist :rolleyes:.

I don't see how any of these would disqualify her being a Marxist?

[Aldemor]

I don't see how any of these would disqualify her being a Marxist?
For someone who you say is against Capitalism she sure is making the best of it, don't you think?

[Impulse97]

Why can't Disturbed, SOAD or Green Day embrace Marx instead of these 5 second fame pop fads?:hammersickle::che::hammersickle:

[Widerstand]

For someone who you say is against Capitalism she sure is making the best of it, don't you think?

Explain how having a music contract exploits workers?

[Soseloshvili]

Hah. My boyfriend loves that song. He'll be so disappointed when I ruin his favourite thing with politics.

[Pirate Utopian]

For someone who you say is against Capitalism she sure is making the best of it, don't you think?
Should anti-capitalists live in misery?

[#FF0000]

I liked Ke$ha back when she wasn't terrible and was called Uffie

[Widerstand]

I liked Ke$ha back when she wasn't terrible and was called Uffie

heh, Uffie's banging. But I still can't find how they sound the same, as many people claim :(

[malthusela]

Why can't Disturbed, SOAD or Green Day embrace Marx instead of these 5 second fame pop fads?

System of a Down are well known to be on the left.

[Pretty Flaco]

Another ridiculous topic on revleft. :(

It's like some people here don't understand when people are joking!

[Impulse97]

System of a Down are well known to be on the left.


True. But they aren't communist left. Their that special breed of people between Socialist and Democrat.:hammersickle::che::hammersickle:

[gorillafuck]

I think I'll quote myself


Ke$ha's music is really obnoxious.

Whereas Uffie is ballin'.

[Ocean Seal]

Ke$haism for a socialist future, down with all the other pseduo-revolutionary popstars. All true revolutionaries unite behind Ke$ha.
Also she uses the dollar sign to show the oppression of capitalism.

[Widerstand]

Also she uses the dollar sign to show the oppression of capitalism.

Just like Third Worldists call it U$A, yes.

[#FF0000]

heh, Uffie's banging. But I still can't find how they sound the same, as many people claim :(

It's because the beginning of Tik Tok is literally lifted direct from "The Party".

That's not the only thing, either. (http://www.thatsongsoundslike.com/2010/07/21/katy-perry-vs-kesha-vs-miley-cyrus-vs-justice/)

[Palingenisis]

Just like Third Worldists call it U$A, yes.

http://www.revleft.com/vb/ke-ha-daughter-t133704/index.html

Does no one remember this classic thread...Ke$ha daughter of MIM?

:laugh:

[bailey_187]

I hardly see how this makes her class concious. She's still raking in millions of dollars for her auto-tuned drivel. She's a (untalented) pop star, she's signed to a large record label and produces mass marketed "music" for Sony. Yeah, a real Marxist :rolleyes:.

well the being a millionaire stuff may disqualify her from being a marxist, but why cant marxists be untalented, make pop music, use auto tune and create music for the proletarian masses?