Ke$ha is Billboard's Hot 100 Artist of the Year

Lady Gaga is Artist of the Year (PHEW!) but Ke$ha is hot-hot-hot!

An excerpt from the interview with Ke$ha on billboard.com

How will the Ke$ha persona change, now that you're not really a bum any more?

Have you seen me? Yes, I am! All you have to do is look at "Cannibal" to see that you can still celebrate life in a non-douche bag way. Money really doesn't affect me when it comes to my happiness or deciding who I'm going to date, and that's something I want to hold on to. You can be really happy and you can look like a badass and be a total baller, but it doesn't necessarily have to be in a financial sense.

As you can see, it's more or less what you'll find on her formspring

How do you become noticed by record comps/ labels/ whatever?

ui just gotta work n then u make ur one song and its KAFUCKINBAM like that

All's we have to say is, thank you Dr. Luke. Thank you.  You've saved Christmas, Hanukkah, Kwanza, Lassie, and ...yes, pop music.  We salute you.

Welcome to the Best 9 Minutes of Your Morning

I'm not going to write too much about this, because you just have to watch it. Continuous shot. Quidditch team. Anyone want to join me in applying for admission to Emerson?

Don't call my mom, dont read my blog, Alejandro

Updated on Jun 30, 2010 by Marley

So it's been a week since I posted my thoughts on the Alejandro video and all of Soldout has been watching the interwebs for other people's thoughts.  Besides OMG-ace-of-bass-madonna-blah-blah. 

This is the definitive Alejandro-Madonna post. 

This is one of the MANY Ace of Bass comparison videos from youtube. 

MOVING THE FUCK ON!

I personally think the song itself is about a loner teenage girl getting hit on by latino dudes... but the video is a totally different story.

Here's Soldout's roundup of the more interesting commentary on the video.

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Not Another Holocaust Video

Ok monster-kittens.

You’ve seen it all over the internet by now; the video premiered Tuesday and it’s Friday so it’s pretty much old news.  All the Madonna comparisons have been made (whether it’s being called homage or a rip-off depends on how much you like the Lady and how much you miss the old Madonna).  Other references to other videos abound—whatever music videos have been around for how long now?  (1981, 1^st video aired on MTV but the idea has been around since…well, Wikipedia says the 1960’s). And movies were around for how long before that? (Let’s say 1890, it’s a tricky question)

My first version of this SAY-SOMETHING-ABOUT-ALEJANDRO started with a chat about Fritz Lang’s Metropolis (1926)…which I haven’t seen.  Which I feel I should see but like…it’s long. And German.  And …it looks scary and it looks like something I wouldn’t understand.  And I have enough WTF moments in my day-to-day life, thank you.

Having seen Alejandro I’m kind of wishing I had seen it so I could intelligently dissect what’s going on in this video and make good references to other art, besides freakin’ Madonna videos.  But, this is not going to be an undergrad paper about Gaga compared to …everything else ever. It’s me, rambling.  This isn’t Harpers. It’s Soldout.  Snark n music n stuff.

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Baby, you'll be famous

Thanks NY Mag for bringing this to our attention.

Sixth grade Justin Bieber look-alike p0wns Gaga's "Paparazzi" ...at a school talent show?  Who signed off on this? Does he know what this song's about? Is Gaga really a hit among middle schoolers? Who cares! He's giving it everything his lil 13-year-old body can handle.  And he's got about the same range as Gaga after a night out (ie, a ciggys+champagne) so...shit. 

Dismiss it as novelty if you want but I'd babysit this kid any day.

Let's see if the rest of Soldout wants to crash this kid's 14th birthday party with me...

Update on May 11, 2010 by Russ

Jesus H God yes. The little dumpling nails it. 

Update on May 11, 2010 by Liz

When did Sara Quin go solo?

Update on May 12, 2010 by Kristin

The faces of the girls behind him are the best part of this video. But yeah, this kid is absolutely awesome. A record deal is not far away; watch out Bieber.