That Grape Juice sat down with prolific songwriter and feather enthusiast Ke$ha (in a blinding orange kitchen) and managed to break major news about the singer. No, we’re not referring to her mentioning how she woke up recently in Tokyo and had ideas for her next album rolling around in her head. (Ke$ha, darling, those were probably just empties from the night before on your pillow.) We mean the dude (or, as she refers to him, “this idiot” who “I’ve been stalking since I was 15″) from her song “Stephen,” and how he finally called her. Watch Ke$ha’s full interview—and read our list of the best quotes from it—after the jump.
KE$HA’S TOP THAT GRAPE JUICE INTERVIEW QUOTES:
* “I’ve just had to learn how to do this—I don’t know what I’m doing—I really just had to learn how to do all of this in a very short amount of time.”
* On appearing on a toilet seat in Taio Cruz’s “Dirty Picture” video: “That was Taio. He was like, get on the toilet and look sexy, and I was like, alright, deal.”
* “[Rihanna is] one of my generation’s icons in the making, and I feel like in 30 years people will look back on this decade and her name will definitely be included in that sentence, of the icons.”
* On her next album: “I’m starting to kind of think about it now… There’s definitely going to be a difference [from Animal]. I’m always changing and evolving, and because I write all my music it’ll be reflected in the record. I think that it will still stay fun and young and irreverent, but it’ll be a little different.”
* Britney Spears or Lady Gaga?: “Fuck no. I like them both.”
* Pink or Christina Aguilera?: “I relate maybe a little more to Pink.”
“What are your thoughts of Rihanna as a performer” response “I think shes amazing”
L-O-L!
I think I know how Ke$ha feels. At least sometimes. I wanted to say scared, but it is not really fear that is the governing emotion. It is more like frozen, an inability to dance to the music.
The interview stopped me. I do not want to do anything to prevent her from doing her own thing. Yet, I was unable to say anything at all. Even though I had something to say. So, I’m going to just let the words take me where they will, the words, of course, following my thoughts.
I think she is wrong about where the title for her album “Animal” came from. I have had the thought for a long time. My thought is that it came from a quote by Townes Van Zandt. It appears in the liner notes to his album “A Far Cry From Dead.”
“I don’t think that I am going to benefit from anything on this earth. If you have love on the earth, that seems to be number one. You know, there’s food, water, air, and love. And love is just basically heartbreak. Human’s can’t live in the present, like animals do. Humans are always thinking about the future or the past. So it’s a veil of tears, man. I don’t know anything that’s going to benefit me except more love. I just need an overwhelming amount of love. And a nap. Mostly a nap.”
I love Townes. But he was wrong. It is a love. Mostly a love. And not a nap, that humans need. Try taking a nap in the abstract, and you won’t be walking straight. Same with love. And man do I need that girl.
If Ke$ha, living in Nashville, where Townes was loved by a lot of people, never saw that quote, I would kiss her, and court her, and marry her, just like that, because that would be an uncontested miracle, a sure sign from God. If she saw it, and forgot, that, too, would be an uncontested miracle. (Do you have the rose, to wear white, my Princess Bride?)
I’m guessing she is “gonna givea f**k” pretty damn soon.
Unless she saw it, remembered it, and is messing with me. In which case, I suggest, when you see Rose, or Ke$ha, and she seems distracted, just shout “Bear in a Ron suit,” and see how high she jumps. It makes her crazy hot.
Joy to you, Rose.
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