Kesha reportedly scored a 1500 on her SAT’s (which is a near perfect score) and has an IQ of over 140 putting her in the “Near Genius” category!
Unlike today’s custom-clad pop stars, Sebert, who goes by Ke$ha, isn’t above wearing a Hefty bag — for the right occasion. “I went to P. Diddy’s White Party with a white garbage bag tied around me because I didn’t have a white top,” she continues, flicking a straw-colored curl from her face. “I think confidence can sell anything.”
Yes, confidence is great, but Sebert, who’s currently finishing her debut album of “electro trashy pop magic” on RCA Records/Kasz Money Inc., has the relaxed charisma and visual appeal — lanky and lightly tanned, with an unruly lioness mane, blue eyes and freckled nose — to sell you on trash bag chic. (As for the dollar sign in her stage name, “It’s all the money I’ll ever need,” she explains. “’Cause I’m f–king money!”)
“You don’t find an artist like her every day or every year,” says Sebert’s mentor and pop-music maestro, Lukasz “Dr. Luke” Gottwald, who signed the singer to his RCA imprint and co-produced her first single, “TiK ToK” (out this week on iTunes), after coming across her demo five years ago. The brains behind Katy Perry’s “I Kissed a Girl” and “Hot N Cold,” as well as chart toppers by Kelly Clarkson, Britney Spears and Avril Lavigne, Gottwald was searching for an artist to develop at the time. “I wanted to find someone unique and someone interesting,” he says. “[I was looking] for a voice to strike me…and when I heard Kesha’s voice, I was like, ‘Holy crap! Let’s find this girl.’” Sebert was 17 years old and finishing up high school in Nashville.
Though bright and academically minded (by her account, she scored a 1500 on the SAT and planned to study psychology and religion at Barnard College), Sebert was quickly convinced by Gottwald and his frequent collaborator, Max Martin — of “…Baby One More Time” fame — to drop out of high school several months shy of graduation in order to give singing a go in Los Angeles. Martin and Gottwald had been working with “the Paris Hiltons and Britney Spears of the world,” Sebert says. “I think they liked that I don’t give a f–k and I’m completely irreverent. [I’m] just a bit more willing to be retarded and not apologize for it.
Kesha reportedly scored a 1500 on her SAT’s (which is a near perfect score) and has an IQ of over 140 putting her in the “Near Genius” category!
Unlike today’s custom-clad pop stars, Sebert, who goes by Ke$ha, isn’t above wearing a Hefty bag — for the right occasion. “I went to P. Diddy’s White Party with a white garbage bag tied around me because I didn’t have a white top,” she continues, flicking a straw-colored curl from her face. “I think confidence can sell anything.”
Yes, confidence is great, but Sebert, who’s currently finishing her debut album of “electro trashy pop magic” on RCA Records/Kasz Money Inc., has the relaxed charisma and visual appeal — lanky and lightly tanned, with an unruly lioness mane, blue eyes and freckled nose — to sell you on trash bag chic. (As for the dollar sign in her stage name, “It’s all the money I’ll ever need,” she explains. “’Cause I’m f–king money!”)
“You don’t find an artist like her every day or every year,” says Sebert’s mentor and pop-music maestro, Lukasz “Dr. Luke” Gottwald, who signed the singer to his RCA imprint and co-produced her first single, “TiK ToK” (out this week on iTunes), after coming across her demo five years ago. The brains behind Katy Perry’s “I Kissed a Girl” and “Hot N Cold,” as well as chart toppers by Kelly Clarkson, Britney Spears and Avril Lavigne, Gottwald was searching for an artist to develop at the time. “I wanted to find someone unique and someone interesting,” he says. “[I was looking] for a voice to strike me…and when I heard Kesha’s voice, I was like, ‘Holy crap! Let’s find this girl.’” Sebert was 17 years old and finishing up high school in Nashville.
Though bright and academically minded (by her account, she scored a 1500 on the SAT and planned to study psychology and religion at Barnard College), Sebert was quickly convinced by Gottwald and his frequent collaborator, Max Martin — of “…Baby One More Time” fame — to drop out of high school several months shy of graduation in order to give singing a go in Los Angeles. Martin and Gottwald had been working with “the Paris Hiltons and Britney Spears of the world,” Sebert says. “I think they liked that I don’t give a f–k and I’m completely irreverent. [I’m] just a bit more willing to be retarded and not apologize for it.
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