Note that only one of these is a single

[koganbot]

Top five Ke$ha tracks*:

1. Blah Blah Blah
2. Backstabber
3. Party At A Rich Dude's House
4. Cannibal
5. Boots & Boys

The one of these that Lex might like if he didn't know whom it was by would be "Backstabber." There's a chance he'd like "Boots & Boys" as well.

*This does not count the Ke$ha vs. L'Trimm mashup, which if it were eligible would be

Comments

[talrose]

"The Harold Song" sounds to me like the inverse of "Stephen," Ke$ha's creepiness and stalkerish tendencies told from the point of view of Ke$ha herself, rather than a third-person account of the Ke$ha character. The drama on "The Harold Song" is exaggerated, but so are Ke$ha's feelings towards Harold, and the music is kind of goth, so there's an implicit message of suicide, or at least its suggestion when she sings about not being able to take it. I also kind of like the melody and the chorus, which twists unexpectedly into this bizarre whinny just when I think it's going to surge, its anticlimactic touch actually a bit off-putting and kind of sharp.

ok, maybe it's not my LEAST favorite

[joshlanghoff]

That dubious title is now claimed by "Dancing with Tears in My Eyes", which, considering my wife just walked in the room during "Harold" and started singing "LOSIN' IT! I'm LOSIN' IT!", seems to bear a striking similarity to the song in question. Maybe I just don't like K's suicidal songs. The whinny's nice, but I don't get which song you hear as a third-person account. Aren't they both from K's point of view?

[talrose]

Well, if this makes any sense, I feel like we're seeing Ke$ha's point of view on "Stephen," whereas I think we're actually seeing "The Harold Song" from Ke$ha's point of view. I also realize that sounds moronic, but I think the contrast in the songs is where each one situates the listener. "Stephen" is Ke$ha projecting outward, and "The Harold Song" is Ke$ha projecting inward.

[joshlanghoff]

So she's singing "Stephen" while she's feeling "Harold"? "Harold" reveals the vulnerability of the stalker lady, the compulsions that drive her to stalk? Interesting... I guess I hear the two songs as more a before-and-after scenario, although I'd never linked them before you mentioned it. (I'm gonna be silent for awhile now; later!)

meta-stalking?

[koganbot]

And where would "Cannibal" land in the point-of-view sweepstakes? In that one Ke$ha is explaining her stalker principles to her victim the object of her desire.