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Ke$ha vs. Mick Jagger.

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So I’m having a hard time wrapping my head around the following lyrics from Ke$ha’s omnipresent “TiK ToK“:

And now, the dudes are lining up cause they hear we got swagger
But we kick em to the curb unless they look like Mick Jagger.

Mick Jagger? Does Kesha know what Mick Jagger looks like? I suppose he looks pretty good, if a little melty, for a sixty-six-year-old. Indeed, he’s suprisingly well-preserved given what I would imaging touring, recretational drugs, and venereal disease takes out of you. But is he honestly anyone’s idea of a fucking dreamboat exemplar, let alone a twenty-three-year-old pop singer?

Now, perhaps Ke$ha has some sort of time-traveling tale of debauchery in mind when she wrote “TiK ToK.” And, whatever demerits Jagger’s earned, he does have a lyric-worthy last name, not only rhyming with “swagger,” but also sounding pretty badass in general. But if that’s the case, I think I would have preferred some additional lyrical clues to suggest a 60s or 70s setting. Or at least lyrics that don’t contraindicate–e.g. reference to P. Diddy, CDs, junk (as in “ass”), po-po (as in “police”)–such a theory. Something other than ‘78 Trans Am the video sports.


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