Kesha’s glitter aesthetic
Kesha stated that she spends “like a few thousand every month” on glitter. By spending insane amounts of money on a useless commodity like glitter, Kesha agrees with philosopher Michel Foucault’s claim that “Through the monetary sign [of money], wealth looks like it circulates, is distributed, and shared…but in fact [political] power is held on to.” Kesha blocks this conceived circulation of money with large, useless amounts of glitter. On Friday, glitter guns and pre–existing notions of money about to blow–oh–oh–oh–oh–oh–oh–oh–oh–oh.
“I just can’t get you off my mind, because your, your love, your love, is my drug.”– Kesha
The pharmakon, according to philosopher Jacques Derrida, is a drug that is given to help improve memory function. However, the pharmakon is also a poison, which creates forgetfulness. But it's also the cure. But it's also the poison. Kesha perfectly captures this paradox in the above lyric, as she references both that the pharmakon (in her case, a male suitor) is the drug that cures/boosts memory of the pharmakon, as well as the drug she needs to forget her “obsession” with the pharmakon. Genius.
The signification of Ke$ha to Kesha
Kesha’s change from Ke$ha to Kesha challenged the idea of “Death Drive,” investigated by neurologist Sigmund Freud. Freud observed that his patients felt an obligation to repeat the events of the past, instead of moving on to the future. To Freud, this was part of the human psyche’s self–explanatory “death drive.” In one bold substitution, Kesha removed herself from her past world of Ke$ha. Her actions say that we r not who we r, but who we choose to become.
