Ke$ha’s miserable “Blah Blah Blah (featuring 3OH!3)” video, you guys. Apologies in advance to your eyes/ears/heart.

OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOF. You know that part at the end of Larry Clark’s Kids when the one skater who just raped a girl who had recently been diagnosed as HIV positive before passing out on some West Village couch wakes up and is like “What happened?” I feel like that guy. Except that this video raped me. And it has AIDS. I do find it hilarious, though, that Ke$ha thinks she is a hot girl that all the guys are dying to be with. Sure. Here is a sample conversation between dudes:

Dude 1: Bro, you are never going to believe this chick I saw at the bar last night?
Dude 2: Hot?
Dude 1: Oh man, she looks kind of like Stephanie Pratt in a bad wig, and she has absolutely no talent whatsoever but she insists on making these songs that, like, I guess, I don’t know what genre of music they are. Ear Poison? Is that a genre? Anyway, she acts like a total asshole, bro, and she makes lots of references to “Jack” all the time, like, Jack Daniels? Because someone told her it would make her seem tough? But you start to get the sense that she doesn’t even know what Jack is? It’s kind of painful to watch. I think she probably has really low self-esteem, actually.
Dude 2: Siiiiiiiick.
Dude 1: Yeah, I’m super into it.
Dude 2: Who wouldn’t be?!

The thing is, though, as bad as this, Ke$ha has always been terrible. Even when she was a 13-year-old singing Radiohead’s “Karma Police” at her Junior High School talent show:

BOO! GET OFF THE BASKETBALL COURT!

P.S. every single member of 3OH!3 (whoever that even is) is your boyfriend. You date them. And you want to marry them.

Comments (213)
  1. Blah Blah Blah indeed

    • You are surely kidding me.

      Did I not see the title of this post?

      I did this to myself again!?

      Oh geez.

      Well at least no triple post embarrassment lead weights attached to my feet this time as I sink into my little sea of shame.

  2. The video is an assault on all senses. In other words, I feel like I’m in a hurt locker.

  3. Amazing how she got Final Placement to back her up during the talent show, though. Kahdooz Ke$ha.

  4. thank$ for the $weet mu$ic and $exy $inger

  5. That’s Your Horrible Middle School Band

    (that was in reference to 3OH!3, not the actual middle school band)

    • I know, that middle school piano player is pretty much spot on! But that the guitar guy maybe needs to talk to somebody about “chords.”

    • They (3OH!3) are definitely the worst, but the actual middle school band isn’t too bad! They were thinking, “You know what would be funny? We should put a line through the “s” in Kesha’s name on this talent show entry form since she’s been so weird while we’ve been rehearsing. It’ll look like a “$” and she’ll seem really dumb.”

      p.s. 3OH!3 is from Denver (where I am also “from”). 303 is the area code here.

  6. I am also pretty sure that high school Kesha (I am not spelling out the money sign) video just gave hope to every single person who has ever performed at a high school talent show.

    Because that was the most normal high school talent show performance I’ve ever seen performed in a high school.

    Which might be a great thing!

    Or it could mean more Keshas!

    So I don’t totally know how to feel about that!

  7. Thanks for ruining Kids for me, Gabe.

    Also, I think she would be pretty if she didn’t bathe in garbage and put garbage on her face and garbage in our ears.

  8. She really should consider changing her name to K€sha, the dollar is going to fall apart once inflation kicks in.

  9. I like that this post feels like a LOST flashback.

  10. OOOOOOOOffie is more like it.

  11. Yeah, nope.

    Sorry, no witty comment. Just no. Fuck this noise, literally.

  12. As an aside, I hated “Kids,” simply as an awful movie, but also for that very ending. “What happened?” Larry Clark might as well have appeared on screen and screamed, “MESSAGE!”

  13. I don’t want to take her behind a middle school and get her pregnant, that’s how awful she is

  14. Well, she was 13 in that second video. But there is no excuse for the first one. So bad.

    • What do you suppose the path is that takes a person from singing innocent covers of Radiohead to perpetrating the crime against humanity that is BlahX3? Did she say “I am so tired of trying to be good at things; so I will try to be the worst at things. I think I can make THAT look easy.” Maybe she struggles, though, with how hard it looks. “DAMMIT, I look like I am TRYING to be bad — I want the fiasco to look EFFORTLESS. EFFORTLESS!” and then she cries into her promotional bottle of Jack (Daniels?).

  15. The thing I’ve noticed about Kesha (because the dollar sign is just stupid, okay) is that she always, always looks drunk. Like, I was channel surfing and I saw her performing on “It’s On with Alexa Chung”, and she looked wasted. And that show aired at 3 in the afternoon.

  16. the more she talks about how much she loves to paaarty with her bottle of jack, the more i want to break a bottle on her face.

  17. Just to clear the air here, I thoroughly enjoy TiK ToK.

  18. I was really on the anti-Ke$ha band wagon, but then I had some knowledge dropped on me that Ke$ha scored higher than me on her SATs (You get 200 points just for figuring out how to bubble in “$”)! Now, I’ll never get into Stansbury! Whoops, late for the pep rally, G2G guys!

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    • She is not, and neither are those girls, from New Jersey.

    • Ughhh, here we go with the New Jersey stuff. Barely any of those people are actually FROM NJ, most are from Staten Island/Long Island who either just visit the shore (yes, the *shore*) or whose parents have recently moved to the state. I lived in north Jersey my entire life, where most of these people are purported to live, and I didn’t have one guido in my high school. After all, how could the same area of a state that produced Bruce Springsteen (New Jersey bias here) also churn out such horrendous people? It’s so frustrating that people think that about my beloved state because it is AWESOME (New Jerseygum?).

      • It’s ok, litttle Napoleon is from Jersey, too, lending legitimacy to her complaints. Right? Little Napoleon’s the best.

      • i want my first comment to be about how i TOO am from north jersey … and we are SO FAR from guido-world … and kesha world for that matter!! jerseygum!! w00t! ok that is all … i’ll show myself out …

        • when i was in college and my out of state friends would visit me, i would become this insane nj evangelist. i’d just drive them around pointing at fields of flowers and farm stands and shouting “YOU MUST TELL PEOPLE WHAT YOU HAVE SEEN! BREATHE DEEP AND SMELL THE SUBURBAN CHARM!”

      • New Jersey is kickass. It’s great. We have fucking mountains and rivers and shit and also malls and a diner on every block [required by law]. Also, Bruce. What more could you want, sheeple?

        I did not mean to sheet on NJ. I’m just sayin’, because her accent sounds a bit Jerseyish.

  20. also, let me just say that i have had quite a few actual female acquaintances who are really like this personae- as in, let’s get suuuuper wasted and get in fist fights and set people’s houses on fire (not. joking.) and pee on people’s pool tables and those bitches be SCARY. they do not make me want to be part of their entourage. they do not make me want to dance around and have fun. so i find it so weird that this is a successful marketing strategy.

  21. 3OH!3′s just like “Brah brah brah.”

  22. I like how she thinks she can do better than these guys, too, like she’s totally holding out for some college professor or CEO. If she can sing, rap, or (supposedly) play an instrument, does that make her the Rockwell of the 2010′s?

  23. What is that 3ohstuffs name supposed to mean anyways?

    Is this some youthful jargon I am not up on?

    Because I need to be up on all my youthful jargons.

  24. She was cooler four years ago when she went by Uffie and was hot. Oh, wait.

  25. I totally remember when all the girls at my middle school were into Radiohead and wore Mom Jeans. Because that was a thing that always happened.

  26. I…i think she messed up the words to karma police? Did you hear her say “Her Hateful Hair” is making her feel ill? …could you not say ‘Hitler’ in High School or did she not print out the lyrics. That said I like her I-hate-all-of-you face. I looks like she smells poop.

    • Useful youtube comment of the week:

      “I love what she did to the song – the popsy singing certainly trumps thom’s out-of-breath singing and she turned that downer song into a likable pop song. also a good call on changing hitler hairdo hateful hairdo, what a useless lyric anyway. she is as beautiful inside at this age as she is beautiful and talented today! the bright flare is what the song needed anyway, because hopeless pesimism just doesn’t get you closer to being a good member of your comunity!”

      Kesha > Radiohead. Because, art.

  27. Ke$ha looks like a broke-down assistant manager of Charlotte Russe or Wet Seal.

    • Those are some pretty sweet mom jeans, though.

      • Because I’m bored, I decided to wiki Kesha and found this; “Paul Lester of The Guardian called her “the degenerate Hannah Montana” and stated that “her whole shtick appears to be predicated on the idea that she’s a rebel in American Apparel.”" Hahahahahaha. Paul Lester is great.

    • She’s also been referred to as a “Stoned Taylor Swift”.

      • Hahahahaha. Ugh, she’s awful. I also can’t get past how she always sounds drunk. Like in that 3OH!3 video above, I can’t understand half the shit she is saying. And in the beginning when she’s ‘acting’ like… I don’t know man, I think Kesha might be ‘touched’.

  28. Oh the terrors computers hath wrought on us all…

  29. Ke$ha is SUCH a mega douche master!

  30. I’m surprised nobody’s made the suggestion that she tape her own mouth shut so we wouldn’t have to hear her own blah blah blah. Duh.

  31. Her rendition of Karma Police ironically sums up where RadioHead’s music has gone. You can always look to the past for answers. Karma Police indeed.

  32. I was going to send an e-mail about how the first video doesn’t show for me, but I realized that:

    1. I don’t need to see it
    2. No one needs to see it. This bug is helping make the world a better place.

  33. Anyone want to make out?

    ttp://s983.photobucket.com/albums/ae315/ouestn/?action=view&current=Untitled1.jpg

  34. “Coming out your mouth with your blah blah blah
    Just zip your lips like a padlock
    And meet me at the back with the jack and the jukebox
    I dont really care where you live at
    Just turn around boy and let me hit that
    Don’t be a little bitch with your chit chat
    Just show me where your dick’s at

    Music’s up
    Listen hot stuff
    I’m in love
    With this song
    So just hush
    Baby shut up
    Heard enough ”

    …. I really hope this isn’t too long for my graduation quopte.

  35. Did I do it right?

  36. Two great music videos at a bowling alley( or wait, is it a club? With an arcade in it?) in only a week? Thanks, Gabe!

  37. Debbie Gibson has aged really bad….

  38. I’m sorry I’m basically flooding this post, but come on, this is HILARIOUS!

  39. Yo! Was that Bret Ern$t in the beginning???

  40. every time i see the name ke$ha i think of vanessa hudgens character in bandslam (i was flying across the atlantic people, it takes time) and the addition of 3OH!3 sealed it. the weird thing is that i think this is the only context in which being reminded of bandslam is actually preferable to whatever thing it is that’s reminding you of it.

  41. I was watching the music video in the living room on my laptop and I could have sworn my headphones were plugged in, but alas they were not. Now everyone in this living room probably thinks I am a total Ke$ha-head and no one will understand that I was listening to it ironically. Thanks a lot, stealthy headphone jack!

  42. I don’t care what you people say. Hawkpanther likey. This is exactly the kind of wounded gazelle the rest of you hawkpanthers should be looking for.

  43. “I can see your lips move, BLAH BLAH BLAH, all I hear is…”

    - Husker Du

  44. She is super aggressive, calm down Kendra.

  45. Because you totally zip a padlock, Ke$ha. I guess Fordham accepted you because you think “outside the box” like that.

  46. I might hate her singing face more than the chick from Glee.

  47. Well, I think we can all agree on one thing here, which is that being 13 is awful.

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  49. hey man, i love your site, but making aids/rape jokes actually does hit close to home for some of your readers. especially after your recent “reset button” post about sometimes taking shit too far… this is a primo example. yes, this video sucks. and that’s really funny. but you don’t need to compare it to getting aids from being raped. you’re better than that.

  50. I though Ke$ha would have an iPhone.

  51. So now we now 116 is the magic number for comments to become paged. Use this information at your will.

  52. OMG… I was actually at that Middle School performance! My little brother was also performing (some misguided Nirvana cover, I believe). My family has been looking for our tape, so we can burn it. Seeing it on Videogum is like looking through the Lost lighthouse.

  53. Aside from the “Jack” references she makes in “Tik Tok,” she also refers to her lady areas as “junk.”

    “Boys tryin’ to touch my junk, junk” (Gross.)

    She also uses the words/phrases “crunk” and “blowing up our phones” and “playing our favorite CDs” and refers to the police as “po-po” because uh, its 2001.

  54. Ke$ha, this is not ‘Nam. There are rules. This video is over the line. Mark it zero.

  55. Dude, Axl Rose let himself go.

  56. Girlfriend has “once puked in Paris Hilton’s closet” listed on her Wikipedia page. Seems alright.

  57. via her Myspace page:
    I’m a bit of a stalker. I love south. and boys. and boots. and boners. and beer. and babes. balloons. barbeque sause. big balls. bonfires. babes. boobs. butts. bonnie rait. blowjobs.
    BAD TATTOOS…….mmhmmm
    I sometimes wish I was a man…i would have the siickesT trash-stash….

    Sometimes I wonder if a marketing team is behind this but even this is too dumb to make up.

  58. Why is she doing that to Radiohead? Make her stop.

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  60. I would really like to know what Ke$ha’s douche bag criteria are if they do not include every member of 3OH!3. Do musicians whose names include some kind of non-standard alphanumeric character have immunity?

    Is Uffie (the lady who did the spoken word part on Justice’s “The Party”) aware that this chick has totally stolen her awful, awful style?

  61. I like the replayed scene of her getting yanked up into the air? As if God was up there all “Ugh i screwed up. Redo. Redo, you guys.” This song is pretty horrible and arrogant.

    That being said, i would not turn her away from bed. We can’t all be internet celebrities, Gabe, living on mountains of money with only the most beautiful of women feeding us grapes.

  62. KJBFLVAJBLAJSBLJASVLJBkbv!!!!!!!!!!!

    RSAAGGARGHHHHH oh man, sorry everyone. words eluded me there for a second. Ke$ha actually makes me very angry. Just the idea that she is “famous” and people pay money to listen to her talk through an autotune machine spouting horrible, HORRIBLE lyrics actually upsets me.
    People compare Ke$ha to Lady Gaga a lot these days. I would rather have Lady Gaga sing “Poker Face” right next to my head for the rest of my life than hear Ke$ha say one more wor about “Jack” “this(her body)” or make one more reference to guys wanting her. UGHHH!

  63. i was on the ke$ha.com website a few weeks ago just cause.. ya know. and there was a video (along with many other videos{one of her taking clothes from a poor bin}) of and interviewer asking her about the video while on set. interviewer: “whats this video about?” ke$ha: “oh ya know douchebags hitting on me, like alwayysssssss” its great stuff.

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  65. “Kesha listed Beck and Queen as her main musical influences. She draws from rap music and old-school punk as well and credits her older brother with exposing her to groups such as Fugazi, Dinosaur Jr. and the Beastie Boys.”

    “Kesha wanted Prince to produce her music, so she found and snuck into his Beverly Hills home. Once discovered, she was thrown out, but not before she left her demo with Prince, who did not contact her afterwards.”

    Thank you Wikipedia, may I have another?

  66. I’m not gonna lie, I know all the words to “Tik Tok”. It’s awful, but I love it. It just makes me feel better, knowing how stupid Ke$ha is (or presents herself to be).

  67. I can clearly tell from this review that we are not supposed to like this artist. No confusion here at all.

    • i think you/we are free to like whomever you/we please. Gabe just usually posts about things/people he doesn’t like/are completely ridiculous…mostly it is for fun and is funny.

      • Making fun of things is fun/funny.

        • Now you’re getting the hang of it!

        • I don’t think that’s what I said. Those things aren’t mutually inclusive. Sometimes things are just fun without being funny; sometimes they are both. If you think something is funny feel free to upvote it.

          Usually Gabe just puts bizarre things on here as per his want and we, as a community, say “OH! That is so awesome-sauce/gross/cuh-razy/lame.” Not all of us say the same thing (though sometimes if you don’t refresh (F5) you might). Oftentimes we do not agree… which is fun for me as a reader. But mostly we just write something witty and try not to get so full of ourselves that we take things too seriously and start to feel superior or get offended.

          We are a pretty nice bunch. People that don’t get the humor usually don’t hang around long, or don’t comment as long…they perhaps are lurking which is fine. I’m not the videogum police or even anyone of importance… There are some rules…somewhere.

          Here is a list of our in-jokes:
          http://werttrew.tumblr.com/post/265368711/videogum-inside-jokes-memes-etc
          Videogum All-Star commenter werttrew made that list.

          Anyway, I’m not Professor Videogum. I’m just some asshole who enjoys this place. (and talks 4evr) but for what it is worth: Welcome!

          Also:: Making fun of things is always funny, because things do not (as far as I know) have feelings.

          Now here’s a picture of a kitty in a wig:

  68. is it weird that this is the first time ive ever heard of 3OH!3?

  69. I want to shake her like a paint can

  70. If I find this on my son’s Ipod he is grounded.

  71. Someone please contact the police. I have been assaulted by a gang of illiterate lunatics.

  72. obviously she’s not a golfer.

  73. I honestly have no idea what words are coming out of her mouth for like half of this song. Is it gibberish? “Sta ta sa toking that?” I’m definitely not that high. What the fuck is she saying? (That is not an actual request for lyrics or a Ke$ha-to-English translation, btw, I’m pretty sure I can go on with my life not knowing.)

  74. Wow — this “video” is like someone took it upon themselves as their life’s work to make the worst thing ever created by human beings. It is breathtaking in its complete and utter horribleosity, to the point where I have a hard time believing that it is not meant ironically. It’s like Die Antwoord, but real. I think.

  75. I wouldn’t touch that with my enemy’s dick.

  76. Ke$ha manages to pronounce every single word in a way that makes me cringe. I’m embarrassed for her and the youth of America. I’m not trying to sound like a dick, but I don’t even get the people who say, “I know its stupid and I hate her, but I can’t stop listening to ‘Tik Tok”. Really? I mean everyone has guilty pleasures, but there is no redeeming quality whatsoever in her music.
    You know when you grow up a little and look back at your late teens and early 20s and are embarrassed by a lot of things you did? Imagine how embarrassed you would be if you had put out a song and video like this when you were 20!

  77. That guy WAS a Mega Douche MASTER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  78. I started playing this and my dog started howling.

    maybe it was because he though it was a dog in the video…?

  79. Are we sure she’s not Taylor Swift’s Chris Gaines?

  80. How the hell is this “featuring” 3oh!3? They were in the video for 7 seconds, and they said three lines… Man that song sucks–thanks Gabe, I hadn’t heard it until now.

  81. After justin bieber’s music video I was thinking that bowling ally was the place to be, but after seeing this I am not sure anymore.

  82. Is it just me, or is Ke$ha the Mr. Hyde to Taylor Swift’s Dr. Jekyll? Have we ever seen them in the same place at the same time?

  83. So, valley girl is a real thing again? Thanks for that, Videogum.
    Also, how do you pronounce her name? Is there a way to say dollar sign? I think she should make her name entirely out of currency symbols in order to be completely unpronounceable à la Prince in the mid 90′s. Here’s what it should be: ₭€$U (Laotian Kip, Euro, Uruguayan Peso)

  84. Please tell me I am not the only one that remembers Karma Police being on the inaugural volume of Now! That’s what I call music.

  85. I love Tik Tok, unabashedly. It’s not a guilty pleasure, or whatever, I think it’s a really great song. But if 3!OH!3 aren’t “MEGA DOUCHEMASTERS” then I don’t know who are.

  86. Tik Tok, that’s your guilty pleasure. This girl is a disaster factory.

  87. Thanks for the Kids metaphor. All the ladies love me cuz I’m fuckin’ Caspeeeeerrrrrrrrr

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