Okay, I am officially confused. Why did Ke$ha not take it off? She’s trashy as a low grade casino (looks like one too), knows a place downtown, most likely has enough jack to supply the armed forces, and, according to her, is utterly “hardcore.”
So why in her brand spanking new music video of her single “Take it Off” does she not take it off?
Not that I really want to see what’s beneath the designer trash bag she wears...but still, wouldn’t the title imply something at least remotely sexy or even “hardcore?” Take off a sock, for example, or maybe, just maybe, some of that glitter. Too much? Apologies.
The songs written (I use that term lightly) by Ke$ha generally amount to little truth and in the end she’s a mere shadow of the typical badass. Although “Take it Off” implies that an incredibly insane party, full of equally nutty and borderless freaks, is pumping downtown, the music video ops for an abandoned motel where hoards of surprisingly well groomed hipsters dance around and perform sand magic. WAIT, YOU HAVEN’T HEARD OF SAND MAGIC???
Then you are missing absolutely nothing.
At all.
In short sand magic is when a production team lunched on a few too many hash brownies and then decided to add special effects to a Ke$ha visual experience.
“Whoa, dude, should we like make the hipsters explode into sand?”
“No, man, I don’t think that would go over too well…”
“Really, dude?”
“Yeah…but it would totally work with colored sand!”
“Dude!”
Where’s my car? Where’s the airport? Even better, where’s the closest pigeon carrier? Anything to get me away from this beached motel.
For Ke$ha the term “take it off” means adding more layers of synthetic grime to the already copious amount, which, for the cynical viewer, could be a bad or a good thing. At a minimum, the sand magic does distract from the complete lack of vision, storyline, and choreography. It also, pardon my English, covers shit with shit.
