Ke$ha

I was given concert tickets for my birthday back in June. 

The concert was this past Saturday night.

Can you guess who it was?

KE$HA!! 

Here is the design I painted for the concert:

 The thumb and ring finger are a bright glittery purple with Ke$ha's signature dollar sign in gold glitter. The remaining fingers are a shimmery yellowy gold stamped with Konad leopard print. A corner of each gold nail is a purple triangle set off by a thick, glittery, gold line.

If you haven't heard of Ke$ha, you  probably are old
...or you've been living under a rock for the past three years.   

 Ke$ha first mainstream exposure was as the female vocal part in Flo Rida's single Right Round in early 2009. Her first single Tik Tok was released in later that year and took the music scene by storm topping the charts in 11 countries. Her first album, Animal, was released in January 2010 and her second album, Cannibal, was released in November 2010. Her tour kicked off in Portland, Oregon on February 15 of this year and is scheduled to end on September 20 in Phoenix, Arizona, hitting Australia and Europe as well. And Ke$ha loves glitter. 

And wears blue lipstick.

 Anyways, back to the concert.

Ke$ha puts on quite a show! ...After you sit through her TWO opening acts. 

The first act was a little scrawny guy (didn't catch his name) that rapped for 45 minutes. He was boring but his music was good, at least. The second act was called LMFAO. It was two guys who danced and rapped. They were more entertaining than the first act, especially when they tossed an inflatable ZEBRA around into the crowd. Yeah, I said zebra. At regular concerts you smack around a beach ball; at a Ke$ha concert you throw around a zebra! LMFAO played for almost an hour and a half. They just kept going..and going..and going..and you get the idea. (Side note: after the concert where I had no clue who these dudes were,  I found out that they were apparently pretty popular because everybody was like "you saw LMFAO!?!?" and totally knew who they were already haha) They played almost as much as Ke$ha!! I was tired of hearing them and eventually just sat down on the floor and waited. I was SO happy when they were finally finished!

 

When Ke$ha finally hit the stage, she opened with Sleazy, the tour's namesake, followed by Blow and Take it Off. She gave us a short preview of her new song Dirty Picture, then played BlahBlahBlah, Party at a Rich Dude's House, Backstabber, Cannibal, and The Harold Song. Ke$ha showed a more serious side as she revealed her favorite song she's written is Animal and even got a little choked up after singing it. Then she played Dinosaur. Ke$ha pulled a guy from the audience, saran wrapped him to a chair, and sang Grow A Pear to him. The show ended with Your Love is My Drug and Tik Tok. And then some of the equipment above the crowd caught on fire. Pretty sure that WASN'T part of the show because it started sparking down ONTO the crowd and the arena staff started freaking out. I thought the huge spotlights were going to fall! Ke$ha came back out and said she wanted to sing one more for us and re-emerged in a glow-in-the-dark leotard and helmet with big feathers coming out of it like a mohawk and sang We R Who We R.