I was also pretty stoked to find out earlier in the day that supporting her were LMFAO and Natalia Kills, so I headed down early to catch them. Luckily for me, I avoided the massive queue spiralling around the outskirts of the venue as I had to collect my ticket, and walked straight to the shorter queue, to get in just in time to see Natalia Kills.
Natalia Kills impressed me, coming across like a hybrid of Nicole Scherzinger and Ke$ha with an electro pop stomp to her tracks. Opening with a lo-fi version of her single Mirrors (before playing the full electro version later in her brief set), she really showcases her voice, and comes across well. Given some more club banging tracks, the girl could be massive. She certainly has massive potential. Mirrors is an awesome song as well, and if she can match the genius of that track on further hits, she will have no problem at all getting noticed.
Next up were the party rockers themselves, LMFAO, who hit the stage to a rapturous response. Since their huge hit Party Rock Anthem topped the charts for a month earlier this year on our shores, the massive reaction was only to be expected, and their club banger tracks get everybody moving early doors, getting warmed up for Ke$ha. In many ways, LMFAO were the perfect support act for tonight, as their set gets everybody dripping in sweating, dancing, and (crucially) shufflin’ to their beats, Whacking out the Jersey Shore theme tune (Get Crazy) early in their set is a masterstroke, and the likes of I’m In Miami Bitch, La La La, and Champagne Showers (complete with actual champagne showering from the stage) are big moments. It is however, as expected, Party Rock Anthem that gets the crowd going crazy. Unfortunately there was no guest spot from the stunning Lauren Bennett, but the track is such a massive tune, that everyone collectively lost their shit to this.
The place simply went off.
Crowd – official warmed up. Job – done.
By the time Ke$ha hits the stage, donning her electro specs for the dirty electro pomp of Sleazy, you know that things are going to go up yet another level. The girl is fierce, and hell bent on just having damn good time. Something that the crowd completely reciprocates. With her provocative attire, ripped tights, face paint, and covered in more glitter than imaginable, she works through the hits from her debut record Animal, and last year’s EP Cannibal, to huge ovation from the crowd.
It is dirty, it is sweaty, it is sparkly, and it is down right sleazy, but it feels so good.
She has carved her own niche in the pop scene, and it is because of that reason that she finds herself standing toe to toe with the big hitters. Take It Off and Dirty Picture arrive early, and are followed by a riotous Blow, complete with huge confetti showers, covering the crowd in gold, glittering ticker tape.
That is four songs in.
She gets better as well, with the likes of Blah Blah Blah and Party At A Rich Dude’s House sounding massive, before she makes one guy’s night by bringing him onto the stage, cling-filming (is that even a word?) him to a chair, before dancing for him and singing Grow A Pear. Throw in a dude in a pear suit, and a dude in a massive cock and balls outfit (I shit you not) you can tell that this is not going to be a night of intellectual music snobbery. What it is though, is just a damn good time for everyone, especially the dude on the stage. Every other bloke in the venue looks on dumb-founded, wishing that he was the jammy git sitting on that stage, while Ke$ha struts her stuff.
She merges sex with glamour, glam with pop, and is damn near unstoppable in her ascent. She will play much bigger shows than this in the coming years, and tonight is just another stepping stone in her quest for world domination.
The one-two outing of Your Love Is My Drug and debut hit Tik Tok close the set proper, threatening to blow the roof off, before she returns in hi-vis rave gear, for the encore of her first UK number 1, We R Who We R. I was gutted that there was no Kiss And Tell, but minor qualms like that pale into insignificance, when you consider just how awesome the show was.
It’s Ke$ha’s world; we are only living in it.
Setlist - Sleazy / Take It Off / Dirty Picture / Blow / Blah Blah Blah / Party At A Rich Dude's House / Backstabber / Cannibal / Animal / Dinosaur / Grow A Pear / Your Love Is My Drug / Tik Tok / We R Who We R
LMFAO - Rock The Beat / Get Crazy / I’m In Miami Bitch / Boom Boom Pow (Black Eyed Peas cover) / Gettin’ Over You (David Guetta cover) / I Am Not A Whore / La La La / Party Rock Anthem / Shots / Champagne Showers
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