Can’t get enough of Lady Gaga but exhausted all her songs out of your system? Want something to hold you over until you can finally buy The Fame Monster deluxe set? Well, Tik Toc by Ke$ha might just be the medicine to cure you of your ails.
Riding on Gaga’s coattail, Ke$ha seems ready and willing to become Gaga’s heir apparent. Tik Toc has all the makings of a Gagaish smash, an infectious and inescapable thumping beat, although thankfully, Ke$ha holds off from most of Gaga’s theatrics, a cloying and inticing vocal, where Ke$ha belts out she’s ready to party, turn it up all the way, don’t stop, don’t stop, and the increasing need to sing along, whether you like the song or not.
The only things really hold Ke$ha back is that Tik Toc lacks the strong heartthumping production of Gaga and the song is too much like Gaga. If Ke$ha came out with Tik Toc before Just Dance, it would be a different story and Gaga would be accused on riding on Ke$ha’s coattails, but as it is, Ke$ha came into the playing field a year too late. Sure, she has immediate success and that is thanks in part to Just Dance, Poker Face, and Love Game, but I have to wonder how long Ke$ha will survive as an artist. Will she destined as a one-hit wonder? That one girl who tried to surpass Lady Gaga but failed? Or does she have another breakout hit waiting in the wings. It’s too early to tell.
In the meantime, take Tik Toc for its pop glory, it’s fizzy, bubbly, carbonated taste that leaves you energized and filled but willing for more, for being in the moment where we can dance along and worry about who sang it later.
For the music video of Tik Toc, see below:
