Is Kesha's "Boy Crazy" the Most Unhateable Bad Song of the Year?

Kesha's new single "BOY CRAZY." is an early contender for song of the summer. 

We ask ourselves, is Kesha's return a harbinger of an oncoming Boy Summer ... or just a recession indicator.

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Oh, Welcome back to a first listen to music podcast
for people who don't always get the hype but want to.

Speaker 2 (00:19):
I'm Dominie and I'm Andrew.

Speaker 1 (00:20):
We switched it up for this mini episode. Today we're
talking about Kesha and what might be Boy Summer.

Speaker 3 (00:29):
She is boy crazy, she is in her late thirties
and she is crazy.

Speaker 1 (00:36):
Boys who isn't crazy? I'm boy crazy, crazy boy, I'm
so boy crazy Bombay new or La. Just list a
bunch of places.

Speaker 3 (00:48):
Oh, my co game, Biker's in the dumb Bro's probably
like a.

Speaker 1 (00:52):
Katie Cat I want to get. So Yeah, it's a
lot of that for like two minutes, which is fine.
It definitely seems like Kesha's attempt at want to come
back to a song that people know that doesn't mention
Diddy and three the song of the summer, which I
guess she hasn't had since maybe twenty ten.

Speaker 2 (01:16):
Yeah, I think that this is her.

Speaker 3 (01:19):
This is like the vibe that we could have gotten
from Kesha through her career if doctor Luke hadn't destroyed
all of our good times. So I'm for that reason,
I am cool with it. It is a little ironic,
but man, crazy just doesn't roll off the tongue. True,

(01:43):
I will say, you know, if the if it was
genders were switched and like, I don't know. Robin Thicke
had a song and he was like, I'm girl crazy. Go,
I guess that's honestly acceptable. People call women girls all
the time. Yeah, so I'm okay with it.

Speaker 2 (02:03):
I like I like places. I like La New York.

Speaker 1 (02:09):
Tahoe, Bombay and la rhyme. Did you know that?

Speaker 2 (02:14):
I didn't. Actually I never heard it in a song before.

Speaker 1 (02:17):
I'm always looking at the initials la anything in Los.

Speaker 2 (02:20):
Angeles exactly, and you're not.

Speaker 1 (02:22):
You can just say la and that's a rhyme.

Speaker 3 (02:25):
La bon be Santa Fe. She missed that one big, big,
big mistake. You're living in the Southwest, Yeah, she was.
She's already there and she missed it.

Speaker 1 (02:39):
So this is from Kesha's forthcoming album Period, which is
coming out fourth of July. So I don't think this
will be the last we hear of boy Crazy.

Speaker 2 (02:52):
I hope not. It's fun.

Speaker 3 (02:55):
It's definitely, you know, talking about recession indicators, people say
Kesha is a recession indicator. This is recession pop, heavily,
heavily uh auto tuned. She is dressed exactly like she is.
An American apparel ad from two thousand and eight disco shorts,

(03:17):
crop T shirt. We got the kind of early video
style video.

Speaker 1 (03:24):
Yeah, like a grainy it's a visualizer. So she hasn't
dropped the music video as of this recording, so she's
definitely she's loading up for a big boy push.

Speaker 2 (03:35):
I like this.

Speaker 1 (03:36):
Also, her shirt says Kessa records bitch or records.

Speaker 2 (03:42):
Bitch, Kessa Kesha? Oh Kesha did it?

Speaker 1 (03:47):
I'm mad of mispronounced.

Speaker 3 (03:48):
Okay Kesha records bitch, Hey why not?

Speaker 1 (03:52):
I don't get that me neither. But she's also selling
the march in the video, so it's like a two
for one.

Speaker 2 (03:58):
She says, she's on a tear this song. I can't tell.

Speaker 3 (04:04):
Is it about being boy crazy or is it about
being an international party girl? Coast to coast. I hear
boy crazy. I think someone who's always checking their phone
for boy. They're just they have a new boy every
week that they have they're in love with, and then
they're like, oh, he broke my heart.

Speaker 2 (04:22):
But she's more like she wants all the boys.

Speaker 1 (04:25):
She says, many men are on the menu. Eat him up.
Like a moose boush. Boys better beware. I'm on a
man tear, so boys and men all need to be
on high alert.

Speaker 3 (04:41):
I would be hey, throw me in there if Kesha.
If Kesha was what does that mean? I guess you
know she She's come into town. Kesha's come into town
and she could she could pick you up, drop you
as soon before you can say say something.

Speaker 1 (05:06):
And she's going on tour at the end of this month.

Speaker 3 (05:10):
I would love to see Kesha. I'm a huge Kesha fan.
That's why we're talking about this pretty much. I listen
to every new Kesha song. I don't love every song.
There was like Yippie Kaya or whatever. With t Pain,
I wasn't too impressed. I think it's tough when I'm
like Kesha and Tea Pain and it's like some sort

(05:32):
of country nod.

Speaker 2 (05:33):
I love that idea.

Speaker 3 (05:35):
I don't know if it followed through, so I was
I'm happy to hear this because this is actually something
I could see myself walking down the street, you know,
of New York in the summer listening to.

Speaker 1 (05:47):
Gimme, Gimme, Gimme all the boys, gimme gimmy, gimme all
the Boys.

Speaker 3 (05:51):
Is this a Britney Spears reference. Gimme Gimme More? That's
what I see when I see gimme in a electro
pop song.

Speaker 1 (06:00):
Can catch Kesha on tour at Madison Square Garden on
July twenty third, with special guest Scissor Sisters and Venga
Boys Boys on the bill.

Speaker 3 (06:16):
Wow, she is on a man tear. Maybe that's what
she meant. She's boy crazy for the Venga Boys.

Speaker 1 (06:26):
Venga Boys is a Dutch eurodance music group. Did you
know that?

Speaker 3 (06:30):
No, were they at Univision or something sounds like a Univision?

Speaker 1 (06:34):
Yeah, that sounds like that might be where this is
coming from. But we don't want to profile just based
on someone being a Dutch euro dance music group.

Speaker 2 (06:42):
Yeah, I can that would be messed up.

Speaker 1 (06:45):
From what I can tell. Two boys in the Venga
Boys and two ladies.

Speaker 2 (06:50):
And we can't even profile based on the name.

Speaker 1 (06:53):
No, anyone can be a boy, just like anyone can
be brat.

Speaker 3 (06:56):
I do think that that is coming through in the
ethos of of the Kesha song. Well that was our
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Speaker 1 (07:16):
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