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Documentary maker talks Ke$ha
So basically the guy that followed her for 2 years for My Crazy Beautiful Life did this AMA where he answered questions about Ke$ha. There are a lot of answers but these are the most interesting ones.
It's a long read but fun
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A lot of examples like this occur in the documentary. It's just part of that lifestyle. Paparazzi are everywhere and there's a hungry group of consumers waiting to gawk.
One of the worst cases involved her computer being hacked and very private photos being uploaded online and spread everywhere. This actually happened more than once. And it's on camera as it develops.
Also, let me just say that it's heart breaking to see her try to be strong, only to break down in private over **** like this. It hurts. And you can see it hurts. She's just like everyone else.
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My #1 favorite song she worked on didn't make it on the album. Here's hoping it turns up sometime soon...
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2 years later, those things still exist, but she's matured into a more "self aware" artist. She's very hands-on EVERYTHING. She designs her own costumes, her stage sets, her props, and even her own tshirts. She doesn't just let assistants or managers take care of everything. She participates in every decision. She's learned how to be a boss. And a pretty good one
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It's a coming of age story. She was girl when I met her. And she's developed into quite a strong woman.
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Great questions. And yes, her fans are like her 2nd family.
The 2nd day of filming, she gets on her tour bus and her assistant hands her a MASSIVE box of fan mail. She then opens EACH one, reads it, signs whatever memorabilia was included, and sometimes hand writes a note back.
She meets with fans at EVERY tour stop. In one case, a kid in England handed her a book he'd put together. He was shy and couldn't say much beyond "Please read the letter I put in there." She read it. It was about him being bullied in school and hitting rock bottom with depression. And then her song "Animal" came on the radio and he suddenly felt a bit hopeful and pulled himself together. The note ended "You saved my life Kesha". They both broke down in tears and embraced. To this day, she calls or texts him every once in a while to see how he's doing.
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"Ke$ha" is a wandering misfit, half drunk, half crazy, stumbling over hill and dale for the next party.
"Kesha" is sharp as a tack. Plays multiple instruments. Reads constantly. Writes constantly (I literally saw at least 300 full notebooks). And she knows EVERYTHING about her production. I often would see her on ProTools mixing a new audio cue, or designing new stage props herself. She designed a massive 12 foot glitter cannon for her live show.
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I became more and more involved. As a filmmaker and as a friend. Sometimes, when she would break down after a terrible moment, her brother would set down the camera and be her brother while I stood in the corner and kept filming. I tried to disappear into the walls. But there are lots of times when some of the footage is like "Grey Gardens" where the subject breaks the 4th wall and talks directly to me, or yells at me, or winks at me. She was probably the best documentary subject I've ever followed.
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On one hand, she's disarmingly "normal" from the standpoint of the first time I met her, she was drinking blood from a human heart on stage and dancing with a giant penis. And then, once I started following her around, she's a very smart, witty, and warm-hearted "normal" individual.
But I have to say that she's also one of the funniest people I know. The one-liners that come out of her mouth sometimes made me almost drop my camera from laughter.
"Nothing in life is free. Except for mullets." -Kesha
Another one: "I'm gonna go get a drink with that beard and then I'm gonna touch him where he pees."
I actually now consider her one of my close friends.
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Yes. I don't warm up to people easily. Never have. She's now one of my best friends. Love the **** out of her. One of the most loyal people ever.
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Before I started filming her, I had this worry that she was going to be a pretentious diva. Super self conscious about what we film and constantly having her nose up in the air. Basically imagine the opposite of that and that's Kesha. She's one of the coolest, most legit, people I know. Totally love that.
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Kesha's mom was a country music writer in Nashville. Her and Kesha wrote some songs together and made a demo CD of mainly Kesha playing acoustic guitar and singing awesome country music. However, the last song on the CD was a goofy pop track with her doing the "white girl rap" she does. The label that signed her loved that track. They brought her in. She sang backup on "Right Round" and then she wrote and recorded "Tik Tok". And people latched onto that big time.
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Oh god yes. She loves animals. She went to Africa to help rehabilitate injured lions, flies around the world investing in "save the whales", and her and her mom have adopted like 12 homeless dogs. She just won an award from the Humane Society for her activism.
She also is very very very very close to her family. So she's always hanging out with them. Giving her younger brother piggy back rides, going camping, or just spending the weekend doing "hillbilly activities" in Nashville (her hometown). She's a country girl, so she loves the outdoors, cheap beer, and jetskis.
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If you watch her live show, it's trashy, dirty, glittery, sweaty, bloody and chaotic. If people judged her character based on her live show, then it would be exactly that: trashy, drunk and dirty.
But that's like thinking Jennifer Lawrence is a manically depressed pill popper because of "Silver Linings Playbook".
Except Jennifer gets to play different roles for every movie.
And Ke$ha's role stays more or less the same.
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I can tell you that 100% of any/all "illuminati" symbolism was probably put in because, no disrespect, people like you have coined "illuminati" a popular buzz word. Beyond that, there was zero illuminati **** going down. And Kesha's basically the opposite of what such a secret society would believe in.
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1) She's been choreographing a bunch of new stuff lately. And she's got like 8 backup dancers now for the new tour. And we filmed a bunch of this and she really does pretty good. Learning dance moves for each song was WAAAAYYYYY harder than I thought it would be. A lot of work goes into it.
2) Kesha writes the lyrics to all her songs. Sometimes, after writing a song, some will help her tweak a word or two, but it's mostly her. As for music, she writes some and her producers write some. "Love into the Light" for example was composed by her on her piano at home while we filmed her. Dr. Luke and Max Martin both were intimately involved in helping produce "Warrior". And we filmed both of them.
3) Her definitely has a "stage persona", but most of that is just an exaggerated version of who she really is. Behind the scenes, she's one of the normal and coolest people ever. Well, actually, "normal" isn't the right word. I've never met anyone quite like her.
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http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comment...followed_keha/
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I cannot wait for this show. So down to earth and humble.