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Originally posted by Misanthrope
Removing a $ from her name isn't going to make people take her seriously. Its not necessary that she removes it. Stop crapping on the $ just because its claimed that she no longer wants it to be associated with her image.
I don't care if it stays or not, but what you're doing here is very counter-productive. You're essentially trivializing something thats apart of her legacy as a pop artist. I've seen it happen before with monsters and how a lot of them resented The Fame for being so successful and therefore talked **** about it and talked up Born This Way and in doing so they created a major divide and unintentionally **** on something that was apart of her career. Creating this like new-gaga/old-gaga separation not just with fans but also the casually interested.
A lot of Ke$ha fans lately keep like creating this divide between electro-ke$ha and what they think is like "alternative"-Ke$ha or something, but the fact of the matter is that she is first and foremost a pop star and she knows this. She doesn't want to be anything other than a pop star, all she wants is a more varied range of influences to be allowed to shine through her music. All is Ke$ha and Kesha is Ke$ha whether she makes another Dinosaur or an album with Wayne.
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I disagree with you. Not
all of what you said, granted, but the majority of it.
The GP respond to change. Rihanna changed her image from the good island girl who made catchy reggae-influenced pop to a bad girl in her "Good Girl Gone Bad" era, and to this day it's still one of her most successful eras of her career. Miley Cyrus shot down the good girl stereotype she had from Hannah Montana with We Can't Stop and her stunts during her Bangerz era, and look how that turned out for her. She got her first #1, and even outsold Lady Gaga in first week album sales. P!nk released a ballad instead of So What 4.0 and it went #1. Katy Perry released a "safe" single Unconditionally and it didn't do that well, but then she releases a trap-influenced pop track and it, again, tops the charts.
Whether you may think so or not, stereotypes are a big part of our culture. And as soon as an artist fights that stereotype, that commands attention. Kesha dropping the dollar sign in her name isn't just a simple little irrelevant name change that doesn't mean anything, it means everything. It's signifying a new beginning for her. And I know that this means absolutely nothing if she just churns out another TiK ToK 4.0 and all credibility of this "new" Kesha will go out the window, but I really don't see that happening. This era can be big for Kesha, and the removal of the dollar sign will certainly have something to do with it.
What I'm doing isn't counter-productive. I'm a non-factor when it comes to Kesha's career. I'm just a fan making posts on an internet forum. What I'm doing has literally no effect on anything. I'm not trivialising the dollar sign, if anything I'm glorifying it by demonstrating its importance, whereas you on the other hand are the one trivialising it by acting as if it won't matter if she keeps it or not, which I disagree with. Her dollar sign may have been recognisable to some, but the removal of it isn't going to mark the be all or end all of her career. Nor is it going to make her some random indie alternative act or something. As you have said, she's first and foremost a pop star, which is one of your points that I do agree with. But just because she's a pop start doesn't mean that she has to make the same tired party-pop "Let's dance all night"-type pop music. Pop is such a vast genre these days that her pop could mean anything (literally, no Gaga pun intended!)
Gaga is a separate case though and I won't go into it here although believe me I do have plenty to say.
The divide between the electropop Ke$ha and this new Kesha is being exaggerated, I completely agree. But there is most certainly a distinction. She's the same person as she was before, but not the same artist. Put it this way, I'd be extremely surprised if we get a Crazy Kids 2.0 on the next album.
Excuse me? That song is amazing! 
How could she ever
