Our favorite warbonnet-wearing-hot-mess of a musician sported another headdress at The Bamboozle (a big music festival). The photographer calls her get up a “psuedo-patriotic costume of a feather headdress, aviator sunglasses, and the American flag”. Right.
Plenty more pictures at the photog’s site: http://ishootshows.com/2010/05/21/photos-kesha-the-bamboozle/
A couple of tipsters had sent over Ke$ha’s new video for “Your Love is My Drug”, a song which boasts the lyric “Do I make your heart beat like a native drum (an 808 drum–I stand corrected!)?”, and this seems like an appropriate time to share it:
In the video she’s running around in the desert, and sports blue warpaint, a heavy dose of “Native” jewelry (including turquoise, silver, and bone), and feathers:
She even is sitting atop an elephant wearing a feather headdress for a few shots:
and then later in the video she goes into psychedelic neon painted aboriginal mode (same look she debuted on SNL a few weeks back), complete with a boa constrictor ala Britney Spears:
We’ve discussed it before with her American Idol performance. Girl, get your act together. Cultural appropriation isn’t cool.
Earlier: Ke$ha, the headdress, and the trend that won’t go away: http://nativeappropriations.blogspot.com/2010/03/keha-headdress-and-trend-that-wont-go.html
But Why Can’t I Wear a Hipster Headdress?: http://nativeappropriations.blogspot.com/2010/04/but-why-cant-i-wear-hipster-headdress.html
(Thanks Crystal!)
Comments
I think she’s saying 808 drum, like 808’s and heartbreak. not that it makes the rest of it ok.
yeah, its 808 rather than native. also, surely she’s just making plain her love for american culture/fashion?
She is horrible and annoying.
http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_VIzW-Ey2OCc/TBF5hwrjEYI/AAAAAAAAAB4/T3jxRc6bw-Y/s1600/IMG_9034.JPG
I am doing a little thing with posters in my school, I added some of these photos to it because they demonstrate this point so well!