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Ke$ha co-wrote five songs for "Warrior" with her mother, Pebe Sebert, a singer-songwriter from Tennessee who penned "Old Flames Can't Hold a Candle to You," a hit for Dolly Parton in 1980. She says she learned about songwriting by sneaking into her mother's sessions as a child. They now bounce ideas for lyrics back and forth regularly. "I can write with her about anything. I can write with her about boys. I wrote the song
'Cannibal' with her, which is about me dismembering men and eating them," Ke$ha noted. The album features more guitar than her previous efforts, with her punk and hard rock influences heard on "Gold Trans Am" and "Dirty Love," the collaboration where Iggy Pop gleefully name-checks Rick Santorum. It also features less Auto-Tune: After taking criticism for relying too heavily on voice manipulation technology, she showcases her natural pipes throughout large chunks of "Warrior" and on an accompanying five-song acoustic EP, "Deconstructed." "We wanted to tone it down on the gimmicky, cutting stuff up, Auto-Tune stuff," said Dr. Luke, credited as executive producer. "I signed her because the first stuff I heard her with was just acoustic guitar and her voice. ... When you hear her on a song, you know it's her right away. It's a very distinctive voice." Ke$ha's voice is also being heard with her new book, "My Crazy Beautiful Life." In it, she writes that she feeds off the energy of her passionate fans, whom she calls "animals," a la Lady Gaga's "Little Monsters." Yet she's also happy to get away from them. At the end of her last tour, she turned off her phone and backpacked around Central and South America and Africa. "When you live a life where you're surrounded by a lot of people all the time, it's a very ego-centric lifestyle. And to prevent myself from like totally living on another planet, I wanted to like, you know, run around barefoot and sleep in the dirt and go meet random people who have no idea who I am and just don't give a (care)," she said. "And that was really nice." She admits to one rock star indulgence: "I'm kind of a diva about glitter. Somebody told me I couldn't have glitter at a show and I threw a fit. But I've always been a diva about glitter." ___ Online:
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