Explaining The Video: Ke$ha “Your Love Is My Drug”
So, Your Love is My Drug starts out proving that Ke$ha doesn’t ALWAYS wake up feeling like P Diddy. In fact, sometimes she wakes up to find that she spent the night passed out in the middle of nowhere.
Beside a homeless guy.
Now, a lot of other people, were they to wake up in the middle of nowhere next to a homeless guy would probably react with “WHAT THE HELL IS GOING ON HERE?”
But this is Ke$ha.
So her reaction? No, it’s not to brush her teeth with a bottle of Jack. It’s to RUN OFF TO PARTY.
But Ashly, you ask, how exactly does Ke$ha party in the middle of the African Savanna?
Simple.
She RIDES AN ELEPHANT.
And then she wears these boots. At first I couldn’t figure out WHY.
But then the answer became clear:
They go perfectly with her white tiger mask.
Anyway, at some point Homeless Guy wakes up and of course it’s love at first site for him and Ke$ha.
There’s even little hearts to let us know that this isn’t just, like, when you LIKE someone. Or even when you LIKE like someone. No. This is LOVE.
Homeless Guy likes Ke$ha ’cause she smells like malt liquor. And Ke$ha loves Homeless Guy because she’s finally found someone who’s okay with the fact that she’s a furry.
BUT WAIT! This song is called “Your Love is My Drug.” I’m seeing a lot of love, but no drugs yet! FALSE ADVERTISING!
Now THAT’S more like it!
See, now Ke$ha and Homeless Guy are so high off of each other’s “love” (and probably a healthy dose of LSD) that they think getting into a boat in the middle of a very dry area is a good idea.
Ke$ha and Homeless Guy, why are you in a boat? There is no water there. You’re being ridiculous.
Thankfully, through the magic of animation, we get to see exactly what Ke$ha and Homeless Guy are hallucinating while tripping on love and psychedelic drugs.
Oh man. Wait. This is a music video. About drugs. With animation. We’re going to go into a Yellow Submarine style animated sequence, aren’t we?
DAMN IT.
Also, things the world never needed to see:
Homeless Guy re-enacting the Birth of Venus and…
…Ke$ha, as a psychedelic mermaid, making out with Homeless Guy in the middle of the Savanna.
Anyway, eventually we leave the magical world of overdone Beatles-influenced things, and come back to find Ke$ha dancing around in a fishnet she’s found somewhere.
Okay. Beatles animation. Riding an elephant. Tiger mask. This video has given me so much already, I think I’m pretty much ready for ANYTHING Ke$ha could throw at me now.
THE FUCK?!
Um, Ke$ha? Remember that time you woke up feeling like P Diddy? Yeah, well now it looks like you woke up feeling like Kanye West, considering you look like the bad rave version of something straight out of his video for Love Lockdown.
Except when Kanye did it, it was part of a celebration of his actual cultural heritage. When you do it? It’s a white girl from Nashville trying to look either sexy, worldly or edgy. At this point, I’d rather go back to the kaleidoscope stuff and the rip off Beatles animation.
THANK YOU.
Okay, so, just to make sure we get the point of the song, as if the chorus weren’t repetitive enough, we get this:
Uh-huh.
Anyway, as the video winds down, Ke$ha and Homeless Guy find themselves romatically sitting by a fire. Ke$ha has somehow washed off all her glow-in-the-dark body paint.
And the very, very real words of wisdom this video ends on?
“I like your beard.”
…okay, you know what? Don’t bother with this. Watch THIS version of the video instead.
