Total Points: 240
Charted Songs: “Your Love Is My Drug” – #75 “TikTok” – #71 “My First Kiss” by 3oh!3 (ft. Ke$ha) – #68 “We R Who We R” – #36 “Take it Off” – #15

There’s something about Ke$ha that just seems dirty. Maybe it was that one time that she arrived in a trash bag for an awards show and didn’t seem that innovative. Not like Lady GaGa creative, just a trash bag (what I sometimes call a BBPB: Big Black Plastic Bag).

Ke$ha has shown very little to no vocal abilities at all so when she’s live, she doesn’t sound horrible, but likewise she doesn’t sound good. I mean Katy Perry sounds decent in “Thinking of You” and Lady GaGa rocks when she’s in front of a piano. Let’s take a listen to her live:

Her backup singer is doing all the actual singing! WTF? I was reading youtube comments and Ke$ha was a watered down Fergie. Sorry, Fergie actually has some vocal ability.

So where was I? Right, somehow through the miracle of catchy, non-live, beat-driven music Ke$ha has landed on the number three position in my countdown. And she deserves it. I think her lyrics are cheesy, but I feel as though they speak to a generation of kids (Though I doubt that generation knows who Mick Jagger is).

Ke$ha doesn’t have a lot in many departments (especially that talent section), but she proves that even losers can be winners.

Total Points: 173
Charted Songs: “The Bed Intruder Song” – #61 “I’m Not a Witch” – #47 “The Backin Up Song” – #22

You didn’t expect that I would have artists that really barely charted on the Billboard charts right? Interestingly, “The Bed Intruder Song” actually made it to #89 on Billboard’s Hot 100. The best video mash-up had to be this one:

I love The Gregory Brothers and their whole Auto-Tune The News segments on YouTube. So the other two songs are kinda part of their Auto-Tune the news: Songify this segments. I love the Backin’ up woman. She seemed a bit crazy, but you know what? I’d hang out with her. She played it safe and wasn’t shot now was she?

I wished that the full version of “The Backin’ Up Song” was released sooner. I’m not sure that it would have boosted it’s score by much, but it was really good to jam to two minutes of music.

I’m not actually surprised that the Gregory Brothers are actually really good singers without Auto-Tune. I think the key to using Auto-Tune is to have actual talent and the Auto-Tune is just there to do minor tweaking. Granted, since they auto-tune people who speak it creates an interesting harmony.

Here are my top three favorite remixes:

Number 3

Number 2

Number 1

I think that the videos have gotten a bit better now because of how YouTube has affected everything. Though I still will admit, of all the Idol-related funny/bad singers, my favorite by far is still “Ken Lee.” Here’s the video below: