The details aren't as important as the wager. If I lost (and I narrowly but decisively did), I would have to listen to Kesha Radio on Pandora for a week. Whenever I sat at my computer and otherwise would have been inclined to listen to iTunes or Last.fm or one of my own Pandora stations, I got nailed with Ke$ha instead.
And I couldn't count on exploiting any loopholes: Two skips per hour. (No skipping if our dollar-signed friend herself showed up.) And no manipulating the playlist with thumbs-upping/downing.
It's a tall order, but I'm honor-bound to go through with it. Ever wondered what a Ke$ha Pandora station is like, but a little too scared (or proud) to investigate it for yourself? You can live vicariously through me!
Ke$ha Week, Day 1: March 27, 2011
Ke$ha "hit" of the day: "Blah Blah Blah". This song is so inspired that it's hard to pick out the best lyric, so here are two: "don't be a little bitch with your chitchat," "I wanna be naked, and you're wasted."
Worst song of the day: "3", Britney Spears. Lyric: "1, 2, 3/ Not only you and me,/ Got one eighty degrees,/ And I'm caught in between." This song is about having a threesome. It is so overproduced that Britney actually sings autotuned harmony with her autotuned self.
Did "Like a G6" show up? Yes, around the sixth song. It might have been a remix, because the album was listed as Far East Movement Remixes, but nobody announced "remix!" at the beginning, so I wasn't sure.
Peak ridiculousness: "I Like It," Enrique Iglesias feat. Pitbull. When a song's selling point is that it was included on the Jersey Shore soundtrack, you can guess about how good it is.
Song that I skipped: "Bottoms Up," Trey Songz. I shouldn't have been surprised that this song was so bad given how Mr. Songz chooses to spell his name.
"Currently listening" is on hiatus for the next week. Mourn for it.