Grimlock ♥ Ultra Magnus

Kesha takes us from her poverty-stricken childhood to touring all over the world, and though it all, she's starkly honest about everything she's gone through and done.   She admits to stealing food when a child, and sneaking into clubs when she was underage when she was an older teen, to drinking heavily and making out with dudes on tour.   (She keeps calling them dudes, but that's part of the casualness of this book.   I'll get into that more later.)   Then again, this is unsurprising: Kesha's songs make it seems as if she lived the way she pleased, and like she'd give anyone who side eyed her the finger.   

She partied and made out, and so her songs were full of drinking and parties and boys.   She wrote what she lived, and she lived the way she wanted.   Maybe that's what I found so infectious about this book, and what I do find so attractive in her songs.  She loves what she does.   It shone through on the songs, and it became clearer in this book.   And props to her: many women curb the details of their stories, because it's not what women should do.   As Kesha said about "Blah blah blah" she wanted to write about men the way men write about women. 

This sense of equality shows in what she doesn't say.   Never once does she show fear of this double standard, perhaps because she lived as if it didn't exist.   Again, this was something I first encountered in her songs and was only reinforced in this book. 

Her honestly and bluntness charmed me, but it was her casualness - and message - that made it inclusive.   This wasn't high brow (and I love me some low brow entertainment sometimes), and talks a lot about acceptance of oneself and others.   The casualness had positive effects, one of which was that it made me feel like she was talking to me as a friend.   It also made it a really easy read. 

Basically, I loved this, for the same reasons I loved her music.   If you're not into what she's dishing out in her songs, this might not be for you, though.   This not only has a lot of history, as well as process of how she wrote and put together her album, but it is also photograph heavy.  I liked this aspect, too, because it showed a lot of her makeup and it showed her in a lot of casual poses as well as in her public persona where she was performing.  

Still, this wasn't one of my all time favorite books, so I knocked one star down.