In keeping with her tradition of being really fuckin weird, Ke$ha has released an acid trip of a video for her song “C’mon” and it’s a great encapsulation of the spirit of the song itself. “C’mon” is best described by the lyrics of the song’s bridge: “I don't wanna go to sleep/I wanna stay up all night/I wanna just screw around/I don't wanna think about/What's gonna be after this/I wanna just live right now” and the ridiculous nature of the video for “C’mon” expresses this and much more. Of course, after listening to her latest album, Warrior, I wouldn’t expect anything less from Ke$ha.
The video opens with Ke$ha, in ponytails and daisy dukes, as a waitress who shows up late then quits. She leaves the restaurant and a shockingly green van sporting cat ears on the roof and a tail on the rear bumper – which has appeared out of a bolt of lightning hitting the street – pulls up to pick her up. The van is driven by a furry, a person in a giant mascot-esque cat costume, but that’s just the first furry we see. The cat driver pops in what looks like an 8-track tape with a cat’s face on it and the song starts up. Ke$ha, now in a hippy-meets-popstar outfit, sings between clips of the van picking up more furries and of those furries joining her to dance to the chorus. The next verse, which starts with “Write our names on the wall in the back of the bar/Steal some bubblegum from the corner Maxi-mart”, finds Ke$ha and her furry friends destroying a convenience store and, of course, partying hard while doing it.
The bridge of the song is a quieter, more slowed down bit of the song but it leads up to my favorite part of “C’mon”, song and video. Upon the explosion of the final chorus (“Come on cause I know what I like, and you’re lookin just like the type/let’s go for it just for the night, and C’MON, C’MON, C’MON!”), Ke$ha and co. burst into the restaurant at which she used to work and party like no pop star with a gang of people dressed in animal costumes has every partied before. It is in this sheer explosion of song and dance that make me love the video, song, and artist even more. There is very little that is poetic about the song, obviously, but it needn’t be – considering the song itself is fantastic enough that I blast it any and every time I party. I can only hope that one day I can party with Ke$ha though hopefully I won’t have to dress like a furry to do so.