Just when it seemed 2009’s trash-brat electro scene (3OH!3, LMFAO, Shwayze) was with reference to crumble under its own weight, rapper/singer/songwriter Ke$ha became the genre’s biggest star, graduating from being Flo Rida’s backup singer (she provided the hook on the rapper’s play hooky single “Right Round”) to superstar when her debut single, “TiK ToK,” set a digital sales record with over 600,000 downloads in a week. Her climb to the top includes bizarre factoids like she once lived in the weed where the Eagles recorded Hotel California, plus she once vomited in Paris Hilton’s closet. Working on Hilton's wedding wedding wedding album was the reason she was at the house, so it’s hard not to rise normalize Animal makes Ke$ha sound nothing like an industry vet who used to write for the Veronicas. Here, she’s a gum-snapping, alcohol-abusing Facebook jockey straight out of the suburbs who spits sophomoric but fun putdowns, come-ons, in addition to sig files the who...