Ryan: There's something about this track. There's something about this artist. I think it's gonna stick. Ladies and gentlemen, we bring you -- and I wish I could literally pipe her into a screen near you right now. As a matter of fact, I'm gonna roll the E! cameras for this. We bring you--

Ke$ha: Ah!

Ryan: Are you gonna fix your hair?

Ellen K: She's hiding! She's hiding behind her hair.

Ryan: Ke$ha! Live at this hour.

Ke$ha: Ow ow!

Ryan: Good morning!

Ke$ha: Good morning.

Ryan: I'm so psyched to have you here. Congratulations.

Ke$ha: Thank you. I'm so excited to be here.

Ryan: I was reading some of the facts about your single Tik Tok. You're breaking records with this. Did you know that?

Ke$ha: I've heard rumors.

Ryan: Yeah. Right on top. Right up against that Susan Boyle.
Ke$ha: Oh yeah!

Ryan: Very, very opposite styles. Wouldn't you say?

Ellen K: Yes!

Ke$ha: I think we're very similar.

Ryan: So you are from here?

Ke$ha: Well yeah, I was born in the valley, but then I grew up in Nashville.

Ryan: How did you end up in Nashville?

Ke$ha: That was -- My mom was kind of like a punk rocker, and as a joke she wrote a country song that ended up being recorded by Johnny Cash, Dolly Parton, and Merle Haggard.

Ryan: Wow.

Ke$ha: Yeah.

Ryan: And how did you end up back in LA?

Ke$ha: And then when I was seventeen, I got a phone call from this dude, and he was like, "Oh, I think I'm your dad!" And I was like, "Ok!"

Ryan: "I think I'm your dad"?
Ellen K: "I think I'm your dad"? He thought he was--

Ke$ha: Yeah, cause I don't know who my dad is. And my mom was like, "Hm, possibility." And so...

Ryan: Did she have any recollection?

Ke$ha: Oh yeah! She was like, "Yeah, definite possibility." But at the time she just wanted a baby.

Ryan: Your mother sound like she's kind of like that, "Hey! Let me just write a song and move on. Ah! I'm just gonna have a baby and see what happens." So it turns out the guy was your dad?

Ke$ha: No! Not my dad. The guy had a video game chair, like in *40-Year-Old Virgin*. So I was like, "Nope. You're not my dad." So after I figured that out, it was about the same time I hooked up with Dr. Luke and Max Martin, and then just started recording like crazy.

Ryan: At what point were you living in the Hills and in this Trans Am I read about?

Ke$ha: Oh! No, I actually wasn't living in the Trans Am. I was livig in my grandpa's Lincoln Town and Country car.

Ellen K: Oh, those big.

Ke$ha: Yeah, it was very roomy.

Ryan: Nice! Much more space.

Ke$ha: It's like a boat, actually. But that was for in between the period of time when I met this dude how was definitely not my dad, cause it was off the airplane, move in with this dude, "You're not my dad... I'm gonna go...", and I'm like, "Where do I go? A car!

Ryan: Have you found your dad?
Ke$ha: No.

Ellen K: Do you want to?

Ke$ha: No!

Ryan: If you're her dad, 1-800-520-1027.

Ellen K: Now people are just going to say they're your dad, again.

Ke$ha: I don't know. Cause what if he is a loser? I'd rather just not know.

Ellen K: What if he's a big winner?

Ryan: She'd rather just not know.

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Ryan: "Wake up in the morning feeling like P-Diddy." You need to tell everybody why you said that.

Ke$ha: Ok. So, one morning I woke up feeling like a pimp, cause I was-- well, I woke up surrounded by a bunch of babes!

Ryan: A bunch of chicks?

Ke$ha: Yeah. So it was kind of like Babefest'09. Cause I really don't like to sleep alone, but in a totally slumber-party kind of way.

Ryan: Right. So they crashed with you?

Ke$ha: So they crashed with me. Cause I was pretty sure my house was haunted.

Ryan: You were afraid.

Ke$ha: So I was terrified. So they crashed.

Ryan:

Ke$ha: Yes. Obviously.

Ryan: I wanna wake up in the morning and feel like Ke$ha! And are any of these your partners?

Ke$ha: No!

Ryan: Just all platonic?

Ke$ha: Just babe friends.

Ryan: There's a track called Stephen. Was Stephen in there?

Ke$ha: No! Stephen's a loser!

Ryan: Well, tell me about Stephen. Tell me about this song. Why is Stephen a loser?

Ke$ha: Well, he won't call me! So obviously there must be something wrong with him.

Ryan: Right! Why wouldn't he call you? I get it. So you wrote a song about how he won't call you and you don't get it.

Ke$ha: Right. You obsess about the one guy who will not call you. And he was that one for me for like five years. Well, seven.

Ryan: You were twelve.

Ke$ha: I used to just drive by his house and the whole crazy bit. Yeah, I kind of stalked him a little bit, actually.

Ryan: Did you find out why he never called you?

Ke$ha: Cause he's a loser.

Ryan: So this morning Ke$ha up early -- Ellen, could you describe in the best fashionista detail what Ke$ha's got on today? Cause I can't even figure it out.

Ellen: They're zebra leggings. Duh!

Ryan: Yeah, but there's a lot of accessories too.

Ellen: She's an animal. She's got feather earrings. She's got a black V-neck tee. She writes on herself...

Ryan: Yeah, that's what I was really interested in.

Ellen: A red bra -- she just showed me, red lace. And big old shades.

Ryan: But you have dollar signs written all over your forearm, and then also some lyrics or words or something on your body.

Ke$ha: My hotel -- the name of my hotel.

Ryan: You have short-term memory loss?

Ke$ha: Kind of.

Ryan: You know where you are?

Ke$ha: I think. I'm on air with Ryan Seacrest.

Ryan: Why the dollar sign in your name, Ke$ha?

Ke$ha: Ok, that? Honestly, I was trying to be ironic. Because -- let me explain this to you. It's not cause I'm like, "Yeah, I got lots of money. Money! Woo!" It's more like, "I don't have any money. So... I'm money. Cause I don't have any." This was at a point where I was on the track with Flo Rida, and I was hearing it everywhere, while I'm shopping at the the dollar store for canned vegetables.

Ryan: It is ironic. You couldn't get away from this. And this is Ke$ha on here, the female voice here. But you couldn't get away from this song. However, you couldn't get fresh tomato. Explain this; I don't understand. And I think a lot of people might think, "What you've made, you're on a hit record, at least you get paid something. How do you have nothing, yet you're ubiquitous?

Ke$ha: To be totally honest, I kind of walked into that situation accidentally. I walked into the studio and Flo Rida just thought I looked crazy. "Let's put you on a record." And then he just kept it. And he liked it so much, I was actually on another song on his record called "Touch Me," which a lot of people don't know. But anyways, he just tried to find other people to be the vocal, and nobody else cut it. So we kept mine. So I was just kind of like, "You know what? Take it. Whatever."

Ryan: Did you also try to sneak into Prince's house?

Ke$ha: Oh, I didn't try.

Ryan: You did?

*****

Ryan: Let's talk about Prince. So you snuck into his place?

Ke$ha: It sounded so much less psychotic in my mind. When I got his address, I was just like, "Oh! Obviously I'll just go to his house and give him my CD. No big deal. I'll just wrap a CD in a bow, and there we go." So I snuck under his fence, but then I got stuck.

Ryan: You're talking about this big mansion up here?

Ke$ha: Yeah, yeah, yeah. In Hollywood -- he's moved since.

Ryan: I wonder why! It didn't sound so crazy in your head; I think in ours it sounds a little crazy.

Ke$ha: And my butt wouldn't Uh!

Ryan: Did he get the CD?

Ke$ha: Yeah! No, I snuck under, paid the gardener five bucks, went in the house, the door was unlocked, ended up in his practice space, and gave him the CD. I did-- I did have to let myself out, per the security. But, I didn't get arrested. Horray!

Ryan: Right. And look at you now.

Ke$ha: Look at me now.

Ryan: A five-year-old knows your song. **Ryan plays Tik Tok**

*****

Ryan: Ke$ha is with us. Ben, go ahead, you're on Kiss FM.

Ben: Hey Kaysha, I saw that on the music video -- do you like guys like that? And is that Dirt Nasty?

Ke$ha: That is Dirt Nasty! He's actually a friend of mine. We did some songs together. But I do like guys with preferrably a trashy mustache and/or mullet -- either-or.

Ryan: Can you give an example of a guys that looks like that?

Ke$ha: Like Joe Dirt. Did anybody see that movie? He's like my fantasy. For real.

Ryan: So you do like dudes.

Ke$ha: Oh yes. I like dudes? Oh yeah, I like dudes!

Ben: You don't like clean-cut guys like Ryan and me?

Ke$ha: And you? Well, I can't see you, but I like all dudes. Really. But I prefer a mullet and/or beard and/or... I kind of like fat guys, and guys who can't see super well cause then they can't see other girls.

Ben: I gotta change what I eat.

Ryan: Ben, thanks for listening to us. You like guys who can't see well?

Ke$ha: Just to protect myself.