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Femme Disturbance - Live/d Theory

Micha Cárdenas, Author

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I Am A Queer Cannibal

The excessive sexuality presented in Ke$ha’s songs may facilitate a reading of her performances as examples of queer femme embodiment. In songs such as “Cannibal,” Ke$ha moves far beyond the passive receptacle of male desire, becoming a monstrous femme fatale, singing “I want your liver on a platter/ Use your finger to stir my tea/ and for dessert I’ll suck your teeth/ Be too sweet and you’ll be a goner/ I’ll pull a Jeffrey Dahmer.” The queerness of this song, which has no official video, is reinforced by the fan video “Kesha—Cannibal (Official Gay Music Video)” in which an apparently gay male singer lip syncs to the song while a group of dancers caress each other and engage in feasting on the body of a shirtless man with well defined abs.
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