Cannibal
| Kesha
Cannibal
Cannibal is the first extended play (EP) by American recording artist Kesha, released on November 19, 2010. The EP is a follow-up companion to her debut album, Animal. Originally, the record was thought to be released as a deluxe edition of Animal, but was instead sold and released as both an EP and a deluxe edition of Animal. Kesha worked with a variety of producers and writers such as executive producer Dr. Luke, Benny Blanco, Ammo, Max Martin, Bangladesh and others. Musically, the songs on Cannibal are of the dance-pop genre, with some songs incorporating elements of electro and electropop in their production and beats. Throughout the album, the use of Auto-Tune and vocoders is prominent. Lyrically, the songs on Cannibal speak of ignoring judgement or hate and experiences based on love and heartbreak.-Wikipedia
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Slant Magazine
Most of the tracks on Cannibal are “sung” atop a similar video-game synth with all the precision of a malfunctioning GPS system. And though “Sleazy” was produced by Bangladesh (Lil Wayne’s “A Milli”) and co-written by Teddybears’s Klaus Ahlund (the man behind most of Robyn’s Body Talk project), Ke$ha doesn’t branch out in any significant way here, so it’s unlikely to do for her what the similarly packaged The Fame Monster did for Lady Gaga. That said, her bona fides on the infectious lead single “We R Who We R,” a purported response to the recent gay teen suicides she calls an anthem for “weirdos,” and the stuttery club track “Blow” are undeniable.
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Rolling Stone
Ke$ha’s main competitor rocks a mean meat dress, but can she rock a couplet like “Your little heart goes pitter-patter/I want your liver on a platter”? This EP proves Ke$ha would kick Gaga’s ass in a freestyle battle. At times — rhyming “go insane” with “see them Hanes” over squishy techno on “Blow” — that’s enough.
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AllMusic
Kesha's Cannibal is a mini-LP released on its own and also tacked onto her debut Animal, which has been squeezed dry of hits. Cannibal is expressly designed to rectify that situation, amplifying every annoying element of Kesha’s persona -- the sing-song hooks, the relentless Dr. Luke loops, the squeaked sleazy rhymes, the defiantly transparent Auto-Tune slathered on every track, the cheerful bragging about the dingy film left behind after hookups with douche bags. Despite a tacked-on, unnecessary remix of “Animal,” there is no slowing of momentum on Cannibal, no time spent on meaningless self-reflection, it’s just relentless, pulsating trash, its unapologetic vulgarity chipping away at your better impulses.
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Entertainment Weekly
Lest fans worry that current self-acceptance smash ”We R Who We R” has turned her soft, Cannibal, the swift follow-up to her massive debut, Animal, is no retreat. Her herky-jerky rhymes still sound like they came from the bathroom wall of a reform-school kindergarten, and the beats are as el cheapo electro as ever.
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AV Music
While she occasionally goes too far even by the exceedingly lax standards of a Ke$ha record—really, “C U Next Tuesday”?—Ke$ha is in full command of her artlessness on Cannibal, marrying airhead kiss-offs with chirpily upbeat, ringtone-ready dance-pop.
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American Songwriter
Overall, Cannibal feels less like an album and more the a place holder on the few remaining music department store shelves there are left, which is…a thing you’ve got to do these days? It almost makes you wonder why people stopped buying music in the first place.
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NOW
In the most widely quoted lyric from her Cannibal EP, Ke$ha name-checks serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer. (Meanwhile, rappers have been shouting him out for years.) The nü-electroclash pop-rapper with 'tude must be thanking her lucky glitter that the press has picked this up as a talking point; there's little else to say about her new release. It's nine new songs her label can tack onto her first album, Animal, to get double-dip action right around the time Santa goes Christmas shopping for the world.
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Sputnik Music
Glitter babe strikes again, this time with better results than her claim-to-fame Animal. A showcase of young talent with potential to be more than a commercialization of youth - a guilty pleasure.
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Pop Matters
The killjoys who dismissed Ke$ha’s debut Animal as one-dimensional party-girl trash will make hay with her new EP Cannibal, assuming they’re still paying attention. Over the course of eight new songs -- in the ‘80s, this would’ve been called an “album” -- Ke$ha details the precise order in which she’ll devour an unfortunate male’s body parts, at one point comparing herself to Jeffrey Dahmer.
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MuuMuse
With Cannibal, Ke$ha takes her debut (Animal) and gives it the Lady Gaga repackaging formula that worked so well in 2009: As The Fame Monster is to The Fame, Cannibal is a one-upping the original Animal package with a thematically darker, harder hitting series of eight tracks produced by the top pop titans of the 21st century, including Dr. Luke, Max Martin, Bangladesh and Benny Blanco.
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Common Sense Media
CANNIBAL, the second EP from popster Ke$ha, includes eight songs, most of which revolve around drinking, partying, and sex -- a very similar approach to the one she took in her first record, Animal. Once again, she's produced an album that isn't for tweens or young teens, as it glorifies behavior that can be risky and irresponsible at any age.
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