{"id":170884,"date":"2025-07-03T12:13:03","date_gmt":"2025-07-03T16:13:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/2025\/07\/03\/was-2010-kesha-the-brightest-star-from-an-all-time-pop-year-2\/"},"modified":"2025-07-03T12:13:03","modified_gmt":"2025-07-03T16:13:03","slug":"was-2010-kesha-the-brightest-star-from-an-all-time-pop-year-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/2025\/07\/03\/was-2010-kesha-the-brightest-star-from-an-all-time-pop-year-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Was 2010 Kesha the Brightest Star From an All-Time Pop\u00a0Year?"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\n\tIf you looked at the Billboard Hot 100 dated Jan. 2, 2010, you\u2019d see a new name at No. 1 \u2014 a name you might not even have recognized just a few months earlier. Kesha Rose Sebert \u2014 then known as Ke$ha<\/a> \u2014 had crashed the pop music landscape (and the charts) with the suddenly inescapable breakout hit \u201cTik Tok,\u201d capturing the first Hot 100 No. 1 of the new decade. In the process, she not only set the tone and tempo for the turbo-pop of the early 2010s, she kicked off a streak of hits that would take her all through 2010 and even into 2011 \u2014 a run that, while treasured by pop fans, feels a little underappreciated from a 2025 vantage, since it ended a little more abruptly and dramatically than anyone would\u2019ve hoped for.<\/p>\n

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\n\tOn this week\u2019s Vintage Pop Stardom episode of the\u00a0Greatest Pop Stars podcast<\/a>, host Andrew Unterberger is joined by\u00a0r\/Popheads<\/a> moderator and Main Pod Girl<\/a> host AJ Marks to talk about the original pace-setting star for one of the great years in modern pop memory: 2010, a year ultimately defined by pop giants like Lady Gaga, Katy Perry and Rihanna, but which Kesha ruled as much as anyone. We follow her 2010 from her \u201cTik Tok\u201d breakthrough to her run of Animal <\/em>singles and its Cannibal<\/em> bonus EP \u2014 a year which ultimately resulted in six top 10 Hot 100 hits, one No. 1 Billboard 200 album, and generally unprecedented validation for bearded dudes worldwide. <\/p>\n

\n\tAlong the way, we brace all the most pressing questions about Kesha\u2019s 2010: What made Kesha a pivotal pop star at such an important moment in pop history? Do the deep cuts on Animal<\/em> and Cannibal<\/em> actually clear the singles? Did Kesha\u2019s 2010 really need quite so much 3OH!3? Why didn\u2019t critics get any of it? What is the most effective use of Jack Daniels during the teeth-brushing process? Will Kesha\u2019s Period<\/em> album, due this Friday (July 4), hit for pop fans like her earliest work? And knowing what we know now from the years of fallout that followed her early peak \u2014 do we look at this 2010 Kesha run a little differently than we once did? <\/p>\n