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"   Photo: Getty Images  &amp;quot;You kind of got to know me as the person behind the dollar sign\u2014Ke$ha without the dollar sign,&amp;quot; the artist (n\u00E9e Kesha Rose Sebert) told us on the phone last night about the first season of her MTV reality TV show, My Crazy Beautiful Life. But it&amp;#039;s hard to picture her as a more subdued &amp;quot;Kesha&amp;quot; rather than the catch-your-eye &amp;quot;Ke$ha.&amp;quot; There&amp;#039;s nothing wallflower about the pop star, known for her chart-topping, dance-y hits like &amp;quot;TiK ToK&amp;quot; and &amp;quot;Blow.&amp;quot; She&amp;#039;s part of the Lady Gaga-Nicki Minaj generation of artists who push boundaries on the red carpet. Ke$ha has posed for the paparazzi in full-on neon war face paint, a black gown that resembled a shredded garbage bag, and electric blue lipstick. &amp;quot;Tights and leggings are okay in my book, but pants are just so boring,&amp;quot; she told us back in 2010\u2014the same year she also took home Billboard&amp;#039;s Top New Artist Award. Her fierce attitude is what makes her so engaging to watch, and we&amp;#039;re looking forward to tuning into season two of My Crazy Beautiful Life, which premieres on MTV on October 30. But until then, we got our Ke$ha fix by learning how she reacts to seeing fans dressed as her for Halloween, how she got over a bad breakup, and the strange position in which she likes to twerk.  What can we expect to see on this upcoming season of &amp;#039;My Crazy Beautiful Life&amp;#039;? I think in the first season, you kind of got to know me as the person behind the dollar sign\u2014Ke$ha without the dollar sign. You got to see me offstage. In this season, you get to meet my family, and you see me go through a pretty terrible breakup. I decide that I&amp;#039;m over dating losers. I&amp;#039;m now only interested in finding my soul mate. You meet my entire family, and you really get to see my other passion aside from music\u2014which is animals. I&amp;#039;m obsessed with animals. You follow me traveling around the world touring, but also traveling around the world, spending time with animals. Is your family quirky?  [Laughs] Yeah! That&amp;#039;s an understatement for sure. Can you describe some of the characters we&amp;#039;re going to meet? My cousin Kalan\u2014who&amp;#039;s my best friend and practically my sister\u2014you meet her, and she&amp;#039;s a good girl. She&amp;#039;s not interested in the paranormal, she&amp;#039;s not interested in aliens, and we&amp;#039;re very opposite in that way, so I like to torture her. In one of the episodes she actually gets engaged, and I&amp;#039;m part of the planning of it and everything. So it&amp;#039;s this interesting juxtaposition of her life and my life. She&amp;#039;s passionately, madly in love, and I&amp;#039;m just searching for my soul mate. And you meet my mom, who is bat-sh*t crazy and also my best friend. We write songs together, and some of my most vulnerable and grotesque lyrics have been written with my mom. Which songs? We wrote &amp;quot;Animal,&amp;quot; which is one of my favorite songs that I&amp;#039;ve ever written. And we wrote &amp;quot;Cannibal&amp;quot; together, which is about dismembering and eating men.  Who else do we meet on the show? My little brother\u2014he&amp;#039;s a wild, wild maniac. And then my older brother&amp;#039;s the one filming the show. So it literally is a family affair.   Photo: Getty Images  You said you&amp;#039;re on the journey to find the one. What did you learn along the way? I&amp;#039;ve definitely learned what I don&amp;#039;t want. I just recently had my heart destroyed, and people may not know this but behind my tough-girl exterior, I&amp;#039;m a hopeless romantic. It&amp;#039;s important to not ever lose that, because you can either choose to be jaded or you can remain hopeful and a hopeless romantic. So that&amp;#039;s what I&amp;#039;m doing\u2014you kind of see me on this journey, weeding through these guys, and you think, &amp;quot;Oh, maybe he could be it?&amp;quot; You never know when you&amp;#039;re going to come across your soul mate, so you have to keep an open mind about it. What&amp;#039;s your advice to ELLE readers who have also gone through difficult breakups? For me, it really helps that I get to speak to people on national television, in magazines, and online, and just talk mad sh*t\u2014that helps me! Just about how you shouldn&amp;#039;t be a cheater or a liar. For every woman out there, everywhere, I get to be the one who actually gets to say that on television. So hopefully that&amp;#039;s empowering for my young fans. So I&amp;#039;m kind of blasting him and calling him out, because I feel like I&amp;#039;m the wrong woman to mess with. It&amp;#039;s very cathartic and therapeutic to write songs about it, so I try to turn a negative experience into a positive experience, somehow. That&amp;#039;s very Taylor Swift of you.  [Laughs] I&amp;#039;ve been writing songs about boys since I was 12 years old! I think it always helps. We saw some twerking in the promo for the show\u2026 My fans asked me to send out a twerking video, so I was trying to learn how to do it, and it turns out, I can only do it upside down. You just have to do a handstand against the wall, and then, for me, that&amp;#039;s really how twerking works for my body type. I tried really hard to twerk standing up, and it&amp;#039;s just not very interesting-looking. But I think for all who like to twerk, twerk away! Twerking upside down must take some serious core strength. Do you do yoga or Pilates? I do yoga\u2014I&amp;#039;m kind of obsessed with yoga. Pilates is kind of gnarly\u2014I&amp;#039;m more geared towards yoga.   Get More:Ke$ha, Ke$ha: My Crazy Beautiful Life, Full Episodes   Halloween is coming up. Do you have a costume planned? I was thinking about being a loofah. I think I&amp;#039;m just going to tape a bunch of loofahs all over my body. I just thought it would be a really weird thing to be, and I saw my loofah in my shower, and I was like, &amp;quot;You know what? I want to look like that.&amp;quot; What does it feel like when you see other people dressed as you for Halloween? It&amp;#039;s a little narcissistic, but I definitely love it. I think it&amp;#039;s hilarious and awesome.  Are there any wacky things that you haven&amp;#039;t done that are still on your bucket list? I definitely have a couple of things on there. One of my long-term goals is to highlight animal life in my career. I&amp;#039;m the global ambassador for Humane Society International, so I want to bring awareness to young people about animals. And I want to collaborate with a member of The Rolling Stones. One day! That&amp;#039;s definitely bucket-list material. We&amp;#039;ve also heard that you have a fascination with ghosts. Has that always been a part of your life? I&amp;#039;ve been very open to the supernatural energy since I was little. I used to see crazy things and just not really be able to explain what it was, and now that I&amp;#039;ve grown up, I actually re-route my tour around the hotels I want to stay at: Everyone wants to stay at the Four Seasons, and I make us stay at some sh*thole in Texas that&amp;#039;s just like a haunted hotel. Finally, on this tour, all of my people are like, &amp;quot;You&amp;#039;re ridiculous\u2014you&amp;#039;d rather stay in a room where ten people died than the Four Seasons.&amp;quot; I&amp;#039;m just crazy fascinated with energy, and life and death, and the whole cycle of it. I don&amp;#039;t know, I just like believing in things that I can&amp;#039;t see. I believe in magic, I believe in ghosts, and I believe in aliens. I&amp;#039;d rather believe in it than not\u2014kind of the exact same way that I feel about finding my soul mate.  "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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