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" The diva shows off a new, polished look. In real life, she says, &amp;quot;my makeup is usually left over from the night before.&amp;quot; (Ha!) If you&amp;#x27;ve been on a dance floor&amp;amp;#8212;any dance floor&amp;amp;#8212;since 2009, then you&amp;#x27;re familiar with Ke$ha, she of &amp;quot;TiK ToK,&amp;quot; &amp;quot;Your Love Is My Drug&amp;quot; and all that tribal makeup. Also glitter. Lots and lots of glitter. But when we busted out the makeup remover for this shoot, we discovered: There is a real girl underneath. And she has freckles! And hates it when people stiff waitresses. Hard at work on her upcoming rock album, this 24-year-old icon-in-the-making (born Kesha Sebert, no dollar sign, and raised in Nashville) turned down the insanely loud volume that is her life to talk, really talk, with us. GLAMOUR: You were cranking some rock during your Glamour photo shoot. I&amp;#x27;ve heard your new album is going to be much more rock &amp;#x27;n&amp;#x27; roll. KE$HA: People say that rock &amp;#x27;n&amp;#x27; roll is dead, and I am making it my mission to resurrect it. I have rock &amp;#x27;n&amp;#x27; roll pumping through my veins. GLAMOUR: Do you think it&amp;#x27;s harder to succeed in rock as a woman? KE$HA: I know that I have balls. I have bigger balls than a lot of the men that I meet. I&amp;#x27;m just a ballsy motherf--ker. I&amp;#x27;m not afraid of pushing boundaries. That&amp;#x27;s what you have to do to become an icon. GLAMOUR: Women seem to be taking over pop music right now: you, Gaga, Rihanna, Katy Perry.... Why do you think that is? KE$HA: I definitely think women are running it right now. We are not afraid to speak our minds. It&amp;#x27;s exciting because that&amp;#x27;s what I stand for, for people to be irreverent and to be themselves. GLAMOUR: How big&amp;#x27;s the gap between Ke$ha in real life and Ke$ha onstage, drinking men&amp;#x27;s blood and dancing with a giant bouncing penis? KE$HA: I&amp;#x27;m just very amused by five-year-old humor. Don&amp;#x27;t get me wrong: I do destroy men on a weekly basis. It&amp;#x27;s like a hobby. I&amp;#x27;m like a praying mantis. They f--k me, and then I eat them. But who isn&amp;#x27;t amused by a giant, dancing penis? Sometimes when I&amp;#x27;m sad, I make my assistant put on the penis outfit and bounce around my house. GLAMOUR: You generate such strong reactions&amp;amp;#8212;positive and negative. Your Twitter handle, @keshasuxx, is a joke on that, right? KE$HA: I&amp;#x27;m just taking the piss out of all of it. You have to have a sense of humor about life to get through it. GLAMOUR: You&amp;#x27;ve said you&amp;#x27;re attuned to people. What turns you off? KE$HA: I was dating a guy once who spoke rudely to a taxi driver. I got out of the cab and walked home. Treat people with respect. I&amp;#x27;ve waited tables, and that&amp;#x27;s why I just exceedingly overtip. It&amp;#x27;s exhausting work. GLAMOUR: Why do you usually break it off with a guy? KE$HA: I&amp;#x27;m in the middle of writing a new record. I&amp;#x27;m taking so many different instrument lessons. I&amp;#x27;m also designing animal-friendly jewelry and a fake-fur line. So if a man is not, like, the second coming, then what&amp;#x27;s the point? I have other s--t to do. GLAMOUR: What instruments? KE$HA:: Guitar. I need to be badass. GLAMOUR: Your fans have such a crazy dedication to you. KE$HA: The people who come to my shows have dollar signs drawn all over them. They have blue lipstick. I call them my animals because they just go totally mental. GLAMOUR: Are you going to keep rocking the body paint? KE$HA: Oh, the body paint stays. It&amp;#x27;s my favorite thing to do. Sometimes I have parties at my house in Nashville and it&amp;#x27;s clothing-optional, and we just body-paint each other and run around, and I have a giant bed. I&amp;#x27;m very much in touch with that side of myself. GLAMOUR: So maybe you&amp;#x27;re not all that different than you are onstage? KE$HA: It&amp;#x27;s not a weird sex orgy thing. You can wear a bathing suit! GLAMOUR: What do you say to all the moms who have kids running around the house singing, &amp;quot;Brush my teeth with a bottle of Jack,&amp;quot; from &amp;quot;TiK ToK&amp;quot;? KE$HA: Parents should not let them listen to my music if it&amp;#x27;s offensive. I wrote these songs for me. GLAMOUR: Who are your style icons? KE$HA: I would love to embody the attitude of Iggy Pop or Keith Richards: a ballsy mentality. Stylistically, I love Vivienne Westwood&amp;amp;#8212;those capes! I&amp;#x27;m obsessed. GLAMOUR: Your tattered American-flag shirt is very cool. KE$HA: I wear it all the time. It represents my freedom to speak about exactly what I want to, whenever I want to. GLAMOUR: For this photo shoot, your look is very natural. When you&amp;#x27;re not performing, how do you feel about going outside without makeup and knowing you might get photographed? KE$HA: My makeup is usually left over from the night before. I&amp;#x27;m not really worried about the photographs because if I tell my fans not to give a f--k about the haters, then I have to practice what I preach. I embrace the imperfections and celebrate them. GLAMOUR: What are your favorite beauty products? Let&amp;#x27;s start with the body paint. KE$HA: I&amp;#x27;m coming out with my own line. And I found Bumble and Bumble dry shampoo that is like God&amp;#x27;s gift. You don&amp;#x27;t have to shower. You just put it in and instantly look like the eighties. GLAMOUR: So what&amp;#x27;s next? KE$HA: Eventually, I would love to be on my deathbed and looked at as an icon. Right now I&amp;#x27;m still at the baby stages of my career. But that is the goal."^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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