Her debut album, entitled Animal, was released on January 5, 2010 in the US to mixed reviews from music critics. The album sold 152,000 copies in its first week in the US, debuting at number one. Animal was seven years in the making and resulted in Kesha's accumulating over two hundred songs by the time of its release, with fourteen making the final cut. A number one placing in New Zealand for the first single TiK ToK (first released on August 7, 2009) gave Kesha her first solo number one; this was followed by number one positions in Canada, Australia, Norway and the United States, reaching the top of the Billboard Hot 100 as the first number one of the 2010 decade. During its second week at number one on the chart, TiK ToK set the female download record and became the second best-selling single in a week, after Right Round, for shifting over 610,000 copies. During its fifth week at the top of the chart, it broke the record for the highest weekly plays on the radio airplay chart. Her second single, Blah Blah Blah (feat. 3OH!3), was first released on February 19, 2010 and has since charted within the top 10 in four different countries.
On November 9th, 2010, Kesha released the EP Cannibal, which included the chart topping single We R Who We R. It debuted atop the charts and became the singer’s third number one hit.
Kesha released her second album, Warrior, on November 30, 2012. The album features a collaboration with Wayne Coyne of The Flaming Lips.
On October 7, 2013, Kesha and Pitbull released a collaboration, Timber, which was became Kesha's fourth number-one.
In 2014, after spending two months in rehab for eating disorder treatment, and appealing about her sexual assault case with Lukasz Sebastian Gottwald (Dr. Luke), Kesha announced she was working on her third album.
In 2017, she released her third album, Rainbow after Dr. Luke was fired from Kemosabe Records. Rainbow debuted at #1 on the Billboard 200 albums chart and has also received a grammy nomination for 'Best Pop Vocal Album' and 'Best Pop Solo Performance' for Praying.
Check out Kesha's recent albums, High Road & Gag Order.
Aliens Invading
Ke$ha Lyrics
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Robots found water
La la la la
Come take me higher
Take all the things that I know for sure
Come take them to slaughter
Let's take a trip to outer space. I'm so sick of LA
Everybody's got another face
Let the skies open up
Take my eyes open them up
Don't be afraid, don't be afraid, don't be afraid
Don't be afraid!
Aliens invading, run for your life!
Grab your wife and babies
It's going down tonight
Standing on the strip malls, since dark night
Were aliens invading (aliens invading)
We are aliens invading. Run for your life!
Signs have been written (all along us)
Rocks, where were sitting (alalalala)
So much we cant see heavenly bodies come down and touch me
Lets take a trip to the outer space
Get me hot on the milky way
I'll give you a taste
Just a little taste of the human race
Let the skies open up
Take my eyes, open them up
Don't be afraid, don't be afraid, don't be afraid
Don't be afraid!
Aliens invading, run for your life!
Grab your wife and babies
It's going down tonight
Standing on the strip malls, since dark night
Were aliens invading
(Aliens invading)
We are aliens invading? Run for your life!
I am in love with an alien
You are in love with an alien
I am (I am) an alien
You are an alien
We all are aliens!
Standing on the strip malls (strip malls) starlight
I am an alien
Aliens invading, run for your life! Grab your wife and babies
Its going down tonight
T standing on the strip malls, since dark night
Were aliens invading (aliens invading)
We are aliens invading
(Aliens invading)
We are aliens invading
Run for your life!
The lyrics to Ke$ha's song Aliens Invading are a wild ride that explores the theme of running away from one's problems and finding escape in outer space. The opening line, "Don't be afraid, robots found water," sets the tone for the rest of the song. Ke$ha is urging her listeners not to be afraid of the unknown, to embrace it instead. She wants to escape the dishonesty and duplicity of Los Angeles, and the only solution she sees is to take a trip to outer space. The reiteration of "don't be afraid" throughout the song highlights Ke$ha's message of encouraging people to face their fears and take risks, even in the face of invaders from outer space.
The chorus, "Aliens invading, run for your life!" suggests a sense of urgency and panic, as Ke$ha begins to imagine the world being overrun by extraterrestrial beings. However, the refrain, "We are aliens invading," reframes this idea of being an outsider in a new and positive light. Ke$ha is drawing a connection between feeling alienated from society and actually being an alien, and in doing so is encouraging her listeners to embrace their outsider status. The final line of the song, "We are aliens invading, run for your life!" is a challenge to her listeners to take control of their lives and to embrace their uniqueness, rather than running away from it.
Overall, the lyrics to Aliens Invading by Ke$ha are a strange and fascinating look at the anxieties of modern life, and implore us to not be afraid of the unknown and to embrace our outsider status.
Line by Line Meaning
Don't be afraid
Do not worry or feel scared
Robots found water
Artificial intelligence discovered water
La la la la
Nonsensical sound used as a vocalization
Come take me higher
Take me to an elevated or spiritually enlightened state
Take all the things that I know for sure Come take them to slaughter
Challenge everything that I have come to believe and accept the possibility of it being false
Let's take a trip to outer space. I'm so sick of LA
Let us journey beyond the Earth's atmosphere, as the artist is tired of the city of Los Angeles
Everybody's got another face Somebody come show me the way
People are not genuine or true to themselves, therefore the artist is seeking guidance
Let the skies open up Take my eyes open them up Don't be afraid, don't be afraid, don't be afraid Don't be afraid!
Be receptive to new experiences and be unafraid of the unknown
Aliens invading, run for your life! Grab your wife and babies It's going down tonight Standing on the strip malls, since dark night Were aliens invading (aliens invading) We are aliens invading. Run for your life!
Suggests extraterrestrial beings are attacking and that the situation is dangerous and chaotic, while also presenting the idea that we are all alien to each other in some way
Signs have been written (all along us) Rocks, where were sitting (alalalala) So much we cant see heavenly bodies come down and touch me
Everything around us leaves subtle messages and we are surrounded by things we cannot comprehend, leading to a desire to make contact with something beyond ourselves
Get me hot on the milky way I'll give you a taste Just a little taste of the human race
Show me something exciting and new and in return, I will introduce you to the human experience
I am in love with an alien You are in love with an alien I am (I am) an alien You are an alien We all are aliens!
Metaphorically, all humans are strange and misunderstood in their own way and it is essential to find acceptance and love for ourselves and others
Contributed by Makayla E. Suggest a correction in the comments below.
Bikini Doll
Shame this didn't get officially released on Earth.
AYEForApplesauce
it did on Mars and Venus!
The Nightmare Crew
Well on Vulcan it did 😂
Relya Voy
When people say "wow she tries something new on Rainbow" and I'm sitting here since 2009/2010 listening to this..and well..sigh. At least she gets the recognition as an artist she deserves <3
Folypeelarks
I love this song! It's sound describes perfectly this nice, old, classical feeling which everything about aliens raises in a particular mind.Like the X-files but more freaky.I love it, its very different song! =)
WhiteTV3
#1 In Mars billboard
Laura Crombie
Definitely should be a single 👽
Tyler Ehrhardt
this should have been on her album, this song is so weird but i luv it
Ana Marina
2020 and I still here!
kramerkid93
it totally should have been on the album... a lot of the songs that im finding now by her should have been on the album XD