Jane By Design Featuring Ke$ha's "Party In A Rich Dude's House"

Posted: 01/17/12
Attention Ke$ha fans, tonight's ALL NEW episode of Jane By Design will feature Ke$ha's single, "Party In A Rich Dude's House" from her smash hit album, "Animal." Catch it tonight at 9/8c and don't forget to check back here on abcfamily.com to get more info on the release of her next album, later this year!

Until then, check out Ke$ha on iTunes.

Get to know Ke$ha:
If there's one thing Ke$ha knows how to do, it's tell stories. Here's a pretty good one: Two years ago, the aspiring pop singer and songwriter decided she wanted Prince to produce her first album. So, she found out his address and drove to his Beverly Hills home, where she paid the gardener five dollars to let her squeeze herself under his front gate. Then she hiked up the driveway (which was lined in purple velvet), let herself in through an unlocked side door, and rode the mirrored elevator up to the third floor where the Purple One himself was jamming with his band. "It was kind of awkward," she recalls, "but who cares, right? So I sat on one of the purple thrones in the room until he noticed me, which he finally did. He was like, 'How the hell did you get in here?'" she says with a laugh. "His security kicked me out, but not before I left him my demo CD wrapped in a giant purple bow."

Ke$ha never did hear from Prince, but the incident speaks volumes about this 22-year-old newcomer's firecracker personality and determination. "I've always known I wanted to be a performer," she says. "There's video of me at age five, naked and covered in body paint, saying, 'I'm going to be a rock star and there's no way anyone is going to stop me!' It's my calling. If I don't go for it, I'm going to feel like a tool when I'm 50."

Ke$ha credits her love for story-songs to spending her formative years hanging out with veteran songwriters in Nashville. Her mom Pebe, a former punk-rock singer, is a songwriter whose career took off in Music City in the late '70s when a song she co-wrote, called "Old Flames Can't Hold A Candle To You," became a hit for Joe Sun in 1978 and a country chart-topper for Dolly Parton in 1980. But by thetime Ke$ha was born in 1987 (during a party in Los Angeles' San Fernando Valley, Pebe was going through a bad patch, struggling to support Ke$ha and her older brother through her music. "We were on welfare and food stamps," Ke$ha says. "One of my first memories is my mom telling me, 'If you want something, just take it.'"

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