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Idolator Staff | December 25, 2013 6:00 am

#FreeKesha

The Ke$ha juggernaut ground to a screeching halt after the disastrous Warrior era, with her concerned fans looking for someone to blame. After all, the music was great. So the fault couldn’t lie with K$, could it? After some amateur detective work (ie. angry tweets from the diva’s mother), Animals placed a bullseye on super-producer Dr. Luke — arguing that he stifled the former hitmaker’s creativity (probably true) and thwarted her success by purposely releasing bad singles (completely irrational). That led to an initially amusing petition to free Ke$ha that ultimately made her a laughing stock when she reemerged in late 2013 with a career-saving hit courtesy of — you guessed it — Dr. Luke.

Look: I love Lady Dolla. I buy her albums and go to her shows. I even own a Get Sleazy hoodie! But she needs to wake up to the fact that no label will give her complete artistic freedom this early in her career. If that’s not acceptable, then there are hundreds of open mic nights across America where she can belt out terrible rock anthems over fuzzy guitar feedback to her heart’s content. Instead of fueling a vocal minority of her fans’ online douchebaggery, Ke$ha needs to reign them in and go back to being the smartest pop diva in the game. —MIKE WASS