Do You Realize That Ke$ha Is On The Flaming Lips' Next Record?! (Same Goes For Bon Iver, Erykah Badu)

Leah Collins, Dose.ca
January 25, 2012

Ke$ha: She don't use jelly, she uses vaseline...mixed with loads and loads of glitter.

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She's been known to make out with unicorns. She once pissed in a sink with Lily Allen, and gargling with whiskey is part of her daily dental routine. Still, we'd never call Ke$ha crazy. We'll leave that to The Flaming Lips' Wayne Coyne -- a musician who thinks nothing of recording a 24-hour-long song, then packaging it inside a real human skull -- a guy who definitely knows from cocoa puffs.

"She's crazy.. But shit!!!!she can really fuckin SING!!!" Coyne Tweeted over the weekend. And while you may have thought the same thing after stumbling upon K-Dollah's cover of Bob Dylan's "Don't Think Twice It's Alright," Coyne comes by his opinion more intimately. The Flaming Lips and Ke$ha have been recording together (that previously mentioned Tweet even included a short clip of Ke$ha wailing in studio), and according to Pitchfork, their collaboration will appear on a new Flaming Lips disc slated to arrive on Record Store Day (April 21).

Coyne has diligently Tweeted through the K-Dollar collab: he's shared video of Ke$ha tattooing some guy, Ke$ha besting the Lips' Steven Drozd in a screaming contest, Ke$ha "singing about taking acid as the world ends." There's also clip where his finger probes a jar of glitter (presumably Ke$ha's).

And even though Coyne told Pitchfork last fall that his Grammy winning psych-rock band would be into working with the "TiK ToK" hitmaker, collaborating with one mere pop-princess hardly seems ambitious enough. This is a band, after all, that released nearly a dozen EPs in 2011, several of them collaborative (and many of them released as hard-drives encased in gummy candy).

Pitchfork reports that The Flaming Lips' Record Store Day disc will also feature artists including Bon Iver, Erykah Badu, Nick Cave, Yoko Ono and Neon Indian -- and Coyne has been just as good about Tweeting teasers of some of those partnerships as he was with Ke$ha.

Check out brief clips of The Flaming Lips' work with Bon Iver and Badu below.

As for Ke$ha, the pop star is thought to be working on the follow-up to 2010’s Animal. As she told Entertainment Weekly, she expects the record will be ready in the second half of 2012.

Bon Iver and The Flaming Lips Part 1: