The doctor is in, at the tree-shrouded Conway Studios compound in Hollywood, and he won't be out any time soon.

 

Lukasz Gottwald -- the writer/producer better-known to the explosive-chorus-loving world as Dr. Luke -- has booked all three rooms at Conway for the entire month of September. He's told his manager to cancel all meetings, and you might have to excuse him if your call goes to voice mail. The deadline task at hand: Coming up with enough new songs for his protégée, Ke$ha, to get a deluxe repackaging of her debut album out in time for the holiday buying season.

 

Nothing is remotely done yet, and Ke$ha is only available for a three-week stretch, so he and fellow producers Benny Blanco and Ammo are hard at work coming up with rough tracks for the singer to put her stamp on. How many songs are they planning on adding to the "Animal" reissue?

 

"I'd like as many as eight, if possible," Gottwald says. "But I'll be happy if I got four or five great ones. And a lot depends on the next two weeks. She has a single right now, 'Take It Off,' which is doing pretty well. Last time I checked, it was No. 11 on iTunes. Normally, an artist would be stuck in a fourth-single slump by now, so that's encouraging. But who knows. Two weeks from now, research could come in and say that song won't go as far as we had anticipated, and then that'll mean we need a new song right away."

 

"A lot of people have asked me, about her first record, 'How did you come up with the new sound? Your sound evolved!' " It was a new approach born out of necessity. "That was Ke$ha. She calls the shots, and she said, 'I don't want any guitars on my record.' I managed to sneak one or two in there . . . But you have to evolve. Music is changing all the time."

 

There's an unfinished chorus on this new track, in which Gottwald is singing through such distorted Auto-Tune, it's impossible to tell what he's saying-which is deliberate, so he won't unduly influence Ke$ha when she comes up with her own lyrics.

 

Meanwhile, she's already laid down spoken-word sections on the verses. Gottwald is laughingly unsure whether to call it "rap" or just "her white-girl thing." It's very much in line with her chosen persona-and very much irresistible-but apparently, she's not as sure about it as her producer is. The words: "I'm in love all right/With my crazy beautiful life/With the parties, the disasters/With my friends all pretty and plastered/I've been through my sketchy phases/Been a $h!tty waitress/But I'm not now, guess it worked out/Got here by running my mouth."

 

"She can second-guess that," Gottwald says, pausing the Pro Tools, "but I like that. I think it's real. Maybe the chorus will tie it together. Who knows? And if it's not good enough, it won't go on the record."

 

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It should give the album a good sales boost, considering how many singles she has credited to her name and all of them selling quiet well im very surprised the album hasnt sold all that well to date.

Agree with above. The album is some what underrated compared to the singles.

And although I'm excited for new Ke$ha material, I don't want to have to buy a re-release. Oh well!

Hopefully a new album will still be coming in 2011.

Another re-release I won't be buying again.

If there are as many as eight new tracks on the re-release, I may consider getting it.

 

This is the first time an album has been re-released, and I've actually already bought the original :(

Ke$ha strikes me as someone destined to be a singles artist. Radio love her and eat her up.

:drama: Can we not just have a whole new album instead?! :(

Not too sure if I'm looking forward to this.

'blind' better eventually get a release or I'll be pissed.

I never bought the album but i love Take It Off. Will probably buy this.

Deffinately buy the re-release if you haven't already got Animal! The album is AMAZING! :wub:

UGH. No 'Kiss N' Tell' or 'Hungover' release then? :nocheer: The album has so much potential, but the single choices have been dire. She's just shown people she's a one-trick pony, when the album is quite different, but still consistent enough... (if you get what I mean :lol:)

 

She needs to do a mastered version of this beauty...

 

 

:wub: :wub:

^^ Definitely!!

 

By far her best song. If it's never even made an ALBUM track, let alone a single, her management (or whoever decide tracklistings etc.) are just craaazy.

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May get the re-issue. It's a fantastic pop album and extremely consistant. I think there's only one track I dislike in it's current format. It is rather odd that it hasn't been as successful here as in the States considering it's spawned four top 20 singles now and her collabarations with Taio/3Oh!3...

Imo, Booty Call is the best song shes recorded. Its a hit waiting to be released. Why it hasnt been so already is beyond me.

Plus BLIND needs a release :( Wonderful song <3 I also much prefer Kiss & Tell over over some of the single choices. I have a feeling they're trying too hard to capitalise on the whole 'I get drunk and I act like a big trashy ho' thing that only really worked on Tik Tok.

I love Ke$ha :wub: She gets so much undeserved hate I feel ... although I do agree with Jonjo, her singles haven't exactly being versatile (even though I've adored all four) and probably should've released 'Blind' or 'Hungover' to boost album sales.

 

Anyway looking very much to new material from her!! :D

Animal is one of my favourite albums of the year so far, it's amazing. If there are really eight new tracks on the re-release, then I'll probabaly buy it again.

I really hope Butterscotch, Lost Weekend & Booty Call are on this re-release. ^_^

I just praying that her new single ftom her re-release go to #1. :(