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This 2002 track shows a Ke$ha that might have been, if she had been born 10 years earlier and become a '90s alternative singer-songwriter instead of the trashy dance-club queen we know and love today. Maybe she would have sung a duet with Alanis Morissette.

Oh great, Katy Perry's starting the phase of her career where she wants to be taken as a serious artiste. We still have at least one concept album about psychedelic space walruses to look forward to before she gets it out of her system.

All of the retrospective, none of the remixing

Canadian artist Maskull Lasserre crafted a violin-esque instrument around a Magnum revolver. When you fire the gun, the strings resonate. It's like the 1920s gangsters who carry tommy guns in violin cases, but in reverse.

[via Neatorama]

Cover of Ed Sheeran featuring Passenger. Original Songs "No Diggity" by Blackstreet, and "Thrift Shop" by Macklemore

...but by Rebecca Black? Bonus: the phrase "with the big butts" becomes "livin' it up" in Rebecca's version.