All fright now

HERE come the ghouls... and they're spectred to make chart sensation Ke$ha's debut album a hair-raising hit.

For the blonde - in the singles Top 10 since November with Tik Tok - wrote all the songs in a HAUNTED HOUSE.

But as soon as she'd finished her album Animal, she moved out of her phantom-filled pad in Los Angeles.

"No bulls***, my bedroom was totally haunted, I'm 100 per cent certain," says Ke$ha.

"I know I sound mental but like clockwork I'd wake up about 4am from awful dreams of someone killing me. There'd be horrible shadows on the wall - monsters, killers, aliens. It was a terrifying presence. None of my housemates would sleep in the same room, as I'd freak them out. I never experienced anything like it before."

Dudes

Now spooks-free and delighted with her UK chart success, she wants to live in England and find love with a BRIT.

In an exclusive revelation that will have guys forming a very long queue, Ke$ha told Rated: "There's hot dudes everywhere you look over here. I'm on the road so much, I don't have a home right now, and it's going to stay that way until I find a sweet young chap in England. I like guys with beards, and cowboy boots. Guys with the redneck look work for me - it's kind of hard to find a dude like that with a British accent but if there are any out there, me and him are a done deal."

For now Ke$ha (the name rhymes with pressure and the dollar sign, she says, is just a joke from her days as a struggling songwriter) is content to live in her tour-bus and hotels - and watch her album climb the charts. The Nashville singer - whose mum Pebe wrote songs for Dolly Parton - says most of the skeletons in her haunted bedroom cupboard come out in party songs like Tik Tok, Party At A Rich Dude's House and Dinosaur.

There's also love stuff in Kiss And Tell, about an ex who cheated on her. "You're an asshole if you cheat but I understand it goes on," she sighs. "Worse than that, this douchebag was so stupid, he told friends of mine he'd cheated with some random slut. Of course that's going to get back to me - what a moron!"

Ke$ha reckons she'd love to write a book, The Gospel According To Ke$ha, to lay out her rules for men and women. "I'm a s*** to guys, because I don't trust them as far as I can throw them," she admits. "Guys come and go, but I'm the best friend ever to my girls. You can't break the chick rules. Like, if a girlfriend makes out with a guy, he's totally off limits."

Ke$ha wrote songs for Miley Cyrus and The Veronicas, before being signed by hip-hop producer Dr Luke. "My record is called Animal because I want people to show their animal instincts when they hear it," Ke$ha explains.

"I love scuba diving, and I was once followed by a barracuda. I thought it wanted to eat me, but it was attracted to my navel ring. Across the board, animals are attracted to shiny objects, which is why my shows have as much glitter as possible, to help bring out the animal instinct. My favourite animal is a narwhal - basically, it's a whale with what looks like a unicorn horn. Scientists don't know what the horn is for, and I'm convinced it's magical. I'm the narwhal of music!"

A sufferer of attention deficit disorder ("It's so bad, I grind my teeth in my sleep"), the usually hyper Ke$ha has only one regret.

"I have five tattoos, but the last two were totally stupid," she wails, gesturing at the word 'Yeah' on her left ankle. "That one, I woke up after getting messed up one night in September - all I had on was one sock and that new tattoo. I love tattoos, they should be cool scars of your stories but me and tattoos are through!"

Animal is out tomorrow.

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