 A music video for " Stephen " was directed by the production team Skinny . The video was released on the deluxe repacking of her debut album Animal , under its re @-@ release entitled Animal + Cannibal . It was later uploaded to the singer 's Vevo account on April 4 , 2011 . The video is composed of still shots that show the singer " going to some extreme lengths to show ' Stephen ' how much she 's feeling him . " The video opens with the singer looking through a scrapbook ; following this the video then proceeds into depicting the singer 's interactions with the protagonist . The video 's first setting is located at a bar where the singer gets into a verbal altercation with the man 's girlfriend . Kesha , who later leaves with the then unconscious man , takes him back to her house to takes pictures of him and later cuts off some of his hair for her shrine . The singer then duct @-@ tapes the man and locks him in her closet ; which he later escapes from . Following this , the singer is distraught and then builds another man out of a dummy , and using the hair she had clipped earlier , proceeds to bring the dummy to a bar , getting into another altercation with it and later leaving it in the street – ending the video . 
