Spurred on by its underlying emotion, ‘TiK ToK’ instantly struck a chord. Time is passing too slowly and Kesha is waiting for the world to catch up. Luke’s label in 2005, Kesha, aside from an unpaid guest appearance on Flo Rida’s hit ‘Right Round’, had spent four years making little progress. The song also speaks to the sense of boredom and agitation which comes with being young. So that became the first line of the new single, and we just went from there.” Diddy – there’s no man like this in the entire world. “I woke up one day after we went to a party,” Kesha later informed Esquire Magazine, “and I was surrounded by 10 of the most beautiful women you’ve ever seen. I remember a morning in Vegas where that happened. “ When I was 18 years old,” Kesha would later share, “ I did wake up in the morning and I probably drank some Jack Daniels. And it was within this carefree environment the idea for ‘TiK ToK’ would come about. Kesha was young, broke, and totally alive.
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Luke before moving into a series of cheap rental houses with other struggling musicians. At first, she lived briefly in a property owned by Dr. Luke to drop out of her Nashville high school at age 18, Kesha moved to LA to pursue her dreams. From home preparation to knocking back the propositions of unwelcome men and casting a shrug to authority in general. And Kesha lived the life she sang about.Ĭonvinced by Dr.
The dance anthem follows a group of friends on a wild night out. The song launched the career of the 22-year old Kesha Rose Serbert. Kesha poses for a publicity shoot in 2010. The fake was simply another element of the individual to be embraced, owned, and recognized on the path to finding one’s true identity. (Or better yet printed across a Gucci handbag.) Authenticity was not as important as being yourself. Kesha was at the vanguard of a generation to who fake was not an insult but something worthy of being celebrated. It was there to start the party for a generation who would soon be juggling multiple internet identities and spending as much time-shifting through these altered realities as the world outside. And, no sooner does this arrive, it jumps again. Echoing the impatient click of the hands of an analog clock, ‘TiK ToK’ rings out the old and welcomes the new. The song reflects life in an altered reality of the internet – a space where seemingly anything can pop up, grab attention, and disappear, swiped away into oblivion no sooner than it arrives. Kesha’s vocals arrived auto-tuned, neither rapping nor singing. What sounds like guitars are synthesizers. ‘TiK ToK’ captures a feeling of unreality.
It often tells its listener what is going on in the world long before anyone else, including themselves, can put a name to it. Great art reflects the life and pop is no exception. It spoke to its audience, summing up the moment in time and taking the temperature of the world around. Like any good pop single, ‘TiK ToK’ is not just a well-constructed song. Tik Tok Started the Party for a Generation
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