Yes you read that correctly.
. With Kesha in it, pop music was glorious and gross and everything we’d been taught it wasn’t supposed to be."TiK ToK" was the anthem we were long searching for. It spent nine weeks on top of the Billboard Hot 100, and has since sold over 18 million copies.
That song was millennial chaos in microcosm: a song about every single irresponsible act you’ve ever committed and shrugged off as a sign of a good time. It was literally ¯\__/¯ with a little bit of ༼凸 ◉_◔༽ mixed in too. The nursery rhyme rap-pop flow of its lyrics were earworm excellence; the sound of ‘Wake up in the morning feelin’ like P Diddy’ over synths can still make a nightclub crowd go wild. The basic, bit-pop production was ragged and yet, in its imperfections, sort of flawless. It was one of those songs that was so simple that it was a miracle no one had made it before; proof that the greasy and glittered Kesha was one of the most exciting pop performers of her time.
Inevitably the song was so catchy that it spurred parodies -- some mocking, some cruel -- that almost eclipsed the original's success. It was, in a sense, one of the original ‘meme’ songs. Weird Al Yankovic riffed on it for his 2010 medley
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