Tic-Toc

Posted on May 5, 2010

Ever since I saw the video for Tik Tok, I have been a dedicated Kesha fan. The song is packed with all the energy of early rock’n'roll and quite simply watching Kesha makes me happy. I predict Kesha will be a huge star. And this site is dedicated to getting to Kesha better. We plan on making Kesha photos and videos sent in my fans available for other fans to see. So please feel free to contribute, This is our site , where we can see another side of Kesha which I know will be as refreshing and exciting as the one we’ve already seen.


The song was co-written by Kesha, Dr. Luke and Benny Blanco and was co-produced by Dr. Luke and Benny Blanco. During an interview with Esquire, Kesha stated that after a night out coming home half-drunk stumbling, she would usually write down a few words. The next morning, she would wake up with the story wanting to be told. She related her songwriting process to “Tik Tok” quoting: “One morning I just woke up, and I live in this house with I-don’t-even-know-how-many roommates — it’s this Laurel Canyon house with seven rooms and roommates fluctuating monthly”.

In an interview with PopEater, Kesha further elaborated saying: “I just really wanted to embody the lifestyle that I live,” [...] “We’re all young and broke and it doesn’t matter. We can find clothes on the side of the street and go out and look fantastic, and kill it. If we don’t have a car that doesn’t stop us, because we’ll take the bus. If we can’t afford drinks, we’ll bring a bottle in our purse. It’s just about not letting anything bring you down”.

Kelsey Paine of Bilboard praised the song stating “Kesha offers her own fun and frivolous ode to a wild night out. “Tik Tok” finds the 22-year-old singing teasingly about excess pleasures, from drinking (“Ain’t got a care in the world but I got plenty of beer”) to men (“We kick ‘em to the curb unless they look like Mick Jagger “). In case that weren’t enough, Kesha also alludes to brushing her teeth with a bottle of Jack Daniels and name-drops P-Didy, who provides a quick cameo for good measure. The song is a love letter to DJs everywhere, with hand claps that build to a crescendo of pure, infectious dance – pop.”

Jonah Weiner of Slate Magazine gave the song a negative review quoting “The song sets up ship on the fault line between charmingly daft and deeply irritating.” He then continued, making comparisons regarding other artists stating “The rapped verses are sub-Fergie-grade, proudly stuffed with groaners and to-the-hell-with-the-expirating-date slang.” Weiner also made comment that the plotline plays a sequel to ‘Just Dance’ by Lady Gaga: “girl wakes up drunk, stays drunk, finds a dance floor and (spoiler alert) gets even drunker.” He noted that “Some listeners probably noticed a more-than-passing similarity between the song and ‘Pop the Glock,’ a minor 2006 club hit by the French-American sorta-rapper Uffie, who records for the small Parisian dance label Ed Banger.” He then said the song “rides a minimalist, 8-bit-video-game beat; “Pop the Glock” is built around a spare drum machine pattern. Kesha’s faux-bad-girl rhymes are tweaked by AutoTune; Uffie’s faux-bad-girl rhymes are run through a vocoder effect, which supplies the song with its only hint of melody.”

It begins with Kesha awaking from a horrible hangover in a bathtub. e. She stumbles out and begins to look for a toothbrush . She makes her way down a staircase looking at the picture lining the walls of the staircase. It becomes apparent that she is not in her own house Kesha makes her way to the kitchen, walking in on the family having brekfast startling them. She shrugs her shoulders, then leaves the home as the family gets up and follow her. When she arrives at the sidewalk, she picks up a gold bicycle lying against a fallen fence and rides off. Kesha comes in contact with a group of children where she trades the bicycle for their stereo, The video cuts to another scene where she is picked up by a man named Barry (played by Simon Rex) who drives her in his convertable They are pulled over by the police who handcuff Kesha. The scene then pans to her singing while standing up in the convertible with the handcuffs hanging from one of her arms as she dangles it in front of the camera. The next scene showcases Kesha in an empty room filled with glitter. She then attends a party with Barry for the final scene. The video comes to an end with Kesha lying in a different bathtub to the one she woke up in. IT ROCKS !!!!!

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