Kesha has teased a brand new model of her signature hit, which takes out a flattering reference to Sean “Diddy” Combs.
The chart-topping singer burst onto the music scene in 2009 together with her tune TiK ToK, opening with the road: “Get up within the morning feeling like P Diddy.”
In the previous few months, since a string of allegations concerning the hip-hop mogul have been made public, Kesha has been performing a brand new model of the observe throughout her stay exhibits, changing the unique lyric with: “Get up within the morning like ‘fuck P Diddy’.”
The Grammy nominee vowed final month that she can be making the brand new lyric “everlasting” and recording an up to date model of the tune “when I’ve authorized rights to”.
And in a TikTok posted on Wednesday night time – the day after it was revealed Combs’ bail had been denied by a choose for a second time as he awaits trial for intercourse trafficking – Kesha confirmed she’d made good on her promise
Kesha beforehand thanked fellow singer Renée Rapp for developing with the brand new lyric, after they carried out TiK Tok collectively on the Coachella music competition over the spring.
In an interview with Vulture reflecting on her greatest musical moments final week, the Joyride singer admitted she has blended emotions about her debut single.
“I began TiK ToK not being fairly so dumb, after which the writing room was like, ‘Make it dumber, make it dumber, make it dumber’,” she claimed.
“The place we ended up was as dumb as I might make the lyrics. After I wrote them, I used to be like, ‘That is too dumb, proper? It doesn’t make sense to brush your enamel with a bottle of Jack Daniel’s’. However I bear in mind [co-writer and producer] Benny Blanco was like, ‘No, it’s sick. Simply don’t overthink it’. That’s what we ended up with.”
She added: “I had no autonomy in any way. I wrote each tune on the album, and I’ve favoured myself as a songwriter at the beginning, so in some cases I had autonomy over that.
“Although I had no actual management in different areas, I might at all times let myself shine by means of within the lyrics. I really feel like that’s the place I get to be myself.”
Kesha additionally wrote about her experiences making TiK ToK in an Instagram put up to commemorate its fifteenth anniversary final month.
“TiK ToK was the primary single that I put into this world that had my voice AND my title credited!!!!” she enthused. “I bear in mind making it enjoyable and completely happy as a result of that’s how I felt and wished others to really feel.
“What I’m so happy with is that’s how this tune STILL makes me really feel, by means of all of it, and people are feelings I would like all of us to hook up with. 15 (!!!!!!) years later, I see this tune as a snapshot into the best way I noticed the world on the time. That lady was naive and wild and playful. This tune eternalises a facet of myself that I really like very a lot, and now see I’ve to guard fiercely. The world has modified a lot and so have I.”
Earlier this 12 months, Kesha launched her first single as an unbiased artist, Joyride, which turned her first tune to chart within the UK since 2017’s Praying.
Previous to this, Kesha had been embroiled in a authorized battle with music producer and her former mentor Dr Luke, who she had beforehand accused of sexual assault, which he had lengthy denied and for which he later counter-sued for defamation.
The pair lastly reached a settlement final 12 months, across the time she was lastly launched from her five-album cope with his report label.
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