Kesha introduced she’s going to re-record her hit track “TiK ToK,” altering the “like P. Diddy” line to “fuck P. Diddy,” following accusations in opposition to the media mogul that got here to mild earlier this yr.
“TiK ToK,” launched in 2010, stays one in all Kesha’s greatest hits, and spent 9 weeks within the No. 1 spot on the Billboard Sizzling 100. Within the unique track, she sings, “Get up within the morning’ feeling like P. Diddy.” Throughout her Coachella efficiency with Reneé Rapp in April, she modified the lyrics to “Get up within the morning feeling like, fuck P. Diddy!”
The change was a reference to the myriad of allegations in opposition to Sean “Diddy” Combs, who has confronted a number of lawsuits this yr accusing him of rape, sexual assault and investigations of intercourse trafficking. In March, his Miami and Los Angeles houses had been raided by Homeland Safety and in Might, a 2016 video surfaced of the rapper beating his ex-girlfriend, Cassie, in a resort hallway. He and Cassie had already settled a lawsuit wherein she accused him of repeatedly raping and abusing her through the course of the decade-long relationship.
“TiK ToK was the primary single that I put into this world that had my voice AND my identify credited,” Kesha wrote on social media Thursday. “I keep in mind making it enjoyable and completely satisfied as a result of that’s how I felt and needed others to really feel. What I’m so pleased with is that’s how this track STILL makes me really feel, by means of all of it, and people are feelings I need all of us to hook up with.”
She continued her reflection by saying she nonetheless sees the track “as a snapshot into the best way I noticed the world on the time. That woman was naive and wild and playful. This track eternalizes 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.”
Within the submit, she credited Rapp with the concept for the lyric change and wrote that she “completely” loves it and that “it’s everlasting.”
She wrote, “I’ll re-record it when I’ve authorized rights to! Now, my first child stands for a lot. It stands for fiercely defending my enjoyable and unadulterated pleasure, in myself and in others. The entire journey has been absolute madness, however the JOY continues to be using.”
