Sean “Diddy” Combs ‘ place in popular culture will never be the same. Case in point: Kesha said she will replace the positive reference to Diddy in “Tik Tok” as soon as she can. In addition, the pop star explained how she felt about “Tik Tok” 15 years after its release.
Kesha’s new ‘Tik Tok’ lyric shows she doesn’t like Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs Kesh’a “Tik Tok” helped define the sound of the early 2010s. Alongside Lady Gaga’s “Just Dance” and the Black Eyed Peas’ “I Gotta Feeling,” it made dance-pop the dominant sound of 2009-2013. If you turned on the radio at that time, you would probably hear an upbeat song about clubbing.
Many zoomers are familiar with the opening line of Kesha’s “Tik Tok”: “Wake up in the morning’ feeling like P. Diddy.” In 2024, The Hollywood Reporter said that Kesha changed the line to “Wake up in the morning feeling like, f*** P.
Diddy!” The singer plans on making that change permanent. “‘Tik Tok’ was the first single that I put into this world that had my voice and my name credited!!!!” Kesha wrote on social media. “I remember making it fun and happy because that’s how I felt and wanted others to feel.
What I’m so proud of is that’s how this song still makes me feel, through it all, and those are emotions I want all of us to connect to.” Kesha said ‘the world has changed so much and so have I’ At the same time, Kesha described “Tik Tok” as a bit of a relic. “15 (!!!!!!).