Tik Tok

This article covers the song Tik Tok by Kesha. For a playback app see TikTok .

TiK ToK
Ke $ ha
publication	August 7, 2009
length	3:20
Genre (s)	pop
Author (s)	Kesha Sebert, Lukasz Gottwald , Benjamin Levin
album	Animal

TiK ToK is a song by pop singer Ke $ ha from her debut album Animal and at the same time the artist's debut single.

background

The pop song with rap elements was written by Benny Blanco and Dr. Luke produced and directed by Blanco, Dr. Luke and Ke $ ha wrote together. It was released on August 7, 2009. The song is about not giving up. It was written Ke $ has after a party night. The piece is rapped in the stanzas and sung in the chorus. The singing was partly helped with auto-tune effects. P. Diddy adopted some ad-libs .

reception

Tik Tok was often with Lady Gaga (Picture) debut single Just Dance compared

Tik Tok received mixed reviews. Some critics praised the party atmosphere the song spreads, others criticized the similarity to Lady Gaga or Uffie . The New York Times named it one of the most successful white-girl rap songs of all time. The song topped the charts in eleven countries, including the USA, Germany, Switzerland and Austria. The song sold five million downloads in the United States alone. With 12.8 million copies, it is considered the world's best-selling digital single in 2010.

Kelsey Paine from Billboard magazine described the song as "a love letter to DJs everywhere, with hand claps that build to a crescendo of pure, infectious dance-pop". Paine referred to Ke $ ha's vocal performance on Right Round and wrote "she offers her own fun and frivolous ode to a wild night out, as she sings about drinking and men". In conclusion to her criticism, Kelsey wrote " TiK ToK reveals a knack for getting the party started." The Daily News ' Jim Farber described the song as "a vintage lick of dance candy too tooth-rottingly sweet to resist, that featured a stabbing synthesizer hook ". Fraser McAlpine of the BBC gave the song four stars out of a possible five and called the song "dirty little ditty". McAlpine also compared the song to Lady Gaga's Just Dance , as both songs are about an "exciting party night". Billy Johnson, Jr. of Yahoo! compared Tik Tok with the 80s L'Trimm hit Cars that Go Boom and said Ke $ ha "take [n] on L'Trimm's vocal styling for her own hit".

Nick Levine from Digital Spy gave the song four out of five stars, describing Ke $ ha as a "hussy image", but praising the song and its content. Levine described Dr. Luke's production as "bouncy" and "bubblegummy". Levine praised the chorus of the song with the words "stonking great" and "completely trashy in the best possible way". Allmusic's David Jeffries called the song "fun" and called it one of the best songs on the album.

Jonah Weiner from Slate magazine criticized the song and wrote "the song sets up ship on the fault line between charmingly daft and deeply irritating". He then compared the song with other artists "the rapped verses are sub- Fergie- grade, proudly stuffed with groaners and to-hell-with-the-expiration-date slang". Weiner called the song a continuation of Just Dance and continued "girl wakes up drunk, stays drunk, finds a dance floor and (spoiler alert) gets even drunker". Jon Caramanica from The New York Times said of the song "if anyone should feel fleeced by Tik Tok, though, it's Lady Gaga , who probably hears significant chunks of her hit Just Dance in its melody and subject matter."

Cover version

Heather Morris (left) and Avril Lavigne (right) both sang covers of Tik Tok . Morris in an episode of Glee and Lavigne on BBC Radio.

The British band The Midnight Beast parodied the song with a nonsense text. It has been accessed over 12 million times on the internet. Ke $ ha described the cover version on her Twitter account as: “Holy. S ** t. This is better than my version. ”On January 15, 2010, the cover version was released on iTunes . It reached number 4 in Australia.

Comedian Julie Brown parodied the song with her single Another Drunk Chick on her album Smell the Glamor (2011). Avril Lavigne sang an acoustic version of the song on a BBCsRadio-1 session.

The Israel Defense Forces also parodied Tik Tok under the title IDF Tik Tok in 2010. They published a video on the Internet in which the Israeli soldiers dance to their parody. Tik Tok was also used for an opening sequence in The Simpsons series for the episode Nedtropolis , in which the characters sing Tik Tok .

The cast of the musical series Glee sang Tik Tok in the episode Blame It on the Alcohol , with Heather Morris as the lead singer. Todd VanDerWerff of The AV Club wrote that the use of the song in the series was not exactly original; they really wanted a Kesha song in their Glee series . However, VanDerWerff wrote "REALLY liked Heather Morris 'rendition of the song." Sandra Gonzalez of Entertainment Weekly also praised Heather Morris' performance with Tik Tok. Rolling Stone magazine's Erica Futterman also praised Morris's cover of Tik Tok.

Commercial win

Kesha sings Tik Tok at the Much Music Video Awards on June 18, 2010.

In the United States, Tik Tok debuted at number 79 on the Billboard Hot 100 on October 24, 2009 . The song became more successful each week and eventually became the first number one hit of the new decade. In the week ending December 27, 2009, Tik Tok broke the record for the most download sales in a week in the United States, with 610,000 downloads sold, compared to Right Round with 636,000 units sold in a week on February 28, 2009. On February 6, 2010, the song topped the Billboard Pop Songs chart, with Tik Tok having the most radio appearances in history. The song broke the record of Lady Gaga's Bad Romance. The song spent nine consecutive weeks at number 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 and later became number 1 in the US annual charts as the most successful song of 2010. The song was in the United States Awarded five platinum awards for over 5,000,000 units of the song sold.

Chart placements

Weekly charts: Charts (2009-11) Best placement Weeks  Germany 1 49  Austria 1 33  Switzerland 1 40  United Kingdom 4th 42  United States 1 38

Annual charts: Year-end charts 2009 placement  United Kingdom 45 Year-end charts 2010 placement  Germany 10  Austria 3  Switzerland 6th  United Kingdom 69  United States 1

Awards for music sales

Tik Tok has been awarded 3 × gold and 37 × platinum worldwide. According to awards, the single was sold more than 9.1 million times. According to a report by Billboard magazine, Tik Tok sold over 14 million copies worldwide.

Country / Region	Award	Sales
Awards for music sales (country / region, Award, Sales)
Australia (ARIA)	8 × platinum	560,000
Belgium (BEA)	platinum	30,000
Denmark (IFPI)	platinum	30,000
Germany (BVMI)	3 × gold	450,000
Finland (IFPI)	gold	5,910
France (SNEP)	gold	150,000
Italy (FIMI)	2 × platinum	60,000
Japan (RIAJ)	platinum	250,000
Canada (MC)	7 × platinum	560,000
Mexico (AMPROFON)	platinum	60,000
New Zealand (RMNZ)	2 × platinum	30,000
Austria (IFPI)	platinum	30,000
Sweden (IFPI)	platinum	40,000
Switzerland (IFPI)	platinum	30,000
Spain (Promusicae)	platinum	40,000
United States (RIAA)	8 × platinum	6,800,000
United Kingdom (BPI)	platinum	1,050,000
All in all	3 × gold 37 × platinum	10.175.910

Main article: Kesha / Music Sales Awards

Individual evidence

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