Cannibal

This song finds Kesha singing about being a man-eating cannibal, eating boys up "breakfast and lunch." At the time, this was her brand, and she played it up in interviews. She told Spin magazine: "When I really like somebody, it totally flips. But before I give two s--ts about a guy, I tend to treat him as my plaything, like a cat playing with her food before she eats it. It's kinda f---ed up."

Kesha wrote the song with her mother, the Tennessee songwriter Pebe Sebert, who explained in a 2021 Songfacts interview: "At that point in time she was a hot little pop star who could f--k with guys' heads in any way she chose to. She's always been the girl who's trying to give guys what guys have always done to women. I feel like that is Kesha in a nutshell. Like, if you're going to talk about us like we're objects and talk about how you can have any girl you want, like the rock stars have always done, she's the girl who is going to take that same attitude. It was fun. No women had been as nasty and vile as men, so she was trying to be just as nasty as men have always been, but in a funny way, not in a gross way, because she wasn't really doing any of that."

This grimy number is the title track from Kesha's 2010 EP Cannibal, released 11 months after her debut album Animal.