Your Love Is My Drug

Kesha delves into the grubby details of her love life on this song, which she wrote with her mother, Pebe Sebert, and the track's producer, Ammo (Joshua Coleman). Kesha's mom started her music career as a punk-rock singer before penning country songs, most notably Dolly Parton's 1980 Country #1 "Old Flames (Can't Hold a Candle to You)." Kesha told MTV News: "I wrote a few songs with my mom who's a sick writer and taught me everything I know about songwriting. My mom and I are best friends, so it really comes naturally. She taught me how to write my first song. I can also be really honest with her. We're like best friends and there are no really forbidden topics."

Pebe Sebert contributed to two other tracks on Animal: "Stephen" and "the title track." Most of the time, they create songs in the studio with producers, but they took a different approach on "Your Love Is My Drug." In a Songfacts interview with Pebe, she said: "Kesha came home and we just started writing that here at home to an empty track. So we did all the topline here to a little mono track."

Kesha explained to PopEater how growing up in Nashville influenced her songwriting: "The cool kids played the most instruments. Me and my brother had a punk band; me and my mom wrote songs and I taught my little brother all about music," she said, adding, "[My mom] really taught me to tell a story, tell the real story and be honest. So, I [took] that mentality of country music and just put it in the words of a then-19-year-old sassy girl."