Before it was a popular video sharing app, "TiK ToK" was the breakout hit for Kesha, who was going by "Ke$ha" at the time. It was the first single from her debut album, Animal. Before recording the song, her resumé included co-writing The Veronicas single "This Love," providing background vocals to Britney Spears' "Lace and Leather," and most notably, belting the hook on rapper Flo Rida's chart-topping "Right Round."
In an interview with Esquire magazine, Kesha explained the original inspiration for this decadent number. "One morning I just woke up, and I live in this house with I-don't-even-know-how-many roommates - it's this Laurel Canyon house with seven rooms and roommates fluctuating monthly." She added: "Well it was the house The Eagles recorded Hotel California in. So it's just this huge hippy... There are a bunch of hippies who come in and out, and there are all these people sleeping on the couches. I don't really care, I don't mind it. But I woke up one day after we went to a party, and I was surrounded by ten of the most beautiful women you've ever seen. And I was like, I'm like P. Diddy - there's no man like this in the entire world. So that became the first line of the new single, and we just went from there."
The song is featured on the second episode of the 2009 series of Melrose Place.
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