Tik Tok
August 7, 2009
Tik Tok is a song by pop singer Kesha from her debut album Animal and also the debut single of the artist.
Background
The pop song was produced by Benny Blanco Rapelementen and Dr. Luke and co-written by Blanco, Dr. Luke and Kesha. He was released on August 7, 2009. The song is not to let it get. It was written after a party night Kesha. The piece is rapped in the verses and sang in the chorus. When singing was aided by Auto-Tune in part using. P. Diddy took over some ad -libs.
Reception
Tik Tok received mixed reviews. Some critics praised the party atmosphere, which spread the song, others criticized the similarity to Lady Gaga or Uffie. The New York Times described it as 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 has sold only five million times as a download in the United States. It is with 12.8 million copies as the world's best-selling digital single of 2010.
Kelsey Paine of Billboard magazine described the song as "a love letter to DJs everywhere, with hand claps did build to a crescendo of pure, infectious dance -pop ." Paine was referring this reference to Kesha singing appearance at Right Round and wrote "she offers her own fun and frivolous ode to a wild night out, as she sings about drinking and men". As a conclusion to their criticism Kelsey wrote " Tik Tok Reveals a knack for getting the party started. " Jim Farber of the Daily News described the song as "a vintage lick of dance candy too tooth - rottingly sweet to resist, did featured a stabbing synthesizer hook ". Fraser McAlpine of the BBC gave the song four out of a possible five stars and called the song " dirty little ditty ". McAlpine compared the song with Lady Gaga's Just Dance, because both songs from an " exciting party night " act. Billy Johnson, Jr. of Yahoo! compared Tik Tok with the 80 L' trim Hit Cars Go Boom did and said Kesha " take [ n] on L' trims vocal styling for her own hit ."
Nick Levine of Digital Spy gave the song four out of five stars, he called Kesha a " hussy image " but praised the song and its contents. Levine described Dr. Luke's production as " bouncy " and " bubblegummy ". The chorus of the song praised Levine with the words " stonking great" and "completely trashy in the best possible way". David Jeffries of Allmusic called the song " fun" and described it as one of the best songs of the album.
Jonah Weiner of Slate magazine criticized the song and wrote " the song sets up ship on the fault line in between charmingly daft and deeply irritating ." He compared the song then with other artists "the rapped verses are sub - Fergie -grade, proudly stuffed with groaners and to- hell- with-the -expiration -date slang ." Weiner described the song as 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 of The New York Times said the song "if anyone shoulderstand 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
The British band The Midnight Beast parodied the song with a nonsense text. It has been found on the Internet more than 12 million times. The cover version called Kesha on her twitter account as: "Holy. S ** t. This is better than my version. " On January 15, 2010, cover version on iTunes was released. In Australia, it reached # 4
The comedienne Julie Brown parodied the song with their single Another Drunk Chick on her album Smell the Glamour ( 2011). Avril Lavigne sang an acoustic version of the song on a BBCsRadio -1 session.
The Israel Defense Forces Tik Tok parody also titled IDF Tik Tok in 2010. They released the Internet to a video by the Israeli soldiers dance to their parody. Tik Tok was also used for opening title sequence of the series The Simpsons 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, Heather Morris as the main singer. Todd VanDerWerff from The A.V. Club wrote that the use of the song in the series is not exactly original; you wanted to have necessarily a Kesha song in her series Glee. However VanDerWerff wrote " REALLY liked Heather Morris rendition of the song. " Sandra Gonzalez of Entertainment Weekly praised Heather Morris ' performance with Tik Tok. Erica Futterman of Rolling Stone magazine also praised Morris ' cover version of Tik Tok.
Charts
In the United States Tik Tok debuted on 24 October 2009 at number 79 on the Billboard Hot 100 The song was successful from week to week, and finally the first number-one hit of the decade. In the week ending December 27, 2009 Tik Tok broke in the United States set the record for most download sales in one week ever, with 610,000 downloads sold, previously this was only Right Round with 636,000 units sold in one week on 28 February 2009. On February 6, 2010, the song reached the top of the Billboard Pop songs chart, while Tik Tok succeeded most radio operations in history. The song broke the record of Lady Gaga's Bad Romance The song spent on the Billboard Hot 100 nine weeks consecutively at # 1 and was later considered the most successful song of the year 2010, in the U.S. annual charts Place 1 The song was in the United States five times with platinum Award for over 5,000,000 units sold of the song.
Chart positions
Year-End Charts
Footnotes
• Animal Warrior
Cannibal • Deconstructed
" Nothing in This World" • " Right Round " • " Dirty Picture " • " My First Kiss " • " Till the World Ends (Remix) "
Last Girl on Earth Tour ( opening act ) • Get Sleazy Tour
Discography
- Pop song
- Song 2009
- Number -one hit
- Kesha Song
- Dr. Hatch composition
- Multi -platinum song (United States)
- Platinum Song ( Germany )
- Platinum Song ( Switzerland )
- Platinum Song ( Austria )