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Kesha Says ‘Tik Tok’ Put Her in a ‘Box’ as People Assumed She Was Always Drinking & Partying

Kesha opened up about how "Tik Tok" put her in a "box," with the public assuming that she was a perpetual party girl.

While guesting on Monica Lewinsky’s Reclaiming podcast, the singer-songwriter recalled how her 2009 hedonistic smash hit about embracing party sleaze caused people to make assumptions about what she was like in real life. Because of its subject matter — and its lyrics about getting “crunk,” partying until sunrise and using whiskey as toothpaste — the musician quickly developed a party-girl image that totally contradicted her real-life persona. As allegations of sexual assault, sex-trafficking and racketeering piled up against Combs throughout 2024 and 2025 — resulting in a seven-week criminal trial that finally ended with the Bad Boy Records founder, who consistently denied all of the accusations, securing a partial acquittal earlier in July — Kesha continued to omit the original lyric during live performances.

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