Kesha Reminds Fans Her Hit ‘TiK ToK’ 'Is Forever' amid Ban of Social Media Platform TikTok

Mar. 15, 2025

A photo of Kesha and the TikTok app.Photo:Kesha/Instagram; Dan Kitwood/Getty

Kesha/Instagram; Dan Kitwood/Getty

Keshais poking fun at the upcomingTikTok ban.

She included a video of herself wearing a black hoodie and looking at the camera as the chorus of her popular song “TiK ToK” played in the background. Over the video, she wrote, “TikTok may be temporary, but TiK ToK is forever,” and captioned it with a peace sign emoji and a black heart emoji.

Kesha’s post garnered responses from several fellow singers includingNatasha Bedingfield, who wrote, “Exactly!!!” MusicianHayley Kiyokoalso praised the singer, commenting, “icon.”

Kesha debuted her hit single in 2010, and it spent nine weeks in the No. 1 spot on theBillboard Hot 100. In the years since, the song has continued to flourish in pop culture. Last year, the singer even changed the first line of “TiK ToK,” which refers toSean “Diddy” Combs, amid his ongoingsexual abuse and sex traffickingallegations and lawsuits.

The line formerly went, “Wake up in the morning feeling like P. Diddy.” While performing atCoachellawithReneé Rapp, Kesha debuted the new lyrics, saying, “Wake up in the morning feeling like, f— P. Diddy!”

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She opened up about the change in an August 2024post on X, writing, “TiK ToK was the first single that I put into this world that had my voice AND my name credited. I remember making it fun and happy because that’s how I felt and wanted others to feel.”

Kesha.Kevin Winter/Getty

Kevin Winter/Getty

Noting that the song was released nearly 15 years ago, the singer said it reminds her of how she viewed the world at the time. “That girl was naïve and wild and playful. This song eternalizes a side of myself that I love very much, and now see I have to protect fiercely. The world has changed so much and so have I,” she added.

Kesha also noted that the “new lyric change” is “permanent," and that she would rerecord the song once she has the legal rights to do so.

TikTok has since pushed back,criticizing the sell-or-ban legislationas “conceived and pushed through based on inaccurate, flawed and hypothetical information, resulting in outright censorship of the American people.”

source: people.com