Kesha thought “Tik Tok” was “too dumb” to launch.

The 38-year-old pop star launched the hit single again in August 2009, and Kesha has now confessed to being astonished by the tune’s success.

Requested if she knew “Tik Tok” would change into a giant hit, Kesha mentioned on The Jennifer Hudson Present: “No, oh my God!

“After I was writing ‘Tik Tok,’ it was bizarre, as a result of the dumber it received, the higher it received. Which was complicated, as a result of I like to think about myself as a reasonably clever human being. But it surely simply received dumber and dumber and higher and higher.

“After I listened to the ultimate product. I used to be like, ‘That is too dumb.’ And it is like 1.5 billion streams at this level.”

Kesha really realized to craft lyrics with the assistance of her mother, Pebe Sebert, who has beforehand co-written hits for the likes of Dolly Parton and Pitbull.

Kesha shared: “My mother’s a songwriter, and she or he taught me easy methods to write songs since I used to be little. I might go to the studio along with her and go to sleep within the guitar case.

“I might come house from college, and I might be like, ‘Mother, this boy was imply to me,’ and she or he’d be like, ‘Write a tune about it.’ It was, like, how we handled every little thing as a household.”

Kesha beforehand described songwriting as “one thing sacred.”

The pop star defined that songwriting has helped her to navigate among the highs and lows in her life.

Kesha mentioned throughout her first-ever TED Speak: “What else on the planet can change your thoughts, can change your temper, can change your complete energetic frequency in three and a half minutes? For me that’s pop music, and for me that’s alchemy.”

The music star really finds it simpler to specific herself by way of songwriting.

Kesha, who launched her debut studio album Animal again in 2010, mentioned: “Songwriting is a direct line of communication with the reality. In tune, you possibly can say issues you possibly can’t say out loud to anybody else … not your mates, not your therapist, not your mother.

“After I’m feeling something intensely, I do know it’s time for me to write down a tune.”