Years later, Entertainment Weekly asked Kesha whether she still hung out with the socialites.
But it was fun to be broke, as the singer reflected in her illustrated autobiography, My Crazy Beautiful Life: “I love making something beautiful out of things that others have thrown away.” This scrappiness, and the refusal to equate happiness with money, would permeate Kesha’s artistic identity-from her crummy bargain-bin aesthetic to the ironic dollar sign she’d insert into her name (and later remove), to the insurrectionary spirit of “Party at a Rich Dude’s House,” which sees her “pissin’ in the Dom Perignon.” In 2005, the Seberts appeared on the reality show The Simple Life for an episode in which Paris Hilton and Nicole Richie attempt to find Pebe a boyfriend.
Kesha has said that one of her first memories was being told by her mom that if she wanted a kitty-cat stuffed animal at Target, she’d have to steal it. The family was poor, surviving for many years on food stamps and welfare. She and Kesha would work on songs together for fun after school, eventually co-writing three tracks that appear on Kesha’s debut, Animal. After securing a publishing deal, Pebe relocated the family to Nashville, often taking Kesha and her brothers to recording studios. Her mother, Pebe Sebert, was the bohemian songwriter who co-wrote the 1978 country single “Old Flames Can’t Hold a Candle to You,” which became a No. In a perfect bit of mythology, Kesha Rose Sebert was allegedly born at a party in the San Fernando Valley-a place that looms large in the nightmares of misogynists and pedants because it’s where young women “like” and “um” freely. When there’s a recession and times can be hard, dancing is free.” When asked why her music resonated, Kesha replied pithily: “It’s not pretentious …. 1 hit of the 2010s, one of the era’s many glorious, stupid anthems about getting schwasted because YOLO. The single seemed almost designed to irritate: because of Kesha’s fried, bratty voice, or her “oh, whoa, whoa, oh”s that resembled yodeling, or her twisted suggestion that she was attracted to Mick Jagger. She droned on about clothes and phones, and deployed vernacular (“crunk” and “errybody” and “po-po”) clumsily borrowed from hip-hop. (Hence the single’s indelible first line.) Immediately, she established herself as everything a good girl shouldn’t be: insolent, hedonistic, and trashy, with a devil-may-care approach to dental hygiene. By her account, it was inspired by an epic morning when she woke up “surrounded by a bunch of hot babes” and felt she was living it up like Diddy. “TiK ToK”-that wretched and awesome concoction of white-girl rapping, lurid Auto-Tune, and ridiculous quips-was the 22-year-old Kesha’s breakthrough single.
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