
The singer said "the last party scene is in this house called the drunk tank, which is one of my friend's houses that we all go party at. The video's party scene was shot in her friend's house, which they refer to as the "drunk tank". Ke$ha explained the experience saying, "the video I'm excited about because I actually got to shoot it in my old neighborhood and the guy driving my gold car is a friend of mine". It was shot in Ke$ha's old neighborhood and the car featured in the video belongs to her. The music video for "TiK ToK" was directed by Syndrome.

We're Ke$ha and her friends all young and broke and it doesn't matter. She further described the theme of the song in an interview, emphasizing that it embodied her own lifestyle. But everyone else liked it." Ke$ha ultimately did not end up rewriting any of the song's lyrics. I wanted to rewrite the verses, I didn't think it was funny or clever. At one point in the song's production, she had wanted to re-write the verses of the song because she did not think that they were "funny or clever", feeling that they "kind of sucked." She elaborated, "I thought it was just another song, I thought it was just like all the other ones I'd written. Luke and Blanco, she took three takes to get the song correct as she jokingly "white-girl rapped" over the beat. Diddy came to the studio later that day to contribute his lines and the collaboration was completed.

Four hours later, Diddy called Luke and said that they should do a song together. Luke and Benny Blanco and the song was written.


She then proceeded to bring the song to her producer Dr. The opening line came from an experience where she woke up surrounded by "beautiful women", leading to her imagining P. She would then write down a few words to a song, then the following morning she would wake up with the story waiting to be told. Ke$ha said the inspiration behind the song came from coming home half-drunk and stumbling after a night out of partying. Luke and Benny Blanco and was co-produced by Luke and Blanco. "TiK ToK" was written by Ke$ha, alongside Dr.
