Another lyric of Ke$ha’s that supports a possible queer reading is from her debut song “Tik Tok,” which starts with “wake up in the morning feeling like P. Diddy.” An interview with Billboard, which led to my initial thinking for this paper, states that the song is “a constant reminder of the morning after, when she opened her eyes to find herself ‘surrounded by these foxy babes,’ thinking: ‘This is what P. Diddy must feel like’”

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