Her first major success came in when she was featured on rapper Flo Rida 's number-one single, " Right Round ". Kesha's music and image propelled her to immediate success. She has earned two number-one albums on the US Billboard with Animal and Rainbow , and the top-ten records Warrior and High Road Her single "Tik Tok" was the best-selling digital single in history , selling over 14 million units internationally, until surpassed in Kesha's sixth album is currently set to be released in Kesha's career was halted between Warrior and Rainbow due to a legal dispute with her former producer Dr.
Luke , which began in A series of lawsuits, known collectively as Kesha v. Luke , were exchanged between the two parties in which Kesha accused him of physical, sexual, and emotional abuse and employment discrimination against her, while Dr. Luke claimed breach of contract and defamation.
The case was settled out of court in June Kesha had sold over million records worldwide, including 87 million tracks and streams as of and 14 million album equivalent units as of Pebe, a single mother, struggled financially while supporting herself, Kesha, and Kesha's older brother Lagan; they relied on welfare payments and food stamps to get by.
Pebe moved the family to Nashville in after securing a new publishing deal for her songwriting. She frequently brought Kesha and her brothers along to recording studios and encouraged Kesha to sing after noticing Kesha do so. In addition to taking songwriting classes, [ 20 ] Kesha was also taught how to write songs by Pebe, and they often wrote together when she returned home from high school.
Kesha then tracked down David Gamson , a producer she admired from Scritti Politti , who agreed to produce the song. Billboard described two of the demos in a cover story, the first as "a gorgeously sung, self-penned country ballad" and the second as "a gobsmackingly awful trip-hop track" where Kesha raps ad lib for a minute after running out of lyrics.
