Unfortunately for Kesha Sebert, for almost a decade now her legal battles have had more attention than her music. It’s a very long time since her US number one single Tik Tok – titled before the social media behemoth was even a thing – which announced the Los Angeles singer’s arrival as a harder-living version of Pink or Katy Perry in 2009, claiming to brush her teeth with Jack Daniels and insisting, “The party don’t start ‘til I walk in.”
She’s been fighting the producer of that hit, Lukasz “Dr Luke” Gottwald since 2014. She tried to sue him for “infliction of emotional distress, sex-based hate crimes and employment discrimination”. A judge eventually dismissed that, and Gottwald is now suing her for defamation and breach of contract, with a trial due to begin in July.
