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- Kesha Wasn't Surprised She Got 'Re-Canceled' for Jeffrey Dahmer 'Cannibal' Lyric, Admits It Was 'Controversial' (Exclusive)</p>
<p>Jack IrvinJuly 3, 2025 at 10:00 PM</p>
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<p>Kesha; Jeffrey Dahmer</p>
<p>Kesha's seen several of her hits go viral on TikTok</p>
<p>One in particular was "Cannibal," which found a resurgence and later ran into controversy</p>
<p>The pop star tells PEOPLE she was "re-canceled" for the song's lyrics, but she wasn't surprised</p>
<p>Many of Kesha's early hits have seen resurgences in popularity over the past couple years — thanks to TikTok.</p>
<p>Long before the video sharing platform officially launched in 2017, the pop star, 38, first coined the unique spelling of "tick tock" for her chart-topping 2009 debut single, "TiK ToK." Several years and more top-10 hits later, Kesha's watched some of her songs earn second lives on the app and spark discourse in the process.</p>
<p>"It's just an interesting time where that can happen now," Kesha tells PEOPLE in this week's issue. "It's a trippy thing to witness, and it's so cool, and I love it. I'm connecting to a whole different audience that wasn't even alive when I wrote the songs."</p>
<p>One of her first track to go viral on TikTok was 2010's "Cannibal," a fan-favorite from the EP of the same name despite not getting released as an official single at the time. The song sparked a dance trend in 2020, centered around the second verse — including the lyric, "Be too sweet, and you'll be a goner / I'll pull a Jeffrey Dahmer."</p>
<p>Two years later, interest in Dahmer's cannibalistic crimes spiked due to Netflix's 2022 series: Dahmer — Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story. Some listeners began speaking out against Kesha's lyric, and her mom, Pebe Sebert, a cowriter on the song, defended her at the time.</p>
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<p>Kesha and Pebe Sebert in New York City in April 2025</p>
<p>"Oh my God, I got re-canceled for the Jeffrey Dahmer lyric," says Kesha, who wasn't surprised by the response. "It was a controversial lyric."</p>
<p>She declares, "If some people aren't offended by what I'm doing, I'm probably not doing a very good job of being a pop star."</p>
<p>Beyond "Cannibal," songs from Kesha's catalog including "Take It Off" and, more recently, "Your Love Is My Drug," have gone viral on TikTok. She welcomes the listenership — from old and new fans alike.</p>
<p>"I feel like the way people are consuming music is so different than it was, and will probably continue to get even more different. But it's a beautiful thing to watch a song you wrote, God, 15 years ago, and have seven-year-olds now relate to that song," she says, specifically referencing "Your Love Is My Drug."</p>
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<p>Now, Kesha is gearing up to release her new album, . (PERIOD), through her own Kesha Records on Friday, July 4. It's her first project since the end of both her legal battle with Lukasz "Dr. Luke" Gottwald and her long-held contract with Sony Music, and she feels more liberated than ever.</p>
<p>"For this chapter I really wanted to capture the moments where I felt liberated, safe, happy, playful, hot, horny, but all of it was coming from a whole place; I feel very whole," she says. "Now all of my energy gets to focus back on my true purpose—helping people feel seen, loved, safe and f---ing entertained as hell. My power is all back in my hands, and I'm excited."</p>
<p>For more on Kesha, pick up the latest issue of PEOPLE, on newsstands everywhere Friday, or subscribe here.</p>
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