--- title: President Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton Sing Timber By Pitbull, Kesha description: Well, kind of canonical: https://time.com/63835/barack-obama-hillary-clinton-sing-timber/ author: Samantha Grossman article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2014-04-15T19:13:19.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:08:50.526Z og:title: Here's Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton Singing Pitbull and Ke$ha's "Timber" og:description: Well, kind of og:url: https://time.com/63835/barack-obama-hillary-clinton-sing-timber/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Here's Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton Singing Pitbull and Ke$ha's "Timber" twitter:description: Well, kind of twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Here's Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton Singing Pitbull and Ke$ha's "Timber" by [Samantha Grossman](https://time.com/author/samantha-grossman/) ## Samantha Grossman Apr 15, 2014 7:13 PM UTC by [Samantha Grossman](https://time.com/author/samantha-grossman/) ## Samantha Grossman Apr 15, 2014 7:13 PM UTC Hey look, President Obama and former Secretary of State Clinton covered “Timber” by Pitbull and Ke$ha! Well, not really, but kind of. YouTube channel [Baracksdubs](http://www.youtube.com/user/baracksdubs) carefully spliced together clips from the politicians’ past speeches to make it _sound_ like they sang the catchy tune. It’s pretty entertaining, and it really makes you think. In particular, it makes you think about when Obama has said the word “booty” in a speech. Also, Hillz and B-Rock have almost as much musical chemistry and Pitbull and Ke$ha! Almost. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/63835/barack-obama-hillary-clinton-sing-timber/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/63835/barack-obama-hillary-clinton-sing-timber/"},"headline":"Here's Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton Singing Pitbull and Ke$ha's \"Timber\"","datePublished":"2014-04-15T19:13:19.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:08:50.526Z","description":"Well, kind of","url":"https://time.com/63835/barack-obama-hillary-clinton-sing-timber/","keywords":["Newsfeed","Hillary Clinton","Barack Obama","politics","viral","Obama","Pitbull","Kesha"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Samantha Grossman","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/samantha-grossman/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/63835/barack-obama-hillary-clinton-sing-timber/","name":"Here's Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton Singing Pitbull and Ke$ha's \"Timber\""}}]}] ```