Final month, Kesha previewed some new music on Instagram Dwell, indicating {that a} new period is likely to be upon us. As we speak, that rumor seems to be true: Kesha has introduced a brand new album, Gag Order, which follows 2020’s Excessive Street and is about to drop Might 19. It’s produced by Rick Rubin and government produced by Kesha. Come Friday, Kesha will share two album singles, “Eat The Acid” and “Wonderful Line.”
In a brand new Rolling Stone function, Kesha says “Eat The Acid” is definitely about not doing acid, per her mom’s recommendation: “Do no matter you need in your life, however don’t eat acid, as a result of whenever you eat acid, you see issues that you just’ll by no means be capable to unsee.” In the meantime “Wonderful Line” is an offended tune about “all of the docs and legal professionals [who] lower the tongue out of my mouth… However hey, take a look at all the cash we made off me.” Within the article, Kesha says the album focuses on her “uglier feelings”:
I wrote “TiK ToK,” and “the celebration don’t begin ’til I stroll in,” so I nearly felt like I used to be changing into a caricature of this poisonous positivity. We reside in a tradition the place I really feel like we at all times present our greatest facet. However Rick Rubin created probably the most stunning, secure area for me to essentially dive into these feelings.
The album information comes amid new developments in Kesha’s nine-year authorized battle towards her former producer Dr. Luke. Final week, the singer’s legal professionals went to the New York Courtroom Of Appeals, the place they’re making an attempt to overturn a previous ruling that decided Dr. Luke was a non-public determine fairly than a public one, which might not obligate the producer to pay the singer’s authorized charges or be topic to a retroactive software of the 2020 amendments to the anti-strategic lawsuit towards public participation (anti-SLAPP) legislation. (In 2014, Kesha sued Dr. Luke, alleging he knocked her out with an unknown substance and raped her throughout a interval of alleged sexual, bodily, and emotional abuse. Luke then sued Kesha for defamation — that case will go to trial on July 26 after being postponed from February.)
“With out the darkness there isn’t a mild. So I let my darkness have the sunshine. I can’t battle the reality. Life is troublesome and painful. It’s for everybody,” wrote Kesha in an album manifesto. “An artist doesn’t exist to make others glad. I imagine an artist provides voice, movement, colour to the feelings all of us have. The nice feelings, and the unmanageably fucking depressing ones.”
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Gag Order shall be out 5/19 by way of Kemosabe/RCA Data. Pre-order it right here.
