“Freedom, I’ve been ready for you. All the pieces’s modified now…”
It’s an enormous day for Kesha, the artist previously often known as Ke-Greenback Signal-Ha, to say absolutely the least.
After a protracted, troublesome, deeply painful authorized battle with a sure music producer, the 37-year-old singer-songwriter is now formally Free as of Wednesday (March 6).
In different phrases: her authorized and contractual obligations are full (she signed to her former label Kemosabe Information on the age of 18 in 2005), and she or he’s now free to reclaim her voice as her personal, on her personal phrases, after almost 20 years.
“First day I’ve owned my voice in 19 years. Welcome,” she introduced on social media.
First day I’ve owned my voice in 19 years. Welcome.
— kesha (@KeshaRose) March 7, 2024
With a brand new web site (keshaiswaitingforyou.com), a mailing listing sign-up, her Spotify web page collaboration credit lastly getting tagged correctly, and an ethereal teaser armed and able to go, Kesha’s clearly ready to embark on a brand new musical chapter to satisfy this significantly historic second.
https://t.co/EOHydaco9h pic.twitter.com/XEuHsFiuBT
— kesha (@KeshaRose) March 6, 2024
“Animals. I’ve waited for today for greater than half of my life. All of my grownup life,” she wrote in an accompanying e-newsletter to followers. “There’s a lot extra that I’ve to say, and experiences we now have to share.”
“That is the time for our pleasure experience. We made it… and I wasn’t alone thanks to every of you. Thanks,” she continued.
“A lot is on the horizon…However for now…Freedom.I’ve been ready for you.”
Kesha simply went reside on Instagram and teased a brand new music by way of joyful tears 🥹 pic.twitter.com/W9McrttlAX
— Kesha At this time (@KeshaToday) March 7, 2024
Along with the teaser video, Kesha went reside on her Instagram to have a good time and, by way of tears, performed certainly one of her new songs.
“Reside for the heartbreak, it will get my payments paid / Thank God you walked out that door / Child, you’re delusional / Pondering you possibly can by no means discover one thing that’s as stunning / Somebody with a love like mine,” she sings on the observe, presumably referred to as “Delusional,” full with a hovering pop refrain that genuinely looks like a throwback to an period from lengthy, way back.
Kesha’s wavered between defiance and self-empowerment, ache, melancholy, grief and tongue-biting rage throughout Rainbow, Excessive Highway and Gag Order, all of which had been launched amid seven years of headline-making authorized turmoil. However every thing has modified now, and it’s exhausting to not really feel the sheer aid pouring out by way of that reside stream. This pleasure experience is totally overdue. Hop in…
Congratulations, Kesha. Let the brand new chapter start.
Picture credit score: Brendan Walter
