Ke$ha: Classic or Dud?

is this on spotify? i would like to hear it.

yes

it's really really fun and i love its redemptive arc

i think the outlaw countryish songs are the strongest third of the record, hope she does a whole album of that someday

yeah there are like three different styles on the album that make me press the "I want a whole album of this" button. Fun to imagine all the directions she could go next

the Dolly Parton collab is exactly what I wanted

totally digging this album. and "prayer" gives me even heavier chills in context. "boogie feet" is the only track that kinda bugged me on first listen.

I only made it through a song and a half. I really don't like what I've heard so far. :-(

this is nice

I’m honored to have this strong motherfuvkin woman choose to sing a song that’s so special to me. Slightly dying with happiness❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️ pic.twitter.com/sOxrRCGZB2

— kesha (@KeshaRose) August 28, 2017

what with the new taylor swift song being embarrassing, the door is still open for y'all over here on team kesha

also what with kesha just being the superior person/popstar in just about every conceivable way

I love this
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u5i7A2Bw89g

Record is really good too, agree with Brad that the country-tinged songs are the best.

damn. i have no idea what the country market is like, but i feel like she could have a hit with that. great selection on her part, gives me some of the same goosebumps as "praying" did on first listen.

she's so good. i'm excited to see her next week

Praying has to become a karaoke classic.

i do not want the people at my typical 'roke watering hole trying to sing it.

(not cos of the song, but cos of the two off-key regulars who mistakenly think they're divas)

seems kind of a downer for karaoke

welcome to the karaoke selections of off-key regulars

one of my exes goes to the same place I go on occasion and she has it in her head that she has a great voice so she sings slow, showstopping ballads by Celine Dion and other diva songs and so is so wildly off key as to render the songs incomprehensible.

I almost want to dare her to do this one to see what she does to it when the whistle note comes.

this is exactly why Praying has to become a karaoke classic.

Great performance, but the Grammys spinning Kesha's comeback (a triumph over the industry that tried to block her from making an album) as a victory FOR the industry was really gross

yeah, I got into this recap, but it's somewhat mindboggling how many people hosting/showcased/otherwise on the Grammys were JUST in the news for sexual harassment/predatory/general pustularity. and this is just the known ones.

(the ads against the Grammys were also weirdly retrograde: women fainting over Old Spice, women indulging in the sinful low-calorie offerings of Fiber One, the existence of Fifty Shades)

finally got around to listening to Rainbow. there's some really awesome stuff on there, huge surprise for me. didn't really like her older work for the most part. "Woman" and "Let 'Em Talk" are the showstoppers but there's several other good tracks here too

a lot of (very redacted) depositions are out

https://www.billboard.com/articles/columns/pop/8472556/dr-luke-kesha-rape-katy-perry-lady-gaga-lawsuit-depositions

Kelly Clarkson has shot right up in my estimations since the story about the songwriting credits

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VXz3qeYQP0A

obviously better than a tidy ballad but I'm not 100% sold, to be honest, on pivoting to amanda palmer (musically)

mm yeah i dunno

i am not into the corny cabaret sound of this song
still applaud the audacity of making this rather unappealing song & the middle finger

Trying to imagine a scenario where someone would request that this be played, and I just cannot. She coulda kept this in her diary.

I can easily imagine people requesting this be played

(it's better if I think of it as a one-off/leak, like the dozens floating around during the animal/warrior years)

yeah i could see this fitting fine into the sequence of an album.

(in a late-period modest-mouse album kinda way)

new single "Raising Hell" with Big Freedia out tomorrow

i realized that i am very much kesha

on Harmony Korine's The Beach Bum: "I saw the movie and that was inspiring to me because, as a bum, I very much relate to that character."

"raising hell" kicks so much ass

wait what is the beach bum quote from?

I'm kind of obsessed with the way she pronounces the word "couldn't" in the line "if you couldn't tell."

The trailer for her new album is great.

“Life is like driving across the country in a pretty small Astrovan, with your whole family in it, for 90 years. Because I think life is a vacation from where we go when we die.”

xp it was in entertainment weekly

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fJ2iBrXVkRY

phenomenal songwriter

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DiGUnl7kEOw

this album is gonna be incredible

"don't circumcise my circumstance"

Bless you, Kesha.

A great mix of classic club Kesha and conservational country Kesha. All the preview singles sound fantastic in context too. Probably a fraction overlong, but who cares, it's amazing.

“birthday suit”!!!!

the country-leaning songs here are so amazing that i long for a full country kesha record, but then it wouldn't provide me with the interdimensional bridge between all iterations of kesha that is "kinky"

only track i'd delete from this is "bff"

‘Kinky’ and ‘BFF’ were both ones I’d lose tbh, but the rest are wonderful. The ‘Island in the Sun’-reminiscent intro has me fantasising a Kesha-Weezer super gig. ‘Tonight’, the title track and ‘Birthday Suit’ are immediate faves and I feel guilty for dismissing ‘Raising Hell’ earlier in the year what was I thinking.