Ke$ha: Classic or Dud?

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.

*intro of ‘Honey’

I like this new album so much more than Rainbow tbh

my feelings on this album will hinge on whether there's a 'rainbow' or a 'spaceship' equivalent probably

i don't think either is present, but the album's offering other pleasures

maybe i love "kinky" bc it'd be a pretty sick k-pop song

this album handles its pop moves better than rainbow (cf. the run from "tonight" to "honey" vs. "hymn" -> "praying" -> "learn to let go," the former is better to me on just a pacing level) but rainbow is still the weedier and weirder of the two? but then again high road has "the potato song," which seems to follow up on "rich straight white men" and take kesha further into the alt universe amanda palmer territory (which is fine with me, she's a good enough songwriter to pull it off) and then there's "father daughter dance" the most devastating thing she's ever put on a record? idk, both records are all over the place

i would prob think "bff" was ok if wrabel were deleted from it

Relistening to this now and it's even better.

new album out next month. I'm getting an If I Can't Have Love, I Want Power vibe from the two singles released today:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BG73hFraLig

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J1hecebh3Hc