{"id":3586,"date":"2025-04-03T15:56:59","date_gmt":"2025-04-03T15:56:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.isshicare.com\/?p=3586"},"modified":"2025-04-03T18:30:43","modified_gmt":"2025-04-03T18:30:43","slug":"kesha-the-barefoot-baddie-from-tennessee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.isshicare.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/03\/kesha-the-barefoot-baddie-from-tennessee\/","title":{"rendered":"Kesha, the Barefoot Baddie From Tennessee"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Kesha<\/u><\/a> calls in fresh off a reinvigorating retreat to Big Sur, California, where she spent a weekend off-the-grid, \u201cdancing and trying to move trauma through my body\u201d \u2014 at last in a place of self-actualized autonomy and healing. This spiritual release reflects a physical one that has been publicly fought in court, but, perhaps most intensely of all, within the pop artist\u2019s soul. \u201cIt rained all year, but it’s clearing up,\u201d she sings on the new celebratory single \u201cYIPPEE-KI-YAY.\u201d<\/u><\/a> with T-Pain. \u201cI’m flying high, it’s a miracle\/ I’m drinking spirits, I’m spiritual.\u201d <\/p>\n

Now, Kesha is making art on her own terms under the independent label, Kesha Records<\/u><\/a>. With the July 4 release of her sixth studio album, PERIOD<\/a><\/em><\/em> (stylized as the punctuation mark), Kesha will be putting out \u201cthe \ufb01rst record I’ve ever made where I have legal rights to my own voice,\u201d as she explains. The freedom to speak for herself is entrenched throughout PERIOD, with <\/em><\/em>a mix of genres authentic to the singer\u2019s power-pop, propulsive sound that recalls the mid-aughts party anthems that defined her early career.<\/p>\n

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\n\tA sense of liberation is emboldened in full force on PERIOD<\/em><\/em>\u2019s <\/em>aptly titled track \u201cFREEDOM.,\u201d a wistful meditation that morphs into house-y dance music over its expansive six-minute run. This theme is also explored in Harriet Tubman: Live in Concert<\/a>, <\/em><\/em>the new novel from certi\ufb01ed Animal (and The Traitors <\/em><\/em><\/u>Season 3<\/u><\/a> contestant) Bob The Drag Queen<\/u><\/a>, who expresses the collective hurt Kesha\u2019s fandom felt watching her be silenced: \u201cWe’ve had the misfortune of watching people like you see what the entertainment industry does to women and how it tries \u2014 once you start to go toward your own freedom \u2014 to have it stripped away.\u201d\n<\/p>\n

\n\tBoth cultural icons have found strength in allowing themselves to experience the exhilaration of the dance \ufb02oor. Bob recalls crying while watching Kesha perform \u201cBlow\u201d live. \u201cSo much of your early work was about being free and having fun,\u201d Bob notes. \u201cSomething about seeing you on stage performing \u2018Blow,\u2019 and I just heard you do your little laugh and go, \u2018Dance.\u2019 And as soon as you said \u2018dance,\u2019 I just started crying.\u201d\n<\/p>\n

\n\tKesha announces today her summer Tits Out North American Tour<\/a>, with special guests Scissor Sisters, Slayyyter and Rose Gray<\/a>. The tour will see Kesha performing live at venues like Madison Square Garden and The Forum to promote PERIOD, <\/em><\/em>which has already seen the buzz of singles \u201cJOYRIDE.,\u201d<\/a> \u201cDELUSIONAL.,\u201d<\/a> and now, \u201cYIPPEE-KI-YAY.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Ahead of PERIOD<\/em>, exploring her hard-won agency and bliss (\u201cFREEDOM.\u201d proclaims loudly out the gate, \u201cI only drink when I\u2019m happy and I\u2019m drunk right now\u201d), and in anticipation of the honor she\u2019s set to receive<\/u><\/a> next week from The NYC LGBT Community Center, Kesha and Bob The Drag Queen connected for a conversation about freedom, songwriting and Snatch Game.<\/p>\n

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