Kesha is a free artist finally — interval.
After years of working towards this second, the singer-songwriter has dropped her first-ever impartial LP, . (Interval), that includes 11 fun-fueled pop tracks. Led by singles “Joyride,” “Yippee-Ki-Yay,” “Delusional,” “The One” and “Boy Loopy,” the venture marks her first full-length launch beneath her personal Kesha Information.
Main as much as the album’s launch on Friday (July 4), Kesha has been open about how emotional and empowering the method of assuming management over her personal artistry has been. Previous to . (Interval), she was beneath contract to Kemosabe Information, regardless of her yearslong authorized battle with label proprietor Dr. Luke, whom she accused of drugging her and raping her at a 2005 get together in 2014. The producer has at all times vehemently denied the allegations, and the 2 events reached a settlement in 2023.
In March 2024, Kesha was lastly launched from her take care of Kemosabe. Together with her first album since, the artist says she appears like she’s experiencing a “homecoming,” as she advised Billboard in a latest interview.
“I actually do really feel prefer it’s been a homecoming in plenty of methods — not solely legally, to the rights of my voice, however to letting go of that internalized disgrace, of letting all that go and coming residence to my very own physique, my pleasure, myself,” Kesha stated. “And a part of that has been therapeutic my relationship with the data that I’ve put out that had been tough to make — that had been perceived in a manner that wasn’t the way in which I meant, that had been tied to occasions that I don’t stand for.”
. (Interval) marks Kesha’s sixth studio album, and her first since 2023’s Gag Order. She’s scored 4 prime 10 albums on the Billboard 200 over the course of her profession, together with No. 1 hits Animal (2010) and Rainbow (2017).
Stream Kesha’s . (Interval) beneath.