Months after receiving backlash for using AI-generated imagery for her “Delusional” single, Kesha has introduced new paintings for the observe.
First launched in November 2025, “Delusional” was issued because the second single from Kesha’s forthcoming sixth album, . (Interval). Nevertheless, the observe’s original artwork – which depicted plenty of purses with the phrase ‘delusional’ spray painted on them, typically incorrectly – was swiftly criticized for its use of generative AI.
Kesha didn’t reply to the backlash, or tackle followers’ requests to fee an precise artist to create new imagery for the only. Nevertheless, on Tuesday (Might 20), she took to social media to share new artwork for the only, together with a proof for the replace.
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“When making the only artwork for my music ‘Delusional,’ I wished to make the purpose that it’s DELUSIONAL that the world expects artists to proceed making artwork once we are so undervalued,” she defined. “I attempted to echo my concepts within the type of a political single cowl. I’ve realized that residing in alignment with my integrity is extra necessary than proving some extent.
“So I’ve determined to alter the quilt artwork for this music. She’s one in all my favorites.”
Kesha additionally made some extent to individually thank the inventive workforce behind the paintings, together with the photographer, videographer, stylists, and extra. “Due to my crew for serving to me reside out right here in my highest and c–tiest potential,” she added.
In closing her social publish, Kesha additionally addressed the elephant within the room, immediately shifting her focus to the work of AI and the toll it might tackle actual creatives within the course of.
“AI is a Pandora’s field that we as a society have collectively opened, and I feel it’s necessary that we preserve human ramifications in thoughts as we discover ways to use it as a software and never as a substitute,” she defined. “Simply me therapeutic, in actual time.”
The up to date paintings arrives lower than two months from the discharge of . (Interval) on July 4 by way of her personal Kesha Data label. It additionally arrives as her first LP because the 2023 settlement of a yearslong authorized battle with Dr. Luke over Kesha’s claims that he drugged and raped her in 2005, after which he sued her for defamation whereas calling the allegations “false and stunning.”
“I’m actually excited for the world to listen to this, as a result of I’ve been answerable for every little thing,” she revealed on The Jennifer Hudson Present lately.
“It’s been all of my imaginative and prescient, all of my phrases, quite a lot of laborious work, quite a lot of pleasure,” she continued. “Actually coming again house to myself and feeling what freedom actually seems like, looks like, feels like.”