Kesha Is Finally Free on First Independent Album ‘Period': Stream It Now
After years of working toward this moment, the singer-songwriter has dropped her first-ever independent LP, . (Period), featuring 11 fun-fueled pop tracks. Led by singles 'Joyride,' 'Yippee-Ki-Yay,' 'Delusional,' 'The One' and 'Boy Crazy,' the project marks her first full-length release under her own Kesha Records.
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Leading up to the album's release on Friday (July 4), Kesha has been open about how emotional and empowering the process of assuming control over her own artistry has been. Prior to . (Period), she was under contract to Kemosabe Records, despite her yearslong legal battle with label owner Dr. Luke, whom she accused of drugging her and raping her at a 2005 party in 2014. The producer has always vehemently denied the allegations, and the two parties reached a settlement in 2023.
In March 2024, Kesha was finally released from her deal with Kemosabe. With her first album since, the artist says she feels like she's experiencing a 'homecoming,' as she told Billboard in a recent interview.
'I really do feel like it's been a homecoming in a lot of ways — not only legally, to the rights of my voice, but to letting go of that internalized shame, of letting all that go and coming home to my own body, my joy, myself,' Kesha said. 'And part of that has been healing my relationship with the records that I've put out that were difficult to make — that were perceived in a way that wasn't the way I intended, that were tied to events that I don't stand for.'
. (Period) marks Kesha's sixth studio album, and her first since 2023's Gag Order. She's scored four top 10 albums on the Billboard 200 over the course of her career, including No. 1 hits Animal (2010) and Rainbow (2017).
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