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Time of India
14-07-2025
- Entertainment
- Time of India
Kesha ignites Chicago on 2025 tour: Packed crowd joins singer's explosive independence celebration
Kesha has been a pop culture mainstay since her breakout in 2010 with the hit party anthem 'Tik Tok', which spent nine weeks topping the Billboard Hot 100 and garnered 729 million views on YouTube. She continued her streak of pop successes with further hits such as 'Blah blah blah' and 'Your love is my drug'. The 38-year old took influences from Dolly Parton and Iggy Pop to create her own edgy electropop sound that took the world by storm. That era of her career came to an end, however, when she filed a lawsuit against Dr. Luke in 2014 that included explosive allegations such as physical, sexual and emotional abuse, which caused the artist lasting psychological damage to the point of developing an eating disorder. She referenced these events in her 2017 single Praying, which many characterized as a "rebirth" for her. Since then, Kesha has been putting a premium on her independence by separating from her former labels, RCA and Kemosabe Records, and starting her own independent venture known as Kesha Records. She released her sixth album, 'Period', on this label during the fourth of July, and is currently active with her 2025 Tour with the Scissor Sisters, which recently made a splash in Chicago with a sold-out show in Tinley Park. Kesha symbolically breaks with her 2010 persona Kesha's show at Tinley Park had dedicated fans crowding up the Cred Union Amphitheater on Saturday night. Kesha opened the show with a decapitated mannequin head which resembled her 2010 persona. Even as she performed her iconic hit 'Tik Tok', she kissed the mannequin and tossed it away, signifying a break from the image she'd been tied to for so much of her career. She had me at holding her own decapitated mannequin head ... Kesha's latest tour is a powerful display of a woman and artist reclaiming her power This is the first major tour Kesha has undertaken since the 2024 House of Kesha tour, and the 2023 Only Love tour. While the latter tour was done to promote her album "Gag Order", she deliberately renamed the tour to emphasize its focus on joy and vulnerability. Kesha's tour is less than halfway through Though Kesha sold out her Chicago show and whipped her fanbase into a frenzy, her tour has not even reached its halfway mark yet. The United States and Canada portion of the tour is set to continue with an upcoming show on tomorrow, July 15 in Nashville, Tennessee. The tour will go on hiatus after ending its US-Canada run in September of this year. The tour will then resume in March of 2026, with Kesha focusing on international venues in Germany, France, Netherlands, Belgium, Scotland, England and Ireland.
See - Sada Elbalad
07-07-2025
- Entertainment
- See - Sada Elbalad
Kesha Finally Drops Her First Independent Album "Period": Stream It Now
Yara Sameh Kesha, at last, is a free artist, period. After years of working toward this moment, the singer-songwriter has dropped her first-ever independent album, "." ("Period"), featuring 11 fun-fueled pop tracks. Led by singles 'Joyride,' 'Yippee-Ki-Yay,' 'Delusional,' 'The One' and 'Boy Crazy,' the LP marks her first full-length release under her label, Kesha Records. Leading up to the album's release, Kesha has been candid about how emotional and empowering the process of assuming control over her artistry has been. The singer was under contract to Kemosabe Records, despite her years-long legal battle with label owner Dr. Luke, whom she accused of drugging her and sexually assaulting her at a 2005 party in 2014. The producer has always vehemently denied the allegations, and the two parties settled in 2023. In March 2024, Kesha was finally released from her deal with Kemosabe. In a recent interview with Billboard , the artist said she feels like she's experiencing a "homecoming" with her first album. '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 noted. '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 throughout her career, including No. 1 hits "Animal" (2010) and "Rainbow" (2017). Stream Kesha's "." ("Period") below. read more New Tourism Route To Launch in Old Cairo Ahmed El Sakka-Led Play 'Sayidati Al Jamila' to Be Staged in KSA on Dec. 6 Mandy Moore Joins Season 2 of "Dr. Death" Anthology Series Don't Miss These Movies at 44th Cairo Int'l Film Festival Today Amr Diab to Headline KSA's MDLBEAST Soundstorm 2022 Festival Arts & Culture Mai Omar Stuns in Latest Instagram Photos Arts & Culture "The Flash" to End with Season 9 Arts & Culture Ministry of Culture Organizes four day Children's Film Festival Arts & Culture Canadian PM wishes Muslims Eid-al-Adha News Israeli-Linked Hadassah Clinic in Moscow Treats Wounded Iranian IRGC Fighters News China Launches Largest Ever Aircraft Carrier Sports Former Al Zamalek Player Ibrahim Shika Passes away after Long Battle with Cancer Videos & Features Tragedy Overshadows MC Alger Championship Celebration: One Fan Dead, 11 Injured After Stadium Fall Lifestyle Get to Know 2025 Eid Al Adha Prayer Times in Egypt Business Fear & Greed Index Plummets to Lowest Level Ever Recorded amid Global Trade War News Flights suspended at Port Sudan Airport after Drone Attacks News "Tensions Escalate: Iran Probes Allegations of Indian Tech Collaboration with Israeli Intelligence" Videos & Features Video: Trending Lifestyle TikToker Valeria Márquez Shot Dead during Live Stream Technology 50-Year Soviet Spacecraft 'Kosmos 482' Crashes into Indian Ocean
Forbes
05-07-2025
- Entertainment
- Forbes
Kesha Celebrates Her Independence With New Album ‘Period'
Kesha Since Kesha was released from her contract with Dr. Luke's Kemosabe Records in late 2023, the hit-making pop singer has been hard at work carving out her own place in the music industry. She fittingly released 'Joyride,' her first single through her Kesha Records label, on Independence Day last year, and today, a year later, she's risen like a phoenix with Period, her first album as a free artist. Period's release was preceded earlier this year with the singles 'Delusional,' 'Yippee-Ki-Yay,' and 'Boy Crazy.' While the fun-loving Kesha that fans came to know and love a decade and a half ago is present on the party-ready tracks on the album, she also takes time to look inward and reflect on her emotions, similar to her 2017 album Rainbow and 2020 album High Road, on songs like 'Too Hard,' 'Cathedral,' and the aptly titled 'Freedom.' Unsurprisingly, the album came about almost immediately after Kesha gained her artistic and contractual freedom. 'The second I got out of that deal, I was writing three songs a day, like a madwoman. I've never written so many songs in my life. I've never felt so alive, inspired, happy, and excited about the future. Because it's my first album where I'm in control of every word. Every song, every sound, the cover, the singles—everything," she told Vogue of the project. "I've gotten really comfortable in trusting my own intuition and following my inner compass.' When making Period, then, Kesha aimed to create the biggest middle finger possible. 'I wanted it to be the ultimate f**k-you album of all time,' she stated plainly. "I listen to my new record when I need that strength to be my own watchdog. I'm really protective of my time, space, and energy now. Anything that has kept me from feeling free, I'm very cutthroat about that. Anything that is keeping me from being in my fullest potential, it's gone. Even if it's an internalized voice that's keeping me from my true freedom, it's got to go. I really wanted to make a triumphant soundtrack for those moments." The Tits Out Tour in support of the album wraps up March 21 in Dublin.
Washington Post
04-07-2025
- Entertainment
- Washington Post
On ‘Period,' the old Kesha is back. Again.
Kesha burst onto the music scene with a distinctive brand of blunt, electrifying pop that seemed designed to take the dance floor by sheer force. Then came the genre-hopping. It's nothing new for a pop star to pivot. Claiming maturity, sonic growth or the need to express something raw, musicians from Beyoncé to Lana Del Rey to Post Malone have recently asserted their indie, country or rock bona fides. It's rare for these pivots to go off without a hitch. For Kesha, a string of such sonic shifts have led to 'Period,' a semitransparent bid for yet another career reset. 'Period' is particularly confounding after 2023's 'Gag Order,' on which Kesha abandoned her party girl persona and reinvented herself as a purveyor of haunting, minimalist art pop. (Her earlier surprises include dabbling in rock on 2012's 'Warrior' and a collaboration with Dolly Parton on 2017's 'Rainbow.') The guttural, Rick Rubin-produced album marked Kesha's furthest jump from the Obama-era electropop that made her famous. It also marked the end of her association with former producer Dr. Luke, with whom she had been embroiled in a years-long defamation lawsuit, and his Kemosabe Records. Her first release on the newly founded Kesha Records, 'Period' seemed poised to get back to massive-sounding pop, with help from some of the producers behind recent smashes 'Brat' and 'Renaissance.' Instead the scattered, occasionally enthralling effort raises an awkward question: What happens when your influence is all over today's pop, but you don't have anything new to say? When 'Joyride,' the lead single for 'Period,' arrived last July, we were in the thick of 'Brat' summer. Kesha can confidently claim to be proto-' Brat,' but she still struggled to keep up with Charli XCX when adding a verse to the remix of 'Spring Breakers' this past fall. 'Joyride' thankfully isn't an attempt to blend in with the pop of the moment — just look at its strange klezmer-hyperpop instrumental. It does fall apart, though, when Kesha announces 'I am mother' in the second verse. The other explosive songs on 'Period' are stronger, especially when Kesha leans into the slapstick of seduction. Decorated with New Order-esque kick drums, the so-wrong-its-right narrative of 'Red Flag' thrills when Kesha's speak-singing recalls her breakthrough hits. With its bubbly keys and chirping vocal filters, the song's exuberant bridge could have been lifted from peak-era Black Eyed Peas or Addison Rae's latest. Before whispering that she's going to 'Eat 'em up like amuse-bouche,' Kesha ups the tempo on 'Boy Crazy,' a similarly bouncy, carefree anthem. Although advertised as a return to form, 'Period' is strikingly low on club-ready sing-alongs. Recent single 'Yippee-Ki-Yay' turns Kesha's long-standing interest in country music into a Shaboozey-like abomination. And she retreats to self-help clichés ('I've got a soul nobody can break') on 'The One,' over horns shrill enough to grace one of Jason Derulo's hits. Most frustrating is how headachingly loud the programmed percussion is across the album, often threatening to overwhelm whatever bland sentiment arrives in the lyrics. Despite those missteps, Kesha manages to chart at least one fresh path back to the party. She sounds firmly at home on the opener, 'Freedom,' which begins with a slap bass part and erupts into an unexpected hook featuring an inspiring gospel choir. With slinky pianos and Kesha's devious delivery of lines such as 'I only drink when I'm happy/ And I'm drunk right now,' it eventually wanders into house territory, a new destination for Kesha. As the only 'Period' song produced by frequent Father John Misty collaborators Jonathan Wilson and Drew Erickson, 'Freedom' rings like an opportunity. When it's time for Kesha's next pivot, she knows who to call.
Gulf Weekly
03-07-2025
- Entertainment
- Gulf Weekly
Creating safe spaces
American pop singer Kesha's new album Period releases tomorrow, July 4. This is the singer's first independent album release through her label Kesha Records since ending her legal battle with former collaborator and producer Dr Luke, followed by her departure from his label Kemosabe Records in 2023. It marked the end of a long chapter of her career where she was allegedly stuck in an 'unsafe and restricting environment', both mentally and artistically. In an interview, Kesha said that with the new project she finally felt free – both creatively and legally. She added that her goal, while making the new music, was to create a safe space for people to feel embodied and liberated, signified through the first track titled Freedom as well as the release date on July 4, which marks the United States' Independence Day. The singer's first independently released single off the album, Joyride, was also released on last year's Independence Day. 'I'm really trying to embody freedom in every way possible. I'm trying to allow myself to feel what freedom feels like, because it's been almost 20 years (in the industry) for me,' the 38-year-old explained. 'Freedom, by definition, is the power and the right to act and speak and think as you want to without any restraint. And it's terrifying for me to really embody full freedom, because it's the act of really embodying who you are to the fullest. And to really feel that, it starts with safety. So, that's why creating safe spaces has been my number-one objective,' she added. Born Kesha Rose Sebert, the pop sensation was encouraged by her singer/songwriter mother Patricia 'Pepe' Sebert to pursue singing after she noticed her daughter's talent. The Grammy-nominated artist earned a near-perfect score on her SAT (Scholastic Assessment Test) and was offered a scholarship to Barnard College. However, she decided to pursue her musical career instead.
