Kesha Feels Like A ‘Free F–king Lady’ Having Her Personal Report Label

When sitting down with Kelly Clarkson on The Kelly Clarkson Present, the “TiK ToK” singer revealed that “it feels so f–king good to be a free lady” now that she has her personal report label, Kesha Data, and is ready to launch her personal music.

The artists bonded over their shared expertise of leaving their report labels behind and launching their very own.

“We have labored with comparable folks and vibes,” Clarkson mentioned. “I would ask you the query of why you began your label however I do know the reply.”

When requested if she goes to signal different artists together with her report label, Kesha mentioned that is undoubtedly occurring, however she’s beginning first together with her personal subsequent album.

“My first launch is . [Period],” the 38-year-old mentioned of her upcoming punctuation mark-titled 11-track album that comes out on July 4.

Then, Kesha shared that the label’s first album by one other artist will truly be her mother’s album that she recorded within the ’80s.

“Oh my gosh, it is so sick,” she described. “It is sort of like Kate Bush, Speaking Heads, Cindy Lauper, it is so cool.”

She acknowledged her mom’s affect on her profession saying, “She taught me the right way to write songs,” as she pointed to her mom within the viewers.

“Y’all write collectively!.” Clarkson added, marveling that they have been in a position to talk so properly. “Individuals go to remedy as mom and daughter to speak to one another and y’all are like writing collectively.”

“We write songs at one another,” Kesha replied jokingly, with Kelly including, “It is the way you talk.”

“It is superior, everybody’s gonna freak out,” Kesha added about her mother’s unreleased album, with Kelly saying that it sounds just like the vibe that everybody is popping again to nowadays.

The “Die Younger” singer mentioned she can be feeling excited for future artists, whereas hoping to reshape how the trade interacts with them.

“I actually need to make a brand new panorama of what the music enterprise can really feel like for artists, I believe it is essential,” she defined.

Kesha additionally shared her pleasure for her new app that’s at the moment a piece in progress.

“I am engaged on an app the place folks might join and in the event you play any sort of music, then you’ll be able to evaluate notes, you’ll be able to collaborate. It is only a place the place you’ll be able to join,” Kesha mentioned. “There aren’t any contracts, there is not any proudly owning of anybody in perpetuity within the universe, that does not exist on this app.”

Whereas she did not title names, Kesha might have been alluding to her highly-publicized allegations in opposition to her earlier producer, Dr. Luke, and the lengthy, authorized battle she underwent to regain management of her profession.

In 2014, Kesha filed a civil lawsuit in opposition to music producer Dr. Luke (actual title Lukasz Gottwald), claiming he abused her “bodily, sexually, verbally and emotionally over a 10-year interval”. Denying the allegations, he sued her for defamation and breach of contract within the quantity of $50 million.

In 2016, Kesha dropped the abuse claims. In the meantime, Gottwald’s swimsuit remains to be pending a courtroom date. In 2019, the Los Angeles native mentioned her attorneys suggested her not to talk about the lawsuit.

“They’re identical to, ‘Deal with the music, focus in your happiness and psychological well being, and we’ll cope with this.’ Doing that has been significantly useful,” she relayed to Billboard on the time.

That focus allowed Kesha to get again to her catchy pop tune roots, like when she gained over followers together with her debut 2010 album Animal and her breakout hit “Tik Tok,” adopted later by her extra emotionally impactful 2017 album, Rainbow, and its breakout hit, “Praying,” which many consider was about Dr. Luke.

“I dug via the emotional wreckage, and now… I can return to speaking a bit little bit of s–t,” Kesha advised Billboard in 2019. “I actually wished to place a strong footprint again into pop music, like, ‘I can do that, and I can do that by myself.'”

Kesha went on to drop two extra albums after Rainbow, together with Excessive Highway (2020) and her Gag Order (2023). These releases fulfilled her contractual obligations to RCA Data and Dr. Luke’s label, Kemosabe, liberating her to forge forward together with her personal label and forthcoming album launch.