Kesha is filled with ‘gratitude’ over the feedback she has received from her latest single.
The We R Who We R hitmaker, 37 — who was recently spotted during a West Hollywood shopping spree — unveiled Joyride on July 4 and is delighted people have responded so well to the track as it represents her finding her freedom.
It comes six months after her decade-long legal battle with producer Dr Luke came to an end.
The song stands as the first offering from her own Kesha Records after the singer left her previous label Kemosabe in December.
When asked of the response to Joyride she told Forbes: ‘Like the most gratitude, happiness – I feel free for the first time since I was 18 years old and I so appreciate every single person that has streamed it, and I love the videos that are being made.’
Kesha is filled with ‘gratitude’ over the feedback she has received from her latest single Joyride; seen in 2024
‘I’ve spent almost 10 years in litigation and millions of dollars in legal fees. This joy has been hard-fought for me, so I love that people are ready to Joyride with me,’ she told the outlet.
Back in October 2014, Kesha filed a lawsuit against Dr. Luke (born Łukasz Sebastian Gottwald), 50, that included numerous allegations including sexual harassment, sex-based hate crime and employment discrimination.
The singer and producer fired several other lawsuits back and forth until they finally came to a settlement in June 2023.
The Praying singer told Forbes that she has always found songwriting helpful when it comes to working through her emotions and ‘processing life.’
She shared: ‘I started writing songs to deal with my emotions. I’m a highly sensitive person – I’m a triple Pisces, so these emotions come up very intensely and people can do a lot of things with them.
‘If you feel rage, people can people go bash a window of a car, but for me, if I feel rage, I take it to the studio and I currently surround myself with incredibly safe people that help me take my emotion and we alchemize it into song.
‘So, it’s become the way I process life and the beautiful part of writing music or making any art of any kind is that you get to process something in, hopefully, a safe way,’ she added.
And Kesha loves that what she has created as an artist can go on to help others.
She gushed: ‘Once it has come out of your body and onto the page or into the microphone, if you choose to share it, that healing that you experience, then can possibly help to heal other people.
She told Forbes: ‘Like the most gratitude, happiness – I feel free for the first time since I was 18 years old’; seen in 2024
It comes six months after her decade-long legal battle with producer Dr Luke came to an end; Kesha and Dr. Luke seen in 2011
‘I’ve spent almost 10 years in litigation and millions of dollars in legal fees. This joy has been hard-fought for me, so I love that people are ready to Joyride with me,’ she told the outlet; seen in May 2024
‘The reason music relates globally is because we’re all just talking about our emotions and it humanizes all of us. You see yourself in a song,’ she continued.
Kesha added of the impact of music: ‘You see an emotion that you have in a song – it’s relational, it’s connective – and it’s for me, very spiritual because I believe we’re all one and music is one of the most beautiful ways to feel that.
‘We’re all connecting to the same human emotion because we really are all connected,’ she finished.
The Grammy winning singer’s last album, Gag Order, was released in 2023.
Joyride marks the leads single to the hitmaker’s sixth studio album, with a release date yet to be announced.
