Keshais reclaiming her voice.
The pop star roared onto the scene 10 years ago, infamously rap-singing about brushing her teeth with a bottle of Jack Daniel’s on her braggadocios breakout hit“TiK ToK.”Tapping into the millennial zeitgeist, she earned a reputation as a wild child, unleashing a string of you-only-live-once party anthems, from“Your Love Is My Drug”to“Blow.”
But the party came to a record-scratching halt in 2014 when the star entered rehab for aneating disorderand sued her producer and record label executive Lukasz “Dr. Luke” Gottwald, 46, alleging he drugged and raped her and emotionally abused her for a decade. (Luke denies the allegations and has countersued for defamation and breach of contract.)
Their bitter lawsuit culminated in a dramatic 2016 hearing in a New York City courthouse, where Keshabroke down in sobsas a judge dismissed her request to be released from her contract with Luke; the judge later went on todismiss Kesha’s claims, and she remains contractually tied to the producer, whose lawsuit is ongoing.
But the turmoil of the past few years is finally in her rear view.
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And so she has.
Kesha made a triumphant return with her 2017 albumRainbow, which earned two Grammy nominations. And now the singer — who is launching her Kesha Rose Beauty makeup line on Nov. 29 — will return to her fun-loving roots with her fourth LP,HighRoad, due out Jan. 10.
For more on Kesha’s new makeup line, Kesha Rose Beauty, and her new album,High Road, pick up the new issue of PEOPLE, on newsstands everywhere Wednesday.
Kesha performing at the 2019 American Music Awards.Kevin Winter/Getty Images
“On the last record, I had a lot of serious things to address,” says Kesha, who gave fans a taste of her new album when Jack Daniel’s celebrated the launch of its new Tennessee Apple whiskey in October. “But now I’m ready to be joyful and happy and make people feel good with songs that capture my love of life, like: Don’t let tomorrow get in the way of having an amazing time today, because you just don’t know how long you have on this earth.”
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“You can be joyous even if you’ve gone through tragedy,” she says.
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Over the past five years, in addition to squaring off with Dr. Luke in court, Kesha (real name: Kesha Rose Sebert) has addressed her struggles with body image and mental health.
“I have little mantras on my mirror, like, ‘You’re the s—’ because my therapist told me to — and it makes me laugh,” she says. “Being full of love and happiness is the point of life — I can’t take myself too seriously.”
source: people.com
