Kesha has launched her first impartial single after parting methods with producer Dr. Luke’s report label.
The Tik Tok singer celebrated America’s Independence Day on Thursday by dropping Joyride, a monitor she debuted at Brooklyn’s Planet Delight over the weekend.
Joyride marks a return to her earlier digital pop sound, paying homage to songs like We R Who We R and Tik Tok.
The monitor references the 2004 teen basic Imply Women with the lyrics, “Get in, loser, for the joyride,” and the quotable phrases, “You need children? Effectively I’m mom.”
Earlier than the monitor dropped, Kesha informed her X followers, “I could not have made it by way of with out all of you. now we joyride.”
She celebrated its launch on Instagram by posting a video of her singing alongside to the tune in a dressing room with drag queens. After the monitor ended, she screamed and informed her followers, “I like you.”
Joyride marks Kesha’s first launch as an impartial artist following her departure from Dr. Luke’s Kemosabe Data following a prolonged authorized battle.
Kesha sued Dr. Luke, actual title Lukasz Gottwald, in 2014, claiming that the music producer had drugged and sexually assaulted her in 2005, and he responded by suing her for defamation. He claimed Kesha fabricated her allegations to get out of her recording contract.
After a nine-year authorized battle, they settled the case out of court docket in June 2023, with Kesha saying on the time, “I’m trying ahead to closing the door on this chapter of my life and starting a brand new one. I want nothing however peace to all events concerned.”
The 37-year-old was launched from her Kemosabe report deal in December 2023, months after dropping her ultimate contractual album Gag Order. Nonetheless, she famous in February that she wasn’t free to launch new music till a sure date.
