Kesha says new album ‘Gag Order’ is “really intimate” as she shares “a lot of ugly emotions”

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Kesha has spoken about her upcoming album ‘Gag Order’, saying that she shares “a lot of ugly emotions” in it.Due for release May 19, the follow-up to 2020’s ‘High Road’ sees the singer work with Rick Rubin on the “anti-pop” record.“An artist doesn’t exist to make others happy.

I believe an artist gives voice, motion, colour to the emotions we all have. The good emotions, and the unmanageably fucking miserable ones,” Kesha said when the album was announced last month.So far, two tracks from ‘Gag Order’ have been released:  ‘Eat The Acid’ and ‘Fine Line’.

Both songs allude to the singer’s public struggles including her legal battle with producer Dr Luke.A post shared by Kesha (@iiswhoiis)In a new interview with The Guardian Kesha explained that “with this album I actually got to get really intimate and expose the sides of myself that I’m not the most proud of”.“The ones that I want to never talk about, that I never want to share with the greater public.

The ones that are more scary, and more vulnerable, and more insecure. I share a lot of ugly emotions on this album,” she continued.Kesha went on to say that at the start of the recording process she would walk into the studio and “for approximately two hours I would cry” while Rubin would just “create space”.“He never once asked me to stop crying, or to get it together.