Kesha Channels Emotion into ‘Only Love Can Save Us Now’ Performance – Rolling Stone

Kesha showcased her latest track “Solely Love Can Save Us Now” in a video efficiency for Vevo. Accompanied by a pair of musicians, Kesha carried out the fast-talking monitor, which seems on her new album Gag Order, in an oblong room with flickering lights, giving it a punk aptitude.

“I’ve had an awesome dichotomy of feelings, oscillating between ache and love. Chaos and love. Worry and love,” Kesha mentioned in an announcement. “I wished my track ‘Solely Love Can Save Us Now’ to sonically, lyrically, and emotionally replicate the severity of my psychological pendulum swings. The world is so overwhelming generally. It requires a second of give up. The ludicrosity of life could make you loopy. If something, if something, can save us, I consider solely love can. This track is a determined and indignant prayer. A name to the sunshine when all feels misplaced.”

Kesha recorded Gag Order, her fifth studio LP, with producer Rick Rubin. The album marks her first since 2020’s Excessive Street.

“I really feel like I’m giving delivery to essentially the most intimate factor I’ve ever created,” the singer advised Rolling Stone of the album, launched earlier this month. I actually dug into a few of my uglier feelings and sides of myself which might be much less enjoyable. It’s scary being weak. The truth that I’ve compiled a whole report of those feelings, of anger, of insecurity, of tension, of grief, of ache, of remorse, all of that’s so nerve-racking — however it’s additionally so therapeutic.”

On the album, Kesha vaguely addresses her ongoing authorized scenario with Dr. Luke. (Kesha has accused the producer, actual title Lukasz Gottwald, of sexual, bodily, and emotional abuse; he has denied the allegations, and his defamation go well with towards Kesha is about to go to trial this summer time.) Whereas she’s not allowed to debate the problem instantly, she advised Rolling Stone that the LP’s title sums up how she feels.

“I really feel as if there was an implied gag order for a really very long time now,” Kesha famous. “With my ongoing litigation hanging over my head, I’ve not been in a position to communicate freely as a result of I do know all the pieces I say is scrutinized.”

In 2020, Kesha carried out her songs “Elevating Hell” and “Resentment” for Vevo.