Kesha dropped a brand new country-pop single “Yippee-Ki-Yay” with T-Ache on Thursday, the third single off her upcoming sixth album, which she eventually revealed on Thursday will likely be titled . (Interval, the punctuation mark).
“Yippee-Ki-Yay” follows “Joyride” and “Delusional,” each of which dropped final 12 months, and it unites two of the extra iconic voices of the late aughts/early 2010s pop sound. The monitor was produced by Pink Slip and Nova Wav and marks the most recent in nation sounds making their means into the pop music sector the style has surged lately. Nonetheless, it’s in no way far-removed for T-Ache, who’d beforehand spoken to The Hollywood Reporter about ghostwriting nation songs.
Kesha had been teasing a brand new album in current weeks, updating the album artwork on all her earlier albums to have large pink circles overlaying a lot of the unique artwork.
Interval will launch on July 4, Independence Day, an apt drop date as Interval marks Kesha’s first album as an impartial artist after releasing her first 5 albums via RCA Data and producer Dr. Luke’s Kemosabe Data.
She’d been in a bitter decade-long authorized dispute with Luke, actual identify Lukasz Gottwald, for years after accusing him of sexual assault and suing the producer, whereas he denied the allegations and filed a defamation swimsuit of his personal. They settled in 2023, with Kesha saying in a press release on the time that she was “wanting ahead to closing the door on this chapter of my life and starting a brand new one.”
2023’s Gag Order was her last album with RCA and Kemosabe, and final 12 months she introduced her personal label Kesha Data, launched via Warner Music Group’s impartial distribution and label companies arm ADA.
“My identify has change into synonymous with transparency, integrity, and security, and I wish to be certain that these values are upheld for myself and any future artists signed to my label,” Kesha mentioned on the time. “Music has the facility to attach the world, and I aspire for my work to be a beacon of sunshine and goodness. I’m excited to take management of my narrative and rewrite my story within the music enterprise.”