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With her legal battle with producer Dr Luke behind her, Kesha lets her music do the talking on Period: a kitschy, catchy album of pop, dance and country. And Adrian Thrills says it's a fresh start for the singer who once brushed her teeth with Jack Daniels
Titled after the American English word for full stop (and stylised as a pink dot on the album sleeve), the new LP is a return to the carefree Kesha of old: with humorous lyrics and a love of the trash aesthetic.
Titled after the American English word for full stop (and stylised as a pink dot on the album sleeve), Period is a return to the carefree Kesha of old: an effervescent blend of pop, dance and country, spiced up with humorous lyrics and a love of the trash aesthetic. ‘I only drink when I’m happy, and I’m drunk right now,’ she sings on Freedom, showing off her impressive vocal range on a six-minute track that starts with jazz piano and a choral chant before taking wing as a playful house music workout powered by an unlikely collaborator in Roger Waters’ guitarist Jonathan Wilson. Elsewhere, she adds sauce – ‘Rev my engine ‘til you make it purr’ – on racy Euro-pop number Joyride, before turning to her Tennessee roots on Yippee-Ki-Yay, which combines loping dance grooves and country in a similar fashion to Shaboozey’s 2024 mega-hit A Bar Song (Tipsy).
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