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Kesha, now free from working with Dr. Luke: “It feels good to be exactly who I am and not ask anybody else’s permission. I’m a free motherfucking woman. Let’s party'

After 15 years of singles, “I wanted to remind myself who the fuck I am.”

This summer,following a lengthy legal battle against her former producer Dr. Luke — whom she accused of sexual assault in 2013 — the singer-songwriter dropped “Joy Ride,” her first single as an independent artist under her newly established label, Kesha Records. There was a horrible tragedy in our country, the Sandy Hook shooting, and that solidified my fears that this song was in fact as inappropriately titled as I had felt. So the morning after I had this insane spiritual experience, I wrote “Eat the Acid” on Zoom with my mom and one of my longtime collaborators, Stuart Crichton.

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