{"id":38923,"date":"2025-07-08T12:08:55","date_gmt":"2025-07-08T12:08:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/2025\/07\/08\/kesha-reflects-on-losing-her-voice-during-dr-luke-legal-battle\/"},"modified":"2025-07-08T12:08:55","modified_gmt":"2025-07-08T12:08:55","slug":"kesha-reflects-on-losing-her-voice-during-dr-luke-legal-battle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/2025\/07\/08\/kesha-reflects-on-losing-her-voice-during-dr-luke-legal-battle\/","title":{"rendered":"Kesha Reflects on Losing Her Voice During Dr. Luke Legal Battle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\tFor the duration of her <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/kesha-dr-luke-lawsuit-settlement-explained-1234776395\/\">years-long legal battle<\/a> with Dr. Luke, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/kesha\/\" id=\"auto-tag_kesha\" data-tag=\"kesha\">Kesha<\/a> lived in two separate realities cosplaying as one. In one, she was locked in litigation with the producer, born Lukasz Gottwald, who countersued her for defamation after her lawsuit alleging sexual, physical, and emotional abuse was dismissed largely on the grounds that they were too old. In the other, she was still handing over music to his label Kemosabe Records and performing songs that used her voice \u2014 which she had no legal rights to \u2014 for audiences full of fans and supporters. <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\tDuring her appearance on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/monica-lewinsky\/\" id=\"auto-tag_monica-lewinsky\" data-tag=\"monica-lewinsky\">Monica Lewinsky<\/a>\u2018s podcast <em>Reclaiming<\/em>, which will air in full today, the musician candidly discusses the mental and emotional anguish this dichotomy created within her.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Kesha on Her Journey to Freedom &amp; Healing\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Lpm5eDSE3FU?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\tIn an exclusive clip from the episode, Kesha says, \u201cIn my mind, it just felt like the biggest head fuck of all time.\u201d At the time, Kemosabe Records controlled the promotion, budgets, release, and other factors pertaining to her catalog, which included her first five studio albums from 2010\u2019s <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/kesha-celebrates-animal-15th-anniversary-instagram-1235226405\/\">Animal<\/a> <\/em>through 2023\u2019s <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-album-reviews\/kesha-gag-order-1234736366\/\">Gag Order<\/a><\/em>. \u201cThe recordings of my voice did not legally belong to me in the universe, in perpetuity,\u201d she says. \u201cThe only way I get out of the deal is if I delivered the music, so it it got very weird.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\tKesha admits that the experience is still hard to wrap her head around. \u201cLike, I\u2019m doing the thing I love to do. I\u2019m one of the best in the world at doing it. I have all these amazing fans, they want me to win. I\u2019m doing it,\u201d she says in the clip, \u201cbut it was just such a head fuck \u2026 It still perplexes me because it kind of makes no sense how the legal system could just watch this be happening and be like, \u2018Oh yeah, that\u2019s fine.&#8217;\u201d She says she knew that her fans cared, but at times it was hard to believe that anyone else did.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\t\u201cIt felt inhumane. And then in the middle of it all, it\u2019s like, well go onstage and smile and sing \u2018TikTok,&#8217;\u201d Kesha adds. \u201cAnd I would, because I want my fans to have a beautiful place to connect with each other. But I was dying. I was truly dying inside. And it felt like \u2014 and I know it\u2019s not true \u2014 but at the time it felt like nobody cares. And it was hard and it went a long time, which is all by design and I get that. My heart is probably gonna be ripping open for a very long time. It\u2019s gonna be micro tears to ever get back to where I was.\u201d<\/p>\n<section class=\"brands-most-popular \/\/ recirculation-modules trending-in-article lrv-u-margin-tb-2 lrv-u-border-a-2 u-box-shadow-5-5 lrv-u-padding-lr-1 a-span1 u-padding-b-1@tablet u-overflow-hidden\">\n<h2 id=\"section-heading\" class=\"c-heading larva  lrv-u-text-align-center u-border-color-black a-font-theme-primary-xxs lrv-u-color-black lrv-u-text-transform-uppercase u-letter-spacing-0063 lrv-u-padding-t-050 u-padding-b-0375@tablet lrv-u-padding-b-050@mobile-max lrv-u-border-b-2\">\n<p>\t\tTrending Stories<\/p>\n<\/h2>\n<\/section>\n<section class=\"brands-most-popular \/\/ editors-pick-module lrv-u-margin-tb-2 lrv-u-border-a-2 u-box-shadow-5-5 lrv-u-padding-lr-1 a-span1 u-padding-b-1@tablet u-overflow-hidden\">\n<h2 id=\"section-heading\" class=\"c-heading larva  lrv-u-text-align-center u-border-color-black a-font-theme-primary-xxs lrv-u-color-black lrv-u-text-transform-uppercase u-letter-spacing-0063 lrv-u-padding-t-050 u-padding-b-0375@tablet lrv-u-padding-b-050@mobile-max lrv-u-border-b-2\">\n<p>\t\tEditor\u2019s picks<\/p>\n<\/h2>\n<\/section>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\tThe singer is moving forward with a clean slate, even though her healing process is still taking shape. Last week, she released <em>Period<\/em>, stylized as the punctuation mark (.),\u00a0her first album as an independent artist. For the first time since she was 18 years old, her voice belongs to no one but herself. <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\t\u201cKesha\u2019s taste for pop experimentation is in full flower on<em> (Period.),<\/em> her indie debut well-timed to the long-brewing mainstream break of the hedonistic, neon-hued, kitchen-\u00adsink genre known as hyperpop,\u201d <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-album-reviews\/kesha-period-review-1235377454\/\">Rolling Stone <\/a><\/em>wrote in a review of the record. \u201cBookended by pensive moments, <em>(Period.)<\/em> is a frisky pop record that delights in throwing things at the wall and seeing what sticks \u2014 while also getting a kick out of any mess that might result from a less-than-successful toss.\u201d <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/kesha-reflects-dr-luke-legal-battle-reclaiming-podcast-1235379983\/\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For the duration of her years-long legal battle with Dr. Luke, Kesha lived in two separate realities cosplaying as one. 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