Artist News

Kesha discusses the pain that inspired new album ‘Rainbow’

By | Published on Monday 14 August 2017

Kesha

Kesha published a short essay about her new album ‘Rainbow’ as it came out on Friday. The singer’s third studio album has been much delayed, of course, because of her multifarious legal battle with one-time collaborator and label boss Dr Luke.

Work on the album began while Kesha was in rehab in early 2014, as she recalls in the post on Refinery29. She writes: “I was in a very dark place. I was alone and scared in rehab for an eating disorder that had gotten wildly out of control. I wasn’t allowed to work or have any technology – no phone, no computer, no texting, no social media. At first, they wouldn’t let me have any kind of instrument either. I begged them to let me have a keyboard – even a toy keyboard. I had so many emotions, and I didn’t know how else to deal with them. Writing songs is the only way I know how to process things”.

She says she “begged and begged”, and eventually they allowed her boyfriend to send her the keyboard. “Every day I sat there on the floor and played”, she goes on. “This is how the song ‘Rainbow’ came to be. The whole album idea and tour and everything, came from me crying and singing and playing and dreaming until my hour was up and they took the keyboard away again. Every day I would just cry and play that song because I knew I had to get through that incredibly hard time. I knew I had to change and learn to take care of and love myself, and I had no idea how to even begin”.

She later adds: “I wanted to call the album ‘Rainbow’ because after the storm, there’s a rainbow – and recently, I feel like I’ve gone through some things that have felt like a storm in my life. This was my way of telling myself that I was going to make it through”.

You can read the full article here.



READ MORE ABOUT: