{"id":3428,"date":"2025-07-05T20:17:22","date_gmt":"2025-07-05T20:17:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/kesha-period-album-listen-1236013957\/"},"modified":"2025-07-05T20:17:22","modified_gmt":"2025-07-05T20:17:22","slug":"kesha-period-album-listen-1236013957","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/kesha-period-album-listen-1236013957\/","title":{"rendered":"Kesha Is Finally Free on First Independent Album \u2018Period\u2019: Stream It\u00a0Now"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><!-- do not apply CSS styles to this element! --><\/p>\n<div class=\"pmc-paywall\">\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\t<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/artist\/kesha\/\">Kesha<\/a> is a free artist at last \u2014 period. <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tAfter years of working toward this moment, the singer-songwriter has dropped her first-ever independent LP, <em>. (Period)<\/em>, featuring 11 fun-fueled pop tracks. Led by singles \u201cJoyride,\u201d \u201cYippee-Ki-Yay,\u201d \u201cDelusional,\u201d \u201cThe One\u201d and \u201cBoy Crazy,\u201d the project marks her first full-length release under her own Kesha Records.<\/p>\n<div class=\"injected-related-story \/\/ lrv-u-margin-tb-2 lrv-u-border-t-1 lrv-u-border-b-1 lrv-u-padding-t-050 lrv-u-padding-b-075 lrv-u-border-color-grey\">\n<div class=\"a-heading-border a-heading-border-background-color-grey a-heading-border-height-075 lrv-u-margin-b-075 lrv-u-margin-b-050@mobile-max\">\n<h3 id=\"title-of-a-story\" class=\"c-title  lrv-u-color-brand-primary a-font-primary-bold-s lrv-u-text-transform-uppercase lrv-u-padding-r-1 a-article-related-module-title a-article-related-module-title--color-brand-primary\">\n<p>\t\t\t\t\tRelated\t\t<\/p>\n<\/h3><\/div>\n<div class=\"o-card lrv-u-flex\">\n<p>\t\t\t<a tabindex=\"0\" href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/music\/pop\/kesha-period-new-album-reclaiming-joy-1236013540\/\" class=\"lrv-u-flex lrv-a-unstyle-link lrv-u-color-brand-primary:hover\"><\/p>\n<div class=\"o-card__image-wrap lrv-u-flex-shrink-0 u-flex-basis-144 u-flex-basis-96@mobile-max\">\n<div class=\"c-lazy-image  lrv-u-height-100p\">\n<div class=\"a-crop-3x2 a-crop-1x1@mobile-max lrv-u-height-100p\">\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"c-lazy-image__img lrv-u-background-color-grey-lightest lrv-u-width-100p lrv-u-display-block lrv-u-height-auto\" src=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Kesha-cr-Brendan-Walter-01-2025-billboard-1548.jpg?crop=324px%2C174px%2C878px%2C544px&amp;resize=237%2C147\" data-lazy-src=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Kesha-cr-Brendan-Walter-01-2025-billboard-1548.jpg?crop=324px%2C174px%2C878px%2C544px&amp;resize=237%2C147\" alt=\"Kesha\" data-lazy-srcset=\"\" data-lazy-sizes=\"\" height=\"\" width=\"\"><\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"o-card__content lrv-u-flex lrv-u-flex-direction-column lrv-u-justify-content-center lrv-u-padding-lr-1 lrv-u-padding-lr-075@mobile-max\">\n<div class=\"o_category \">\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<div class=\"c_title \">\n<h3 id=\"title-of-a-story\" class=\"c-title  a-font-primary-medium-m lrv-u-padding-b-050 u-letter-spacing-0028@mobile-max\">\n<p>\t\t\t\t\tKesha Will Not Squander Her Second Act: &#8216;I Waited for This Moment My Entire Goddamn\u00a0Life&#8217;\t\t<\/p>\n<\/h3><\/div>\n<p><time class=\"c-timestamp  a-font-primary-medium-xxs lrv-u-color-brand-primary lrv-u-order-100\" datetime=\"00:00-YY-DD-MM\"><br \/>\n\t07\/03\/2025<br \/>\n<\/time><\/p><\/div>\n<p>\t\t<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tLeading up to the album\u2019s release on Friday (July 4), Kesha has been open about how emotional and empowering the process of assuming control over her own artistry has been. Prior to <em>. (Period)<\/em>, she was under contract to Kemosabe Records, despite her yearslong legal battle with label owner Dr. Luke, whom she accused of drugging her and raping her at a 2005 party in 2014. The producer has always vehemently denied the allegations, and the two parties <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/business\/legal\/kesha-dr-luke-settle-defamation-lawsuit-statements-1235359885\/\">reached a settlement <\/a>in 2023.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tIn March 2024, Kesha was finally released from her deal with Kemosabe. With her first album since, the artist says she feels like she\u2019s experiencing a \u201chomecoming,\u201d as she told <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/music\/pop\/kesha-period-new-album-reclaiming-joy-1236013540\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Billboard<\/a> <\/em>in a recent interview. <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\t\u201cI really do feel like it\u2019s been a homecoming in a lot of ways \u2014 not only legally, to the rights of my voice, but to letting go of that internalized shame, of letting all that go and coming home to my own body, my joy, myself,\u201d Kesha said. \u201cAnd part of that has been healing my relationship with the records that I\u2019ve put out that were difficult to make \u2014 that were perceived in a way that wasn\u2019t the way I intended, that were tied to events that I don\u2019t stand for.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\t<em>. (Period) <\/em>marks Kesha\u2019s sixth studio album, and her first since 2023\u2019s <em>Gag Order<\/em>. She\u2019s scored four top 10 albums on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/charts\/billboard-200\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Billboard 200<\/a> over the course of her career, including No. 1 hits <em>Animal <\/em>(2010) and <em>Rainbow <\/em>(2017).<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tStream Kesha\u2019s <em>. 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