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Kesha Has Submitted 22 New Songs to RCA
http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2...luke.html?_r=0
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Over the last two months, I was given information that you are given when you work at a major magazine whose story stands to influence the situation. Kesha was provided with outside producers, Sony told me just days before this went to press, and Kesha and Kemosabe had agreed to work with about a dozen of them. Sony said it “has made it possible for Kesha to record without any connection, involvement or interaction with Luke whatsoever.” But a day later, representatives for Kesha told me that wasn’t the case, saying, “Dr. Luke has insisted Sony’s participation is just an ‘accommodation’ and has not denied that all decisions regarding the album are still being made by Dr. Luke.” Luke’s lawyer told me that Luke is looking forward to seeing his name cleared in court. His lawyer says that Kesha has always been welcome to record and can be in a recording studio as early as this week. But if you were to create a spectrum of emotional experience, you’d find that Luke v. Kesha sits on the opposite end of where we sit when we want to listen to a pop song. Their old music already sounds distorted and spoiled to me. The only thing we know for sure is that this case will forever define both of them, and that while it’s going on, the world doesn’t get to see this new side of Kesha. The only thing we know for sure is that even if it is ever resolved, this story is forever.At last, I was able to hear four of Kesha’s new songs. I went to an office in Manhattan and sat in a room and listened while two of her representatives looked on. Kesha told me that when the inspiration hits her with a song — a lyric, a hook, a melody, anything — she is struck dumb with it until she puts it down on paper, that the inspiration itself feels like a divine act. I heard “Hunt You Down,” which was a real country song with banjo and some real country sentiments: “If you [expletive] around, I’ll hunt you down.” I heard “Learn to Let It Go,” which sounded like something you’d hear in heavy rotation on radio with Kesha’s beautiful, low voice singing that a happy ending is up to you. I heard “Rosé,” a toast to an old boyfriend who has married. “The good things never last,” she sings.But the song I want to tell you about most is “Rainbow.” If it ever emerges from private listenings, it will be your favorite Kesha song. It’s big and sweeping, and you can hear every instrument that Ben Folds and his associates played — it does recall a Beach Boys vibe, just as she wanted it to. And as Folds said, the way she sings the song is so rich and so real that it jerks you out of your expectation of a pop song. “I found a rainbow, rainbow, baby,” she sings. “Trust me, I know life is scary, but just put those colors on, girl, and come and paint the world with me tonight.” In the final section, her voice becomes stronger and more strained, and the effect is devastating. I asked to hear it three more times.
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