Why kesha is awful

Behind the scenes, Kesha has always been thoughtful, intelligent, and proactive about her beliefs. She revealed to Out in that she "wouldn't say I'm gay or straight I do it on purpose.

Until Rainbow. Of course, she's not completely blameless in that public misconception. Prior to the lawsuit, as the New York Times interview shows, Kesha embraced the criticism and her public image. But Rainbow is the kind of album that she has wanted to make for a while, and she's said that, too.

In , Kesha allegedly posted a since-deleted tweet that she was "forced" to sing the controversial lyrics to "Die Young," before clarifying in a blog post on her website that "forced is not the right word" though she did "have some concerns" about the phrase.

This led fans to launch the initial "Free Kesha" campaign to give Kesha the creative control they believed that she allegedly lacked. Weaving elements of country, gospel and guitar pop into its fierce empowerment anthems, the album bristled with defiance. It quite rightly received rave reviews.

She did make it through. And on High Road , she decided to celebrate that. It was designed to evoke a joyous, drunken singalong. That was intentional. Do people often underestimate her?

Hopefully, tides are changing. After two albums as executive producer, Kesha finally feels that she has a team who respect her. She cannot trust her president, though. I never understood, until now, the importance of pop music as a beautiful way to escape.

High Road , she says, has reminded her what joy feels like. It was the first No. After securing a publishing deal, Pebe relocated the family to Nashville, often taking Kesha and her brothers to recording studios.

The family was poor, surviving for many years on food stamps and welfare. Years later, Entertainment Weekly asked Kesha whether she still hung out with the socialites. Despite her public reputation for being bone-headed, Kesha was smart, at least by conventional metrics. In high school, she was an International Baccalaureate student who loved physics and math and had a reported SAT score of She was set to attend Barnard College on scholarship, to study comparative religion and psychology.

Then Lukasz Gottwald called. Known professionally as Dr. This was the middle of Simple Life filming. She was She did. Once she made it there, in , Luke left her to her own devices. She waitressed. She lived out of her car for a while. She took modest gigs supporting other artists, writing songs for the Veronicas and singing backing vocals for Paris Hilton and Britney Spears.

Other record labels wanted to sign her, but deals fell through because of her contractual ties to Dr. After four years in limbo, Dr.