{"id":283905,"date":"2019-11-20T14:10:32","date_gmt":"2019-11-20T21:10:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/b1095414"},"modified":"2019-11-20T14:10:32","modified_gmt":"2019-11-20T21:10:32","slug":"why-kesha-refuses-to-wallow-in-tragedy-amid-dr-luke-legal-battle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/music-news\/why-kesha-refuses-to-wallow-in-tragedy-amid-dr-luke-legal-battle\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Kesha Refuses to Wallow in “Tragedy” Amid Dr. Luke Legal Battle"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Amid a five-year legal battle with Dr. Luke<\/a><\/strong>, Kesha<\/a><\/strong> says she doesn’t “have to sit” in her “tragedy.”<\/p>\n

In 2014, the 32-year-old pop star sued the music producer (real name: Lukasz Gottwald<\/strong>) for alleged sexual assault and battery and also sought to invalidate her recording contracts with him. He denied her claims and filed a $40 million defamation countersuit<\/a>, claiming her accusations were just an attempt to release her from her contract with his Kemosabe label. In 2016, she dropped her sexual misconduct case.<\/p>\n

“I have given myself permission to grab myself by the balls again and be, ‘This is who I am, a happy person,'” Kesha told Q magazine<\/a> <\/em>in the U.K., in an interview published in the outlet’s January 2020 issue. “As long as I stay in the present moment I’m usually good. As soon as I think about the future, the past, it’s not good.”<\/p>\n

Kesha did not mention the lawsuit or Luke explicitly during the interview.<\/p>\n

“There are certain things in life,” she told Q<\/em>. “That you may never get over. But. I don’t have to sit in my tragedy. Because that’s not where I’m at. Right now.”<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n

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“There was a time where I never thought I would know what happiness felt like ever again,” she said. “But I’ve done a lot of therapy on this. I’m allowed to have had bad things happen to me. I’m also allowed to be happy. Because f–k that. I’m alive. Life is short. And I can, although probably never get over it, move on.”<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n

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Marco Vittur \/ Q Magazine<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n

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A New York court recently ruled that Kesha could not countersue Luke<\/a> to try to void their business contracts, marking her third attempt to pursue a such a countersuit. His case against her remains pending.<\/p>\n

Amid their legal battle, Kesha has continued to record and release new music, with Luke’s approval but without working directly with him, and is set to drop a new album, High Road<\/em>, on January 10.<\/p>\n

Kesha said the people she chooses to work with have “become some of my closest friends and most of them are men.”<\/p>\n

“People can change,” she said. “I’m not speaking about sexual assault in this moment, I want to be clear, I’m just saying change is possible. Learn from mistakes you have made, and know it’s not OK to treat people a certain way. And also know it’s OK to stand up and say, ‘I’m not OK with being treated a certain way.'”<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n

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Marco Vittur \/ Q Magazine<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n

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The January 2020 issue of Q<\/em> magazine is on sale now.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n

via:: E! Online<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Amid a five-year legal battle with Dr. Luke, Kesha says she doesn’t “have to sit” in her “tragedy.” In 2014, the 32-year-old pop star sued the music producer (real name: Lukasz Gottwald) for alleged sexual assault and battery and also sought to invalidate her recording contracts with him. He denied her claims and filed a $40 million defamation countersuit, claiming her accusations were just […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[55],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-283905","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-music-news"],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-10-11 06:59:42","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KIDN - The Lift FM","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283905","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=283905"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283905\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=283905"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=283905"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=283905"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}