{"id":491491,"date":"2019-10-21T09:59:09","date_gmt":"2019-10-21T15:59:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=901577"},"modified":"2019-10-21T09:59:09","modified_gmt":"2019-10-21T15:59:09","slug":"kesha-drops-trailer-for-upcoming-album-high-road","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/music-news\/kesha-drops-trailer-for-upcoming-album-high-road\/","title":{"rendered":"Kesha Drops Trailer for Upcoming Album \u2018High Road\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Kesha.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/kesha\/\">Kesha<\/a> has announced a new studio album,&nbsp;<em>High Road<\/em>, in a fiery <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/trailer\/\" id=\"auto-tag_trailer\" data-tag=\"trailer\">trailer<\/a> released Monday. This will be her first album since 2017\u2019s <em>Rainbow<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Intercut with footage that\u2019s made to look like a vintage travelogue, Kesha explains in a sit-down interview what we should expect from her next album. \u201cI\u2019ve seen the light: life is like driving across the country in a pretty small Astrovan, with your whole family in it, for 90 years,\u201d she says. \u201cBecause I think life is a vacation from where we go when we die.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In a statement to <em>Rolling Stone<\/em>, Kesha expanded on how the process of making <em>High Road<\/em> was different from that of <em>Rainbow<\/em>: \u201cI feel like this time around I reconnected to the unrestrained joy and wildness that\u2019s always been a part of me \u2014 and in this process I have had the most fun I\u2019ve ever had making a record. I hope my fans love it as much as I loved making it \u2014 and know I always have y\u2019all in mind.\u201d<\/p>\n<p> <!-- .l-article-content__pull--left --> <\/p>\n<p>She continued, \u201cOn the last record, I feel like I had to address some very serious things, and now this time around I have reclaimed my love of life. To quote one of my favorite songs of all time I\u2019ve decided to \u2018fight for my right to party!\u2019 On my own terms. I won\u2019t be defined by my past, but I will learn from it. I am so happy, and I hope that happiness is infectious.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The trailer includes audio snippets of songs from the upcoming record, as well as clips that look like they could be from upcoming Kesha music videos. One segment features the pop star dressed as a pink skirt suit-wearing televangelist, another shows her parading down a supermarket aisle filled with nondescript \u201cMagic Cereal.\u201d She later encounters an homage to the twins from <em>The Shining<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>The teaser also includes segments of Kesha\u2019s video for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/kesha-previews-first-new-album-in-five-years-with-triumphant-song-praying-198233\/\">\u201cPraying,\u201d<\/a> the lead single from <em>Rainbow<\/em> that directly addressed her legal battle with her former producer Dr. Luke, who she has accused of sexual assault, battery and emotional abuse.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen I wrote <em>Rainbow,<\/em> I was in a very different headspace,\u201d she says. \u201cI had to address some very serious things.\u201d Over footage of her in the studio working on <em>High Road<\/em>, Kesha continues, \u201cBut now, on my new record, I revisit my roots of pure and utter debaucherous joy. Kesha got her balls back, and they\u2019re bigger than ever. So have a good time while you\u2019re on this road trip from Hell.\u201d The trailer ends with footage of a Kesha-shaped candle played in reverse, building itself back up from melted wax.<\/p>\n<p>Kesha\u2019s last music release was the biting song <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/kesha-rids-the-world-of-rich-white-straight-men-on-new-track-844010\/\">\u201cRich, White, Straight Men,\u201d<\/a> released this past June. She remains locked in a legal battle with Dr. Luke, stemming from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/kesha-sues-producer-dr-luke-for-sexual-assault-and-battery-238171\/\">the 2014 suit<\/a> she filed against the producer; while she no longer works directly with him on music, she is still signed to his label, Kemosabe.<\/p>\n<p>This month, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/imagine-dragons\/\">Imagine Dragons<\/a> frontman Dan Reynolds <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/imagine-dragons-dan-reynolds-dr-luke-boycott-kesha-897890\/\">called on other musicians<\/a> to stop working with Dr. Luke until he drops his lawsuit against Kesha and releases her from her contract with Kemosabe.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/kesha-high-road-trailer-901577\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: Rolling Stone<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kesha has announced a new studio album,&nbsp;High Road, in a fiery trailer released Monday. This will be her first album since 2017\u2019s Rainbow. Intercut with footage that\u2019s made to look like a vintage travelogue, Kesha explains in a sit-down interview what we should expect from her next album. \u201cI\u2019ve seen the light: life is like [&hellip;]<\/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":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-491491","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-music-news"],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-08-22 02:42:17","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":"KQZR - The Reel","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/491491","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=491491"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/491491\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=491491"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=491491"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=491491"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}