Live for the Mercedes-Benz interview lounge

Kesha is here. Hi Kesha. Oh

Gag order. Oh, maybe not. Hold on a second. Oh, let me look at my thing. No 19. No 19. Mm-hmm. Oh

So can we play some of the songs anyway? I mean I'm fine with that

You know our favorite artist coming there. Oh god this new album. Here's a song you can play

But we have 15 others you're gonna love even more. I'm like, well, let me hear them. No, we can't let you do that

I can play one song. You can play whatever you want. This is Kesha Day. Okay, Kesha Day

It's Kesha Day. Wait, can I ask a question? Why do artists get upset if a song leaked early in my mind

It's just isn't that just like better promotion for you. Honestly for me sometimes the leaked songs aren't the final product

So I take in the song and we call it dressing it up

So you can dress it up in so many different kinds of clothes

You can dress it up in big pop banger clothes or you slow it down

Bring it down and octave and then it's like a miserable ballad

So songs that are leaked

They're not their final like it's not the final outfit. Okay

So you just want people to see it and it's final outfit at least for me now. We know we've been we've been taught by Kesha

Well gag order by the way, I've heard is the product of many things

Personal in your life. Oh very very personal including you getting in and out of COVID. Yep. Where were you in the world at that time

And what how was your head? How was your head space?

Terrible

Horrible. I had just put out my album like right before this all had happened and then obviously we collectively all had much bigger issues to deal with and

Had the spiritual experience when I couldn't sleep and my cat brought me my headphones to meditate

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