Welcome to the New York Times

pop cast your ongoing litigation of music news. I'm your host Karen Gans.

We were lovers in a past life.

I can see it in your brain eyes.

Maybe you were one of my wives

in a long lost tribe.

There's just something about you I know. Started centuries ago though.

You see your kiss is like a lost ghost.

Only I would know.

You were just hearing past lives by Keshia,

which is a newer somber Kesha song.

I'm here today with Joe Kaskarelli and Taffy Brodesar Aacner to talk about Kesha.

Joe is a cultural reporter at the New York Times and he just wrote a story kind of updating

us on the legal case Keshoe versus versus Dr Luke, and Taffia is a contributing writer for the

New York Times magazine who just wrote a story about Keshia kind of updating us on what

her life is like now.

For those of you who don't know that Keshia and Dr Luke

are involved in a very high profile legal battle,

Joe, why don't you summarize that for us?

Bring us up to date.

Very complicated, as anyone who's read even one of these stories might be able to tell you there have been many dueling lawsuits in many different states over the past few years. But things really got going I guess in

October 2014 so two years ago when Keshia who had spent you know the better part of a decade as a sort of protege, artist, co-writer, frequent

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