Kesha has released the video for “Woman,” the latest song from her new album Rainbow, via Rolling Stone. The track, which she describes as a “female empowerment song,” is a collaboration with the late Sharon Jones’ band, the Dap-Kings. Watch the video, a raucous barroom takeover co-directed with her brother Lagan, below. In an essay accompanying the track, Kesha writes that she conceived the song while “stuck in traffic, on my way to the studio. [Out] of nowhere I felt the urge to scream, ‘I'm a motherfucking woman.’ By the time I got the the studio, I was chanting ‘I’m a motherfucking woman.’ The two men I was writing with that day didn't quite know what to do with me. I proclaimed again: ‘I'm a motherfucking woman’! Then Drew Pearson got on the piano and Wrabel started laughing. I told them, I'm not fucking with you - this is the mood I'm in - and this is the song we are writing today.” Read the full essay here.
Rainbow—the singer’s first new album in five years—is slated for an August 11 release via RCA and Kemosabe (the label Dr. Luke left this April amid his ongoing legal battle with Kesha). The album will feature two tracks with Eagles of Death Metal and a cover of “Old Flames Can’t Hold a Candle to You” that features Dolly Parton. Last week, Kesha shared the Jonas Åkerlund-directed visuals for Rainbow’s lead single “Praying.”
Last year, Kesha shared “True Colors” with Zedd, marking her first new music since 2013. Since 2014, she and former producer Dr. Luke have been engaged in a long legal battle surrounding sexual harassment and abuse.
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