Picture this: you're in a dark auditorium, nervously adjusting the hemline of your Charlotte Russe dress, when the auto-tuned voice of an angel pipes through the loudspeaker. The receptors in your brain light up like fireworks as you dutifully mime how you think it might look to brush your teeth with a "bottle of Jack," though the only alcohol you've ever tasted was a nasty glug of vodka that you mistook for water during Thanksgiving break.
If this was you in 2010, Kesha has a message for you now:
"The late 20s and early 30s is when you start really looking at what you've been taught . . . and deciphering what of that actually feels true to who you are," she begins. We're discussing her recent "Freedomme" campaign, launched in partnership with Feeld as an ode to her own sexual liberation. It comes at a time when many of her early fans are entering their 30s — what young women are told will be their "prime."
Kesha, 38, apologizes to me mid-thought; she would turn her camera on, she says, but she just got out of the sauna and she's really sweaty. Then she continues: "To those who are stepping into their Saturn return, I'm excited for you to get to define who you are on your own terms."
It's rather earnest coming from the woman whose "recession pop" music was once the soundtrack to my teenage grinding sessions. But of course, if we've learned anything from watching Kesha's evolution over the years, it's that each of us has layers, and we're all perpetually in the process of pulling them back.
In this current iteration of herself, one in which she's publicly embracing her innermost kinks and desires, she sees herself as a "doula" for those younger fans who are figuring themselves out, too. "I've found [my 30s] to be the period of time where I got to reexamine my sexuality and my relationship with pleasure," she says. "I'm excited for all y'all."
For more from our interview — in which we talk about her Tits Out tour, her label-defying sexuality, and her newfound independence as an artist — click on the stories below. (And keep scrolling for a roundup of other stories that will help you lean into pleasure, too.) Image courtesy of Feeld. |
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