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May 2, 2023 14 mins
Kesha stopped by today to talk about her new single 'Eat The Acid,' her TV show 'Conjuring Kesha,' and wanting to be abducted by aliens. Kesha's new album 'Gag Order' is out May 19!

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Live from the Mercedes Bands Interview Lounge.

Speaker 2 (00:03):
Kesha is here, Hi, Kesha o, Hi, gag order out?
Maybe not hold on seconds out? Let me look at
my time?

Speaker 3 (00:10):
No?

Speaker 2 (00:10):
No to nineteenth? Oh? So can we play some of
the songs anyway?

Speaker 4 (00:15):
I mean I'm fine with that.

Speaker 2 (00:17):
You know, our favorite artists coming in, They're like, you know, oh,
got this new album. Here's a song you can play,
But we have fifteen others you're gonna love even more.
I'm like, well, let me hear them. No, we can't
let you do that.

Speaker 4 (00:25):
We play one song.

Speaker 2 (00:26):
You can play whatever you want. This is Dasha Day,
It's Kesha Day.

Speaker 1 (00:30):
Wait.

Speaker 2 (00:30):
Can I ask a question?

Speaker 1 (00:31):
Why do artists get upset if a song leaks early?
In my mind, it's just isn't that just like better
promotion for you?

Speaker 4 (00:39):
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 an octave, and then it's like a
miserable ballad.

Speaker 2 (01:00):
So songs that are leaked.

Speaker 4 (01:01):
They're not their final like, it's not the final outfit, Okay,
so you just want people to see it in its
final outfit, at least for me.

Speaker 2 (01:09):
Now we know 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 how is
your head how was your headspace? Terrible? Horrible?

Speaker 4 (01:27):
I had just put out my album like right before
this al had happened, and then obviously we collectively all
had much bigger issues to deal with, and I had
this spiritual experience one night, couldn't sleep and my cat
brought me my headphones to meditate, and it was just
everything was just so weird.

Speaker 2 (01:44):
Hold on one second. Your cat brought your headphones into meditative.

Speaker 4 (01:49):
He's really He's not just a cat, Okay, now I
believe that he's a genius. But so he was like
sensing the vibe and so he brought him in his
little mouth and put him on me. And he's never
done it, sense, never did it before. So I meditate
and I start having this wild, spiritual experience. It felt
like I was on acid, even though I've never take

(02:10):
an acid. That was my like thought where I just
kind of the whole entirety of the world made sense,
and we were also full of love and all lights
and we're all like we're not We're really so connected.
So that was the catalyst for the album. I wrote
the song ETHI Acid the next day.

Speaker 2 (02:26):
It's eat the Acid. By the way, I just want
to make sure.

Speaker 4 (02:29):
The ad that's what I thought it was.

Speaker 2 (02:31):
Did I eat like acid?

Speaker 4 (02:33):
Play that I'm doing a remix. I'm doing a remix.

Speaker 2 (02:37):
And it'll be called Okay, hey, nothing surprises me, and
that's totally fine.

Speaker 4 (02:45):
But eat the Acid. So the song is, if you
listen to it, it's about how my mom told me, like,
here's what alcohol makes you feel like whatever, do whatever,
just don't take acid. And I didn't take acid and
still had this psychedelic experience. And something that I'm big
into is talking about all this stuff and sometimes makes

(03:06):
me sound like cuckoo bananas.

Speaker 2 (03:08):
Kuckoo bananas is fine. I have no problem next albums
sounds like it also sounds like a breakfast cereal. What
do you think it of? The Gandhi. I can tell
Gandhi has this thought. I am well.

Speaker 5 (03:20):
I mean, I, first of all, I love you, and
I have been on a Kesha cruise and I really
just yes, let me tell you, I still have glitter
in my lungs go in that cruise.

Speaker 2 (03:27):
Sorry, you're snorting glitter on the Kesha cruise, I got
an elevator.

Speaker 5 (03:31):
Somebody blew it in my face. It was the craziest.
There was a lot happening, but it was a good time.
But one of the things I love about you is
your interest in extraterrestrials. And I see the tattoo on
your hand. It's Saturn and I and Saturn. Are you
summoning aliens still and were you ever successful in doing it?

Speaker 4 (03:49):
I'm always summoning aliens, Like That's just a constant in
my life. It's one of those things where I want
to experience everything, and I feel like an alien abduction
would really there'd be a great album that came from that.

Speaker 2 (04:02):
For sure.

Speaker 4 (04:03):
Yes, I'm super here for it. I just hope they're like, nice, Well,
hold on, natere Go.

Speaker 2 (04:09):
Nate is totally convinced he was abducted.

Speaker 3 (04:12):
Yeah, one hundred percent. At the age of I believe
four or five. Well, you know, as an expert, you
know that when you're abducted, it's a total lapse of time.
Time passes like that, right. So I remember I was
in my bed and I heard this loud, whirring noise.
I looked out the window as a five year old,
and I see lights up in the sky, and I
got scared, so I pulled the sheets over my head.
Next thing I know, waking up, it's like ten hours later,

(04:35):
still in the same exact position that I had been
in when I fell asleep, Totally convinced I was abducted.

Speaker 4 (04:42):
Do you remember anything I.

Speaker 3 (04:43):
Was not probed to my knowledge?

Speaker 4 (04:45):
Did you like but do you remember seeing any other
like beings? No?

Speaker 3 (04:49):
No, I think I need some like deep therapy to
go through that experime.

Speaker 4 (04:52):
I should get hypnotized.

Speaker 2 (04:54):
I would.

Speaker 3 (04:54):
I would definitely do it because I am convinced that
I was abducted. And I mean, I can't say that
I recommend it because I don't know exactly what happened
to me.

Speaker 2 (05:00):
Yeah, but if you can recommend it, I don't know.

Speaker 3 (05:03):
If you do, you decide, Oh, you know, it's somebody
that's interested in something like this. I'm not sure you
know you really want it to happen to you.

Speaker 4 (05:14):
No, I don't like you know what. I'm just here
for the experiences, like we're human blobs wandering around the earth.

Speaker 2 (05:20):
Sure, abduct Okay, fine, I'll put in a good word
for it anyway. Kesha is here, of course, eat the Acid.
We're gonna play that in just a couple of seconds.
Gag Order is out May nineteenth. You do say you
are at your most vulnerable, Well, Kesha, not only are
you releasing these very personal thoughts and feelings to your fans,
but you're actually studying yourself. It's like when you write

(05:43):
your own book, you study yourself. You're like you're a
third person almost. So you hear your music and you're
talking about the celebration, the celebrations you love to do.
Sometimes when we're celebrating, we're actually masking. We're masking the
reality what's really going on down deep? Do you ever
feel like that's a part of how you wrote this
album as well. It's with everything and anything you would do,
you actually still have all this bs. It's still bubbling

(06:05):
up underneath, and you want to cover it up with
whatever you're doing. Does it make sense at all?

Speaker 4 (06:09):
Well, the bubbling bs just made me think of like pants. Okay, no,
but I hear what you're saying where you just everyone
has their own things, Everyone goes through something, and I
wanted to try to capture my pain into ways that
are relatable for other people so they feel not alone

(06:30):
in their pain. Because I think the worst part of
having anxiety, depression, rage, grief, sadness, heartbreak is feeling so alone.
So I wanted to make an album where people could
go and not feel alone in those harder emotions.

Speaker 2 (06:47):
It sounds like to me that you're a student of
yourself and everything around you.

Speaker 4 (06:52):
Absolutely.

Speaker 2 (06:52):
You know, we graduate from high school or college or whatever,
and those are our days of being a student, and
we close the door right then and there. Okay, we'll
move on to our career or you know, whatever we do.
I'm assuming that you are from the thought of always
be a student, always be learning question things.

Speaker 1 (07:11):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (07:11):
Absolutely, I feel like I would die. I think the
point of living is too is for knowledge, and we
can all pick what interests us and for me, the
spiritual realm. And I've always been a seeker of some
sort of higher power ever since I was a little kid.
So for me, that's just the most interesting text I
can read. It's the most interesting experiences I can have.

(07:34):
That's why I had this paranormal show. It's because I
wanted to. We wanted to see it with my own eyes.
Are there aliens? Are their ghosts?

Speaker 2 (07:42):
Have you seen enough to be convinced either way of ghosts?

Speaker 4 (07:45):
Absolutely? Have a show called Conjuring and Kesha out on
Discovery Plus, and if you watch it, I just am like,
it's it's it's wild style. It's wild, like just like
all the stuff I saw with my own eyeballs. It's like, yes,
there's definitely something else we can't visibly see. So like

(08:08):
I'm on that fine line of like enlightenment or crazy.

Speaker 2 (08:14):
There is a fine line. Yeah, I choose to travel
to that line. Yeah, as much as possible. But you know,
I guess where we need to go now is how
does this all come out sonically on an album?

Speaker 4 (08:28):
So you have to listen to my album because we
worked on this for three years every day, like so
we were really trying to capture the emotion of what
becoming more aware of yourself and more in touch with yourself?
What does this sound like?

Speaker 1 (08:44):
What do you do with Like, like you said, you
work on it for three years, So in the beginning
of the three years, you're in one place, and then
three years later you're in a different place. Do you
change the way the music sounds to sound like you
in this new place that you're in.

Speaker 4 (08:59):
Hmm, that's a really good question. I mean, once it's
after like two years of it, I was like, okay,
we're not changing it anymore. So it does like chronicle specifically,
like about twenty twenty to twenty twenty two, Like that
was like the sound of my emotion? Is this album
to judge?

Speaker 2 (09:19):
Really judge? I know, starting with Eat the Acid, Heat
the Acid.

Speaker 4 (09:23):
I'm curious because this chronicles the night I had like
psychedelic experience.

Speaker 2 (09:29):
I love that me too, of course you do.

Speaker 5 (09:31):
I'm a fan of that. But also I read recently
that you were talking about how artists are not put
on this earth just to make other people happy, and
I feel like that is from the catch that we've
all seen before, an interesting turn, and I like that.
Are you ready for all the feedback that you're getting
from all of this?

Speaker 4 (09:49):
Yeah, you know, I'm a grown ass woman and I
know who I am and I stand firmly in who
I am, so people can have nostalgia for who I
once was, and she's there. That's a chapter of my life.
So bang out, Cannibal if you want Cannibal, But if
you want to go on this ride with me, if

(10:11):
you're ready, it's it's a different experience. I don't even
know what to call it sonically, so I'm just calling
it post.

Speaker 2 (10:19):
Pop okay, wall, Why do we have to call it anything?

Speaker 3 (10:23):
I don't know.

Speaker 4 (10:23):
It sounded cool?

Speaker 5 (10:25):
Don't you take this from her?

Speaker 2 (10:28):
I mean it doesn't come out to the nineteenth gag
order of the nineteenth I mean, is it done? I mean,
are the tracks in concrete done? So nothing's going to change.
You know, there's no hidden tracks.

Speaker 4 (10:39):
I wouldn't. I would get murdered by that side of
the room if I change anything at this point.

Speaker 2 (10:45):
Ignore them. They've worked with artists, all sorts of different
artists from all different walks of life. Don't get over it.
It's your outBut I think it's pretty perfect. I love
hearing that.

Speaker 4 (10:56):
Yeah, And I'm like, you know, I i'n't ever said
that before about anything I've ever done.

Speaker 2 (11:02):
Is this the first time you said that? About this project.

Speaker 4 (11:05):
Yeah, I think so.

Speaker 2 (11:06):
All right, now we're all charged up. We got to
hear the album. We'll start with Eat the Acid Acid.
Danielle's like, I don't think we'll get the assid either.

Speaker 4 (11:16):
One open to interpretation, that is art, Kesha, thank you
for coming in today, My gosh, thank you.

Speaker 3 (11:23):
Here.

Speaker 2 (11:23):
It is, by the way, gag Order, Like I said,
May nineteenth, but this is a taste. It's Eat the Acid.

Speaker 4 (11:31):
Wow.

Speaker 2 (11:31):
That is Eat the Acid brand new from the one
and only Kesha. And by the way, her album gag
Order drops May nineteenth. I am going to sit down
with Kesha and do an incredible podcast one on one
with her. As soon as we know that's ready to go,
we will let you know. And thanks for listening today.
Kesha Again, gag Order comes out May nineteenth. It sounds

(11:54):
like a very very personal personal project for her. Bringing on,
Let's get into the three things we need to know
from Gandi, Oh, gandhi?

Speaker 5 (12:01):
Hello?

Speaker 2 (12:01):
What's going on?

Speaker 1 (12:02):
All right?

Speaker 5 (12:02):
At least six people are dead and thirty injured after
a dust storm pile up in south central Illinois. Crews
are still at the site near Springfield on Interstate fifty five.
A dust storm hit the area dramatically, bringing down visibility,
causing a chain reaction crash. Police say forty to sixty
vehicles were involved in crashes yesterday afternoon, and several were

(12:23):
actually engulfed in flames. Officials say it occurred when heavy
winds blew dirt from farm fields across the highway. President
Biden plans to talk with lawmakers this month about the
debt ceiling. Reports say Biden called House Speaker Kevin McCarthy
and other leaders Monday to invite them to the White
House on May ninth. This comes after Treasury Secretary Janet

(12:44):
Yellen told lawmakers yesterday that the US could default on
its debt as early as June first if Congress fails
to raise or suspend the debt ceiling. Democrats and Republicans
are locked in a debate over how to address the
debt ceiling and threat of default. And finally, if you
are looking for a new job and you like scaring birds,
this one might be for Wow.

Speaker 2 (13:05):
Exactly what I was wanting this morning. I need a
new job and I want to scare birds. Well, the
competition is tough.

Speaker 5 (13:11):
Over two hundred people have already applied four jobs at
a Zoo to wear bird costumes as part of an
official seagull scaring program. Blackpool Zoo advertised for help after
bosses so that seagulls had been persistently terrorizing guests and
stealing food from visitors as well as the animal enclosures.
If you succeed, you'll have to join the Visitors Services

(13:33):
team as a seagull deterrent. The attraction has five positions available.
It's only about eleven dollars an hour, but it could
be fun. And those are your three things.

Speaker 2 (13:41):
Excellent scaring birds. I just want to see it happen.
You know, Daniel's son is off to college very soon,
across the pond on a four months away another galaxy.

(14:02):
He's going to another galaxies, going to the UK, And
so you guys are coming up with, okay, everything he
needs to know in order to survive without mom and
dad near.

Speaker 1 (14:11):
Yes, of course, it's got a lot of life skills
we need to learn.

Speaker 2 (14:14):
Can we review sure? Your list? Coming on? All right,
let's get him off safe and sound on the way
to college. That's so cool?

Speaker 3 (14:21):
All right?

Speaker 2 (14:21):
Are you still a better sweet about that?

Speaker 1 (14:23):
I'm I'm gonna be hysterical of this morning.

Speaker 5 (14:25):
All of you.

Speaker 2 (14:25):
Thank you loving It's okay, I would be too. It's
all good.

Speaker 4 (14:30):
We up to you every day you read Whip in
the morning.

Speaker 2 (14:32):
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