Estelle Clifford: Kesha - Period.

Her first album released as an independent artist, Period is Kesha’s sixth studio album. 

With her taste for experimental pop on full display, the album is a return to Kesha’s wilder, hedonistic, “hot mess” era, filled with brash and unfiltered music. 

The popstar says her goal was for it to create a safe space for people to feel fully embodied and liberated, unfiltered, and fearless. 

Estelle Clifford joined Jack Tame to give her thoughts on the album.  

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Speaker 1 (00:07):
You're listening to the Saturday Morning with Jack Team podcast
from News Talks at B.

Speaker 2 (00:35):
That is hesher the song is delusional. She just released
a brand new album to coincide with the fourth of
July in the US. The album is called Period, and
it is the first album she's released as an independent artist.
Stelle Clifford, music reviewer, is with us this morning.

Speaker 3 (00:52):
Hey Stelle, Yeah, Calder Period as a full stop like
d Shearon, you know, he's doing like plus minus all
that kind of stuff.

Speaker 2 (00:58):
Because I was trying to work this out. Is it
period and a full stop? Is that the name of
the album. So it's just that's just a period, So yeah,
because Americans say period right the end of that period?

Speaker 1 (01:11):
Yeah?

Speaker 3 (01:11):
Yeah, Yeah. And it's a great place, isn't it Market
in the set? No, we're clear now Market in the sand.
She's gone there like nearly decades with the drama with
Doctor Luke, and she's finally out of her contract. She
had to wait about six months until she was allowed
to make and release music again. So this is an
album she's released under her own record label, and she

(01:32):
says that her goal for it was to create a
safe space for people to feel fully embodied and liberated,
unfeltered and fearless. Now it's not just unfiltered at times,
it's actually a bit unhinged. So if you think of
the hot mess of keshow in like twenty ten when
she was brushing her teeth with a bottle of jack,
we are kind of right back into that, Like that

(01:53):
is her, that's her pop. Yes, don't count the years.
It's okay, but how cool.

Speaker 2 (02:03):
I listened to her this morning. I listened to it
this morning, and because I love that song. You see,
TikTok is the song that Estelle's referencing here. I love
that song. It's such an earworm. And I was like, oh, yeah,
it's been you know, I do love that song. And
I mentioned it to Libya producer in Libby Cid. Yeah,
that was the best song at my year eight disco
for God's sake.

Speaker 3 (02:25):
I mean, we've bonded over music different eras, but we've
bonded over music. Where we heard it.

Speaker 2 (02:31):
I would have seen it was about three years old
if you'd ask me, I would have seen the years.
She really said about twenty twenty two, you.

Speaker 3 (02:36):
Know, apparently the time. I think the great thing is
she's gone back to that, but we really loved her
and she was really fully embodying that just power like
and just say it how she means it. I mean,
she's full of swears on this album, so it's quite explicit.
But I think that she comes from, you know, fully
tongue in chic with her lyrics in where she's going.

(02:57):
Sometimes it's a persona. I don't think she's tongue in
chic and her belief now in her her self praise
in her recognition of surviving some pretty icky stuff to
her career, and it really puts some brakes on it.
So this is her being like, well, I'm back just
doing what it is I like to do. And yeah,
like I say, unhinged electro pop. At times, she's doing

(03:19):
that thing that everyone's trying where you throw in some
pop country. There's a song called Yippie Kaye doesn't follow
through with a full die hard quote. Yeah, yeah, yeah,
but it's very you know, if she was doing it
with Shaboozie, you wouldn't be surprised because that's kind of
where everyone's at with that country pop crossover. Some big
catchy riffs, choruses, delusional there has got that kind of sentimental,

(03:45):
powerballity thing that kind of surprises you a little bit,
like it's not all. I've sort of summarized this album
as being a bit fluty and dirty because I feel.

Speaker 2 (03:54):
Like, Okay, I like that, Yeah, fluty and dirty.

Speaker 3 (03:57):
That's kind of where she's at. And she's sort of
back doing that, and I wonder like, is everyone ready
okay to go back to where we were in twenty
twenty five? And I think we are?

Speaker 2 (04:09):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (04:09):
Yeah, Like I just I think that's what she does
really well. I don't know that she's pushing boundaries sonically
in pop music. She's definitely pushing buttons.

Speaker 2 (04:20):
Yeah, And I kind of love.

Speaker 3 (04:22):
Her for there's some This opens with a song called Freedom,
and I think love has got a little bit of
it actually here it's got this piano surge and very
hypnotict whales and then her big voice that comes through
listen like you kind of almost don't expect this, like

(04:44):
a jelcky kind of big vocal. And then it turned
into like acquire sing along featuring a sex chop and
some swears. So you know what I mean.

Speaker 2 (04:52):
Like the album, yeah, okay, so what did you give it?

Speaker 3 (04:58):
Yeah? For me, Look, I think it's I think it's good.
I think she can push more. I'm going to give
it a seven out of ten.

Speaker 2 (05:04):
All right, I'm looking forward to because obviously I'm a
bit of a Keisha fan from way back. So seven
out of ten for period. But Kesha is free. She's
recording music under her own independent label, which I'm sure
she's delighted about. Thank you so much, as seal. We'll
listen to a bit more in a couple of minutes
six to twelve on News talks 'B.

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