‘I Felt I Didn’t Deserve to Be Unapologetically Joyous’
Put on your glitter eyeshadow and break out your DVDs, because the early 2010s may be up for a comeback. At least, that’s how Kesha’s forthcoming album, High Road, makes it seem. It was a decade ago that the Tennessee-raised Kesha Rose Sebert, in her smash “TiK ToK,” reported waking up in the morning “feelin’ like P. Diddy.” Now one thundering, yet-to-be-released song, “My Own Dance,” opens with the 32-year old singing that she “woke up this morning feeling myself / hungover as hell, like 2012.”
On a few levels, 2012’s a significant year for her to reference. That’s when Kesha released her second full-length album, , which was her last album to land megahits in turned-up nightclubs across the globe. It was the era of not just peak pop Kesha, but also Lady Gaga and Katy Perry, an era when Rihanna was still regularly releasing singles and encouraging listeners to . For Kesha herself, 2012 was a time of going out constantly, living the “couch-surfing life” in the Los
