With this new record, Kesha has coaxed herself away from the rah-rah fan service of her previous album. “It just feels cooler,” she said, of her new work. “Less thirsty.”
An S.U.V., its windows tinted to dusk, delivered the singer Kesha to the Ruttkowski;68 gallery on Cortlandt Alley one recent afternoon. Inside the space, an Italian artist named Francesco Igory Deiana waited for her embrace. A Kesha hello goes for the neck. Deiana leaned forward, putting his tattooed hand in her tattooed hand. Not long ago, Deiana, Kesha, and their respective boyfriends had hung out on what Kesha called a “secret beach in Hawaii.
On the cover of “Gag Order,” Kesha is expressionless, her head sealed inside a plastic bag. She sings of leaving her existence on the cross, of doctors and lawyers cutting out her tongue. She sings mostly without the Auto-Tune that was once her compulsion, achieving that Janis Joplin velvet. She made “Gag Order” with the producer Rick Rubin at a house in Hawaii. Rubin began the sessions with meditation, which sometimes incited weeping, hours of it.
Deiana laughed. “It’s funny because everybody sees sexual stuff in my work, but it’s never intentional.”He gave the right answer: “It’s two high heels crossing. Can you see it?”
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