Kesha Just Got the Most Powerful Message Tattooed on Her Fingers
Kesha’s latest powerful message isn’t in her lyrics: it’s on her fingers. The singer just revealed on Instagram that her newest tattoo is the words “LIVE FREE” spelled out across her fingers—a gesture that’s at once beautiful and badass for some intensely personal reasons.
As you’re probably aware, for the last few years Kesha’s been fighting various legal battles with mega-producer Dr. Luke, whom she accused of sexual assault and who is now countersuing her for making the allegation. In her original suit against him, she was also trying to get out of her contract, which stipulates that she can only produce new music with him and with Sony.
In the midst of all that, Kesha also entered rehab for an eating disorder, which is where her new album, Rainbow, started to take shape. As she wrote in a heartfelt essay for Refinery29: “Since those difficult and emotional days in rehab, I started imagining that one day I would put out a new record, and I would call it Rainbow. For a long time, I didn’t know if that idea was just a fantasy, a ghost to keep me waking up and actually getting out of my bed, or if it could actually come true. But I just held onto that idea because it was all I had…I know that this album saved my life.”
The legal situation with Kesha, record label Sony, and Dr. Luke is still complicated, and Dr. Luke’s countersuit continues, but Kesha was able to release Rainbow, and it’s reflective of the harrowing journey she’s gone through. In her first single, “Praying,” she prays for the absolution of those who have hurt her; in “Woman,” she finds power—and, yes, fun—in her gender.
If “live free” is her new motto, it makes total sense—and she’ll have a reminder every time she looks at her hands. As she wrote on Instagram, “funny how words take on such important meaning once you start living and find yourself looking for the perfect letters to make up the perfect word to make up the perfect feeling…..”
Check out her new ink below:
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