““You don’t wanna be changed like it changed me” is the refrain on Eat the Acid, from Kesha’s new album, Gag Order. The pop star has explained that it’s a reference to her mother’s warnings about LSD, but it’s hard not to read a further meaning here. Kesha’s fifth full-length record addresses the stark realities of trauma and its aftermath – notable, given the specifics of her 2014 lawsuit alleging”
“Amid ongoing legal struggles, the singer’s fifth LP is some of her most intense music yet”
“Kesha sheds her party pop persona in favour of Gag Order's higher ambitions”
“Swerving away from party-pop irreverence, Kesha collaborates with Rick Rubin on a spare and eccentric album about coming to terms with ambivalence.”
“Kesha's least commercial-sounding but most mature album yet.”
“out-there journey from pop’s one-time wild child”
