Kesha dumped her boyfriend after being freed from her recording contract

She told Rolling Stone's Music Now podcast: "When I got this insane call that I was gonna be free in three months’ time, it was like being in a movie. It was such an insane phone call to get. And from that moment onward, I’ve just been on 11. So it’s crazy, but I’m good and I feel very alive...

"Literally the second I got that call, I looked around and was like, 'Anything that does not make me feel free has to go.'

"So I called the guy I was dating and very lovingly was like, this is not it.
"I went to the woods, I started meditating heavily. It’s been this obsession for me to try to see what makes me feel free and what doesn’t, including the stuff in my house. I don’t wanna be beholden to a genre of music.

"Being blonde to be a pop star — it was frying my hair. That doesn’t make me feel free. I’m gonna have f****** roots, goddammit.
"Anything that I feel beholden to, even subconsciously that I’m maybe not even aware of, I’ve started really trying to analyse what feels good and what doesn’t."

The 38-year-old singer has also vowed to stop trying to "people-please" when it comes to her music and to only work on songs which she enjoys, rather than worrying about mass appeal.

Referring to her 2023 LP Gag Order, she said: "I made an album with Rick Rubin that was so spiritual and meaningful. At the time, it was so different for me, and I felt like, 'Are people gonna like this?'

"I don’t think certain people were happy I made that record. It was not a pop-banger record. So there was this people-pleasing of like, 'Oh, is that all right if I’m doing this?'

"I can’t wait to just explore. The people-pleasing piece has been something I’ve really been looking at with my freedom — how that has affected my life and my music. I really want to get completely limitless in terms of the sonics, like, what is possible sonically.…

"Since I was young, it was like, 'This is how long a song should be.… Make the bridge iconic and make sure people like it.' And now, I’m kind of like, 'Make sure I like it.'
"What if I make sure people hate it? I don’t know. I just wanna see what is possible.… I might just continue making pop songs ’cause I love pop songs, but I just wanna feel so f****** free."