Last October singer-songwriter Kesha (the artist formerly known as Ke$ha) sued her longtime producer Dr Luke, alleging emotional and sexual abuse as well as lack of creative control as reasons.
After over a year of legal proceedings, Kesha tried to speed up the process so she could move on with her career (she is contractually obligated to only release music through Dr Luke’s label). Instead a spokesperson for Luke has stated that these legal issues halting her career are “entirely of her making.”
Despite the popular hashtag #JusticeForKesha on social media, there is still a lot of animosity directed at Kesha in regards to the themes of her sex positive and party-centric music and image.
But should her lyrics and image impact how we deal with her claims of abuse? Societally we need to consider our stance on how we treat victims of alleged abuse when a popular media figure such as Kesha has her career put in jeopardy in such a cruel and public manner.
Meanwhile her alleged abuser continues to work with the biggest names in Top 40 music, almost entirely unaffected.
Featured image via Kesha’s Facebook page.
