Kesha sat down for an interview on this week’s episode of The Best Show With Tom Scharpling. She mentioned her new album, Gag Order, working with Rick Rubin, her latest TV collection Conjuring Kesha, working with Kurt Vile on a co-write, the time she obtained slapped by a shark, and the infamous moment when Jerry Seinfeld refused to present her a hug. Hearken to the complete episode on the backside of the web page. Discover video clips under, too.
Kesha mentioned earlier than she began working with Rubin, she heard he was “this Buddha-like motherfucker” and ended up feeling like a “child duckling” in his presence. “He’d order a blue smoothie, and I’d be like, ‘I would like the blue smoothie too,’” she mentioned. “After which he walks round barefoot, so I begin strolling round barefoot. The start of the album there are photos of me with my Gucci on, after which, by the top, I seem like a bit wannabe Rick Rubin clone, sporting an outsized T-shirt, barefoot, strolling round with my blue smoothie.”
Tom Scharpling additionally requested Kesha about working with Kurt Vile, who’s credited as a co-writer on Gag Order’s “The Drama.” The outro of the music is pulled from a monitor she and Vile wrote about her eager to be a home cat. She mentioned it occurred to her to achieve out to Vile to arrange a writing session after listening to him on The Greatest Present. “Via listening to your present, I began listening to Kurt drop in and be a weirdo,” she mentioned. “I all the time liked Kurt and listened to his music, however listening to your present and listening to him discuss in your present is the rationale I reached out to him to put in writing.”
When requested about an individual round whom she’d be starstruck, Kesha revealed a latest occasion: Via working with Rubin, Kesha met Neil Younger on the Shangri-La studio in Malibu. “It didn’t go properly as a result of I couldn’t have a look at him, so I used to be type of speaking to the wall,” she mentioned. “I didn’t do an excellent job.”
Kesha additionally spoke concerning the notorious second when Jerry Seinfeld, throughout an on-camera chat with the press at a David Lynch Basis occasion in 2017, repeatedly refused to hug her. Each Kesha and Seinfeld observe transcendental meditation. She mentioned she traveled out of her means throughout a tour to attend the occasion as a result of she heard Seinfeld could be there.
“I used to take my laptop and carry around the globe, internationally, a bit DVD so each time it will get bumpy on the aircraft, I’d pop in Seinfeld and really feel like the whole lot’s OK on the planet and watch my buddy Jerry,” she mentioned. “So, then, I get to the fucking charity occasion and I obtained actually excited as a result of he brings me peace and love and all issues good within the universe. After which he didn’t hug me in entrance of cameras. It was hilarious, but additionally so unhappy. It was the saddest second of my life.”