Vixen Eyes Posted June 6, 2023 Posted June 6, 2023 https://twitter.com/RecordingAcad/status/1665800664117649411?s=20
TomTom Posted June 6, 2023 Author Posted June 6, 2023 Luke and Kesha have been lawyering up for trial. A month ago, Luke's lawyers filed motions to admit two new associates to the case: Alexandra Anfuso, an entertainment lawyer with a background in music and Tiana Bey, a commercial lawyer with trial experience. Yesterday, Kesha's lawyers filed motions to admit two new lawyers to the case: Roxana Guidero, an entertainment lawyer specialized in trial strategy and trial preparation and David Marroso, an entertainment heavyweight who is one of the top entertainment lawyers in the US as well as chair of O'Melveny's General Litigation Practice. In Kesha's case, the motions specifically mention the trial: Spoiler Luke and Kesha are currently heading into trial with a team of 9 lawyers and 7 lawyers respectively: Spoiler 1 1
SmittenCake Posted June 7, 2023 Posted June 7, 2023 14 hours ago, TomTom2288 said: Luke and Kesha have been lawyering up for trial. A month ago, Luke's lawyers filed motions to admit two new associates to the case: Alexandra Anfuso, an entertainment lawyer with a background in music and Tiana Bey, a commercial lawyer with trial experience. Yesterday, Kesha's lawyers filed motions to admit two new lawyers to the case: Roxana Guidero, an entertainment lawyer specialized in trial strategy and trial preparation and David Marroso, an entertainment heavyweight who is one of the top entertainment lawyers in the US as well as chair of O'Melveny's General Litigation Practice. In Kesha's case, the motions specifically mention the trial: Reveal hidden contents Luke and Kesha are currently heading into trial with a team of 9 lawyers and 7 lawyers respectively: Hide contents thank you for these updates luv 1
TomTom Posted June 7, 2023 Author Posted June 7, 2023 1 minute ago, SmittenCake said: thank you for these updates luv You‘re welcome! 1
TomTom Posted June 7, 2023 Author Posted June 7, 2023 On 5/25/2023 at 6:50 PM, TomTom2288 said: The third pre-trial conference has just concluded. Official transcript: https://iapps.courts.state.ny.us/nyscef/ViewDocument?docIndex=XlUHZUwni4pNApHkPnA/JQ==
Keshasbxtch Posted June 11, 2023 Posted June 11, 2023 Anxiously anticipating the highest courts decisions 1
TomTom Posted June 11, 2023 Author Posted June 11, 2023 1 minute ago, Keshasbxtch said: Anxiously anticipating the highest courts decisions Same!
Vixen Eyes Posted June 15, 2023 Posted June 15, 2023 (edited) ONLY LOVE VIDEO TOMORROW 6.15 10AM EST Edited June 15, 2023 by Vixen Eyes
Vixen Eyes Posted June 16, 2023 Posted June 16, 2023 (edited) watch full Can't Cancel Pride stream here (Kesha starts at 10:48) https://watch.revry.tv/player/40700/stream?assetType=movies https://www.cantcancelpride.com/ Quote When the world changed, so did Kesha. The glitter-strewn dance-pop queen had just released her fourth album, High Road, in January 2020 when reality as we knew it came to a screeching halt. For the first time since entering the pop machine in 2008, Kesha confronted herself in the discomfiting silence. One day, in that initial perilous pandemic spring, Kesha walked to the grocery store to buy flowers. “On the way back, I couldn’t stop crying,” she recalls. “I was just sobbing walking down the street with my bouquet of flowers.” Paralyzed by anxiety, worry, doubt, and fear—for herself, for her family, the world—she felt desperate enough to turn to prayer. “It set me down this trip, wondering, what’s the point of all of this? What is the point of me singing silly songs into the ether? Does it have a bigger purpose? Is this worth anything to anybody?” She found herself considering “how love is the most important thing, if not the only thing.” It was like a vivid visualization of an interior rearrangement. That day, Kesha felt her higher consciousness revealing itself—or “some kind of god”—illustrating a path forward. What followed was a process of acknowledging all that she cannot control. “I had this beautiful, heartbreaking, cathartic, raw, scary moment where I felt like I had to surrender: to give up the illusion of power and control,” Kesha says. The cracked-open music of Gag Order followed – a title referring to opening herself up to emotions that had before been seen as off-limits. Kesha woke up the next day and immediately set out recording “Eat the Acid,” which would become the second track on her most personal and realized album by a staggering margin. “I just sang it into my phone,” she says, and soon began working on the song over a Zoom session with her mother, the songwriter Pebe Sebert, and her friend and producer Stuart Crichton. “I told them, ‘I feel like I experienced a spiritual awakening and an ego death at the same time and I want to make music that sounds like that.’” That initial iPhone recording ended up as the final vocal take on Gag Order—at the encouragement of the legendary Rick Rubin, who produced the album. With Kesha acting as executive producer, Gag Order is a daring sonic rebirth and her most cohesive vision. From its hymns of self-awareness (“Living in My Head”) and liturgical minimalism (“Eat the Acid”), to the gospel-flecked exaltation (“Only Love Can Save Us Now”) and bracing balladry (“Hate Me Harder”), this is the diaristic music of a woman excavating her life and creating a new world. It is the expansive, searching sound of an artist experimenting her way towards a kind of personal liberation. It’s patently unformulaic, and so lucid it can feel psychedelic. Gag Order was a fundamentally transformative collaboration. Rubin encouraged Kesha to turn radically inward to explore her own soul, instigating a challenging process of self-realization. “This life was never mine,” Kesha sings on “Fine Line.” “I can’t keep wasting time.” Gag Order sacrifices none. “This was the first time I ever made a record that wasn’t geared towards: ‘What’s the first single?’ ‘What’s going to perform well at radio?’ That was never a conversation. It was a beautiful change that I had never experienced before—to work with someone who valued me and wanted to bring out who I am without ever once considering the margin of profit” “I feel like I went through some of the stages of grief,” Kesha adds. “This process allowed me to tap into emotions that I otherwise haven’t let myself access. I got in touch with anger. I got to be insecure. I got to be honest. Rick encouraged me to go as deep as possible. It’s scary to dive into the deep end, but it’s like swimming: you need someone watching at the shore to make sure you don’t drown.” Never is this risk-taking more evident than within the spare, brutal honesty of “Fine Line,” which Kesha calls one of her favorite songs she’s written. Like a statement-of-intent for Gag Order, it’s a song of profound dualities about both the safety and trap of silence—“The truth keeps roaring like a lion,” Kesha sings, “That’ll be the cross I’ll die on”—filled with biting, speak-sung lyrics and celestial loops. “It’s me expressing my anger about the whole ******* game, and how I can’t play it anymore,” she says. “It’s exhausting and not sustainable to cater to everyone else’s opinions of who you are.” Kesha wrote the previous track, the chantlike “Living in My Head,” in the throes of a panic attack. The closer “Happy” portrays the divine complexity of speaking one’s truth: “By expressing my sadnesses and insecurities, I came into confidence,” Kesha adds. “That song is like a promise to myself to put that first from here on out” because hard as it may be, honesty is an act of self-love. Gag Order is pitched to honesty from the inside out: “Rick kept taking off all the fancy production, making it super minimal so you could really hear the lyrics,” Kesha says. “That felt symbolic of how he wanted me to really be honest—to have my voice and melodies stand out and shine through. It was empowering and horrifying.” “I know rationally that there is no light without dark, but when it came to sharing emotions I viewed as ugly, I wanted to be kind to the listener and spare them from what I perceived as negativity. I now see that it was just me avoiding what being human is. I needed to love myself enough to give a voice to the dark. Without it, I am unbalanced, and am not practicing real self-love.” As it walks through grief, Gag Order still claws its way towards hope. One interlude features the first-ever cleared samples of late, world-renowned guru Ram Dass to appear outside of explicitly spiritual recordings. “Only Love Reprise” features a sample of Kesha’s niece (“a sweetie pie”) as a reminder to honor your childlike self and your connection to playfulness. (Kesha began carrying around a picture of herself as a kid while making the album.) Owing to that spirit, “All I Need Is You” is a love song that Kesha wrote to a true soulmate: her cat. The following track, “The Drama,” culminates with Kesha expressing a deep-rooted desire—to be reborn as a house cat—delightfully layered over an interpolation that harkens back to her childhood playing punk songs with her brother: The Ramones’ 1978 burnout anthem “I Wanna Be Sedated.” “This song I had never realized was so dark, and I related. When paralyzed with anxiety I wanted to both be sedated and reserve my place in my next reincarnation as a domesticated indoor housecat.” Kesha has, for the record, never actually taken acid. As a child, her mother warned her against it, as she delineates in “Eat the Acid”’s lyrics: “You said don’t ever eat the acid/If you don’t wanna be changed like it changed me.” But the events leading to Gag Order felt like a metaphorical approximation of that experience, as Kesha’s sense of herself and her music clarified and intensified irrevocably. “As an artist, sometimes self-exploration is the art,” she adds. “You become a vessel for what comes of that.” “It’s liberating to show up as who you truly are,” Kesha reflects, “and to not gloss it over or Facetune it or filter it. To really strip it all back and bare my soul felt scarier than anything I’ve ever done. I realized that before, I was kind of making music to please other people. But that’s not where great art is made. To not push myself or take risks felt like I was doing a disservice to my artistry. I don’t get to be an artist and only make safe music; that’s not why I’m here. To do the same safe **** over and over started to feel like spitting in the face of the fact that I’m an artist. The best art should scare me a little bit. This whole album scared the **** out of me.” “It was a necessary step. Now that I’ve written it, I feel so much more complete and whole—like I’m not pretending with everyone. It’s a moment I can say I’m really proud of. I would love for people to sit and get quiet with this record, and maybe get quiet with themselves, and just know that having all these different emotions is safe, it’s okay. And you’re not alone. Not only is it okay, it's powerful, and I am now living with the power that I found in the darkness.” Edited June 16, 2023 by Vixen Eyes
TomTom Posted June 21, 2023 Author Posted June 21, 2023 On 5/25/2023 at 6:50 PM, TomTom2288 said: June 22: deadline for Kesha and to Luke to file their witness and exhibit lists, a joint letter before the fourth pre-trial conference, jury instructions and potentially renewed papers with respect to Dr. Luke's motion to bifurcate the trial and quash Kesha's discovery requests (depending on the decision by New York's highest court). UPDATE: Deadline extended to June 27. https://iapps.courts.state.ny.us/nyscef/ViewDocument?docIndex=PRofcH6SdsOIC526AE_PLUS_WEg==
TomTom Posted June 22, 2023 Author Posted June 22, 2023 I can't stop crying kids, we did it...the evil has been defeated. While this ending may not be what most people hoped for and/or anticipated, it definitely is the best option among the available ones and it certainly is a historic milestone for her to have been able to push one of the most powerful men in the entertainment industry with endless resources into a settlement without a trial only 9 days after he got defeated at the highest court of a US state in his own 9 year-long lawsuit. This outcome would not have been possible without Kesha's current lawyers who did a superb job getting her out of this case by appealing not just one, but two separate decisions through every available instance over a 5-year period, on top of litigating 79 motions in 3367 filed court documents. I have to say, after years of getting immersed in every detail and development of this case, not having to deal with it anymore is certainly gonna feel strange. Nevertheless, I hope and think that all the effort was worth it considering the amount of attention that has been generated for this case in response. I thank you all for all the kind words I have received from so many of you for this work during all those years. #FreeKesha is finally here - after 3173 days of litigation and 18 years of suffering. I can't wait to see what the first completely free chapter of Kesha's career will look like. 6 1
x æ a-xii Posted June 22, 2023 Posted June 22, 2023 10 minutes ago, TomTom2288 said: I can't stop crying kids, we did it...the evil has been defeated. While this ending may not be what most people hoped for and/or anticipated, it definitely is the best option among the available ones and it certainly is a historic milestone for her to have been able to push one of the most powerful men in the entertainment industry with endless resources into a settlement without a trial only 9 days after he got defeated at the highest court of a US state in his own 9 year-long lawsuit. This outcome would not have been possible without Kesha's current lawyers who did a superb job getting her out of this case by appealing not just one, but two separate decisions through every available instance over a 5-year period, on top of litigating 79 motions in 3367 filed court documents. I have to say, after years of getting immersed in every detail and development of this case, not having to deal with it anymore is certainly gonna feel strange. Nevertheless, I hope and think that all the effort was worth it considering the amount of attention that has been generated for this case in response. I thank you all for all the kind words I have received from so many of you for this work during all those years. #FreeKesha is finally here - after 3173 days of litigation and 18 years of suffering. I can't wait to see what the first completely free chapter of Kesha's career will look like. Thank YOU for everything, breaking down all of this legal stuff for us mere mortals lol. I'm so happy this has come to an end and Kesha can finally move on with her life. What I just don't get is why people are so worried about a damn statement, ****'s finally over... we should be celebrating instead of complaining... and to think it took just a little legal win for Kesha for that man to go and settle everything just speaks volumes... and people just don't understand that. I just hope she got a little more than her freedom though, unlike JoJo, who gave up on everything and just walked away free when she parted ways with Blackground. 1
TomTom Posted June 22, 2023 Author Posted June 22, 2023 1 minute ago, x æ a-xii said: What I just don't get is why people are so worried about a damn statement, ****'s finally over... we should be celebrating instead of complaining... and to think it took just a little legal win for Kesha for that man to go and settle everything just speaks volumes... and people just don't understand that. Some people fail to see the bigger picture and lack the necessary factual knowledge to fully understand this subject . Everyone who is in the know is aware of why this case got settled, who was pressured to do so and what those statements actually say and what not. 1
Recycled stardust Posted June 22, 2023 Posted June 22, 2023 43 minutes ago, TomTom2288 said: I can't stop crying kids, we did it...the evil has been defeated. While this ending may not be what most people hoped for and/or anticipated, it definitely is the best option among the available ones and it certainly is a historic milestone for her to have been able to push one of the most powerful men in the entertainment industry with endless resources into a settlement without a trial only 9 days after he got defeated at the highest court of a US state in his own 9 year-long lawsuit. This outcome would not have been possible without Kesha's current lawyers who did a superb job getting her out of this case by appealing not just one, but two separate decisions through every available instance over a 5-year period, on top of litigating 79 motions in 3367 filed court documents. I have to say, after years of getting immersed in every detail and development of this case, not having to deal with it anymore is certainly gonna feel strange. Nevertheless, I hope and think that all the effort was worth it considering the amount of attention that has been generated for this case in response. I thank you all for all the kind words I have received from so many of you for this work during all those years. #FreeKesha is finally here - after 3173 days of litigation and 18 years of suffering. I can't wait to see what the first completely free chapter of Kesha's career will look like. I didn't see this coming and it will take a few time to fully realize it's over
gettsleazy Posted June 23, 2023 Posted June 23, 2023 1 hour ago, TomTom2288 said: I can't stop crying kids, we did it...the evil has been defeated. While this ending may not be what most people hoped for and/or anticipated, it definitely is the best option among the available ones and it certainly is a historic milestone for her to have been able to push one of the most powerful men in the entertainment industry with endless resources into a settlement without a trial only 9 days after he got defeated at the highest court of a US state in his own 9 year-long lawsuit. This outcome would not have been possible without Kesha's current lawyers who did a superb job getting her out of this case by appealing not just one, but two separate decisions through every available instance over a 5-year period, on top of litigating 79 motions in 3367 filed court documents. I have to say, after years of getting immersed in every detail and development of this case, not having to deal with it anymore is certainly gonna feel strange. Nevertheless, I hope and think that all the effort was worth it considering the amount of attention that has been generated for this case in response. I thank you all for all the kind words I have received from so many of you for this work during all those years. #FreeKesha is finally here - after 3173 days of litigation and 18 years of suffering. I can't wait to see what the first completely free chapter of Kesha's career will look like. Getting a little emotional reading this, lol. 🥲 It feels surreal that this is over. Hanging over her career and all of our heads when all we wanted was justice, to have it wrapped up so abruptly after it was clear she was finally getting a leg up… while it’s not the outcome we all wanted in terms of her taking him down publicly, I know in my heart this is the win she wanted. For him to admit defeat, drop the case, and move on from all of this. Tom, I don’t think any of us can thank you enough for everything you’ve done over these past few years. You became our legal scholar and I know for a fact we wouldn’t be able to talk about this case and defend her truth in the way we have without your insight. I am so ******* grateful for you! The statement isn’t sexy, it isn’t fun, and I’m sure it’s going to be dissected by the machine a lot over the coming weeks, but WE and HER know this is exactly what needed to happen. I remember just last year we were fantasizing about a settlement, at the time the best possible outcome, and it’s finally here. 3
TomTom Posted June 23, 2023 Author Posted June 23, 2023 1 minute ago, gettsleazy said: Tom, I don’t think any of us can thank you enough for everything you’ve done over these past few years. You became our legal scholar and I know for a fact we wouldn’t be able to talk about this case and defend her truth in the way we have without your insight. I am so ******* grateful for you! Aww, thanks so much . Couldn't agree more with everything you said!
Vixen Eyes Posted June 24, 2023 Posted June 24, 2023 @TomTom2288 whats the best way to respond to this? 2 minutes ago, Dior said: I haven't been keeping up with Kesha's feud with Dr. Luke but that statement as another user said is a terrible look for her. Did she ever provide proof he abused her? I remember seeing an interview video of her specifically saying they never had sex. I can see how some users and people see something is fishy without the context of complex legal and social aspects.
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