Rainbow
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Rainbow
Rainbow is the third studio album by American singer Kesha. It was released on August 11, 2017 by Kemosabe and RCA Records. Primarily a pop record, Rainbow incorporates elements of pop rock, glam rock, neo soul and country pop. Its lyrical themes range from letting go of the past, finding forgiveness within oneself for past mistakes, self-worthand, in some cases, female empowerment.-Wikipedia
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Pitchfork
Kesha’s musical career has been defined by her work with Dr. Luke. On her third album, she begins something new and promising.
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Rolling Stone
Kesha’s Battle Cry of Many Colors on ‘Rainbow’. The singer channels five years of personal hardship into resilient, genre-smashing pop
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New York Times
On ‘Rainbow,’ Kesha Nods to the Past and Roars Into the Future.
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VARIETY
The return to Kesha Mach 1 ridiculousness feels refreshing and, just maybe, even more authentic. Not that you’d want her to push past her pain prematurely, but when it comes to the writing part, Kesha just happens to still be cleverer at playing koo-koo than guru.
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The Guardian
Kesha: Rainbow review – a woman unchained. After years of legal wrangles, the former purveyor of pop fodder delivers a strong third album that deserves to be a hit
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Consequence of Sound
A record that embodies the way that hope itself is a kind of triumph.
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NME
Californian pop hero Kesha returns with a defiant country and garage rock-tinged triumph.
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AV CLUB MUSIC
Kesha finds her true colors on her comeback record Rainbow. The brilliance of Rainbow is that it reflects Kesha’s current ordeal, but it does it through lyrics and themes that are broad enough to avoid being tied solely to this moment in time—or just to her..
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Entertainment Weekly
Kesha's comeback album Rainbow is an artistic triumph. But Rainbow, her rich, masterful third LP, is far more than a kiss-off to old demons — it’s an artistic feat, as Kesha unites stylistic forays with her sharp, weathered lyricism.
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The Telegraph
Kesha, Rainbow, review: 'songs of recovery, liberation and sheer relief'
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VANITY FAIR
Kesha’s Rainbow Is a Defiant Comeback Rainbow is the singer’s first album in five years, and it manages to be worth the wait.
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SPIN
Rainbow is a document of Kesha coming into her own, blossoming into the artist she’s always truly wanted to become.
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The Atlantic
The Very Human Return of Kesha After a public legal and personal struggle, the pop star is back with Rainbow, an album that blends fantasy fun and bummer reality.
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abc NEWS
Kesha's new album 'Rainbow' is 'a rebirth'.
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COSMOPOLITAN
Ultimately, it is a testament to Kesha’s innate understanding of what makes a human just that: complications and contradictions and pain and joy.
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USA TODAY
With 'Rainbow,' Kesha is an artist reborn. By the numbers, Rainbow is Kesha’s third studio album. But spiritually, it’s her first.
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Paste Magazine
Rainbow is as much about liberation as it is acknowledgement, and Kesha could have played it out differently.
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SLANT MAGAZINE
The Kesha v. Dr. Luke lawsuit is still tied up in the courts, but Kesha at least seems to have won a symbolic victory, as she claims that Rainbow, her first album in nearly five years, is the one she’s always wanted to make.
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Popsugar
Kesha's Rainbow Is Full of Bangers and Hymns, and It May Be the Most Important Album of the Year.
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Tiny Mix Tapes
“Defiant” may be a term too often misused in an age of empowerment feminism, but it’s absolutely fitting for this album.
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UNDER THE RADAR
On Rainbow, Kesha sounds breathless. Her third studio album is an album about survival, and if Kesha is exhausted, she has every right to be. What results is an unsurprisingly impassioned, if all-over-the-place, pop record.
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DROWNED IN SOUND
Five years on from 2012’s Warrior, she returns with Rainbow - her resurrection, her phoenix.
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ALL MUSIC
Still, the heart of Rainbow lies in its stirring ballads, and while these odes to self-empowerment are endemic to 2010s pop, Kesha's emotions feel earned not because we know her backstory but because her songs are specific, not generic.
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Huffington Post
Kesha’s Album Is Not Only An Inspiration, But Also Just Really Good. “Rainbow,” the pop artist’s first full-length album since 2012, represents a major move forward both personally and musically.
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THE YOUNG FOLKS
Rainbow brings us a Kesha who has reclaimed her story, despite having her career and life thrown completely off course.
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plugged in
That jarring contrast—between gritty determination and vulgar indulgence—permeates Rainbows.
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PureMzine
Kesha’s authentic personality shines throughout Rainbow. And as expected from the past few years, she tells her story through each track. She is reborn through this beautiful masterpiece.
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The Jakarta Post
...Rainbow capitalizes on Kesha’s veracity to her character — a character that she once had to temper or tweak — so well that the record is a largely successful stab at a well-sequenced, full-fledged album.
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Vox
2017’s most powerful album answered a pressing, crucial question about enduring abuse: What comes next?
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POPMATTERS
Forged out of difficult circumstances, Rainbow emerges with such absolute confidence of vision that it instantly goes down as one of the best pop albums of the year.
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The Times
Kesha lets rip on Rainbow, embracing her love of rock and country.
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UPROXX
Kesha’s ‘Rainbow’ Is A Joyous Comeback Album Bigger Than Her Trauma.
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HIGHSNOBIETY
On Rainbow, you’re not going to find anything like the turned-up tracks Kesha is known for – “Timber,” “Tik Tok,” or “Die Young,” to name a few. The anthems that projected an image of the singer-songwriter as a nihilistic party girl that couldn’t care less are nowhere to be found. Instead, Kesha is unapologetically herself, making music she’s proud of.
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DIGITAL JOURNAL
Kesha — Queen of Billboard charts with superb new album 'Rainbow'
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Evening Standard
a bold new sense of purpose. It turns out that Californian diva Kesha has many gifts.
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The Fire Note
the tale of Kesha Rose Sebert, formerly of the $, who escaped her Svengali of a producer/label head, and entered rehab to deal with bulimia, only to return to recording with as strong and enjoyable an album as anyone could hope for.
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Hard Rock
With nothing left to prove as a pop star, Kesha’s identity finally comes into focus and she sounds free of the burden that came with being Ke$ha. Consider Rainbow a rocky first step in a very positive direction.
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exclaim
Kesha's latest album, Rainbow, is a testament to her strength — and not just in its lyrical content or fearless genre-jumping.
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AMNPLIFY
Just like a rainbow having different colours, this analogy corresponds immensely with Kesha’s album as the versatility brings out many different sides of the songstress.
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Newsday
Back when she was Ke$ha, her interests mainly seemed to be partying and making money, which are fine, if hollow, musical ambitions. With “Rainbow” (Kemosabe / RCA), Kesha has found numerous causes to embrace and, more importantly, her own artistic voice.
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GLAMOUR
With 'Rainbow,' I feel like I'm hearing Kesha for the first time. Kesha is triumphant. She's loud, she's strong, and—and most important—she's being heard for the first time.
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Linked in
Her voice is so unique. She has a strong voice and you can tell how free she feels. She definitely proved all the haters wrong. She got her true self back. She hit a home run with this new album. From the first to the last song - she put her heart , soul, and mind into this album
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COMPLEX
For those who have followed her closely, and without dismissing her trash-glam aesthetic as merely nonsense, Rainbow is the fulfillment of the not-so-secret ambitions she’s held all along.
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sputnik music
Rainbow is steadfastly, stubbornly about embracing a new identity.
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The Line of Best Fit
After her long running legal battle with former collaborator Dr. Luke, the release of Kesha’s latest album Rainbow is her long awaited and highly anticipated response to her prior treatment in the music industry.
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Pretty Much Amazing
Rainbow may not contain the electrobops you expect from Kesha, but it does possess what drew everyone to her in the first place: confidence and sonic booms.
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The Odyssey
We actually get to hear Kesha's real, incredible voice, instead of it being masked by autotune. While she's been to hell and back, there are some elements of the same old Kesha there, and she keeps an overall positive outlook on what has happened to her and where her life is going.
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W Magazine
On Rainbow, Kesha revisits the pre-Dr. Luke Kesha to find her future.
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earbuddy
Kesha survives the Dr. Luke ordeal and her former dollar sign name to arrive at the other side of the rainbow.
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Irish Examiner
Kesha’s first album in five years is the pop equivalent of a franchise reboot.
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PANTHER PRINT
From wild child to a carefree goddess, Rainbow is an array of Kesha’s fiery, assertive and fun-loving personality. With a dash of Nashville spunk and electric funk, Rainbow is truly a unique experience, and only with 15 tracks.
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EXEPOSE'
Maybe it’s her well documented struggles with rehab that have had this effect, or perhaps it’s simply due to the fact that she has now entered her 30th, brilliant year. But she seems to have slightly toned down the crazy, at least for now, and as a result, this new era of Kesha instead offers us, at least at times, a poignancy previously unseen.
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Star Tribune
"I've been through hell and back," Kesha sings on her new album, and even casual listeners are likely to know the circumstances of her trip.
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The Arts Desk
Kesha's comeback is full of vim and studded with gems which bode well for the future
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the music.com.au
Kesha is clearly at the top of her game with her new found, hard won freedom.
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NZ Herald.co.nz
Rainbow is exactly the kind of album you would've expected; it's full of anthems and party tracks about empowerment, independence, survival and forgiveness, and if the ultimate revenge truly is living well, then she's sure as hell getting it.
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UNCLEAR MAGAZINE
Overall, the album as an entirety is a fun and positive production that I highly recommend.
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axs
Rainbow, her third full-length project, is rated as her comeback album and what a comeback it is.
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the musical hype
After a five-year hiatus, pop superstar Kesha returns better than ever on her third studio album, ‘Rainbow.’
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The Cobra Chronicle
This album is a true musical adventure.
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pressplayok
Kesha has said that she has based this record on her ‘true’ influences, which makes us wonder what sort of tumult her celebrated output rose from and, indeed, which colours of this rainbow might represent her most honest sides.
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NOW Toronto
Rainbow doesn't quite "free Kesha" but it is "Kesha, free".
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DAILY BRUIN
Kesha returned in full force Friday with a playful country flair, showcasing a range of genres that is refreshingly folksy and genuine.
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SCAD District
From all of that hardship—and five years of silence—came her most personal and most recent album, “Rainbow.” A therapeutic work for sure, “Rainbow” depicts Kesha’s slow but steady transition from hurting to healing.
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the pop break
With all of Rainbow’s flaws, it’s a powerful album from an artist who has been to hell and back.
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Renowned For Sound
The return of Kesha feels like a key music moment for this decade.
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Cryptic Rock
Kesha surpassed and exceeded the expectations of listeners worldwide when Rainbow hit.
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Entertainment FOCUS
Rainbow is like you’re hearing Kesha truly for the first time, free from any shackles and able to express herself truly as an artist.
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Study Breaks
After five long years trapped by contract to an abusive music producer, Kesha returns with an album full of humility, love and integrity.
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prefix
Troubled star fights back with eclectic record she was born to make.
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PopCrush
Rainbow, the artist's deeply-visceral and musically-adventurous new collection of music, is her opus: an assortment of stunningly intimate musings, defying battle cries on womanhood and empowering tributes to the outcasts in search of redemption. She’s been a “prisoner of the past” for far too long, as she sings on "Learn to Let Go," but that pain has led her to freedom.
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Daily Beast
The pop superstar’s soul-baring third studio album chronicles her journey out of the darkness and into the light.
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STITCHED SOUND
The album sees a new sound for the pop singer and offers listeners with one of the most graceful and empowering f**k you’s out there.
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The Current Sauce
Five years after her release of “Warrior,” Kesha released a powerhouse of an album, “Rainbow,” which, as the name suggests, explores providential outcomes of the stormiest of situations and champions resilience in the face of adversity.
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Rithyms
you can see how much of a 360 she has turned from her past persona with songs such as “Tik Tok”.
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FOXIE HEART
Thank Goddess that Kesha is back. She sounds a little different, she's looks a little different, and she's a goddess damn kween who's been through...the...wringer.
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Immortal Reviews
KESHA BOUNCES BACK IN CONFIDENT NEW ALBUM "RAINBOW".
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Parkway West Pathfinder
Overall, this album contains enough variation in its songs to please everybody—fans and strangers alike. Leaving the listener content and inspired, it advocates strongly for being courageous despite your troubles.
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Pop Insomniacs
Rainbow is a solid, compelling work signalling the return of a potent artist. Kesha began her career in the vein of a party girl, sipping whiskey in bathtubs and staggering from one debauched bash to the next. This time around, her eyes are clear, her shields are gone, and her soul is bare.
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The Sentry
Serbert preaches a new kind of carelessness in Rainbow. It is filled with authentic and empowering tunes that take listeners on a journey through the singer’s personal revolution.
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Album Confessions
Rainbow is Kesha’s strongest full body of work to date. Those expecting the loud, drunken party pop gems of her early days will be disappointed, but can still find appreciation for her outrageous and ruthless jazz, country and rock experiments
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The National
Kesha shines bright on Rainbow The US pop star returns with a confident and brave new album.
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Idolator
Everything is coming together for Kesha at the moment. Not only is Rainbow a massive commercial success, it’s also garnering the best reviews of her career.
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The Phoenix Remix
The album Rainbow has a very different feel to it compared to her back catalogue – it has a much more mature feel and does not have any silly songs on it like Dinosaur that if you are a Kesha fan you will remember well.
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The Irish Times
Kesha has shown phenomenal strength of character in recent years and Rainbow, the most colourful of comebacks, captures her new lease of life and it feels so right.
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Echo
‘Rainbow’ illuminates Kesha’s once-suppressed evolution. Sebert’s comeback album kills her contrived party-girl-ego.
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Salute
Kesha comes back stronger with Rainbow. Wrought with emotion and brutal honesty.
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Enuffa
an eclectic, defiant, and ultimately triumphant collection of pop, folk, rock, and country-western songs from an artist finally free to make music she truly believes in.
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The Yale Herald
Ke$ha, the raucous party girl with only drugs and sex on her mind, has evolved into a woman unafraid to bear her scars and share her story.
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The Stylus
This album feels like a personal invitation into Kesha’s diary and the raw vulnerability displayed is deeply moving and relatable. This album is a beautiful exploration into the newfound freedom owned by Kesha.
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Uinterview
Rainbow shows that Kesha is back and with a force, both as a musician and even more so as advocate for women who have unfortunately been put in the same, seemingly hopeless, situation that she has been experiencing for the past several years.
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Washington Blade
It’s a new sound with new maturity for Kesha on her new album ‘Rainbow.
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Metro
Kesha’s album is a powerful, empowering, feminist, uplifting and absolutely beautiful.
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Breathe Heavy
Kesha learns to love and let go on vibrant new album, Rainbow, her first full-length project in five years.
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EL BROIDE
‘Rainbow’ is a beautiful piece of art. What makes the album special is that Kesha is telling her story through her music. She is dealing with her demons through her music and she is finally finding her old self again (as seen through her music).
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STACK
perhaps our most in-depth, unfiltered look at the musician’s songwriting to date. She’s lost the $ and most of the pop, and as a result has released a 14-track album that’s part retaliation to the Dr Luke saga, part coming-out of sorts.
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The Nope Book
Kesha’s ‘Rainbow’ is an Ode To Self Love, Healing and Smashing the Haters
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The Badger Herald
Kesha moves past ‘party girl’ persona in latest album Pop artist blossoms like never before with newfound artistic freedom
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The Berkshire Eagle
It's not technically perfect, but musically, it's flawless. This is freedom. Though she has been singing for years, she is now truly saying something.
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Vulture Hound
Without a shadow of a doubt, this is her most important album to date.
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The Thin Air/Global Arts and Culture with a Local Accent
Now Kesha, reborn without the dollar sign, has released a genuinely great record in the form of Rainbow.
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Telegram
Overall, Kesha glows, and “Rainbow” is radiant.
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HeadStuff
powerful statement on the singer’s journey from broken down to unbreakable, as she continues a legal battle against her producer and alleged abuser Dr. Luke.
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The Music Mermaid
our pop princess rightfully makes her return with Rainbow, a stunning and electic album full of heartfelt ballads and in-your-face anthems.
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