I don’t know Kesha is telling the truth, and I am willing to leave it up the the legal system to determine whether her producer should be convicted and what his sentence should be.
I do not, however, think that she should be legally obliged to never write or perform another song unless she records several more albums with someone she clearly hates. I’ve got issues with the American legal system, but in this case the issue I have is with Sony and Dr. Luke, who have the ability to release an artist from a contract that she will never complete, and that is shoveling mounds of awful publicity on them, but are still NOT WILLING TO DO IT. Apparently this is to set an example to other artists and show them that there is no way out of your contract…ever…in any case…even if it means you never write a song again with us or without us.
That seems like a pretty awful reason to put a person through this Hell.
It does not seem like the behavior of rational, compassionate adults to see this situation and say “Well, what if she’s just throwing a tantrum…what if she’s just making it all up to get out of a contract.”
Even if that is the case, the contract must be an awful enough thing in the life of this young woman that she will go through years of expensive, painful, embarrassing bullshit to free herself from it. If I was the entertainment industry CEO in this situation, I would be questioning not just the legitimacy of my actions, but the legitimacy of my entire business model if it requires such draconian control over the freedom of performers.
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