After bursting onto the pop scene in 2009 because the featured vocalist on Flo Rida’s “Proper Spherical” and together with her personal Billboard Sizzling 100 No. 1 “Tik Tok,” Kesha (going by Ke$ha on the time) shortly established herself as one of many prime party-girl singers of her technology. After the success of her debut album Animal and its follow-up EP Cannibal (each 2010), Kesha took her second studio album, Warrior, as a possibility to indicate the world there was extra to her than simply tipsy membership anthems.
Launched 10 years in the past (Nov. 30, 2012 in Australia; Dec. 4, 2012 in America), Warrior noticed Kesha constructing upon the pop aesthetic she had already established—one in every of pleasure, enjoyable and freedom—whereas realizing extra of her potential as an artist, efficiently incorporating rock, punk and nation into her present palette of pop, hip-hop and dance. On prime of that, Warrior noticed her turning into extra lyrically uncooked and private on a handful of tracks — this newfound vulnerability helped manifest the album’s central theme of embracing your inside warrior.
Whereas Warrior didn’t obtain as a lot success because the Billboard 200-topping Animal, peaking at No. 6 on that chart, its lead single “Die Younger” was a industrial success, reaching No. 2 on the Billboard Sizzling 100. Subsequent singles “C’Mon” and “Loopy Youngsters” peaked at Nos. 27 and 40, respectively.
In the end, the album continued to show Kesha’s star energy and skill to make a mark on the pop music business — and in some methods, it gave hints of what was to come back on her triumphant return in 2017 with Rainbow.
Right here, we rank all the usual tracks of Warrior in celebration of it turning 10.
