Kesha may have pulled out the dollar -signature From her name, but now, the singer thinks of money again – not for herself, but to finance the seed around her new startup, Smash.
According to Instagram passe up by KeshaSmash will be a “community platform for connecting and protecting musical creators”, which is in line with the mission of her new eponymous record labelwhich she announced last year.
The 38-year-old charts have always been more than a bright dressing girl singing about brushing his teeth with Jack Daniel’s. Under her infectious 2010 Pop is a darker story – one in which she felt stripped of her powerboth as an artist and a person, from a Discount Record Agreement that she signed when she was a teenager.
After a traumatic public legal battle With her producer, Kesha now says she is “Free woman,” And she makes new music. Both her label, Kesha Records, and the app Smash seek to help others make music without compromising their creative rights.
“I want a place where artists and musicians can have a community, they can collaborate, they can hire each other and retain all the rights to everything they create,” Kesha said In an interview with Wired. “There is no gate of contacts.”
She continued to describe the application as “LinkedIn for musical creators”, or “Fiverr-style market.” The difference is that Smash plans to prioritize artists’ rights at each stage.
Kesha’s CTO about the project is Alan Cannistra. He spent 12 years at Apple building some of the first iOS programs, later worked on Facebook, where he built the year-review feature. He left to start a social video platform called Rheowhich Techcrunch covered in 2016.
