{"id":104281,"date":"2025-07-30T08:02:10","date_gmt":"2025-07-30T08:02:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/104281\/"},"modified":"2025-07-30T08:02:10","modified_gmt":"2025-07-30T08:02:10","slug":"kesha-fights-tears-while-performing-happy-at-ohio-show-watch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/104281\/","title":{"rendered":"Kesha Fights Tears While Performing &#8216;Happy&#8217; at Ohio Show: Watch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\tAn emotional <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/kesha\/\" id=\"auto-tag_kesha\" data-tag=\"kesha\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Kesha<\/a> fought back tears as she performed her 2023 deepcut \u201cHappy\u201d during a show in Ohio on Monday night.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\t\u201cThere\u2019s so many things I\u2019d change, but I can\u2019t,\u201d she sang, squinting her eyes to hold in the tears, while physically holding in sobs. \u201cThere\u2019s so many things I said that I wish I left unsaid\/Time\u2019s passin\u2019 me by\/ Gotta just laugh so I don\u2019t cry.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\tAfter the pre-chorus, and as the crowd applauded and held up lights on their phone, Kesha wiped her tears, saying, \u201cFuck, sorry,\u201d before continuing the song. In one TikTok video, Kesha could be seen strumming the guitar and singing along, wearing a party hat on her head.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\t\u201cHappy\u201d closed Gag Order, her final album under her fraught contract with Dr. Luke\u2019s Kemosabe Records. During a previous <a href=\"https:\/\/www.phoenixnewtimes.com\/music\/kesha-scissor-sisters-tits-out-tour-phoenix-22070867\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">show in Phoenix<\/a>, Kesha introduced the track by telling the crowd: \u201cI made this song saying one day I\u2019ll been happy, and truth is, now I\u2019ve never been happier in my life.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\t\u201cHappy\u201d is one of the few, stripped-back moments on the high-energy show, which includes many of Kesha\u2019s party anthems, including \u201cDie Young,\u201d \u201cCannibal,\u201d \u201cC\u2019Mon,\u201d and \u201cWe R Who We R.\u201d She also plays songs from her <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-album-reviews\/kesha-period-review-1235377454\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">newest album Period<\/a>, stylized as the punctuation mark (.), including fan faves \u201cJoyride,\u201d \u201cBoy Crazy,\u201d and \u201cDelusional.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\t\tTrending Stories<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\tKesha is currently on her <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/kesha-tour-dates-scissor-sisters-slayyyter-1235309884\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Tits Out Tour,<\/a> celebrating her newfound contractual freedom and Period, which will be released on\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/kesha-launches-her-own-record-label-1235109990\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Kesha Records,<\/a>\u00a0the independent label she launched in 2024 with distribution from Warner Music Group\u2019s independent distribution arm ADA Worldwide. She\u2019ll hit cities including Virginia Beach, Raleigh, Charlotte, West Palm Beach, and Tampa through August, before taking the tour to Europe next year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An emotional Kesha fought back tears as she performed her 2023 deepcut \u201cHappy\u201d during a show in Ohio&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":104282,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[171,3025,975,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-104281","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-music","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-kesha","10":"tag-music","11":"tag-united-states","12":"tag-unitedstates","13":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114941142568524842","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104281","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=104281"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104281\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/104282"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=104281"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=104281"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=104281"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}