“I felt really torn for a long time about how to interact with the first couple of albums I put out,” Kesha tells Rolling Stone Music Now . But after reaching a settlement in her long, ugly legal battle with ex-producer Dr. Luke — and launching her own label , Kesha Records — she’s finally comfortable looking back fondly at her glitter-spattered early days.

With a new 15th anniversary deluxe version of her debut, Animal , and its follow-up, Cannibal , due this week, Kesha went deep on the making of those releases in the new episode of Rolling Stone Music Now . “I went back and realized that was just me,” she says. “I love that I was so playful and that I just didn’t give a fuck. And I love that I was so naive about having fun in front of the whole world. What a fearless

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