When Kesha goes on tour, she likes to make the most of her time in a new city. Case in point: When her Only Love Tour recently stopped in Denver, she spent a rare night off chasing ghosts around the famed Stanley Hotel.
“It’s where Stephen King wrote The Shining, and after ghost-hunting there with my friends last night, this morning I saw a frozen dead man,” Kesha told Vogue from the road. “He was cryogenically frozen in the 1960s and now is being kept naked, wrapped in a sleeping bag, hung upside down in a house outside the hotel, next to a pet cemetery.”
Even now that she’s traded brushing her teeth with Jack Daniels for sitting front row at New York Fashion Week, Kesha hasn’t given up being a loud-and-proud freak; she did, after all, once claim that she’d had sex with a phantom. It’s part of the reason she’s found such a devoted following, one as enamored with her early club hits as with her more vulnerable later recordings.
“I felt like my album Gag Order was truly art made with the intention of personal, spiritual excavation, and I wanted my live show to transport my fans to the inside of my head,” Kesha says. “I have a newfound freedom in my life and I have recreated some of my biggest hit songs in a way that I can find a newfound joy in [them]. I always find joy when I share the music with my animals.”
To commemorate the end of the Only Love Tour, Kesha shared some exclusive snaps with Vogue from her life on the road.