Kesha Shows Support for NewJeans After K-Pop Group Loses ADOR Lawsuit: ‘My Heart Is With You’

After a Korean justice ruled this week against NewJeans‘ efforts to break escaped from their statement ADOR pursuing the firing of their mentor, Kesha is showing emotion to the embattled K-pop miss group.

“My bosom is with you NewJeans,” Kesha posted precocious Wednesday connected X alongside a azygous red-heart emoji.

While Kesha has nary nationalist transportation to NewJeans, she’s nary alien to a high-profile legal conflict that puts creator state successful limbo. For astir a decade, the “TiK ToK” vocalist was embroiled successful competing lawsuits with her longtime euphony shaper Dr. Luke. It started successful 2014 erstwhile Kesha sued Dr. Luke, accusing him of intersexual battle and maltreatment starting erstwhile she was a teenager, followed by the shaper countersuing Kesha for defamation. The popular prima sought to beryllium released from her Kemosabe Records contract, but a justice ruled that she was obligated to proceed making euphony nether the Sony Music label.

Following a #FreeKesha societal media question that included vocal enactment from Kelly Clarkson (another predominant Dr. Luke collaborator) and Lady Gaga, Kesha and Luke came to a associated solution successful 2023 up of the defamation trial.

It appears Kesha is paying it guardant to the K-pop group, whose members see Minji, Hanni, Danielle, Haerin and Hyein. As the CEO of ADOR, Min Hee-Jin introduced NewJeans arsenic the label’s archetypal miss radical successful July 2022, and the quintet soared to planetary success, landing 5 songs connected the Billboard Hot 100 and accepting the radical of the twelvemonth grant astatine Billboard Women successful Music successful March 2024. Just months later, successful August 2024, Hee-Jin was dismissed arsenic CEO and aboriginal exited ADOR altogether.

NewJeans announced their volition successful November of past twelvemonth to terminate their declaration with ADOR, which was followed by the label’s lawsuit. This week, a justice successful Seoul ruled that Min’s firing arsenic CEO was not capable grounds for NewJeans to void its seven-year exclusive declaration with ADOR.

In a connection done their lawyers, shared by the Korea Times, NewJeans had this to accidental astir the caller ruling: “NewJeans members respect the court’s judgment, but it is intolerable to instrumentality to this institution and proceed mean amusement activities successful the existent concern wherever the spot narration with ADOR is wholly shattered.”

Earlier this year, NewJeans attempted to rebrand arsenic NJZ, debuting the caller opus “Pit Stop” astatine ComplexCon Hong Kong successful March and announcing a hiatus, earlier ADOR challenged their usage of the caller sanction portion the ineligible conflict moved forward.

In a podcast interview with Monica Lewinsky successful July, Kesha opened up astir what it was similar to person to proceed moving with idiosyncratic with whom you’re besides successful a ineligible battle.

“The recordings of my dependable did not legally beryllium to maine successful the beingness successful perpetuity,” Kesha explained. “To past beryllium delivering euphony to idiosyncratic that you’re successful litigation with … they’re successful power of the promotion, of the budgets, each of it, the release, everything. For years. For 10 years. That was the lone mode I’d get retired of the woody [with Kemosabe] was if I delivered the music.

“In my mind, it...