The Flaming Lips' Wayne Coyne, who recorded an album with Kesha, has spoken out about the singer's legal battle against her producer Dr Luke.
Speaking to Radio.com, the frontman protested repeatedly that he did not "know the situation" but did feel uncomfortable about the singer/producer relationship.
"I don’t know Dr. Luke at all, but when we [Kesha and I] speak, I know there’s some anxiety about their relationship," he said.
Coyne added: "I think she would like to have the freedom to do more things in that spirit. Where it’s not — again, I don’t know their situation — but where it’s not producers producing her. She could produce herself, that’s probably what she is wanting to happen with her own career.
"I love Kesha, she’s great. Miley is a lot more of her own entity, I think the success of Hannah Montana has allowed her to be the king of her own destiny. And I think Kesha will get to that eventually. She doesn’t have that sort of power now, but I think she will eventually."
Coyne recorded four or five songs with Kesha for a scrapped record entitled Lip$ha. He was told they weren't allowed to release it. "The stuff that we did together [with Kesha] was just spectacular, and it made us want to do more. And I think we did like four or five songs, and then Kesha would remind me, ’Wayne, I can’t put this music out, Dr. Luke will kill me.’
When asked about the initial recording of the album by Rolling Stone in last year. “I just make music with her because I think she’s cool. The rest we’ll have to let [the record label] sort out.” Coyne broke the news on Twitter today, writing, “As of now… sadly there will be no Lip$ha… I can’t say why… It is sad…”
Speaking after the album was scrapped Kesha herself told the magazine that she no longer had creative control of her own records. "What's been put out as singles have just perpetuated a particular image that may or may not be entirely accurate. I'd like to show the world other sides of my personality. I don't want to just continue putting out the same song and becoming a parody myself. I have so much more to offer than that and I can't wait till the world really gets to hear that on the radio."
As previously reported, earlier this month Kesha filed a lawsuit against her former producer DR Luke for physical and sexual abuse this week.
In a report by TMZ, Kesha has claimed the producer - real name Lukasz Gottwald - would ply her with drugs and alchohol, be physically violent towards her and, on one occasion, forced himself on her. In another instance the producer apparently gave the singer what he described as "sober pills" which resulted in Kesha waking up the following afternoon, naked in Dr. Luke's bed with no memory of how she got there.
However it emerged this week that Kesha once testified under oath that the sexual coercion she described at the centre of her new lawsuit against Dr Luke never took place. As reported by NY Daily News, Kesha said in a secret deposition testimony in June 2011 that Dr. Luke never gave her cocaine, a "roofie" or coerced her into sex. Most damningly for her case, at one point Kesha says "Dr. Luke never made sexual advances at me" under oath.
Dr Luke has co-written or co-produced more than 30 Top ten singles since 2004 and including Miley Cyrus 'Wrecking Ball', Kelly Clarkson's Since You've Been Gone and Katy Perry's Roar. He signed Kesha when she was 18 and produced her first key tracks 'Right Round' and 'Tik Tok'.