Praying (Kesha) – 2017

This song was a powerful one by Kesha in 2017. She had fought so hard in a long legal battle as she tried to break free from a contract with a producer whom she accused of drugging and assaulting her. The song, “Praying,” came as she began to feel empathy, even for someone that had hurt and scared her.

When she wrote the song, she was hoping that everyone who needed to could heal, including the person who hurt her. She talked about this in a piece that she wrote for Lenny Letter where she expressed that it was a song of triumph over adversity.