One that either takes you back to the all-consuming emotions of being 17 years old, or, if you’re actually 17, gives you the toolkit to cope with what you’re going through right now. The kind of pop album that has people reverting to early internet behavior, where subtweeting song lyrics is the new AIM away message. At 18 years old, Olivia has already mastered the earworm, the line you’ll be humming under your breath for weeks. when it drops. We can't wait to create our own Kesha-inspired makeup looks, especially that rainbow shadow she's rocking in the video. Plus, Kesha's new album,High Road, For me, just by being on a show called Black-ish, race became an unavoidable conversation. It gave me this platform to address these topics, and that opened the doors to develop my voice in an intentional way. On a personal level, even though I was always hyperaware of our history, I didn’t put race in a real physical context until I hit my teens. Being mixed—I’m half Iranian and half black—even has its strange amalgamation of problems. The first instance that really rubbed me the wrong way was when somebody called me whitewashed. I couldn’t process what that meant. In theory, I’d heard all the stereotypes. But it was my first time seeing, Oh, wow, people still believe in a black stereotype. What was conflicting was that I was surrounded by successful women and people of color who were—by society’s view—the anomaly. All around me, there were examples of excellence and excelling. But because I carried myself a certain way, I wasn’t a “believable” black person to them. That was the strangest moment.RB: series for several years, she’s showed audiences time and again that some people are willing to go to great lengths just to experience love.