The singer gets back behind the wheel of the gold Trans Am an unfaithful friend stole from her all those years ago and revs up for a nuclear night out<\/p>\n
\n\tBetrayal has never looked so nostalgic: Kesha<\/a> has finally released the music video for \u201cBackstabber,\u201d a deep cut from her second studio album Animal, released in 2010. The singer gets back behind the wheel of the gold Trans Am an unfaithful friend stole from her all those years ago and revs up for a nuclear night out. <\/p>\n \n\tThe Syndrome-directed video has been in limbo for nearly two decades, with fans clinging onto an unfinished, leaked cut that surfaced online but never materialized as a proper release. Kesha shared on X that she\u2019s been trying to get it released \u201cthis whole time,\u201d but says the reason for the hold up is a \u201clongggg storyyyyyyy.\u201d<\/p>\n \n\t\u201cBackstabber\u201d has surged on TikTok in recent years, but day one Kesha fans know the record preceded even \u201cTik Tok,\u201d the debut single she released in 2009. Around 2008, the track was made available exclusively on MySpace \u2014 the social site was once an unhinged playground for Kesha and her earliest fans.<\/p>\n \t\tTrending Stories<\/p>\n \n\t\u201cBackstabber\u201d became a favorite amongst Kesha fans, mostly because almost everyone has a story of a friend screwing them over \u2014 even if it wasn\u2019t as bad as what her friend did to her. \u201cA very close friend of mine stole my car one night,\u201d Kesha told Billboard<\/a> in 2010. \u201cThe car is gone, and I was like, \u2018What a backstabber!\u2019 And then I found out that she was also talking shit, so I was like, \u2018What a shit-talker!\u2019 \u2026 I was like, \u2018We should write a song about this girl.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n \n\tIn the \u201cBackstabber\u201d video, Kesha gets her revenge. Not only does she get her Firebird back, she also slaps the girl who stole it clear across her face. As she heads off into the night, her true friends stay behind to land a few punches of their own. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The singer gets back behind the wheel of the gold Trans Am an unfaithful friend stole from her…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":666062,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[93,61,60,13529,278],"class_list":["post-666061","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-entertainment","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-kesha","tag-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/666061","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=666061"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/666061\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/666062"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=666061"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=666061"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=666061"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}