Review: Kesha, Dodging the Past, but Still Relying on It - The New York Times
Jon Caramanica
During her unwelcome encore, she gnawed at the chorus of Dolly Parton’s “Jolene” for a few melancholy minutes, then sang “Old Flames Can’t Hold a Candle to You,” a country standard written in part by her mother, closing out the tepid rendition by asserting, “I’m sick and tired of hearing people say I can’t sing, so there!” She was better when using songs to make statements: Lesley Gore’s defiant “You Don’t Own Me,” or Bob Dylan’s “I Shall Be Released,” which closed the show.
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