Kesha Joins Sammy Hagar for This Van Halen Song at Night 1 of Las Vegas Residency
At the kick-off show of Sammy Hagar‘s Las Vegas residency, Kesha joined the rocker onstage at Dolby Live at Park MGM on Wednesday night for an especially charged performance of Van Halen’s “Ain’t Talkin’ ‘Bout Love.”
In footage from the night, bassist Michael Anthony is taking lead vocals on the 1978 track as usual, when the “Tik Tok” singer arrives for a cameo. Walking out with Hagar — who proclaims, “Kesha in the house!” — the pair provide backup vocals while hugging and spinning around together onstage.
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Backstage, Kesha and the Red Rocker had a lovefest captured by a clip on the former’s Instagram Story. While hugging, Hagar tells the camera that his wife “Kari [Karte] even lets me love this girl.”
“She’s my favorite child,” he adds, as Karte — to whom he’s been married since 1995 — jokingly proclaims out of frame, “But you can’t look at her naked pictures!”
“Sorry,” replies a laughing Kesha, who’s indeed been showing a bit of skin in her recent Instagram posts lately. “I’m going to block you on Instagram.”
The show marked the first of nine total shows of Hagar’s The Best of All Worlds residency, which has upcoming performances scheduled for Friday and Saturday night, as well as more dates May 7-17. Also during the kick-off, the band played “Love Walks In” from Van Halen’s 1986 album 5150 for the first time in more than 30 years.
The pop star’s cameo at Hagar’s show comes as she’s gearing up to drop new album .[Period], her first release on independent label Kesha Records. Featuring singles “Joyride” and “Delusional,” the project arrives July 4.
In a recent interview with Bob the Drag Queen for Paper, Kesha opened up about wanting the LP to be a “safe space for people to feel fully embodied and liberated,” specifically the trans community. “If you want to find your community and find a safe space for you to fully embody exactly who you are and be celebrated, I invite you to come join us,” she said at the time. “I would like to start a revolution of love. I want to create a traveling summer of love, a community of love. I want to give all of us a place to come and be ourselves.”
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