Kesha‘s music has always been difficult to clearly define since her debut in 2009. Now, she falls into “recession pop” alongside Lady Gaga and Katy Perry. But really, her influences and stylistic explorations go beyond a simple label.

For example, there’s the time she made an entire album with experimental psych-rock band The Flaming Lips in 2012. In the throes of her fame—and still rocking the dollar sign in her stage name—Kesha recorded at least 10 songs with The Flaming Lips. That album has since been lost to time, with Kesha revealing in 2019 that she had “no idea” what happened to it. Still, the Lip$ha that could have been remains an interesting look into unexpected inspiration.

Around January 2012, Wayne Coyne of The Flaming Lips expressed interest in collaborating with Kesha, who

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