Kesha’s Holiday Road is a standalone single—a cover of Lindsey Buckingham’s 1983 song originally written for National Lampoon’s Vacation—that has since been issued in several formats, including a 7-inch vinyl for Record Store Day Black Friday 2025. Her version was first released on October 15, 2024 as part of Spotify’s “Spotify Singles Holiday” series, then later made available on all streaming platforms on November 12, 2025 under her independent Kesha Records imprint and packaged as the Holiday Road – Single digital release. The RSD Black Friday 2025 pressing, presents Holiday Road on the A-side and pairs it with A Very Merry Christmas from Kesha—a vinyl presentation of her earlier Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas cover—as the B-side, turning it into a collectible holiday artifact within her discography.Musically, Kesha’s Holiday Road is a concise, roughly two-minute blast of pop and synth-pop with new wave and holiday-pop flourishes, retaining the original’s road-trip hook while infusing it with modern electronic production, bright synths, and her characteristic playful vocals. Listeners and commentators often describe it as the kind of track that would soundtrack an 80s-style driving montage, and its short runtime echoes both the structure of Buckingham’s original and the intentionally punchy feel of many contemporary holiday Spotify singles. The song also holds a small but notable place in her career trajectory: it marked her first entry on the Billboard Hot 100 since Woman in 2018 and reached the UK Singles Chart and Canadian Hot 100, demonstrating that even a seasonal, nostalgic cover could help keep her present in the broader pop conversation during her fully independent era.
