SKY FERREIRA

This is because we'll need a thread devoted to her sooner or later. Sooner is better, I say.

I can't stop listening to this song, but watching the video makes me feel like a dirty old man (and I don't care that she -is- 18 years old as of a few days ago...she looks like a baby here).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pxFFJu7RVuk

was prepared to hate on this but song is pretty good...who produced it?

Bloodshy & Avant. My favorite part (that's not the hold & repeat effect on specific words) is the little ascending and descending sequencer part the runs throughout the song's chorus. Very cool.

i dig it too

Based on "17," I was definitely NOT expecting to like whatever's coming next. But "One" is fantastic. I read somewhere that this is gonna be her UK launch single, and the US launch single is going to be something different. I can only imagine it will probably be the worst song on her album.

http://www.theprophetblog.net/sky-ferreira-announces-debut-us-single-obsession-and-album-release-date

While Europe are enjoying the sophisticated, steely pop of Sky Ferreira’s “One”, the newcomer will be making things a little easier for American’s to swallow with the release of her radio-friendly debut US single “Obsession”. According to Sky, her record label forced encouraged her to release the tune, seeing the potential for a huge #1 hit. In a new interview with Arjan Writes, Sky grits her teeth and talks about the single, and how she believes it will open doors for her to release more of her own music in the future.

“A number one record is cool. That’s kinda why I’m doing ‘Obsession’. I mean, I like ‘Obsession’ – it’s a really good pop song, but it’s extremely pop. That wasn’t exactly what my goal was… But I’m glad that ‘One’ came out before that so people know that I can still do other stuff. I wanna be capable of doing all different types of music… but I’m glad that I get to do something like ‘Obsession’. I’m really lucky… At first I was really bitter about it, because I wanted my songs to be on my record, so it was a bit hard for me. I appreciate it and I understand that I have to compromise with the people who are distributing me and making it possible for me to have my own music out.

“I still very much stand behind ‘Obsession’… ‘Obsession’ is a funny thing; It might be my biggest song ever. It’s sad when I think of it that way though, coz I always wanted it to be my song that was the biggest, but I like it very much – it’s really catchy and everything.

“Doing a record like that just opens doors to letting me start other projects to and being able to come out with my own music. I guess when you have your name on the radio it kinda helps or something, but I like other stuff. Lady Gaga’s “Just Dance” was completely different than “Alejandro” or something, it’s like a 360 or something you know, and over time she started coming out with [her own stuff].”

It’s interesting how Europe can get something that is a little less commercial, yet for America the music needs to be dumbed down and very commercial for people to even give it a chance. I’m relieved that Sky is expressing her true thoughts over her new single though, instead of going out and being fake like a lot of other pop stars. Besides, it sounds like “Obsession” is going to be a smash, and that her album will be a great mixture of radio-friendly hits, as well as quirky, edgier electro-pop.

Speaking of Sky’s album, it will officially be released on January 11, 2011.

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Oh American label, why you gots to fuck around with things? (Granted, I haven't heard "Obsession," but if they're following the Ke$ha model and going with something completely obnoxious to create waves, I fear for the safety of my ears.)

One of my most anticipated albums. I should mention: http://puttyhillmovie.com/

Coincidentally, I had just listened to this for the first time somewhere else today. I'm not totally sold. The production is impeccable, but I find the chorus a little meh, melodically. The melody on the first verse reminds me a lot of a Kate Bush song circa "Hounds of Love" but I don't remember which one.

me either...

Y'all are wrong. She's a fresh breath of air. Will be better than Gaga, even if "Obsession," which probably apes her, sucks. But she knows it because she has good taste.

Oh, and I'd be SHOCKED if she didn't blow up: she's got a killer PR team.

Her voice was so good it made Michael Jackson cry! This was like written in books.

^^^see?

this is the only song i've heard of hers. it does sound like a breath of fresh air, and i would welcome it on the radio, but it's not totally my cup of tea.

worrisome that she likes alejandro tho! ! !

Well so far for me it's a half-hit, One, and a miss, 17, which sound like a bit like a leftover LaRoux track so I'm not that exited yet.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2QZ1YP59chI

yea i think i can like hear the laRoux in ONE and that's not my favorite thing. i dunno this is very early to tell tho!

femme fatale sounds more kate bush to me actually it's weird

worrisome that she likes alejandro tho! ! !

No that's a good sign. Her myspace influences list is the typical hipster fare. Most of it stuff she was probably was told to like.

like waht

No, that's bullshit. Girl is v smart and has great taste. I know people who can attest to this.

I approve of the Femme Fatale song.

alejandro is an amazing song, what are you guys on about

influences:

Does it have to be only musicians? Oh well.
Dolores Haze
Bridgette Bardot
Bloodshy and Avant
Electrocute
Mickey Gang
Wavves
Phoenix
Passion Pit
Suzi Quatro
Buffy Saint Marie
Betty Harris
the Sprouse twins. SO DREAMY. Blonde bombshells.
Anita Blay/Cocknbullkid
ice cream truck Rockets that fly into outerspace.
David Bowie
Lio
Claudine Longet
The temper of Lita Ford
Britney Spears
B-52's
Alice in Wonderland
David Lynch
April March
Phil Collins. Not really because of his music, his songs somehow come up every dramatic aspect of your life. F'rillz.
Shrek and Donkey
Sarah Brightman
Michel Gondry
Vanity 6
Lene Lovich
The Zombies
Talking Heads
Daniel Johnston
The Shoes
Elton John
Prince
Deerhoof
Radioclit
Madonna during her Blond Ambition tour
Teddybears
Paul Epworth
Greg Kurstin
Freescha
Aeroplane
The Peace
Nessun Artista
Blondie
The King of Pop (we should all know who that is)
Metronomy
Dr.Dre
Miike Snow
Rainbow Team
Nico
Hall&Oates
Mapei
Primary1
Bow Wow Wow
Adam and the Ants
Lykke Li
Dream Machine ft. Sean Hayes by Mark Farina
Kleenex
Empire of the Sun
Orchestras
MGMT
cute boys that inspire me.
my lack of a social life or sanity
Oh yeah, my happiness and insecurity
my nonexistent promiscuous adventures
I could do this for hours,I should stop.

Read more: http://www.myspace.com/skyferreira#ixzz0v2owL58h

Hey "Femme Fatale" is not bad at all! I wonder who produced that one. Though it sounds more Siouxie than Kate Bush, maybe?

I got not grievance with most of that list. I'll cut her some Wavves slack, because no one's perfect.

got NO

Greg Kurstin xxpost

xxxp true but it has a definite Never For Ever slant to the vocals. i like it too!

yea list isn't bad

we're posting the myspace influences list of a pop artist... it's like 2007 all over again!

Sky also said she wanted to cover "Cinderella" by Britney

I don't know that song, but if she did it Siouxsie-style I'd be into it.

Oh I'm not saying the list is bad at all!

that list kind of makes me not like her.

well u did say it was typical hipster fare/stuff she was told to like which is like not a glowing review of the list

not that the artists on there are bad or anything, it's just that compiled together... http://cpuwiz.com/smiley/rolleyes7cm.gif

...it's just a little too "stuff that's cool to like in 2010" that's all.

she's a teenager!

lol at it being cool to like Hall & Oates in 2010

lol it is tho

totally!

i've heard at lesat 3 random hall and oates refs in the past year

In one list, she namechecked the twins from Suite Life, Deerhoof, and Buffy Saint Marie. That's too real to be sculpted by any PR team.

Anyway, she writes good songs (not named "17" anyway), and I'm sure she didn't pull ideas out of thin air. She's probably a crate digger.

17 has potential but it's not right

I'm hoping 17 was a misdirection and not an archetype.

it's not very subtle

lol

I think I like this one too

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KLtJ2LB0f-w

Stand Back definitely deserves a good present-day cover, maybe even by Sky Ferreira, but this one was done ALL WRONG.

It's a cover? That's why it sounded so familiar!

Yeah, Stevie Nicks.

It kind of wouldn’t be ILM at this point if we didn’t have imago arriving on various threads at least once a year after a big poll to bestow his canonical blessings like an off-planet Soto who’s been thawed out from cryogenic deep freeze.

idk, it really does put to the test the saying, "better late than never".

It kind of wouldn’t be ILM at this point if we didn’t have imago arriving on various threads at least once a year after a big poll to bestow his canonical blessings like an off-planet Soto who’s been thawed out from cryogenic deep freeze.

― Tim F

I don't wear the right robes for bestowing those blessings.

Is it me, or does she look like the love child of Debbie Harry and Kristen Stewart?

Not just you — this is from the Guardian piece linked above: "In Spain, her extremely low-energy stage presence conjured a vision of Kristen Stewart playing Debbie Harry."

That article also makes it sound like she's still not doing great. If she does actually release the album, I hope she's in a mental/physical state to handle all the stress around it.

https://www.instagram.com/p/CnZy8tqA0ts/

unreleased snippet, she's mad at her label not letting her put anything out

Why won't Capitol just drop her? I can't think of anyone who's been bound by a contract as long as she's been while the label sits on almost everything she records. 99% of the time they just shelve material and say bye.

saw her in nyc last night (she said it was her first time playing here in at least 8 years) and she was completely amazing

did she play any new stuff?

she played a song called “innocent kind” — there’s video of it from other shows. i thought it sounded good! the songs from night time sounded revelatory anew to me

leak?

seeing people say that it's just a collection of previously leaked demos someone put together? idk i can't actually track down this 'leak' though

but she did announced a bunch of tour dates so maybe something will happen

on a soundcloud account called stifler’s mom

yeah a lot of those tracks have previously leaked afaik but idk if it's all

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x7YdTW7A8C4

she's a karaoke covers artist now

lol I saw her live and yeah that "Voices Carry" cover is note by note

very chaotic gig

https://www.smh.com.au/culture/music/sky-ferreira-emerges-after-10-years-of-being-erased-by-record-label-drama-20240530-p5jhw6.html

Last November, Variety reported that Ferreira had discretely vanished from the label’s public artist roster. If it pointed to a new dawn for the singer, the specifics are more complicated, says Ferreira. Is she officially free from her Capitol contract?

“Um, technically. In some sense. It wasn’t really sorted out the way it should have been, what a surprise,” she says with an audible eye roll. “It’s very ambiguous. I’ve gotta dance around a lot of things, figure it out and get things back that people shouldn’t own that I never gave them and that they never paid for, you know?

“Honestly, it’s a bit cruel,” she adds. “After trying to get out of there for so long, it feels very deliberate. Waiting 10 years to do that? They should have just dropped me 10 years ago if they weren’t planning on doing anything.”

Tracks she’d worked on across the years, including recordings that were to make up Masochism, are tied up in Capitol’s red tape, Ferreira says, limiting her potential to release new music. Her frustration is palpable.

“There’s stuff I did there that no one else had anything to do with. I didn’t have anyone A&R-ing my record, giving me direction, no one even set up a session for me. I was told that no one wanted to work with me for 10 years, which just wasn’t true.

“There’s a lot of things that have happened and at some point I would like to be able to say my side of it without it sounding hysterical or me having to pay some kind of price for it. But it’s kind of like, what else is there left to do to me? They already took 10 years of my career away from me – what else can they do?”

she finally got out of her capitol contract last year! but they still own all her recordings so masochism is still never coming out. hopefully she can manage to get the rights to it (it sounds like she's trying?) or just re-record it all if she has to.

i'm seeing her tonight, hopefully she won't show up too late

she shouldn't even bother releasing something that has the same concept/title as whatever she was doing over a decade ago anyway tbh

Hope you have fun!

I was at her show last night, and she was merely...35-40 minutes late lol (this was with a start time of 9.40pm). She played 22 songs and a couple of them had to be restarted, so it ended right on midnight. We got several unreleased tracks as well as the three covers she's currently doing (Til Tuesday, Tamaryn, Suzanne Vega). The whole thing is frankly...pretty chaotic, shambolic and barely professional - she refuses to have a spotlight on her so you won't be able to see her face at all and crowd interaction is limited to an "anyways" or a "sorry" from time to time, plus after literally every song there was a protracted pause to fix something technical. Yet despite all that, when she was actually doing her thing, she sounded...pretty great?! A true enigma and I'll always root for her to succeed because the talent remains there and the songs (the new ones too) are great.

Saw her in London recently and yeah shambolic is the word - the part that did leave me uncomfortable was at one point she snapped at her backing band after a few false starts and the audience applauded her. I get that there's a parasocial element, we all want her to succeed and so on, but no need to make some working musicians the bad guys here.

very good show tonight! only 20 minutes late, her voice sounded fantastic, there were only limited technical issues (she gave up on "all my lovers die" half way through because her mic was cutting out but that was it, no false starts or anything), the light show was really effective even if she was often just a silhouette, and she seemed to be in a good mood and was interacting with the crowd a bit - she said it was her favourite show by far

the new songs were generally pretty good. someone asked when masochism is coming out and she said she's going to release new material soon that was recorded since she got out of her contract, and rambled a bit about how she doesn't know how to promote it by herself

my only issue was that the bass was sometimes violently loud, drowning out the rest of the mix, but it wasn't too bad most of the time

like it wasn't shambolic at all, i'm very glad to have caught her on a good day because she ruled

the show i saw last summer was one of the best concerts i've ever seen in new york

i'm not going to check back but i remember being a total idiot on this thread. "everything is embarrassing" is incredible.

major labels treating artists with utter contempt,

Sky Ferreira Claims Her Label Dropped Her via Automated Email on 10th Anniversary of 'Night Time, My Time'

https://exclaim.ca/music/article/sky-ferreira-claims-her-label-dropped-her-via-automated-email-on-10th-anniversary-of-night-time-my-time
She said she made "about 10" unreleased albums during her time with Capitol Records

She claimed that she "made about 10" albums in her time with Capitol, even though only one was released, so she's now in the process of "figuring out how to get some of the music back."

need Jordan S to weight in here

a new song "leash" is coming out sometime soon-ish for a film soundtrack

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CAPfty5rRUk

there's snippets floating around from the film premiere last month

new track out Dec 5th
'Leash'

haha wonder what it’s about

I bet it is short

HOLY FUCKING FUCK

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5D0JeugTeNs

I like it -- it's loud.

Thanks for the reminder, firing it up now.

A real “Garbage in the 1990s” feel at work here

It's got more of a Curve swirl than Garbage imo, but I realize those things are only about one degree removed.

Sky Ferreira Returns with Enthralling New Song “Leash” from A24’s Babygirl Soundtrack: Stream
https://consequence.net/2024/12/sky-ferreira-leash-babygirl-soundtrack-a24/

Produced by frequent collaborator Jorge Elbrecht

i think she's been working with elbrecht on all her new material. this one's pretty good, one of the stronger new songs

This is so great. Sounds like something from the last Hatchie album.

hell yeah

Good song. Some '90s Madonna in there too.

This is so great. Sounds like something from the last Hatchie album.

― kitchen person, Friday, December 6, 2024 3:42 AM (two hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

Spot on. More of this, please!

She's working with Elbrecht?! This is good. This is a good development

"downhill lullaby" and "don't forget" were both with elbrecht and i think he's cowritten most of the new songs she's been playing live

I hope she does a tour supported by Drynx

She's working with Elbrecht?! This is good. This is a good development

so good

honestly a bit shocked at how soon it arrived after her departure from capitol

Her first incarnation never clicked with me, but “Downhill Lullaby” blew me away, one of the best Lynchian pop songs in recent memory, and this is excellent too. I hear peak Ladytron.

Capitol is reissuing vinyl in November

https://shop.capitolmusic.com/products/ghost-ep-spectral-swirl-color-vinyl
https://shop.capitolmusic.com/products/night-time-my-time-translucent-green-color-vinyl

I'm fortunate enough to have picked up a copy of NTMT several years ago for a not-insane sum, but that's been impossible to do for quite a while. If you want it, you're in luck.

Hope she's getting a cut of this, though.

Thanks for the heads up

thought this revive was due to this albums appearance in the pfork article re one off albums.
glad for the nudge as i have just put it on, and absolutely loving it all over again.
and like quite a chunk of cds i have,
that's all down to the ilx hivemind (hell.o annie ! hell.o mastodon ! hell.o uncle acid etc etc .. )