Sky Ferreira is speaking candidly about her long absence from the music industry and why she hasn’t been able to re-record her old music.
Sit down with me fashion magazineFerreira discussed the process of creating the song “Leash” from the upcoming film baby girl. However, during the course of the interview, the topic turned to Ferreira recording her older music released by Capitol Records. She then shared why she couldn’t re-record her old music.
“Now I can’t, even though I’m the one who paid for all my studio sessions. I’m trying to get some of those songs back, but I can’t get them back one by one. What a pity.” the process is complicated and now I have to figure out how to do all of this myself,” she began.
Ferreira revealed that it took a significant financial outlay to re-record the track and chose Taylor Swift in the process.
“Everyone kept telling me I should just re-record the songs and be like, yeah, Taylor Swift could do that because she’s a billionaire, but basically, I put it all into money I used to make as an artist on making music,” she added.
“I think most musicians I know usually pay to work. But I’m going to follow ‘Leash’ with another song right after—sometime early next year—because I don’t want it like a random song that only comes out once. Because that’s one more thing, the Capitol would never let me do something like this baby girl song,” Ferreira continued.
The singer has long been signed to Capitol, the place she has called home since she was a teenager. But since the release of “Night Time, My Time” in October 2013, which has been plagued with problems, she has stated in interviews such as fashion magazine that Capitol regularly sabotaged her career, including not financially supporting her tours, removing some of her music from streaming platforms, and refusing to work with her because of her reputation hers.
She is no longer listed on Capitol’s website under their artist name.
“Surname [Capitol Records] prevented me from releasing new music for 10 years as a way to make me look incapable of doing so,” Ferreira said. fashion magazine. “After all this time, I was able to write a song for the movie A24 because that first album obviously meant something to people.”
The female singer shared that she is now independent and plans to release music next year.
“It feels like a fresh start for me in some ways, at least compared to what I’ve been through in the last 10 years,” she said of what’s to come.
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