SKY FERREIRA

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.

Aha, you're right, the original is much, much better. Still like the Sky one though.

Whoever produced the Sky cover is obviously more rooted in club production than radio production. That BOOM BOOM BOOM beat sort of bludgeons all the charm out of it.

"one" is terrific. i totally wrote off sky at first when i saw "17" playing on mtv, but wow, "one" completely changed my attitude about her. i hope the album is good!

and yeah, it seems like they're doing the ke$ha/"tik tok" approach for "obsession" -- build profile 'organically' via internet/myspace, etc., then unleash guaranteed-smash single late in summer, release officially a bit later, then let it slowly conquer airwaves just in time for the enormous post-christmas sales. it's probably a fucking dr luke/benny blanco prod. smh. (i was listening to the radio on the way home tonight and heard three dr. l/bb produced songs back to back. that is fucked up.)

and yes "alejandro" is wonderful

the rumor is that it's ryan tedder and that sky hates ryan tedder

ALL RIGHT THINKING PEOPLE ON EARTH HATE RYAN TEDDER.

yes

I'm anticipating the Paul Epworth tracks.

Apparently, that Stand Back version posted above IS a remix. I'm hunting up the original vsn now (hoping it's not disappointing).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=13b3sUoO4k0

I actually appreciate that it sounds a little like really late-period Talking Heads, especially during the verses. Her vocal and numerous overdubs are fine, but it's probably best this never gets a commercial release.

You mean as a single? I think it would still make a decent album track.

tape store back me up on alejandro sucking pls? just so i'm not the only one?

thx

xxpost ...may need a little more work.

Alejandro is grebt.

Anyway, I found a zip file of some demos, etc people have collected from over the past year or so. I vaguely remember hearing about her a LONG time ago, when she was still just a Myspace buzzword, but I don't remember if I actually listened to anything on her streamer.

Some of this stuff is good ("Femme Fatale" for sure), and some of it is really, really underdeveloped ("Almost"). afaict, this album could go either way.

i've got yr back, surm

Okay, her weird cover of "Happiness Is a Warm Gun" over a recycled Dr. Dre beat is novel at least.

her vocals are great on that

"Phil Collins. Not really because of his music, his songs somehow come up every dramatic aspect of your life. F'rillz."

jesus fuck, someone kill her.

jesus fuck, someone kill YOU, asshole.

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

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.

Xpost: yes, but she has that chameleonic model thing where depending the era and the photoshoot she looks like different people. I’ve seen photos of her where she also reminds me of Rihanna.

Also reminds me of Katherine Langford in some photos.

Maybe even like Robert Pattinson lol

But yeah Debbie Harry is the one that comes to mind in overall looks and style.

lmao, deeply honoured Tim!

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