SKY FERREIRA

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.

it says a lot about the current crop of pop stars that i find myself interested in ferreira pretty much on the basis of not hating her immediately, à la katy perry or ke$ha. "one" is ok, i guess.

though i definitely think "17" has more to it

Please detail the ways in which 17 is not:

lazy
boring
common
pretty bad
all of the above

i don't think anything i've heard warrants any ~FUTURE OF POP~ talk, it's all much of a muchness except "17" is catchier

Oh yeah, despite starting the thread, I don't expect her to take the wheel and steer pop in an altogether new direction. tbh, I haven't heard enough of what she's written yet to even know if she's a solid bet or if she's patchy. I do like "One" and "Femme Fatale," though, and those are incredibly different types of songs. otoh, if it's true that "Obsession" is a Ryan Tedder composition, I can just about already predict what it will sound like. She's probably wise to distance herself from it in advance, and that indicates to me she's pretty aware of what she's doing and knows she might have to do grunt work a couple times to get to a better place.

I'm surprised the one you like is "17", lex, given how much she sounds like La Roux in the chorus.

lmao, hearing that she may hate ryan tedder is artificially inflating my opinion of her.

that one song is pretty decent but this is all a bit little boots or whatever all those other chicks whose names i cant remember are. dont really get how she is a breath of fresh air or anything. she looks a bit like a young brooke shields though. Bloodshy and Avant are awesome when they get it right but their failures are so horrible, i mean that they get it right on that One track btw. Hi!

that one song is pretty decent but this is all a bit little boots or whatever all those other chicks whose names i cant remember are.

― plax (ico), Thursday, July 29, 2010 6:58 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

yeah i'm with you on this

Little Boots always seemed like an empty vessel to me, but SF has more personality maybe? In fact, three years on, I still don't know anything about Little Boots other than that she plays with some kind of light board and that she can be a bitch.

i dont really know how much leverage you really have to blow fresh air into the music biz w/ ur sassy attitude when you're in a the type of position she is wrt major label grooming; being 17

"One" is seriously addictive.

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.

― Johnny Fever, Wednesday, July 28, 2010 9:42 PM Bookmark

Totally - woke up with this stuck in my head today.

but, lord christ, could she wear a little less makeup in the video?! It's a super creepy look.

i read an interview w/ her in which she says for sure that "obsession" is produced by ryan tedder. oh the horror

There's a bit in Entertainment Weekly's current issue on her (hype watch!) which says "Obsession" is kind of a jock jam custom made for sporting events and the like. I know she's a smartass, though, so hopefully she's kidding.

there's a short clip of the song up on amazon.com and i am mortified to report that she wasn't really joking. there's a lyric about wanting her name on the marquee.

oy! that's lame. screw you, Ryan Tedder and whatever label she's on in the US.

http://soundcloud.com/ileaks/sky-ferreira-obsession

like srsly wtf

Who do they think that would appeal to?

like at least when i heard "tik tok" for the first time (around this time last yr) i was slightly horrified but could at least tell it had potential to be massive... this sounds like mike posner's single or sumshit

I've just listened to another Greg Kurstin track called "Sex Rules". It's got all those little bleeps and stuff Kurstin is so fond of. Good tune too, IMO. The one issue I have with it is I don't think it suits Sky's voice at all.

:(

pretty sure i saw a link to that on youtube at one point, did it leak?

is this chick ilm's new cassie?

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