Sky Ferreira has responded to a billboard in New York Metropolis that claims she is being “held hostage” by her report label.
Ferreira’s followers had reportedly purchased a billboard in Instances Sq. to share a photograph of the singer with the message “Free Sky Ferreira”, claiming that her music is being held hostage by her label Capitol Data.
The singer responded to the billboard and messages by posting a photograph of it to her Instagram tales with the caption “It’s True”, confirming that her label is protecting her from releasing new music, particularly her follow-up to her 2013 debut ‘Evening Time, My Time’.
Sky Ferreira actually confirmed she’s held hostage by her label pic.twitter.com/UAjPZzMWee
— #freeskyferreira (@ssskyferreira) August 17, 2023
The billboard seems to have been organised by an Instagram fan account for the singer who has been campaigning for Ferreira’s launch from her report label since March 2021. “Sky Ferreira has been held hostage by her label Capitol Data for nearly a decade. They’ve been blocking the discharge of her sophomore album ‘Masochism’ since 2015,” reads a pinned put up on the Instagram account.
Earlier this 12 months, Ferreira addressed the struggles she’s dealing with with placing out new music and her fame as a “troublesome” artist.
She took to Instagram on January 14 to share a snippet of latest music alongside the caption: “I need to put this out”. Posting on her story, she shared a clip of her performing the unreleased observe throughout a soundcheck again in 2019. “Take a look at the date,” she wrote within the accompanying caption. “I attempted to place out this tune eternally in the past. This isn’t my fault and it’s not a conspiracy or no matter.”
She continued: “I’m not a hysterical/mendacity/lazy lunatic. I can pull up performances from 2014 of unreleased singles too. That is past fucked up. I’m so pissed off & over it.
“Being ‘troublesome’ or ‘excessive strung’ doesn’t give folks the proper to break & stall my profession,” she wrote. “I’m in a troublesome state of affairs & I’ve to be ‘troublesome’ to get by it. I’ve to guard my work & myself someway?
“A whole lot of it’s not being allowed to say or do something I would like/want with out it being dismissed. I can’t consider a time within the final 7 years the place I’ve been capable of simply concentrate on what I’m presupposed to do, regardless of having to principally sacrifice each side of my life to verify it occurs.
“It’s not okay. If I’m not allowed to say one thing with out consequence & the people who find themselves presupposed to do their job refuse to look out for me… How am I not going to be ‘troublesome’?!?”
In an interview with NME final 12 months, the singer revealed that her extremely anticipated second album was almost executed. “It’s principally executed for probably the most half, it’s simply that some elements must be re-recorded, Simply the ending touches, actually,” she mentioned.
‘Masochism’ was first scheduled for launch in 2015, and has been pushed again a number of occasions since. In October 2021, she mentioned a launch date for the album had been confirmed, teasing its arrival for March 2022.
The next month, she asserted that ‘Masochism’ was “truly popping out” in 2022, and again in January 2022, Ferreira’s mom re-confirmed {that a} March launch was on the playing cards.
When the album wasn’t launched in March, Ferreira advised followers to maintain off on their “wrath and demise threats” till the next month.
The singer additionally opened up about her experiences with sexism within the music trade and the way she’s resisted makes an attempt to pigeonhole or management her picture all through her profession.
“Within the music trade, everybody’s making an attempt to mildew you. They’ve an concept of what you need to be,” she mentioned in a dialog with Nancy Sinatra for Interview. “Folks get grasping. Once I was youthful, I bought cornered in conditions the place it was like, ‘It’s important to do that,’ and I didn’t know higher. It was simply totally different again then.”
She continued: “The web was there, nevertheless it wasn’t this factor that individuals had discovered. I used it to my benefit – that basically helped me get my stuff out. However I’ve been shelved so many occasions. You already know, I first got here out after I was 15 and it wasn’t a good illustration of me. After which, I wasn’t even that a lot older, however I began assembly folks to collaborate with, and it began falling into place.
Ferreira’s extremely anticipated LP, ‘Masochism’, continues to be but to obtain a proper launch date. Her newest launch was 2022’s ‘Don’t Neglect’.
