Sky Ferreira would re-record her catalog if she had Taylor Swift money
Ferreira was trapped in a bad contract with Capitol Records for a decade.
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Artists like Kesha, Jojo Levesque, Megan Thee Stallion, and of course, Taylor Swift, have all waged high-profile wars against their draconian labels, but this writer is going to go out on a limb and assume none of those artists got a crowdfunded billboard in Time Square for their struggles. Sky Ferreira did. (It read “Free Sky Ferreira.”) After pouring most of her own modeling money into recording sessions because the label didn’t like the direction she was going, Ferreira managed to release her now-seminal indie-grunge album Night Time, My Time under Capitol in 2013. And then—through no fault of her own—she essentially went dark for the next 10 years with only a single here and there as she fought the label to actually release her followup record, Masochism.
Now, Ferreira is finally free—dropped via automated message on the ten-year anniversary of Night Time—and has a new song, “Leash,” coming out for Halina Reijn’s Babygirl. But while her new-found freedom feels “liberating,” she’s “honestly still angry about the situation,” as she told Vogue in a recent interview. “I was catatonic for a few weeks after that email. Not because I was dropped, but just the way it happened. It felt like their way of trying to break my spirit one last time. It’s kinda like when someone gets out of prison and they don’t know what to do with themselves.”