SKY FERREIRA

This is because we'll need a thread devoted to her sooner or later. Sooner is better, I say.

I can't stop listening to this song, but watching the video makes me feel like a dirty old man (and I don't care that she -is- 18 years old as of a few days ago...she looks like a baby here).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pxFFJu7RVuk

was prepared to hate on this but song is pretty good...who produced it?

Bloodshy & Avant. 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.

i dig it too

Based on "17," I was definitely NOT expecting to like whatever's coming next. But "One" is fantastic. I read somewhere that this is gonna be her UK launch single, and the US launch single is going to be something different. I can only imagine it will probably be the worst song on her album.

http://www.theprophetblog.net/sky-ferreira-announces-debut-us-single-obsession-and-album-release-date

While Europe are enjoying the sophisticated, steely pop of Sky Ferreira’s “One”, the newcomer will be making things a little easier for American’s to swallow with the release of her radio-friendly debut US single “Obsession”. According to Sky, her record label forced encouraged her to release the tune, seeing the potential for a huge #1 hit. In a new interview with Arjan Writes, Sky grits her teeth and talks about the single, and how she believes it will open doors for her to release more of her own music in the future.

“A number one record is cool. That’s kinda why I’m doing ‘Obsession’. I mean, I like ‘Obsession’ – it’s a really good pop song, but it’s extremely pop. That wasn’t exactly what my goal was… But I’m glad that ‘One’ came out before that so people know that I can still do other stuff. I wanna be capable of doing all different types of music… but I’m glad that I get to do something like ‘Obsession’. I’m really lucky… At first I was really bitter about it, because I wanted my songs to be on my record, so it was a bit hard for me. I appreciate it and I understand that I have to compromise with the people who are distributing me and making it possible for me to have my own music out.

“I still very much stand behind ‘Obsession’… ‘Obsession’ is a funny thing; It might be my biggest song ever. It’s sad when I think of it that way though, coz I always wanted it to be my song that was the biggest, but I like it very much – it’s really catchy and everything.

“Doing a record like that just opens doors to letting me start other projects to and being able to come out with my own music. I guess when you have your name on the radio it kinda helps or something, but I like other stuff. Lady Gaga’s “Just Dance” was completely different than “Alejandro” or something, it’s like a 360 or something you know, and over time she started coming out with [her own stuff].”

It’s interesting how Europe can get something that is a little less commercial, yet for America the music needs to be dumbed down and very commercial for people to even give it a chance. I’m relieved that Sky is expressing her true thoughts over her new single though, instead of going out and being fake like a lot of other pop stars. Besides, it sounds like “Obsession” is going to be a smash, and that her album will be a great mixture of radio-friendly hits, as well as quirky, edgier electro-pop.

Speaking of Sky’s album, it will officially be released on January 11, 2011.

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Oh American label, why you gots to fuck around with things? (Granted, I haven't heard "Obsession," but if they're following the Ke$ha model and going with something completely obnoxious to create waves, I fear for the safety of my ears.)

One of my most anticipated albums. I should mention: http://puttyhillmovie.com/

Coincidentally, I had just listened to this for the first time somewhere else today. I'm not totally sold. The production is impeccable, but I find the chorus a little meh, melodically. The melody on the first verse reminds me a lot of a Kate Bush song circa "Hounds of Love" but I don't remember which one.

me either...

Y'all are wrong. She's a fresh breath of air. Will be better than Gaga, even if "Obsession," which probably apes her, sucks. But she knows it because she has good taste.

Oh, and I'd be SHOCKED if she didn't blow up: she's got a killer PR team.

Her voice was so good it made Michael Jackson cry! This was like written in books.

^^^see?

this is the only song i've heard of hers. it does sound like a breath of fresh air, and i would welcome it on the radio, but it's not totally my cup of tea.

worrisome that she likes alejandro tho! ! !

Well so far for me it's a half-hit, One, and a miss, 17, which sound like a bit like a leftover LaRoux track so I'm not that exited yet.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2QZ1YP59chI

yea i think i can like hear the laRoux in ONE and that's not my favorite thing. i dunno this is very early to tell tho!

femme fatale sounds more kate bush to me actually it's weird

worrisome that she likes alejandro tho! ! !

No that's a good sign. Her myspace influences list is the typical hipster fare. Most of it stuff she was probably was told to like.

like waht

No, that's bullshit. Girl is v smart and has great taste. I know people who can attest to this.

I approve of the Femme Fatale song.

alejandro is an amazing song, what are you guys on about

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.

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?

No. Cassie had a genuine Billboard hit before we took notice of her/adopted her as our own very special lost cause.

xxpost It's a leak, yes, but not on youtube. It's not hard to find. Would post a link but I don't know what the current ilm policy on this is.

eh i'm pretty sure you can post a link

if you posted like a link to a full album leak, that might be frowned upon

wow one is great. buggles flashbacks for some reason. probably just that i've been listening to hell of age of plastic lately.

favorite bit at 1:00 when everything drops out but the voice, flutter synth & beats, heart stops for a second

kk just heard "sex rules" which was very easily googlable. good tune and nice production, yes. i agree that her voice doesn't sound just right for the track as it is right now, but i'd say it's still a step up from "obsession" in that regard, or at least what we've heard of "obsession."

Yes, and I've read the album version actually sounds very different from the leak, so hopefully they've fixed it. "Obsession" sounds awful, but I'm actually starting to get excited about this album.

"obsession" samples gary glitter's "rock and roll part 2," apparently, so yeah they're definitely trying hard with the whole sporting event thing. the video should portray her as a desperate cheerleader tbh.

nvm i might have misread that, but it's definitely gary glitter 'inspired'

and that's just the video

http://i613.photobucket.com/albums/tt213/SvenvW/Fun%20stuff/badum-tish.jpg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qn14zuu6iw4

ain't nuthin wrong w/ ocd long as it's 4 me (lol)

And American labels wonder why they have a hard time selling records...maybe it's because they coerce new artists into recording tracks against their will that some focus group has determined will be in the Top 10.

So is "One" actually officially available? I can't seem to buy, borrow or steal an actual mp3 (there's one poor, watery mp3 that sounds like it was ripped from either vinyl or youtube).

It was ripped from youtube.

The single is officially released in September. Have no idea why they waited so long between debuting the video and putting up the mp3 for purchase...other than to make people REALLY WANT to legit mp3. In which case, their plot worked.

I posted this in the August WDYLL thread on ile, but I may as well put it here too.
I don't dance. Ever. In public or in private. Except I decided to do it a couple weeks ago, inspired by "One".

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zx8EA_tcd6k

^ <3

the single has just come out (in america as well) and the full-length version is lovely

i'm talking about "one" btw not "obsession" (obv)

They pushed it forward, thankfully.

Since I've listened to the video edit about a zillion times, the album version seems oddly too long. Still cool to have, though.

Listening now to Obsession in good quality through headphones and there's enough interesting stuff in the production to distract from the fact it's a pretty shitty single.

When is Ryan Tedder going to be hauled in and tried for crimes against humanity?

"He had this song called obsession that he originally pitched to a whole bunch of other people at first, but people put it down, it didn't seem right...It was pitched to like Rihanna, Adam Lambert, like all these huge people. Whatever, another man’s trash is another person’s treasure."
“I had to compromise with it. I mean, love the song and it’s very poppy and stuff, but you know, I think I just wanted to try something a little different at first, but, you know, I have to do what I have to do to get out. I mean, I don’t, like, hate the song — well, some parts of it I don’t really like.”

lol

haha

I like how it's just one of the songs tacked onto the end of the new NOW! compilation. I hope it goes nowhere and no one ends up associating it with her and that it doesn't make the cut for the album's tracklist.

the sad thing is that even as an 'album only' track on the now compilation, it is still easily outselling "one" (not quite sure why these compilations still sell this much)

lmao at the quote though

wish "one" had done a little better in the uk btw

You are famous now JF!

http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4107/4972034674_86ba69e2d8_b.jpg

awright!

looooooooool

hahaha

My year just got made!

haaaaaaaa! A+++++

lollllllllllll

umm apparently this is how they are choosing to get the single "out there" into the public's radar

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TYV_tu_IJXw

lol I just left a reply on her Facebook page to her post about "Obsession" being the song of the day on some site or something, but it was deleted for some reason. To paraphrase, "I love everything you do, but I kind of hope 'Obsession' flops for no other reason than it might make people stop paying Ryan Tedder money to do things. Anything."

Guys, that song is really SO BAD.

The video for Obsession is up. In it, Sky is a crazy Michael Madsen fan.

http://www.mtvu.com/video/?vid=577965

The chasm of quality between the video/song One and the video/song Obsession is inconceivably vast.

cool object of obsession/concept but what exactly are they doing with her? what is she supposed to be? A mash-up of Robyn and Katy Perry music stylings?

...but it was deleted for some reason.

lol, no kidding!

the video is a little strange but i think the kiddies who are somewhat spaced out but still think they're a little too cool for school will "identify with her" and whatnot in a lavigne-esque way

Album clips (maybe):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yyv1JKG2Xb4

I posted this one by mistake on the pop thread, it's a good one.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WEYbnMB0ksk

album sampler is gone already, shux :\

It was just a collection of all the junk already circulating online. There's no way her cover of Stand Back is getting on the album I would think.

Ooh, "Elevator" is great!

Why the label thinks "Obsession" is better than either this or "One" is a complete mystery.

Apparently it won't even be on the album!

Why am I not surprised?

haha. i wonder if "obsession" will even do well. on one hand i would like her to be relatively non-obscure so that "one" has an actual chance of being promoted on the radio. on the other, though... i just don't want to hear "obsession" on the radio at all ever. i think it goes for adds soon, will be interested to see how often it will be played + how much it will sell.

just saw this

Okay.My album is no longer coming out on 1-11-11...unfortunately.It was done,but things/people constantly change within ALL record labels & in life (DUH!). I am now recording even more material for the record because I feel like I've grown (musically) since when I was 15-16 years old. All of the songs will eventually come out because they are all important to me. I'm trying to push for an EP to come out in February too. It's been extremely frustrating,but you know "these kinda things happen for a reason".Thank you for the support and I'm glad I can CLARIFY what's going on...Keep your eyes peeled for some big things happening this winter...STAY TUNED!<3

PS .I am still on EMI

P.P.S. Shutup forum ********* (I'd curse but my 12 year old cousin is on this page) I haven't even started yet.

P.P.P.S I love you.

i guess it is safe to say "obsession" has tanked? i wonder what they are trying to do with her now

Surely it has. Did "One" do well in the UK/Europe?

i looked her up on one of those chart data compilation sites. it lists her only chart entry anywhere as "one" debuting and peaking at 64 in the uk. :\

That's about 63 spots too low.

these have mysteriously appeared on the internet

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y_cBKhV5l_U

http://soundcloud.com/skyleaks

i like "first base"!

That Frankmuzik one is really a case of the producer casting a shadow over the song.

"American Dream" is actually pretty decent, but I can actually hear Brit's version being better.

wow. looks like even more have been leaking by the minute since i posted.

even more interesting are some of the notes attached to the songs (when you click on them):

"I did this song when I was like sixteen. The stuff I sent to Christian.Before.i GotSigned. This is all old stuff before.I started working with Dallas."

"I DONT WANT THE FULL ONE OUT I WAS LIKE.15."

whoever is posting these wants people to think he/she is sky ferreira. either that or that person IS sky ferreira.

...and it's gone.

has there been any new news about her album?

Ferreira will release an EP titled As If! on March 8, 2011 in the US.[12] According to Ferreira's official Facebook page, it will feature producers and co-writers Bloodshy & Avant, Greg Kurstin, Nicole Morier, Klas Åhlund, and Colin Munroe. [13] This EP is intended to be a completely different entity than her now-delayed debut, which was pushed back until further notice, as Ferreira reported in late 2010. [14]

New single "Sex Rules"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pXMv7SSgDn4

eh

ugh @

sex rules/use yr god given tools/i pity the fools

i'm a little upset that it has been given the "lyric video" treatment

amazon has clips of the ep tracks, btw

LOL I never knew Skye herself big-upped yr video, JF hahaha!

Yeah, that was one of my highlights of 2010.

As for the ep, first two tracks "eh" last three tracks "YES!"

the ep just came out.

"sex rules" is "sex rules" and "traces" sounds like something from a pastiche of a disney princess movie, but the last 3 are pretty impressive imo. "108" has nice, typically klas ahlundian melodies.

haters anonymous is a jam

<3 108!!!!!

So we're all on the same page that the first two songs are weak and the last three are hot, right?

i quite like the whole ep on one listen! much better songs than i'd heard from her before. also realised why i found appealing before, despite the substandard material - it's that too-cool-for-school LA snottiness in her voice.

Her voice is really starting to remind me of someone, but i can't quite place it.

I liked As If! from start to finish, although the last three songs are the pick of the bunch. She sounds a little more comfortable with a stronger electro/club sound.

http://soundcloud.com/skysoundcloud/song-1-snip

ok so this sounds like it could be really good

Hard to evaluate, but it's got that Gary Glitter beat like "Obsession" and that kind of thing is forever tainted in my mind with regard to her. Actually, it doesn't sound bad like "Obsession," but it's such a short snip that I really can't tell.

Sounds a bit like Goldfrapp circa Supernature. Not a bad thing I guess... still not enough to tell.

am so in love w/ 108 now

not sure when this surfaced or if it was meant for her album. just stumbled across it today and it's kinda creeping under my skin.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JvLMY4fn4fw

'one' getting play as incidental on uk x-factor. does cowell have an interest?

methinks emi publishing seem to have a good connection to x factor incidentals. katy perry
always on there too.

i hope she releases an album this year

She's in a new Adidas commercial (in the US, dunno if it's on in the UK).

I likes this: http://soundcloud.com/skysoundcloud/im-not-dead

yea can def hear that going somewhere i want 2 go

finally a full track: http://soundcloud.com/skysoundcloud/ummmmm

plus a little message

I recorded this almost 3 years ago & was told nobody would like it,understand it ect ect ect

It's still one of my favorites & I needed people to hear this before I come out with my new record which is in a way different direction.

I'm coming out with my debut album next year and a new single early 2012 (Feb. most likely)

I now have amazing management & a team who is extremely supportive. I'm so excited to move forward!

Hopefully I can release a dance record also that has all of my old demos & some new ones that are electro pop....
I never want to be restricted to do one "type" of music.I want to learn & make everything. At the end of the day music is music.
x
Sky Ferreira

the song is among the weirder ones i have heard from her but i like it, hopefully her album will not be delayed another year this time

i watched putty hill, not solely cuz shes in it mind you, but it is some sub-mumblecore bs imo

She was made up like Madonna in the latest issue of V

http://cdn.idolator.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/sky-ferreira-madonna-v-magazine1-500x360.jpg

http://cdn.idolator.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/sky-ferreira-v-magazine-2012-1-500x759.jpg

woah she still exists

I have this irrational hate for her because it's obvious she or her label who posts stories about her all the time to Oh No They Didn't. There's probably at least one story a day there about her.

Rather a startling interview:

http://rookiemag.com/2012/02/sky-ferreira/2/

Man, she's a smart kid!

yeah damn, sky & tavi are both amazing

I don’t know, I feel like they make music that sounds like ringtones for people to jerk off to. It’s so gross. [Laughs] That’s how I feel about it! I kind of don’t want to be involved in it. I’m not trying to be an indie artist either, but I don’t want to be involved in that.

that's a great interview!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VSQXdAsKGU0

Too Many Boys (Boys)

oops, I guess that one's been around for a little while.

Oh, apparently this one here actually IS brand new
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8zwaipUkQ0M

"to be released on March 2012 from the album 'WILD AT HEART'"

wow i can't believe she's gonna release a single again

After quite the delay, it appears Red Lips is finally coming out today (6/12). Well, the video is at least. No word yet on whether or not the track is for sale yet.

http://soundcloud.com/skysoundcloud/red-lips-video-edit-preview

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GOmo5m6I738

Song = A-
Association with and video by Terry Richardson = F!

lol. agreed. nice to see her still doing her thing though

Pitchfork are featuring a new track. I think I really like it.

!

that's really good.

this track

there really are no words

o and btw i guess i never commented on Red Lips but it's astounding so i'm full on the sky train at this moment

When Matthew posted "Red Lips" on Fluxblog, he made note of how much it sounded like Garbage. I had to tell him that's because it was a Shirley Manson co-write.

"red lips" is cool but the new song is incredible

in

credible

list of related videos on youtube for "everything is embarrassing" includes luomo's "the present lover"

which, otm

everything is embarrassing

this song is pretty fantastic

the dude from test icicles!

this is fucking amazing, i am almost embarrassed for having found "red lips" acceptable earlier

into the idea of this

http://pitchfork.com/news/48275-cmj-2012-sky-ferreira/
Highlight: A huge, swirling pop-rock song that'll appear on her upcoming full-length album (but is not on the new EP).

'ghost' on the ep is good too

they messed up Everything Is Embarrassing on the EP

Yes, they totally messed it up! And now akaik there is no way to get a high quality version of the previous one :/

i wonder if this is what they are talking about?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GcJfCMix6qw

Could be. That sounds pretty great.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6dyeFalOjw0

this kinda crushed me

This is the first album that I've wanted in my life that there's no actual available hard copy of. The future blows

one of the songs on the new ep is pure garbage

i mean sounds like garbage the band, not is awful

I assume you mean Red Lips, which was co-written with Shirley Manson.

haha yes, i didn't know that

now I weirdly want to see a You're The One / You're Not The One double release. it's a thing that could happen pretty plausibly right?

ok, so this "Everything Is Embarrassing" song is really good but I avoided it cause I hated that Solange song by the same dude so much

Weird, I actually prefer the Solange track and I've been a Sky stan for over a couple years.

oh no, how did they mess up Everything Is Embarrassing on the EP? i'm nervous to listen to it, the original was so pristine

I can't tell the difference tbh

xpost - The piano has a fuller sound, the drums sound a bit less 80s and more polished... what bothered me is they've either taken out the synth pad off the chorus or it's barely audible.

Also the harmonies are a bit more prominent.

Oh, ok...in fairness, I was listening to the ep version through a lone earbud streaming on spotify.

there is a slight difference but i dunno, it doesn't detract from my enjoyment of the track all that much for me personally

still my song of the year prob

http://andrewpresents.tumblr.com/post/37353177357/sky-ferreira-youre-not-the-one

Full audio of You're Not the One.

sounds like it's the audio from this

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mqGhSR0z1fw

Neato, I hadn't seen that before.

On Jimmy Fallon last night (I approve):

<iframe width="560" height="315" src="http://www.nbc.com/assets/video/widget/widget.html?vid=1428146"; frameborder="0"></iframe>

Whoops. Permalink: http://www.latenightwithjimmyfallon.com/video/sky-ferreira-everything-is-embarrassing-1713/1428146/

Is it just me or did she sound a bit off-key (and angry?)

She's not the most polished live performer because, up to this point, she's always been pushed as a video artist. I think the labels have finally given in and let her go her own way (which seems to have worked) and now she's got to get up to speed.

yeah she's definitely a bit flat during that bridge

but hey, good for her. i love her latest ep (well i loved the first one too, but you know) and i think the album will probably be good too (not to mention she actually has a shot at releasing it this time)

you say "i tried to give my best before" you wouldnt have the chance to give me more

http://www.hedislimane.com/diary/admin/images/skyf_malibu02.jpg

http://www.hedislimane.com/diary/

What is with artists wasting their good hype with these ridiculous delays that hardly ever produce superior product? Labels r dumb, dumb, DUMB!

Labels are totally dumb. At this point, they're basically obstacles.

https://twitter.com/DIIV/status/355876796098560000

is this chick ilm's new cassie?

― J0rdan S., Wednesday, August 11, 2010 10:58 PM (2 years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Popjustice says the album is out next month!

http://www.popjustice.com/thenews/sky-ferreiras-debut-album-is-called-night-time-my-time-and-will-be-out-in-october/119809/?fb_comment_id=fbc_255672797890609_801461_255672961223926#f3b701813d30fee

squeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!

Fully prepared for this to not happen, though.

wow. so it's happening at last.

also this http://www.amazon.com/Youre-Not-The-One/dp/B00F14HO0O

hmmmm oops http://pitchfork.com/news/52305-sky-ferreira-and-diivs-zachary-cole-smith-arrested/

Everything is embarrassing.

Eeeewww, heroin!

tbf that was just the DIIV clown. All she had was a hit of ecstasy.

more like high foreva

Even when these kids get arrested its a 90s retro move

#halfasscommentary

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http://25.media.tumblr.com/7ed8519be4503474c59dbbd2c16e4ade/tumblr_mt92r3qrsg1qb12dpo1_500.jpg

it's acid burn and zero cool!

Oh she was in a dream I had last nite

somebody swap the hairdos in those photos I am too tired

You're Not the One was supposed to come out today, but it's been pushed one week. IT'S AN MP3 FFS!

MP3 ROLLOUT STRATEGIES

http://flavorwire.com/415582/casually-nihilistic-internet-finds-sky-ferreira-and-zachary-cole-smiths-heroin-problem-hilarious

Calling out Carles and Perez Hilton for what they do is like shooting fish in a barrel, but I agree that this isn't the least bit funny.

yeah. this is sad, esp. when in so many interviews she essentially talks about having her shit together, whatever that means.

Semi-solid stools.

i really hope she's not doing any of that heroin. it would be devastating in light of her constantly denying that she does drugs at all.

This is somehow Terry Richardson's fault.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IFCZP1Nz3Ds

Not quite as sensual but every bit as stylish was Sky Ferreira, the 21-year-old pop singer who was arrested on drug charges last weekend in New York and surprised FreeFest fans simply by showing up. Clad in a ratty Megadeth T-shirt and blue-mirrored sunglasses, she seemed more poised than aloof during “Everything’s Embarrassing,” her mid-tempo heart-squeezer about vulnerability and falling in love

http://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/freefest-fans-say-goodbye-to-summer-with-robin-thicke-vampire-weekend/2013/09/22/249c1976-2343-11e3-966c-9c4293c47ebe_story.html

lets list some of our fav mid-tempo heart-squeezers

I still like You're Not the One a lot—have since I first heard it—but she looks like she needs a shower and a hot meal in the video.

Another Nail in My Heart - Squeeze

xpost
She's giving me Pris from Bladerunner vibes in the video. Was nice seeing Ariel pop up half-way through.

Hey, cool. They shot most of that video at my friend Ross's bar The Lash, in DTLA. Except I guess the crew brought in a bunch of lasers to make it more telegenic. Seems like a decent single, but I think the chorus repeats once or twice too many times.

*one or two too many

/pedantry

it's a good song, and it seems to have a decently wide appeal that some of her other music didn't have, but it's far from my favorite from her

reminds me a lil bit of 'shake it out'

ha! saw ariel too

"you're not the one" is sick

total earworm

I hate linking to nu-Idolator (still!), but here's a round-up of track snippets she used Instagram video to share: http://www.idolator.com/7488146/sky-ferreira-album-teaser

it sounds really good

I think I'm actually glad this album has taken three years to get sorted out, because it sounds like it might've been worth waiting for. There's still no excuse for the single with Ryan Tedder.

i sort of still wanted to hear the pop sky ferreira record

I'm still a huge fan of "One," and some of the pop demos were cool(ish), but it never seemed quite "right". Bummed that "Femme Fatale" seems lost to the ages, though. That song was great.

i mean this will undoubtedly be more impressive and united than whatever an earlier emi debut would've been but i'm also sort of fearful about the probable quantities of dev hynes

"you're not the one" is sick

― J0rdan S., Wednesday, 9 October 2013 06:31 (3 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

total earworm

― Me & Mahomies (Spottie_Ottie_Dope), Wednesday, 9 October 2013 06:36 (2 hours ago) Bookmark

cosign

she look like a smackhead pixie geldof in the video so in lieu of any interesting persona that's who i will hereby pretend she is

lol at this album coming out in 20 days... capitol really throwing it under the bus

yeah i was going to ask, have reviewers got promos? there's still no official artwork either i don't think

I think sky ferreira is a pretty cool girl. she sings sogns and doesnt afraid of anything

i mean this will undoubtedly be more impressive and united than whatever an earlier emi debut would've been but i'm also sort of fearful about the probable quantities of dev hynes

pretty sure there will be no dev hynes on this album at all

i'm guessing her original poppier record would have been something like the first ep we got, which was nice and occasionally awesome but uneven

i bet this is mostly ariel reichstad

pretty sure there will be no dev hynes on this album at all

yessssssss

Album titled 'Night Time, My Time' and the art is out there and NSFW

Gaspar Noe shot it

Here's a SFW crop:

http://cdn4.pitchfork.com/news/52606/eac3e843.jpg

Oh dear.

yeah, it's all a bit "please just let me go and I swear I won't tell anyone" innit. :/

If her goal now is making people uncomfortable, it's a success.

i like it. it's intriguing but it doesn't make me feel 'uncomfortable' exactly

Waiting to hear the album before I make any verdict about the cover.

if the point is to make me feel the internalized shame that no doubt lurks inside terry richardson then it works

Drug arrest, sex hostage album cover, strung out look in You're Not the One video...I definitely feel some unease and worry for her personal safety, tbh, because I can't tell how much is "just let me be me" and how much "help me!"

^otm.

Oh god, the overarching pop narrative for Q4 is going to be "female agency". Get me awayyyyy from here.

her look in the music video and the album cover are deliberate parts of the album's presentation/promotion, while the drug arrest, which we still know fairly little about, is... not.

i don't feel like the video or album art are out-of-character or surprising (not because of the drug arrest but because of her entire aesthetic up til now)

Did we ever learn what a "deck" of heroin is?

2013, the year of "upsetting."

Enough heroin to put a Weber grill on.

lol

lex otm, sky has been the embodiment of coked-out chic for ages now

i have high hopes for this album.

this album is pretty dark

back to back songs go "nobody asked me if i was okay" and "i blame myself for my reputation"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oA2Gg7pxLa0

reminder that sky ferreira was on the new g-dragon album and the song was very 'sky ferreira'

xpost ooh i am glad it exists tho, even with a release date and tracklisting and cover art and all i am still sceptical that this album will come out

sonically what amongst her past work does it most resemble? it's hard to get a hold on where she's at atm, given that all of the songs on ghost were so different stylistically from one another

heard a few tracks from this, very very promising.

Album is out. I've only listened to the iTunes clips and nothing's really blown my mind. I think "You're Not The One" is the best track (which is OK cause it's a good song, but a little disappointing).

idk Ive listened to that song about 40 times in the last week. it's kinda special

listening to this for the first time after downloading it from itunes. "Boys" is pretty good. i like the heaviness of it a lot.

itunes censored the album cover which isn't a big deal except she is pretty touchy about larger forces messing with her shit. if i was itunes i would have backed off and let her do what she wanted.

why has no one posted nabisco's article about her

lol itunes backing off

fine
http://www.vulture.com/2013/10/sky-ferreira-on-becoming-a-pop-star.html

nabisco's article is great

i just finished my first listen and i... have mixed feelings? i am def compelled to listen more tho

so far i am in love with this but i can't trust myself, because everything i've listened to tonight has sounded amazing. is there a thread about that kind of mood?

thumbs up imo

didnt find it partic dark, nor beyond 'you're not the one' did i srsly feel the teen rock pathos in my bones or anything, just damn good cherry pie basically

within a fortnight i will probably be appropriately semi-bored about it

i guess the earnestness of her lifelong struggle to make this super quotidian post-teen angst record is fairly disarming, like ordinarily i might have just thrown it in the haim bonfire if it was anyone fresh n cute up in my grill

anyone really buying into the personal narrative here is a halfwit or at worst a creep though, this record is from the saturday girl behind the topshop till serving sky's stylist more so than she herself

case in point, 'nobody asked me (if i was okay)' is way way way better once you get past the butthurt reading and instead pick up the triumphant vibe like it was a less eloquent/mordant 'ain't it fun', which it is

compared to "you're not the one" the rest of this seems like half-composed synth pop

I really liked "Everything is Embarrassing" but the 'RIYL Haim, Lorde, Salem's TMZ tendencies' appeal of all of this sorta makes me wanna wretch

*retch

"i blame myself" is so good

They put together some of these tracks very quickly, so "half-composed" and "under-composed" are definitely ... potential drawbacks. But part of what I like about the album is the way it can accommodate those loose, unfussy tracks -- songs like "Kristine," the ones that feel like they're just delighted to be able to hang around in their happy private space making noise and cooing to themselves.

i guess the earnestness of her lifelong struggle to make this super quotidian post-teen angst record is fairly disarming

The thing I find interesting about the whole narrative behind her isn't some cheerleading "girl against the industry" thing -- it's that she winds up with an experience that connects so perfectly with certain types of quotidian teen angst! I mean: feeling controlled, feeling like nobody takes you seriously, feeling like your peers all gossip about you, having people think your boyfriend may be bad news ... it's like central-casting young-person issues blown up to IMAX scale, or at least Sofia Coppola film scale. And she seems very young and self-dramatizing about it in a way that's considered uncool and messy for people in the public eye, but gives the music a lot more passion, I think.

yeah that's what i said

ja

But part of what I like about the album is the way it can accommodate those loose, unfussy tracks

yeah what i said wasn't necessarily a... criticism.

it is a v pleasant synth pop album, parts of which seem intentionally broken

this witchhouse synthpop biz is being overstated a tad i think, doesnt it really just sound like hole or whatever (nb i have never heard a hole album)

sounds right up my alley, then. looking forward to this xp

sounds like kim wilde except when it sounds like pink except when it sounds like spacemen 3, p good album

ya otm

i'm waiting for it to get dark or gloomy outside before playing this

don't feel like the sunshine would enhance it

another...15 minutes should do it

The weirdest resemblance on this is how much "Love in Stereo" sounds like the Blow, to the point where I initially thought it might be a co-write / co-vocal

Also this "music" she creates "blows*."

*chunks

She’s pale and chic, with choppy dyed-blonde hair and sullen glowering eyes, and just overall seems like she should be smoking a cigarette behind the gym of a high school circa 1994.

lol

second half seems stronger on first listen, digging the whole thing though...

LOVE THIS ALBUM

so sullen <33333

really great and interesting piece n1tsuh too!

aahhhhh which 90s grunge girl is she reminding me of? it's not QUITE courtney, there's more ennui than rip-your-throat-out rage. there's definitely someone though

or is it more latter-day people like the raveonettes?

i love "everything is embarrassing" but i'm so glad it was a red herring

I'm liking the aesthetic here, I've never paid much attention before but it's like she's taking generic Austra-like gothy synthpop and slathering it with grunge surliness.

bubblegrunge, that was a thing right

The reference points being flung around make me very excited to hear this.

A friend on Facebook said Live Through This meets Erotica but surely it can't be THAT good.

rtc have you really not heard Celebrity Skin? It's like the year zero for a certain kind of sound that ends up with Ashlees and Paramores and what have you.

This isn't actually that much like any iteration of Hole though.

A friend on Facebook said Live Through This meets Erotica but surely it can't be THAT good

Of course not, that would make it the best record of all time.

aahhhhh which 90s grunge girl is she reminding me of? it's not QUITE courtney, there's more ennui than rip-your-throat-out rage. there's definitely someone though

― lex pretend, Tuesday, 29 October 2013 19:29 (35 minutes ago) Bookmark

omg.... wait... brainwave... is it shirley

Celebrity Skin is essential definitely.

xp "Red Lips" was a Shirley Manson co-write, so Sky may have carried over a little from their collaboration.

i was thinking shirley but i dunno not quiiiiiiite not quite, less steely and droidy

like this is is a pretty fuzzy album, not all sharp sheen like garbage

only heard the sleb skin singles iirc

tbh in this field i quite enjoy being otm on minimal expertise so i don't really wanna start rocking the boat doing proper research now

this sounds like every '90s album I've bought used and loved that never made it to spotify or reissues (this is about the highest compliment I can bestow)

Lex, without having heard it yet, your description sounds a bit like early Veruca Salt?

er, to clarify, this is about the highest compliment any album could possibly get from me, not "meh, that's as positive as I can get"

Did you know? I once owned albums from both Poe and Bif Naked.

veruca salt is too much ennui i think

idk lex, tender shirley not avenging angel shirley though? (and def tude not sound)

i've never heard veruca salt

i don't think this album is very tender either

oh oh oh remember the briefly-hyped EMA from a few years back? who was she ripping off? this is like that but really great

i remember EMA because she shows up in crosswords all the time. the best kind of immortality.

New album from her soon IIRC. She's still around!

I'm actually thinking she's hitting a register pretty much equidistant between Kim Deal and Kim Gordon.

oh ema. "california" was amazing but i ended up regretting buying that album.

this tho. i've listened a couple more times and am now pretty impressed. the sounds that caught me off-guard during my first listen now make perfect sense.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VY3HuDsHyK8

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=seFS-kdVIgc

EMA also OTM. none of these comparisons are exact, though, there is something spot-on that I can't think of and it is bugging me and there is a 33% chance it was on the buffy soundtrack or something

K's Choice? Tracey Bonham?

maybe this goes w/o saying but the sky album is muuuuuuuuch poppier than EMA

i'm relistening to the raveonettes (yes i know) and i stand by that comparison btw

but i know the raveonettes and EMA were huge copyists but what were the originals??

this is not what you guys were thinking of obviously but this album reminded me of cat power

Pitchfork performance this year was one of the worst in recent memory.

tbf I don't know how her material would work live anyway.

to be fair it was on a side stage and only about 20% of her audience seemed to be there for her

Omanko sounds like it belongs in the middle of a holiday comp on Darla Records or something. strip the vocals and knock the production values down a couple notches and I could imagine several tracks on any number of 90's indie labels. so yeah, I'm half way through and this is my album of the year.

to me 'omanko' is like kim wilde via spacemen 3. 'kristine' kinda recalls jesus & mary chain. in both cases, partic the suicide vibes on them - check 'ain't your right' for that matter. 'boys' and 'nobody asked me...' are the more hole-ish imho.

^^ if on a rockist/indie centric ref map, i guess. not that it matters to me, tbh. don't remember EMA. pink, yeah.

also, i don't find it that dark.

I could imagine several tracks on any number of 90's indie labels. so yeah, I'm half way through and this is my album of the year.

― fffv, Wednesday, 30 October 2013 01:38 (5 hours ago) Bookmark

one for the sticker

There are some echoes of the past on this album, but it doesn't code as particularly 90s to my ears. If anything, it sounds expressly "2013." Maybe I just have a higher bar for artists/bands/songs to clear before they sound properly from another time, though.

Anyone else think the first three songs are by miles the weakest here? Just strangely plodding and... square. Like are you guys sure there's no Dev Hynes involvement in this record because those three tracks certainly have the songwriting flimsiness and primary school recorder lesson approach to rhythm that I associate with him, especially in the vocal lines.

Things pick up with the excellent Nobody Asked Me If I Was Okay though and it's way better from then on. There's something a bit 2006 about all this as well, those rockier synth bands who popped up post-Ladytron, post-electroclash, like The Sounds and people like that.

oh noes not the dev lurgies. idk those first three sound perfectly of a piece to me, surely occasional ploddingess is the very hallmark of sulky juvenilia? like even if his involvement were the case those are all looks he glommed off 90s ogs in the first place anyway so it's not an issue in this context really.

tbh without the groundwork laid down by those first three it's not even half the record imo, regardless of their individual quality

like even if his involvement were the case those are all looks he glommed off 90s ogs in the first place anyway so it's not an issue in this context really

Examples or it didn't happen. I think this particular kind of ploddingness is a distinctly post-2000 phenomenon really, there's a lot more fire in the even the most generic of the 90s acts we're discussing.

look at this narc shaking me down for deets. it's the vibes bro

first twinge of recognition for me was... JAMC. haha. crazy. ;)

...and that was before reading n's article! :o

A friend on Facebook said Live Through This meets Erotica but surely it can't be THAT good.

hang on .. is that referring to madonnas erotica, or the darling buds ?

given the references to jamc/ravonettes etc, i am hoping its the darling buds as i could really do with more of that kind of stuff.

Melody of "Boys" is very "Common People"

Anyone else think the first three songs are by miles the weakest here

"boys" is awesome imo, great chorus

Totally agree that the second half of this stronger, I actually think from Omanko onwards is just about perfect. The first five songs are good but seem throwaway compared to what comes later. Those first few songs in particular remind me of Ladyhawke (on her first album when she was almost great)

Serious album of the year contender for me already.

i really like every song on this now

https://twitter.com/ParisHilton/status/395752894890131457

The first five songs are good but seem throwaway compared to what comes later.

Really? But..."I Blame Myself"...

i would semi-agree with matt dc on "first three" but more in an rtc sense of them setting the groundwork v effectively before the album really lifts off with "nobody asked me..."

this album is very consistently good after that but if there's a standout it's "i blame myself" for sure

idk if i'm in a mood today or w/e (tbf i was never like this album was anything higher than a 7, point... 4?) but right now i'm realy feeling like every song could stand to be a minute shorter and snappier

what new wave / no wave thing is 'omanko' specifically reminiscent of, like the melody? wanna say the waitresses or something but it's not

(nb except 'you're not the one', that has my permission to go on for ten minutes)

I think I just hate it when songwriters remove the slightest bit of rhythmic interest from vocal lines, like even the rhythm of natural speech patterns is removed, so it just sounds clumsy and awkward. It makes it difficult for me to rate any song that does that.

Yeah, there's a weird dead flat to the beat vocal craze going on at the moment. I think Losing You by Solange is the best example of this, it's sung at if it were quantized. If used well this vocal thing can be interesting but it often makes the track feel sterile. Part of the reason that Haim album is so fun is the top line melodies.

blame the arcade fire xp

OK, I went to listen to this, finally, and saw the title "Heavy Metal Heart" and played that first, and now it's half an hour later and I haven't moved on to the rest of it yet.

"Omanko" has an "OLV 26" vibe

there are def rhythmically interesting vocal lines on this album, like on "kristine" in particular

"Omanko" has an "OLV 26" vibe

― J. Sam

Yeah I can see that. I was thinking Broadcast when I first heard that one, probably explains why it's my favourite song at the moment.

Totally take back what I said about the first five songs sounding a bit throwaway, they've grown on me a lot. This is a great album!

Also did the CD of this get cancelled? Amazon no longer has a release date listed.

i guess vinyl's out of the question too

apparently she said on facebook that she's trying to put out a vinyl version herself? the post was deleted tho so who knows if it will actually happen: http://www.gigwise.com/news/85450/sky-ferreira-to-self-produce-album-vinyls-after-label-refuses

I Will on repeat x 1000

The CD might be this coming Tuesday if we're lucky- that's the release date for the mp3 version on Amazon, anyway, and I suspect this might just be down to iTunes exclusivity for a week.

Now that I'm listening to this I get quite a strong No Doubt second album vibe from some of this.

It's good!

"Love in Stereo" is my jam.

She's so high in this interview: http://www.fuse.tv/videos/2013/10/sky-ferreira-arrest-bust-interview

soooo high

Also, who knew John Norris was still on tv.

a lot of this sounds like some part-sparkly, part-meaty 1990s alterna-album that impresses a lot on first listens but then gets shelved for the duration. some of it sounds quite a bit better than that. i'm probably the 1,000th person to say this but a bunch of the songs are pretty underdeveloped.

3 stars

her voice has a lot of character though, which bodes well.

if this ever comes to spotify soon maybe i'll listen

I'll def listen, but I'm also waiting for Sptfy.

a relief after Arcade Fire ***

soooo high

― Johnny Fever, Saturday, November 2, 2013 6:41 AM (15 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

hard to watch

this is finally on Sptfy

been playing "I Blame Myself" over and over and over and over and over and over and over

yep

i do not like this record even a little bit anymore, aside from "you're not the one" and kinda sorta "i blame myself"

Oh well.

I am in the exact same boat as Brad. Altho I semi-like Heavy Metal Heart and Aint Your Right too. Very weak overall, not the kind of sounds I was expecting or wanting. Sad cos Ur Knot Tha 1 is an unparalleled belter.

I think "24 Hours" is the only weak link on here.

^ musically, it's def in my wheelhouse, but as a whole it seems really janky and trite.

For contrast: I think this is an album-of-the-year candidate.

I don't have many candidates, so this would be one of them.

Yeah this is up there for me, probably just behind the Goldfrapp album for album of the year.

Don't really think there is a weak link but Ain't Your Right is probably the only song I kind of forget about. My favourite song on here keeps changing but right now it's I Will.

I am in the exact same boat as Brad. Altho I semi-like Heavy Metal Heart and Aint Your Right too. Very weak overall, not the kind of sounds I was expecting or wanting. Sad cos Ur Knot Tha 1 is an unparalleled belter.

― Me & Mahomies (Spottie_Ottie_Dope), Tuesday, November 5, 2013 1:26 PM (3 hours ago) Bookmark

yeah, if you look past the narrative of pop-starlet-goes-rebel, this is idk just a pretty standard idol-worship record... i mean which is fine. but it's way way way way more 'pastiche-y' than the other record to get called pastiche-y this year, haim.

rtc otm about the song lengths. like all of these songs are pretty short and yet still feel overextended

title track is pointlessly hideous. "i will" successfully reconstructs the aesthetic of the bravery or the stills or something

What? No. The title track is one of the best.

Is that the witch house sounding one?

idk how you can perceive a song in all of that ~*~*~*~atmosphere~*~*~*~ #twinpeaks

It makes more sense, like most things, when you're driving on the interstate late at night.

i do like seeing brad go in on something he doesn't like. this almost never happens!

spottie too!

I dislike the title track too because she sounds better shouting over beats.

"you're not the one" is still one of my least favorite sky singles and while it's fine it's not an album highlight for me. i do love this album tho.

Itsthemiddleofthenite and I'm so GAAAAAWN!

man she really can't get enough of twin peaks: fire walk with me, huh? I count six references on this album, starting with the title.

I've been listening to this a bunch over the past week and have decidedly mixed feelings about it. It is much more rockin' than I expected, which I enjoy, I like the sonics of the album overall. But I find myself getting worn down by her over-emphatic singing. Her vocals have a tendency to take the songs too far into the Emo zone when I'd prefer it if she went darker. She hits the nail on the head here and there, but mostly I just want her to tone it down a bit. The songs don't seem like they should be sung at the top of your lungs. They need a certain level of disconnection or aloofness to really work.

That being said, I'm clearly not the target demographic for this, so I may be way off base.

who is the target demographic for this?

Corny indie fuxx

the denizens of Not Pop Not Indie Shambhala

^ bingo

I haven't tended to that thread in a while, though.

Loving this album through and through.

>>I think "24 Hours" is the only weak link on here.

Noooooo. Might be my favorite track.

Also co-sign that "Love In Stereo" sounds a bit like The Blow, although it's less cerebral/dry in delivery.

I am digging this record. Also I just saw The Blow last weekend and tonight I'm seeing Sky in the same small room, I'm really curious what it's going to be like and pretty pumped to see it.

I am listening to this for the first time and oh my god "I Blame Myself" is SO FUCKING GOOD HOLY SHIT U GUYS

Is this like the general consensus that it is the stand-out track? I'm surprised it's not a single!!

I mean it is like "Dancing On My Own"-level catchy

she didn't even play it live when i saw her a few weeks ago :(

That's so rude!

We should poll ''You're Not The One'' vs Charli XCX's ''You're The One''.

According to her Facebook page vinyl copies are now available to order. It's the full cover apparently.

Oh and the vinyl is green! (I love that kind of stuff)

I watched videos of her on YouTube and she has the most excruciating stage presence

It's like an over earnest 15yo singing karaoke

lol yes, i saw her live about a yr ago and she is v awkward

"i blame myself" is amazing and i would be shocked if it's not a single somewhere down the line

I likes this: http://soundcloud.com/skysoundcloud/im-not-dead

― Johnny Fever, Wednesday, October 26, 2011 10:30 AM (2 years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

yea can def hear that going somewhere i want 2 go

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recently noticed that this song actually got officially released by one of the song's other writers, nicole "coco" morier:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=08mzVUtDYmY

Guys I hate to break this to you but the record company is really not thinking two or three singles down the line on this one.

Is it because they're focusing on NTMT: B Sides pt.1? Available November 25, 2011 in the US.

Aw, shucks...November 25, 2013

lmfao ok fine 'singles' don't really apply to sky ferreira but she will probably film a lo-budget video for it somewhere down the line like she did for "lost in my bedroom" and "everything is embarrassing" (fun fact: the only song from her last ep that didn't get a music video was the title track)

i'm stunned by the mention of 'pt. 1' on that b-sides collection tbh since it implies at least one more part on its way

Well she's got a discography of released and unreleased material that alone could amount to maybe 2 full LPs excluding this one, so I'm not surprised that whatever sessions were behind this album potentially produced a ton of additional material.

She was great live, and the crowd really went nuts for her. The band setup was very rock, although they had some synth and sampled stuff, so the more rock-oriented album material worked really well -- "24 hours," "Heavy Metal Heart" and "Nobody Asked Me" all sounded great. "Lost In My Bedroom," which I love, didn't come across as well IMO. She didn't do "I Blame Myself." I was very impressed with how she sounded though.

So wait, they're releasing a "B-sides part 1" disc but there's still no fucking CD of this? I know, I am hopelessly trapped in the 90s, but still, that's weird

I haaaate this album cover

Mostly bcz it makes me feel like anyone who sees it on my phone on the bus or in the coffee shop or w/e is going to think I a complete creep/pedo

Stage fright & vocal chord issues are by far the most annoying things I’ve ever had to deal with. #1 thing I’ve learned on this tour is alcohol doesn’t help you (by you, I mean me) be a better performer just because you feel numb for a bit. Self medicating is bullshit. Don’t let people pressure you into it so you can get the job done or whatever…In any situation. After it fades away you’re most likely going to feel worse than you did before. Anyways,my point is have fun. Don’t do shit because of anxiety/insecurity/depression. It doesn’t help or make any of those things go away. I’m telling you from experience. If anyone knows how to deal with stage fright HMU. This isn’t supposed to be preachy, just an observation I made about myself recently.
xxxx
Sky

her show in DC at the 9:30 was incredible. early on, she apologized that she couldn't do "I Blame Myself" until her voice healed, but after lots of requests at the very end of the show, she soldiered through it, maybe not the best idea for a voice but a fucking incredible moment you'd never see from an older/jaded/grizzled performer, especially a pop star. i love the moment at 1:44. these crowds are the most enthusiastic she's ever gotten and it shows. it was an amazing show!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WF0_VHvlUVs

fucked grammar up there … *her voice

I love NTMT all the way through now, after seeing Boys and Ain't Your Right live. DEFINITELY agree on Lost in My Bedroom flopping live - ditch the old stuff! she did that, Everything is Embarrassing, and the entirety of NTMT I believe, except maybe Kristine, but everything else was played. it was all amazing! will totally see her again!

Kristine is my only sore point actually, the rest of the album is fantastic.

"kristine" is one of my favorites! i began to like it more once i could actually kind of figure out what she was singing in it

"kristine" is a highlight for me too, just the opening guitar crunch is so hard

So, OK, on the b-sides disc, is the version of "Everything Is Embarrassing" the original (superior) version, or the album version?

Probably gonna buy just for the Unknown Mortal Orchestra remix, but the answer to the above question will mean the difference between going out to get it right now and putting it on my Amazon wishlist or some shit

i got mine today -- it's the same version as on the ghost ep (the inferior version). would've been amazing if it were the orig vers but alas.

Wait is the version on the EP the original one or the album one? What's the other one, then?

What is the orig version I know nothing abt this

the original is the version that was used on the video

Oh I never even noticed that the video + the ep were different

Finally got this and "Omanko" is really doing it for me for whatever reason. It feels like a demo, the lyrics are almost a placeholder, but it comes together

That song is amazing. And it's going on my Christmas mix.

is omanko about orgasms? something about it has always scanned as her encapsulating "the orgasm" into a song. rhythmic, raw, the self-satisfied breathy vocals, the frantic drums towards its climax.

"Omanko" is apparently rude Japanese vernacular for ladybits, so, yeah, maybe? I'm working it into a (terrible!) mix right now; it sounds amazing slowed down just a little bit.

perhaps referencing 'turning japanese', though i'm not sure how xmas fits in

She says "I'm gearin' up for Japanese Christmas" like over and over

i noticed... i meant how it relates to the masturbation theory

IIRC, Christmas in Japan is a big commercial event, sort of like Valentine's Day? I am very much not an expert though

She just killed it on Letterman.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FUhMTEFR8hU

god stop doing that w yr hands!

new music video for title track: http://www.vevo.com/watch/sky-ferreira/night-time,-my-time/USUV71302652

The Letterman performance sounded good but it seems like a backing track mostly takes over the vocal on the chorus?

yeah well i mean there are harmonies in the chorus. idk why her backing band wouldn't sing them tho, unless they don't sing.

I think I can hear a faint harmony on the title phrase, but it's more the way the lead vocal sound totally changes in that whole section, like it's double tracked and very compressed (you can hear all the notes equally well), and it just doesn't sound live there where it does in the verses. I guess it could be just the way they're processing her vocal differently there, but it sounds odd to me. It doesn't offend me or anything, and I thought Sky's vocals sounded great when I saw her live, although "You're Not the One" did seem a bit rough, which is understandable because it's a difficult song to sing -- the vocals are very constant and full of long phrases. I just was a little surprised by what I was hearing in that clip as far as TV performances go, but maybe that's pretty normal?

ok, i see what you mean now. she has been inconsistent live in recent months (prob due to her stage fright and vocal injury) so maybe that was why they used the backing track for the chorus. she sounded good tho!

Yeah for sure, didn't mean to sound too harsh on her. I really enjoyed her live show.

it's def a backing track, just mixed too high

sounds awesome imo