SKY FERREIRA

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.

Thanks for the reminder, firing it up now.

A real “Garbage in the 1990s” feel at work here

It's got more of a Curve swirl than Garbage imo, but I realize those things are only about one degree removed.

Sky Ferreira Returns with Enthralling New Song “Leash” from A24’s Babygirl Soundtrack: Stream
https://consequence.net/2024/12/sky-ferreira-leash-babygirl-soundtrack-a24/

Produced by frequent collaborator Jorge Elbrecht

i think she's been working with elbrecht on all her new material. this one's pretty good, one of the stronger new songs

This is so great. Sounds like something from the last Hatchie album.

hell yeah

Good song. Some '90s Madonna in there too.

This is so great. Sounds like something from the last Hatchie album.

― kitchen person, Friday, December 6, 2024 3:42 AM (two hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

Spot on. More of this, please!

She's working with Elbrecht?! This is good. This is a good development

"downhill lullaby" and "don't forget" were both with elbrecht and i think he's cowritten most of the new songs she's been playing live

I hope she does a tour supported by Drynx

She's working with Elbrecht?! This is good. This is a good development

so good

honestly a bit shocked at how soon it arrived after her departure from capitol

Her first incarnation never clicked with me, but “Downhill Lullaby” blew me away, one of the best Lynchian pop songs in recent memory, and this is excellent too. I hear peak Ladytron.

Capitol is reissuing vinyl in November

https://shop.capitolmusic.com/products/ghost-ep-spectral-swirl-color-vinyl
https://shop.capitolmusic.com/products/night-time-my-time-translucent-green-color-vinyl

I'm fortunate enough to have picked up a copy of NTMT several years ago for a not-insane sum, but that's been impossible to do for quite a while. If you want it, you're in luck.

Hope she's getting a cut of this, though.

Thanks for the heads up

thought this revive was due to this albums appearance in the pfork article re one off albums.
glad for the nudge as i have just put it on, and absolutely loving it all over again.
and like quite a chunk of cds i have,
that's all down to the ilx hivemind (hell.o annie ! hell.o mastodon ! hell.o uncle acid etc etc .. )

Charli XCX’s management has clarified comments by Sky Ferreira insinuating that her old demos feature more prominently on Wuthering Heights than the album credits suggest. The statement from Charli’s team acknowledges that a “small number of tracks from the album” include “fragments of material originating from earlier sessions,” but that all use was “agreed collectively in writing” and formally approved ahead of release. In the midst of all this, Ferreira revealed that she has finally signed a new label deal after exiting Capitol in 2024.

The statement from Charli’s management, which you can read in full below, pours cold water on a narrative that has snowballed in recent weeks, after Ferreira responded to memes joking that Charli had dragged her into the studio to work on their one credited Wuthering Heights duet, “Eyes of the World.” “To record my old songs******,” Ferreira responded at the time, without further context. Ferreira has become more active on Instagram in recent days, commenting on speculation about her connection to other Wuthering Heights tracks, as well as Stereogum’s story about the claims.