SKY FERREIRA

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.

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2022/jun/17/i-got-robbed-of-my-20s-sky-ferreira-on-fighting-her-record-label-and-refusing-to-compromise

my brief run of posts upthread where i expressed my indifference toward/hatred of night time, my time especially hilarious now that i think it's the best record of its kind, whatever that kind is, a mutation of new//wave//alt//rock so breathy and aggressive and wounded and hostile and seductively dangerous it's like a mouth in the earth opening onto hell. title track is like whatever machine made the rest of the record broke down and started producing only motion blurs. best album ever

― flamenco drop (BradNelson), Saturday, 28 May 2022 18:45 (three weeks ago) link

Those posts are hilarious because to me this is such a brad record.

Omanko is one of the most outrageous things ever to appear on a mainstream pop album? Really impressed

Still think every song on the album is better than "Everything Is Embarrassing," which seems to be the song most people (who came late) gravitate towards. ¯\(ツ)/¯

― Ⓓⓡ. (Johnny Fever), Wednesday, 22 June 2016 05:52 (six years ago) bookmarkflaglink

otm

Serious Madonna vibes in that latest track.

xp yeah "Omanko" is absolutely outrageous. It reminds me of Stereolab's "OLV 26" with noisier guitars. And I totally agree that every song on the album is better than "Everything Is Embarrassing"

Let’s calm down guys. We can be friends with NTMT and Everything is Embarassing.

Haha "Everything Is Embarrassing" is great, I just like the album more. Cool thing is we don't have to choose one or the other!

the best song on the ghost ep is "lost in my bedroom"

"lost in the bedroom" rules

Thanks to this thread revive I searched for a second-hand CD of NTMT. I thought the copy at my local record store was outrageously priced at NZ$12.95 but then checked Discogs... Oh my... Immediately added to my cart.

The vinyl prices are next level. Discogs at its best.

Took me a decade to be aware of it, but this album is pretty cool. Wish I had been aware back then, 25 year old me would’ve loved it.

fascinated by 'moka and imago discover iconic & canonical ilx artists theyve ignored extensive threads on for years'

jk its not that fascinating

is there a purpose for these comments or do you just enjoy being snarky at the idea of other posters enjoying something for the first time?

I mean her follow-up album is allegedly coming out finally sometime this year, so the revive was appropriate either way.

is there a purpose for these comments or do you just enjoy being snarky at the idea of other posters enjoying something for the first time?

― Muad'Doob (Moodles), Monday, August 29, 2022 12:38 PM (fifty-four minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

idk, theres like pages of ppl talking about why they like a thing and imago stumbles in like "I deem this great, now that its entered my line of sight" a decade later on multiple threads...its kind of grating & self important

setting aside whatever beef you have with imago, it just makes this place seem less inviting when we're shitting on people for being enthusiastic about a thing in the appropriate thread just because it's arbitrarily deemed the wrong time. it's easy enough to just ignore if it isn't pleasing to you.

Is it really that different if I had posted “this is a cool album” 10 years ago? By that metric every time anyone on ilm has expressed excitement or approval of an album they’re being grating and self-important.

Is it me, or does she look like the love child of Debbie Harry and Kristen Stewart?

It kind of wouldn’t be ILM at this point if we didn’t have imago arriving on various threads at least once a year after a big poll to bestow his canonical blessings like an off-planet Soto who’s been thawed out from cryogenic deep freeze.

Xpost: yes, but she has that chameleonic model thing where depending the era and the photoshoot she looks like different people. I’ve seen photos of her where she also reminds me of Rihanna.

Also reminds me of Katherine Langford in some photos.

Maybe even like Robert Pattinson lol

But yeah Debbie Harry is the one that comes to mind in overall looks and style.

lmao, deeply honoured Tim!

It kind of wouldn’t be ILM at this point if we didn’t have imago arriving on various threads at least once a year after a big poll to bestow his canonical blessings like an off-planet Soto who’s been thawed out from cryogenic deep freeze.

idk, it really does put to the test the saying, "better late than never".

It kind of wouldn’t be ILM at this point if we didn’t have imago arriving on various threads at least once a year after a big poll to bestow his canonical blessings like an off-planet Soto who’s been thawed out from cryogenic deep freeze.

― Tim F

I don't wear the right robes for bestowing those blessings.

Is it me, or does she look like the love child of Debbie Harry and Kristen Stewart?

Not just you — this is from the Guardian piece linked above: "In Spain, her extremely low-energy stage presence conjured a vision of Kristen Stewart playing Debbie Harry."

That article also makes it sound like she's still not doing great. If she does actually release the album, I hope she's in a mental/physical state to handle all the stress around it.

https://www.instagram.com/p/CnZy8tqA0ts/

unreleased snippet, she's mad at her label not letting her put anything out

Why won't Capitol just drop her? I can't think of anyone who's been bound by a contract as long as she's been while the label sits on almost everything she records. 99% of the time they just shelve material and say bye.

saw her in nyc last night (she said it was her first time playing here in at least 8 years) and she was completely amazing

did she play any new stuff?

she played a song called “innocent kind” — there’s video of it from other shows. i thought it sounded good! the songs from night time sounded revelatory anew to me

leak?

seeing people say that it's just a collection of previously leaked demos someone put together? idk i can't actually track down this 'leak' though

but she did announced a bunch of tour dates so maybe something will happen

on a soundcloud account called stifler’s mom

yeah a lot of those tracks have previously leaked afaik but idk if it's all

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x7YdTW7A8C4

she's a karaoke covers artist now

lol I saw her live and yeah that "Voices Carry" cover is note by note

very chaotic gig