SKY FERREIRA

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!