Sky Ferreira is “working” on reclaiming ownership of her songs after being dropped by her label Capitol Records.
It emerged last year that Sky had parted ways with the label after releasing just one album with them – ‘Night Time, My Time’ in 2013 – and she has slammed executives for preventing her from releasing new material.
The 32-year-old singer – whose track ‘Leash’ features in the upcoming film ‘Babygirl’- told Vogue: “(Capitol Records) kept me from putting out new music for 10 years as a way of making me look like I’m incapable of it.
“I’m able to do a song for an A24 film after all this time because that first album clearly meant something to people.”
Sky was informed of her release by Capitol on the 10th anniversary of ‘Night Time, My Time’ and is “still angry” about the decision.
She said: “I’m still trying to figure out the words I can use to talk about it that won’t get me in trouble. But also I don’t really care about getting in trouble, because what else can they really do to me at this point?
“My relationship with them was obviously a bit fraught, and it’s never been very simple to explain. But to let me know I’ve been dropped from the label in such an impersonal way was clearly so personal.”
Sky added: “I was already dreading the 10-year anniversary of my album because it’s sad. I should be able to celebrate something like that because as long as this album has been around, people still care about it… It shouldn’t have to remind me of another year of being trapped in a mess that I didn’t create.
“They want me to look responsible by dragging it out and blocking me from releasing music even after already being blocked from so many other opportunities because of them.”
Sky admits that she doesn’t have the finances to re-record her music as Taylor Swift has done.
She said: “People keep telling me I should just re-record the songs and it’s like, yeah, Taylor Swift can do that because she’s a billionaire, but I basically put all the money I’ve ever made as an artist back into making music.”