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whats funny is that capitol's IG has been absolutely FLOODED for the past months with sky ferreira stuff and they havent moved a single inch 

can someone just make a tiktok and go viral about sky and capitol and whatever... 

whats funny is that capitol's IG has been absolutely FLOODED for the past months with sky ferreira stuff and they havent moved a single inch 

can someone just make a tiktok and go viral about sky and capitol and whatever... 

can someone just make a tiktok and go viral about sky and capitol and whatever... 

can someone just make a tiktok and go viral about sky and capitol and whatever... 

can someone just make a tiktok and go viral about sky and capitol and whatever... 

can someone just make a tiktok and go viral about sky and capitol and whatever... 

lol, wrote an essay expanding on some of my points from yesterday. i feel like i have to put this disclaimer before every criticism i make of sky because again, i’m not trying to attack her or be hateful, i just think there’s a lot she can do and is choosing not to. wanted to go into detail about some options available to her that capitol at least has no reason to block, and that they have been proven not to be blocking in the past.
 
as i mentioned previously, yes it sucks that sky is on a major label and they don’t promote her—but thinking of it from a business and industry perspective—why should they? why should they dish out that money for an artist of sky’s size who hasn’t released an album in a decade, even if it is, arguably, ultimately capitol’s own fault? just as new artists have to prove themselves independently to get signed to labels, at this point in sky’s career, she is going to need to prove herself again in order to show the label that she is worth investing more time and cash in. it’s unfortunate, but the music industry has always been fucked up, it’s always been sacrificial.
 
sky complaining about having to make promotional banners for herself, having to promote her own music all by herself, etc, just rubs me the wrong way because millions of independent artists do the same thing, with 10x less resources and connections, and they can still get music videos to come out. yes it’s hard work, yes that stuff shouldn’t be on sky’s own table while being signed to a major, but if you want the music to come out, you put in that work despite the unfortunate circumstances. there’s more she can do.
 
capitol wasn’t blocking the Downhill Lullaby or Don’t Forget music videos from being released. the Don’t Forget music video was filmed, it was edited—and then she fired the editor. and now she is being cryptic about it in her comments. that’s one, or two, things she could’ve done.
 
touring is very expensive, and especially if sky has been funding the album sessions herself and traveling around the world to play those festivals, it’s completely understandable for a headline tour to not be possible if she’s funding that all by herself too. but what is feasible for her is booking just a few headline shows, say LA, New York, and Chicago. that’s another promotional thing she can do, but is choosing not to. 
 
5 (FIVE!!) years ago, sky got her soundcloud account back. she proved that she can upload what she pleases to it when she posted Voices Carry. why hasn’t it been used since then? if she wants to release music, that sounds like a perfect opportunity to release some Masochism demos, or if she doesn’t want to share music that’s on the album, she can post some already scrapped tracks like Legends, The Woods, or I Pray for Rain, herself, instead of those songs leaking out of nowhere. this is another promotional thing she can do, but is choosing not to. 
 
remember that podcast she talked about a long time ago? that barely even has anything to do with music, there’s no way the label would have any say in a podcast. she has industry friends, i’m sure both fans of her and fans of other artists would love it if she started a podcast. she could bring on some of her musician contemporaries and friends like Charli XCX, Ethel Cain, Caroline Polachek, etc, and talk about their creative processes with each other. this is another extremely beneficial promotional thing she can do, but is choosing not to. 
 
as a fan, it’s really bothered me how every single interview or profile published in recent years has only been about her label issues. one or two interviews giving us some insight on it would’ve been great and would’ve been enough. i want to hear about how the singles she’s released came to be, again what the creative process was like, the role of the songs in the album, how the songs tie into the Masochism multiverse. she can promote the music by actually talking about the music in the press. this is another promotional thing she can do, but is choosing not to. 
 
and after all these years, it was an absolute shock to me to learn that the album still isn’t fully written. there’s no reason for it not to be completely done, let alone not completely written, after 8 years of it apparently being finished enough and ready for release for capitol to block it.
 
like i talked about yesterday, i’ve reached this point where i just don’t care anymore. i can’t be angry at her anymore, i can’t be excited anymore, it is what it is. but this whole situation is just fascinating to me, it’s very interesting to look at and study critically from the outside. the music industry is full of sacrifices; sky’s circumstances are unfortunate, but there are a lot more options available to her than she is making it seem. even if she did all of the stuff i listed on this post and capitol still blocked her, surely there would be a lot more people behind the Free Sky Ferreira movement, and it would make a lot more noise, likely enough for the label to have to do something. 

she adds:  "it’s because I’m not able to speak without it somehow damaging my life & career. Being silenced is complicated."

she's still going at it on the comment section: "I would like to see how my label promoted the single? I literally had to create the promo photos out of screenshots bc no one bothered to do anything. They wouldn’t give me a plan beyond the first day of the release. I asked for one since January 2022. I was forced & pressured to do multiple things that is their (multiple) jobs/what people get paid for. I had to focus on my tour at some point. They didn’t want me to do interviews for my first pop song in years or have anything set up beyond putting it on streaming. Literally. It’s not my job to get people to work for free despite it being a major label."

lately i've been thinking that probably she's just in denial, scared that this will be her last album ever so she's refusing to put something out "that's not up to the standard" but in reality she's just unconsciously postponing it so that her career "never comes to an end".
 
There will always be a music video to edit, songs whose mixes need to be perfected, a soon-to-happen tour to sort out, an album cycle that will eventually start but not just yet... What's crazy about this "10 year delay" is that the majority of night time my time was technically written in just a couple of weeks with sky's own money and rushed due to pressure from the record label and yet it has all this critic acclaim backing it up and she sure feels proud of the final outcome 

she's still going at it on the comment section: "I would like to see how my label promoted the single? I literally had to create the promo photos out of screenshots bc no one bothered to do anything. They wouldn’t give me a plan beyond the first day of the release. I asked for one since January 2022. I was forced & pressured to do multiple things that is their (multiple) jobs/what people get paid for. I had to focus on my tour at some point. They didn’t want me to do interviews for my first pop song in years or have anything set up beyond putting it on streaming. Literally. It’s not my job to get people to work for free despite it being a major label."

do you think she has ever asked someone (charli, ariel, or some other industry colleague) for advice? 

there's not a single comment under capitol records insta that's not about sky, she really is a PR nightmare and still... 

there's not a single comment under capitol records insta that's not about sky, she really is a PR nightmare and still... 

lately i've been thinking that probably she's just in denial, scared that this will be her last album ever so she's refusing to put something out "that's not up to the standard" but in reality she's just unconsciously postponing it so that her career "never comes to an end".
 
There will always be a music video to edit, songs whose mixes need to be perfected, a soon-to-happen tour to sort out, an album cycle that will eventually start but not just yet... What's crazy about this "10 year delay" is that the majority of night time my time was technically written in just a couple of weeks with sky's own money and rushed due to pressure from the record label and yet it has all this critic acclaim backing it up and she sure feels proud of the final outcome 

there's not a single comment under capitol records insta that's not about sky, she really is a PR nightmare and still... 

she's still going at it on the comment section: "I would like to see how my label promoted the single? I literally had to create the promo photos out of screenshots bc no one bothered to do anything. They wouldn’t give me a plan beyond the first day of the release. I asked for one since January 2022. I was forced & pressured to do multiple things that is their (multiple) jobs/what people get paid for. I had to focus on my tour at some point. They didn’t want me to do interviews for my first pop song in years or have anything set up beyond putting it on streaming. Literally. It’s not my job to get people to work for free despite it being a major label."

mean comments are the only ones that are getting her to reply tho 
 
(but i absolutely understand what you're saying, there's no need to be aggressive or mean towards her)

there's not a single comment under capitol records insta that's not about sky, she really is a PR nightmare and still... 

i seriously don't get what exactly is she waiting for / trying to do as of now

she adds:  "it’s because I’m not able to speak without it somehow damaging my life & career. Being silenced is complicated."

she's still going at it on the comment section: "I would like to see how my label promoted the single? I literally had to create the promo photos out of screenshots bc no one bothered to do anything. They wouldn’t give me a plan beyond the first day of the release. I asked for one since January 2022. I was forced & pressured to do multiple things that is their (multiple) jobs/what people get paid for. I had to focus on my tour at some point. They didn’t want me to do interviews for my first pop song in years or have anything set up beyond putting it on streaming. Literally. It’s not my job to get people to work for free despite it being a major label."

there's not a single comment under capitol records insta that's not about sky, she really is a PR nightmare and still...