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oh i forgot to say i listened to ghost too one of my favs actually

I really like Don't let me be misunderstood, all versions especially those of Nina Simone, Santa Esmeralda and Lana of course.
I think it fits so well with her and her feelings.
It perfectly ends Honeymoon.

this one's too cute I-

beyond proud of her. This is so so huge especially for an independent artist and given her previous circumstances. Wow. 

also this song is so underrated, truly a gem in her discography
 
 

i love hold the girl by rina sawayama and i think it's her best work
and i've been a fan since rina EP
i didn't even realize this was an unpopular opinion but i guess it is

ok am going to watch the music video and then listen to the EP and i'll come back (DISCLAIMER: i'm super super high so i hope that will increase my perception of her music and not vice versa)

the sad dream music video could convert anyone yeah start with the ghost ep

dont start save yourself please (start with ghost ep)

throwback to late May when my ex Twitter mutual @/SkyFUpdates blocked me for telling it to stick to Sky Ferreira posts instead of making weird shady Halsey tweets. sorry you have no new updates to post on your little Twitter, looks like i got the last laugh baby, say hi to LanaBoards again you little gay rat!
 

Imagine her releasing de Don't Forget MV on March 
 
A year after the single announcement. 
 

throwback to late May when my ex Twitter mutual @/SkyFUpdates blocked me for telling it to stick to Sky Ferreira posts instead of making weird shady Halsey tweets. sorry you have no new updates to post on your little Twitter, looks like i got the last laugh baby, say hi to LanaBoards again you little gay rat!
 

pesse needs to get here on lanaboards like... you cant just drag her like this and not expect us to wanna give you a medal
ive had the woods on loop since last night its toooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo good

We've spent the last 48 hours talking about her career while she probably doesn't care and is having fun with her boyfriend right now. That's what I call masochism!!!

i wish i never knew abt sky 

I agree with you guys, it must be very scary for her to have all the hype year after year and then to have people (mostly critics) saying something like "10 years in the making and wasn't worth the hype". 
 
I'm pretty sure once it gets the whole thing released (maybe next year lol) I will like it a lot, but all these leaks have my expectations set on mid, because most songs have been pretty mid, but oh well, they are just demos. 

It's not only sophomoro slump but her nature as well of being """self-concious and perfectionist""". I feel pretty surprised she never mentioned any sort of change during the last 8 years, because we know how NTMT went through different encarnations before setting for the "grungier" sound. Every title basically showed up a different type of vibe.
 
I'm also sure she's aware of the "hype" of being on "most antecipated albums" like... every year.

i think this is reasonable and has definitely crossed her mind, hence even more of a culprit for her supposed perfectionism. but after all these years, unless she like goes viral or something lol (very unlikely), it’s a given that if Masochism ever comes out it won’t have the impact on any niche pocket of culture in the same way that NTMT did. it’s gonna be similar to Zella Day finally releasing her second album last year; the fans who have been around for a while are going to eat it up and that’s mostly gonna be it. if fear of a sophomore slump has been holding her back at all, realistically it’s something she just internally has to work on getting over after all this time

Yes you're the only one sadly

This was a good read and it's all facts

I wasn't a fan during that time, but Sky used to post a lot of songs/demos for free on Myspace. She also leaked the full Dynamite State on SoundCloud in 2011, and those were just gifts for the fans.
 
It's really a shame she never used her SoundCloud again after Voices Carry like she said she would. And she's literally only released 2 official solo singles since 2013, like– would posting ancient pre-Masochism stuff or scrapped tracks from the album really hurt anybody? I'm sure so many people would love and appreciate if she did. 

Lol I will say, I listen to 99 Tears and One every now and then. Bops!

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. 

you know how i know she’s lying? why the fuck would Capitol allow ha to release Downhill Lullaby considering it’s not commercial or profitable, not to mention how fucking awful and unlistenable it is, if they were truly “abusing” her or keeping music locked away?  you can’t make this shit up!

this remix? slaps.