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Sky Ferreira’s debut album pushed back again
By Andy Malt | Published on Monday 15 July 2013
Sky Ferreira’s debut album, which was originally supposed to come out in about 1937, I think, has now been delayed until 2014. Or so says GQ, and I see no reason why GQ would lie about that. Serious though, what’s going on with this record? She was signed to EMI in 2008. 2008!
Earlier this year, entertainment lawyer Ben McLane described Ferreira’s situation to Kings Of A&R as the “the worst case scenario”, saying: “Sky Ferreira’s label has gone through four or five label presidents since she’s been signed, and a big merger”.
Meanwhile, in an interview with The Phoenix, Ferreira herself said of her relationship with EMI last year: “They told me the nastiest things, like, ‘Sorry, there’s already one girl coming out at the moment, we can’t do two’. I turned in five different albums and none of them made sense. It was just one thing after the other and getting shelved”.
No fun. Oh well, here’s some classic Ferreira, 2010’s ‘One’:
