On Thursday, the musical cult hero puts our her first song away from nemesis Capitol Records in more than a decade, a cut from the 'Babygirl' soundtrack. It only deepens the mystery.
Sky Ferreira in a new publicity photo. The recording artist is back with a new song after a decade-long fight with Capitol Records.Maybe it’s how she moved to New York from Los Angeles at 15 to model, sing and act in homage to her idol Madonna.
From the first seconds, awash in feedback and a Smiths-like riff, the song is pure Sky, snarl and vulnerability each jockeying for their place. The lyrics foreground sexual politics as they carry into a latter-day Madonna chorus. But it’s easy to feel the undercurrent of the professional kind as well. “I bit my tongue/And bled the truth/As I live and breathe/I’m dead to you,” she sings.,” carried a coded poison-pen message for Capitol and its Universal Music Group parent.
In a conversation that lasted over two hours one evening at The Dresden last week — she lives nearby — the musician was a mix of resentful, relieved and, for her all her chattiness, still opaque. Sky Ferreira is finally free to discuss what’s been happening to her for the past decade behind the corporate veil. But more talk doesn’t mean less mystery.
The fuzzy riffs that open “Leash” are almost canonically in this latter style, as if someone was responding to a dare on how to make a song at once drivingly industrial and soulfully tuneful. The effect is to keep two polar emotions in balance in the listener — a teen rage about the messiness of the world with a tender view of its pain and beauty.
At The Dresden she argues passionately for the latter, returning again and again to her main theme, which is that after a host of creative disagreements in the early 2010s Capitol went full-on vendetta — blocking her from doing press, paying no money for studio time or videos, telling radio programmers not to play her music, blackballing her with collaborators and sitting on tracks simply to punish her — for years.
Most often, though, Ferreira can seem stuck on the last decade of the Capitol fight, so much so that even gentle reminders thatrepresents the chance for a new start don’t stick for very long. She returns often to their alleged violations. To skeptics, such persistence will reinforce the theory that Ferreira is her own worst enemy.
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