Followers have flown a “Free Sky Ferreira” banner over the musician’s label at Capitol Data in one other protest.
Final month, followers reportedly purchased a billboard in Instances Sq. to share a photograph of the singer with the message “Free Sky Ferreira”, claiming that her music had been “held hostage” by her label Capitol Data “for nearly a decade.”
Yesterday (September 23), that very same fan-run marketing campaign paid a aircraft to fly over Capitol Data with one other banner. You’ll be able to see the second under:
Beforehand, Ferreira confirmed her assist for the group by liking and commenting on their social media posts. In August, the musician shared the Instances Sq. billboard publish in an Instagram story with the caption “It’s true.”
The billboard appeared to have been organised by an Instagram fan account for the singer who has been campaigning for Ferreira’s launch from her document label since March 2021. “Sky Ferreira has been held hostage by her label Capitol Data for nearly a decade. They’ve been blocking the discharge of her sophomore album ‘Masochism’ since 2015,” reads a pinned publish on the Instagram account.
Earlier this 12 months, Ferreira addressed the struggles she’s dealing with with placing out new music and her popularity as a “troublesome” artist.
She took to Instagram on January 14 to share a snippet of recent music alongside the caption: “I need to put this out”. Posting on her story, she shared a clip of her performing the unreleased observe throughout a soundcheck again in 2019. “Have a look at the date,” she wrote within the accompanying caption. “I attempted to place out this tune endlessly in the past. This isn’t my fault and it’s not a conspiracy or no matter.”
She continued: “I’m not a hysterical/mendacity/lazy lunatic. I can pull up performances from 2014 of unreleased singles too. That is past fucked up. I’m so annoyed & over it.
“Being ‘troublesome’ or ‘excessive strung’ doesn’t give folks the fitting to wreck & stall my profession,” she wrote. “I’m in a troublesome state of affairs & I’ve to be ‘troublesome’ to get by it. I’ve to guard my work & myself in some way?
“A variety of it isn’t being allowed to say or do something I would like/want with out it being dismissed. I can’t consider a time within the final 7 years the place I’ve been capable of simply deal with what I’m speculated to do, regardless of having to principally sacrifice each facet of my life to verify it occurs.
“It’s not okay. If I’m not allowed to say one thing with out consequence & the people who find themselves speculated to do their job refuse to look out for me… How am I not going to be ‘troublesome’?!?”
Sky Ferreira actually confirmed she’s held hostage by her label pic.twitter.com/UAjPZzMWee
— #freeskyferreira (@ssskyferreira) August 17, 2023
In an interview with NME final 12 months, the singer revealed that her extremely anticipated second album was almost finished. “It’s principally finished for probably the most half, it’s simply that some elements should be re-recorded, Simply the ending touches, actually,” she mentioned.
‘Masochism’ was first scheduled for launch in 2015, and has been pushed again a number of occasions since. In October 2021, she mentioned a launch date for the album had been confirmed, teasing its arrival for March 2022.
The next month, she asserted that ‘Masochism’ was “really popping out” in 2022, and again in January 2022, Ferreira’s mom re-confirmed {that a} March launch was on the playing cards.
When the album wasn’t launched in March, Ferreira informed followers to maintain off on their “wrath and demise threats” till the next month. Ferreira’s extremely anticipated LP, ‘Masochism’, continues to be but to obtain a proper launch date.
