Ferreira’s breakthrough came with Everything Is Embarrassing, the sparkling pop song she wrote with Dev Hynes, which was released in August 2012. She acknowledges how much it helped her but is also defensive about it, saying: “This album proves that I am more than just
that one song.”
Her caginess appears to stem from the fact that her relationship with Hynes has gone downhill recently, with Hynes apparently upset over comments she made as to whose song it was. According to Ferreira:
“He wrote the demo, and I’ve always given him credit, all I said was that the song wouldn’t have been made without me on it. I think it’s a shame because Dev’s really talented and he’s my friend. Well, was my friend – it’s kinda sad that we can’t be [friends] now.”
Sky talks about her Sexual Abuse
There are plenty of songs on Night Time, My Time that sound as if they’re referring to her arrest. I Blame Myself, arguably the album’s standout track, features the chorus: “How could you know what it feels like to fight the hounds of hell?” But the album was actually written before it happened. Rather, the running themes of insecurity are, Ferreira says, a consequence of her enduring sexual abuse as a child and not dealing with it until it came to writing the album.
"I think I literally just snapped and hit rock bottom," she says.
"I didn’t understand it when I was younger, and then it happened again when I was older and that’s when I decided to move to New York." She mustered the courage to tell the police about the abuse, but says they were useless. "They blamed it on me for being quiet. They said being quiet made me the target for it."
She looks uncomfortable telling this story, but says she thinks it’s important to be honest because it might help others going through the same to get help:
“At school there might be an ad that says, like: ‘Rape is bad – tell a counsellor’, but it doesn’t really work like that.”
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