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Fan Base: Sky Ferreira
Member Since: 3/29/2012
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Originally posted by Poxy
what are the correct lyrics to 24 hours?
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Google the Night Time, My Time booklet and you'll find them
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Member Since: 6/25/2010
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DIEHL: You've become a real muse to some very significant creative forces in fashion, photography, and film—people like Hedi Slimane, Gaspar Noé, Terry Richardson. However, to exist as both a muse and a strong artist, as you've done, proves to be a very rare occurrence.
FERREIRA: People want to write you off if you're a muse, like you're just the thing at the moment. That whole concept is so silly. Again, think about Madonna or Debbie Harry. Debbie Harry inspired so many people. She and Nico were muses to Andy Warhol. Kim Gordon is hardly some dumb blond lady. But that's just how people look at it: You're either pretty and stupid, or ****ty, or weird and troubled. [laughs] I think people were confused about which I was. Whatever. I was so annoyed when I'd read that people thought I was troubled because "Oh, she got arrested." I'm not troubled. When I made my album, I was more angry than sad. I felt more misunderstood rather than that I was having "issues." I didn't have issues—I was just frustrated, and making my album was the first time that I was able to actually express that. I feel like that's why people connect with it. Someone came up to me today and told me, "I was having the worst time of my life: my parents got divorced and someone died and my boyfriend broke up with me at the exact same time. And your album got me through it, and now I'm so much better." And I was like ... [exhales] That's why I make music.
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DIEHL: Another fan I spoke to wanted to know what your songwriting process was.
FERREIRA: I don't really have a songwriting process. It either happens or it doesn't. I'll just hear a word or see something or read something, and that's it. But after the label shelved my album, I became really insecure. Because I was constantly told that my stuff was bad, I thought, "Maybe I am just a bad songwriter." I found out I was overthinking things. While I was working with [producer] Jon Brion, he told me "Just write the way you actually talk and think," and that's what I did. He liked this one song that I thought was so dumb. The chorus was "I like you"—it was so simple, and I was like, "Wait a sec—everything I like is kind of like that, too." That was the best songwriting lesson I ever had. It cleared my head a bit. If he hadn't told me that, this album wouldn't have happened. For sure.
SKY FERREIRA
DIEHL: I have to admit, when I first heard songs from Night Time, My Time, like "Nobody Asked Me (If I Was Okay)" or "I Blame Myself," I couldn't tell if they were cries for help or a therapeutic catharsis.
FERREIRA: I feel like it's all of those things combined. People ask me, "Do you hate yourself?" And I'm like, "A little bit!" [laughs] I feel like I'm a bit of a masochist. Maybe I'm a little into it. Maybe I get off on it. I don't know! [laughs]
DIEHL: You're not alone. It seems like there's been a development in the last few years, thanks to the internet, where people follow the minutiae of someone like you or, say, Drake, getting involved in the details of your lives as if they were their own.
FERREIRA: Now there's a record of it. I dropped out of high school when I was 15, and it's like my yearbook is the internet. Everything I've done that's embarrassing since I was 14—it's all there. It was used against me a lot: "Oh, she's fake. She's bratty." And then, when I grew into something else and tried different things, it was like, "How dare she change over time?" Just like we were saying before about David Bowie, you've got to be hit or miss or it's going to get boring. Once people think they've figured out a formula, that's when the music stops being good. I don't have a formula. Sometimes it's going to be hit or miss, but you have to fall on your face a bit in order to just keep going. Someday you're just going to psshhh. [makes sound of head exploding] You can't make everyone happy—that's what I've learned. They're either "I liked the older you," or "I liked ‘Everything Is Embarrassing,' " or "I didn't really care for ‘Everything Is Embarrassing.' " But I feel like I've always been the same person. When you release your first album, it's almost like the finish line. That's not how I want it to work. Someone asked me once, "What did you want to be when you were a little kid?" And I said, "A musician." I always kind of knew; it wasn't even a thought. I actually hummed before I could talk. So every time I got rejected, there wasn't an option like, "Okay, what's my backup plan?" I don't believe in backup plans. I'm not a ****ing showgirl. I'm not in it for the dazzle of it all. I'd rather keep falling on my face.
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This wasn't threaded, right? It's so long, this is like ~30%.
Someone else can make it a thread if they want.
Full Interview and a few more pictures @ Interview Magazine
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Member Since: 11/11/2010
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That was such a good interview! I like that she's been opening up so much more in her interviews. It's so weird to look back at her 2010 interviews, and how much she's changed.
I've been so into NTMT B-Sides lately. I can't get over the fact that "I Can't Say No To Myself" wasn't on the album.
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Member Since: 11/11/2010
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Member Since: 11/11/2010
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The "I Blame Myself" video is so beautiful. The more I watch it, the more I realize how good of a single choice it is.
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Come support Obsession!
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the op hasn't been update since 2012
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Since I have a Sky avi now I thought I shall pop in here
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Member Since: 11/11/2010
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I really wanted the picture disc version of NTMT, but I couldn't find it in the two stores I went to. And the one that did have it said that there were 50+ people in the store and they had one copy.
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Member Since: 1/4/2014
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I knew Sky existed for ageees but I never bothered to give her music a go but now I have I dunno what to say, like????? she's the be-all and end-all of my life right now. Night Time, My Time is a flawless gift from above, her EPs and unreleased serve me pop bops and Sky herself is so cute. I'm so mad at myself for missing out at past chances to see her live.
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Member Since: 3/29/2012
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Originally posted by Katy Hudson
I knew Sky existed for ageees but I never bothered to give her music a go but now I have I dunno what to say, like????? she's the be-all and end-all of my life right now. Night Time, My Time is a flawless gift from above, her EPs and unreleased serve me pop bops and Sky herself is so cute. I'm so mad at myself for missing out at past chances to see her live.
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I can't seem to find her Eps or unreleased material anywhere. i wanna get into her but all I've found is her album.
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Member Since: 11/11/2010
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Originally posted by alexminaj
I can't seem to find her Eps or unreleased material anywhere. i wanna get into her but all I've found is her album.
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Ghost EP and One are on Spotify, along with Night Time My Time. You can find As If! EP on "other" sites, along with her demos and other singles.
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I saw her open for Miley in London and her voice is amazing but she needs to loosen up on stage a bit, I shouted her name during soundcheck and I KNOW she heard me but paid me dust
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Member Since: 11/11/2010
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Originally posted by Katy Hudson
I saw her open for Miley in London and her voice is amazing but she needs to loosen up on stage a bit, I shouted her name during soundcheck and I KNOW she heard me but paid me dust
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She seems to be getting better. When I saw in her in March 2013, she was so awkward. I felt so embarrassed for her just watching her. She wouldn't make eye contact with anyone, and when she did, she would kind of twitch nervously. She stared at the back wall the entire time like it was some really bad sex.
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Member Since: 3/29/2012
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I WOULD SEE HER LIVE IF IT WASN'T FOR PRIMIVERA FESTIVAL IN SPAIN
She opens for Miley in Sweden, which is two days after the show I'm most likely going to, so close It sucks uugh
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Member Since: 8/18/2013
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Originally posted by Katy Hudson
I saw her open for Miley in London and her voice is amazing but she needs to loosen up on stage a bit, I shouted her name during soundcheck and I KNOW she heard me but paid me dust
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when she came to vegas w/ miley, i yelled at the top of my lungs 'i love u sky' when it was rly quiet but she paid me dusT
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Member Since: 8/19/2013
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slay a bit brangelina 2.0
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Member Since: 11/11/2010
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Why is Everything Is Embarrassing still so good?
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