Sky Ferreira trying to gain ownership of songs after being dropped by label

Posted On December 3, 2024December 3, 2024

Sky Ferreira has declared that she is in a battle with her former label, Capitol Records, over her attempts to reclaim the ownership of her recorded music.

The singer, who released her last studio album, Night Time, My Time, in 2013 via Capitol, split from her contract with the label in 2023 after a number of public debates with executives prevented her from releasing any new music with the company.

Ferreira has now revealed that she’s been working hard to gain the rights to masters of unreleased music that she sent to the label and has been desperately trying to find ways to release the music that she recorded while under contract.

Speaking to Vogue about her new song ‘Leash’, which has been released as part of the soundtrack for the Nicole Kidman film Babygirl, she stated that she was unable to re-record the material she had previously given to Capitol.

In the interview, she claimed that she is “still trying to figure out the words I can use to talk about it that won’t get me in trouble,” before adding “but I also don’t really care about getting in trouble, because what else can they really do to me at this point?”

Elaborating further on the complicated situation she has found herself in, Ferreira defiantly stated that she was “working to try and get some of those songs back, but I’m not getting every single one,” and that “it’s such a complicated process and I have to figure out how to do all this shit by myself now.”

Ferreira would later make an analogy about how Taylor Swift re-recorded her music to gain control over her art.

“Taylor Swift can do that because she’s a billionaire,” Ferreira explained, “but I basically put all the money I’ve ever made as an artist back into making music. I think most musicians I know generally pay to work.”

Ferreira was dropped from Capitol shortly after the tenth anniversary of Night Time, My Time, which she claims to have occurred “after months of not hearing back from them”. Furthermore, the singer says that she was not looking forward to the anniversary of her first debut album due to the fraught relationship between her and the label.

“They want me to look responsible by dragging it out and blocking me from releasing music even after already being blocked from so many other opportunities because of them,” Ferreira told Vogue. “It felt like their way of trying to break my spirit one last time.”

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