sky ferreira is pitchfork's premiere cover artist
in our new digital cover story, @skyferreira talks to us about growing up and releasing new music for the first time in six years → https://t.co/rc1FvZsXc1 pic.twitter.com/MwsGfesqPj
- pitchfork (@pitchfork) march 26, 2019
sky ferreira is the cover artist for the premiere issue of pitchfork's quarterly digital zine (op note: which i guess is a thing that's separate from what pitchfork was already doing...?--idk--don't @ me).
choice excerpts from the interview include...
- “'downhill lullaby,' is a five-and-a-half-minute, goth-noir, chamber-pop piece-with strings!-that could have easily closed an episode of the revived twin peaks" and was co-produced by sky and twin peaks' music supervisor, dean hurley.
- "another forthcoming track, tentatively titled “don’t forget,” is a new wave time warp, a lovely bit of nostalgia therapy for people who were never there-even if it is, according to sky, 'about burning down houses.'”
- [on her arrest] “'the thing that’s still so fucked up about that: i didn’t have a drug problem, i dated someone who had a drug problem, i was in a car with someone who had a drug problem,' she says. 'no one wants to talk about how my charge got dropped.'...'i was really young; i wasn’t even 21 yet for most of it. that wasn’t my great love story of my life,' she says, adding, 'the people that have treated me so much better-they’re the ones who deserve the attention, not that guy.'”
- [on the album] "sky promises 'more poppy' songs on masochism too, as well as more 'abstract,' orchestral stuff. 'it’s very big, but also very violent,' she says, half-chuckling. 'but not all the songs are super-dark.'”
- "'i don’t have a back-up plan,' sky says. 'i never have. i don’t have an education. i don’t know how to, like, play music in the [traditional] sense. i’m socially awkward and stuff-i couldn’t really do a lot of other jobs either,' she says. 'literally, there’s no other option for me. so this has to work.'...(sky never learned to drive.)" (op note: not a virgin, but still can't drive is very ontd 2019)
random bits:
- fell down an elevator shaft in 2014 on her third night opening for miley cyrus' arena tour and still performed the next day.
- doesn't have an acting agent.
- is gluten intolerant but doesn't talk about it because she doesn't think people will believe her.
- see's her pets in game of thrones characters "(her cat, egg, would be a lannister, while his brother, squirrel, would be from the north)."
- "...sky speaks in em dashes. it’s less that she loses her train of thought, and more that her thought train is screeching onto a new track." (op note: me af which anyone that has read my comments can attest to).
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ontd, how excited are you for (what i'm presuming sky's sophomore album is still titled) masochism on a scale of 9.9 - 10? also, don't come for me or my lack of hanging quotes--posts are hard enough and stuff.