Sky Ferreira, pop star and bad girl
Soon, on June 3, Sky Ferreira will perform in Moscow, an American singer of controversial reputation and unquestionable talent, performing in the genre dubbed "heroin-pop." As a child, she talked a lot with Michael Jackson, now goes on tour with Miley Cyrus, but she is still at a respectful distance from the pop scene. We asked her a few questions and found out what she thinks about her own music, looks and looks at the cruel and hypocritical world.
I can't catch with a smile from ear to ear. When I see too happy people, I want to fail under the ground.
I do not write "pop" music. Just trying to write good. And one that would let me know what kind of person I am and what I managed to go through so that the listeners could somehow relate to these songs. In the texts, I always express my thoughts directly, otherwise what is the point in them? Maybe for this, and I love completely different people - for vulnerability and honesty.
Many industry representatives they said that nothing shines for me, that I do not fit the "standards". No wonder, considering these standards are crap.
I have a reputation as a complex person. They only consider me complicated only because I do not immediately agree with everything I am told. It happens that some 50-year-old man tells me how to be a woman. All this nonsense about my hairstyle or circles under the eyes: you, baby, need more makeup, they say. Sorry, I look like this since elementary school, I'm not used to being a zombie.
I understand that I look weird but you should have seen me before. At 15 or 16 I wore braces and for a long time did not feel at all sexual, so I lived a little in a fantasy world. When I was writing songs not about my life, but just pulling some images out of my head, people did not understand this. We watched the clip on "Seventeen" and thought: "Oh, there she is." No, guys, not like that.
At first I was not going to be photographed naked on the album cover. Gaspar and I (Noe, the director of "Irreversibility" and "Entering the Void," the author of Skye's album cover "Night Time, My Time." - Ed.) Just liked this green wall in the shower of the room where we were. But no one goes to the shower in clothes, right?
I have always written very simple texts - my brain works too fast to come up with something elegant. And when they ask me how I write songs, I don’t even know what to answer, because my attempts to do everything according to my mind do not lead to anything good. Someone may be able to sit down and say to himself “I want a song like this and that,” and then make it like this and that. But not me.
I like everything in the world. I love Laurie Anderson, love Britney Spears. And Sonic Youth
My grandmother was a hairdresser Michael Jackson and everywhere dragged him. So I, of course, also constantly was somewhere nearby. Sang for him gospel, all that. He was for me something like a teacher, this is true - but rather, as a teacher is a friend, not a world pop star. When he died, I thought that everything had stopped and there would be nothing further, because before that I had not had to endure someone’s death. Now that I remember him, I feel much better.
I like everything in the world. I love Laurie Anderson, love Britney Spears. And Sonic Youth. And April March. And The Shangri-Las ... All this music. I love Brian Eno. Of dance music, I like disco most of all, but rather in the key of Chic and Niall Rogers in general. The bass line is important to me, and I'm crazy about live music in general. So on the album I tried to do something that could be played live.
I still can not believe that they called me a racist (unreasonably, after the clip on "I Blame Myself". - Ed.). Racism is one of the worst manifestations of human hatred. I hope someday everyone will understand this.
Between 12 and 16 years I was raped twice. But for a long time I could not tell anyone about this, and then they told me that because of my modesty, everything happened. In the end, I decided to change myself, to become really loud and unbearable - and for about three years it was exactly like that. I decided to sue the rapist, but all that I received was forbidden to approach me closer than 15 blocks. Will it prevent him from doing something like that again, even if not with me? Of course not.
I was able to cope with my problems and they didn't break me. It goes against the popular opinion that everything that happens to you determines how you will be next. Something like "she was raped, so that she was doomed to be a victim all her life" or "she will always be ashamed of her now." It is clear that I am not proud of what happened to me, but I'm not going to hide from it. Although many people for some reason are waiting for many years before they begin to frankly.
I am both resistant and fragile. If you want to somehow stand out from the crowd and succeed, you must combine both strength and weakness.
I have no drug addiction. I have nothing more to say about this.