Sky Ferreira is again together with her first new music since 2022. The new music, “Leash,” was written particularly for the upcoming A24 film Babygirl, starring Nicole Kidman. Co-written by Ferreira and Jorge Elbrecht, “Leash” options lyrics about working by way of disgrace, feeling trapped, and preventing for your self to persevere. Listen to “Leash (Babygirl Original Soundtrack)” under.
In a brand new interview with Keaton Bell for Vogue, Ferreira mentioned how her “fraught” relationship with Capitol Records, her former label, “saved me from placing out new music for 10 years,” her plans to self-release one other new music in 2025, and why she recorded a observe for Babygirl within the first place. “[Nicole Kidman’s] character could be very self-destructive and harmful with different individuals’s lives, however she kinda has to undergo this complete expertise for the sake of rising as an individual,” mentioned Ferreira. “I feel that’s why I linked to the fabric a lot, despite the fact that my circumstances are so completely different from the world of the movie.”
Ferreira beforehand claimed that she has repeatedly “tried” to launch her music over time, a scenario she describes as “past fucked up.” Last yr, followers who run the social media marketing campaign “Free Sky Ferreira” purchased a digital billboard in Times Square to demand that Capitol Records stops holding her “hostage” and “blocking” the discharge of Masochism, her sophomore album that’s been teased since 2015. After that stint, Ferreira was faraway from the Capitol Records artist roster on the label’s web site.
After releasing her 2013 debut album, Night Time, My Time, Ferreira put out “Downhill Lullaby,” in 2019, and “Don’t Forget,” in 2022. She made a shock look throughout Kevin Abstract’s Coachella set earlier this yr, too, the place she coated “Need You Now” by Lady A.
Revisit Pitchfork’s Cover Story “Sky Ferreira Returns.”
