![]() ![]() ![]() This saga – including a reputation as a teenage party girl and a 2013 arrest – has made her a joke to some, while her tenacity and sullen cool have made her a hero to others. Her latest single, the fantastically vengeful 80s-style cut Don’t Forget, is aimed at them. All the while, there have been just as many public disputes with her label, Capitol, with Ferreira frequently accusing them of sabotage. Since then, the self-professed perfectionist has promised numerous releases but released just two singles from her very-long-in-the-making second album, Masochism, which she swears is coming out this year. (Apparently they missed her listing Bow Wow Wow and Nico as influences on Myspace.) It took four years, a label change and much stealth for Ferreira to release her fantastic debut album, Night Time, My Time, in 2013, which addressed her chaotic reputation as well as childhood sexual assault. She signed to a major label as a wilful California-born 15-year-old and fiercely resisted being fashioned into Britney 2.0. ![]() If Ferreira, 29, has a trademark beyond belting pop music that sounds like Madonna collaborating with Suicide, it is, gallingly, the false start. The track is off everyone is out of time. “We have to start over,” she tells her band, who look tense. “Story of my life,” she shrugs, her tiny face shrouded by futuristic black aviators and her hurricane of platinum hair. As the sparkling churn of her 2013 song Boys kicks in, Ferreira starts singing. A week earlier, in Portugal, Ferreira was 20 minutes late and plagued by sound issues. As the minutes tick by and nobody appears, the festival crowd grit their teeth. I t is 9pm in Barcelona and Sky Ferreira is due onstage at Primavera. ![]()
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