Anitta Vents About Rift With Warner Records in Angry Social Posts: ‘They Were Supposed to Promote My Music’

variety.com:

Thania Garcia Anitta and her label Warner Records have long been involved in a public dispute over the Brazillian pop star’s desire to have her contract terminated, but the dispute has grown increasingly hard to ignore in the past few weeks, as she has taken her issues directly to fans on social media.

On March 8, Anitta uploaded a series of explainers to her Instagram story that started with a repost of the label’s use of her image for a post in celebration of International Women’s Day.

The singer has been expressing her anger both on Instagram, where she posts in English, and Twitter, where she uses Portuguese. “Communication at Warner is so good that [they’re] posting me on a Happy women’s day looping post, even tho I had to go public to ask for the ‘woman respect’ that this date represents,” the singer wrote in her first post, saying the Warner post was “using [as] background the song they said would never break without a feat cuz I wasn’t strong enough for that.” The reference was to “Envolver,” a major hit in many markets in 2022, with Anitta alleging the label didn’t believe her own star power was sufficient without a feature from a bigger guest artist.

Apparently addressing Warner Music Group’s newly installed CEO, Robert Kyncl, Anitta posted a screenshot of an email she purportedly sent to him.