Sky Ferreira responds to billboard claims of being “held hostage” by label

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Sky Ferreira has responded to a billboard in New York City that claims she is being “held hostage” by her record label.Ferreira’s fans had reportedly bought a billboard in Times Square to share a photo of the singer with the message “Free Sky Ferreira”, claiming that her music is being held hostage by her label Capitol Records.The singer responded to the billboard and messages by posting a photo of it to her Instagram stories with the caption “It’s True”, confirming that her label is keeping her from releasing new music, especially her follow-up to her 2013 debut ‘Night Time, My Time’.Sky Ferreira literally confirmed she's held hostage by her label pic.twitter.com/UAjPZzMWee— #freeskyferreira (@ssskyferreira) August 17, 2023The billboard appears to have been organised by an Instagram fan account for the singer who has been campaigning for Ferreira’s release from her record label since March 2021. “Sky Ferreira has been held hostage by her label Capitol Records for almost a decade.

They’ve been blocking the release of her sophomore album ‘Masochism’ since 2015,” reads a pinned post on the Instagram account.Earlier this year, Ferreira addressed the struggles she’s facing with putting out new music and her reputation as a “difficult” artist.She took to Instagram on January 14 to share a snippet of new music alongside the caption: “I want to put this out”.

Posting on her story, she shared a clip of her performing the unreleased track during a soundcheck back in 2019. “Look at the date,” she wrote in the accompanying caption. “I tried to put out this song forever ago.

This is not my fault and it’s not a conspiracy or whatever.”She continued: “I am not a hysterical/lying/lazy lunatic. I can pull up performances from 2014 of.