Christopher Lee July 30th, 2018 - 11:03 PM
26-year-old synth pop diva Sky Ferreira has just made public on Instagram that she has been locked out of her Soundcloud account by her label. According to the post that she made, she was forced by her label to hand over the login information for her personal Soundcloud after the release of her debut LP Night Time, My Time back in 2013, and then changed the information so that she could not access it.
In the emotional Instagram post, she writes:
Hey @soundcloud
I can’t access my own account that I started & uploaded everything myself. I ended up bamboozled.I was forced/told I had no choice to hand over my account information to my label after my album came out. They gave me the wrong information & changed it so I can no longer access it. The person who changed the login is unreachable & the contact no longer exist. I need it back ASAP. I earned the hundreds of thousands of people that follow the account without my label & have never had help/paid for anything on social media or whatever. I think of soundcloud as the website that allows musicians to have freedom. Please help xx
SKY FERREIRAPS: I would like to clarify I have always done all of my work directly & by myself. No “team” has ever uploaded (or anything else under any circumstance) my stuff for me whatsoever.
That being said, as of yet, it is not exactly clear what label (or sub-label) it is that is holding Ferreira’s login information hostage. Soundcloud has not yet responded to Ferreira.
In addition, the artist has had her fair share of strife regarding record labels. She has vocally opposed labels such as Polydor Records and EMI, and has noted that she has had difficulties with her supposedly upcoming sophomore LP Masochism. The first single was supposed to be released 2015, but it is yet to come out.
Check out the full Instagram post below.
