Sky Ferreira is now Fiona Apple - listen to a clip of "song 3"

"I'm like Ke$ha but cleaner."

Remember when Fiona Apple was all awesome and popular and she did 'Shadowboxer' and 'Criminal' and then she yelled stuff at the MTV Awards and birds started living in her hair? Good times, right?

Well that was a very long time ago - especially by pop standards - and though she's put out a couple of really good (read: REALLY GOOD) albums since then, the world has kept spinning and a slew of new, young, hip and impossibly on-trend girls have come up to take her place.  Like Sky Ferreira.

Sky's musical style up to now has been a world away from Fiona's brooding pop/rock, but it seems Miss Ferriera has turned over a new leaf.  She just posted a snippet of a track inventively titled "song 3" on Soundcloud, and it wouldn't feel at all out of place on the Daria soundtrack from 1999.  In fact, if you told us it was actually a Fiona Apple demo from way back when, we'd totally believe you.

Yes, it's a huge departure from Sky's usual sunny synthpop, but considering the resounding thud her buzz singles have landed with, maybe that's a good thing. And who knows - maybe Fiona will get all jealous and finally put out something new.  Or....OR - and hold on because this would be amazing -  Sky and Fiona could do the track as a duet at a b-list awards show (we're thinking the Billboard Awards) and then put the performance on iTunes.  Then Glee would sing it as part of a "don't be a cutter" episode or something and the song would be number one for three years, and Sky and Fiona would form an AMAZING band called - wait for it - SKY AND FIONA, and everything they did would be phenomenal and life-changing.

Or - as will obviously happen - the Sky song will turn out to be a one-off demo thing, she'll keep doing amazing but underrated dance pop, and continue on her current path, having to list being one of Allure's "style icons" as her greatest acheivement. 

Sad face.

song 3 by Sky Ferreira Official

Sky Ferreira cries '99 Tears' - watch the lyrics video premiere now!!

I whip my hair back and forth

Sky Ferreira:  Can I have some tears please?

Tear Dispensery Associate:  Yes, how many would you like?

Sky Ferreira:  Well my first few singles didn't really take off like everyone thought they would, so probably quite a few.

Tear Dispensery Associate: Oh dear.  Well how badly did they do?

Sky Ferreira:  So bad I can't even make a real video for my next single.  I have to do a "lyrics" video.  Which sucks because the song is ACTUALLY AMAZING in an 80's THROWDOWN STOMPFEST kind of way.

Tear Dispensery Associate: What is a "lyrics" video?

Sky Ferreira:  That's where the record company is super cheap and so they pay an unemployed UC Santa Barbara grad whose parents let him major in Communications because they don't love him to press some buttons on his Macbook Pro and throw together a clip that flashes the words to the song up on the screen as they are sung.

Tear Dispensery Associate:  That sounds awful.  How about 99 tears.

Sky Ferreira:   99 it is.

Sky Ferreira has great 'Sex' - listen to the premiere now!

This is my hipster bathtub

Sky Ferreira gives us some BIG-ASS MUSICAL WOOD, if you haven't picked up on that by now.  If anyone should be the NEXT BIG THING it should be this little pop strumpet, who rocks the street cred Madonna had back in the early 80's and the looks Gaga would kill for.  Sky's got that uber-hip Meatpacking district look going on, has some serious musical chops, and is pretty much Mary-Kate Olson but, you know, with talent.

Her new track - currently offending the obese heart of America in a series of CK ads - is an 80's retrofest of the best kind, with synths and drum breaks galore.  Sky's output has been a little scattered so far, as her handlers try to decide what direction to take the starlet in, and she's been testing the waters with a variety of very different sounding buzz tracks.  Though she hasn't managed any real chart success yet, her electro masterpiece 'One' (her UK debut) bowled over the critics, while her more mainstream fare (her American releases) have met with a resounding "meh" from pretty much everyone.  So hopefully the upcoming official release of 'Sex Rules' signals a definitive turn toward the 80's electro sound, since no one is particularly interested in having another Ke$ha foisting pestilence upon the world. 

The track doesn't come anywhere near the brilliance of 'One,' but is a nice enough tune with a summery vibe, and should act as a great soundtrack to the return of warmer weather. Now if she could just get that damn album out without it being delayed...again.

Sky Ferreira singing something produced by Frankmusik? "Yes, please"! - listen now!

I'm not Lourdes, you assholes

Sky Ferreira, the totally underage, totally next big thing, was supposed to conquer the world on 1-11-11, when her debut album was - until recently - scheduled to be released.  Of course, not a lot of details of that original plan are available, but we have it from a reliable source that the original plot was pretty much to sell millions of downloads which would somehow turn each computer in the world into an autonomous battle machine, all of which would then unite together in battle to crush the human race and replace it with an all-powerful network of autotune plugins and install Ke$ha as Queen of the Robots until she died of raging syphilis. 

Fortunately for us that's not happening.  Instead, Sky has gone back into the studio to do some new tracks for the LP, because she's "grown musically," which actually means "the record company said my singles flopped so now I'm grounded [sad face emoticon] LOL"  etc.

We're kind of okay with that, though, since it gives the budding starlet some time to pull something genius out of her ass and live up to her MESSIAH-LIKE POTENTIAL.  Besides, it's not like she doesn't have time.  She's got a good 3 years before she has to begin her drug-fueled downward spiral and have a lesbian affair with Snooki for publicity.  And it's not like Ke$ha has anywhere to be.  In fact, this is probably good for her.  It gives us a chance to develop better and better Treponema pallidum (look it up) treatments before the robots kill off all the scientists.

Anyway, here's something to tide us all over - a good-but-not-spectacular tune produced by ScopiSat fave Frankmusik.  It's a lot more downtempo than her previous songs which is fine we guess.  But we can't help feeling like a race of self-actualized machines could probably come up with something better....



"whatever."

Sky Ferreira has a fully leaked 'Obsession' - listen to the full track now!

Sky Ferreira's handlers decided that 'One' was just too brilliant for the US, which may very well be true, but it seems like they could have chosen something a little better to launch their new mealticket in North America.  'Obsession' isn't bad, but it's not particularly good or ground breaking either.  It has a Pink-ish, 80's rock edge to it that could have been great, and an electro vibe that also could have been super.  The lyrics are pretty standard Ke$ha cast-off, and the tune isn't really that hummable.  Which all means it will be number 1 on the Hot 100 for 6 months and we will stab ourselves in the eye. So here it is, in its full mediocrity:

Sky Ferreira - Obsession by ileaks

And just in case you want to remind yourself how genius Sky really can be, here is the single the rest of the world gets:




Sky Ferreira - One
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Ahhhh, that's better.

Sky Ferreira has an 'Obsession' for the US - listen to a clip now!

So Sky Ferreira, quite frankly the best candidate for "next big thing," has decided not to launch into the US market with the ACTUALLY INCREDIBLE 'One' that the UK and other territories is getting.  Instead, she (read: her people) has selected a Ryan Tedder jam that falls a bit more into the "American Top 40 Blandness" mold that us listeners stateside swear by for some tragic reason.  As these things go, however, it's pretty damn amazing - at least it seems so from the low quality 30-second clip that showed up on the interwebs.  Check it out let us know what you think! 



The album 'One' comes out on 1-1-11.  Genius, no?

Sky Ferreira's 'One' is here to save pop - watch the Rankin-shot video now!

Ok bear with us here for a minute...

History is doomed to repeat itself over and over again.  This is a fact that has long been part of the human experience.  Music, fashion and culture in the twenty-teens are no exception, as the 80's are all up in our grill right at the moment.  Back then, thrown together outfits, outrageous looks and straight-up pop cheese were all the rage.  Sound familiar?  It should.

We here at ScopiSat are of the opinion that another piece of 80's history is bound to do a repeat - in America's choice of pop diva.  Back in the early part of that decade, a loud, insane, over-the-top style icon burst onto the scene with crazy hair, weird clothes, and chart-topping pop tunes.  Her name was Cyndi Lauper.  She was quite literally the biggest thing there was, until everyone realized that the iconic hairstyles and high-concept image were both impossible to mimic and extremely 'of the moment.'  And we all know that the more 'of the moment' something is, the quicker its moment passes.  Cue Madonna, who busted in on the pop scene with her own (more relatable and, importantly, more marketable) iconic looks and catchy tunes, snatched the crown off Cyndi's head and set up residency at the summit of the charts for the next three decades.

Now, in 2010, we'd like to be the first to say that history - in this respect at least - is on the verge of repeating.  In Lady Gaga we have a certifiably insane woman who has considerable talent, a boatload of press, great songs, and a completely unsustainable image.  Notice how the whole Gaga thing has turned these past few months?  'Alejandro' came out to a chorus of 'meh's, and the press certainly isn't concerned with praising the star any longer.  We're not saying she's going anywhere, but her past level of stardom and domination just can't be maintained.  So if in Lady Gaga America has found its modern day Cyndi, now the hunt is on for its new Madonna.

If EMI and a number of critics have their way, Sky Ferreira just might be it.  Her image is 'now' without being over-the-top, her tunes are the very definition of 'the next big thing,' and she's just underground enough to be authentic.  Take a gander at her new video for the blazing pop track 'One' if you don't believe us.  It was shot by the fashion photographer Rankin, and is BALLS-TO-THE-WALL BRILLIANT.



And THAT, ladies and gentlemen, is how you do it.

Sky Ferreira's brand new 'One' single debut - listen now!

Much blog ink has been spilled over up and comer Sky Ferreira (pictured here having a wee in a supermarket) and her rosy future prospects.  The L.A. based singer/songwriter is only 17, but since signing with EMI Records last year she has been riding a promo train that many established stars would kill for.  Her buzz track '17' didn't make a ton of impact, but that's probably because it sounded like a bargain-basement Ke$ha b-side. 

But fear not, pop minions!  Ferreira's proper debut single 'One' dropped the other day and we're delighted to say it is much, much better.  It's not just good, either.  It's 'this song gets us excited about popular music' good.  It's 'makes us forget that Nickelback squeezed eight (EIGHT!!!) singles out of their last album' good.  It's....well, we don't want to over sell it, so just have a listen for yourself: 



It's always nice when 'the blogs' get it right, eh?

Out soon on EMI