It’s fun when the elusive Sky Ferreira sings on a song, even when that song apparently is not hers. That happened just a couple of months ago when she teamed up with Charli XCX on “Eyes Of The World,” a track from Charli’s Wuthering Heights album. But in the past few weeks, Ferreira — who’s…

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It’s fun when the elusive Sky Ferreira sings on a song, even when that song apparently is not hers. That happened just a couple of months ago when she teamed up with Charli XCX on “Eyes Of The World,” a track from Charli’s Wuthering Heights album. But in the past few weeks, Ferreira — who’s only released a handful of singles in the past decade — has suggested that her fingerprints are a lot more prominent than we realized.

Back in February upon the release of Wuthering Heights, Ferreira responded to a meme post on Instagram about Charli dragging her into the studio to make the album. “To record my old songs,” Ferreira commented, without any further clarification.

More recently, a fan named Leon (@skyferrori) caught attention on X for posting a since-deleted screenshot of a text exchange with an “industry insider” who claimed that aside from “Eyes Of The World,” Wuthering Heights songs “Chains Of Love” and “Alters” were lifted from unreleased Ferreira demos. Last Friday, Leon reposted a clip of Ferreira’s “Everything Is Embarrassing” video, commenting “I wonder what’s her form of income.”

Ferreira isn’t on X, but she found Leon’s Instagram page and used the comments there to respond: “I toured for years. I work. I hate to break it to you, but your favorite artist records my old songs.” In another comment, she wrote: “Your industry ‘insider’ is wrong. Close but wrong.” In the longest comment, she went into detail:

I wasn’t going to say anything. I’m over being dragged & humiliated for no reason. It brought back a lot of things I have worked really hard to move past. No one “saved” or helped me. My life was destroyed for over 10 years & it’s a public joke. Publications etc. It isn’t funny. It allows people to disrespect & take advantage of me, or to manipulate multiple situations based on their perception of me. I wasn’t allowed to do anything. I mind my own business so I don’t know why everything is so loaded. I don’t want to be harassed. I don’t want the actions of multiple people fucking things up for me & my album. I’m an honest person. People don’t care about the truth. It’s about whatever narrative is fitting or more exciting. I’m glad I can finally move on with my life.

Charli previously enlisted Ferreira for her 2019 Charli single “Cross You Out,” which came just a few months after Ferreira dropped “Downhill Lullaby,” which was meant to be the lead single to her exhaustingly-delayed sophomore album Masochism. Since then, as a lead artist, she’s released the single “Don’t Forget” and the Babygirl soundtrack song “Leash.”

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