Best of 2014 The DIY List 2014: Sky Ferreira breaks free

Sky Ferreira features at #38 in The DIY List 2014, a look back at the year’s best albums, one-off shows, festival performances and achievements outside of the norm. This interview was originally published on DIY back in April 2014.

Already a “walking wreck”, Sky Ferreira is tired out of her mind trying to get backstage at a London headline show. Jetlag sets in like the devil itself. Is it a sign? It is, actually. Fans have weaseled their way past security and for some reason they’ve brought with them giant white placards with words like ‘Emojanelle’ that carry absolutely no meaning. Except one. ‘Quiche’. This one means something, to Sky at least. She picks it out and has her photo taken.

‘Quiche’ is a term used in Chris Lilley’s Ja’mie: Private School Girl television series, the follow up to Summer Heights High. According to Ja’mie King - the show’s lead character, an atrocious private school girl - its exact definition is “hot - a step above hot.” With Sky’s reputation rocketing, it seems appropriate to pick this one out. Forget “So hot right now”, Sky Ferreira is “So quiche right now.”

“I thought that they’d at least give me the signs to keep,” she says afterwards. “Chris Lilley liked it, that’s all that matters,” she continues, before picking out individuals who could safely be described as ‘Quiche’. She chooses mysterious producer Burial. A “cool selfie” shared early this year is the reason. In it, the stony-eyed enigma shows himself to the world for the first time. “I wouldn’t do this, this is fucked up, but I wonder if someone’s used it for a Grindr profile picture. I did not know Burial was going to look like that. I always thought he’d end up looking dweeby.”