Ferreira and Drugs

Ferriera and Cole Smith's official mugshots

Sky Ferreira is beautiful in almost every way. Her bleached hair, her model body, her boyfriend (the lovely Zachary Cole Smith from the band Diiv, see Calum's post on them here), her dance pop eighties-esque music. She's almost a reincarnation of Avril Lavigne, but grown up; indier and more daring. I am, undoubtably, a huge fan of her and sometimes it feels as though she has a song for every one of my moods - from the dance orientated 'Everything is Embarrassing' to the swirly Taylor Swift vocals of 'Sad Dream', from the dark explosive tones of 'Lost in my Bedroom' to the uncomfortableness of the video for 'Red Lips' and the rolling vocals of 'Night time, my time'. She is friends with Petra Collins and Miley Cyrus and her Instagram is a multicoloured celebration of plastic pop and sharing cereal with her rockstar boyfriend. However, I often find that when I tell people that I'm a fan of her, they are quick to point out the drug arrest that took place early this year. This was in October, when her and Cole Smith were arrested and charged under possession of heroin and ecstasy, when their car was pulled over after reports of reckless driving. In my opinion, it's Cole Smith and Ferreira's choices to take those drugs, and that everybody should just let them be - it's their life.

My general attitude towards a lot of things in life is that it's cool if you do, and it's cool if you don't. The drugs, drink, skirt length, sexuality, what you call your boyfriend, hairstyles, whatever, don't generally affect your personality or who you actually are. They're your personal choices and it's your choice whether to keep them private or make a point of them. It's unfair that her personal choices should get in the way of whether people listen to or respect her and her music. Sure, she's skinny because of the drugs. Sure her music is probably influenced by them. Sure they aren't good for her. But I believe you should decide whether you like her music on the actual sound, not on the amount of heroin she has injected in the past few weeks. Taking drugs doesn't make her a bad person - in my opinion anyway. They don't make her a good person either. They don't change who she is and they shouldn't change what you think of her music. 

(This post very much intertwines with two other posts, written by Connor (read his here) and Charl (read her's here) )

- written by avalon x x