After seeing her album Don’t Stop put into endless turnaround despite it leaking over the summer, the Norwegian retro-popper Annie has announced that she’s leaving Island Records: “I think it’s a great label, but I never felt they were that positive to my ideas…so we decided that we’re not gonna work together anymore. After Nick Gatfield, who was the head of Island left the label…a couple of months after I signed, things changed. I’m an artist with lots of ideas, plans…so I’m gonna do things my own way from now on.” The first order of business under “her own way” is putting out a single on knob-twiddler Richard X’s label. hurrah. Maybe now that she’s left the label, someone will put an embeddable copy of the “I Know Ur Girlfriend Hates Me” video up on YouTube? (Ha, hahaaha. Just kidding.) [Annie's MySpace Blog via Pitchfork / YouTube]
Annie Tosses Island Records Aside, Like It’s Yesterday’s Gum
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Thanks for this update.
Been dying for this to be released.
This record is on fire.
I’m sure Island is really crying about it. Annie doesn’t have, and has never had, the capacity to be anything other than a second-rate pop wannabe. I hope she gives up all together starting right now so I can officially dub her a “never-was” without any debate.
@tim_loves_cats: Tell us how you really feel.
I actually do think Annie is much better off as an indie starlet, but I don’t understand how anyone can pull up that much vitriol towards Annie of all artists. It’d be like hating a kitten. (Right down to the mewing. HA!)
She does have the rights to Don’t Stop- that’s a good thing, it means no Aimee Mann-type drama.
@Nunya B: It’s common knowledge that “indie starlet” is code for “flash in the pan”.
@tim_loves_cats: Leslie and Maya beg to differ.
@Nunya B: I sure hope you don’t mean Leslie Feist, or “the counting girl from the ipod commercial” as she’s known to most people, and Interscope Recording artist and professional famous person M.I.A. Neither of those resumes scream “indie” to me.
@tim_loves_cats: Are you seriously such a bad troll you don’t even know how to use facts in your discussion? Look at the discographies and “resumes” of M.I.A. and Feist and you will see that they had careers full of indie cred, and almost entirely lacking in sales, until their commercial-aided breakthrough hits.
Arts & Crafts = indie. XL = indie.
@Nunya B: I’m fully familiar with their inferior back catalogs. Maybe if you were less concerned with “indie cred” and more concerned with talent you wouldn’t be wasting your time with boring drivel like Feist and patronizing garbage like Annie and M.I.A.
I’d also like to note from experience that Fiest sucks live in both Broken Social Scene and solo formats.
I’d do her.
@tim_loves_cats: It is such a shame you seem to have abandoned your original argument; it was more interesting than the name-calling to which you seem to have sunk.
Annie sucks. Next.
@Nunya B: My argument is that Annie sucks and there’s nothing “indie” about M.I.A. and Feist’s rise to success. They were nobodys before they hit the major label stretch, which is why Annie will remain a nobody. I’d add in that you’re not very bright but you seem to be arguing that one pretty well all by yourself.
@Nunya B: I think from now on I’m going to start calling people I don’t like “such a bad troll.” But in a cutesy voice.
“Annie sucks” ain’t no argument. It’s just evidence of groupthink.
Posting twice is evidence of the board being screwy.