Sky Ferreira released one of the most acclaimed debuts of 2013, toured with Miley Cyrus, and then effectively vanished from music for a decade, becoming one of modern pop’s most frustrating mysteries. Raised partly by her grandmother, Michael Jackson’s longtime hairstylist, and classically trained as a contralto, she was building a skyscraper while the label kept changing the locks.

This episode traces the multi-year tug-of-war over her debut, the drug arrests and vocal hemorrhage the media sensationalized, her pivot to acting and modeling, and the fan rebellion that funded a Times Square billboard and a plane over Capitol Records demanding her release. At its heart is a collision between her perfectionism and an industry that values speed.

• Her unusual upbringing adjacent to global fame and early trauma
• The label’s shifting EPs and album titles as it tried to market her
• The grit behind the messy rock star headlines, from a hemorrhage to 60 stitches
• The Free Sky Ferreira movement, the billboard, and the airplane banner
• Being dropped, going independent, and the long-delayed promise of Masochism