Joss Stone Claims She's A Prisoner!
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How very George Michael of her!
Joss Stone is dying to be released from her record contract with EMI!
So much so that the fucks-for-tracks singer is willing to cough up almost $4 million of her own money to her label!
EMI have shot down Stone's deal and in return are threatening legal action against the Brit songstress. The label claims Joss is in breach of contract because she never handed over the master tapes for her new album, Colour Me Free, by the December 2008 deadline.
For shame!
Stone believes that EMI would not promote her album properly and wants to buy it back and release Colour Me Free on her own accord. The label was bought out by a private equity firm back in 2007 and promptly slashed the label's budget because of lagging album sales.
"Joss has completely lost faith in EMI. It’s all pie charts and products and there’s no creativity. She has no working relationship with them and no confidence they will support her or market her album properly," a friend of Stone's shared with the media.
The source continued: "She’s actually prepared to pay £2million for her freedom – that’s how bad it is. She wants to give back this money from her advance to EMI so that she can get out of the deal. Then she’ll release the album some other way."
Good luck with that!
[Image via WENN.]
Good for Joss! These record companies control over their artists bigtime, just look at Lady Gaga, and how she has changed since being known as Stephanie. All her doing? COERCING goes hand and hand with a record deal. HA!
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Has anyone watched her on The Tudors? I find it HILARIOUS that the king "likes her not" and said she looked like a horse. It was SOOOO funny.
EMI is fucking up most of its artists. Quite sad really when an artist's music is less important than some corporate cannibal's will.
omg i can't freakin stand her what a douche
good for her. Donkey faced greasy no talent Perez is going to rot in hell for saying such bad things about people, especially about women.
lol…I loved her in the Tudors! She was so sweet. I felt bad for her. Too bad the King had no desires for her….lol He treated her kindly though.
Im suprised i did not know she still made albums…. i dont really care i dont like her voice or her "music style"..
She definitely needs to leave. She has a great voice and it's not being heard!
I don't blame her at all, EMI is the worse label right now, and almost every artist signed with them wants out.
i thought it was a pic of maniston!
I LOVE JOSS STONE, and she needs to get with a label that will support her creativity, but she also has to allow the business people to do their job.
[re=3854573]Re: Sherry
Has anyone watched her on The Tudors? I find it HILARIOUS that the king "likes her not" and said she looked like a horse. It was SOOOO funny. [/re]
They should have cast an ugly woman in the role of Anne of Cleves. Henry's detest is not believable considering Joss looked stunning every time she was on camera. Peroid garb suits her well.
She put on literally the worst concert I've ever seen in my life
hahah that picture
She is 100% right though.EMI fail all their signed acts badly since becoming corporate and not run by people who know a shit about music and how to produce or market it.Hence so many of the artists leaving EMI already.