--- title: Sky Ferreira "I Blame Myself" Music Video description: And she even dances canonical: https://time.com/65260/sky-ferreira-i-blame-myself-video/ author: Katherine St. Asaph article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2014-04-16T16:53:20.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-02-21T07:20:16.116Z article:section: Entertainment og:title: Sky Ferreira "I Blame Myself" Music Video og:description: And she even dances og:url: https://time.com/65260/sky-ferreira-i-blame-myself-video/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Sky Ferreira "I Blame Myself" Music Video twitter:description: And she even dances twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Sky Ferreira Heads to Compton in "I Blame Myself" Video: Watch by [Katherine St. Asaph](https://time.com/author/katherine-st-asaph/) ## Katherine St. Asaph Apr 16, 2014 4:53 PM UTC by [Katherine St. Asaph](https://time.com/author/katherine-st-asaph/) ## Katherine St. Asaph Apr 16, 2014 4:53 PM UTC After more than five years as a rising pop star, Sky Ferreira must be used to her singles going underappreciated, and “I Blame Myself” was the most underappreciated track off last year’s already great _Night Time, My Time_. Indebted less to ‘90s alt than the kind of sparkly, introspective pop that’s not tied to any decade – like Ferreira’s own [“Everything Is Embarrassing”](http://entertainment.time.com/2013/01/03/11-albums-to-look-forward-to-in-2013/slide/sky-ferreira/) – it was both immediate and searing, sparing no fury for the intersection of condescension, sexualization and (“it’s like talking to a friend who’s trying to be a lover”) she encountered while churning through the major-label teen pop machine, while never being obvious. It goes right for the throat: of its targets, of its hooks. It’s also, with its John Hughes closing-credits vibe, fertile material to turn into a video. Sadly, the clip for “I Blame Myself” is not really so topical, a fakeout of a gangsta rap clip that – shock? – doesn’t star a gangsta rapper but a be-hoodied Sky, fresh out of the stylist’s room — or at least the “[LoveGame](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1mB0tP1I-14)” storyboard. There is about a 50 percent chance you will encounter a thinkpiece about this by the end of the week. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/65260/sky-ferreira-i-blame-myself-video/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/65260/sky-ferreira-i-blame-myself-video/"},"headline":"Sky Ferreira Heads to Compton in \"I Blame Myself\" Video: Watch","datePublished":"2014-04-16T16:53:20.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-21T07:20:16.116Z","description":"And she even dances","url":"https://time.com/65260/sky-ferreira-i-blame-myself-video/","keywords":["Music"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Katherine St. Asaph","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/katherine-st-asaph/"}],"articleSection":"Entertainment","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/entertainment/","name":"Entertainment"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/65260/sky-ferreira-i-blame-myself-video/","name":"Sky Ferreira Heads to Compton in \"I Blame Myself\" Video: Watch"}}]}] ```