Brazilian pop star Anitta and her recording label, Warner Records have been engaged in a public dispute over the singer’s request to have her contract terminated for a while now. However, the dispute is now making waves as Anitta has taken to social media to voice her concerns and air her frustrations directly to her fans.
Anitta took to Instagram stories on March 8 to repost the Warner Records’ International Women’s Day post that made use of her image. The singer has been expressing her frustration on both Instagram, in English, and Twitter, where she writes in Portuguese.
The star started off by writing, “Communication at Warner is so good that they posting me on a HAPPY women’s day looping post even tho I had to go public to ask for the ‘woman respect’ that this date represents. Using on the background the song they said it would never break without a feature cuz I wasn’t strong enough for that.”
In her subsequent Instagram stories, Anitta provides more detail about the specific issues she has been experiencing with her label.
“On this women’s day, instead of a cute post I would love to have the CEO doing what he promised me a month ago, after I asked how much is it to finish the contract and he said THAT WOULDN’T HAPPEN, respect ME, the young women, giving at least a little real importance to the fair honest and respectful talk I asked had with you, instead of sending your lawyers to talk to mine about money when I did say that I already accepted the sad unfair fact that I’m the major investor here and asked the label to just do the simple job they were supposed to: PROMOTE MY MUSIC,” She wrote.
Anitta shares a message to young upcoming musicians
The singer ended her series of stories with a message to aspiring singers.
“For all the young artists starting now: Watch out for EVERYTHING you sign. I was so young and naive when I did this s–t to myself more than 10 years ago. Didn’t know even 10% of the reality. It doesn’t matter how small you are, you will grow, and see yourself stuck on a looping that doesn’t change is so frustrating. You will be scared, so you will try to throw perfume but s–t smells like s–t, doesn’t matter how much roses u put on top, doesn’t matter if they move your s–t to another spot, it’s still s–t. And when you finally lose all the strength you had to keep pushing yourself in the middle of the s–t, you’ll feel like nothing can get worse, that you have nothing to lose cuz you already lost all the great love and passion you had in the beginning. Then you’ll get to this insane ‘fight’ that I am right now. Where you fight by yourself cuz they don’t even waste their time giving you a damn f–k, cuz you are too small in the big sea of sharks with thousands of other small fishes to keep eating.”
Anitta became part of Warner Music’s U.S. roster in January 2020 through a collaboration with Warner Music Latina.