Darren Hayes has branded his former record label 'controlling'. The 50-year-old singer — who released two albums with Savage Garden and his first two solo LPs via Columbia Records — released Homosexual, his third record under his own Powdered Sugar label, earlier this year but he doesn't think his former bosses would have allowed him to use the title or...
Darren Hayes has branded his former record label "controlling".
He said: "I would never have been able to make this record on a major label. Never. Even the fact that my first release from the record was six minutes long. No way. The title alone — it would have been like, 'Do we have to call it that?' or 'Could you call it something else?' And Darren found working with a major label "exhausting" because he was involved so little in the decision-making surrounding his own career.
"I used to have to hear the results of focus group meetings about photographs. That's how controlling it used to be. It used to be like, 'Well, here is the cover you wanted but we put it through a focus group and they said your chin looked too weak in this photograph. And here is the one the president wants, so I'm sorry but the focus group said your strongest feature was your lips.
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