Ex-Destiny’s Child and R&B singer Kelly Rowland is no longer working with her label Columbia. Though she will no longer be with the label as a recording artist, she will still be able to put her two cents in where the Destiny’s Child catalog is concerned.

Rowland released a statement that said:

“Because Columbia Records has been my home base as an artist for more than a decade, the decision to move out on my own required a lot of soul-searching. As a solo artist, I felt the need to explore new directions, new challenges, and new freedoms outside my comfort zone and my friends and family at Columbia have been incredibly understanding about my evolution.”

Perhaps to prove that the two are parting ways on some kind of amicable note, Rob Stringer, the CEO of Columbia/Epic Label Music Group said,

“Kelly Rowland is one of our finest contemporary artists and a musical force to be reckoned with. It has been a privledge and a pleasure to work with Kelly and we will continue our working relationship with her under the Destiny’s Child moniker. The decision for Kelly to seek other opportunities for her solo career was agreed upon mutually, and any reports to the contrary are false.”

Yeah, that seems like such an honest comment. But I’m sure Kelly didn’t get dropped from her label just because people hardly know who she is compared to her former Destiny’s Child cohort Beyoncé, or because her last album only sold 219,000 copies.

No, record labels just don’t operate like that.