People writing about Fiona Apple in 1997, collectively this was just an active, broiling, Pompeii-decimating volcano of YIKES. But I need to give you some sense of how bullshit this world is, precisely. Tone-policing 25-year-old rock-star profiles is obnoxious and of limited utility. Apple, a 19-year-old singer and pianist, has a voice-and a message-that make her looks irrelevant.” She may look like a cross between Christy Turlington and Kate Moss, but Ms. Turn up the volume on MTV loud enough to hear Fiona Apple sing. The taut, pierced belly exposed by a flouncy shirt. The headline is, “A Message Far Less Pretty Than the Face.” The first two paragraphs read as follows: The New York Times interviewed Fiona in January 1997, about half a year after Tidal came out. Ideally, when reading these interviews you’d be wearing a helmet, or a hazmat suit. Rollerblading on the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway was less dangerous. Reading a Fiona Apple magazine profile or newspaper interview was just about the most dangerous thing you could do in the late ’90s. And this, unfortunately, is a core component of the Fiona Apple multimedia experience: fixating on the most obvious thing to the exclusion of all even slightly-less-obvious things. I have to say, I’ve spent like 25 years so beguiled by “I have never been so insulted in all my life” that I never fully registered, “I could swallow the sea to wash down all this pride.” That’s a great line, also. The Complete History of the Pitchfork 10.0 Fiona Apple Is at Her Sharpest-and Most Playful-on ‘Fetch the Bolt Cutters’ Fiona Apple Returns to a World That’s More Bullshit Than Ever At the time, even if you weren’t privy to any of the proper names or any backstory whatsoever, when you heard “Sleep to Dream” on the radio or MTV, it was enough to know that you didn’t want to be whoever had inspired Fiona Apple to sing, “I have never been so insulted in all my life.” Tyson had to stop making out with that young lady. So Tyson proceeds to tell this story about going away to college, and one day he’s making out with a young lady-some other young lady-and MTV is on, and the “Sleep to Dream” video comes on, in which Fiona Apple is seething in a replica of her old bedroom, and, as Tyson describes it, “Kneeling on the ground, looking through the TV, looking straight at me” as she sings words that remind Tyson of what she said to him the last time they’d spoken. And Fiona said one day, ‘I never want to see you again.’ And then a year later an album’s out.” Hahahaha. I started seeing this other girl and liking her a little bit. He said, “I remember it being all my fault. He moonlights as an acid-jazz DJ, or at least he did when Rolling Stone interviewed him for a 1998 Fiona Apple cover story about how she wrote a bunch of super angry breakup songs about him. They dated on and off for two and a half years. Tyson and Fiona met while he was rollerblading on the campus of Columbia University. She made a three-song demo tape, which she gave to a friend, which the friend gave to a music publicist for whom the friend was babysitting, and the publicist gave it to a guy named Andy Slater, who became Fiona’s manager and producer, and also managed and coproduced the Wallflowers. It sounds like some kind of gay porn.” Fiona struggled in school, with bullies and such, though Shameika said she had potential. When Fiona was 7 or 8, she performed at a piano recital, playing a composition she’d written herself called “The Velvet Waltz,” which she’d much later describe to Rolling Stone by saying, “Oh, my God.
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Her father, an actor, and her mother, a singer, met while performing in the Broadway musical Applause, and split up when Fiona was 4. A warning: This episode features talk about sexual assault and eating disorders.įiona Apple McAfee-Maggart was born in New York City in 1977. Below is an excerpt from Episode 54, about Fiona Apple and her breakout debut single, “Criminal,” with help from Ringer staff writer Katie Baker.
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