Fiona Apple

that county has a dope adobe courthouse

http://www.texasescapes.com/WestTexasTowns/SierraBlancaTexas/SierraBlancaTxHudspethCountyCourthouse0509BG1.jpg

marissa eat your heart out xxp

STAY CLASSY, HOUSTON

As a non-native Texan, I apologize to Fiona on behalf of Texans

that county has a dope adobe courthouse

iirc, that's grounds for at least a summons in that county

dope adobe dope court

Marfa Public Radio had some more details about the bust and how the county likes busting celebrities.

Celebrities: take note of my nifty evasion route detailed upthread!

Sheriff Rusty sets her straight: "Honey, shut up and sing."
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/09/24/fiona-apple-arrest-sheriff-repsonds-singers-allegations_n_1910518.html

this is sweet

http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2012/nov/21/fiona-apple-cancels-tour-care-dog

Quite easy to come up with twenty great songs.

Solid list but I love "Every single night" as a single and wouldn't do a top ten without it.

fiona's youtube is very good

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UJb6IBL_M6s

wonder if PTA is the DoP...

she's featured on the new King Princess single "I Know"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cwyxdv0QgfU

New album on the way?

https://pitchfork.com/news/watch-fiona-apple-tease-and-record-new-music-at-home-studio/

The one of her playing percussion makes me very happy

Fell into a Fiona Apple YouTube hole after going to see Hustlers last night (J. Lo pole dances to "Criminal" and it is amazing) and it culminated in me full-out bawling to this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rza0XycpyA8

lovely surprise interview (and possible new album next year!)

https://www.vulture.com/2019/09/fiona-apple-is-still-calling-bullshit.html

wonderful news!

She signed her email with a balloon emoji.

fiona confirmed busy signal fan

The part when she gives an update to her “world is bullshit” quote is great

"Fiona Lone" ;_;

Great interview, and good news about a new album!

come for the dog, stay for the bonus anecdote about marveling at J.Lo's ass

fantastic interview and hopefully that new album will indeed be done soon

she's the best

Loved the interview, and it got me to revisit Idler Wheel. Every single fucking song on this album, guys.

the further away we get from 2012 the more i'm convinced it's an unparalleled masterpiece

"werewolf" is the realest song ever written

but brad, get this: if i'm butter. . . if I'M butter.

well, if that's the case, he's a hot knife, my friend.

(totally agreed btw; album slays. it's like the perfectly realized child of kate bush's 80s albums.)

The great thing about the “If I’m butter, if I’m butter, then he’s a hot knife” line is that it’s just Fiona playing coy - she makes it clear in the background harmonies that she’s the one in control: “I’m a hot knife, I’m a hot knife, he’s a pat of butter.”

Best song.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=89DxrWX1v3w

Fiona Apple covering The Waterboys' 'The Whole of the Moon'. Fuck yes.

The Big Apple.

otm

*very* into this

fuck yes

that is incredible, and her voice is getting better and better with age.

https://pitchfork.com/news/fiona-apple-discusses-new-album-and-reveals-title-in-expansive-interview/

i'm really glad she's apparently pushing the percussion-driven sound of the idler wheel even further

“Every addict should just get locked in a private movie theatre with Q.T. and P.T.A. on coke, and they’ll never want to do it again.”

Found that article a bit of a disappointing, though I am psyched for another FA record, and also that she's leaning into the percussion stuff from Idler Wheel.

In particular, the TV-journalist-writes-about-music bits.

She's an extraordinary machine. Happy birthday!

Incredible performance, I could have posted it on the 'ambushed by unexpected emotion' thread:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TNy4tmTRQC8

https://www.vulture.com/2020/12/fiona-apple-dr-luke-grammy-bullshit.html

Fiona Apple has never held back when it comes to calling out the music industry, famously saying “This world is bullshit” during an acceptance speech at the 1997 VMAs. Now she has turned her attention to the 2021 Grammys, where she’s nominated for three awards off her wildly acclaimed album Fetch the Bolt Cutters. In a new interview with the Guardian published today, Apple criticized the Recording Academy for giving Dr. Luke his first nomination since Kesha accused him of sexual abuse (which he denies). “Not to go back to that word, but it’s bullshit,” she said. Dr. Luke is nominated for Record of the Year as a producer on Doja Cat’s “Say So” under the pseudonym Tyson Trax. “I keep going back to them putting Kesha onstage like, ‘We believe you’ — and I believe her — then two years later, fucking Tyson Trax,” she added, referencing Kesha’s performance of “Praying” at the 2018 awards.

Apple also addressed Deborah Dugan’s firing as president and CEO of the Recording Academy, which reportedly came after Dugan uncovered a culture of sexism in the organization. “There’s a lot of things that she brought up that make it so that I can’t vet that situation, and I don’t really wanna go there and support it,” Apple told the Guardian. Apple previously criticized Neil Portnow, the Academy’s chief before Dugan, for his 2018 comments that women needed to “step up” for awards nominations by wearing a “Kneel, Portnow” T-shirt during a performance. Apple also spoke about being part of a slate of all women nominated for Best Rock Performance. She said, after hearing the news, she wanted to make a T-shirt with the names of all the nominees to wear for her weekly Tumblr selfie, before deciding against it. “I felt like this is exactly what they want me to do: It’s better now! I got nominated! And it’s all women this year and the Grammys are great!” she said. Apple went on to describe how if she won the award, she “would just get up there with a sledgehammer and I wouldn’t say anything. I would take the Grammy and smash it into enough pieces to share, and I would invite all the ladies up” — although, she also wondered if she could convince the slate of nominees to “boycott this shit because of Dr Luke.”

Artists and labels seems happy to work with Dr. Luke. It's one thing to press the Grammys to clean up their act, but another to press them to serve as the conscience of the industry somehow?

I have to say I have seldom felt older than I do reading a generation of kids born after "this world is bullshit" saying things like "wow she took on the Grammys they're going to snub her now!"

good for her. fuck the grammies.

Easy to say when you’re 3x nominated. They obviously mean a lot to other artists (including artists complaining they were snubbed this year).

lol come on, everyone knows the grammys are bullshit and have been forever, and the artists who were complaining about being snubbed are all enormously successful enough that they hardly need the extra validation of a grammy anyway

If it’s ok for the validation to be meaningful to an up-and-coming artist, it should be ok for it to be meaningful to an artist who doesn’t need the career boost. Unless you think it’s all the Benjamins or whatever.