Her wit sharpens to undress those affectations. For Her is a whole play in under three minutes: a breathless close-harmony chorus line of women (Apple, infinitely layered) observing a film executive manipulating the world to his will, degrading starlets, getting “his girl” to clean up his mess and confident in getting away with his abuses. Apple leaves him nowhere to run. She uncouples from her harmonies, the golden layers of her own voice fading to a ghostly coo, and roars: “Good morning, good morning / You raped me in the same bed your daughter was born in,” lifting the melody from Singin’ in the Rain’s Good Morning. The musical classic promises a bright new day. So does Apple. The Idler Wheel..." Rolling Stone. Archived from the original on January 1, 2021 . Retrieved April 10, 2016.

Fiona Apple with David Garza and Damien Rice". San Diego Arts. Archived from the original on January 1, 2021 . Retrieved February 15, 2010. Though most of her lyrics are sung in a straightforward pop contralto, she judiciously adds vibrato, sudden jumps into her head voice, and rapid reiterations of the same pitch (what academics in the classical music field call a "Monteverdi vibrato"). [ dead link] When I returned to Venice Beach, in September, the mood was different. Anxiety suffused the house. In July, Apple had been worried about returning to public view, but she was also often playful and energized, tweaking mixes. Now the thought of what she’d recorded brought on paralyzing waves of dread. a b c "Fiona Apple's Machine Finally Turned On". Spin. August 15, 2005. Archived from the original on February 21, 2006 . Retrieved December 10, 2017.Ehrlich, Dimitri (January 5, 1997). "A Message Far Less Pretty Than the Face". The New York Times . Retrieved April 19, 2020. a b "Loyal fans helped free Fiona Apple's CD". Today.com Entertainment. Associated Press. October 5, 2005. Muller, Marissa G. (October 2, 2017). "Watch St. Vincent and Fiona Apple Perform Together at Trans-Pecos Festival in Marfa". W . Retrieved July 25, 2021.

Fiona Apple To Release New Music 'In The Next Few Weeks,' says L.A. Reid". Billboard. September 14, 2009. Archived from the original on April 17, 2020. Phoebe Bridgers shares holiday EP If We Make It Through December". The FADER . Retrieved July 8, 2021. Galifianakis, Zach; Apple, Fiona (September 18, 2008). "Up In Them Guts". Stereogum.com . Retrieved June 8, 2011. Bromwich, Jonah (January 18, 2017). "Fiona Apple Releases a Trump Protest Chant". The New York Times . Retrieved April 19, 2020.Fiona Apple was born Fiona Apple McAfee-Maggart on September 13, 1977, in New York City to singer Diane McAfee and actor Brandon Maggart, who met when both were cast in the Broadway musical Applause. [8] [9] Her father is from Tennessee, and through him, Apple has Melungeon ancestry. [10] Her maternal grandparents were dancer Millicent Green and big band vocalist Johnny McAfee. Her sister Amber sings cabaret under the stage name Maude Maggart, and actor Garett Maggart is her half brother. Apple grew up in Morningside Gardens in Harlem [11] with her mother and sister, but spent summers with her father in Los Angeles, California. [12] In 2017, she released " Tiny Hands" for the Women's March on Washington. [72] In 2018, she joined Shirley Manson at the female-driven Girl School Festival in Los Angeles for a cover of " You Don't Own Me" by Lesley Gore, wearing a white T-shirt with "KNEEL, PORTNOW" written across it in ink. This was considered in response to Grammy head Neil Portnow's heavily criticized comments that women need to "step up" to earn more Grammy nods. [73] 2019–present: Fetch the Bolt Cutters [ edit ] Music: Fiona Apple". studentsoftheworld.info. Archived from the original on September 27, 2011 . Retrieved August 25, 2010.

But Apple has more complicated dynamics with a wider circle of friends, exes, and collaborators. Starting with her first heartbreak, at sixteen, she has repeatedly found herself in love triangles, sometimes as the secret partner, sometimes as the deceived one. As we talked, she stumbled on a precursor for this pattern: “Maybe it’s because my mother was the other woman?” She pulls at their common thread. The middle-school girls taught to disdain nonconformists echo in how a man tells his new girlfriend that his last one was crazy to keep them apart. The accepted rules of an industry dinner make outspoken truths unwelcome and feed a wider culture where glamour can mask abuse. Exploitative men foster codes of silence and mistrust, which makes it more conspicuous for Apple to want to save a woman from a mutual abuser than for his mistreatment to pass: “I watch him let go of your hand, I wanna stand between you,” she sings on Newspaper, her voice shaking as if with the force of restraining herself, “but it’s not what I’m supposed to do”.Skinner, Tom (June 17, 2020). "Fiona Apple and Blake Mills to appear on Bob Dylan's new album 'Rough and Rowdy Ways' ". NME . Retrieved November 22, 2020. Reed, Ryan (July 2, 2019). "Fiona Apple Pledges Two Years of 'Criminal' Royalties to Refugees". Rolling Stone . Retrieved August 24, 2019.