Fiona Apple thread

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I DONT CRY WHEN IM SAD ANYMOOORE

i'd be very hype for a new album

best fiona song incoming

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Ng9Oel5DXY

>>71345885
good pick anon
i hadn't heard this version

>>71345464
YOU'RE ALL I NEED

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Tidal [Work, 1996] :(

When the Pawn . . . [Clean Slate/Epic, 1999]

For any Upper West Side showbiz kid, musical comedy is mother's milk, more "natural" than the rude attack of rock or the polite confessional of folk. And having gone mega, Fiona was autonomous enough to want it that way. With crucial help from Jon Brion, she's got the Richard Rodgers/Kurt Weill part down, and will surely tackle the Dorothy Fields/Lorenz Hart part later. Meanwhile, confessional attacks like "A Mistake" and "Get Gone" will do. Webber & Sondheim, watch out. A-

Extraordinary Machine [Clean Slate/Epic, 2005]

Instead of delivering the music a sharp-tongued breakup record by an empowered young female would imply--if not folk-rock plain and simple, then emotional piano-woman pop--Apple adapts Broadway show tune to confessional mode. Although Mike Elizondo adds momentum, Jon Brion's colors still predominate, and the melodic and structural contours are all Apple's. Ira Gershwin she's not; Betty Comden she's not either. But she wouldn't be half as inspiring if they were what she was aiming for. A-

The Idler Wheel Is Wiser Than the Driver of the Screw and Whipping Cords Will Serve You More Than Ropes Ever Do [Epic, 2012]

A funny thing will happen once you've figured out that the title is the stupidest thing about an album that's damn catchy after all. It'll sound like a piano record--a defiantly primitivist, raucously avant-garde lounge singer's piano record, with a really nutty drummer: he'll-bang-on-anything (and-get-her-to-pitch-in) producer Charley Drayton. There are few arpeggios, and not much tone color and such. She just executes simple figures and hammers thick chords, including a few boogie-woogies just to make a point. She also sings--words, yes, but more decisively, sounds. Not background music. But you could sure call it mood music. A-

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>nothing wrong when a song ends in a minor key

Where the fiona senpai @

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

>>71345464
jesus christ she looks awful in that picture
please take good care of yourself, Fiona ;_;

>>71346460
Looks like a junkie and holy god, is her hair receding.

>>71346460
this was from a particularly passionate protest concert, and fuck off she looks fine. She's 37 you can't expect her to maintain her model good looks from when she was in her early 20s.

>>71346548
>She's 37
39

>>71346585
damn how time flies. she probably still has 3 great albums in her

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>>71346548
>this was from a particularly passionate protest concert

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>>71346652
Well that was predictable.

>>71346652
yes, fuck trump and the absolute maddening mindset he has towards women. One of the only good things about his presidency is the protest music it's bringing along with us.

>>71346747
Of course, protest music only works if it comes naturally as opposed to being paid for by Sorosbucks, but...

>>71346786
Paying for millions of protesters will bankrupt Soros eventually no?

>>71346652
*deletes her albums*