![]() Feelings of powerlessness later led to an eating disorder that drove her to avoid foods "that looked a certain way" or "were a certain color." This ugliness isn't obvious in the song "Sullen Girl." Rather, Apple wraps her suffering in an elegant allegory: "They don't know I used to sail the deep and tranquil sea / But he washed me 'shore and he took my pearl / And left an empty shell of me. She would stab her bedroom closet with a knife and cry. The incident seared itself into Apple's brain. After violating her, he vilely remarked, "Happy Thanksgiving. He then grabbed her as she was unlocking her own door and threatened her with a weapon. Copyright 1996, el álbum debut the Fiona Apple, Tidal, fue publicado en Epic Records, una empresa subsidiaria de Sony Sleep To Dream - 0:00 Sullen Girl - 4:08. Apple attempted to evade him by running inside, but he grabbed the door before it closed. She was walking home from school when a man followed her and lurked outside her building after pressing the buzzer to no avail. As she recalled, it happened the day before Thanksgiving. As to her speech at the MTV awards, she says she got into this line of work to say whatever it is she wanted to say, and that’s what she’s gonna do.At age 12 Apple was raped outside her mother's Manhattan apartment. Listening to her spar with Howard Stern in 1997, you want to root for her not just because she’s getting bullied by a guy more than twice her age, but because she’s brave enough to fight back. by Stephen Thomas Erlewine + Fiona Apple may have been grouped in with the other female singer/songwriters who dominated the pop charts in 19, but she stood out by virtue of her grand ambitions and considerable musical sophistication. But for all its finesse, the lingering mood of Tidal is bitter and resolute: She’s going to bare her heart no matter how much it hurts. She’d grown up with classical piano and jazz standards-worlds where technical proficiency can often outweigh raw feeling. While Billie Holiday-a childhood influence-transformed her pain with laughter, Apple wields hers like a blade: Discreet, but it’ll cut you. Tidal is the debut studio album by American singer-songwriter Fiona Apple, released in the United States on July 23, 1996.The album is featured in the book 1. ![]() If she takes pride in her powers of seduction, it’s only because it’s one of the few she’s allowed to exercise (“Criminal”). She sounds older than she is (“Shadowboxer”), but points out that sexual abuse has a way of making you grow up fast (“The Child Is Gone”). A rap fan who’s said the only album she bought in 1997 was Wu-Tang Forever, Apple knows how to make herself ten feet tall (“Sleep to Dream”) while also expressing how small society has made her feel (“Sullen Girl”). And for them, it is serious.Īt the time, albums like Alanis Morissette’s Jagged Little Pill and No Doubt’s Tragic Kingdom (and events like the all-female Lilith Fair tour) had brought a feminist edge to the mainstream. Everyone knows entertainment is bullshit-why take it so seriously? Apple holds her ground: Maybe middle-aged guys like you know that, she says, but middle-aged guys aren’t taking cues from MTV on how to look and act-teenage girls are. Fiona Apple (figlia di un attore e di una cantante/ballerina, cresciuta a New York, trasferitasi adolescente a Los Angeles per il liceo, ma tornata a New York) esordì a soli diciottanni con Tidal (Epic, 1996). What’s the problem, Stern asks her: You’re young, you’re pretty, your first album-1996’s Tidal-is selling like crazy, and yet, you’re still angry. A few days after accepting her Best New Artist award at the 1997 MTV Video Music Awards by calling the entertainment industry “bullshit,” a then 19-year-old Fiona Apple sat for an interview with the shock-radio personality Howard Stern. ![]()
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