official Fiona Apple thread

[modage]

Full album streaming at NPR:
http://www.npr.org/2012/06/10/154422085/first-listen-fiona-apple-the-idler-wheel

[ono]

Hot Knife is amazing, just melts me like buttah.  Great closer.  Too bad we had to wait seven years and nine songs for it.

[Ghostboy]

I think Hot Knife is my favorite song, but this whole album is amazing. Love all the strangled, gutteral stuff.

[Jeremy Blackman]

Hot Knife is amazing, just melts me like buttah.  Great closer.  Too bad we had to wait seven years and nine songs for it.

Couldn't agree more. Very good song... though still I don't like the way she enunciates "feisty." The first nine do almost nothing for me. It just sounds like she didn't put much work into the songwriting. Is she really going to sing these songs on a tour? Like, repeatedly? It's confusing.

[tpfkabi]

I just bought the deluxe cd/dvd package. Looks pretty cool. Did you see her interview/performance on Fallon? I wonder who gave her the pool ball.

[Christian]

Fiona Apple arrested for possession of cannabis



Fiona Apple has been arrested in Texas for possession of cannabis.

The singer and pianist, who released her fourth album 'The Idler Wheel Is Wiser Than The Driver Of The Screw, And Whipping Cords Will Serve You More Than Ropes Will Ever Do' on June 19 was arrested at a border stop in Texas, according to TMZ.

Police claim they found hashish – a strong form of cannabis – on the singer's tour bus. They claim to have found a small about of the substance.

The incident is alleged to have taken place in Sierra Blanca, at the same spot where Willie Nelson, Snoop Dogg have previously been arrested for drugs in the past.

The 35-year-old singer is currently being held at Hudspeth County Jail.

Apple's latest album is the follow up to to her third album 'Extraordinary Machine', and her first studio offering for seven years. ?Her debut record, 'Tidal', was released in 1996 and she received a Grammy for Best female Rock Vocal Performance from the single 'Criminal', which was released from that album in 1998.

[Drenka]

I want to destroy a bathroom when I see that picture.

[Stefen]

I don't even think its that big a deal. A small amount of hashish on a tour bus isn't exactly midnight expressing your way to a life of prostitution and breaking and entering.

Everyone's mugshot looks bad and if she was asleep on a tour bus as the time of her arrest of course she's going to look worse.

[ono]

Gives a whole new dimension to "Free Fiona."

[Reelist]

she musta really had the munchies

[matt35mm]

I was supposed to see her in Austin tonight. 

[Jeremy Blackman]

Fiona Apple and her captors: The saga begins

http://www.salon.com/2012/09/24/fiona_apple_and_her_captors_the_saga_begins/

After being held overnight on $10,000 bail in a Texas county jail cell Thursday, singer Fiona Apple narrated for a Houston audience, a cryptic version of her experience after her arrest:

Now, most of the people were very nice to me. There are four of you out there, and I want you to know that I heard everything you did. I wrote it all down with your names and everything you did and said stupidly thinking that I couldn’t hear or see you. I then ripped the paper up, but not before I encoded it and– I got two lock boxes. We’ll call them ‘holding cell one’ and ‘holding cell two.’ In ‘holding cell one’ is the encoded version of the shit that you did that I know was inappropriate and probably illegal. In ‘holding cell two’ is the decoder. I’m the only one who holds the key, and you and I will be intimate forever because I will hold that secret forever. Unless of course the celebrity that you had so much interest in but you wanted to accuse me of bringing up while you laughed at me all night? Unless you’re interested in being a celebrity, I’ll make you fucking famous any time you ask and I’ll open those boxes. So why don’t you stay in your fucking holding cell?

It’s not clear what Apple is referring to, but the offenses sound serious. Hudspeth County officers don’t seem to be upset; rather, Sheriff’s Department spokesman Rusty Fleming seems to be egging her on. Fleming released the following statement, addressed to Apple:

First, Honey, I’m already more famous than you, I don’t need your help. However, it would appear that you need mine. Two weeks ago nobody in the country cared about what you had to say, — now that you’ve been arrested it appears your entire career has been jump-started. Don’t worry Sweetie, I won’t bill you.

Next, have you ever heard of Snoop, Willie or Armand Hammer? Maybe if you would read something besides your own press releases, you would have known BEFORE you got here, that if you come to Texas with dope, the cops will take your DOPE away and put YOU in jail.

Even though you and I only met briefly in the hallway, I don’t know you but I’m sure you’re an awesome and talented young woman and even though I’m not a fan of yours, I am sure there are thousands of them out there, and I’m sure that they would just as soon you get this all behind you and let you go back to what you do best—so my last piece of advice is simple “just shut-up and sing.

Sincerely
Rusty Fleming

[Neil]

Do the words, "honey," and, "sweetie," in Rusty's response letter make anyone else feel uncomfortable?  Great spokesman.

[Jeremy Blackman]

Either he's openly hostile like that all the time (i.e. an asshole), or her letter got to him in some way.

I don't know, if I were him, my response would have been, "What on Earth did any of that mean? Are you sure we confiscated all your drugs?"

[polkablues]

Do the words, "honey," and, "sweetie," in Rusty's response letter make anyone else feel uncomfortable?  Great spokesman.

The fact that he responded directly to her weird statement at all demonstrates that he's bad at his job; the persistent use of sexist, diminishing language demonstrates that he's a grade-A cunt. 

The fact that he's a grown man who goes by the name "Rusty" demonstrates that he only has two grandparents.