It’s a travesty that as of this morning, there are only 162 comments on the new Fiona Apple single “Every Single Night”, posted three days ago to her SoundCloud page. Looking to flood your respective social media channels with something? Look no further: let the oversharing commence.
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This isn’t as dreamy or grandstanding as the early stuff, though stylistically similar – but it is better. “Every Single Night” is a gentle lullaby with an ominous, immediate shade cast over it. Her voice convulses, there’s a chorus, she readjusts into an unsettling serenade, something is not right.
Why do we have so much hope in our hearts for the not-so-young Ms. Apple? The binary personality of a strong female pop persona: fragile and scalding, but so often unmoored and screaming in the wind, unapologetic about her strange desires – this itself will not surprise. Is feminism about choosing things? What has Fiona Apple chosen?
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Maybe we prefer our women this way. Maybe Lana Del Rey, with her prepackaged and retrofitted sexuality, actually bores us. Fiona, like Tori Amos, feels like an open wound. And that strikes us as art.
Fiona Apple plays the Fox Theater in Oakland on July 28th. Tickets are sold out.
