Fiona Apple
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Fiona Apple
Fiona Apple, brooding, brainy belter and capital-A artist of near forbidding depth, begins her much gossiped-over third CD on a lark. The title track, one of two songs produced by Jon Brion before the label dispute that prompted hip-hop producer Mike Elizondo (50 Cent, Eminem) to step in, sounds like a Judy Garland number slathered with irony or something Rufus Wainwright might have had a hand in—strings soar, beats bump around skittishly, and notes require a ladder. But playful as it is, by the time the chorus kicks in it’s clear why the world has missed Fiona…
Fiona Apple
Fiona Apple, what a character. Between the softcore video, the awards show rebuke, and now for her second album concocting history’s most ludicrous title (the full thing runs 90 words long), Apple is earning a rep as a world-class oddball. Which may be the case. In contrast to many of her faux eccentric contemporaries, however, this wolf in waif’s clothing seems to be genuinely astray in the straight world. And Apple is the real thing in another way—as a talent. When the Pawn Hits picks up where her eye-opening debut, Tidal, left off. With Jon Brion…
