The Biggest Takeaways From Pitchfork's Heartwarming New Fiona Apple Profile

Music Including a wild story about Fiona Apple’s history with Ferris wheels. by Joseph Earp  11 December 2020 It has been an extraordinary year to be a Fiona Apple fan. First, the singer-songwriter released one of the best records of her career, the trembling and taped-together Fetch The Bolt Cutters. Around the same time, she also gave an honest interview with Emily Nussbaum of The New Yorker in which, amongst other things, she talked about her relationship with music and with her exes. And the profiles haven’t stopped coming, either. Just this week, Pitchfork published a lengthy chat with the artist in which she dropped a treasure trove of tidbits. For a start, Apple revealed that she isn’t the Luddite she is sometimes painted as. In actuality, she loves Tumblr, and frequently uses the site to discover new obsessions and artworks. Secondly, Apple also spoke at length about the contours of her own voice. She admitted that though once upon a time she liked to sing “pretty”, these days she’s just as happy to leave in the mistakes. “I make very, very strange sounds without meaning to if I think about things that embarrass me, which is very often,” Apple says. “They’re not pretty…
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