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Post by Jessie on Sept 11, 2009 14:54:38 GMT -5
I love her music but I've always felt disconnected from her as a fan. Especially after she made that snide remark about Tori being a "poster girl" for rape I was thinking about this this morning. Fiona herself went though this trauma, so maybe she meant it in a good way if that's possible??
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Post by Jupiter's Widow on Sept 11, 2009 15:33:00 GMT -5
I don't know the details of her contract, but I've been watching allot of interviews with her on YouTube and a few times she mentions that she doesn't write music unless she's really sad and she "has to" - if she's happy she doesn't want to be sitting at a piano writing music. (I think she even mentions it in the interview posted here a few posts up.) So maybe she's happy? Hopefully she's learning to write even when she's happy a'la Tori. I miss her too Aww. That makes me to sad to think she doesn't want to write about the good stuff, too. Reason for Editing:
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Post by Jessie on Sept 11, 2009 20:35:05 GMT -5
Me? I want her to write happy stuff too! Most definitely. I have to reread my post, maybe I was confusing..
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Post by Jupiter's Widow on Sept 12, 2009 6:24:14 GMT -5
Oy! No it was me! I can't type. Sorry! I meant that she doesn't want to! I'm with you, I want her to write when she's happy as well! I wonder why she doesn't want to??
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Post by FrostedCornflake on Sept 14, 2009 23:01:20 GMT -5
wasn't there some issue's she had with the record company releasing "EM"? i think she had the material years before but had a lot of difficulty releasing it?
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Post by itsallinyourmind on Sept 21, 2009 20:50:43 GMT -5
yes, she did have a lot of trouble releasing EM. She reworked many of the songs many times over to make it more "presentable" to the public...thus explaining why a lot of the tunes on "Free Fiona" are much different by the time they made it to the official album.
For example: Red, Red, Red....powerful as fuck on Free Fiona....haunting and beautiful but a lot weaker on EM.
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Post by itsallinyourmind on Sept 21, 2009 20:53:01 GMT -5
i might need to clarify a bit, Free Fiona was the title some songs leaked under while the record company wasn't releasing the actual album because they wanted...well something less original i guess.
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Post by Jessie on Sept 22, 2009 14:15:43 GMT -5
I'd love to hear the Free Fiona versions.
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Post by Jupiter's Widow on Sept 22, 2009 16:11:56 GMT -5
Oh the John Brion version is aces compared to the released version. I mean, had I never heard the original EM, I wouldn't have any problem with the "real" one, but it's hard for me to listen to the released version.
Ha. I remember some radio station leaked the John Brion version one song at a time over a period of days. I used to scour the internet for the download links. It's a shame the quality if the MP3s is so poor. I'd for for her to someday officially release the JB version of the album.
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Post by unraveling on Sept 22, 2009 19:28:38 GMT -5
she's good, but she's no tori amos she's definitely better than boring-ass Cat Power though. Fast As You Can is my favorite song by her.
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Post by Jessie on Sept 22, 2009 21:59:11 GMT -5
she's definitely better than boring-ass Cat Power though. Amen x100000000000
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Post by ethertwist on Sept 23, 2009 1:26:39 GMT -5
Those quotes are always misread about Tori. These are from undented:
I: I wonder if Alanis and Tori-who you're forever being compared to-were as clever. What do you think of that comparison anyway? Fiona: I can explain that right here, right now. Alanis-we're both white, have long hair parted down the middle and we're young people who get angry sometimes. It ends there. Tori Amos - two words: piano, rape. They're unintelligent comparisons. -- Fiona Apple, Details Magazine, Jul 1997
"I do not think of Tori Amos as the 'poster girl for rape.' I was merely referring to the danger in both of us being honest about our personal experience, when, as public figures, there is a tendency of the media to label us and reduce our music to simply a reflection of one cultural ill." -- Fiona Apple, a posted letter from her on her web site to Spin & fans, Oct 22, 1997
Ie. Fiona was commenting on the tendency of the media to lump artists together and compare them even though their music is different. Like Tori and Fiona - because they have both written about rape.
I swear Fiona Apple is one of the most misunderstood and persecuted artists out there.
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Post by Shekhina on Sept 23, 2009 7:01:53 GMT -5
I swear Fiona Apple is one of the most misunderstood and persecuted artists out there.
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Post by Jessie on Sept 23, 2009 14:32:31 GMT -5
Now that I've read those quotes it clears up the confusion about that "poster girl for rape" quote. She totally didn't mean any harm towards Tori. Yay!
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Post by Yuta on Feb 4, 2010 22:50:53 GMT -5
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