2013
Tag: Fiona Apple
Parting Gift ( song ) … Fiona Apple
2005
Extraordinary Machine ( song ) … Fiona Apple
2005
Fiona Apple isn’t pretty anymore …
pictures of Fiona Apple when she was pretty :
pictures of Fiona Apple now that she isn’t pretty :
It’s true. Seven years is a long time, apparently long enough for a woman’s face to go from pretty to about average. That can happen in seven seconds, of course, if she were, say, punched in the face really hard or set on fire. Facial beauty is mostly just a matter of skin and bone structure, but I don’t think Fiona Apple, a woman I once considered one of the best-looking famous people, has been the victim of some physical injury, disease or anything like that. It seems her face has simply degraded over the last few years.
Video and pictures suggest she was certainly pretty from her teenage years to at least 2005, the year of the release and mass promotion of her Extraordinary Machine album. By 2012, the year of the release and mass promotion of her Idler Wheel follow-up, she was no longer pretty. The difference probably wouldn’t seem as jarring if it weren’t for the fact that she’s rarely seen in the public spotlight when she isn’t out and about, in front of cameras, promoting a new album, which these days occurs only about every seven years.
That goes back to seven years being a long time. People age. When it comes to physical beauty, adults generally age for the worse. That’s why so many women hide under makeup. Fiona Apple is no exception, but, while there are new pictures of her looking old, I think that’s only part of the problem. The other part and probably main reason for her aesthetic degradation is that her face looks thinner than it used to. She’s far from ugly; her new face looks okay to me; but she looks like a witch; not a good witch but a hag.
I’d have sex with her, let her kiss me and even kiss her while we’re doing it. I’d date her and even get into a serious romantic relationship with her. That’s what most of her songs are about anyway. I’d do it partly because she’s rich and famous, but mostly because she (still) looks attractive enough. She is a light-skinned woman who’s not old, fat or ugly. My acceptance criteria isn’t too selective from there. Even while I’m with her and enjoying it though, I’d know it could’ve been a lot better if I’d gotten her a lot sooner.
Then again, while I’ll probably never get a chance with her outside of my own fantastical imagination, I don’t think it’s too late for her to restore at least most of her beauty. As far as life in years goes, she’s only in her thirties. If she puts on a little weight; something I usually advise against; make it show on her face and perhaps start taking better care of herself by laying off the marijuana and taking a holistic approach to beauty, she could probably, if not raise my rating of her from a 3 back to a 5 of 5, make herself look pretty again.
Not About Love ( song ) … Fiona Apple
2005
Tymps [ The Sick In The Head Song ] ( song demo ) … Fiona Apple
Valentine ( song ) … Fiona Apple
2012
Jeni C and me arguing with Enio Chiola from Pop Matters about his album ratings

2012
popmatters.com
audio review : The Idler Wheel ( album ) … Fiona Apple

The best songs from Fiona Apple’s last album are the two Jon Brion productions left intact after the singer decided to remake it without him. She enlisted the less experimental, more radio-friendly talents of Mike Elizondo and Brian Kehew. Now the expulsion of Brion is complete as his music is nowhere to be heard on this new set, entitled The Idler Wheel Is Wiser Than The Driver Of The Screw And Whipping Cords Will Serve You More Than Ropes Will Ever Do because, in Fiona Apple’s world, there is no character limit on album titles.
What’s pleasing to the ears is the minimalist approach of these songs. Drummer Charley Drayton is involved, but this isn’t an album that’s driven by beats, so the drums aren’t so obvious. Even on a song like Left Alone, which begins with thirty seconds of drums, they’re panned to the left or the right and set at a relatively low volume in the mix. In fact, all of the percussion sounds take a back row to Fiona Apple’s voice, which is almost always right there up front. For some reason, the starting lead vocals of Daredevil are (also) panned to the left.
With that, the overall message seems to be, “Hey, listen to what I have to say.” But this is mostly just amorous poetry about Jonathan or whatever boyfriend Fiona is thinking about, even the closing song. That means she’s a typical romantic; “I love you,” she says to her Valentine; made interesting and original only because of her quirkiness. The closest thing to a typical catchy chorus is the refrain of Anything We Want; the album’s best, or at least most easily accessible, song. The best moment is when the Hot Knife piano first comes in.
Every Single Night is annoying. I don’t know what made her think it was a good idea to stretch the word “brain” out to eight syllables. It would sound silly at two. Eight just makes it four times worse. She’s also grown careless when it comes to the sound of her voice, sometimes letting it distort into an ugly growl as if vocal intonation is her sole way of conveying emotion. Not that such flaws would matter much if she were singing pretty melodies consistently instead of contrasting them with not-so-pretty ones for the sake of artistic creativity.
my rating : 3 of 5
2012
Every Single Night ( song ) … Fiona Apple
2012
Werewolf ( song ) … Fiona Apple
2012
Anything We Want ( song ) … Fiona Apple
2012










