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People dont often interrogate their conditioning.
Why would they, when conformity provides structure, when ritual provides order?
People fear that which they dont understand, even when it means them no harm.
Father, forgive them, for they know not what they do.
Fiona ApplesFetch the Bolt Cutters is a look back at a life less ordinary.
After the rocky end of the 90s, Apple began to settle into a different groove.
She moved to Los Angeles and worked on music as inspiration struck, sometimes not at all.
Shes present in every era but not rooted in it.
Or you could treat her as one of a miraculous one.
She doesnt care which viewfinder you use.
Im an extraordinary machine.)
She occupies the space grandly.
The fullness of her piano playing is apparent in the first minute.
I Want You to Love Me lays a skittering top-line melody over long, booming low notes.
Bolt Cuttersis volcanic expurgation of the spirit, a dance along the dividing line between joy and pain.
Apple remains a devastating lyricist.
Newspaper and Ladies wonder why mens exes are expected to be enemies.
These songs stay playful and buoyant in spite of the weight of their subject matter.
She used to write love songs and sad songs, cycling through yearnings and regrets.
Heavy Balloon is a song not just about depression but the fight to keep it at bay.
