In Her Own Words: Fiona Apple on New Album “Fetch the Bolt Cutters” & Acknowledging Indigenous Lands
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- Опубліковано 3 лип 2024
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An artist who represents everyone who refuses to sell out...artistically, morally or personally.
Brava and thanks, Fiona.
@@Antechynus Complete sellout and talent had dried up.
@Tattletale RED
Agreed!
well thought-out... compassionate message intelligently articulated... among an array of frivolous comments...10q. You are a breath of fresh air. ❤
Like her music or not I'm not really sure why she's a sellout. She basically ruined her career speaking her mind a long time ago. Whether you agreed with her or not she still did it. Fans still like her. She's not trying to be what everyone else is. Where's the sellout part?
Not true.
@@co4377 nope.
fetch the bolt cutters? oh you mean the best album i’ve ever listened to? the album that fills me with rage, sadness, and joy at the same time?
Fiona is as vital as ever. She always stands a head above other artists. She's got it, whatever it is.
integrity and talent
Fiona Apple is the least pretentious genius I have ever heard speak. You can tell with everything in her body she does not think she is anything special. It’s amazing and refreshing.
She is the most genuine and true to herself artist I have ever seen. One of the most important artists of this era.
FTB: hands down one of the very best complete albums I've ever listened to. I can't not listen to every single song.
Agree
when the pawn is pretty fucking awesome too...I dare say its better sorry
The title track alone made me feel again.
I'm in tears. This album has helped me so, so much right now. We love you, Fiona xoxo
My feelings exactly. I think she does, but I hope she knows how many people she touches with her music. Life is so much better bc of it.
Never censor your tears love .. I feel the same on so many levels..
Same. I lost my mom in 2020, listening to the album helped me cope with it.
We need more artists like Fiona.
Thank you for acknowledging our Indigenous People and Natives👊🏽👊🏼✌️
Fiona is such an incredible human being. I look up to her and her work. This interview was fantastic. Thank you for teaching me about Seeding Sovereignty and their important cause.
There is so much more you can learn! And it is so very important that people push to learn more and ask..ask.. Ask questions..to save some..we have to save all! They will say.. "All lives matter".. But All lives can not matter until.. literally ALL lives matter! And so many are blind to this because they simply don't believe they can be educated any further.. Shame.. Thank you for your live and support!
What an excellent piece of journalism. Democracy Now should be proud of this interview, Fiona should be proud of her album, and we should all go buy it and help their causes! What an amazing album it is.... I've been a fan since "Shadowboxer" and this was like finding her music for the first time all over again. The praise is truly worthy.
Fiona is the only "celebrity" or artist I've followed from the beginning of their career who keeps pulling huge, surprising feelings out of me. Her compassion for others and herself is contagious. She's such a gift to the world. I keep loving her more.
What a lovely coincidence, I was just listening to Every Single Night on repeat and here is the lady herself. Looking forward to new music!
I love that song
I too some nights listen to her music over and over. Puts you in a great spot between being at ease and being in motion for the next day. So glad that she seems to come out of her shell with each project more and more, and just do the sound that was always hers, always there, just carefully bursting out. And this interview shows the same boldness of her early days but more mature at the same time, if that makes sense. It's truly great to listen to this artist.
In a league of her own ...she’s fantastic
Totally
I'm so glad that you are passionate about this topic.
This album...wow. Just wow. Fiona, how can you be such a genius. It’s INCREDIBLE.
she is a crazy genius
Thank You..... For the bolt cutters
Wow, Eryn Wise SLAYS the last word. Also, kudos to whoever did the research before this interview!!!!
man with all of the acclaim surrounding this album (and the already existing fame and accolades Fiona has received throughout her career) it would be so easy to become egotistical yet no matter what Fiona has remained TRULY authentic, humble and concerned for others that's why I will always love and be inspired by her
Best album I've heard in years... Congrats Fiona Apple...we need some good music now more than ever ...
Still in love with Fiona-always will be.
Thank you so much for this interview with two incredibly strong and powerful women. 💝
This album has touched me. Kick me under the table!
I won’t shut up
Amy looks so happy with this show!! Nice to see your smile again Amy. Thank you Fiona we need real music with real thoughts now.
Long live the Navajo Nation! And, all the Indian Nations!
GO GO Algonquins!!!!
yá'át'ééh 🙌🏽🩸🙌🏽
@@polimana yááttééh! Sweet angel!
Yaahtteeh!
Such a great record. Really surpriced me - I've always liked Fiona Apple, but aside from individual great songs mostly from her first two albums, I've preferred her covers. But listening to this album on UA-cam a couple of times through, convinced me to purchacse the digital copy+cd+booklet, and have it sent to me here in Finland. Been a long time since I've been moved to buy a physical copy of an album.
Nice to see her interview here on Democracy Now! 👍
I think this album is a natural progression from the album before this one (The idler wheel…)!
@Clairvoyante How so? Or are you just trolling?
@@Innocent_Villain Of course they are trolling since they probably come on this channel all the time and say silly stuff like that, regardless who they're interviewing.
what a great interviewer, great questions, really engaging and so so inspiring for me to see an artist as brilliant as Fiona talking about these issues that are profoundly important to me as an Indigenous person. love and blessings to her and the wonderful people at Seeding Sovereignty, all their great work ❤️🌈
A powerfully honest and courageous woman! 👊🏽😡👍🏼
We need more Indigenous Journalists as well
GIVE INDIGENOUS LANDS BACK NOW!
And let the israelites go
@@charlesscott27 STOP TROLLING BUTTHURT
In the midst of the 6th mass extinction it's vital humanity support the indigenous people. We are all one race & they're vital for the survival of our species.
Show some respect. ✌️❤️
@@charlesscott27 stupid trumptard
@@MB-yl9hm sounds like a good start. Reperations would be good too. But don't you worry your little head our it. Racist america will never act like it isn't racist. This country was founded on genocide and racism. Like most places Europeans "discovered" and destroyed with their missionaries and soldiers.
You did study history, eh?
You look gorgeous today, Amy! Thank you for another AWESOME broadcast!
Shared the old documentary with my daughter. Fiona, she's great.
That Bolt cutter tattoo is awesome, be cool if that became the iconic sign for these times we are living in. Just a thought
Fiona - you look healthy and beautiful! Can't wait to check out the new album.
Actually, she looks haggard.
@HOSTILE MGTOW she actually spoke about how she was into coke and then a bad night with her boyfriend and Tarantino got her to quit. Fiona has always been super skinny so... I think its just age. Though I believe she's still smokes weed
She just got sober. She’s healthy. Calm down and let’s see how your face looks under crap lighting and no filter silly human.
Actually I was struck and worried by how bad she looked -- haggard, older than her years and a strange color to her skin. Hope she's well.
She's like 43, though...not a teenager anymore.
Eryn Wise is superb in this interview. She is exceptionally well-spoken. Thank you.
It’s really an amazing album.
Shameika says I have potential ✨
Thank you do much for sharing your beautiful art, I'm 34 and have literally grown up with your albums, my 20s were fraught with heartbreak coming in perfect time with idler wheel and now with two kids and the fire in my belly burning bright, suffering from debilitating disorders including anxiety me and my 1yo Vivienne love to dance barefoot in the backyard to fetch the bolt cutters the primal beats, your powerful vocals, so strong so fragile at times, it just came like a gift at the perfect 👌 time. I'm just so grateful to you ❤ love always fiona, from Jessica and Brian Millington, he and I had the honor of seeing you live in va Beach for the extraordinary machine tour, we had been dating a few years at that point and now we have 2 kids, one is 9! Gosh time flies, love you to the moon! Oh! And that Kate Bush homage? Whatever you call it I about peed myself I was so happy 😊
Never listened to Fiona until today. Really wonderful music. Thank you for the interview with her.
BEST interview I’ve heard in ages...
Wow... It's so wonderful to see Fiona speaking out about so many issues during a time when we all need it. I was really moved by all of this. People like her and like Eryn are reason to have hope for humanity. I also felt inclined to donate to Seeding Sovereignty after watching this and encourage others to do so if you can.
I have listened to this album every single day since its release. She is still an absolute genius.
wow i'm getting all these interviews from Fiona. So BLESSED
This is the first Fiona Apple album that i am late finding out about. i have been onto EVERY album since 1996/1997 and i own all but this one. i’m not sure how i feel about “Bolt Cutters”. The songs aren’t arresting me at first listen.
Amy Goodman + Eryn Wise + Fiona Apple = Stunning and remarkable display of Conscious, Empowering, Compassionate, Brilliant Humans
Great interview! Thank you!
This TV host was asked how many times she would want to say 'Fetch the Bolt Cutters'?
She: yes
Fiona is so deep. Like she's too deep for this planet.
Fascinating interviews, thanks DN! Fiona Apple is so human and relatable, that she's a singer-songwriter becomes incidental.
Fiona, thank you so much for this record. I am a musician and have followed you for the last 20 years and this album has meant more to me than any piece of music I have ever heard. I've been going though so much during this pandemic, and every song has been a voice to my experience. Thank you thank you thank you for being a warrior for justice and a voice for women everywhere. I love you.
Towards the end when Eryn Wise acknowledges Fiona’s LGBTQ fans, and Fiona beams, I love that!
I hated that part.
MrGenedancingmachine why? Because you're straight?
gmawneydawgness why do I need a reason? Just voicing my feelings, exactly like you...
MrGenedancingmachine there's always a reason. I venture to guess you're homophobic. Willing to bet on it, actually
gmawneydawgness
I missed your reason tho?
You don’t need to give a reason, I don’t need to give a reason.
Equal.
I believe in equality, do you?
Wonderful ❣️ interview. Thank you so much.
Fetch The Bolt Cutters is a Masterpiece
erin is incredibly articulate
So so so good!!!! Thank you very much for all of this!!!
Super interesting conversation...I never would have thought Fiona Apple wasn't always more "woke" & aware of history, but it is excellent to hear her hunger for knowledge
Never too late for a shower of rain🤕😷👊 Relay
I really admire her for continually drawing the conversation back to the indigenous communities and those issues whenever she has the opportunity. She’s so passionate and so fucking smart and I’m so thankful for her music and her efforts towards this cause.
From the late eighteenth century through the end of the Civil War, Choctaw and Chickasaw Indians bought, sold, and owned Africans and African Americans as slaves, a fact that persisted after the tribes' removal from the Deep South to Indian Territory. The tribes formulated racial and gender ideologies that justified this practice and marginalized free black people in the Indian nations well after the Civil War and slavery had ended. Through the end of the nineteenth century, ongoing conflicts among Choctaw, Chickasaw, and U.S. lawmakers left untold numbers of former slaves and their descendants in the two Indian nations without citizenship in either the Indian nations or the United States. In this groundbreaking study, Barbara Krauthamer rewrites the history of southern slavery, emancipation, race, and citizenship to reveal the centrality of Native American slaveholders and the black people they enslaved.
Krauthamer's examination of slavery and emancipation highlights the ways Indian women's gender roles changed with the arrival of slavery and changed again after emancipation and reveals complex dynamics of race that shaped the lives of black people and Indians both before and after removal.
One awesome human.....so authentically wonderful! ❤️
Praying for the protection of Native American/ Indigenous tribes during this pandemic. 📿
I’m hoping they particularly get destroyed and everywhere else is fine
@@MrGenedancingmachine Wow. More' s the pity, you have wasted all of your life.
G Alessi how do you know?
I Love Fiona's Work so much. It is so honest and real.
This is amazing. My two favs!
She's giving voice to all of our hurts, down to the marrow. And using her platform to bring attention to indigenous civil rights, marginalized people's plights. With humility, and raw passion. Her anger IS an amazing thing. Bringing voices together, the power of music- in the midst of so much isolation and fear, is transformative.
Viva la revolution!
(the underground is now)
I was not expecting this but I'm glad she did this interview!
Such a perfect interview. I cried the whole way through it.
on the title track I got Lou Reid/Jim Carroll vibe I love it!!! It's so bright- the chorus!!! You can tell she's healing & that's a ridiculous amazing honor, to grow into yourself and share that is something almost other wordly. Just a profound honor to allow us this extraordinary glimpse. Okay I'm out of words I love you Fiona! I will do what I can to help the indigenous people 2!
It is so refreshing to hear the masses begin to acknowledge this fact of life and human treatment! Time is now! Support humans of our whole!
Now this is the kind of content I like to see. I LOVE Fiona apple since her 90’s MTV days. ♥️
I love you so much Fiona, you are just an example of humbleness and simplicity nowadays and I LOVE YOU FOR THAT! thank you for always being real and human ❤️
Saw Fiona when Tidal came out it was a short but epic show. She ended with Angel by Jimi❤️. Tidal is still my favorite album of hers, but everything she does feels exceedingly true to her and moving for all of us fans. God bless ❤️🩹 hope to start hearing about more live shows soon
Fiona deserves everything. From the day she said to everyone that world she was living in was bullshit to this day, for being herself. My favourite living artist! So happy with FTBC! Thank you for the music, F!
I hope you can tour Ireland when this crap is over! Love the new album!
Yea me too 🇮🇪 but not looking likely 😫😫😫 the arts are fucked
I would love to see her do something with this beautiful man called Hozier might have met him a few times. I mean, they give us so much!!! Would be epic- she's so brilliant!!❤❤❤
I love your honesty Fiona!
Women should support each other not tear each other down.
This may lead to quite a limited range of accepted opinion from women
@@marissa102100 isn't that a little extreme? her opinions on those issues are as relevant as yours or mine
@@marissa102100 I'm not defending the way the world we live in allows musicians/actors etc to enrich themselves while millions die in poverty. That's fundamentally immoral, I think we agree there. But this particular celebrity has given thousands of dollars and a lot of her time to important social causes, chief among them the ones mentioned in the interview. The immorality of the system that allows her to become filthy rich and her actions as an individual who happens to genuinely care about society's ills are two separate things.
@@marissa102100 hey we may not agree but there's no reason to be rude or condescending. I think you're extreme in your views as I said but I'm not naive and I wasn't seeking to teach you a lesson, just sharing my opinion. There's a considerable difference between Weinstein and Fiona Apple I hope I don't have to explain why
@@marissa102100 Every one of your comments is a perfect example of unnecessary condescension. My views aren't formed? We have a disagreement, end of story. You're the one claiming she shouldn't give her opinion on a bunch of issues. What gives you that right? Bigoted people like you are what's wrong with the left
This was an informative talk that began with talk of the album and moved toward _ceding sovereignty_ and all it entails.
I just listened to this album and really love it. The 1st two songs didnt catch for me but the rest was FAB I love the backing vocals and Fiona's usual witty break neck speed lyrics. Its up there with When the Pawn for me and that album is very hard to top IMO. Il listen to it a few more times, Fiona deserves so much praise for her work ethic and ability to entertain through her music. Its fantastic stuff.
She was my first concert ...at the boathouse...in Virginia
real cool one! Love Fiona Apple...
In the midst of the 6th mass extinction it's vital humanity support the indigenous people. We are all one race & they're vital for the survival of our species.
✌️❤️
Great Interview. And awesome álbum. Thank you very much, everything you said about releasing your music ay this time were true. I felt company, vitality, questioning, dreaming, enpowering, creative, motivated, excited, vulnerable, surprised and happy ay the same time. Thank you again for this gift. Your music is wonderful!
love you fiona and indigenous peoples everywhere ❤ so much!
I am overwhelmed!
Gifts. Fiona Apple.
I’m in before the slew of trolls, bro’s and Trump supporters take over.
This was such a great album: challenging yet catchy, emotional yet cathartic, clearly deeply influenced but many artists before her but still wholly different and Fiona-esq. I don’t care about the Grammys, but I’d love to see her take a slew of them home for this accomplishment.
Bros? As in Bernie bros. Um im a huge Apple fan and a Bernie bro.
Yeah, this is the type of response I wanted to avoid. Though I guess it’s expected. When you post on a news/political page people are going to have their guards up and are going to be ready to assume someone is attacking them.
What accomplishment ??
> in before the slew of trolls, bro’s and Trump supporters take over.
> people are going to have their guards up and are going to be ready to assume someone is attacking them
See what you did there? This is a great example of why self awareness is so valuable.
“Beware that, when fighting monsters, you yourself do not become a monster... for when you gaze long into the abyss. The abyss gazes also into you.”
― Friedrich W. Nietzsche
"Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.” - Carl Jung
“The things we dislike most in others are the characteristics we like least in ourselves.” - Marian Keyes
This divisive L/R paradigm is absolutely killing us. It's designed to keep us fighting each other instead of those responsible for the mess that we ALL find ourselves in. We have to stop preemptively demonizing people and start trying to understand and empathize with them - even if we disagree. Trust me, I have a whole laundry list of complaints for the right wing. I debate them daily. But one of the things that bothers me the most about the left is that they preach empathy constantly - but only exercise it when it suits them. They're constantly "fighting hate" but are SO hateful themselves. It's the equivalent of the conservative christians who preach family values and god, but cheat on their wives and shit on the poor. Ie: "They rally 'round the family with a pocket full of shells."
Ideology is a prison that can only ever create conflict.
"Calling into being" hit me as maybe something that isn't just hocus pocus and perhaps essential in validating one another.
great interviews with both. love erin wise's words - "using her medicine to transform"
Making it a life commitment. Wow. Only true authentic human beings live like that. She never disappoints me as a true compassionate being. Land acknowledgement is one thing I need to learn too. Thank you Fiona for never pandering, never lowering to mediocrity...Love you loads...❤️🇧🇷
From the late eighteenth century through the end of the Civil War, Choctaw and Chickasaw Indians bought, sold, and owned Africans and African Americans as slaves, a fact that persisted after the tribes' removal from the Deep South to Indian Territory. The tribes formulated racial and gender ideologies that justified this practice and marginalized free black people in the Indian nations well after the Civil War and slavery had ended. Through the end of the nineteenth century, ongoing conflicts among Choctaw, Chickasaw, and U.S. lawmakers left untold numbers of former slaves and their descendants in the two Indian nations without citizenship in either the Indian nations or the United States. In this groundbreaking study, Barbara Krauthamer rewrites the history of southern slavery, emancipation, race, and citizenship to reveal the centrality of Native American slaveholders and the black people they enslaved.
Krauthamer's examination of slavery and emancipation highlights the ways Indian women's gender roles changed with the arrival of slavery and changed again after emancipation and reveals complex dynamics of race that shaped the lives of black people and Indians both before and after removal.
@@fredtello those are just 2 tribes!
Let's go!
Thank you 😎
The interviewer is so chill i love her
Thank you.
Fiona, you look absolutely beautiful 😘💜🌹😘💜🌹!
❤️
"The new record's here, that's something for me to do for a couple days."
Try a couple months. I'm still listening to it nearly every day.
Same
This interview is pretty awesome. Wish it was translated to other languages to help inform and connect people of other nations
Thank you Fiona
i always cry whenever i listen to the first song. it reminds me of the quarantine + covid-19
Was listening to her this weekend.... Old stuff, interviews.
Its def making me feel better. Love you, Fiona
She always seems so beautifully uncomfortable yet soothing?! I am so in love with her. A truly beautiful & talented soul
My all time favorite soul ! Your soul has been helping mine and many I know feel courage want freedom its like when I wanna give up give in your sharing yourself has helped me get up and not just kinda get up but GET UP!!
What an amazing interview!
Yesss...