FIONA APPLE - CRIMINAL REACTION 

I dare you to try to find a bad Fiona Apple song. They don't exist. She is a treasure...a talented pianist and a brilliant lyricist. As rabbit holes go, Fiona is prime real estate.

"What would an angel say, the devil wants to know " One if my favorite lines ever.

She was 19 here and was taken advantage of by the industry. She didnt want or like this video. Shes my favorite songwriter and I love every song. Shes ever sung even the covers.

You young people are so funny! Don't take it so seriously, it's a fun, wicked little song. 🔥😘

This was my jam back then. Still love it. A beautiful woman in her prime should not be underestimated. 🤷🏻‍♀️🔥🔥🔥

She was really popular in the late 90s when the Lillith Fair scene was happening. She was like America's crazy ex girlfriend.

You have to listen to "Shadowboxer" or "Slow Like Honey" off the same album. It's jazz and her voice is unreal.

It's a crying fucking shame this has just 1,000 views. This song is off the charts. The video is off the charts. She's the best lyricist of the last 25 years. This is as good as it ever got and ever will get.

11 years ago is just when this video was posted This song is from 1997🔉🎶💙🔥

Fiona Apple was 20yrs old when this was released. She’s 43 now. The public went nuts when this video released in 1997, thinking she was under 18 at the time. 😂 Her lyrics are legendary and timeless. 🙌🏼🙌🏼

So many songs by Fiona that you can react to. Amazing lyricist and vocalist.

I saw Fiona live in Arkansas when I was 16. She wore beautiful big angel wings and sang at the piano. She was incredible live! Loved her! ✨🧡✨🧡

Fionna Apple is one of the best singer/writers of the 90's.......I absolutely love her!!!!

It is a sad, sad world when a girl would break a boy just because she can.,.

Such an amazing voice and her songs are addicting! Great generational talent! Tons of hits too!

oh please please react to more Fiona Apple! She is such a genius when it comes to lyrics and music. I suggest "Fast As You Can" "Paper Bag" or "A Mistake" - it's some of her later work. Another good one that was on her first album was "Sleep to Dream" and "Shadowboxer". She had such a unique sound when she first came out, and still does to this day.

OMG finally!!!!!! THANK YOU JAYY!!!!!

It should be noted that Fiona Apple wasn't very pleased with how the video came out and when it won the vma it felt that ppl just saw the superficial side of her and hence, her infamous "the world is BS" speech came out. Ppl were pissed and so was the industry. MTV played her MVs at weird hours. Fiona Apple is more than just the crazy ex gf. She has a history of trauma she endured and you can see how much she has grown and how well she expressed herself in her songs thru the years. 🙄

Your face says it all, Love you and your channel please keep listening,

"Never Is a Promise" Fiona Apple. Beautiful song.

This song just brings me back to 6th grade watching vh1 pop up videos waiting for the bus to come for school ! Song is a 90s classic

She wrote this whole album at 15.

Spot on reaction!

Getting Fiona Apple'd should be a phrase. Like, "Bro, you got Fiona Apple'd. Sorry."

Yo Jayy, You nailed it... She's feeling guilty about her power over someone and taking advantage of it. She was just a baby when she made this album and was discovered by an A&R rep while baby-sitting that rep's daughter. She won a Grammy that year. I think it was 1997.

I take this beyond physical betrayal, the narrator of the song has broken the spirit of the one that loved them most and they know they can't fix it.

This was an album that she wrote when she was 18. One of the greatest albums of all time.

Such a talent. Under rated. Love her rendition of the Beatles ACROSS the UNIVERSE - she does it as good them if not a bit better.

Love Ridden by her will change your mind completely about her

Sophie B. Hawkins - "Damn, I Wish You Were My Lover"

Love your facial expressions! 👍😊

Fiona Apple is amazing. Try: Sleep to Dream, Fast As You Can, Shadowboxer, Across the Universe (a Beatles cover).

You should listen to Across the Universe by Fiona Apple, it's a cover song from the Beatles. And watch the official video

AH, finally someone does Fiona Apple. I've been suggesting her to so many. She's a musical genius. You must listen to more, like ''Fast As You Can'' and ''Sleep To Dream''. All her songs are about her real-life experiences. Every single one is beyond deep. Just brilliant.

I remember when this came out, I wasn't quite sure how to feel about it.. Its almost like she's bragging that she hurt someone but she knows it was wrong, and she's feeling guilty. The lyrics made me a little uncomfortable but I really liked that dark, funky piano and nasty bass groove.

Fiona is an absolute songwriting genius. I love all of her albums. Don't stop here! You won't regret it.

What's weird is that I had those exact same sheets as a little kid maybe circa 80-85 and Elliott in E.T. had those on his bed and they were in this vid in the 90s. My mom remembered them and said they were some kinda designer sheets that she got in the 70s, but you will still see those in period pieces from the 70s on. They were in No Country For Old Men, too, which was set in the year 1980.

I'm old and I've always felt like a crook or a criminal, and now I have a daughter her name is Fiona. So good review I love this Lady's music.

One of my favorite lyrics of all time: What would an angel say, the devil wants to know.... Incredible songwriting.....

She's an all time great artist and vocalist.

Fiona Apple is a wonderful performer! My favorite song is Sleep to Dream!

By the way - she is into Performance as part of the art. I think she write a lot of fiction but colors it so realistically so that folks relate to it - get drawn into it.

I love Fiona Apple. That is so much for doing this. But could you please do a reaction to Tori Amos? Silent All These Years is such a powerful song. And so is Precious Things. They might be a little spicy but... They're worth it.

this song was a last moment add on when she was asked for a hit. also the song is nearly 30 years old as it came out in 96 if i'm not mistaken.

Her label said her album was good but they needed a real single so she wrote this I no under an hour at age 15. ✨

FIIIIF!

She was 18 at the time. Give her cover of The Beatles "Across the Universe" a try. It was made for the movie "Pleasantville." It's totally different from the style of this one. Her voice is amazing.

This is one of my all time favorite songs!!!

She was spoofing Calvin Klein ads from the 90's which were weird and feat. Young looking girls. It started w Kate moss. The intro/outro sound nice. U have some classic clutch my pearls reactions

Ooooooooo.... its my celebrity-crush girlfriend!!! This woman can sing her FUCKING ASS OFF!!! And, without doubt, had the most interesting album made during 2020!!! Fucking "Shameika" is a goddamned MASTERPIECE of an artist at her highest level 20 years after her 'bullshit' fame (by her own words)...

Beautiful voice... That album is good!

Oh how I love her! You should check out Shadow Boxer!

such a great album, we peaked in the 90's hahahahah

Try this out. It's the soundboard recording of a song called Ladies from her last album, before the album was released. Video starts 40 seconds in, so you can watch her impassioned delivery. The song explores how women treat their partner's ex-girlfriends as competition, but she implores the ladies in her ex's "revolving door" to see that "no love is like any other love" & she invites them to try on the dress in the closet that didn't fit her, since it belonged to yet another ex of this man who was "very kind". It pairs up with Newspaper, another song on Fetch the Bolt Cutters, which talks how her ex demonized her to his new wife. Most Fiona fans think FTBC explores her feelings after her break-up with a movie producer/director who left her for Maya Rudolph. The pair have now been married for years, so Newspaper in particular seems addressed to Maya. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-m8F5wBq6Xcw.html

Fiona is one of the all time greats. And a surprising amount of famous black musicians love her (Jay-Z, Frank Ocean, Kanye, Lil Nas X, SZA, Jhene Aiko). Her album, Fetch the Bolt Cutters, was the most critically acclaimed album of last year and won her a couple more Grammys. But her whole catalog is strong. It’s only five albums over 25 years. So, it’s not that much to get through.

Good song

Check out her video never is a promise such a beautiful song

We are Wayward. It can not be helped. This does not mean we do not love you. I am a Criminal, to that extent.

Lord I remember this album coming out! I love this song! LOL ur faces tho!!!

Oooooooh! On of my favorites! So atmospheric!

JLo danced to it at the start of Hustlers. If you haven't seen that scene you need to.

I LOVE this song

Check out NOT ABOUT LOVE by Fiona

Love this song Jayy. Thanks for reacting!!!!

I find it hard to listen to Fiona Apple, though I love what I have heard, cos she goes to such a dark place with her songs. She wrote this song at 17, and in this video, she was 19. She was raped at 12, and subsequently developed an eating disorder, if I recall, purposefully so she would be "unattractive" to men. Another song I would recommend, in an equally disturbing vein, is "Mother Mother" by Tracy Bonham (ideally the TV set version of the video, as she made two).

....have a peak at Meg Myers song and video "Desire"..........

A “golden era” for women leads. Probably because the boys were trying to sound like Eddie Vedder or Michael Stipe.

YAY!!!! I lovelovelove this song!!! I asked too!!!

Watch Lennon.....Song Brake of my Car..... PLEASE PLESSE PLEASE PLEASE. did I forget to say PLEASE

Fiona was a troubled girl growing up, had a pretty hard story. I remember her on Howard Stern years ago talking about it. She messed up at an MTV video award show in 97 by saying, "This is all BS" (meaning all the glam and money and nonsense in the music industry) and tho she was speakin truth, the way she did it fell flat and she took a lot of heat and criticism for it. It was unfortunate. And then Chris Rock who was hosting came out and said she'll be OK, she just needs to eat a sandwich, which pissed her off because she had body issues and weight issues. Not the right girl to say that about by Chris and he realized that after the fact. She called him a "burnt match" in anger, a racial term if you picture it in your head. He was also on Stern and said it's OK and didn't continue it on when he asked him about the match comment. I remember thinking that Rock knew he had stepped into a cow plop and didn't want to go any further down that road because women w/ eating and psychological/emotional issues and all that weren't a good demographic to make food jokes about. It was a lose-lose for Chris, so he just basically moved on.

She also does not like this image the record company created for her. Look into her quotes and how recluse she is.

Who had those sheets? 🖐️🖐️🖐️😂😂😂

“What would an angel say the devil wants to know “ Great lyrics.

And yes “Never is a promise “! Is probably more up your alley

She looks very young for her age, she's 43 years old.

You feel guilty watching this right?

Jayy, almost all of us thought the way you did when this came out, HOWEVER WE WERE ALL WRONG, lol. In Fiona’s interview with Rolling Stone about this song and video she stated “ But that’s exactly what the video is about. When I say, ‘I’ve been a bad, bad girl, I’ve been careless with a delicate man’ - well, in a way I’ve been careless with a delicate audience, and I’ve gotten success that way, and I’ve lived in my ego that way, and I feel bad about it. And that’s what the song’s about, and therefore, that’s what the video looks like.” Just to clear up what most of us thought when this song & video came out. If you want to read her interview it’s Rolling Stone January 22, 1998. I got it as soon as it came out.

This was probably her biggest hit, but personal I like Slow Like Honey better than this one.

This is one of my least favorite of her songs. It's good, but she's so talented & written much better songs in the years since.

It’s all good girl, just a song lol it’s a jam actually

Fiona was a bit obscure but definitely got into her stuff.

This song is like 25 years old. It seems like you’re trying analyze this too hard instead of enjoying the song.

I love this song... it was awesome to listen to this as a 90s teen!!! The video, showing an 18-year-old Fiona Apple stripping down to her underwear and wandering around a basement filled with lots of young bodies, is one of the most controversial ever to hit MTV. Apple has a dissociated look throughout, and the setting is rather seedy, implying it's where immoral acts take place and are sometimes recorded - at one point we see Apple on a TV screen, as if someone is making a video for the "barely legal" market. It was directed by Mark Romanek, whose credits include "Closer" by Nine Inch Nails and "Rain" by Madonna. "We wanted something blatantly erotic," he told Entertainment Weekly. His plan was to have Apple play the part more lively, with some booty shaking, but she did it in her natural melancholy way instead - nobody has asked her to shake booty since. Apple was on board with the concept and remained on good terms with Romanek, but sometimes got uneasy discussing it over and over in interviews. "I decided if I was going to be exploited, then I would do the exploiting myself," became her sound bite. Her most lucid and nuanced explanation came in an interview with MTV shortly after it was released in the summer of 1997, when she said: "I'm treating the audience that is watching this video the same way the character in the song treats a man: Look at me, look how pretty I am. I don't have to give you anything else because look how pretty I am. And look how successful I am, look how much power I can get just by letting this light shine on me in a certain way."

…it was a song….it was..as usual…about nothing in particular….

relax dude

I feel like she's singing from the point of view of a psychopath(she does things just because she can) who is self aware. She knows she's doing wrong but she's looking for ways to change. But that's just way she is and no one can change that.

Pretty- uncomfortable

Totally forgot her. A beautiful song, sometimes you just need go with the flow. All songs don’t have deep meaning. Sometimes it jus flows.

Your facial reactions show how closed minded you are to music. She was 16 when she wrote these songs and 18 when they recorded the album. She's an awesome woman

Amazing she wrote this when she was 16