#fiona apple's criminal

[respectthepetty]

RTP! Your post about the posters in Sand’s room made me go and listen to AM and I’ve had it on a loop for days that album fucks SO HARD

Anon, it was actually @colourme-feral's post -> link here.

I just added my love for Arctic Monkeys' AM in the reblog because I really love the album. Like I wrote, the album feels like the vibe of the show since every song deals with messy relationships and sex.

I love that Jojo is making playlist for each character to show how integral music is to the series because I LOVE music. I still mute my shows, but I do appreciate the influence of music on the series, and how it is used to conjure up the emotions that go along with the song.

Which is why I love that Jojo mentioned the opening sequence was inspired by Fiona Apple's "Criminal" because . . .

"What would an angel say, the devil wants to know?"

When the video came out, there was backlash because of the song's lyrics and the nature of the video. The Wikipedia entry doesn't do it justice with its notes that "it explores themes of voyeurism and adolescence" and "the song is about 'feeling bad for getting something so easily by using your sexuality.'" People wanted the video off the air, and slut shamed the singer. On top of that, the director is Romanek, who also directed a lot of famously controversial videos like Nine Inch Nails "Closer" and if you don't know that song, it features lyrics like "I wanna fuck you like animal. You get me closer to God" and the video features BDSM and crucifixes (VegasPete anyone?).

The video for "Criminal" shows the singer in different layers of undress, but it was a testament to the "heroin chic" style many supermodels (e.g. Kate Moss) portrayed at the time aka looking super skinny and having sunken features like they had done heroin, and how models also looked almost childlike, so it was Lolita, but with adults.

Then, a taste of the lyrics:

I've been a bad bad girl I've been careless with a delicate man And it's a sad sad world When a girl will break a boy Just because she can Don't you tell me to deny it I've done wrong and I want to Suffer for my sins I've come to you 'cause I need Guidance to be true And I just don't know where I can begin What I need is a good defense 'Cause I'm feelin' like a criminal And I need to be redeemed To the one I've sinned against Because he's all I ever knew of love

It sounds familiar right? The entire opening sequence is inspired by the video, but one person in particular just really resonates with CRIMINAL!

And after this last episode . . .

Heaven help me for the way I am Save me from these evil deeds Before I get them done I know tomorrow brings the consequence At hand But I keep livin' this day like The next will never come

Boston is the devil.

[fionaapplerocks]

For fellow vacuum cleaner nerds who have been wondering, the yellow vacuum cleaner featured in the Fiona Apple 'Criminal' video is the Miele S380 in curry yellow.

[retrotunes]

FIONA APPLE | Criminal

[lanitashiddencrackstash]

[beauty1sempty]

this man is so majestic i’ve never crushed over a celebrity this hard

[mood---ring]

[velveys]

Fiona Apple – Criminal (1997)

[dreamingawayyour1ife]

Fiona Apple, Criminal (1997)

[oceanblvdbabe]

I thought coven was an iconic season?!!?

they literally sang gods & monsters by ldr AND criminal by fiona apple on freak show helppp

[palmtreepalmtree]

Sometimes it's just like damn, Tidal is a really fucking great debut album. Like how even?

[fionaapplerocks]

For fellow film camera nerds who have been wondering, the silver camera featured in the 1997 Fiona Apple 'Criminal' video is the Pentax Espio 160 Zoom (1996). Also known as the IQZoom.

[mtvscreengrabs]

Criminal - Fiona Apple (1997)

[maieste]

fionaaaa

[mammamiaexperience]

rip claudia you would’ve loved fiona apple (also everyone else in interview with the vampire)

[lanitashiddencrackstash]