“I thought you don’t go to sleep to dream? ” In the same interview, they talk about collaborating in L.A. She asked, “Do you have a lot of dreams at night when you sleep? I have a lot of dreams.” Yes, he does (god dreams). Later, in 2005, Fiona chopped it up with Kanye for Interview. That’s why you gotta be the type of artist where they have to deal with you.” They’re so corporate, they make it seem so free, but there’s all these politics you gotta deal with. Like, fuck the industry, man, fuck all this. Before The College Dropout came out in 2004, a 25-year-old Kanye told one magazine, “I like to take things a little too far, but hey, what’s too far? That’s like the people I respect the most, like Mariah Carey and Fiona Apple, anybody that wilds out and really says the truth. We live our lives with the conviction that our personal connection runs deepest. I could put this on and become invincible.Īccordingly, disciples of Fiona Apple do not fuck around. Fiona is a wordsmith but more like a designer of armor through turns of phrase. “It was a huge release for me, just banging on it.” There are other instruments, like a shadowy vibraphone, on “Sleep to Dream,” but all I hear is rhythm and rhyme. (It’s worth noting that the only CD she supposedly purchased in all of 1997 was Wu-Tang Forever.) It is also as elemental, tough, and pissed as any punk song, but where punk is grounded in the notion of “us against the world,” “Sleep to Dream” is “me against the world.” “The piano is percussive, you hit it,” Fiona once said. It is made of words and Fiona’s flow is pure fire. “Sleep to Dream” stares you dead in the eye. This was a young feminist awakening of tectonic proportions. When I downloaded “Sleep to Dream” on Kazaa nearly a decade after its release, Fiona performed an act of insurrectionism upon my teenage life. That her lyrics are sublime truths for kids who feel trapped in their towns and bodies and minds. That her music is legitimately transcendent. I’m not sure if this is what Whitman meant when he wrote “dismiss whatever insults your own soul, and your very flesh shall be a great poem”-or what Emerson meant when he wrote that great art comes with “good-humored inflexibility”-but that’s how I’ve always felt about Fiona.
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