History Music / FionaApple

* PrecisionFStrike: "Under the Table" from her 2020 album, ''Fetch the Bolt Cutters'' contains one.

* OlderThanTheyLook: She's now 40 but looks in her mid twenties at the most.

->"This world is bullshit."

-->"This world is bullshit."
-->-'''Her 1997 MTV Video Music Award acceptance speech.'''

-->'''Her 1997 MTV Video Music Award acceptance speech.'''

* OlderThanTheyLook: She's now 38 but looks in her mid twenties at the most.

Fiona Apple McAfee-Maggart (born September 13, 1977) is an American singer-songwriter and pianist.

Fiona Apple (born September 13, 1977) is an American singer-songwriter and pianist.

* OddFriendship: With QuentinTarantino.

* OlderThanTheyLook: She's now 35 but looks in her mid twenties at the most.

* CoverSong: BuddyHolly's "Everyday", Cy Coleman's "Why Try To Change Me Now" and "I Walk A Little Faster", "Sally's Song" from ''WesternAnimation/TheNightmareBeforeChristmas'', Music/ElvisCostello's "I Want You", and the most well known one, Music/TheBeatles "Across The Universe". She also does a range of jazz-standards when performing live. On the other hand, her own song "Criminal" is very popular with others.

* RapeAsBackstory

* CarefulWithThatAxe: ''The Idler Wheel'' has Fiona's most vicious vocals to date, but everything before pales in comparison to the demented howl she lets out on "Regret":
--> Oh, I ran out of white dove feathers, to soak up the hot piss that comes through your mouth, every time you address me!
** She also does this in "Parting Gift" on ''Extraordinary Machine''.
* CoverSong: BuddyHolly's "Everyday", Cy Coleman's "Why Try To Change Me Now" and "I Walk A Little Faster", "Sally's Song" from ''WesternAnimation/TheNightmareBeforeChristmas'', Music/ElvisCostello's "I Want You", and the most well known one, Music/TheBeatles "Across The Universe". She also does a range of jazz-standards when performing live. On the other hand, her own song "Criminal" is very popular with others.
* DarkAndTroubledPast: Raped in her own apartment at age 12. A lifetime of anxiety, OCD and eating-disorders followed.

* StealthPun: Fiona has admitted in interviews that titling her first album Tidal is one. In most AmericanAccents, "tidal" and "title" are homophones.

* ExecutiveMeddling: A rather infamous one at that, though whether or not it ever actually occured isn't entirely clear. Her third album ''Extraordinary Machine'' was reportedly shelved indefinitely by her label for not having any potential hits, and infuriated fans founded a campaign called "Free Fiona" to make the release happen. In the aftermath Fiona said she herself had chosen to shelve it, unsatisfied with the results her sessions with Jon Brion had produced. The released version is produced by Mike Elizondo, Brion's unreleased version [[KeepCirculatingTheTapes can be found online]].

* OneHitWonder: Technically, since "Criminal" was her only song to chart on the ''Billboard'' Hot 100.

* ReclusiveArtist / ShrinkingViolet: She's made it known that she prefers to stay at home, actively tries to shy away from the glitz and glamour.

* StageName: Averted. Her full name is Fiona Apple McAfee Maggart.

* WiseBeyondTheirYears: Would You ever believe that she created an album as Brilliant and mature as ''Tidal'' at only eighteen?

* AwardBaitSong: A quite unorthodox one, [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z7nekCeeRyg Dull Tool]] was written for JuddApatow's This Is 40 and is therefore eligible for a 2012 Oscar-nomination.

--> "You're not real!!"

* ''When The Pawn...'' (1999) [[hottip:''Full Title:'': When the pawn hits the conflicts he thinks like a king / What he knows throws the blows when he goes to the fight / And he'll win the whole thing 'fore he enters the ring / There's no body to batter when your mind is your might / So when you go solo, you hold your own hand / And remember that depth is the greatest of heights / And if you know where you stand, then you know where to land / And if you fall it won't matter, cuz you'll know that you're right]]

* ''The Idler Wheel...'' (2012) [[hottip:''Full Title:'': The Idler Wheel Is Wiser Than the Driver of the Screw and Whipping Cords Will Serve You More Than Ropes Will Ever Do]]

* HeyItsThatGuy[=/=]RetroactiveRecognition: Yup, that's [[Film/TheHangover Zack Galifinakis]] messing around with Fiona in the "Not About Love" video.