Tidal album9/20/2023 The singer’s flourishes on Tidal can be heard in the cinematic arrangements from Florence and the Machine, in Lana Del Rey’s syrupy, alto vocals, and particularly, in the frank songwriting of the current generation of female indie-rockers. While some influences are more overt than others, at times it’s the subtleties of her art that have permeated. From Billie Eilish to Lizzo, raw, artistic expression has become an industry standard that’s celebrated instead of being criticized. Indeed, Apple and her inaugural work can largely be credited with influencing her contemporaries’ art over the years. More than ever, individualism and candor are celebrated within the pop music industry. The “sit down and shut up” attitude that once encumbered Apple has dissipated. Her message, while decried then, is more prescient now. And you shouldn’t model your life around what we think is cool, and what we’re wearing and we’re saying and everything. To the public, an acceptance speech for Best New Artist at the 2007 MTV Video Music Awards fueled her “reputation.” Apple went off-script and took aim at the pop machine: “Everybody out there that’s watching this world: this world is bullshit. Instead of being lauded as an artistic genius, she was seen as a “diva” and a “bad, bad girl.” And its video? That would ignite chaos due to Apple’s “heroin chic” look and near-nudity.īut those who simply wrote Apple off because of surface-level judgments didn’t grasp the weight of “Criminal” or Tidal - and she simply didn’t care to make anyone comfortable with her work. And for the past 25 years, one song has remained its centerpiece: “Criminal.” Penned in just 45 minutes, “Criminal” - a self-loathing song about using sex for power - would not only be Apple’s highest-charting single, but endure as her biggest hit of all time. Upon its release, Tidal was met with glowing reviews. “I’m so sensitive - meaning I feel things very intensely - that when things happen to me, they happen through me, and in me,” Apple explained to Billboard in 1996. Like Alanis Morrisette, Shirley Manson and Liz Phair, Apple was radically honest about sexuality and power dynamics, but they were the few in the mainstream who dared to be so outspoken, rebellious, provocative and unapologetically angry at the world. Before Tidal’s release, the commercial successes of artists like Sheryl Crow and Tori Amos helped make room for the possibility of more women on rock radio, but it was Apple, then 18, who upended the whole enterprise. In the summer of 1996, the music industry was largely dominated by a sea of male artists. Twenty-five years later, Apple remains an incomparable force that has long challenged the landscape and status quo, forging a path for female singer-songwriters in the years since. The album was a dynamic, post-genre masterpiece - blending everything from jazz and alt-rock to pop - and established Apple as a brutally honest and necessary voice in music. When Fiona Apple released her debut album Tidal on this day in 1996, you could say it gave the music industry whiplash.
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