"'Women are really good at seeming like they're okay when
they're not okay.'
| Supermodel Delavine: How 'Masseduction' and 'Bolt' Took Ex St. Vincent and Fiona 'Folderol' Apple Two Tangos, 'Giant,' Permanently Closed Prada, and Strange Marfa Lights to Two-Time Two Album Credits To-Go |
Apple-Ex Louis C.K. 'Got Off' On Victim Discomfort |
"'Women are really good at seeming like they're okay when
they're not okay.'
And that's true, but don't you f***ing act like their discomfort and not-okay-ness wasn't exactly what got you off."
Fiona Apple Fetch the Bolt Cutters
Even more of a treat is that title track, background vocals attribute Cara Delevingne.
(According to a New Yorker profile, Delevingne's contributions include a "kooky 'meow.'")
Apple, who's been practicing social distancing since long before it was a government mandate, also credits her five dogs named Mercy, Maddie, Leo, Little, and Alfie for "Fetch the Bolt Cutters."
"Fetch the bolt cutters, I've been in here too long," the chorus goes, before sneaking in a Kate Bush reference
("I grew up in the shoes they told me I could fill / Shoes that were not made for running up that hill")
and giving way for the dogs to let out their backing barks, collar jangles, and thrashing.
It's an unintentional quarantine anthem inspired by a line uttered by Gillian Anderson's character in the crime drama series, The Fall.
- The Polysexual
- Mass-Seductions
- of
- Supermodel
- Delavine
- Two-Timing
- to
- Tango
- ex
- St. Vincent
- and
- Mystery Muse
- Fiona Apple
- Maybe
- Strange
- Marfa Lights,
- Giant Location,
- Prada Store Installation
- Inspire
- Masseduction
- Bolt
- for
- Texas Style
- Best
- Buddy
- Twosome
- But Background Vocalizing
- Totals Two Album Credits
- To-Go
Delevingne—how do she and Apple know each other in the first place, and where did they get the idea to add the supermodel's vocals to the musician's album?
Their web traces back to 2017, when Apple and St. Vincent performed together at the Trans-Pecos Festival in Marfa, Texas.
Annie Clark aka, St. Vincent joined Apple for an impromptu set, singing Apple's "Pale September."
Also a duet of Cyndi Lauper's "Money Changes Everything."
At the time of the performance, St. Vincent had yet to release her fifth studio album, Masseduction.
The album dropped about a week and a half afterwards after Clark broke up with former girlfriend, Delevingne.
Vulture published an interview with Fiona Apple that dug into some of the personal experiences that inspired her new album, Fetch the Bolt Cutters.
Among those inspirations are her struggle with mental health, trauma she experienced in her adolescence, and her relationship to some of her exes.
She has been romantically involved with director Paul Thomas Anderson, author Jonathan Ames, and photographer Lionel Deluy.
She maintains close friendships with several of her exes–even the ones with whom she has fraught history.
Fiona Apple Says Her Ex Louis C.K. "Got Off" on His Victims' Discomfort
But it seems that's not the case with disgraced stand-up comedian Louis C.K.
Apple and C.K.'s relationship was brief, but she still praises his intellect, saying,
"I know he's got such a great brain."
For her though, that only magnifies his failure to take responsibility for his crimes. After his history of sexual assault came to light in 2017, she even reached out to him, urging him to "dig deeper," to acknowledge the hurt he had caused, and explain his motivations, but she ultimately found his response to the situation lacking.
"He understands why he did that sh**.
I feel robbed that he's not giving us what he thinks about that."
Apple is seemingly open to the idea of forgiving C.K. for the trauma that he caused several women who admired him–by exposing himself and pleasuring himself in close confines that made them feel trapped while using their bare-minimum consent as a sort of shield.
Apple describes herself as "a very forgiving person" but says that she "cannot forgive someone who cannot acknowledge what needs to be forgiven."
She argues not only that "he didn't apologize," but that his failure to properly acknowledge his crimes nullifies the apparent honesty that made his comedy so compelling, saying in an interview with The New Yorker last month that the appearance of serious introspection and openness in his work was "like a smoke-screen," and if he's unwilling to more harshly scrutinize and disclose the nature of his sexual compulsions, then "he's useless."
Apple also called out some of the material from his new special, ironically titled, Sincerely Louis C.K., saying, that tired joke of, 'Hey, how's everybody's 2020? Did everybody have a great year?'
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The one thing I will say about that situation is that the women he harassed continue to be harassed by his little bros.
By the little Louis bros. F*** you, Louis bros. And f*** him for not even just acknowledging that."
