don’t recommend rewatching the “Criminal” video now. As you may recall, it’s just Fiona Apple—NYC native, piano prodigy, jazz aficionado, hip-hop fan, wounding singer-songwriter, and architect of the sweltering 1996 debut album Tidal—writhing and scowling and sulking and semi-flirting amid faceless, passed-out heroin-chic models. This isn’t a moral objection or anything. It’s just that nowadays the “Criminal” video plays like the Joker directing an Abercrombie & Fitch ad,
