Fiona Apple’s whitewashed face bobbed at the end of his arm. He started “Never Is a Promise” and walked back to sit with me at the table. The thing about Fiona is she fully commits. She’s not worried about sounding maudlin; she is always 100 percent inside of her emotions. Her songs can sometimes be a little tuneless as a result, weighed down by the heaviness of being Fiona Apple, but not this one. The melody moves with her emotions: low and limited when she’s pissed, climbing intervals with the release of her epiphany. Fiona would never do what you’re doing, I wanted to say to Joe, sitting at
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