Music that made me – Fiona Apple “Pale September”

This world is bullshit. You know that, right? Oh and.. thanks for the gold moon dude.

Fiona Apple is one of my all time favorite singers and song writers. Her music and lyrics can be haunting and empowering in a matter of moments and she has a way of using description that has been long lost on popular music. When people think of Fiona, they imagine the ranting crazy white girl at the MTV VMA’S, but there is so much more to her than that. When listening to her music you can feel that she is deeply emotional, sensitive and wary of the world around her. Something I completely understood as a gay teenager in Bible country. When people tell you that, at times, they crave the misery of a deep depression, this is the music that inspires such lows.

That isn’t to say that she doesn’t have quite a bit of up beat and quick paced music. Some of her best songs are breathless, leaving little place to grasp for air as you find yourself singing along. For anyone who has ever felt lost and disconnected from the world around them, Fiona Apple is there with a song to push you through. This song, is one of my favorites and brings me to a vaguely safe, but unhappy place, long lost to my childhood.

No one wants to relive a war, but we often find ourselves draw to its images.

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