
Fast As You Can | Fiona Apple
“I kept thinking about why Fiona Apple scares people so much. And she does scare people - to the extent that she represents female fury and honesty about how much relationships can ruin you, and also actual mental illness, with her
allegedeating disorders and frequent disappearances and occasional interviews where she talks about being raped and not giving a shit what people think.If Fiona Apple were a man, her idiosyncrasies would be chalked up to her being unique, quirky, wild. She would be Tom Waits. Her strangeness would be part of the package, celebrated. But because she’s a woman she’s “unstable” and “depressed” and “crazy.” I’ve read articles that imply that men should watch out for Fiona, because she clearly hates men and sings about the bad things they do………Why is there such a fine line between angry and crazy for women?
When I was a teenage girl who didn’t understand why boys were so stupid all the time, why they treated me like shit, I empathized with Fiona singing oh darling it’s so
cutesweet you think you know how crazy how crazy I am, but that song (“Fast As You Can”) isn’t really about being crazy. It’s about being made to feel like you’re crazy because you’re pissed off.” (x)
I love this quote, but I struck through the ‘alleged’ because Fiona Apple’s been quite open about her eating disorder and the desire to be physically smaller/untouchable after her rape. It’s important not to erase that or her speech about it, and the word ‘alleged’ adds a slight connotation that this is just one more attempt by the media to make her seem crazy, when there really is nothing wrong with having had such a struggle. I think this depiction of the media’s reaction to FA is very true, but I want to add that being crazy and being made to feel crazy is sometimes coexistent, and that there’s nothing wrong with actual mental illness even if the stigma of it is used against women.
But now we’re listening to Fiona Apple on iTunes and all is good.
(via charmingpplincardigans)
Source: sickwithlackofbasis
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