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name: location: e-mail: age: connect:	Rhode Island Kate RI basilthehamster@hotmail.com 16 IF it wasn't for fiona i would not have been able to be myself. before i discovered her, i only listened to what my older brother listened to which was basically pop. and he HATED fiona! so when i first heard Criminal on the radio, i really liked it, but was afraid to ask him to leave the radio station on so i could hear it. i remember visiting my cousins in Michigan and going to Borders books. i went up to the music section and i saw TIDAL sitting there on the display case, ya know, where you could listen to it before you could buy it. i picked it up and read the review. it talked about how good each song was said which ones were the strangest. so i listened a bit to Shadowboxer and Carrion, and i wasn't sure if i liked it. i had never heard anything like it before. I wanted to buy it, but i was afraid that since i had only heard 2 or 3 songs that i wouldn't like it and regret buying it. my mo came up to me and said we were leaving soon and asked if i wanted to buy anything. i told her that i wanted this cd, but was unsure. she said don't' worry about it, and bought it for me anyway. when we went home, i listened to the first few songs over and over, but never really got to the end. then, since i figured that since nobody liked Fiona she wasn't' cool and so i put the cd away and didn't even think about it.
	Then, about a year and a half later, i was really bored and looked through my cds to see if there was anything good to listen to. i was sick of Jewel (the first cd i ever got) and i had practically worn out my spice girls cd (come on, i was like 12 when i got it!) and then i remembered Tidal. i sat down and listened to it start to finish. I was shocked! How could i have not been listening to this! how could i have not loved it from the beginning! It was not my favorite cd. i listened to it everyday. every week or so i'd have a different favorite song on it: one week it would be The Child Is Gone, the next it would be Shadowboxer, then Carrion. IT was amazing! then i got word that Fiona was coming out with another album! i was so psyched! but then i heard on the radio that it would have a 90 word title. i thought they said it had 90 words in total. hahaha, so i was a bit disappointed but i resolved to buy it anyway. I had only recently become an internet junkie, but still didn't go on much. but then i thought to look up some sites of Fiona. i found her official one, and started going there everyday. I found out the title of WTP and had it memorized before most people had ever even heard about it. To get myself psyched up about the WTP coming out, i listened to Tidal straight through every day. then i realized that i might not like WTP as much so i decided not to listen to Tidal again so i could listen to WTP and not compare it to Tidal. When i first bought WTP, the weekend after it hit the shelves, i was a bit disappointed in it. it was Nothing like Tidal! but then i listened to it some more and it grew on me. now i couldn't do without it! and by the time Tidal came out, i was a full blown Apple fan, obsessed to the core, if you'll pardon the pun. Now my love for fiona is stronger than ever. If it wasn't' for her, i never would have been able to come into myself and i never would have realized what bullshit the media is. i am so thankful for fiona because I also began to see how awful all the other pop music was! after i got into fiona, i stopped liking things because other people did. i stopped listening to pop music and watching MTV. I stopped caring what others thought of me. I stopped wearing makeup and started Dressing more casual and just not caring what anyone though. i tried to grow my hair long, but i ended up cutting it anyway. I don't' try to be like her, i just follow her advice: "go with yourself!"
name: location: e-mail: age: connect:	Setha RI yellophelo@hotmail.com 18 Fiona Apple is one of my favorite musicians and is definitely my favorite female musician (if I had to categorize it in that way....). The fact that she writes all of her own music and lyrics and the fact that the music is just so amazingly GOOD is really inspiring. To me, she paints pictures with her words and a certain story is visualized when i hear her songs. Pale September is my favorite love song of all time, and The Way Things Are is my favorite song off When The Pawn.... I hope she comes up with some new stuff soon, help get rid of a lot of the inane pop music that's reigning nowadays.