This article is chalked full of cool references. Here is the interview that made Fiona cry:
"No. What did she say? This is really going to make me upset, because I really like Janeane Garofalo, and I knew that she hated me....That girl was at the MTV awards and she was giving me a really weird vibe and really avoiding me." I play her the track, titled "A Reading From the Book of Apple." It begins by perfectly echoing Apple's MTV speech, then it heads off: You shouldn't model your life about what you think that we think is cool.... Even though I have an eating disorder and I have somehow sold out to the patriarchy in this culture that says that lean is better. Even though I have done that, and have done a video wherein I wear underwear so that you young girls out there can covet, and feel bad about what you have and how thin you're not. The point is, I have done it, I am lean. That's why I did succeed sooner than maybe other musicians that maybe were better songwriters....I don't know...better lyricists...better vocalists...I can't say that. But I do know this: This world is bullsh-...did I say this world is bullshit? 'Cause it is. And my boyfriend can make you disappear. He can pull something out of your ear and say things like, "We have not met before, have we?" Go with yourself. To begin with, after I click off the tape recorder, Apple is composed: "She is absolutely right, about the video and what it says to girls, but she's looking at my message at the beginning, and she's not waiting for the end. Because..." It's then she cracks. Big tears dollop down her face. I feel awful, fetch tissues. She begins talking some more. "Since that video was made, I've gained about 20 pounds on purpose..." -- Fiona says she is currently 110 pounds, and has varied between 95 and 125 pounds -- "so that people can see me like that. I know what I'm doing. Bitch. I'm going to get bigger and bigger, and the girls are going to see that I don't care and that I feel better like that. Of course I have an eating disorder. Every girl in fucking America has an eating disorder. Janeane Garofalo has an eating disorder and that's why she's upset. Every girl has an eating disorder because of videos like that. Exactly. Yes. But that's exactly what the video is about. When I say, 'I've been a bad bad girl, I've been careless with a delicate man' -- well, in a way I've been careless with a delicate audience, and I've gotten success that way, and I've lived in my ego that way, and I feel bad about it. And that's what the song's about, and therefore, that's what the video looks like." What a dick. I posted the video of Lennon and Dylan in the cab worth checking out I don't really give a shit about Fiona and PT's relationship but it was fun following the links in this one.In my hotel room in Las Vegas, I ask her whether she has heard this Janeane Garofalo sketch from Denis Leary's new album, Lock 'N Load.