FREE FIONA APPLE!!!! (Sony/Epic Withholding her album...)

[GardenStateGirlie]

Petition Seeks to Free Fiona Apple Album

Wed Dec 22, 3:17 PM ET Entertainment - AP


By BRUNO J. NAVARRO, Associated Press Writer

NEW YORK - Fiona Apple (news) fans wondering when the artist's third CD would see the light of day might want to keep an eye on one enthusiast's online petition.

Dave Muscato, a Missouri musician and Apple afficionado, founded the Web site www.freefiona.com last month in an effort to pressure her record label to release "Extraordinary Machine." Apple's follow-up to "Tidal" and "When the Pawn ..." reportedly has been finished since May 2003.

"They didn't think it had enough commercial appeal to justify the cost of promoting it and distributing it," Muscato recently told AP Radio. "So even though it was already recorded, they'd already spent the money to record it, they basically decided to just cut their losses and stick it on a shelf."


A message left at Epic Records, Apple's label, was not immediately returned Monday.


For every signature on Muscato's petition, the Free Fiona! campaign plans to send a fake apple to Andrew Lack, the CEO of parent company Sony BMG, "as a symbol of protest and support for Fiona Apple," he said. A demonstration outside Sony headquarters in New York is also planned on Jan. 28.


As of Monday, the Web site has gathered more than 2,600 signatures. It also raised nearly $1,000 from donations and sales of T-shirts and bumper stickers, Muscato said.


"It's really taken off faster than I thought," he said.


Muscato, 20, says he had heard a couple of tracks from the unreleased album that were leaked on the Internet, so he's not worried he's going through all this trouble for an album that might not be worth it.


"Even if it's no good, which I'm sure isn't the case, I would at least like to buy it and decide that for myself," he said.


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On the Web:


Free Fiona!, http://www.freefiona.com/


Fiona Apple, http://www.fiona-apple.com/


Epic Records, http://www.epicrecords.com/
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This makes me irate. This girl has won grammy awards and is an amazing pianist and songwriter. Let me be the one to decide if the songs are horrendous. Hopefully she'll be able to find another outlet for her album a la Liz Phair but if it hasn't been released yet and was finished in 2003, I wonder if she's truly waiting for the label?

[amber]

thanks, GSG. I, too, enjoy Fiona - I love her voice. She is very talented. The label sucks, obviously.

[skcin]

"When the Pawn..." is an incredible album! I was not a big fan of hers, but after I heard her second CD - WOW! The girl's got talent!

BTW, Amber, great pics of Nonna - Grandma, I assume?

[amber]

Originally Posted by skcin

"When the Pawn..." is an incredible album! I was not a big fan of hers, but after I heard her second CD - WOW! The girl's got talent!

BTW, Amber, great pics of Nonna - Grandma, I assume?

yeah. that's my nonna. I can't see her at Christmas really, cause my mom divorced her a couple years back.

[gldstwmn]

Originally Posted by amber

yeah. that's my nonna. I can't see her at Christmas really, cause my mom divorced her a couple years back.

She looks to be about the same age as my mother. The pictures are great. She is beautiful. The clothes from that period in time were incredible.

[DeadliestPoison]

Well I signed. I loves me some Fiona. Mmm, angst.

[amber]

Originally Posted by gldstwmn

She looks to be about the same age as my mother. The pictures are great. She is beautiful. The clothes from that period in time were incredible.

thank you. yeah, it must be one of those days when beautiful people are born.

[GODDESS6]

Originally Posted by amber

yeah. that's my nonna. I can't see her at Christmas really, cause my mom divorced her a couple years back.

nonna is a hottie!!!~ i have a pic of my sweet dearly passed on granny @ the pool, it had 2 b in the 1930's & she was wearing a bikini, i say "whoot" !!!~ my granny & your nanna looka alot alike~

[amber]

Originally Posted by GODDESS6

nonna is a hottie!!!~ i have a pic of my sweet dearly passed on granny @ the pool, it had 2 b in the 1930's & she was wearing a bikini, i say "whoot" !!!~ my granny & your nanna looka alot alike~

cool! yeah, i have a pic of my grandma in a bikini with Lake Michigan in the backround. decided not to post that one.

[gldstwmn]

Originally Posted by amber

thank you. yeah, it must be one of those days when beautiful people are born.

Well, in the second photo I see a remarkable resemblance to the photos I have seen of you.

[amber]

Originally Posted by gldstwmn

Well, in the second photo I see a remarkable resemblance to the photos I have seen of you.

that's sweet. I suspect i have her lips, don't have mom or dads.

[hayley]

It's slightly more complicated than them just not liking the album... but only slightly.

I probably committed corporate treason when I signed that petition the other day. Yay!

[dreamongypsydkm]

I signed this six months ago. There's no hope for this album. Fiona is back in hiding, she's not even trying to get it out there. 2,000 signatures won't change that.

[Janet]

What happened.

That girl is my soul mate. She is exactly my age and writes music that comes right from my head sometimes. AMAZING.

I wish she would just get over herself and put an album out GOD. She is 27 now, the worst of the horrible 20's are almost over. ( 30 DOES get better right?)

[strandinthewind]

She is an AMAZING talent - she is however a little bitter and angry and seems to be that way always - isn't that what Stevie said about her - that was had a lot of anger. I hope that does not consume her in the end because I think her art is ver very good