What Is It?
The music video / song Criminal by the American musician Fiona Apple from her 1996 music album Tidal:
Here is how Wikipedia describes this song / music video:
“Criminal” is a song by American recording artist Fiona Apple, the third single from her debut studio album, Tidal.
The single was shipped to radio on June 2, 1997, and was physically released in September.
Apple has stated that the song is about “feeling bad for getting something so easily by using your sexuality”.[3]
Apple’s highest-charting single, it peaked at No. 21 on the Billboard Hot 100 (her only entry to date), as well as No. 4 on the Billboard Modern Rock Tracks.
The song won the Grammy Award for Best Female Rock Vocal Performance at the 40th Grammy Awards and was nominated for Best Rock Song.
“Criminal” was listed at No. 55 on VH1’s “100 Greatest Songs of the ’90s”,[4] and No. 71 on Blender magazine’s 2005 list of “The 500 Greatest Songs Since You Were Born”.[3]
Music Video
The song’s music video was directed by Mark Romanek in May 1997 with cinematography by Harris Savides.
It was released a month later in June 1997.
Visual enhancements including the retroreflector in Fiona’s eyes and additional lighting vignettes were created by visualist Ash Beck.
The video features Apple sulking in various states of undress, and The New Yorker described her as “looking like an underfed Calvin Klein model”,[5] known as the “heroin chic” look.
It explores themes of voyeurism and adolescence.[6]
In 1998, the video won an MTV Video Music Award for Best Cinematography.
The video was featured in the 1997 MTV special “Beavis and Butt-Head Do Thanksgiving”.[7]
Up until Beavis and Butt-Head’s revival in 2011, it was the last to be critiqued by the duo, along with Marilyn Manson’s “Long Hard Road Out of Hell” video, which was also featured in the special.[7]
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I’ve been a bad bad girl
I’ve been careless
With a delicate man
And it’s a sad sad world
When a girl will break a boy
Just because she can
Don’t you tell me to deny it
I’ve done wrong and
I want to
Suffer for my sins
I’ve come to you
‘Cause I need
Guidance to be true
And I just don’t know
Where I can begin
What I need is
A good defense
‘Cause I’m feelin’
Like a criminal
And I need
To be redeemed
To the one
I’ve sinned against
Because he’s all
I ever knew of love#FionaApple #Criminal #OfficialMusicVideo #HD #Remastered
Music
SONG: Criminal
ARTIST: Fiona Apple
WRITERS: Fiona Apple
ALBUM: Tidal