Fiona Apple's debut Tidal turns 30

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Fiona Apple’s debut album Tidal turns 30 on July 23, 1996, and fans are marking the milestone by revisiting singles such as “Shadowboxer” and breakout hit “Criminal.” Paste Magazine revisits the era around Tidal, recalling Apple’s infamous VMA acceptance-line, “This world is bullshit”, which she delivered at age nineteen when accepting the award for “Sleep to Dream.” Paste notes that Apple has largely retreated from the spotlight since, making very few public appearances, not touring in over a decade, and maintaining no personal social media accounts. The piece links Tidal’s songs to a deeper emotional range than their tidy press labels of “angry” or “sad,” citing lyrics from “Never Is A Promise” and Apple’s later retraction of a youthful anti-man comment. Paste also highlights Apple’s continued defiance of industry norms: when her fifth album Fetch the Bolt Cutters won two Grammys in 2021 she did not attend the ceremony and told The Guardian she had imagined smashing the award in protest. Fans’ posts and radio mentions around the anniversary emphasize how Tidal established Apple’s early voice and enduring reputation three decades on.

Pantsirang

@pantsawe.borasky.com

Today is the 30th birthday of one of the most perfect albums, and one of the ones that changed my life Happy Birthday Fiona Apple's Tidal 🎂 tidal.com/album/337715...

224h ago

JennyT⁷⁼¹ ⊙⊝⊜3

This album is a damn masterpiece. But 30 years?!?! What?!?!

sasha dysphoria3

No way it’s 30 years 😭

Truekook⁷ ⊙⊝⊜2

I believe you transposed some numbers because ain't no way😭

zjo2

truly an all-time great album

Chace Verity2

Wonder if this is gonna break me listening to it now that I understand how very young she was when this was released 🥹🥹🥹

Albumism

@albumism.com

Fiona Apple released her debut album ‘Tidal’ 30 years ago on July 23, 1996 album.ink/FAppleTidal

173h ago

Rebecca Colesworthy

@rcolesworthy.bsky.social

Instagram told me today is the 30th anniversary of the release of Fiona Apple’s Tidal and seriously the way this CD *lived* in my 5 disc changer my freshman year of college (along with Heather Nova under it naturally)

The cover of Tidal in a CD case I’ve had for approximately one million years, right above Heather Nova’s Oyster from 1994

234h ago

Amanda Katz1

Oh man I loved that Heather Nova album. Haven’t thought about it in years

Rachel Banner1

Heather Nova! I still get some of her songs stuck in my head

Laura Norton-Cruz, LMSW, CLC1

The way that album lives still in my brain after listening to it so much in high school…

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@wertheimer.bsky.social

30 yrs ago Tidal Fiona Apple 23 Jul 1996 #MusicSky🎵

1319h ago

Fiona Apple Updates

@fionaedits.bsky.social

30 years ago, on July 23, 1996, Fiona Apple released her debut album, ‘Tidal’, officially marking the beginning of her professional career! Thank you for 30 years of incredible music, Fiona 🩵

514h ago

Lechatcestmoi

@thierrychanu.bsky.social

30 ans ce jour pour cette marée à la beauté puissante et dépouillée Fiona Apple - "Tidal" (1996)

621h ago

Kim McCauley

@kimischilling.bsky.social

When The Pawn... is my favorite Fiona Apple album by a lot though, and comfortably in my personal top 10 favs

64h ago

Nate 'The Late' Carney

@inapproprinate.bsky.social

This Day in Music History Jul 23 Born 1944 - Dino Danelli (The Rascals) Died 2011 - Amy Winehouse 1966 Frank Sinatra went to #1 on the US album chart with "Strangers In The Night" 1976 - Wings released the single 'Let 'em In' And in 1996, Fiona Apple released her debut album "Tidal"!

318h ago

Arterial Z

@arterialz.bsky.social

Our introduction to one of the most authentic artists of the #90s The hits Sleep to Dream, Criminal and Shadowboxer landed on grunge radio with such muscular production, and percussive weights, carrying her lyrics into your bones. Plus, this lovely ballad with a single take video Fiona Apple

33h ago

Sarah Sunfire

@sarahsunfire.bsky.social

Fiona Apple's Tidal is a foreverincredible album and I DID NOT NEED TO BE REMINDED THAT IT CAME OUT 30 YEARS AGO no like I really didn't

33h ago

tara 🪻

@magnolia2010.bsky.social

as always when we talk about this record: another plug for the album revisit episode of @digmeoutpodcast.com. hearing the technical analysis of the music made me love it even more. www.digmeoutpodcast.com/p/fiona-appl...

34h ago

KrookedKeys.bsky.social VR

@krookedkeys.bsky.social

Happy 30th anniversary to Fiona Apple’s debut album 💿 Tidal #music

24h ago

Jamie Roxx Artist

@jamieroxxartist.bsky.social

👉 Today in Pop Culture History: July 23, 1996 #FionaApple, 18, releases her debut album Tidal, featuring #Shadowboxer and #Criminal. It sells over 3 million copies (I was one of them) in America.

218h ago

Paul Barrett

@art-curator.bsky.social

"...it’s easier to just let people believe what they assume about you than to try to explain all that’s beneath it." www.pastemagazine.com/music/fiona-...

14h ago

praying mantis

@gentlem.bsky.social

www.youtube.com/watch?v=FFOz... OTD 30 yrs ago, #FionaApple released her debut album, Tidal.

110h ago

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