Tag: Blake Mills

Fiona Apple isn’t interested in how anyone thinks she looks.  I know because when I found myself back on my alma mater’s campus at Zellerbach Hall earlier this evening, she said she was on “the tip of ‘don’t fuck with people for how they look.'”  Whether this is because she recently asked security to remove an audience member in Portland for heckling her appearance, or because she’s heard controversy over her waif-like physique since her “Criminal” video circa 1996, I don’t know.  What I do know, though, is that none of that matters much to me.  I didn’t go out this evening to gawk at a skinny woman, nor to speculate on why she’s thin.  I went to hear her sing, because she’s a strange, dark little songbird that sings a haunted melody, and I wanted to experience it live.  I didn’t know of Blake Mills, with whom Apple shared the stage, but I liked that they chose to call this tour “Anything We Want” after her song of the same name, and I went ready to see just what it was they wanted. Continue reading “Show Review: Fiona Apple and Blake Mills at UC Berkeley’s Zellerbach Hall, 10/8/2013”