When she said 🐬🐋🐬🐋 I felt that

everytime i listen to this i love it more. i love the lyrics "a sound is still a sound around no one" its a play on the "if a tree falls in the forest and no ones around, does it make a sound?" but my personal interpretation is that a lot of women are disregarded and seen as invisible but we're strong, intelligent, capable of anything regardless of if other people see it or acknowledge it :)

I can't wait for the next album from Fiona Apple coming out in 2029.

I like how long the "you..." is. It's like she's going to wait forever for him to love her.

Her voice is so raw, gentle, hard, beautiful and unique. She can go through every possible emotion in just one song. She's a creative genius! A timeless classic!

The album stars with “I’ve waited many years”. Yes, we have waited many years, Fiona

Apocalypse is a perfect time for rare birds like Fiona to stick their heads out. Brilliant album!

Fiona: "I want you to love me." Me: "Done."

Definitely sounds like she was classically trained, but with a unique individual twist. Hardly anyone else does compositions like this.

I love how she doesn't attend the Grammys or does not take part in social media. She is the freakin queen ❤️

BANG IT BITE IT BRUISE IT this album is made to be played live.

Her lyrics are as breathtaking as ever. When she sings "Blast the music / Bang it, bite it, bruise it / Whenever you want to begin, begin... " I felt that.

She defied her label to put this out now, when we need it. I love this woman!

Fiona's work has haunted me since childhood-- loved her work since Tidal. It's been amazing to watch her evolution as an artist. She's one of the few singers that I feel "gets it" when it comes to being a highly sensitive person in a bizarre and complex and magnificent world. And this song helped me to keep my focus on what was most important to me while under lock down-- my loved ones

Best song on the album. The intro, leading into the piano, then later going into the bridge, "bang it bite it bruise it". Love it.

You don't understand how happy I am because after 8 years, she is back and stronger than ever. So Lorde, please take more of your time.

I can't believe Fiona Apple invented piano

QUEEN OF MUSIC FINALLY IS BACK, 8 YEARS AND IT WAS WORTH IT, ALL THE LOVE FROM PERU AND SOUTH AMERICA

hey guys i’m new to fiona like literally two weeks i’ve been listening to her but i think i’ve found my new favourite artist

I love this whole stinkin' album. But this song keeps coming back to me. The whole point of everything, of humanity, of civilization and art and life really doesn't get any simpler or more perfectly expressed than this: I want you to love me. It's why we wake up in the morning and drink coffee instead of blowing our brains out. I want you to love me, and I want to love me, and I want you to love you. Thank you so much for this refreshing album Fiona. You breathed fresh life into a stillborn year.

I WANT YOU TO LOVE ME [Verse 1] I've waited many years Every print I left upon the track Has led me here But next year it'll be clear This was only leading me to that And by that time I hope that [Chorus 1] You love me You love me [Verse 2] I move with the trees in the breeze I know that time is elastic And I know when I go All my particles disband and disperse And I'll be back in the pulse [Verse 3] And I know none of this will matter in the long run But I know a sound is still a sound around no one And while I'm in this body I want somebody to want And I want what I want [Chorus 2] And I want you to love me You [Bridge] And I know that you do In the dark, I know that you do And I know that you know that you got The potential to pick me up And I want you to use it, blast the music Bang it, bite it, bruise it Whenever you want to begin, begin We don't have to go back to where we've been I am the woman who wants you to win And I've been waiting [Outro] Waiting for you to love me You You

This song is the primal truth of human existence.

“And I know none of this will matter in the long run But I know a sound is still a sound around no one. “ I’ve been toiling back and forth with my importance in this world and just the overall human experience (why am I here? Why should I get up today?) and when I heard this line I flipped out. That’s exactly it. It doesn’t matter but it happened! even if nobody sees, it happened. It’s always happening.

the whole song is a masterpiece but “i’ll be back in the PULSE” and the squeaky sounds at the end just GET me I LOVE IT

When I first listened to this song, I started to cry before I even began to comprehend the lyrics.

My new favorite Fiona Apple song! What a progression in her song writing. Her past lovesongs allways came with a warning label against being too attached to her cracyness and an ambivalens to love. But here she is belting out that she wants somebody to love her and she is loved in return. Powerfull transformation when you have listened to her music since the beginning. Fi Fi 4ever❤❤❤

when she made dolphin sounds at the end I lost it

I DIDN'T KNOW MUSIC COULD BE THIS GOOD

Her album should have been nominated in AOTY ksksks

"And I know none of this will matter in the long run, but I know a sound is still a sound around no one." A quarantine queen!!!

This song absolutely rips my heart open.

This album is a masterclass in composition. Wildly original timing. Voices that interlock and divide like a flock of birds. Super off kilter and unorthodox structures that are still somehow elegant. The quarky percussive found-sounds of Tom Waits meeting the surreal melodicism of Radiohead meeting the spontaneity and raw power of Nina Simone, meeting the lyrical precision of Bob Dylan or Joni Mitchell, meeting originality all her own. She's 42 and she's actually still getting better. A scary brilliant artist.

I'm in shock with this masterpiece. And I'm so glad to be one of the fortunate ones on earth that gets to appreciate Fiona's art

One of the very few voices I never grow tired of listening to.

This album just **Fetched** two grammy awards. One for Shameika and one for best alternative album. Congrats Fiona and well deserved👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

Feels like a punch in the gut a lump in the throat and a warm embrace from a dear friend all at the same time... ya know, the old familiar feeling she captures so well in her music, that good hurt... dammit it Fiona if only you knew how much we indefinitely do love you!

this song messes me up man, that piano is telling me that love and attention will never be assured for me and Fiona's voice just tears me down

Can we just talk about that sublime piano line and sound. And then those lyrics and vocals. It’s everything. And I have always loved major to minor transition keys 🤓 I am a muscian myself. I feel Patti Smith vibes, Mozart, the poetry of Jim Morrison, but absolutely uniquely Fiona. We are truly blessed.

"And next year, It'll be clear That this was only leading me to that" Happy 1st Birthday F.T.B.C.

I keep on listening to that second and third verse over and over again.. there's something so powerful in those words and the way she sings them.

Your voice and the piano are absolutely meant to be together ❤️

I can always count on the same artists to raise me up during crisis times. Bjork, Tori, PJ Harvey, Sufjan Stevens, and now Fiona is healing me right now amid our current problems. Thank You so much Fee!!!

"every print I left along the track has led me here, next year it will be clear that this was only leading me to that." I love that lyric for this moment!

This deserves a Nobel peace prize. It brings me so much joy/peace and can’t be the one

The lyrics here... when everyone we know is dead and gone she will be remembered for generations to come. When the dust settles, this album will be history.

I have to wake up in 5 hours for work but it was worth staying up to hear it. It's a perfect album.Thank you Fiona!

"Whenever you want to begin, begin, we don't have to go back to where we've been..." I wish i could get stuck in that part of the song forever.

My eyes closed, focusing on the rough emotion in her voice and piano just feels like being in HEAVEN oh my god

I've been listening to the live version of this since 2013 and now the studio version is finally here. Mind blowing.

I lost a platonic but soulmate like friend may of 2020. I knew him for only 2 months but we grew very close very fast, I had never had a friendship as delicious and understanding of each other. We joked about death and dying alot it was our morbid humor and our aching death wishes from the pains we didnt know how to heal that made our relating so parallel. We shared music and he sent me playlists of the music he had saved of music I turned him on to. Music was a big part of our Sharing and time together. Couple times when he show up he asked me if I had listen to Fiona's new album "heavy balloon reminds me of u".... We listened to cosmonauts and a few tracks. I didn't get to really listen to the album till after he was gone.... First time I heard this song it felt like it is was word for word a gift he wanted me to have.... The bounty of beauty he left trickled along the way for me after he was gone was art. Missing someone who I knew for what felt like just a moment held do much weight.... So much impact, so much depth, the kind you hope for in all potential relationships. I could go on all day about the magic of Patrick Day, and the cool coincidences that came along like meeting him in my favorite Park on St Patrick's Day, when I think about energy I want my life to feel like it's definitely a Patty laugh. I miss my friend but I just remember him and how he would respond to everything. I can shut my eyes and feel his air. I'm so thankful for the little bit I got. I move with the trees and the bees I know that time is elastic. And I know when I go all my particles to dispand and disperse and I be back in the pulse and I know none of this will matter in the long run, but I know a sound is still a sound around no one and while I'm in this body I want somebody to want and I want someone and I want you.....to love me. Loving you from here to there, P. Your friend, Shweila.

what passion in the voice, and the words so clear cut to the point. it's just raw emotion. truly beautiful.

The delivery of the lyrics in this song gives me constant goosebumps.

Anyone else been listening to this entire album on repeat every day since it came out?

I am in awe of you, thank you, and everybody who put work into this album to make it the masterpiece that it is

"And I know none of this will matter in the long run, but I know a sound is still a sound around no one." 🖤

I must say this entire album is gold. The story told through out and the sounds and transitions are just.... first time i was like "whaaat am i hearing" i only get excited when 2 artist have new music out and that's Radiohead and Fiona Apple. Love the album

This really could be the most amazing/ unique/ irritating:) /sensitive/ bizarre/ most need at this time/ lyrically and musically mind blowing album of the 21st century. Good God!

Album of the year period. A gift to get us through, every track is strong as usual with Fiona.

Fiona Apple and Joanna Newsom are what keep me alive “All my particles disband and disperse And I'll be back in the pulse And I know none of this, will matter in the long run But I know a sound, is still a sound around no one” HOLY CRAP ❤️😭

THIS is the Best song of the album♥️

I LOVE U FIONA YOU SAVED MY LIFE EVERYDAY

I adore this woman! I hope she sticks around for years to come. Her perspective is unparalleled.

The piano on this is absolutely divine.

Wow. I had a huge Regina Spektor flashback while listening to her piano and singing style. Love this!

How am I only learning of this new album now??? Thank you, Fiona - for coming back and sharing your soul with us (so much love)

Loving that Sextina Aquafina cameo at 3:42

I was afraid it wouldn’t live up to the live version, but it’s simply amazing She IS, after all... my all time favorite singer songwriter

I am about to take my first listen, bc I just found out that this exists. Every album Fiona has ever gifted us has been pure bliss. Expecting nothing less here, of course. She is a timeless genius. So very much looking forward to this new art!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

She is just too much. I think she is the best artist putting out music today. I mean the first 30 sec alone, I could never say enough.

Eight years sincie her last album. The timing of this couldn't be any better. We need more like Fiona Apple.

I am 17 years old and finding this song as i am finding myself is a gift ill always cherish . I cried while listening to this cause its just what i needed . Teen Drug addiction is real. I hope i find peace again

Thanks Fiona! You are a national treasure. Thank you for putting these out online on youtube; we are all going broke/bankrupt right now and this is like a national holiday/sonic parade from one of the best living artists that's keeping us all afloat right when we need it. It's a bad, bad, bad time and your artwork is really a bright, honest, meaningful an unforgettable contribution to this moment.

after 8 years, we finally have it. the perfect pitchfork 10/10. _The perfect Fiona Apple album._ edit: actually tbh all of her records are perfect

One of the most brilliant and powerful writers and artists to ever grace planet earth!!! 🌎 ❤️ Welcome back Fiona !!!! We have missed you!!!!

Fiona, your lyricisms hit harder, and burn brighter than any booze. Therapy for my calloused heart

The best album we've heard the last two years, at least! Passionate, original, soulful, melancholic yet uplifting, there's no words to describe what masterpiece this is. Brilliant is an understatement! Thank you very much.

THIS SONG IS A FUCKING EXPERIENCE. HOLY SHITTT.

I've been on a roll with her music eversince this album came out, and it's a brilliant album!, The energy and composition of the piano, instrumental, and energy of her voice hitting strongly with emotion, just magnificent

"Once more, with feeling" said no music teacher to her. Ever. Damn. A bolt to the spine.

I never knew an album would mean so much to me. Again, the best quarantine gift one could give. Fetch them bolt cutters.

I love how Sextina Aquafina is featured at the end of the song at 3:41... two amazingly talented women creating beautiful music!

Give this woman every award possible for this song sheesh

I can not express how much I love this. So damned raw and beautiful. Perfect.

Wow! I'm in tears listening to this album. Fiona, please no more long hiatus from music. I love you.

when I listened this for the first time I cried like a baby. thank you so much, Fiona. I love you.

Pitchfork gave it a rare on the spot 10/10 first one since MBDTF a decade ago holy cow.

she did it. god. she saved 2020.

it's as if with this she was saying goodbye to her last sound which we saw in the idle wheel and beginning a new era lol, after 8 damn years i love this

This album has just further cemented the fact that Fiona is truly one of the greatest artists of her generation.

this an absolute masterpiece

What an incredible album by a once in a lifetime artist. Welcome back Fiona. You're a Goddess . My life's soundtrack for almost 2 decades now. Love, love , love ❤🌺

You know how you love some albums so much that you hear the first few seconds and immediately get exhilarated? Already there with this one. A masterpiece for the ages.

When the chords and melody, lyric and delivery just tap that recess in your heart... I smile and shed tears in equal measure... Transcendent piece of music and I'm a better fella from hearing it... Thank you Fiona Apple x

I'm so glad she released more music. She's crazy talented. Grew up on her in my teen years back in the late 90's/ early 00' s. I love her lyrics and that voice....

Wow, do you guys understand how intricate the music is on Every Track she records. It probably takes forever to arrange all of that talent.

Quite possibly the most beautiful voice EVER!!

Fiona Apple has moxie, energy and that uniqueness which is so fabulous. She’s excellent!

First listen to this album wasn’t great, 2020 has ruined new music for me. Until recently I took a listen to it again after a few months and that’s when I realized how incredible this album is. The music world isn’t lying when they say this is the best album that’s come out of 2020. This is definitely the most addicting, I hope this wins a Grammy or two, it very much deserves one.

thank you. all of you have in some degree restored my faith in humanity at this trying time. keep it up.

Fiona guests on Bob Dylan's new album "Rough and rowdy Ways" --- a nice surprise! The album is being called a masterpiece by many critics; really glad Fiona is on it.