Fiona Apple has never been one to follow the crowd, and her 1997 acceptance speech at the MTV Video Music Awards is a perfect example of that
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“What I want to say is, everybody out there that’s watching — everybody’s that watching this world — this world is bulls—t,” the singer-songwriter said, prompting sporadic cheers from the audience. “You shouldn’t model your life about what you think that we think is cool and what we’re wearing and what we’re saying and everything. Go with yourself. Go with yourself.”
Apple’s deviation from the norm didn’t go unpunished, both in 1997 and in the years to come. Rolling Stone listed the VMAs speech as one of Apple’s “Bad, Bad Girl Moments” — a play on lyrics from “Criminal” — in a 2012 article.
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