Last Friday, Fiona Apple wrote a heartbreaking handwritten letter addressed to "a few thousand friends I have not met yet," and announced that she is postponing the South American leg of her tour due to the ill-health of her beloved pit bull, Janet — a 13-year-old rescue dog suffering from Addison's disease and a tumor on her chest. To read the words Fiona Apple kindly shared personally with her fans is a very powerful and privileged thing. For any true animal lover, this news is devastating and our hearts go out to Fiona and her sweet [...]
Did You Hear? :: Fiona Apple posted a lengthy, hand-written letter explaining she is postponing upcoming tour dates to be with Janet, her dying dog. "She's my best friend...and she's the one who taught me what love is...She doesn't even want to go for walks anymore... So I am staying home, and I am listening to her snore and wheeze, and reveling in the swampiest, most awful breath that ever emanated from an angel." [ Pitchfork ] :: Producer/songwriter Salaam Remi ( [...]

Fiona Apple has announced the cancellation of her forthcoming South American tour to look after her dog, who is in ill health. Yep, you read that correctly. The singer revealed the news in a handwritten open letter, in which she wrote: "I have a dog Janet, and she's been ill for almost two years now, as a tumor has been idling in her chest, growing ever so slowly... She's my best friend and my mother and my daughter, and my benefactor, and she's the one who taught [...]

News just in that Fiona Apple will postpone her Idler Wheel tour because her dog is allegedly dying. Therefore, Fiona Apple will not be doing her South American leg of the tour. In a hand written letter posted on Facebook ( click here ), Apple explained her situation. Related articles Fiona Apple Cancels South American Tour to Be With Her Dying Dog (rollingstone.com) Fiona Apple postpones tour to be with dying dog (miamiherald.com) Fiona [...]
Fiona Apple se une a la lista de artistas que han dejado con las ganas a Latinoamérica, la cantante ha anunciado mediante su cuenta de Facebook que su gira por estas tierras ha sido cancelada debido a la enfermedad de su mascota, Janet, una perrita con la que ha vivido durante 14 años.

The FIONA APPLE writes an open letter cancelling tour dates. Whilst at it she almost quotes some of the ALANIS lyrics and asks for blessings for her dying dog Janet .. She's my best friend and my mother and my daughter, and my benefactor, and she's the one who taught me what love is. You can read the letter here , which is informal and random and still manages to shit over most of the lyrics in the current UK top ten.

Janet is her dog and she surely deserves the four page handwritten letter that Apple posted on Facebook. I understand. Fiona, would Janet like to come playdate with Future (my furry best friend) and we can talk about making out with our dogs, and how it's not really making out, it's more like face wash—sometimes her tongue gets so far up my nose it's like she's licking my brain clean—and how nice it is when we cuddle in the morning? We can speak in puppy language, a high pitched foreign string of syllables connected by vowels round [...]

La cantante estadounidense Fiona Apple canceló repentinamente su visita a América Latina porque su mascota y compañera desde hace 14 años, Janet , padece un tumor en el pecho y la enfermedad de Addison y teme que al irse de gira una vez más pueda morir en su ausencia. Apple comunicó su decisión a través de una carta de cuatro carillas -de su puño y letra- que fue escaneada en su fanpage en el día de hoy: "Son [...]

Fiona Apple took to her Facebook page to announce that her forthcoming tour won't be going ahead. The announcement was made via an open letter, which explains the reasons behind her decision: "I have a dog Janet, and she's been ill for almost two years now, as a tumor has been idling in her chest, growing ever so slowly... She's my best friend and my mother and my daughter, and my benefactor, and she's the one who taught me what love [...]

Quem se preparava para ver uma das três apresentações que Fiona Apple faria no Brasil, vai ter que mudar os planos. A cantora anunciou em sua página oficial no Facebook que não virá mais para a América do Sul. O motivo: Janet, a pitbull de estimação de Fiona está com câncer, e a cantora notou que o animal sempre piora quando ela viaja em turnê. A explicação veio por meio de uma carta de quatro páginas escrita à mão por Fiona. Ela relata desde como adotou Janet, a relação de mãe e filha com [...]

Fiona Apple posted to Facebook today to announce the cancellation of some upcoming tour dates. While this kind of news is often nothing more than an annoyance to fans, we're pretty sure they'll understand. It's clear that Fiona isn't taking this decision lightly, but there's something more important to her right now, and she wrote a letter (by hand) to let her fans know what was going on. Read it below, and see the handwritten copy here . It's 6pm on Friday,and I'm writing to a few thousand friends I have not met yet. I am [...]

Read Apple's heartfelt letter.

Fiona Apple has canceled her upcoming tour in South America so that she can be with her ailing dog, Janet. Apple announced the news in a heart-breaking letter posted on Facebook : I have a dog Janet, and she's been ill for almost two years now, as a tumor has been idling in her chest, growing ever so slowly. She's almost 14 years old now. I got her when she was 4 months old. I was 21 then, an adult officially - and she was my child... Janet has been the most [...]

Fiona Apple has canceled her upcoming tour in South America so that she can be with her ailing dog, Janet. Apple announced the news in a heart-breaking letter posted on Facebook : I have a dog Janet, and she's been ill for almost two years now, as a tumor has been idling in her chest, growing ever so slowly. She's almost 14 years old now. I got her when she was 4 months old. I was 21 then, an adult officially - and she was my child... Janet has been the most [...]

Fiona Apple's The Idler Wheel , is one of the best albums of the year. It was abrasive, in your face music, comprised of songs about the sorrows of love, the lack of empathy and the terrifying monsters that live within us. "Look at! Look at! Look at! Look at me!" she screams on one of my favorite tracks, Daredevil . This demand for attention succeeds. "Dull Tool" is a track that Fiona Apple recorded for Judd Apatow's new movie "This is Forty." It is full of pounding drums, mexican guitar and staccato violin. It has all [...]

Cut from this year's standout LP The Idler Wheel ... is this more-than-solid extra "Dull Tool." Full of Apple-esque booming virtuosity, subtle string arrangements and her usual stark realism, it's exactly what you want (or expect) with the 35-year-old singer-songwriter. Check it out below.
"Dull Tool," which sounds like a needless victim of from The Idler Wheel Is Wiser Than the Driver of the Screw and Whipping Cords Will Serve You More Than Ropes Will Ever Do cutting room, is Fiona Apple's booming, almost savage contribution to the soundtrack of Judd Apatow's "sort-of sequel" to Knocked Up , This Is 40 . Listen below: The This Is 40 soundtrack is out at a Starbucks near you on December 11th. [...]

This Is 40 soundtrack contribution.
Fiona Apple ha estado muy activa este año con el lanzamiento de su nueva y magnífica producción, The Idler Wheel... , y su subsecuente gira promocional, no exenta de problemas ; sin embargo, también se ha dado tiempo para algunas colaboraciones, como la que realizó para la cinta This is 40 , dirigida por Judd Apatow y que se estrenará a finales de este año. La cantante contribuyó al soundtrack del largometraje con una canción llamada "Dull Tool" , que se filtró este fin de semana en adelanto al [...]

Just when you thought Fiona Apple is going to slip into another one of her long hiatuses, she drops one more track. This one is called "Dull Tool" and is from the soundtrack for This Is 40 . Click below to listen to the song. Filed under: Beats , Clip , Yankee Panky Tagged: album , dull tool , fiona apple , new , single