Blog: THEME FOR GREAT CITIES

It's day two of my brand new obsession with Fiona Apple's The Idler Wheel... , and today the subject is song titles. Considering her verbose 23-word album title, Apple's new song titles are surprisingly concise. Six out of 10 are one word only, and not necessarily words we haven't heard before in song and movie titles : "Daredevil," "Valentine," "Werewolf," "Regret." Even her ode to a boy -- a specific boy, her real-life ex -- gets the long form of what must be the second-most common masculine name in the English language. (Though if [...]