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1/19/2017

Fiona Apple Releases Song Protesting Trump with . . . An Amusing Title

Filed under: General — Patterico @ 11:30 am



These silly protestor types crack me up.

Fiona Apple is gearing up for Saturday’s Women’s March on Washington with a new song, titled “Tiny Hands.”

The singer-songwriter teamed up with composer Michael Whalen to create the minute-long track, which Apple recorded on her phone and released Tuesday. The song, which references Donald Trump, is meant to serve as a chant for protesters speaking out against the President-elect, whose inauguration takes place Friday in Washington, D.C.

Sampling Trump’s own words from the Access Hollywood tape in which Trump made vulgar comments about women, Apple sings, “We don’t want your tiny hands, anywhere near our underpants.”

Here’s the song. It’s . . . not good. Pretty much what you would expect, though.

Hahahahaha.

I don’t care for Donald Trump or the leftists who are protesting him, so watching the two sides get upset at one another is pretty much a joyous event. (When the protestors threaten performers or plan to set off stink bombs, my distaste for Trump gets put aside and I take sides against the protestors, as all Americans should.) I find Fiona Apple’s song silly — except that I know how much it will upset Trump (given how insecure he is, especially about his tiny, tiny hands) and that’s sillier still. So I have to laugh.

There is a serious point to be made, though: as long as this sort of “art” (if you want to call it that) poking fun at our leaders is possible, without retribution from the government, we’re going to be OK.

I recently re-watched the movie “V for Vendetta.” (Minor spoiler alert if you have not seen it and want to.) It’s a story about fighting fascism and governmental evil. It’s based on a graphic novel written about Thatcherite Britain (which shows you how utterly overdramatic the left can be) but its storyline — about a government that creates its own terror attacks and finds a group to scapegoat for them, as part of its program of seizing absolute totalitarian power — arguably applies to Vladimir Putin’s regime.

In one memorable scene, a popular television personality decides to throw the government-approved script out the window and write an episode that brutally mocks the dictator. He thinks that he’ll get a slap on the wrist, but instead he is dragged away by thugs, never to be seen again.

Putin’s regime would likely not tolerate this sort of satire against the Great Leader without some revenge.

But making fun of the “leader” is still allowed in this country. That’s a good thing, and we should appreciate it and fight for it — because it doesn’t have to be that way.

[Cross-posted at RedState.]

19 Responses to “Fiona Apple Releases Song Protesting Trump with . . . An Amusing Title”

  1. there is no such thing as fiona apple

    happyfeet (28a91b)

  2. yes, that film was not a credit to ms. portman’s judgement,

    narciso (d1f714)

  3. Making fun of American Presidents in perfectly safe, the worst that happens is it’s Obama and an SJW Twitter mob wants your job.

    It annoys me when progressives who make fun of Presidents are called “brave”. Actually, it’s brave for middle class people to make fun of Presidents approved by progressives.

    Gabriel Hanna (64d4e1)

  4. If he goin’nah
    Throw fiona a bonah
    Or call her on teh phone-ah
    Would that make her moanah?
    Or put her in a zone-ah
    Just leave it alone-ah
    Apples easy to clone-ah

    Colonel Haiku (603887)

  5. LOL, colonel.

    felipe (b5e0f4)

  6. Thx, felipe. She actually had a song years ago that I thought was pretty good, though I can’t recall the tune, I’d recognize it if I heard it again. Per my recollection, I think she was a recovering victim of a rape.

    Colonel Haiku (603887)

  7. The whole tiny hands/little Marco exchange was the depth of stupidity during the primary debates, but isn’t it ironic that it is being used by the sort of feminists who regularly throw conniption fits when the size of Hillary Clinton’s rear end is alluded to?

    JVW (6e49ce)

  8. JVW throwdown… fiona apple vs. alanis morrisette “ironic” vs. “tiny hands”

    Which one would make you reach for a gun the quickest?

    Colonel Haiku (603887)

  9. Alanis was just weird, Fiona actually had some weird video in the late 90s where she was a full-on heroin chic writhing on the ground with other heroin addicts. I’ll pick Meg Myers for a less grimy version of that genre.

    urbanleftbehind (5eecdb)

  10. Fiona Apple looks strung out these days.

    Cruz Supporter (102c9a)

  11. Short in the leg and broad in the beam, when it comes to Hillary’s outsized rear end, it’s the appropriate use of harpoons that comes most quickly to mind.

    ropelight (82fc11)

  12. If this entertainment industry idiocy keeps up (which I have every confidence it will) I am soon going to have LOTS of money saved up from not going to certain movies, plays and concerts. Lots. There may be a National Geo small ship trip to the Arctic in my future much sooner than I had thought. Thanks, Hilary!

    elissa (909106)

  13. Also, I am thinking things will feel better all around when baseball season starts.

    elissa (909106)

  14. But making fun of the “leader” is still allowed in this country. That’s a good thing, and we should appreciate it and fight for it — because it doesn’t have to be that way.

    Making fun of the leader is not still “allowed” in this country. Who are you kidding? If the leader is a Republican making fun is demanded. If the leader a democrat leftist or minority making fun is just showing your white privilege when it “occasionally” occurs and is immediately derided and censored wherever possible.

    Rev. Hoagie® (785e38)

  15. It reminds me of the childhood taunt about underpants. I see London, I see France…

    How low can they go?

    Patricia (5fc097)

  16. Just another has-been celebrity trying to chime in and say “I’m still here!”

    fortehlulz (cf507f)

  17. Tiny hands near your underpants?

    You may want to hire a nanny.

    nn (46d0a3)

  18. What was David Blaine’s most appreciated magic trick?

    Making Fiona Apple’s career disappear!

    Xmas (3a75bb)

  19. I give Blaine props for getting with Josie Maran, but he had a close call recently with the bullet in mouth trick. http://www.michigansthumb.com/entertainment/the-wrap/article/So-David-Blaine-Shot-Himself-in-the-Throat-10842358.php

    urbanleftbehind (1ae0bb)


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