Watch St. Vincent and Fiona Apple Perform Together at Trans-Pecos Festival in Marfa
Fiona Apple and St. Vincent’s music may differ, but they do share at least one thing in common: they’re both strong-minded indie trailblazers, fully in control of their own art. Luckily for fans of both, they got to witness that in action over the weekend when the ’90s icon brought out Annie Clark for a surprise set at Trans-Pecos Festival in Marfa, as Pitchfork reports.
“Fiona. I have no words. You saved my life. Thank you. I will love you forever,” Annie Clark later wrote on Instagram, sharing a picture of the two. The rest of the room was left nearly speechless as well when they performed several songs. One of those was “Pale September,” a deep cut from Apple’s 1996 debut album Tidal, which became the alternative singer’s breakthrough. The two also performed Cyndi Lauper’s cult classic, the 1984 song “Money Changes Everything” from her debut album She’s So Unusual. Naturally, the results were magical.
This isn’t the first time St. Vincent has covered Lauper. The ’80s pop figure is becoming somewhat of a go-to for Clark during impromptu performances, as she also covered one of her songs five years ago alongside Lauper herself as well as Rosie O’Donnell and Sleigh Bells’ Alexis Krauss during a True Colors Fund event that benefitted homeless LGBT youth, as seen below.
St. Vincent is currently gearing up for the release of her upcoming album, Masseduction, her fifth one (including the 2012 collaborative one she did with David Byrne called Love This Giant). “It’s all about sex and drugs and sadness,” she told The New Yorker about her new album. The first taste of it “New York” confirms that, as Clark revealed that it was inspired by some of 2016’s deaths that rattled her. “It’s very silly to make something like David Bowie’s death about me—it has nothing to do with me—but I will say that I was really affected,” she told “Song Exploder” Podcast. “And I cried. I cried for somebody I didn’t even know. And I don’t know that I’ve done that before.”
She has also talked about the song “Pills”—the one her ex Cara Delevigne sings on under the moniker Kid Monkey—which she hasn’t released from Masseduction yet, telling The New Yorker, “I was trying to hold on/ I didn’t have coping mechanisms for tremendous anxiety and depression. I was trying to get through pharmaceutically.”
Remembering 2017’s Most Devastating Celebrity Breakups
After ringing in 2017 together on New Year’s Eve last year, it seems Nina Dobrev and Glen Powell will be making alternative plans come midnight for 2018, as the pair is rumored to have split after just under a year of dating.
Despite weathering the storm of their controversial film mother!, Jennifer Lawrence and Darren Aronofsky split after a year of dating following the film’s release.
After being engaged for nearly a decade, Jennifer Hudson called it quits with David Otunga in November, as well as receiving a protective order of their 8-year-old son that they share.
After ten months of dating—and one public outing to the Met Gala—Selena Gomez and The Weeknd called it quits in October, just a few days after Gomez was spotted having breakfast with her ex-boyfriend Justin Bieber.
Heidi Klum started dating Vito Schnabel, an art dealer 13 years her junior, two years after she separated from Seal, but after putting in plenty of beach time, the pair decided to call it quits this year.
After nearly a decade together, it was reported that Rachel Bilson and Hayden Christensen had split in September 2017.
Together since 2004 and married in 2009, Fergie and Josh Duhamel announced they would be splitting in September.
Anna Faris and Chris Pratt split during the summer after 8 years together.
Scarlett Johansson began dating Romain Dauriac in 2012, and the pair married in 2014 before splitting in January.
Alexander Skarsgard and Alexa Chung were first seen together in 2015, and split earlier this summer.
Olivia Munn dated NFL player Aaron Rodgers for nearly three years, before breaking up in late spring.
Amy Schumer famously met furniture designer Ben Hanisch on an dating app; the pair dated for over a year.
Jenny Slate and Chris Evans quickly became an Internet-beloved couple when their pairing was revealed in 2016, but split after a year.
Despite an infamous paddle-board trip together, Katy Perry and Orlando Bloom split after just over a year together.
The teen set’s coolest couple, Jaden Smith and Sarah Snyder, broke up after nearly two years of dating.
Jane Fonda split from longtime partner record producer Richard Perry after nine years together in January.
After nearly two decades together, Summer Phoenix and Casey Affleck separated last year, officially filing for divorce last week.
After dating for a decade, Paramore singer Hayley Williams and New Found Glory frontman Chad Gilbert married in 2016, only to file for divorce a year later.
Janet Jackson gave birth to her first child, with husband Wissam al Mana, in January; the pair filed for divorce in April.
Together for nearly 15 years, Jesse Williams split with longtime wife Aryn Drakelee-Williams in April.
Jemima Kirke married lawyer Mike Mosberg in 2009; the duo separated in January.
Supermodel Elle MacPherson split from Florida-based hotel heir Jeffrey Soffer earlier this year.
Phoebe Tonkin and Paul Wesley met on the set of The Vampire Diaries, and stayed together for nearly four years.
After a tumultuous year together, Rob Kardashian and Blac Chyna officially split this spring.
After 17 years of marriage, Ben Stiller and Christine Taylor announced their separation in May.
In January, Nicki Minaj announced on Twitter that she had split from boyfriend Meek Mill.
After nearly two decades together, basketball star Carmelo Anthony and La La Anthony broke up earlier this year.
David Schwimmer separated from British artist Zoe Buckman after a decade together.
Billie Lourd briefly dated Scream Queens co-star Taylor Lautner before calling it quits this summer.
Mariah Carey got over her called-off engagement to James Packer by briefly dating dancer Bryan Tanaka.
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