.maevethecowboy reviews the album of quarantine ('Fetch the Bolt Cutters' by Fiona Apple, of course)
is a reference to the scene from “The Fall” in which a sex crimes investigator finds a locked door to a room in which a girl has been tortured. She calls for her bolt cutters to break the door open. Bolt cutters are violent, but only in a practical way. They’re less about inflicting violence and more about breaking free from it.
Apple says that she “grew up in the shoes they told me I could fill,” that she was in them, that she was still, until she realized she needed to “run up that hill.” This is the only way that I’d like to run: charging up a hill with a tear-stained face, Fiona Apple in my ears. For years, I’ve sat at Thanksgiving tables with people who continue to hurt me. I sit there quietly while I hurt from their silence. I listened to this song and thought about the absolute power in my potential to not be quiet at this dinner table—or beer pong table, or meeting, or hallway. The power in not showing up to these dreaded Thanksgivings, the freedom of choosing not to sit in a room with people who do not believe you, who make your skin itch and crawl over itself.
There aren’t any anthems about the active stance of removing yourself from cycles of abuse and trauma. There are songs about fucking and money and dumping people and being powerful for it. It felt unfamiliarly cathartic to feel that I was powerful by simply not perpetuating the process of hurting. Apple sings to the woman who is now with the man who abused her, about their shared experience and the specific and complicated relationship this forms between them. I can’t even know how many women I share this relationship with. There are a few that I know of and this is the song I would have sung them had I been a gifted lyricist.we’re the only ones who know.
The repetition throughout the song mimics the repetitive nature of these cycles of painful relationships—and the way women are treated as disposable and interchangeable, replaced through each beat of the song. We might be an endless stream of ladies and bodies to this particular man, but this song reinforces the idea of another woman thinking of you, who hasn’t forgotten.
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