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Fiona Apple's public image was minted in 1997, when she appeared in a video for "Criminal," a song from her triple-platinum debut album, "Tidal," slinking around miserably in her underwear and looking like an underfed Calvin Klein model. That year, she won an MTV Video Music Award for Best New Artist, but in her acceptance speech she sounded more insulted than grateful: "Everybody out there that's watching, everybody that's watching this world, this world is bullshit and you shouldn't model your life about what you think that we think is cool." Elsewhere, she talked openly about being raped at the age of twelve, and in February, 2000, she broke down onstage at Roseland ...