Editing Fiona Apple (section)

===2011–2018: ''The Idler Wheel...'', tour, and legal troubles===
[[File:Fiona Apple 2012 NYC T5.jpg|thumb|upright=.9|left|Apple performing at [[Terminal 5 (venue)|Terminal 5]], New York, 2012]]
In late 2010, ''Billboard'' published an article stating that Apple was planning on releasing a new album in spring 2011, with musician [[Michelle Branch]] claiming to have heard some of the new tracks.<ref name="bill">{{cite magazine|url=http://www.billboard.com/articles/news/956287/fiona-apple-releasing-new-album-in-spring-2011|magazine=Billboard|title=Fiona Apple Releasing New Album in Spring 2011|author=Maples, Jillian|date=September 16, 2010|archive-url=https://archive.today/20200417084927/https://www.billboard.com/articles/news/956287/fiona-apple-releasing-new-album-in-spring-2011|archive-date=April 17, 2020|url-status=live}}</ref> Drummer [[Charley Drayton]] also told ''Modern Drummer'' magazine that he was co-producing the record.<ref>{{cite magazine|url=http://www.billboard.com/articles/news/510706/fiona-apple-to-release-new-music-in-the-next-few-weeks-says-la-reid |title=Fiona Apple To Release New Music 'In The Next Few Weeks,' says L.A. Reid |magazine=[[Billboard (magazine)|Billboard]] |date=September 14, 2009 | archive-url=https://archive.today/20200417082745/https://www.billboard.com/articles/news/510706/fiona-apple-to-release-new-music-in-the-next-few-weeks-says-la-reid|archive-date=April 17, 2020|url-status=live}}</ref> However, the album was not released in the spring and ''Billboard'' reported later that Epic was not aware of a record.<ref>{{cite magazine|url=http://www.billboard.com/articles/news/469132/11-anticipated-album-updates-madonna-dmx-nickelback-and-more |title=11 Anticipated Album Updates: Madonna, DMX, Nickelback And More |magazine=[[Billboard (magazine)|Billboard]] |date=September 14, 2009 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20200417082818/https://www.billboard.com/articles/news/469132/11-anticipated-album-updates-madonna-dmx-nickelback-and-more|archive-date=April 17, 2020|url-status=live}}</ref> Apple delayed the album's release until 2012, explaining that she was waiting "until her label found a new president and that she didn't want her work to be mishandled amid corporate disarray."<ref name="NYTimes1">{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2012/06/03/arts/music/fiona-apples-new-album-the-idler-wheel.html?_r=1&pagewanted=all |title=Fiona Apple Faces Outward |first=Jon |last=Pareles |work=[[The New York Times]] |date=May 30, 2012 |access-date=April 19, 2020 |url-access=registration}}</ref> In January 2012, after its new record label head, [[LA Reid]] hinted at new music from Apple, Epic Records announced that the album would be released later in the year.<ref>{{cite magazine| url=https://entertainment.time.com/2012/01/24/fiona-apple-has-new-music-coming-out-but-not-in-the-next-few-weeks/|title=Fiona Apple Has New Music Coming Out, But Not In the Next Few Weeks| magazine=Time| access-date=January 24, 2012| date=January 24, 2012}}</ref> Apple announced performances at the [[South by Southwest]] Festival and [[The Idler Wheel Tour|a spring 2012 tour]] soon after.<ref>{{cite magazine|url=http://music-mix.ew.com/2012/02/21/fiona-apple-tour-dates-2012-sxsw/|archive-url=https://archive.today/20120716200942/http://music-mix.ew.com/2012/02/21/fiona-apple-tour-dates-2012-sxsw/|archive-date=July 16, 2012|url-status=live|last=Rahman|first=Ray|title=Concert dates including South by Southwest Festival|magazine=[[Entertainment Weekly]]|date=February 21, 2012|access-date=February 23, 2012}}</ref>

''[[The Idler Wheel...]]'',<ref>{{cite magazine |author=Perpetua, Matthew |url=https://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/fiona-apple-unveils-23-word-album-title-20120307 |title=Fiona Apple Unveils 23-Word Album Title |magazine=[[Rolling Stone]] |date=March 7, 2012 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://archive.today/20130201181651/http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/fiona-apple-unveils-23-word-album-title-20120307 |archive-date=February 1, 2013 |access-date=August 27, 2017 }}</ref><ref name="pitchfork.com">{{cite web |url=http://pitchfork.com/news/45671-fiona-apple-reveals-album-title/ |title=Fiona Apple Reveals Album Title |website=[[Pitchfork (website)|Pitchfork]] |date=March 7, 2012 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://archive.today/20120715055616/http://pitchfork.com/news/45671-fiona-apple-reveals-album-title/ |archive-date=July 15, 2012 |author=Battan, Carrie |access-date=March 7, 2012 }}</ref> Apple's fourth studio album, was released on June 19, 2012, in the United States.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.fiona-apple.com |title=Welcome &#124; The Official Fiona Apple site |website=Fiona-apple.com |access-date=May 1, 2012}}</ref> It became Apple's most successful album on the [[Billboard 200|''Billboard'' 200]], where it peaked at number three,<ref>{{cite magazine |last=Caulfield |first=Keith |url=https://www.billboard.com/articles/news/482560/justin-bieber-kenny-chesney-fiona-apple-lead-billboard-200-debuts |title=Justin Bieber, Kenny Chesney, Fiona Apple Lead Billboard 200 Debuts |magazine=[[Billboard (magazine)|Billboard]] |date=June 27, 2012 |access-date=June 27, 2012}}</ref> and received critical acclaim.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.metacritic.com/music/the-idler-wheel-is-wiser-than-the-driver-of-the-screw-and-whipping-cords-will-serve-you-more-than-ro |title=The Idler Wheel Is Wiser than the Driver of the Screw and Whipping Cords Will Serve You More than Ropes Will Ever Do – Fiona Apple |website=[[Metacritic]]|publisher= [[CBS Interactive]] |access-date=June 18, 2012}}</ref> According to an article in ''[[American Songwriter]]'', "''The Idler Wheel'' isn't always pretty, but it pulses with life, brutal and true."<ref>{{cite web |url=https://americansongwriter.com/fiona-apple-the-idler-wheel/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200731141903/https://americansongwriter.com/fiona-apple-the-idler-wheel/ |url-status=dead |archive-date=July 31, 2020 |title=Fiona Apple: The Idler Wheel... |website=[[American Songwriter]] |date=June 13, 2012 |last=Beviglia |first=Jim |access-date=April 19, 2020 }}</ref>

While promoting ''The Idler Wheel'', Apple revealed in a June 2012 interview that she had briefly married an unnamed French photographer, later revealed to be [[Lionel Deluy]], "for complicated reasons" and had a passing liaison with a younger woman.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.stereogum.com/2081479/fiona-apple-fetch-the-bolt-cutters-interview/news/|title=Fiona Apple Talks Secret Marriage, Antipsychotics, Louis CK In New Interview|date=April 17, 2020|website=Stereogum|access-date=April 17, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200421095109/https://www.stereogum.com/2081479/fiona-apple-fetch-the-bolt-cutters-interview/news/|archive-date=April 21, 2020|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref name=lee/> She subsequently gave an in-depth interview on [[Marc Maron]]'s [[WTF with Marc Maron|''WTF'' podcast]] in July, in which she described her experience with [[obsessive–compulsive disorder]] throughout her adult life.<ref name=wtf/> She also divulged that she had recently decided to quit drinking.<ref name=wtf>{{cite podcast |host=Marc Maron |work=[[WTF with Marc Maron]]|url=http://www.wtfpod.com/podcast/episodes/episode_297_-_fiona_apple|title=Episode 297|date=July 16, 2012|access-date=October 25, 2016}}</ref> On September 19, 2012, Apple was arrested at an [[United States Border Patrol Interior Checkpoints|internal U.S. Border Patrol checkpoint]] in [[Sierra Blanca, Texas]], and charged with possession of [[hashish]], detaining her en route to a concert in [[Austin, Texas]], at the [[Hudspeth County, Texas|Hudspeth County]] Jail.<ref name="NYMN September 2012">{{cite web | author = McDougan, Farfel | date = September 20, 2012 | title = Fiona Apple Arrested | work = New York Music News | url = http://nymn.com/fiona-apple-arrested-new-york-music-news/ | url-status = dead | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20120923150232/http://nymn.com/fiona-apple-arrested-new-york-music-news/ | archive-date = September 23, 2012 | access-date=March 26, 2020}}</ref><ref name="TMZ September 2012">{{cite web | title=Fiona Apple Arrested for Hash in Texas |url=http://www.tmz.com/2012/09/20/fiona-apple-arrested-drugs-weed-hash-texas-hashish/ |work=TMZ |date=September 20, 2012 |access-date=September 21, 2012}}</ref>

[[File:Fiona Apple 2012.png|thumb|Apple performing in Miami Beach, 2012]]
Apple contributed a previously unreleased song entitled "[[Dull Tool]]" to the soundtrack of the 2012 [[Judd Apatow]] film ''[[This Is 40]]''.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://blogs.indiewire.com/theplaylist/listen-fiona-apples-dull-tool-from-the-this-is-40-soundtrack-paul-rudd-hearts-ween-in-new-poster-20121117 |title=Listen: Fiona Apple's "Dull Tool" From The 'This Is 40' Soundtrack; Paul Rudd Hearts Ween In New Poster |website=[[IndieWire]] |first=Edward |last=Davis |date=November 17, 2012 |access-date=February 1, 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121121162126/http://blogs.indiewire.com/theplaylist/listen-fiona-apples-dull-tool-from-the-this-is-40-soundtrack-paul-rudd-hearts-ween-in-new-poster-20121117 |archive-date=November 21, 2012 |url-status=dead }}</ref> Another song was recorded for the film but was not used, ending up as the track "Cosmonauts" on her 2020 album ''[[Fetch the Bolt Cutters]]''.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.vulture.com/2020/04/fiona-apple-fetch-the-bolt-cutters-songs.html|title=The Story Behind Every Track on Fetch the Bolt Cutters|website=Vulture|date=April 17, 2020|last=Handler|first=Rachel|access-date=April 22, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200422063000/https://www.vulture.com/2020/04/fiona-apple-fetch-the-bolt-cutters-songs.html|archive-date=April 22, 2020|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://pitchfork.com/features/interviews/9011-judd-apatow/|title=Judd Apatow|website=Pitchfork|date=December 11, 2012|last=Fitzmaurice|first=Larry|access-date=April 19, 2020|archive-date=January 1, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210101191255/https://pitchfork.com/features/interview/9011-judd-apatow/|url-status=dead}}</ref> In November 2012, Apple wrote a letter to her fans – a scan of which was posted to her website and her Facebook page – postponing the South American leg of her tour due to the health of her dog, Janet. According to the letter, the dog has [[Addison's disease]] and has had a tumor "idling in her chest" for two years.<ref>{{cite web | author=Apple, Fiona | url=http://www.lettersofnote.com/2012/11/she-is-my-best-friend.html | title=She is my best friend | work=Letters of Note | date=November 21, 2012 | access-date=February 12, 2013 | archive-date=January 21, 2013 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130121202028/http://www.lettersofnote.com/2012/11/she-is-my-best-friend.html | url-status=dead }}</ref>

In September 2013, a [[Chipotle Mexican Grill|Chipotle]] ad appeared online with a soundtrack of Apple covering "[[Pure Imagination]]" from the 1971 film ''[[Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory]]''. The video, which follows a scarecrow as he discovers the truth about [[factory farming]] and processed food, was described as "haunted", "dystopian", "bizarre", and "beautiful".<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.cinemablend.com/pop/Watch-Fiona-Apple-Chipotle-Partner-Bizarre-Beautiful-Pure-Imagination-Cover-59072.html|title=Watch: Fiona Apple And Chipotle Partner For Bizarre And Beautiful Pure Imagination Cover|last=Rawden|first=Mack|date=September 13, 2013|website=CinemaBlend|access-date=April 19, 2020}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://pitchfork.com/news/52274-watch-fiona-apple-covers-pure-imagination-from-willy-wonka-for-chipotle-ad-on-factory-farming/|title=Watch: Fiona Apple Covers "Pure Imagination" From Willy Wonka for Chipotle Ad on Factory Farming|last=Pelly|first=Jenn|date=September 12, 2013|website=Pitchfork|access-date=April 19, 2020}}</ref>

In 2014, Apple wrote the opening theme, "[[Container (song)|Container]]", for the Showtime drama series ''[[The Affair (TV series)|The Affair]]''.<ref>{{cite magazine|title='The Affair' opening credits feature new Fiona Apple song: Listen|url=http://insidetv.ew.com/2014/10/02/fiona-apple-affair-credits/|archive-url=https://archive.today/20200417083314/https://ew.com/music/fiona-apple-fetch-the-bolt-cutters-album-release-date/|archive-date=April 17, 2020|url-status=live|last=Zuckerman|first=Esther|date=October 2, 2014|magazine=[[Entertainment Weekly]]}}</ref> During 2014, Apple also appeared at a number of performances by [[Blake Mills]], including in New York City and [[Cambridge, Massachusetts]], during his tour in support of his second full-length album, ''Heigh Ho''. The pair first publicly collaborated on an acoustic version of Apple's song "I Know" in 2013.<ref>{{cite web|title=I Know, Apple and Mills|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rza0XycpyA8 |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211211/Rza0XycpyA8| archive-date=December 11, 2021 |url-status=live|access-date=April 5, 2015|website=YouTube| date=September 3, 2013 }}{{cbignore}}</ref>

Apple has collaborated with [[Andrew Bird]], and in 2016, she was featured in the song "Left Handed Kisses" from the album ''[[Are You Serious (Andrew Bird album)|Are You Serious]]''. In September 2017, Apple played rarities at the Ohana Festival in [[Dana Point, California|Dana Point]], California.<ref>{{cite magazine | url=https://www.billboard.com/music/pop/fiona-apple-plays-rarities-does-cartwheel-ohana-fest-7957929/ | title=Watch Fiona Apple Play Rarities & do a Cartwheel at Ohana Fest | magazine=[[Billboard (magazine)|Billboard]]|date=September 11, 2017 }}</ref> Also in 2017, she released "[[Tiny Hands]]" for the [[2017 Women's March|Women's March on Washington]].<ref>{{cite news|last=Bromwich|first=Jonah|title=Fiona Apple Releases a Trump Protest Chant|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/18/arts/music/fiona-apple-tiny-hands-womens-march.html|work=[[The New York Times]]|date=January 18, 2017|access-date=April 19, 2020|url-access=registration}}</ref> In 2018, she joined [[Shirley Manson]] at the female-driven Girl School Festival in Los Angeles for a cover of "[[You Don't Own Me]]" by [[Lesley Gore]], wearing a white T-shirt with "KNEEL, PORTNOW" written across it in ink. This was considered in response to Grammy head [[Neil Portnow]]'s heavily criticized comments that women need to "step up" to earn more Grammy nods.<ref>{{cite news|author=Ortega, Mark|title=WATCH: Shirley Manson and Fiona Apple cover "You Don't Own Me"|url=http://www.passtheaux.co/girl-school-2018-shirley-manson-fiona-apple/|work=Pass The Aux|date=February 3, 2018|access-date=February 4, 2018|archive-date=January 1, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210101191307/http://www.passtheaux.co/girl-school-2018-shirley-manson-fiona-apple/|url-status=dead}}</ref>