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"Fast as You Can" is a song written by Fiona Apple, and produced by Jon Brion for her second album, ''When the Pawn...''. It was released as the album's lead single in late 1999 in the United States and in February 2000 in the United Kingdom. It became one of Apple's most successful singles in both countries, and its music video, directed by Paul Thomas Anderson, was well received. The video and track were popular on MTV Europe's US Top 20 resulting in some popularity for Fiona Apple across Europe. ==Background and style== Apple said that with the song, she wanted to explore different moods and the "ups and downs" of a relationship. "When you get to the middle (the song ), that spell of confusion takes you out of the element for a minute, which is, of course, what happens emotionally. But the beat never changes."〔Moon, Tom. ("Fiona Apple has a new album to promote - and an image she'd like to change" ). ''The Philadelphia Inquirer''. November 8, 1999. Retrieved December 15, 2006.〕 Apple said the song is "really just thoughts that were running through my head that were in that rhythm".〔("Fiona Apple Has A Lot Of Explaining To Do" ). VH1 Online. October 30, 1999. Retrieved December 15, 2006.〕 Jon Brion said he knew "exactly" what he wanted the song to sound like. "I knew I wanted it to be Matt Chamberlain on drums", he said. "He can play all this beautiful machine-influenced stuff, but with human feel." Brion played a "very busy bass line idea" for Apple on a keyboard in his kitchen, combining the line with a "groove" in the style of Chamberlain's work. Apple became excited and said, "That's great! That feels exactly like it!" Brion and Apple stressed in interviews that it was Apple, and not Brion, who created the time-changes and structure in the song were already present when he worked on it.〔Graff, Gary. ("Sound Off - Fiona Apple" ). ''Wall of Sound''. November 1999. Retrieved December 15, 2006.〕 "All I did was to heighten pre-existing things", Brion said. "In terms of the color changes, I am coordinating all of those, but the rhythms are absolutely Fiona's."〔Zollo, Paul. ("Producer's Corner - Jon Brion" ). ''Performing Songwriter''. July/August 2000. Retrieved December 15, 2006.〕 ''The Philadelphia Inquirer'' described the song as "slightly off-kilter, perpetually destabilized ... an intricate suite of shifting moods that starts as a '60s soul-jazz stomp, then is connected by a rueful ballad interlude to a sauntering triple-meter chorus."〔 ''The New York Times'' wrote that it "signals its mood swings — love me, fight me, don't go, get out while you can — with tempo changes and unlikely interludes, from a blunt hip-hop drumbeat to () 'Strawberry Fields' keyboards."〔Pareles, Jon. ("Fiona Apple's Angst, Bravado and 90-Word Title" ). ''The New York Times''. November 7, 1999. Retrieved December 15, 2006.〕 ''Newsweek'' characterized the song as "galloping" and "syncopated",〔Giles, Jeff. ("Happily Ever Apple" ). ''Newsweek''. November 8, 1999. Retrieved December 15, 2006.〕 and ''Spin'' magazine called it "skittery".〔Light, Alan. ("Girl On A Wire" ). ''Spin''. February 2000. Retrieved December 15, 2006.〕 The cover of the promo CD for the single in the U.S. was drawn by Apple.〔Unknown (1999). In "Fast as You Can" (CD liner notes ). United States: Clean Slate Records/Epic Records. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Fast as You Can」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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