# Fiona Apple's 1997 MTV Speech: This World Is Bullshit

- Original post: https://www.twitter.com/i/status/2112051516928668031
- Source account: [@Southern75_29](https://x.com/Southern75_29)
- Source language: English
- Duration: 1:42
- Published: 2026-10-19
- Canonical URL: https://www.translate.mom/transcript/AvBdtiNefO9a/en/fiona-apple-s-1997-mtv-speech-this-world-is-bullshit

## Transcript

[0:00](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/AvBdtiNefO9a/en/fiona-apple-s-1997-mtv-speech-this-world-is-bullshit) Watch this. I didn't prepare a speech, and I'm sorry, but I'm glad that I didn't because I'm not gonna do this like everybody else does it.

[0:07](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/AvBdtiNefO9a/en/fiona-apple-s-1997-mtv-speech-this-world-is-bullshit?t=7) Um, 'cause everybody that I should be thanking, I'm really sorry, but I have to use this time. See, Maya Angelou said that we, we as human beings at our best can only create co-- opportunities, and I'm gonna use this opportunity the way that I wanna use it.

[0:27](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/AvBdtiNefO9a/en/fiona-apple-s-1997-mtv-speech-this-world-is-bullshit?t=27) So what I wanna say is, um, everybody out there that's watching, everybody that's watching this world, this world is bull, and you shouldn't model your life. Wait a second.

[0:37](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/AvBdtiNefO9a/en/fiona-apple-s-1997-mtv-speech-this-world-is-bullshit?t=37) You shouldn't model your life about what you think that we think is cool and what we're wearing and what we're saying and everything. Go with yourself.

[0:45](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/AvBdtiNefO9a/en/fiona-apple-s-1997-mtv-speech-this-world-is-bullshit?t=45) If Fiona Apple put her entire career on the line that night, it's because she couldn't keep inside all the terrible things she had seen.

[0:51](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/AvBdtiNefO9a/en/fiona-apple-s-1997-mtv-speech-this-world-is-bullshit?t=51) What we just saw is a nineteen-year-old woman walking on stage with an MTV award and telling national television that this world is bullshit.

[0:59](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/AvBdtiNefO9a/en/fiona-apple-s-1997-mtv-speech-this-world-is-bullshit?t=59) You can see her eyes locked on the camera, her voice shaking.

[1:01](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/AvBdtiNefO9a/en/fiona-apple-s-1997-mtv-speech-this-world-is-bullshit?t=61) She knows what she's about to do. You can't forget she was nineteen years old.

[1:05](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/AvBdtiNefO9a/en/fiona-apple-s-1997-mtv-speech-this-world-is-bullshit?t=65) Her first album had just dropped. She was at the peak of everything she was building, except that's where everything breaks when she starts to speak.

[1:11](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/AvBdtiNefO9a/en/fiona-apple-s-1997-mtv-speech-this-world-is-bullshit?t=71) She doesn't thank anyone. She quotes Maya Angelou.

[1:14](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/AvBdtiNefO9a/en/fiona-apple-s-1997-mtv-speech-this-world-is-bullshit?t=74) She tells people not to copy what celebrities wear, say, represent.

[1:18](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/AvBdtiNefO9a/en/fiona-apple-s-1997-mtv-speech-this-world-is-bullshit?t=78) Go with yourself. She repeats it like she knew they were about to cut the feed.

[1:21](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/AvBdtiNefO9a/en/fiona-apple-s-1997-mtv-speech-this-world-is-bullshit?t=81) That was a deliberate choice in front of the cameras.

[1:24](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/AvBdtiNefO9a/en/fiona-apple-s-1997-mtv-speech-this-world-is-bullshit?t=84) Since that night, Fiona Apple has basically disappeared.

[1:26](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/AvBdtiNefO9a/en/fiona-apple-s-1997-mtv-speech-this-world-is-bullshit?t=86) No Grammys, no invitations to the big ceremonies, no red carpets, like someone decided that's where it stopped for her. Some will say she chose isolation.

[1:34](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/AvBdtiNefO9a/en/fiona-apple-s-1997-mtv-speech-this-world-is-bullshit?t=94) Others will say that silence was arranged long before any decision she made herself.