- 2025-05-07
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MUSIC
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Fiona Apple Releases New Song “Pretrial (Let Her Go Home)”
American singer-songwriter Fiona Apple released a new song “Pretrial (Let Her Go Home)” on May 7, 2025.
The song is her first original song in five years since the 2020 album “Fetch The Bolt Cutters”.
Fiona Apple released the song in support of mothers facing and impacted by pre-trial detention despite being presumed innocent because they can't afford bail.
The song is accompanied by a music video that includes real footage and images of victims' families and the women impacted by pre-trial detention in the United States. Produced by Zealous and Special Operations Studios.
The video underscores the cold realities of the song, while showing thousands of images of everyday hope and freedom - warm photos and videos provided by women who've lived through pretrial detention, capturing family moments, personal accomplishments, and community bonding.- Fiona Apple said of the song, “I was a court watcher for over two years. In that time, I took notes on thousands of bond hearings. Time and time again, I listened as people were taken away and put in jail, for no other reason than that they couldn't afford to buy their way free. It was particularly hard to hear mothers and caretakers get taken away from the people who depend on them.”
She continued, “For the past five years, I have been volunteering with the Free Black Mamas DMV bailout, and I have been lucky to be able to witness the stories of women who fought for and won their freedom with the tireless and loving support of the leadership. I hope that this song, and the images shared with me, can help to show what is at stake when someone is kept in pretrial detention.” -
She added, “I give this song in friendship and respect to all who have experienced the pain of pretrial detention and to the women of the group's leadership who have taught me so much and whom I truly love.” - source : Apple Music
