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20. Fiona Apple was an ingenue when her debut album was released to widespread acclaim, but public opinion turned swiftly against her when she won the MTV Video Music Award for Best New Artist. She got up on stage and said she hadn’t prepared a speech, then famously said, “This world is bullshit, and 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.” Apple was labeled afterward — in her own words — a “brat bitch loose cannon.”
She later said she felt like a “sellout” when she won and became “a paper doll in order to be accepted.” Her infamous speech, along with storming offstage during a show in 2000, led her to be seen as “unstable,” which followed her for her entire career. While Apple has continued to have an acclaimed, Grammy-award-winning career, she never again reached her pre-2000 commercial heights.
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