Criminal (Fiona Apple song)

"Criminal"
"Criminal"
Single by Fiona Apple
from the album Tidal
B-side	"Sleep to Dream" (live)
Released	September 16, 1997
Studio	Ocean Way Recording (Los Angeles, California)
Length	5:42
Label	Work; Columbia;
Songwriter(s)	Fiona Apple
Producer(s)	Andrew Slater
Fiona Apple singles chronology
Music video
	"Criminal" on YouTube

"Criminal" is a song by American recording artist Fiona Apple, the third single from her debut studio album, Tidal. The single was shipped to radio on June 2, 1997, and was physically released in September. Apple has stated that the song is about "feeling bad for getting something so easily by using your sexuality".^[2] Apple's highest-charting single, it peaked at No. 21 on the Billboard Hot 100 (her only entry to date), as well as No. 4 on the Billboard Modern Rock Tracks.

The song won the Grammy Award for Best Female Rock Vocal Performance at the 40th Grammy Awards and was nominated for Best Rock Song. "Criminal" was listed at No. 55 on VH1's "100 Greatest Songs of the '90s",^[3] and No. 71 on Blender magazine's 2005 list of "The 500 Greatest Songs Since You Were Born".^[2]

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^ ^a ^b "The 500 Greatest Songs Since You Were Born: 51-100". Blender. October 2005. Retrieved June 29, 2007. ^{[dead link]}
^ "VH1: 100 Greatest Songs of the '90s". VH1. Archived from the original on November 8, 2014. Retrieved November 18, 2014.

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[blender-2] "The 500 Greatest Songs Since You Were Born: 51-100". Blender. October 2005. Retrieved June 29, 2007. ^{[dead link]}

[greatest90s-3] "VH1: 100 Greatest Songs of the '90s". VH1. Archived from the original on November 8, 2014. Retrieved November 18, 2014.

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