Fiona Apple - Every Single Night

What this video is

Released in June 2012, 'Every Single Night' marked Fiona Apple's first music video in over six years and served as the lead single to 'The Idler Wheel...', her fourth studio album and first since 2005. The video arrived during a period of renewed critical appetite for confessional, anti-commercial indie songwriting. Shot in Paris by Joseph Cahill, it externalizes Apple's documented lyrical theme of nightly…

Why it matters

A benchmark of early 2010s art-pop music video aesthetics, 'Every Single Night' demonstrates how the genre leveraged surrealist visual language as a direct correlate to lyrical interiority. Its rapid editorial rhythm (1.55s avg shot) applied against dreamlike, non-narrative imagery anticipated the…

The director

Joseph Cahill is a Paris-based filmmaker known for music video and short film work. His Vimeo profile references short films exploring themes of fear with a quirky, surrealist sensibility. Prior to 'Every Single Night,' he directed music videos for artists…