I wonder what her relationship to Joanna Newsom is like. They are surely aware of each other, and Joanna Newsom worked with Paul Thomas Anderson (her ex) on Inherent Vice. Apple is considered to be the more pop-oriented of the two, which denotes that her lyrics are surpassed by Newsom's indie mysticism.

Newsom is nothing if not oblique in the majority of her lyrical expressions. Every autobiographical truth contained in the lyrics is filtered through a layer of impressionistic metaphor and a layer of grammatical calculation. She buries her deepest feelings in left-brain structures of metre.

In contrast, Apple favors direct lyrics, the biggest downside of which is that it has less storage capacity than oblique lyrics. It has in compensation an advantage of immediacy that is sacrificed in Newsom's obliqueness.