"Shameika" is the only single from Fiona Apple's fifth studio album, Fetch the Bolt Cutters. The March 2020 New Yorker profile of Fiona Apple explains the inspiration behind this song: "In "Shameka" she celebrates a key moment in middle school, when a tough girl told the bullied Apple, 'you have potential'." Apple said when she first wrote the song she wasn't "entirely convinced" Shameika existed. However, after the "New Yorker" article came out

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