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"Fast as You Can" is a song written by Fiona Apple, and produced by Jon Brion for her second album,...

"Fast as You Can" is a song written by Fiona Apple, and produced by Jon Brion for her second album, When the Pawn. It was released as the album's lead single in late 1999 in the United States and in February 2000 in the United Kingdom. It became one of Apple's most successful singles in both countries, and its music video, directed by Paul Thomas Anderson, was well-received. The video and track were popular on MTV Europe's US Top 20 resulting in some popularity for Fiona Apple across Europe. Apple said that with the song, she wanted to explore different moods and the "ups and downs" of a relationship. "When you get to the middle [of the song], that spell of confusion takes you out of the element for a minute, which is, of course, what happens emotionally. But the beat never changes." Apple said the song is "really just thoughts that were running through my head that were in that rhythm". Jon Brion said he knew "exactly" what he wanted the song to sound like. "I knew I wanted it to be Matt Chamberlain on drums", he said. "He can play all this beautiful machine-influenced stuff, but with human feel." Brion played a "very busy bass line idea" for Apple on a keyboard in his kitchen,