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"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, a teacher Apple had kept in touch with over the years emailed her saying, "I heard you wrote about Shameika. I can see her…" and sent a picture. Apple said of the picture: "I had remembered that maybe she was a bully or something. Then I got sent this picture of her, and she's so cute — she doesn't look like a bully at all. She's just got this big smile on her face".
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