Fiona Apple has launched her first tune since Fetch the Bolt Cutters. “Pretrial (Let Her Go Home),” a protest anthem advocating for jailed moms who can’t afford bail, attracts on Apple’s expertise in recent times observing bail hearings for CourtWatch PG, a Maryland neighborhood preventing racism within the courtroom and dealing in the direction of “abolitionist futures.” Apple wrote the tune after witnessing the impression—and the disproportionate impression on Black ladies—of a cash-bail system that jails moms who can’t afford bail with out trial, separating them from their dependents. Under, watch the video, which collages footage from ladies who’ve skilled pretrial detention.
In a press release, Apple described taking notes on hundreds of bond hearings: