Fiona Apple will donate all the royalties received from a sync spot in the new Candyman film, should she stick to a promise made last year.
The musician’s song ‘Shameika’, a single taken from her 2020 album ‘Fetch The Bolt Cutters‘, can be heard playing from a record player inside art critic’s apartment in the Nia DaCosta-directed reboot of the 1992 horror classic.
Last March, Apple pledged to donate all royalties from TV and movie placements of her ‘Fetch The Bolt Cutters’ songs ‘Shameika’ and ‘Heavy Balloon’ to charities. For ‘Shameika’, that would be the Harlem Children’s Zone and for ‘Heavy Balloon’ that would be Seeding Sovereignty.
Additionally, the singer-songwriter vowed to donate $50,000 (£36,343) to each of the above charities should no syncs materialise.
She explained last year that her decision was to help those in need during the coronavirus crisis.
At the time, Apple shared an experience with a sync request that made her rethink her policy in a video posted on the Twitter account of her friend Zelda Hallman.
