Fiona Apple Co-Writes Song for Cara Delevingne’s Debut Album

Cara Delevingne’s debut album, arriving this summer via Warner, includes a song co-written by Fiona Apple. The track, “Need It,” continues a collaborative thread that started in 2020 when Delevingne added vocals and a meow to the title track of Apple’s Fetch the Bolt Cutters. Now the dynamic is reversed. Apple helped shape material for Delevingne’s first full-length, with the two exchanging lyrics on Post-it notes rather than texting them.

Delevingne released her debut singles, “I Forgot” and “Out Of My Head,” on May 29, co-produced with BJ Burton, known for work with Bon Iver and Charli XCX. She described the process with Apple as foundational to feeling comfortable in the studio. “Without the experience of going in the studio with her, I’d never have felt like I could be myself, a bit like a kid, and not have to act like I know what I’m doing,” she told Rolling Stone. Apple’s contribution to “Need It” is described as club-ready, a departure from the raw, percussive sound that defined Fetch the Bolt Cutters.

Delevingne’s interest in music isn’t entirely new. She co-wrote Dijon’s “Yamahan” from last year’s Baby, and she offered a track for the Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets soundtrack in 2017. Still, these latest songs feel like the first real statement of intent. Touring starts immediately, with dates in Berlin, Barcelona, London, Paris, Los Angeles, Brooklyn, and later festival slots at All Things Go and Primavera Sound editions in Buenos Aires and São Paulo. No album title yet, but the roll-out is picking up speed.