Fiona Apple has released her first song since her 2025 protest anthem “Pretrial (Let Her Go Home).” The new track, “Horns of a Bull,” serves as the title sequence for Apple TV’s new crime thriller Lucky, which stars Anya Taylor-Joy, Timothy Olyphant, and Annette Bening.
The track, co-produced by Fiona Apple and her longtime drummer Amy Aileen Wood, captures the raw, percussive energy that defined her acclaimed album Fetch The Bolt Cutters. With its tense piano chords and rumbling rhythm, the song provides a dark, atmospheric backdrop for the series. Apple’s vocals remain as sharp and expressive as ever, delivering lyrics that grapple with themes of power and patriarchy: “I pay attention to the men behind the curtain / I was born in the horns of a bull.”
Lucky follows the story of a woman on the run from both the FBI and criminal syndicates following a high-stakes heist gone wrong. Based on the 2021 novel by Marissa Stapley, the series was created by Jonathan Tropper and Reese Witherspoon, with Taylor-Joy serving as an executive producer.
In a recent interview with Movieplayer.it, Taylor-Joy expressed her excitement about the collaboration. “I wanted the music to be mostly female-centric and have a rock edge to it,” she shared. “When that became a possibility, I was just screaming—my teenage self freaked out. I think her voice is a perfect description of this series.”
