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I love Emilie, but I'm wary of the new album. I don't like her change in style because vs just exploring more industrial type styles, ever since Opheliac it seems as if the whole game has been to just carefully create this myth and cult of Emilie Autumn to appeal to teenage fangirls then milk as much money out of that as possible. Case in point, my god never mention her real last name on her forum or call EA out on other things that unless you buy into the myth surrounding her are probably false. On that note though, I could never not recommend her albums enough. Well, Opheliac is decent, but Enchant and Laced/Unlaced are two of my favorite albums of the past 20 years. She does put on good concerts at least though, depending on what you're looking for. They're very theatrics, though if you're hoping for more actual musing playing you're going to be a bit disappointed. At least she belted out Face The Wall when I saw her. I would personally recommend: -Rose Red -Castle Down(which sounds suspiciously like Imogen Heap's "Candlelight") -Second Hand Faith -By the Sword -Juliet -Swallow -Manic Depression -Face the Wall -Save You Basically, I recommend the entire Enchant and Laced/Unlaced album to everyone for ever. Her covers of classical songs the "Laced" part of Laced/Unlaced, especially that of La Folia are pretty spectacular, as well as her composition "Willow".(The Unlaced part is all compositions from her but they're electrified)
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| # ¿ Apr 12, 2012 18:02 |
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| # ¿ May 22, 2013 20:28 |
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TheJoker138 posted:I think if she was trying to cash in on an image, or some such thing, she'd probably be doing something quite a bit more mainstream than what she's doing now, and probably would have signed with a major label at some point or another because god knows she has connections through Love and such. Arguably though this is exactly what she's doing. EA's fanbase I've watched grow tremendously in the past few years, but it's basically been by carefully cultivating an image that is imensly popular to angsty/depressed teenagers who identify with her persona. Beforehand her only real image was just that of an eccentric musician, the one who mixed fairy tale imagery with blistering electric violins and wore fairy wings with combat boots. I don't think she ever planned on it, she just decided to try something new with Opheliac and saw the fact she had struck a major chord with angsty teenagers who were becoming rabid fans, and well then saw  all over it, then proceeded to solidify the image and market everything possible.To be fair though she can only get away with it because she is a tremendously awesome musician. Also, I really hate her cover of Bohemian Rhapsody. I find it mundane as hell, and that's just a word that should never be used to describe that song. On the flip side, her covers of Girls Just Want to have Fun, and Alice Cooper's "Is it my Body?" are great. I wish she'd cover Pink Floyd's "See Emily Play", obviously because of the name, but I'd like to hear her take on a psychedelic pop song.
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| # ¿ Apr 13, 2012 01:23 |
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TheJoker138 posted:but she doesn't seem to be exactly living the high life thanks to it or anything, as all the money she does make seems to go right back into the tours, albums, etc. Oh no doubt about that, I assume just her tours alone are expensive enough to put on. I think it's more about power almost, through the persona she created, EA has managed to drum up one of the most rabid fan bases I have ever seen in my life for any musician. She's near a demi-god to these people who can do no wrong. I suppose I'm just part of the old guard who gets annoyed at part of that new fan base. I mean I shouldn't hold it against them that a large segment of them are depressed, weird teenagers who find some escape in her music/life. Yet, to a point it does kind of annoy me just for the fact it's so hard to get anyone to listen to Emilie Autumn since they make their assumption it's music for angsty teenagers who worship her and go "lmao no" and I have to be like "No, ignore her fans, I have these three albums here and they're loving spectacular" Not to poo poo on them or anything, I've been to shows, they're all nice people, it's just a problem that's happened more than once. Oh god I'm not even 25 and I've already become an old person hating on kids. Perhaps I'm just mad because I want another Enchant type album, or even Laced/Unlaced, but don't think that's going to happen anymore.
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| # ¿ Apr 14, 2012 14:59 |
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I don't know, I love both EA and Rasputina(also as said Rasputina puts on a great show, Melora Creager is pretty funny, and their show also introduced me to the The Bowmans who are great), but, I'd say 'Enchant' would be far more likely to draw in Rasputina fans. I mean on one hand the gut reaction may be to link later EA to Rasputina just for the Victorian-esque themes EA has taken on, but style wise 'Enchant' is far closer to anything Rasputina does. Even lyrically, while subject matter on the surface between EA and Rasputina maybe might technically be a bit closer in the 'Opheliac' and after period, EA is definite often comes off as kind of angry, while Rasputina not so much. On that note though, even though I greatly prefer Enchant and Laced/Unlaced, 'Opheliac' is a great album. If you didn't like Enchant you might as well give it a listen because musically in most regards it's almost a complete 180 in how Enchant sounds. Hell the only song from 'Opheliac' I can think of that could even maybe fit on 'Enchant' is the song Swallow.
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| # ¿ Apr 19, 2012 17:54 |
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The name thing I think comes from the fact as part of the persona she tried to push the fact her name was in Emilie Liddell, i.e. a descendent of Liddell family, the inspiration for Alice in Wonderland. And she's not, and many fans called her out on that, and other fans(mostly younger ones who really wanted to believe in it) just well wouldn't believe it and got pissed off and the name thing became this giant thing, but whatever. I'm pretty sad she doesn't play that much violin in FLAG  That's one of my grudges I've had about her transformation over the years from Enchant to where she is now, less violin playing. Heck when I saw her 2 years ago I was worried she wasn't actually going to do a violin solo(She did, it was Face The Wall and it owned), but I'm pragmatic though. I enjoy a good musical concept if done well and EA is incredibly talented musician regardless of the cult of personality she is building, so I still have high hopes for the album.
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| # ¿ Jul 17, 2012 05:19 |
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Emilie Autumn has blonde hair now? Man that's even weirder than when Shirley Manson chopped off her hair and made it bleach blonde. The pink and then striking red hair has been basically her look for years. Hell the poster I have of her has everything including her skin ghost white, except of course the blazing red hair everywhere. e: It also confirms how bad I am with faces, I would've never known that was her without being told. I may have had a good hunch seeing the heart on her face, but I still wouldn't be certain.
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| # ¿ Jul 27, 2012 16:30 |
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CAT rear end now!!! posted:Just popping in to say that probably because of the goth scene's close ties with industrial music, the electro-industrial thread is currently the place on SA where that sort of stuff is mostly discussed. Welcome! I say start with Enchant, then go to Laced/Unlaced(the Laced disk is classical covers and a few of her own classical work, the Unlaced disk is electric violin shredding time), then Opheliac, then Fight Like a Girl, and get around to the 4 o'clock EP at sometime. Basically, go in chronological order of release because I think that is also the order of best to worse. I don't mean to imply Emilie Autumn just kept on going downhill after that though. I think Opheliac and FLAG are both pretty great, it's just a preference of style. There was a huge style shift between Enchant and Ophleiac. Enchant is very much lighter in its musical style, and lyrically it's almost more fairy tale-esque. Opheliac switches to a more angrier/industrial Emilie. In fact just compare the genre categories on wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enchant_%28album%29 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opheliac Hm, when I think about it, Laced/Unlaced coming between them with it's two very different styles of music on each half is almost a metaphor for the change. Basically, Enchant owns  Oh, also, 'By the Sword". It's a really old song Emilie recorded just after 9/11 for a benefit album that has never been on another album to my knowledge and is basically one of her best songs.
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| # ¿ Dec 12, 2012 03:50 |
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| # ¿ May 22, 2013 20:28 |
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So is it true Emilie really isn't playing music at all in this current concert run and has gone full out theatrical? I mean in terms of her physically playing an instrument, obviously there's music coming from somewhere.
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