"It's the Opheliac in me..."

[creative_kiss]

This is going to be different, but that's okay. I like different, and I haven't posted in a while anyway.

In my absence, I had been talking a great deal with rosen_schwert who is a big fan of an American artist named Emilie Autumn. She, meaning the Madame, had shared this love of Emilie with me a while ago, but when I tried to listen to some of her songs they

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[aerysa]

Ack. I tried, but it's seriously not my type of music. I hate that scream-y type of singing. Just grates on my nerves. And so, since I'm biased against this type of music in the first place, it's not like I can really comment besides to say that I didn't like it XD

[rosen_schwert]

In my absence I have been forced to play Pokémon on behalf of my mother & injured my ankle. :(

So uh… EMILIE. <3 She’s cool. I love how she has a whole album of spoken poems & an album of electronic violin compositions to single out her individual talents.

I’m unsure what she means by “Opheliac” also, but I’d guess it involved insanity. In the book (Emily’s world) a handful of the prettiest, sanest inmates are dressed as Ophelia, shut inside gilded cages with a nice swing & forced to re-enact Ophelia’s suicide by positioning themselves in a mid-fall-to-their-watery-grave pose. It was “The Ophelia Gallery”, & they were the “Opheliacs”. The -iac ending makes it a disease of some sort. Like people suffering from insomnia become insomniacs. According to the fictional Dr. Lymer the disease of Ophelia is ‘of the melancholy, mad, & femaleThe first EA song I heard was one of the pretty ballads, called “Save You”. None of the songs on the “Enchant” album are growly, screechy… or very up-beat at all, really. So, sadly, I find it quite boring

[creative_kiss]

Pokemon! Um... are the injured angle and Pokemon related? Were you running through fields trying to catch a Pikachu

[rosen_schwert]

Yup. Precisely that. ;>_

[csg_dear4life]

I don't like it, but I can't say I hate it either. I like the verse, but her chorus just seems to be all over the place. Like she's trying to cram to much into the song, but maybe that was done on perpose, giving the name of the song.

[creative_kiss]

Emilie's pretty much good for that. Even if the whole song seems to flow cohesively, somewhere toward the end she'll do something strange just to throw you off, lol Thanks for giving it a try anyway, just a bit of something new. :)