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| Autumn performing during a Fight Like A Girl Concert |
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| Autumn during the Enchant era |
Autumn's historical knowledge, singing abilities, and skills as a writer (of both prose and poetry) were all self taught. She is still a published poet and her novel, The Asylum For Wayward Victorian Girls, is cited in textbooks in Oxford University's psychology curriculum despite being removed from school at age ten, to perfect her skills as a child prodigy violinist.
Autumn originally planned to become merely a classical composer and violinist, but then realized that her voice was necessary for her to truly express her art and views.
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| Autumn during her Opheliac album cover shoot. All of her costumes are hand sewn by Autumn herself. |
EA is now well versed in industrial rock as well as classical music- shown especially by her 2007 album Laced/Unlaced- a two disc instrumental album. Disc one- Laced- is all classical, whereas disc two - Unlaced- is all metal and industrial rock recordings on electric violin.
Below is her song "Manic Depression", which shows her skill as both a classical and rock artist with the violin.
Autumn's half-autobiographical, half-fiction novel The Asylum For Wayward Victorian Girls, based on Emilie's own diary while she was in a mental hospital after a suicide attempt, is currently in the production stage of becoming a Broadway musical.
Her fans - plague rats, as they're called - flock to her concerts with her signature heart painted on their cheeks to hear and see her elaborate and dramatic performances that could almost be called musical theater.
She is amazing! I love this.
ReplyDeleteShe's awesome! One of my favorite musicians of all time!
DeleteI wrote this post because Emilie Autumn is one of my inspirations in life, and her music got me through many a rough time in my life. Her writing is beautiful despite not really having a formal education. The idea that she went from a classical composer and violinist to an industrial/gothic rock singer is so interesting and adds dimension to her music. I saw her twice in concert, and I feel as though both concerts were so unique and the vibe was so fun, and Emilie was such a creative and loving soul for facilitating the love that was felt among her fans. I mostly read off of her own bio page on her website, so it was difficult to summarize. It was also difficult to stay somewhat unbiased, because I have a lot of personal feelings regarding Emilie and her music, but I wanted the post to be unbiased yet positive. I wanted my audience to appreciate Emilie and all she's been through- having bipolar disorder, being hospitalized after a suicide attempt, being removed from school, etc. - and that she's trained her whole life to create classical music, but suddenly decided to go a different route.
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