History Music / VoltAire

* WarningSong: "Beast of Pirate's Bay" involves the singer warning people at a tavern not to go into Pirate's Bay because of the beast that lives there, who scared Blackbeard's beard white and ate [[Literature/PeterPan Captain Hook's]] remaining hand. Ultimately subverted, because the beast was actually a beached whale the singer was trying to protect by keeping people away.

* HurricaneOfPuns: If you can listen to "Cannibal Buffet" all the way through without at least ''smiling,'' you have no soul.

* AwesomeMcCoolName: His real name is Aurelio Voltaire Hernandez.

* BiTheWay: In an episode of his Q&A show "The Lair of Voltaire" a fan asked "It says in your facebook profile you are interested in both men and women. Are you bisexual?" Voltaire then says "It never says on Facebook if it's for sexual activity, because I am interested in making friends with all genders." Keep in mind, Voltaire's way of speaking this sentence sounds like he's making it up as he goes along. Since this question, a lot of fans now agree that he's bisexual in some fashion.
** He was married to a woman and has many songs about women, but it's unlikely a straight man would write or sing [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oL1Gb8CfsMw this song.]]

* {{Pun}}: Often, but ''[[BiTheWay BiTrektual]]'' stands out as just blatantly obvious. The fact that the cover of the album has Voltaire cosplaying [[WesternAnimation/StarWarsTheCloneWars Clone Wars]]-era [[Franchise/StarWars Obi-Wan Kenobi]] ''MAKING OUT'' with [[Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries Hiraku Sulu]] (complete with FootPopping from Sulu).

* BiTheWay: In an episode of his Q&A show "The Lair of Voltaire" a fan asked "It says in your facebook profile you are interested in both men and women. Are you bisexual?" Voltaire then says "It never says on Facebook if it's for sexual activity, because I am interested in making friends with all genders." Keep in mind, Voltaire's way of speaking this sentence sounds like he's making it up as he goes along. Since this question, a lot of fans now agree that he's bisexual in some fashion. He was married to a woman and writes many songs about women, but it's unlikely a straight man would write or sing [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oL1Gb8CfsMw this song.]]

* BiTheWay: In an episode of his Q&A show "The Lair of Voltaire" a fan asked "It says in your facebook profile you are interested in both men and women. Are you bisexual?" Voltaire then says "It never says on Facebook if it's for sexual activity, because I am interested in making friends with all genders." Keep in mind, Voltaire's way of speaking this sentence sounds like he's making it up as he goes along. Since this question, a lot of fans now agree that he's bisexual in some fashion. He was married to a woman and writes many songs about women, but it's hard to believe a straight man would write or sing [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oL1Gb8CfsMw this song.]]

* BiTheWay: In an episode of his Q&A show "The Lair of Voltaire" a fan asked "It says in your facebook profile you are interested in both men and women. Are you bisexual?" Voltaire then says "It never says on Facebook if it's for sexual activity, because I am interested in making friends with all genders." Keep in mind, Voltaire's way of speaking this sentence sounds like he's making it up as he goes along. Since this question, a lot of fans now agree that he's bisexual in some fashion.

* DesertSkulls: Referenced in "Fear and Anguish"

* HumansAreBastards: The song "Oh Lord (Wake the Dead)" is mostly about this.
-->They act like rabid monkeys, chained up at the zoo,\\

* CreepyJazzMusic: A lot of Voltaire's jazzier songs utilize this trope, for example, the Cajun-style "Don't Go By the River."

* BadSanta: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qzM-n04qLlQ Santa Claus is Satan]] from his YouTube.

* CuteMonsterGirl: She's a rotten kind of cute, to be exact.

It's [[Creator/{{Voltaire}} also the name]] of one of history's most celebrated essayists, philosophers, and writers. But who cares about that? He does. A lot. He recently (since 2010), started to use his first name with it, so now to find his new stuff on ''iTunes,'' ''Pandora,'' ''Spotify,'' etc., you have to search for ''Aurelio Voltaire.'' He did this due to people making new bands with ''Voltaire'' in them, and so his fans can find him easily. He said on his official Website/{{Facebook}} page:

->"I got tired of there being other people releasing albums as ''Voltaire.'' There's an indie band in UsefulNotes/{{Germany}} and some American guy who makes instrumental hip-hop. Like, do these people not do a [[PrecisionFStrike fuckin]]' Website/{{Google}} search before naming their bands? Anyway, it was just easier to distinguish myself from them by using my first name."

* BeautyMark: Sometimes, in public appearances, he'll drawn in a heart-shaped one under his right eye.

-->''What cold heartless beast
Can sit and have his feast every night,

[[caption-width-right:288: [[MrFanservice Ain't he cute?]]]]

* BerserkButton: If you're planning to visit or attend ''The School of Visual Arts'' in New York City, do ''not'' bug him during one of his classes.

* BrainBleach: If you have a vivid imagination, then the mental images that "Cantina" gives you are this.
** "The Trouble with Tribbles" is that they're fluffy and they're cute but you can never find the hole. Then [[CrossesTheLineTwice comes the]] [[AssShove solution.]]

* MrFanservice: TallDarkAndHandsome, is he not?

* OlderThanTheyLook: Doesn't quite look fifty, does he?