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* CreatorWorship: Everyone who adores troubled artists, especially singers, admires Holiday. There is a reason why she is still the most iconic jazz singer of all time.
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* NightmareFuel: "Strange Fruit", describing the sinister scene of a lynching and contrasting it with a peaceful Southern evening. Made worse in that it's based on an actual event.
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** "Strange Fruit", describing the sinister scene of a lynching and contrasting it with a peaceful Southern evening. Made worse in that it's based on an actual event.
** "Strange Fruit", describing the sinister scene of a lynching and contrasting it with a peaceful Southern evening. Made worse in that it's based on an actual event.
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* OlderThanTheyThink: People tend to forget that the inextricable link between music and drugs long predates rock 'n' roll - or recorded music for that matter. Holiday was arrested on her ''deathbed'' for heroin possession.
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* OlderThanTheyThink: OlderThanTheyThink:
** People tend to forget that the inextricable link between music and drugs long predates rock 'n' roll - or recorded music for that matter. Holiday was arrested on her ''deathbed'' for heroinpossession.possession.
** The French play ''Gringoire'' by Théodore de Banville (1866) has a scene where the protagonist says a poem based on a metaphor similar to "Strange Fruit": hanged corpses described as fruits in a tree.[[note]]In 1960, Music/GeorgesBrassens made "Le Verger du roi Louis", a song based on Bainville's poem. In 2021, French comedian François Morel made an album of Brassens covers and his version of "Le Verger du roi Louis" contains samples from Billie Holiday's "Strange Fruit".[[/note]]
** People tend to forget that the inextricable link between music and drugs long predates rock 'n' roll - or recorded music for that matter. Holiday was arrested on her ''deathbed'' for heroin
** The French play ''Gringoire'' by Théodore de Banville (1866) has a scene where the protagonist says a poem based on a metaphor similar to "Strange Fruit": hanged corpses described as fruits in a tree.[[note]]In 1960, Music/GeorgesBrassens made "Le Verger du roi Louis", a song based on Bainville's poem. In 2021, French comedian François Morel made an album of Brassens covers and his version of "Le Verger du roi Louis" contains samples from Billie Holiday's "Strange Fruit".[[/note]]
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* DeadArtistsAreBetter: Her legend has been accelerated by her early death.
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* DeadArtistsAreBetter: PosthumousPopularityPotential: Her legend has been accelerated by her early death.
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* DeadArtistsAreBetter: Her legend has been accelerated by her early death.
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* RetroactiveRecognition: Of a boy Billie occasionally babysat. He was a nephew of the man who ran her first record company, Commodore Records, and his name also happened to be Billy. He was a funny kid who grew up to be one Billy Crystal (of ''Film/{{When Harry Met Sally}}'' fame). Billy's uncle, Milt Gabler, later became famous himself as the producer of Music/BillHaleyAndHisComets' "Rock Around the Clock".
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* RetroactiveRecognition: Of a boy Billie occasionally babysat. He was a nephew of the man who ran her first record company, Commodore Records, and his name also happened to be Billy. He was a funny kid who grew up to be one Billy Crystal Creator/BillyCrystal (of ''Film/{{When Harry Met Sally}}'' fame). Billy's uncle, Milt Gabler, later became famous himself as the producer of Music/BillHaleyAndHisComets' "Rock Around the Clock".
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** "Gloomy Sunday", ''and how''. Considering it's urban legend, it's hard to not see why.
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** "Gloomy Sunday", ''and how''. Considering it's its urban legend, it's hard to not see why.
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* RetroactiveRecognition: Of a boy Billie occasionally babysat. He was a nephew of the man who ran her first record company, Commodore Records, and his name also happened to be Billy. He was a funny kid who grew up to be one Billy Crystal (of ''Film/{{When Harry Met Sally}}'' fame). Billy's uncle, Milt Gabler, later became famous himself as the producer of Music/BillHaleyAndHisComets' "Rock Around the Clock".
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* ColbertBump: Holiday's popularity has gained a recent boost between ''ComicBook/{{Blacksad}}'' using "Strange Fruit" and ''VideoGame/{{Fallout 3}}'' using "Crazy He Calls Me".
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** "Gloomy Sunday", ''and how''. Considering it's urban legend, it's hard to not see why.
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* RetroactiveRecognition: Of a boy Billie occasionally babysat. He was a nephew of the man who ran her first record company, Commodore Records, and his name also happened to be Billy. He was a funny kid who grew up to be one Billy Crystal (of ''{{When ''Film/{{When Harry Met Sally}}'' fame).
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* MagnumOpus: "Strange Fruit", as her SignatureSong, is often seen as her best song, while ''Music/LadyInSatin'' is considered to be her masterpiece in terms of albums.
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Her rendition of Gloomy Sunday is also well remembered.
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* SignatureSong: "Strange Fruit".Fruit" and "Gloomy Sunday".
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* OlderThanYouThink: People tend to forget that the inextricable link between music and drugs long predates rock 'n' roll - or recorded music for that matter. Holiday was arrested on her ''deathbed'' for heroin possession.
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* OlderThanYouThink: OlderThanTheyThink: People tend to forget that the inextricable link between music and drugs long predates rock 'n' roll - or recorded music for that matter. Holiday was arrested on her ''deathbed'' for heroin possession.
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* MagnumOpus: "Strange Fruit", as her SignatureSong, is often seen as her best song, while ''Music/LadyInSatin'' is considered to be her masterpiece in terms of albums.
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* OlderThanYouThink: People tend to forget that the inextricable link between music and drugs long predates rock 'n' roll - or recorded music for that matter. Holiday was arrested on her ''deathbed'' for heroin possession.possession.
* SignatureSong: "Strange Fruit".
* SignatureSong: "Strange Fruit".
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* ColbertBump: Holiday's popularity has gained a recent boost between ''ComicBook/{{Blacksad}}'' using "Strange Fruit" and ''VideoGame/{{Fallout 3}}'' using "Crazy He Calls Me".
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* NightmareFuel: "Strange Fruit", describing the sinister scene of a lynching and contrasting it with a peaceful Southern evening. Made worse in that it's based on an actual event.
* OlderThanYouThink: People tend to forget that the inextricable link between music and drugs long predates rock 'n' roll - or recorded music for that matter. Holiday was arrested on her ''deathbed'' for heroin possession.
* OlderThanYouThink: People tend to forget that the inextricable link between music and drugs long predates rock 'n' roll - or recorded music for that matter. Holiday was arrested on her ''deathbed'' for heroin possession.
