History YMMV / LoreenaMcKennitt

* NightmareFuel
** "The Bonny Swans". Specifically, the part about the harp-making. Also, in the music video for the song, the rather terrifying skull mask the harp's "false sister Anne" is wearing for the court masquerade.
** [[FridgeHorror The likely]] [[TheFairFolk fate]] of the "Stolen Child".
** What happens to both "The Highwayman" and his lover, the landlord's daughter Bess.
** The ultimate conclusion of "Cymbeline"--rich or poor, educated or not, even if you're a doctor, [[YouCantFightFate nothing can change how it ends]]...[[DownerEnding "all follow this and come to dust"]].
** What the knight-at-arms dreams in "La Belle Dame Sans Merci"...that [[TheFairFolk the fairy woman]] who has enchanted him and stolen his heart had done this to many men before him, and, well...
-->''I saw pale kings and princes too''\\
''Pale warriors, death-pale were all''\\
''They cried: "La Belle Dame sans Merci''\\
''Hath thee in thrall!"''\\
''I saw their starved lips in the gloam''\\
''With horrid warning gaped wide''\\
''And I awoke and found me here''\\
''On the cold hillside''

* FandomRivalry: A mostly friendly one with Music/{{Enya}}. While neither camp is exactly at one another's throats on the matter, there are some debates among fans over which one of them does Celtic-style NewAge music better.

* EarWorm: "The Mummers Dance," both it's original version and the DNA remix which became a hit single. Later live performances often combine the two into an equally catchy up-tempo rock tune.

** What the knight-at-arms dreams in "La Belle Dame Sans Merci"...that the fairy woman who has enchanted him and stolen his heart had done this to many men before him, and, well...

* EarWorm: "The Mummers Dance," both it's original version and the DNA remix which became a hit single. More recent live performances combine the two into an equally catchy up-tempo rock tune.

* NightmareFuel: "The Bonny Swans". Specifically, the part about the harp-making. Also, in the music video for the song, the rather terrifying skull mask the harp's "false sister Anne" is wearing for the court masquerade.

* CrowningMomentOfAwesome: In every live version she's done of "The Bonny Swans" since ''The Mask and the Mirror'' came out, but especially the one from her ''Live in Paris and Toronto'' concert, the moment when the harp reveals to the entire court what her "false sister Anne" did to her is punctuated by an absolutely badass electric guitar riff which underscores just how screwed her sister is by the reveal.
* CrowningMomentOfHeartwarming: Many of her songs which are not tragic ballads (and even some that are) act as this due to their being expressions of love and devotion, but particularly notable are "Penelope's Song" and "Never Ending Road."

* NightmareFuel: "The Bonny Swans". Specifically, the part about the harp-making.

* MagnumOpus: "The Book of Secrets" is by far her deepest and most intricate release to date, and that is saying something.

-->''The road now leads onward''
-->''I know not where''
-->''I feel in my heart that you will be there''
-->''Whenever a storm comes''
-->''Whatever our fears''
-->''The journey goes on''
-->''As your love ever nears''
-->''Here is my heart, I give it to you''
-->''Take me with you across this land''
-->''These are my dreams, so simple and few''
-->''Dreams we hold in the palm of our hands.''

* TearJerker: Several of her songs.