Line #12 Music/Poe


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2	[[caption-width-right:350:The album cover of ''Haunted'']]
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4	Poe (real name Annie Decatur Danielewski, 1967-) is an American singer-songwriter. She has released two albums to date, ''Hello'' (1995) and ''Haunted'' (2000).
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6	''Hello'' featured the modern rock radio hits "Angry Johnny", "Trigger Happy Jack" and "Hello". ''Haunted'' is by far the more notable of the two, despite being less successful commercially. The album is both a tribute to her late father[[note]]Tad Danielewski, best known for his film adaptation of ''Theatre/NoExit''[[/note]] and a companion piece to her brother [[Creator/MarkZDanielewski Mark]]'s novel ''Literature/HouseOfLeaves''. ''Haunted'''s most successful single, "Hey Pretty", features Mark reading sections from ''House of Leaves'' in place of verses.
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8	After 23 years of absence, she released the song "This Road" for the video game ''VideoGame/AlanWakeII''.
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10	!!Tropes associated with Poe include:
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12	* AllWomenArePrudes: The song "Not a Virgin" goes against this and slut shaming.
13	* ConceptAlbum: ''Haunted''.
14	* CreatorCameo: In the video game ''VideoGame/{{Apocalypse}}'', she voices the second horseman, Plague, and her song "Control" plays in the background of her battle.
15	* FadingIntoTheNextSong: More often than not in ''Haunted''.
16	* GriefSong: "If You Were Here".
17	* LyricalDissonance: "Angry Johnny" actually sounds kind of sexy/romantic if you ignore the fact the lyrics are all about her discussing ways to kill him.
18	* MercyKill: One of the stanzas in "Angry Johnny" sounds like he's tormented and she is killing him to end his suffering.
19	* MurderBallad: "Angry Johnny" is a long list of ways she could kill the title character, with the chorus always coming back to "but either way, I'm gonna kill you, I'm gonna blow you away".
20	* RearrangeTheSong: When the title track of ''Hello'' was released as a single, it was a completely different arrangement that basically changed the genre of the song from trip-hop to AlternativeRock - this was officially known as "Hello (Band Version)", and was also the way she tended to play the song live.
21	** Then there's the already-mentioned single version of "Hey Pretty": At the time, alternative rock radio was playing few female acts, so when the song was being promoted for radio play, it was found that many stations liked the song, but were reluctant to add it to rotation. Finally, one radio program director suggested Poe create "some crazy mix" of the song and he'd try playing it on air once to test listener reaction. In response, she came up with the idea of having Creator/MarkZDanielewski perform SpokenWordInMusic over the verse sections because, technically, it would then have fewer female vocals. Since his novel ''House of Leaves'' was a best-seller at the time, his appearance drove interest in the song and gave Poe her fourth and last entry on the ''Billboard'' Alternative chart.

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