These are what we call the 'YMMV items.' Things that some people find in this work. We call them 'your mileage might vary' because not everyone sees these things in the same way. This starts discussions in the trope lists, a thing we don't want. Please use the discussion page if you'd like to discuss any of these items.
YMMV: Emilie Autumn
Anvilicious / Some Anvils Need to Be Dropped: Her wish for her live shows is to be an "anti-repression statement" and empowerment and You Are Not Alone. This involves shining a light on many sexist and demeaning things she's had to deal with in her life, such as not mocking suicidal tendencies/actions, not objectifying woman, mental health issues becoming a discussable topic and not allowing yourself to be put through crap and become defeated, in any way, to "fight like a girl" to get, really, anything you want.
"The Art of Suicide" (a sarcastic examination and condemnation of the reasons people use for ending their lives) becomes this in spades with a little context, when you realize that the album "Opheliac" (where the song appears) was made as a substitute for suicide.
I Know Where You Sleep, Thank God I'm Pretty, Opheliac.
Unlaced, the entire album, it is entirely perfect arguably and tells a story for sure. What this story is, is open to debate...
Fight Like A Girl gets special mention for the vocal evolution she goes through and the new sound she experiments with.
Does Not Like Men: EA has been accused of this, especially with the dawn of the song "Fight Like A Girl"(I’ll get my revenge on the world or at least 49% of the people in it*
the "49%" bit referring to the fact that women, despite their oppressed status, form a slight majority over men in many countries' populations)
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She has countered this by saying most of the album is open to her male fans and there is some lines about "If you're against this you're with me regardless of gender" lyrics. At least in the demo version before she started performing it.
Also in the (recently released) studio version of Fight Like A Girl, there's the line 'Even if you're only a boy, you can fight like a girl.' Not perfect, but doesn't ENTIRELY hate men.
One could also consider that the "49%" is not necessarily referring to the percentage of men there are in the world, but rather, to the fact that Emilie has more supporters on her side than those that are not:
"There are more of us than there are of you/So show me your worst!"
Fridge Brilliance comes into play when it comes full circle, she's refer to woman as the stronger sex, while saying Fight Like A Girl (Weakly) which confuses people which is the POINT of the whole exercise...With the 49 per centile (The people who don't get it) and the If Your Only A Boy (Even if you're just a boy you can join in too)
Ear Worm: All of Opheliac, Enchant, Fight Like A Girl and Unlaced.
Ending Fatigue: on the album, the end of God Help Me is drawn out and repetitive for most of the second half of the song. Live, it's where the Crumpets get... ah, enthusiastic with their cups of tea and where Captain Maggots stage-dives.
Face of the Band: Despite Emilie being a solo artist, her live shows avert this. Most muffins can name at least the current line up of Bloody Crumpets - Aprella, Veronica, Captain Maggot, and Contessa - which is probably helped by them being introduced during the show. The former Crumpets tend not to have their names known as well however, though most fans can name at least Captain Vecona and Lady Joo Hee (who is the only Crumpet on any album).
That Morning Show performance is also where the fan nickname of "Muffin" originated - Emilie wanted something to replace the Precision F-Strike in the song, so she asked for suggestions, and recieved "Muffin". The rest, as they say, is history!
Fan Nickname: Emilie "Awesome" has become memetic recently.
Fan Dumb: A number of fans attempt to emulate Emilie in a large number of ways, including claiming to have mental disorders.
One fun game? Do a people search on Facebook for "Opheliac," "Emilie," "Autumn," "Plague," or "Muffin."
Germans Love David Hasselhoff: Owing much to her old label being German, Emilie did quite a bit of touring in Europe (5 tours since 2007) with Opheliac before getting to perform in North America at all and it wasn't until late 2009 that she could do a full tour. She knows it and gave a Shout Out to the Hoff in a recent interview.
Iron Woobie: Gets criticized and misunderstood from all sides, still gets trolled on the internet by haters to this day and though it still upsets her, she's still here and still making magic.
Les Yay: The concerts are just dripping in this between everyone, and in the case of Veronica, that also applies to the girls in the audience.
"306", first the lyrics, then the deathly strings, then the "pick your instrument" then she stops singing at all...and then you can't walk anywhere alone for five days afterwards.
"Liar", especially remixed (Angelspit and Metalocalypse) is flat out this.
"Gothic Lolita" is simultaneously heartbreaking and incredibly disturbing, especially the ghostly chorus of "call off the search, we've found her."
"4 O'Clock" is about a (mental disorder-related) inability to sleep.
The screaming in the acoustic version of "Mad Girl," particularly the sudden scream of LIAR! that isn't in the electric one.
"Organ Grinder." Gadzooks. Especially once you realize it's from the Saw soundtrack... "I paid for your silence" indeed.
"In The Lake", especially when you read The Asylum for Wayward Victorian Girls, and find out that Emilie really did try to drown herself in the lake behind her boyfriend's house.
"Fight Like A Girl" any track, either for it's Lyrical Dissonance or for it's outrageous violent instrumental elements (And screams)
Periphery Demographic: Despite the strong feminist themes in her work, a significant portion of Autumn's fan base is male; she refers to them as her "Asylum Boys".
Sweet Dreams Fuel: Her poem "Ghost", of a woman who has fallen for and is being courted by a ghost. It's surprisingly sweet.
"Remember", from Enchant, arguably qualifies.
"Across The Sky" heals whoever listens to it.
"Crazy He Calls Me" is kind of sweet in it's nuttiness.
Her acoustic violin songs Revelry, Leclair-Tabourin and Vitali-Chaconne brings the sweet dreams too.
"All My Loving" would also qualify.
"I Don't Understand" from Fight Like A Girl could apply.
"Swallow" is the most calm track off Opheliac.
"What If" is very gentle and beautiful.
Squick: "Miss Lucy Had Some Leeches". Parts of "Fight Like A Girl".
They Changed It, Now It Sucks: There were some opinions of this around the release of Opheliac and with Emilie's promises of the next album being more metal and violent, some are already worried about it being bad.
The Asylum forum... dearGod, the Asylum forum... just about every significant change has led to rage and fury from the muffins (the removal of the 'Filthy Libertines' subforum, the announcement that the 'Speak In Your Own Language' subforums would be made read-only, the chat's transformation, and the removal of every non-EA related subforum to say the least).
Unfortunate Implications: Naturally she has come under fire for "excluding" males in her Fight Like A Girl song.
And you know wanting to get revenge on all men and saying "Even if you're 'only' a boy"...
Some people have taken issue with "Take the Pill", pointing out that while it may be a flawed system, some people actually need medication to manage mental illness and that shouldn't be a bad thing.
Compared to her other, much deeper songs about sadness/depression, "Willow" can come off as this.
I'm not unique in this
Nor am I special, sweet or kind
I court a thousand smiles
Yet I keep my own to hide behind
When taken at face value, it's easy to see "Thank God I'm Pretty" as Wangst, particularly for fans who aren't that pretty themselves. More generally, though, it can be interpreted as a statement that nobody has the right to judge your problems as trivial just because you have an attribute that someone else lacks, which is something to which most people can relate.
