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2[[caption-width-right:250:Bret, and all his [[CreepyAwesome creepiness.]]]]
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5[[JustForFun/DescribeTopicHere Describe Blue Stahli here]].
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8He's like Music/{{Celldweller}}, [[{{Dissimile}} except different.]]
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11Bret Autrey is the [[IAmTheBand only member]] of the UsefulNotes/{{Michigan}} based {{electronic|Music}}, {{heavy metal}}, {{dubstep}}, and a [[GenreMashup bunch of other genres]] band Blue Stahli. He started out under the alias [=VOXiS=] and released his first ever album called ''Darkeworld Project One'' which caught the attention of the [=FiXT=] labelhead, [[Music/{{Celldweller}} Klayton]], who worked on his first {{instrumental|s}} album titled ''Antisleep Vol. 1''. Three years later, Bret managed to put out his first vocal based SelfTitledAlbum to commercial and critical success. His music has been used in plenty [[SongAssociation of video games, trailers, and tv shows]]. As time went on, Bret became one of the [[EnsembleDarkhorse more famous]] members of the [=FiXT=] team and defined himself as one of the [[CloudCuckooLander weirdest]] people on the label, but for reasons we won't discuss here, he has since left the label and is now self-releasing his work. He also has a Website/YouTube [[https://www.youtube.com/user/bluestahli/videos Page]] where he answers questions, posts his music, tell people about stuff he's selling, gives updates, and other good stuff.
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13Blue Stahli himself was compared to Music/{{Celldweller}} a lot at first due to the fact they're both [[IAmTheBand one man]] {{heavy metal}} {{electronic|Music}} bands fronted by guys with red hair who writes songs with oddly sci fi-ish themes and lyrics, but as time has gone on, people have realized how different they really are in terms of vocals, music and personality.
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15!!Blue Stahli provides examples of the following tropes:
16* BadassCreed: Has [[GratuitousFrench "l'art est une arme"]] tattooed on his neck, which translates to "art is a weapon".
17* BlackComedy: On many of his [=YouTube=] videos, a lot of the jokes he says can range from disturbing, disturbing and funny, to just plain outright scary.
18* CloudCuckooLander: Not only does he have a weird way of thinking, but he also has a weird way of ''playing his music''. He does not use tabs and simply holds all the music in his head, plus he's a self taught guitarist, so his style of playing is very odd.
19* HotLibrarian: He's said, "My clothing style is best described as, 'sexy librarian'."
20%% * IAmTheBand
21* IfItBleedsItLeads: "Shoot 'Em Up" is about how media coverage of mass killings turns the perpetrators into celebrities, with the lyrics proposing that news outlets ''intentionally'' encourage these tragedies so they can have an interesting story to report on. Bret wrote the song out of his disgust at seeing Dzhokhar Tsarnaev on the cover of ''Magazine/RollingStone''.
22* {{Instrumentals}}: Four albums worth, no less!
23* LastNoteNightmare: "Demon", complete with [[SubliminalSeduction backmasking]], [[EvilSoundsDeep pitch-shifted]] [[OminousLatinChanting chanting]] and [[ElectronicSpeechImpediment chopped-up, distorted singing]].
24* LyricalDissonance: "Never Dance Again" is an upbeat, 80s-esque [[{{Irony}} danceable]] song about a man who finds out his girl is cheating on him and then runs her over.
25* MetalScream: Many of his songs feature harsh screams. He's even [[LampshadeHanging confessed]] to how much he loves this trope.
26%% * NightmareFetishist:
27%% ** "Scrape" is about a particularly AxCrazy one.
28%% ** Also, Bret.
29* NonIndicativeName: His hair isn't blue and he is in no way related to Susanne Stähli. [[labelnote:*]]Though, he did get his name from her.[[/labelnote]]
30%% * ObligatoryBondageSong:
31%% ** "[=ULTRAnumb=]".
32%% ** And then you have "[=Kill Me Every Time=]"...
33* OOCIsSeriousBusiness: "Shoot Em Up" is the only time Bret has ever gone out of his way to [[DontExplainTheJoke explain one of his songs]], partly because he felt so strongly about it, but also because it could be taken the wrong way.
34%% * PrettyBoy: To the point where [[EvenTheGuysWantHim even men are attracted to him]].
35* ProtestSong: "Shoot Em Up" is really a protest about how the media covers mass shootings and how it almost glorifies them.
36* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: "Down In Flames" is a song about calling the target of the singer's wrath a "self-inflicted pretty little martyr", calling their target out as someone who only pretends to be nice, and that "if forcing empathy is as clever as you can be, we'll gladly watch while you go down in flames" as a result of their actions.
37* SelfTitledAlbum: ''Blue Stahli'', his first vocal album.
38%% * SesquipedalianLoquaciousness: And HOW!
39%% * SopranoAndGravel: A one man example.
40* SpecialGuest:
41** ''Blue Stahli'':
42*** [[Music/{{Celldweller}} Klayton]] provides some backing vocals for "Kill Me Every Time".
43** ''Antisleep Vol. 3'':
44*** A [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yhHFfEC7d6k version]] of "Suit Up" features some vocals from rap/rock duo Southpaw Swagger.
45** ''The Devil'':
46*** Emma Anzai of Australian rock band Sick Puppies on "Not Over Til We Say So".
47*** Mark Salomon of The Crucified & Stavesacre on "You'll Get What's Coming".
48* SubliminalSeduction: According to him, his music contains subliminal messages telling you to do inappropriate things with cowboy hats.
49* SurprisinglyGentleSong: "Throw Away," which is much more mellow than his [[IndustrialMetal usual]] [[MetalScream style]]. Musically anyways, [[DrivenToSuicide lyrically]][[DarkerAndEdgier ....]]
50* VagueAge: It's very unclear how old he is, and to make matters worse his age is not online. However, he has stated he started out his project [=VOXiS=] in 2000 when he was in high-school, so he's most likely in his late 20s-early 30s.
51* YouAreBetterThanYouThinkYouAre: "Rockstar" says that "you're a rockstar, a superhero", and that you need to "show 'em what you're made of" because you're more capable than you realize of getting what you want.
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