It's no secret that I love Emilie Autumn. She has had a long career of amazing music and crazy shows, but she was always missing something. That something has shown up, finally, to bring her career full circle. She has finally released her first music video. Three albums and ten years later it's still worth the wait.
"Fight Like A Girl" is the first single from Emilie Autumn ever. And yes, I'm being serious. Emilie usually drops her albums as whole works of art, but this was different. She's been getting buddy buddy with director Darren Lynn Bousman, famous for Repo: The Genetic Opera and The Devil's Carnival (of which Emilie stars in). What has come of this partnership is one of the most entertaining music videos I've seen in the past few years.
The plot of the video is that of a group of girls from Emilie's fictional Asylum For Wayward Victorian Girls being forced to perform various circus acts for a group of disgruntled men. Emilie, after being forced to strip down and put on a ridiculous costume, decides it's time to take revenge. She recruits several of her girlfriends to kill off their handlers and several audience members during their dance routine. What does she get in the end? Just locked back up in her cell.
Emilie has been known as a performer, and now those who haven't yet had the pleasure of seeing her live can see what it is all about. The quality is exceptional and the story is amusing. There is just enough plot to keep the viewer interested, but not so much that it becomes an overbearing Gaga movie-that-just-so-happens-to-have-music-in-it video. This is exactly what I was expecting and more.
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Finally she releases a music video. I loved it!
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