Emilie Autumn – Gothic Lolita

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  My Interpretation:The kind of murder where nobody dies seems to relate to loss of innocence. As a victim of sexual abuse where my abuser was never blamed this song is gorgeous to me. Emilie's just so sarcastic about it all. ' I /perfectly/ understand. So it's /my/ fault?' And the constant little dig she gives 'You never did anything any man wouldn't do...' It's also sad though because it shows her being left 'a bundle of broken nerves' and that mouth full of words she'll never say is obviously 'he raped me and I couldn't do a thing about it.' If you listen to the Opheliac Companion Album (Basically the commentry (This songs commentry is 96 minutes something long)) She goes on to explain that it is about her. It is about what she's been through, and the fact that Lolita is seen as dressing up as almost dead little girls links to dead innocence.

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  General Comment:"The kind of murder where nobody dies..." EA seems to write her songs specifically for my story about Roxanne Martela and her struggle to not become the slave to passion she already is. (No, that does not mean she begs for everything. She submits, but doesn't ask.)

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  Song Meaning:I read on Wikipedia that Emilie has been a victim of rape, so this song is a great way to say that. I've noticed that in contrast with other artists, Emilie's songs all seem to mean something to her.

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  Song Meaning:"Autumn experienced abuse, which began when she was six years old, and is a survivor of rape."
  This was on wikipedia and i dont think they are lying.......... She was probably raped as a child and that is probably what this song is about.... She's like lolita, raped as a child, but since emilie's style can be best described as goth, hence the title "Gothic Lolita"

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  Song Meaning:ATTENTION: to all you IDIOTS who thought this song was about Lolita, it's NOT! its about the artist!! its not about the "fashion" gothic lolita, it doesnt refer to the book, its about her! gothic lolita is NOT just a fashion! read her autobiography, peoples!

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  General Comment:I read a lot of what everyone said and I agree with sexual abuse and the theory of being based on Lolita the book. But I have come to believe that Emilie might have been abused from snippets of her songs, book and of course, an interview in which she said she finds this song the most emotional and difficult to sing live. I don't blame her. It's so sad... Yet funny I cannot stop listening.

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  General Comment:It's talking about how she was raped as a child by someone older than her, yet she sees like the more mature one for having to accept what happened to her and get on with life, whilst even though they're older, they're selfish for hurting her for their own personal pleasure. "I'm older than you'll ever be. I've been dead a thousand years and lived only two or three"- this shows how after it happened she felt as though she had been killed, and as she was only a child, she had only a few years of her childhood lived.
  
  "The kind of murder where nobody dies, but I don't suppose you'd understand"
  
  She goes on in a sarcastic manner, to thank them for making her the wreck she is to this day. Since that moment she has tried to show human feelings towards other people, but feels paranoid and as though she cannot trust anyone because of how she was taken advantage of in the past.

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    thank you, finally SOMEONE who gets it

    Flag otakutakoon April 24, 2011  
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  General Comment:This song might be more simple than people say. I think the song is about the idea that people have these days about some rape victims. People tend to assume it's the victim's fault for being raped if she was wearing something revealing ("But ruffles and laces and candy sweet faces directed your furtive hand I completely understand so it's my fault") or even walking by herself at night. While it is unwise to walk by yourself at night in a sketchy area, I still think it is wrong to blame the victim. You can't justify the illegal actions of one person by blaming it on the perfectly legal actions of another.

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  My Interpretation:The song is about a young girl who was sexually abused and has grown up emotionless and dead inside as a result, hence the line "I've been dead a thousand years and lived only two or three", indicating that she was very young when it happened, and because of it, the remainder of her life has felt like a thousand years. It's also indicated in the line "The kind of murder where nobody dies".
  Emilie stated in an interview with Bazzarre magazine in early 2010 that she had been sexually abused from the age of -if I recall correctly- 6 years old and onwards, though she gave no indication of who did it to her. She also stated on her forum, when recording this song that it was one of the hardest songs she's ever had to record. I think that this song is based on her own pesonal experiences, and is named after the book Lolita by Vladamir Nabokov because of the similarities to her own life.
  As far as the japanese subculture of dressing up as a little girl goes: what do you think Lolita fashion was named after??

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  General Comment:this song is about lolita from the book Lolita writen by Vladimir Nabokov. It is an outcry from the character Lolita.
  

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