![]() ![]() The album received mixed to positive reviews, with much of the critique concerning the clarity of the album's plot. The track "4 o'Clock (Reprise)" is an instrumental reworking of the title track of Autumn's 2008 EP 4 O'Clock. "Time for Tea" depicts the climactic scene of the novel, an event known as the Tea Party Massacre, where the inmates rise up against the doctors and take over the Asylum "Girls! Girls! Girls!" depicts what is known in the book as "The Ophelia Gallery", where the inmates of the Asylum are exhibited as a sideshow attraction and "I Don't Understand" portrays the main character's brief relationship with a sympathetic photographer. At the end of the video, one of the guards, portrayed by Senter, forcefully kisses her before locking her away, and it is revealed that, in doing so, he has slipped her a key.Īs an adaptation of The Asylum for Wayward Victorian Girls, many of the songs directly reference the events of the novel, sometimes even quoting the book directly. Autumn is then dragged off stage by the asylum guards and taken back to her cell, implying the previous events were a hallucination or fantasy. In the video, Autumn and several other "asylum inmates" take revenge on and murder a group of men they have been forced to perform for. In 2013, Autumn produced and starred in her first ever music video for the song "Fight Like A Girl", directed by Darren Lynn Bousman, and also featuring Marc Senter, Dayton Callie, and Autumn's longtime collaborators and back-up dancers Veronica Varlow, Maggie Lally (also known as Captain Maggot), and Ulorin Vex. The full album was released on Jas both a physical CD and an mp3 download. On April 11, 2012, the title track "Fight Like a Girl" was released as a single through Autumn's website as a digital download, featuring the song "Time For Tea" as a b-side. Starting on March 3, 2012, and beginning with the song "We Want Them Young", Autumn began releasing the official lyrics to the songs through her blog. Part of the North and South American tour was postponed to November and December of that year due to an unspecified illness. Īutumn scheduled three tours in 2012 to promote the album, each referred to either as the "Fight Like A Girl tour" or the "FLAG tour", the first throughout North and South America in January and February, and the next two in the UK and Europe in March and April. Release and promotion Īs early as 2010, Autumn hinted that she was working on the album, revealing the acronym "F.L.A.G." on Twitter in June of that year, before later announcing the full title. She has referred to the album as a preview of her forthcoming full-length musical based on the book. It is a concept album, based on her novel The Asylum for Wayward Victorian Girls. Fight Like a Girl is the third studio album released by Emilie Autumn. ![]()
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