Write Like A Girl (Emilie Autumn Lyrics) Quiz

Answer: Fight Like A Girl

The album "Fight Like A Girl" is a kind of soundtrack to Emilie Autumn's autobiographical fantasy novel "The Asylum For Wayward Victorian Girls". This song corresponds to the tea party massacre as an act of revenge, explained. The doctors have dehumanised the inmates/patients and treated them like worthless, dispensable dolls.

The inmates have to protect themselves from being killed by killing all the doctors.

Answer: Goodnight, Sweet Ladies

After Emily, Autumn's fictional Victorian counterpart in "TAFWVG" and her friends have been running the asylum for a while, in the book, the asylum collapses and all the former inmates commit suicide in a beautiful way, by jumping off the roof. This incident relates to this song.

Answer: Take The Pill

This song is relatable to the autobiographical parts of Emilie's novel, where she is trapped in a psych ward, forced to stand in queues and take medications which may or may not help her.

Answer: I Don't Understand

This song corresponds to the part of the book where Emily meets the photographer Thomas, who's been employed by the asylum to photograph girls for a pamphlet advertising their bodies. Thomas doesn't realise the girls are about to be rented out; he thinks he's making art. Thomas is keen on Emily and she likes him although she doesn't view him as blameless.
Some of Emily's friends in the asylum include talking rats such as Sir Edward and Basil, a former showgirl called Veronica and "the Captain".

Answer: Gaslight

This song references many of Emily's experiences in the asylum, including hearing the death cart go past in the early mornings. After the revue, Emily and some of her friends find themselves in Ward B, which is for inmates who are waiting to die; the conditions in that ward are absolutely terrible. Emily watches girls die from hydrotherapy, pneumonia, bloodletting and other treatments before discovering the doctors are murdering patients for (ultimately) profit.

Answer: We Want Them Young

The Victorian (fictional) girls get sold out by the asylum and this song seems to relate to the prostitution of the inmates.

Answer: Girls, Girls, Girls!

The fictional asylum puts on a revue for the public in which the prettiest girls play Ophelias, or Opheliacs. This song relates to that event in the book.

Answer: Time For Tea

This song relates to the Tea Party Massacre in which all the inmates participate. They slaughter all asylum staff members, doing in the cruel doctors in creative and inhumane ways. One very sadistic doctor escapes and, Autumn implies, becomes Jack the Ripper.

Answer: One Foot In Front Of The Other

Emilie Autumn explained that her answer to suffering and injustice is to put "one foot in front of the other".
Emilie claims to have been a victim of abuse in childhood and the fictional inmates of the Asylum for Wayward Victorian Girls certainly suffer much abuse. Once victims, such as Emilie and her characters, have secured for them a safe environment, they can rebuild their worlds. This song celebrates this. In TAFWVG the inmates remain in the asylum after they're murdered all their custodians and do just that (before they all jump off the asylum roof and die.)

Answer: Start Another Story

This song is possibly about life after trauma once one has taken control of one's life. Emilie Autumn was born in Los Angeles, California. Because she was bullied during elementary school (because she was a violin prodigy), Emilie was homeschooled from the time she was ten until she entered Indiana University as a teenager; though she read voraciously, most of her formal education during that time was musical.

After dropping out of college she began a career as a professional musician. After leaving home she was diagnosed with bipolar disorder and after a suicide attempt she was admitted to a psychiatric ward (an event which in part inspired the book and album).

Her first major album of original songs, 'Enchant', was released in 2003; her second, 'Opheliac', was in 2009 and is thematically linked to 'FLAG', which was released in 2012.