This interview with Emilie Autumn was conducted on February 22nd 2013 at the Grammercy Theater in NYC by WMSC 90.3's Japan Nick.
Emilie Autumn is a gothic industrial violinist whose most recent album was 2012's Fight like a Girl Album. (It has) shaped up to be the biggest and most important release of her career appearing on her new label Asylum Emporium .Emilie spoke in great depth about her entrance into 2012's The Devil's Carnival film which was directed and produced by Darren Lynn Bousman who also worked on Repo! The Genetic Opera movie.
She appeared on the soundtrack to that film with the song Prick the Scorpion's Tail. Emilie was the first person to sign on to the project and through that was able to give a sizable amount of input. She revealed she had to dye her hair blonde on the first day and will keep it like that since she is attached to appear in the sequel which has a different focus. The sequel is now centered around heaven and the idea is questions whether the devil really the bad guy and some more introspective and existential questioning will take place. She also spoke about turning the Asylum into a Broadway musical, making soundtracks for it, and eventually turning it into a movie.
She really explained in great depth the song Take the Pill about prescribed medication and the psych ward community. She said that often times, people would be over prescribed medication to better allow the people in the medical community to better control them as opposed to what would be a healthier solution for people that are suffering. She revealed that she did not write Prick the Scorpion's Tail and had no role in it and it was a unique experience for Emilie since she performs songs that are always one hundred percent hers. During the filming of the song she revealed that it was shot late at night in the desert in deathly cold conditions and she apparently got so impassioned during her scene she ended up destroying a marble column when they weren't filming.