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Murder Ballads (Music)
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MurderBallads | |
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Murder Ballads is the ninth studio album by Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds. Released in 1996 through Mute Records (in conjunction with Reprise Records in North America), it is the biggest commercial success in the band's career. Cave's duet with Kylie Minogue, "Where The Wild Roses Grow", became an international hit, though a Black Sheep Hit at the same time as Cave felt its soothing performance, despite the Lyrical Dissonance of the topic, was not representative of the rest of the album. When the song won an MTV Music Award the singer politely declined accepting the prize as he felt: "I don't believe art should be rated." | |
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Unreliable Narrator | |
| Murder Ballads (Music) / int_1869b4b1 | comment |
Unreliable Narrator: The narrator in "Song Of Joy" wants to be pitied, for his family was brutally murdered, but it is implied that he himself might have had something to do with it. | |
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Title Drop | |
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Title Drop: "Where The Wild Roses Grow" | |
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Villain Song | |
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Villain Song: "Stagger Lee", about a brutal cold blooded murderer, adulterer, and indiscriminate rapist. | |
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Couldn't Find a Pen | |
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Couldn't Find a Pen: The Serial Killer in "Song of Joy" writes quotes from John Milton on the walls in the blood of his victims. | |
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Black Comedy | |
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Black Comedy: "Stagger Lee", "The Curse Of Millhaven" and "O' Malley's Bar" describe murder in a blatant comedic fashion. "O' Malley's Bar" | |
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As the Good Book Says... | |
| Murder Ballads (Music) / int_2439b588 | comment |
As the Good Book Says...: "O'Malley's Bar" | |
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Red Right Hand | |
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Red Right Hand: "Song Of Joy" | |
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Alliterative Title | |
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Alliterative Title: "Where the Wild Rose Grow". The bar in "Stagger Lee" is called "The Bucket Of Blood". | |
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Special Guest | |
| Murder Ballads (Music) / int_2719ab04 | comment |
Special Guest: PJ Harvey, who was Nick Cave's lover at the time, sings along on "Henry Lee" and "Death Is Not The End". Shane MacGowan (The Pogues) sings along during "Death Is Not The End". Kylie Minogue duets with Cave during "Where The Wild Roses Crow" and "Death Is Not The End". | |
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Ax-Crazy | |
| Murder Ballads (Music) / int_2d4fa515 | comment |
Ax-Crazy: Lottie from "The Curse Of Milhaven" is literally rabid with psychopathic murderous rage, as well as the protagonist of "Stagger Lee", who is not only a murderous psychopath, but also a sadistic rapist who doesn't discriminate based on gender. | |
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Depraved Bisexual | |
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Depraved Bisexual: Stagger Lee in "Stagger Lee", who forces the husband of the woman he commits adultery with to give him a blowjob, then shoots him. | |
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| Murder Ballads (Music) / int_34f6774c | type |
Concept Album | |
| Murder Ballads (Music) / int_34f6774c | comment |
Concept Album: All the lyrics deal with murder ballads. | |
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Cluster F-Bomb | |
| Murder Ballads (Music) / int_35a858b3 | comment |
Cluster F-Bomb: "Stagger Lee", with the man himself and the bartender calling each other and themselves "motherfucker" multiple times. | |
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The Cover Changes the Meaning | |
| Murder Ballads (Music) / int_3f1f6c04 | comment |
The Cover Changes the Meaning: "Death Is Not The End" is supposed to comfort the listener with the thought of an afterlife. Cave's version seems to hint that even death won't set you free from suffering. | |
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Woman Scorned | |
| Murder Ballads (Music) / int_4063acfd | comment |
Woman Scorned: In "Henry Lee" the titular character runs afoul of a rather jealous one. | |
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Love Hurts | |
| Murder Ballads (Music) / int_424d15ad | comment |
Love Hurts: In "Where The Wild Roses Grow" the woman is murdered by the man whom she thought was her true loved one. In "Henry Lee" a woman kills a man because he didn't love her or wanted to make love to her. | |
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Dead Animal Warning | |
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Dead Animal Warning: Happens to Professor O'Rye in "The Curse of Millhaven". This is the one crime that Serial Killer Villain Protagonist who describes herself as 'a monster' denies responsibility for. | |
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Stock Sound Effects | |
| Murder Ballads (Music) / int_48dfb7e4 | comment |
Stock Sound Effects: Bullet shots are heard in "Stagger Lee". | |
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Cradle of Loneliness | |
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Cradle of Loneliness: "The Kindess Of Strangers", where a woman called Mary Bellows meets a man called Richard Slade, but tells him to leave once she has a room. She finds herself lonely and unlocks her door and gets shot, presumably by him. | |
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Downer Ending | |
| Murder Ballads (Music) / int_4e3d253b | comment |
Downer Ending: "The Curse Of Millhaven", about a serial killer who murders for fun and concludes: "All God's children they all gotta die!" The woman in "Where The Wild Roses Grow" is murdered in the end by her partner, who believes "all beauty must die". Mary Bellows in "The Kindness of Strangers" decides to trust the friendly man who helps her out. Tough luck there, Mary. | |
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Spree Killer | |
| Murder Ballads (Music) / int_4ebd9efb | comment |
Spree Killer: In "Crow Jane", Jane kills 20 miners in a single night on a Roaring Rampage of Revenge: "O'Malley's Bar" is a 14 minute song in which the Villain Protagonist describes in loving detail how he slaughters all of the occupants of the eponymous tavern. | |
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Step Up to the Microphone | |
| Murder Ballads (Music) / int_51f90774 | comment |
Step Up to the Microphone: Bad Seeds guitarist Blixa Bargeld provides screams during "Stagger Lee" and sings a verse of "Death Is Not The End". Drummer Thomas Wydler and recurring vocalist Anita Lane also sing a verse each of "Death Is Not The End". | |
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At Least I Admit It | |
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At Least I Admit It: Lottie. | |
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Death Song | |
| Murder Ballads (Music) / int_55c72164 | comment |
Death Song: All songs deal with murders and "Death Is Not The End" deals with death. | |
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Smoking Is Cool | |
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Smoking Is Cool: In the music video of "Stagger Lee". | |
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Record Producer | |
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Record Producer: Victor van Vugt. | |
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Pep-Talk Song | |
| Murder Ballads (Music) / int_6732af17 | comment |
Pep-Talk Song: "Death Is Not The End", though after all the murders that took place in all the other songs it does come as across as a Sarcastic Title: | |
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If I Can't Have You… | |
| Murder Ballads (Music) / int_6774150c | comment |
If I Can't Have You…: | |
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Non-Appearing Title | |
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Non-Appearing Title: No song is actually called or mentions "murder ballads". | |
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Meaningful Name | |
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Meaningful Name: The bar in "Stagger Lee" is called "The Bucket Of Blood" and, wouldn't you guess it, soon Lee shoots down the barkeeper. | |
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Recognition Failure | |
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Recognition Failure: "Stagger Lee" | |
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Bar Brawl | |
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Bar Brawl: The bartender in "Stagger Lee" makes the fatal mistake of offending Stagger Lee and gets four bullets in his head as a result. | |
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Serial Killer | |
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Serial Killer: The narrator of "Song of Joy" shows up at the door of a family, claiming to have been the sole survivor of a serial killer who murdered his entire family and is still on the loose, killing "many, many more". Then again, he's also pretty clearly an Unreliable Narrator and more than a little unsettling... Lottie, the 14-year-old title character and narrator of "The Curse Of Milhaven" is such a sadistic, prolific, and senseless killer that her actions are mistaken for some sort of curse upon her hometown. First, she murders a young boy by bashing in his head, and hides his body in a creek. She then decapitates a handyman and leaves his head in a fountain, and stabs her neighbor to death. After getting caught, she happily describes the rest of her crimes in detail: on top of the murders, she had taken down warning signs around a lake in late Winter, resulting in the deaths of 20 children, and committed arson around a slum, burning it and its inhabitants to the ground. She ends the song by explicitly stating that she feels no remorse, and makes it clear that she only committed these crimes for fun. "Crow Jane", who is out on revenge. | |
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Covers Always Lie | |
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Covers Always Lie: The album cover shows a house in a snowy forest at night. If the title "Murder Ballads" wasn't present you'd probably never guess its violent lyrical content. Only one song is not a murder ballad: "Death Is Not The End". | |
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Epic Rocking | |
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Epic Rocking: The 14:28 "O'Malley's Bar". | |
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Murder Ballad | |
| Murder Ballads (Music) / int_7aea8bae | comment |
Murder Ballad: All songs deal with the topic of murder. | |
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Exactly What It Says on the Tin | |
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Exactly What It Says on the Tin: The album indeed contains murder ballads. | |
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Badass Boast | |
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Badass Boast: "Stagger Lee", just all these lines: | |
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Villain Protagonist | |
| Murder Ballads (Music) / int_898ff050 | comment |
"O'Malley's Bar" is a 14 minute song in which the Villain Protagonist describes in loving detail how he slaughters all of the occupants of the eponymous tavern. | |
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The Great Depression | |
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The Great Depression: "Stagger Lee" | |
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Rhyming with Itself | |
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Rhyming with Itself: "Henry Lee" does this three times, with "me", "thee" and "feet" (the last being a homonymous pair). | |
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Not Me This Time | |
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Not Me This Time: Loretta, the fourteen-year-old psychopathic serial killer in "The Curse of Millhaven", gleefully slaughters her fellow villagers no questions asked but plainly states that she didn't kill her teacher's dog mentioned earlier in the song, and even tells the police when they come to arrest her who actually did it. | |
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Careful with That Axe | |
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Careful with That Axe: The screaming near the end of "Stagger Lee". "The Curse Of Millhaven" starts off with very loud screaming and noise. | |
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Continuity Nod | |
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Continuity Nod: "Song Of Joy" was originally called "Red Right Hand II", after the song from Let Love In. The line "in my house he wrote his red right hand, which I'm told is from Paradise Lost" still reminds us of that. | |
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One-Man Song | |
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One-Man Song: "Stagger Lee" and "Henry Lee". | |
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Enfant Terrible | |
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Enfant Terrible: The Curse of Millhaven is about a fourteen-year-old Serial Killer. Of the numerous horrible things in the song, the only thing she doesn't admit to doing is killing her teacher's dog, and she is happy to tell the cops who did. | |
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Karma Houdini | |
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Karma Houdini: The narrator of "O'Malley's Bar", who after slaughtering an entire bar full of people finds himself surrounded by cops with only one bullet left, puts the gun to his head... And then throws the gun away, surrenders, and gets to live. | |
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Love at First Sight | |
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Love at First Sight: "Where The Wild Roses Grow" | |
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For the Evulz | |
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Lottie, the 14-year-old title character and narrator of "The Curse Of Milhaven" is such a sadistic, prolific, and senseless killer that her actions are mistaken for some sort of curse upon her hometown. First, she murders a young boy by bashing in his head, and hides his body in a creek. She then decapitates a handyman and leaves his head in a fountain, and stabs her neighbor to death. After getting caught, she happily describes the rest of her crimes in detail: on top of the murders, she had taken down warning signs around a lake in late Winter, resulting in the deaths of 20 children, and committed arson around a slum, burning it and its inhabitants to the ground. She ends the song by explicitly stating that she feels no remorse, and makes it clear that she only committed these crimes for fun. | |
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Omnicidal Maniac | |
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Omnicidal Maniac: Lottie from "The Curse Of Millhaven" has shades of this: "All God's children, they all got to die." She does draw the line at killing dogs, though. | |
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Rape and Revenge | |
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Rape and Revenge: "Crow Jane" who is a victim of this and goes out on a rampage to commit revenge on her wrongdoers. | |
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Precision F-Strike | |
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Precision F-Strike: "The Curse of Millhaven" | |
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Alliterative Name | |
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Alliterative Name: The three children in "Song Of Joy" are named Hilda, Hattie and Holly. | |
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One-Woman Song | |
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One-Woman Song: "Crow Jane". | |
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Shout-Out | |
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Shout-Out: The serial killer in "Song Of Joy" quotes John Milton by writing a line from Paradise Lost in his victims' blood. In the music video for "Stagger Lee", Nick wears a Take That (Band) t-shirt. | |
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Roaring Rampage of Revenge | |
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In "Crow Jane", Jane kills 20 miners in a single night on a Roaring Rampage of Revenge: | |
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Cover Version | |
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Cover Version: "Stagger Lee" and "Henry Lee" are traditionals. "Death Is Not The End" is a cover from Bob Dylan's album Down In The Groove (1988). Conspicuously, both "Stagger Lee", "Henry Lee" and the single b-side "King Kong Kitchee Kitchee Ki-Mi-O" (AKA "Froggie Went A-Courtin'") had all been recorded by Dylan just a few years earlier on the folk albums Good as I Been to You and World Gone Wrong. | |
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To the Tune of... | |
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To the Tune of...: "Henry Lee" and "The Curse of Millhaven" share the same melody, albeit with different metres (three-four time and common time, respectively). | |
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All Girls Want Bad Boys | |
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All Girls Want Bad Boys: Nellie Brown in "Stagger Lee" flirts with Stagger Lee, despite the fact that he just killed a man in cold blood. | |
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Affectionate Nickname | |
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Affectionate Nickname: "Where The Wild Roses Grow" | |
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The Evils of Free Will | |
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The Evils of Free Will: "O' Malley's Bar" is about a murderer who justifies his crimes by the fact that he has no free will. | |
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Ambiguously Gay | |
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Ambiguously Gay: The music video of "Stagger Lee" is just as badass cool as it has homosexual undertones. We see Cave and his band members dancing and prancing around to the beat. The lyrics themselves also fall into this trope as Stagger commits adultery with a woman called Nellie Brown and boasts that if her husband, Billy Dilly, would enter: "I'll fuck Billy in his motherfucking ass!" When her man does indeed walk in on them Stagger tells him to get down on his knees and suck his dick, "because if you don't you're gonna be dead." After Billy does so, Stagger murders him anyway. | |
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The Oner | |
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The Oner: The music video of "Henry Lee" shows Nick Cave and PJ Harvey filmed in one continuous shot. | |
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Duet Bonding | |
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Duet Bonding: PJ Harvey and Nick Cave, who were partners at the time, sing a duet during "Henry Lee"'. The music video shows them cuddling and dancing with one another as they sing their song, closing off with a kiss. | |
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Creepy Child | |
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Creepy Child: Lottie in "The Curse Of Milhaven" is a 14-year old girl who murders people for fun and has no remorse. | |
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