YMMV / The Birthday Massacre

• Alternative Character Interpretation:
  • Does the "friend" from "Happy Birthday" actually exist, or is he just the hallucinatory manifestation of the speaker's homicidal urges?
  • "Kill the Lights:" Deeply cynical song about how fairy tales are all fake, but we have to pretend that they're real so we don't realise how depressing our world really is and commit suicide, or a simple breakup song comparing the story of two lovers to fairy tales and how it didn't work out, unlike the tales?
• Awesome Music:
  • Subjective of course but: "Red Stars" for the ethereal vocals and epic riff, "Holiday" for the tune, "Remember Me" for the poignancy, "Blue" for the epic mood whiplash, and "Looking Glass" for being so damn catchy.
  • Have Audiosurf? Have "Nowhere"? Play them together, the result is a bit unexpected awesome.
  • "And for the first time, she feels, just... fine." Cue the epic ending.
  • "To Die For", especially the bridge.
• Common Knowledge: There are no videos for "Velvet" and "Make Believe." Some fans believe that there are, but the two videos thought to be "Velvet" and "Make Believe" are old demos of "Blue" and "Violet."
• Epic Riff: "Nothing and Nowhere," "To Die For," "Blue," "The Dream," "Video Kid," "Science," "Always," "In the Dark," "Sleepwalking," "Sideways," "Two Hearts," "Pale"... The list goes on.
• Fan Community Nickname: 'Violet Prisoners' or 'Murder Tramps'.
• Fandom Rivalry: The Violet Prisoners versus the BVB Army.
• Funny Moments:
  • This video.
  • Chibi tries to convince an interviewer to take up knitting.
  • The scene in the video for "Looking Glass" where Chibi leads 6 to the teacher — 6 is shuffling down the hallway while the band walk around her, trashing the corridor — it's hilarious, really.
    • Especially when you know that a fan who'd played an extra in the video explained that the masks were almost impossible to see through, and thus poor 6 can't see a thing.
• Germans Love David Hasselhoff: The band has had much more commercial success in the US and Europe than in their home country of Canada.
• Memetic Molester: The teacher in "Looking Glass."
• Memetic Mutation: Ending sentences with 'And if you don't like it, fuck you!' used to be a meme on their forum.
• Moment of Awesome: Hell hath no fury like a pissed-off Chibi.
• Nightmare Fuel:
  • "Blue" and "Looking Glass."
  • TBM's Nightmare Fuel is intensified by the fact that occasionally, Chibi sounds like a prepubescent girl. With songs like "Under the Stairs" and "Blue," that freaks a lot of people out and gives the songs a very nasty edge.
• Signature Song: "Happy Birthday" or "Blue."
• Tear Jerker: "To Die For."
• Tearjerker: Hell, the majority of the songs. If at one point in your life had traumatic breakups, loss of friends, hopeless relationships, or feeling that your life is meaningless, then The Birthday Massacre has you covered.

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