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54. The Poison Woman
Source: The Dear Hunter
Villain: The Poison Woman
Nominator: TheArkOfTurus (3 left)
Favorite lyric: She never dwells on penitence / Advancing in a haze / Besides the fast of incompetence

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pB3AGeXQrfQ

Villainy: 8
Characterization: 6
Melody: 4
Total: 18/30

Hey remember that thing I said way way back about how I'm a sucker for concept albums? Yeah, that still applies. This isn't the first or last song on this ranking to make me curious about the greater album it came from, though in this case I kind of feel like I stumbled in on the middle of something I wasn't quite appropriately contexted for? Part of that is the result for reading the lyrics on Genius, where people have given full detailed descriptions of how this song is about how The Poison Woman actually has a change of heart in the end, deciding to not poison the album's main protagonist and instead supply him with poison should the war they're in be too much for him. And I've gotta say, even after reading through these lyrics over and over, I'm not seeing it? I mean she implores him to "take this bottle," but I'm not seeing anything suggesting she's supplying him with poison for his own purposes rather than just giving him a poison drink like she has to countless others. So while the characterization is nice, it definitely feels like it requires more from the album itself that the song doesn't quite give you. I'm also not quite able to give her full points for her villainy, because while she has killed "a million men" (which feels like a huge exaggeration) she doesn't seem to do it out of malice, and there's a certain sadness about her. Maybe I'm overthinking, or maybe I'm underthinking, but the song ultimately just doesn't strike a hard enough cord for me to top off any category.

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