Hannah has been writing music since her second year of high school and also began teaching herself to play piano during that time. She continued to write for several years before building a studio and recording her debut EP, Soul Poison (1998).
Since then, Hannah's output has been erratic in quantity but consistent in quality. She has released two full-length albums as well as a handful of singles and EPs, all receiving high praise from the music press. Hannah's now-out-of-print album The Thing That Feels (2000) featured several songs inspired by Gregory Maguire's novel Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West. (Pre-dating the Broadway musical by several years.) The Thing That Feels also included "The Vampire Waltz," which is the first song Hannah ever wrote, as well as other songs all linked by the theme revealed in the title.
A few years later, as a result of a generous donation by an anonymous listener, Hannah made a video for her song "Carnival Justice (The Gloves Are Off) Part II." The video, directed by Chris Ohlson, featured puppets created by renowned Ohio artist, puppetmaster and sculptor Scott Radke. The video appeared on the Subterfuge EP (2005).
Hannah's covers of other artists' songs have also been well-received. The Meathook EP (2001) featured what one reviewer called a "soul-shredded" version of ABBA's "The Winner Takes It All," as well as Hannah's versions of Berlin's "The Metro" and Daniel Johnston's "True Love WIll Find You in the End." Hannah also collaborated with The Synthetic Dream Foundation to create "Trapeze" -- the music was composed by TSDF, with vocals, lyrics and vocal melody by Hannah.
Hannah's most recent release is Through the Gash (2007), an album that has been called "a masterwork in minimalism and stark beauty" (Absolute Punk) and "seductive and breathtaking from the start" (Gothic Beauty). Hannah writes, produces, engineers, and performs everything on her CDs. And, contrary to popular opinion, she uses no sequencing whatsoever. With the exception of drum tracks, all of the instruments and vocals are recorded and layered in real time, not looped or electronically generated or duplicated. Even the drum tracks, which are programmed using a drum machine, are painstakingly hand-altered, with some beats being dropped and others reversed in entirely specific ways.
Hannah is known for her intensely layered production and complex vocal arrangements. Her vocals, which have been likened to "wraiths filling the screen of a Tim Burton film" (High Bias), often move from clearly sung phrases and high, tremulous keening to whispered and spoken words, to vicious hisses and screams -- sometimes within the confines of a single song. The subjects and lyrics in Hannah's songs have a tendency to be obscure and metaphorical, often causing listeners to mistake her work for being fictional. In fact, Hannah classifies her music as entirely autobiographical, although not overtly so, and insists that it is actually magical realism, not fantasy, and definitely not theater. Hannah has said that she uses music to transform troubling feelings and experiences into something positive and hopeful, and that writing has served as a mechanism to work through and mend things in her life. It may take careful listening to hear all the various layers of sound and meaning, but devout listeners consistently claim that it is worth the trouble.
Hannah loves flowers, rap music and snow days, and is often distracted by bright and/or shiny objects and the perceived scarcity of cotton candy, but she says that the only thing that actually inspires her to create music is love.
Since 2020 Hannah has been releasing new digital-only music on her Bandcamp page.
Hannah has been interviewed here:
http://www.muruch.com/2007/08/interview-hannah-fury.html
http://www.adequacy.net/2008/05/interview-with-hannah-fury/
http://www.mellowtraumatic.com/images/the_mick_40_hfury_excerpt.pdf
http://vmunderground2.podomatic.com/entry/2007-08-21T00_31_49-07_00
Hannah's offical web sites are http://www.mellowtraumatic.com, http://www.antoinettesrevenge.com, and her MySpace page http://www.myspace.com/hannahfury
Hannah's Bandcamp page, with a name-your-price download of her 2015 single 'Not Sad' and all her new music since 2020 https://hannahfury.bandcamp.com
For more "information," go to:
http://www.mellowtraumatic.com/diversions_HannahBio.html
No Man Alive
Hannah Fury Lyrics
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There's no man alive that has what I need
So give me a man that I can breathe
There's no man alive that has what I want
So give me a man that I can haunt
Give me a static-free cellular line
So I can call him all of the time
Give me a shimmering astral cord
I feel it come again
The feeling that I love
And that I know will end
(And when the ride comes to an end, just get up, dust off, and do it again)
I feel it come again
The feeling that I love
And that I know will end
There's no man alive that I can't deceive
So give me a man who's crueler than me
There's no man alive that I can't destroy
So give me a man who'll be first to deploy
Give me a static-free cellular line
So I can connect to him all of the time
Give me a sparkling astral cord
So I can be there when he is no more
The song "No Man Alive" by Hannah Fury is about the singer's desire for love and the lengths she is willing to go to get it. She starts by declaring that "all that matters is love," emphasizing her willingness to give up anything else for the sake of finding love. However, she believes that no man alive has what she needs or wants, and so she demands a man that she can breathe and haunt, indicating that she wants someone who is both close and available to her.
The singer then asks for a static-free cellular line and a shimmering astral cord, so she can stay connected to her love interest all the time, even when he's with other people. She acknowledges the inevitable end of the relationship, but says that she will keep doing it over and over again because she loves the feeling of being in love. She then reveals her deceptive and destructive nature and asks for a man who's crueler and easier to destroy than she is. She demands another static-free cellular line and a sparkling astral cord, so she can stay connected to him even after he's gone.
The lyrics suggest that the singer is deeply insecure and lonely, and is willing to manipulate and control others to make herself feel better. The song is a haunting reflection of the unhealthy mindset that some people adopt when looking for love.
Line by Line Meaning
All that matters is love...
Love is the only thing that is important.
There's no man alive that has what I need
There is no man who can fulfill my desires.
So give me a man that I can breathe
I need someone who will allow me to be myself.
There's no man alive that has what I want
No man possesses the things that I truly desire.
So give me a man that I can haunt
I want a man who I can obsess over to the point of driving him away.
Give me a static-free cellular line
I need a way to constantly communicate with him without interruption.
So I can call him all of the time
I want to have constant access to him.
Give me a shimmering astral cord
I want to be able to travel to him in spirit form.
So I can be there when he's with his whore
I want to be able to spy on him when he is with other women.
I feel it come again
I am experiencing the feeling of falling in love again.
The feeling that I love
The feeling of being in love is something that I enjoy.
And that I know will end
I am aware that this feeling won't last forever.
(And when the ride comes to an end, just get up, dust off, and do it again)
When the relationship inevitably ends, I will move on and try again with someone else.
There's no man alive that I can't deceive
I am capable of manipulating any man.
So give me a man who's crueler than me
I want someone who is just as cold and manipulative as I am.
There's no man alive that I can't destroy
I am capable of ruining any relationship.
So give me a man who'll be first to deploy
I want to find someone who will be the first to leave, before I have the chance to hurt them.
So I can connect to him all of the time
I want to constantly have a way of reaching him.
Give me a sparkling astral cord
I want to be able to reach him even when he is no longer alive.
So I can be there when he is no more
I want to stay connected to him even after he has passed away.
Contributed by Mateo H. Suggest a correction in the comments below.