• The main character goes home after a long day and turns on "Dead is the New Alive."

• "The next morning, to take my mind off the outfit, and Charlotte's upcoming party, I went for a furious swim at the local pool, powered by my underwater headphones, playing Emilie Autumn on repeat..." 

• Emilie is the main character's favorite violinist.

• “The tapping of an unseen conductor’s baton echoed from the speakers, catching the attention of those patrons who had learned to ignore Kitty’s posturing in favor of sucking down cocktails while they waited for the floorshow to begin. Then Emilie Autumn’s “I Know Where You Sleep” blasted out, and we started to dance.”

• Mentioned as a reference to how modern-day people view leeches. See mention quoted here.

"Sung in the style of a popular schoolyard rhyme, Emilie Autumn's 'Miss Lucy Had Some Leeches' provides a commentary on modern medicine. Autumn, a pioneer of the 'Victoriandustrial' musical genre, draws directly from nineteenth-century culture to share her experience as a woman with bipolar disorder navigating early twenty-first-century society...

"By drawing vivid contrasts between, for example, present-day practices of self-harming to relive internal tensions, and past beliefs int he leech's capacity to relieve hysteria through bloodletting, Autumn mobilizes the leech to destabilize our assumptions about 'normal' and 'abnormal' mental states..."