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Evanescence

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Gothic Rock
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http://www.evanescence.com
Myspace: http://www.myspace.com/evanescence
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27 янв 2024 :	EVANESCENCE's 'Bring Me To Life' Surpasses One Billion Streams On SPOTIFY
4 янв 2024 :	EVANESCENCE Releases Music Video For 'Yeah Right'
29 ноя 2023 :	EVANESCENCE's AMY LEE: '50 CENT Hates My Guts'
29 сен 2023 :	EVANESCENCE Announces Deluxe Reissue Of 'Fallen' For 20th Anniversary
3 сен 2023 :	EVANESCENCE's AMY LEE 'Dreamed' About Being In A Band With EMMA ANZAI: 'We Feel Whole' Now
31 авг 2023 :	EVANESCENCE's AMY LEE Is 'So Grateful' To Still Be Able To Make Music 20 Years After 'Fallen''s Release
28 авг 2023 :	See EVANESCENCE Celebrate 20th Anniversary Of 'Fallen' Album In Brisbane, Australia
18 авг 2023 :	Ex-SALIVA Singer JOSEY SCOTT Says He Was Originally Supposed To Record Guest Rap On EVANESCENCE's 'Bring Me To Life'
31 июл 2023 :	EVANESCENCE's Founding Guitarist BEN MOODY Reimagines 'Everybody's Fool' In Celebration Of 'Fallen' Album's 20th Anniversary
7 июл 2023 :	EVANESCENCE's Founding Guitarist BEN MOODY Reimagines 'Hello' In Celebration Of 'Fallen' Album's 20th Anniversary
5 июн 2023 :	Watch: EVANESCENCE Joined By PAPA ROACH's JACOBY SHADDIX For 'Bring Me To Life' Performance At Germany's ROCK AM RING
29 май 2023 :	EVANESCENCE's Founding Guitarist BEN MOODY Reimagines 'Tourniquet' In Celebration Of 'Fallen' Album's 20th Anniversary
6 май 2023 :	EVANESCENCE's Founding Guitarist BEN MOODY Reimagines 'Fallen' Songs In Celebration Of Album's 20th Anniversary
10 апр 2023 :	EVANESCENCE Presented With 'Fallen' Diamond Plaque For Sales And Streams Of 10 Million Units
27 мар 2023 :	Watch EVANESCENCE's Entire Austin Concert As Support Act For MUSE
8 фев 2023 :	Watch Pro-Shot Video Of EVANESCENCE's AMY LEE Performing At Vatican's Christmas Concert
23 янв 2023 :	EVANESCENCE Announces 'Fallen' Makeup Set
9 янв 2023 :	JEN MAJURA Reflects On Seven Months Since Her Split With EVANESCENCE: 'There's A Lot Of Judgment Out There'
6 янв 2023 :	EVANESCENCE's AMY LEE Is 'Still Buzzing' About Her Performance At Vatican's Christmas Concert
6 дек 2022 :	EVANESCENCE's 'Fallen' Album Certified Diamond In U.S.
30 ноя 2022 :	EVANSCENCE's AMY LEE On Criticism Over Her Strong Opinions: 'You Can't Expect Everybody To Really Know You'
23 ноя 2022 :	Watch EVANESCENCE Perform With Eight-Year-Old Drummer CALEB HAYES In Glasgow
19 ноя 2022 :	EVANESCENCE's AMY LEE Has 'An Idea' About How To Celebrate 20th Anniversary Of 'Fallen' In 2023
15 сен 2022 :	Watch: EVANESCENCE Joined By P.O.D.'s SONNY SANDOVAL For 'Bring Me To Life' Performance In Spokane
24 авг 2022 :	EVANESCENCE's 'Bring Me To Life' Tops U.S. iTunes Chart 19 Years After Release
19 авг 2022 :	EVANESCENCE's AMY LEE On Split With JEN MAJURA: 'Sometimes You Have To Listen To The Universe'

31 мар 2021

AMY LEE Says EVANESCENCE's Original Record Label Wanted To Turn Band Into 'Female LINKIN PARK'

EVANESCENCE singer Amy Lee spoke to Alternative Press about how the band's original record label Wind Up threatened not to release the group's debut album, "Fallen", if she and her bandmates didn't add a male voice to lead single "Bring Me To Life" to make it more palatable for radio.

The album version of "Bring Me to Life" — which featured guest vocals from Paul McCoy of 12 STONES — reached No. 5 on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 and was EVANESCENCE's first U.K. No. 1 single. It was included on the soundtrack of superhero film "Daredevil" which helped propel sales.

Lee said (as transcribed by BLABBERMOUTH.NET): "I was really, really against having any male vocal in our music. That was really hard. And it was an idea that came from the label. And it suddenly all became about 'Bring Me To Life'; they decided that was the song. I actually didn't think that should be the first [single]; I wanted it to be 'Going Under'. They came up with this idea about having something in there that would be familiar to listeners in order to get us on the radio. I didn't really understand what that meant.

"I was really inspired by artists that were unique," she continued. "Like, what's great about all the artists [like] NIRVANA and SOUNDGARDEN and Björk was that there was nothing else really like them. And that, to me, was the key ingredient and something that I believed — and still believe — that we have. And, in my head, the more you try and make it familiar, the more you're taking away from our true power.

"The original fight was that the label wanted us to hold auditions and bring somebody into the band full-time to sing on most of the songs and make it a thing — try to be the 'female LINKIN PARK.' And I was, like, 'I'll think about it,' for, like, an hour, and then we called them back, and I was, like, 'We can't do that. It's not gonna happen. I'd rather start over. It's just not who we are. And I don't want that.' And then they took away our funding and I moved back in with my parents. And it was hard after all the buildup — we got signed, I quit school, moved to L.A., and it's, like, 'No, actually, we're coming home.' We didn't get actually to do it. It was hard, but in my heart, it was broken, but I knew that it was better than the alternative. It wasn't totally selling my soul. And then, a few weeks later, we got a call, and they'd kind of come around to a compromise, and decided, 'Hey, we have a cool movie placement thing with this 'Daredevil' deal, and we pitched it to 'em as this male-female thing, 'cause there's a fight scene, and that's kind of what scored it.' So now there's a reason. And it's only gotta be one song; it doesn't have to be your whole identity changing. That made it okay for me. I tried one last time. I was, like, 'Can we just make the first single 'Going Under' first, and then do that?'

"I just really was concerned that people would hear that sound — like, this is the band — and expect it to always be that," Amy added. "And it was not who we were. I hate that — I hate it when you hear a first single from a band and you think they're one thing, and then you hear the rest of the album, and it's, like, 'Oh, that's not what I thought this was. You just did that to get me in, and you tricked me.' But I loved the song, and Paul was really sweet. And it took some sacrifice for him to be a guest vocalist on that song, he didn't realize, because it skyrocketed in a way that sort of overshadowed what he was trying to do. So I feel for him. And I don't always wanna talk about it like I don't like [his contributions]. I love him. We were just kids in a crazy moment in time."

"Fallen" sold 17 million copies and won two Grammys, including "Best Rock Performance" for "Bring Me To Life".

EVANESCENCE's latest album, "The Bitter Truth", arrived on March 26 via BMG. It is EVANESCENCE's first album of original music in ten years.

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