Yeah Right

[Thomas]

Amy said the 2010 version of the song had lyrics where she was like, 'fuck it, I don't care about the band', which is where the song was broken and she couldn't finish it. She didn't know what to say back then. And now the song is for the haters. I'm still curious about the initial version, who knows we'll hear it on the cassette.

Go to 46:39 and she explains it all:

Mar 17, 2021 13:26:01 GMT -6 BridgeToClarity said:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=xbfFKJMdDQ8

Go to cogwheel, playback speed, custom, 1.15 or 1.25. Sounds pretty cool.

lol!

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I love how she always mentions Björk lol

[BridgeToClarity]

I just realized it's "I'm the widow", not "weirdo" because she doesn't always pronounce her r's hahaha and what is "slap silly happy"? I've lived in US for many years now but I've never heard this phrase.

[arlieimperfection]

Apr 18, 2021 7:51:35 GMT -6 BridgeToClarity said:

I just realized it's "I'm the widow", not "weirdo" because she doesn't always pronounce her r's hahaha and what is "slap silly happy"? I've lived in US for many years now but I've never heard this phrase.

Just a ridiculous level of happy almost to the point of insanity.

[BridgeToClarity]

Apr 18, 2021 8:51:18 GMT -6 arlieimperfection said:

Apr 18, 2021 7:51:35 GMT -6 BridgeToClarity said:

I just realized it's "I'm the widow", not "weirdo" because she doesn't always pronounce her r's hahaha and what is "slap silly happy"? I've lived in US for many years now but I've never heard this phrase.

Just a ridiculous level of happy almost to the point of insanity.

AH! Thank you! Oddly, this has been one of my least favorites but it's been growing on me. If they made a music video for it, I think it would have been "humorous", like Seether's "Fake It" or Lacuna Coil's "I Like It"

[RapturedLight]

Apr 18, 2021 7:51:35 GMT -6 BridgeToClarity said:

I just realized it's "I'm the widow", not "weirdo" because she doesn't always pronounce her r's hahaha and what is "slap silly happy"? I've lived in US for many years now but I've never heard this phrase.

I usually use "slap happy" to describe when I'm extremely giggly from being tired XD

[arlieimperfection]

Amy is not one to take herself too seriously so perhaps it was a dig at herself and how others tend to see her.

[Thomas]

Amy talked about the song being worked on before the Nick sessions for Ev3 and how the Lillywhite sessions weren't coming together. I thought it wasn't her idea to scrap the album but Wind-Up's?! She sometimes contradicts herself in interviews/ statements.

I began that song and had most of it, like the core, the writing of it, not the way we did it but the song itself written a decade ago. And there was this time when we were in the writing process for our self-titled album, before we found Nick and before we went down the road we went down and made the album we made. I was in this kind of weird creative in between space where I had done what I said a few minutes ago and didn't have a plan about what the music was. I was just like doing what felt good to me and it was coming out really different. And it was somewhere - like kind of a lot of it - in between solo, maybe Evanescence. I was just kind of searching it. I had a cool idea but it just wasn't coming together all the way like not for what it was. And there was this big pile of songs that were in another direction that were good songs that I truly believe in but we just we bailed on them and went this new way and made most of the music for our self-titled.

So all this time I have had that one at the top of the pile of stuff that I am determined that's going to make it out there and going to be cool somehow. We just have to find a way, like the band had to find themselves in it because it sounds very different. It is very different, its origins are different. It started out really electronic. The lyrics and the way that it sounds was a joke, it was sarcastic, it was like "let's make a pop song". But the way to get that all the way across would have to be to make it heavy. And that wasn't happening back then.

Well, I wrote most of the lyrics back then, 10 years ago. And I definitely was going through a period of time where I didn't know what I wanted to do next. And I was sick of the cartoon version that was being reflected back at myself and also just feeling misunderstood on the outside and part of that has been keeping some of those dragon slaying stories to myself to rise above it and go, "okay, all right, well I'm not gonna let that drive my narrative and we're gonna move on" kind of vibe, but that song came out of a lot of just angst and frustration and a big middle finger to people that have been a part of this and tried to rip it apart.

She hinted other songs from that time will be reworked in the future.

[carolexodus]

This song and Conflicted by Halestorm need to make love and have a baby.

[feedingthedark]

Amy discussed the song once again and talked about the Lillywhite sessions, implying the band didn't like it.

I wrote in 2010. It was completely different. I mean, it was so different in the sound that it is now. I was going through a time back then when I was writing for our self-titled album, but I didn't know what it was yet. I was going through a time in writing where I didn't really know what I wanted. I like to write from a free place without a plan, I didn't know if it was for Evanescence or even really what I wanted. I just really believed in it. We were making an Evanescence album and it was just this other thing. And I remember bringing it to the band and being like, 'I know that we can make this great somehow, like it's a hit, we can do it, let's make this into something'. And they just didn't like it, they just didn't get it, it didn't fit. And I couldn't open my mind enough to sort of let it grow and let it change because I've been so glued to it. So that song sat on the shelf for a decade. Of course we went back to the writing process this last year. I'm never gonna let it go. So I brought it up again and I'm like, 'hey guys, what about this song? Maybe we could do it in a new way, have a new idea about it', and they came at it in this completely heavy way that was just so different, but I was in a different place and my mind was open. And I just let it go and it became something so much cooler and so much bigger than it was. And actually led me change some of the lyrics from being more self-deprecating into being more empowered, which is a big thing about this album [The Bitter Truth].

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Jun 11, 2021 14:20:03 GMT -6 feedingthedark said:

Amy discussed the song once again and talked about the Lillywhite sessions, implying the band didn't like it.

I wrote in 2010. It was completely different. I mean, it was so different in the sound that it is now. I was going through a time back then when I was writing for our self-titled album, but I didn't know what it was yet. I was going through a time in writing where I didn't really know what I wanted. I like to write from a free place without a plan, I didn't know if it was for Evanescence or even really what I wanted. I just really believed in it. We were making an Evanescence album and it was just this other thing. And I remember bringing it to the band and being like, 'I know that we can make this great somehow, like it's a hit, we can do it, let's make this into something'. And they just didn't like it, they just didn't get it, it didn't fit. And I couldn't open my mind enough to sort of let it grow and let it change because I've been so glued to it. So that song sat on the shelf for a decade. Of course we went back to the writing process this last year. I'm never gonna let it go. So I brought it up again and I'm like, 'hey guys, what about this song? Maybe we could do it in a new way, have a new idea about it', and they came at it in this completely heavy way that was just so different, but I was in a different place and my mind was open. And I just let it go and it became something so much cooler and so much bigger than it was. And actually led me change some of the lyrics from being more self-deprecating into being more empowered, which is a big thing about this album [The Bitter Truth].

Me thinking about how the team it's basically the same except for Terry... hmm...

[Diegoville]

Do y'all think this song would have had a bigger impact back in 2010-2015?