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Post by Deleted on Dec 16, 2012 13:16:38 GMT -5
I think for the "normal crowd" Evanescence's music is a bit too much to take in. My friends think they sound messy , whilst I love and appreciate how artistic they are (especially TOD) Ev is kind of stuck in the in-between, I think. It's too heavy for one listener, not heavy enough for the next... Too mainstream for one crowd, not catchy enough for the mainstream crowd, etc... TOD in particular suffered from this by having CMWYS and Lithium on the same album as LY, LC, or even Good Enough.
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Post by acoustic_ev on Dec 17, 2012 3:27:50 GMT -5
^Exactly! Most of my close friends are into heavy metal or punk hardcore music (and they're slowly taking over my ipod too) so they all tend to find Ev very "poppy" while anyone I know who listens to the radio more finds them unbearably heavy. We just can't win with these people. lol I also do agree that Ev3 had much more potential than TOD did - it was so very artistic and lovely and strange but not radio friendly. However, CMWYS still plays on the radio quite a bit on my local stations. It just sucks though because3 I've called and tried to request things off of the new album and they won't play it. Never recieved ANYTHING from the label according to the very nice DJ i spoke to. Didn't even know they had a new record out. I did manage to get MHIB played though on a request day after calling like 500 times Hopefully though Ev will leave wind-suck and the next record/ep/whatever can garner the success the band deserves. All that being said, I still think that she would probably find more success as a solo artist. Like a Bjork/Adele kinda mash up with her voice...that's how I imagine it at least. Not to say I want Ev to be over (far from it) but I think not having the thrashing guitars would go a long way with mainstream audiences.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 17, 2012 5:52:09 GMT -5
Lol to be honest, I'm glad Ev isn't popular on the radio. Evanescence is a secret you have to find. A golden treasure in the world of music. I just love our underground community.
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Post by Carved in Stone on Dec 17, 2012 9:14:20 GMT -5
Lol to be honest, I'm glad Ev isn't popular on the radio. Evanescence is a secret you have to find. A golden treasure in the world of music. I just love our underground community. I completely agree with this
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Post by rionka on Dec 18, 2012 3:35:21 GMT -5
Some people don't even know to this day that Ev has been out with a new record since last year. When TOD came out, although it was not as successful as Fallen, a bunch of people still knew that there were some new Ev songs around, the band even gained new rabid fans through it (i'm an example of that, i was never blown away by Fallen, but fell madly in love with TOD) ^^ This upsets me SO terribly! How should I change that? I tried so much, really. I spammed all my own accounts / sites / internets with Ev and wore all my Ev stuff every day and talk about Ev and tweet about them. But many people even didn't know that they played a SHOW in our capital city and then cried to my mailbox, months later after the event! How can we promote the band more when media are unable to make it right, in case there will be - maybe - another era one day? Cause this is so shitty aspect of it that i'm mad just when I think about it. Sorry
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Post by Deleted on Dec 18, 2012 9:01:43 GMT -5
All that being said, I still think that she would probably find more success as a solo artist. Like a Bjork/Adele kinda mash up with her voice...that's how I imagine it at least. Not to say I want Ev to be over (far from it) but I think not having the thrashing guitars would go a long way with mainstream audiences. Fo' rill rill. Amy could easily succeed on the Bjork/Adele/Fiona Apple kind of route. I added Fiona to it because Amy's music tends to be very.... Wispy? I don't know... She tends to lack strong form. If she injected her original work with some more rhythm and good percussion (Fiona) she could produce a fantastic record. If I think about songs that are either Amy solo or mostly Amy's doing (Hello, Breathe No More, Good Enough, Together Again, Sally's Song, Swimming Home, Secret Door, etc...), the music tends to just flow seamlessly while the percussion is either nonexistent or just drones on in the background without changing up much. I like all of those songs, but honestly I don't think an album like that could get much critical success. It needs more bite and backbone.
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Post by rionka on Dec 18, 2012 15:42:53 GMT -5
^^ This. You said it perfectly, that's why I'd much rather keep alive Evanescence than Amy solo, although I like all their works... Let me give you some positive love
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Post by carolexodus on Dec 18, 2012 19:31:27 GMT -5
^^I think that Amy could find the right people to work with on a solo record, to give the songs a sort of punch they may need and she doesn't really add herself. I think it's just about finding the right people.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 18, 2012 19:49:59 GMT -5
Yep. I think a good producer is really what she needs if she's going solo. Maybe not even a producer, just a partner. Someone who enjoys enhancing her work without the need to make it entirely their own.
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Post by ann on Aug 28, 2013 6:55:10 GMT -5
I think Ev3 is their best album and I am really upset that it's not as much popular as their previous records. I mean lyrically it's so much better than Fallen - the lyrics are mature and make sense (dying, bleeding - this was nonsense to me and that is the reason I don't like Fallen, I know to some it can sound lame but really lyrics on Fallen are a suffering to me), considering The Open Door - it is a masterpiece, but I always thought that it lacks the "catchy" songs on it, most of the tracks are very comlicated (and beautiful in this way) but this is not something commercial radios would play and thus it wasn't THAT known; when Ev3 came out I was literally in heaven - I thought OMG it's catchy, rythmical, MATURE, colourful (WYW vs Swimming home vs TOS...) of course some tracks were too much for me (understand - I am NOT heavy music fan) but as whole this record was perfect. When I saw the first reactions I was shocked because of all those "fans" and their "Fallen is the best/one and only" statements, sometimes I feel like they did not even listen to it or they simply don't get the fact that Amy will NEVER make the same record twice, thank God for that....
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Post by moe on Aug 31, 2013 14:55:56 GMT -5
I think Ev3 is their best album and I am really upset that it's not as much popular as their previous records. I mean lyrically it's so much better than Fallen - the lyrics are mature and make sense (dying, bleeding - this was nonsense to me and that is the reason I don't like Fallen, I know to some it can sound lame but really lyrics on Fallen are a suffering to me), considering The Open Door - it is a masterpiece, but I always thought that it lacks the "catchy" songs on it, most of the tracks are very comlicated (and beautiful in this way) but this is not something commercial radios would play and thus it wasn't THAT known; when Ev3 came out I was literally in heaven - I thought OMG it's catchy, rythmical, MATURE, colourful (WYW vs Swimming home vs TOS...) of course some tracks were too much for me (understand - I am NOT heavy music fan) but as whole this record was perfect. When I saw the first reactions I was shocked because of all those "fans" and their "Fallen is the best/one and only" statements, sometimes I feel like they did not even listen to it or they simply don't get the fact that Amy will NEVER make the same record twice, thank God for that.... I agree with pretty much everything you just said. While I was in love with Fallen when it first came out and I was 14 years old, I am thankfully, for the most part, over all of the "feel my black soul, it's dying and your love is the only thing that can save me" kind of theme that early Evanescence was all about. I was extremely dissappointed after waiting so long after the Open Door that Amy and the band wrapped up production on the electronic, trip-hop influenced album they were making with Steve Lillywhite. It was to be a rhythmically driven record with electronic sounds. Think Swimming Home with a much faster tempo and sweet hand drums - even an appearance by Questlove from the Roots (one of the greatest drummers of the modern age). To me, this would have been musical heaven. Good, organic music focused on an infustion of electronic and organic music with Amy Lee's enchanting vocals to top it off. It would have been perfect. But I can definitely see and understand why they called it quits. It was to be an Evanescence album, and Amy Lee came to the conclusion the Evanescence is a certain thing. This is the dark drama that is Evanescence. The change could have destroyed her career or completely made it. I can hear in the lyrics of the new album a lot of frustration that Amy has with her identity and the band Evanescence itself. She really wants to break away from the heavy sound but it is like she is type-casted as Amy Lee, the moody depressed girl. That being said, I do think that Evanescence is their best album. They went back into the studio exactly a year after they wrapped up recording the initial album. It is mature and dark and musically competent. You can hear Amy resurrect her angst, but doing so in a more advanced way. This was probably due in part to the frustration of not having her original vision completed. She probably said "fuck it... if I have to go back to Evanescence's roots, I'm going to be even more powerful than ever".... I do however, think that the lyrics on The Open Door were far deeper than on Evanescence, save a couple songs like End of The Dream and Swimming Home.
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