EVANESCENCE’s AMY LEE Opens Up About Her Mixed Feelings For “Everybody’s Fool”

Evanescence is currently basking in the glory of two decades since the release of their breakthrough album Fallen, and as usual, with the celebration, some details about the album have come to light. In a recent exclusive interview with Kerrang!, the band’s frontwoman and leader, Amy Lee, opened up about the mixed emotions she harbors for one of the album’s tracks: “Everybody’s Fool.”

Lee admitted that the song’s lyrics reflect her youthful perspective, something she no longer fully identifies with. “It’s just the way it sounds when you read the lyrics,” she explained. “I was talking about high school and talking to, more than anything, my little sisters.”

The singer recalled her frustration with the pop culture influences that had captivated her younger siblings. “I was like, ‘Guys, that is not what’s cool, it’s not about what’s on the surface – that’s superficial, it’s about what’s in your heart,'” she shared.

Lee acknowledged that the song’s message of superficiality stemmed from her own experiences in the spotlight. “‘Everybody’s Fool’ started off from watching them and me being like, ‘Why are you idolizing something that’s fake?'” she explained. “I don’t like the way that it’s phrased.”

To reconcile her feelings, Lee decided to reinterpret the song’s meaning during the music video production. “When we did the video, I made it like it was about me,” she revealed. “I could relate to the way people see you on the big stage being very different to who you really are, and that’s not necessarily being what you wanted to be.”

Despite her reservations about the song’s original message, Lee emphasized that she doesn’t harbor any animosity towards “Everybody’s Fool.” “I don’t have any song that I’ve put out that I hate,” she affirmed. “It’s just that I’ve grown out of it a little bit.”

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Amy Lee Confirms New Album Material for Evanescence

Big week for emos everywhere, as Evanescence’s Amy Lee has confirmed that a brand new single titled “Afterlife” and its accompanying lyric video will be released this Friday. That bit of news comes along with the reveal that she’s also working on some new material for an upcoming Evanescence album.

“Afterlife” is a new single co-written by Lee and composer Alex Seave. The track will feature in the new Netflix Japanese anime series based on the hit video game franchise Devil May Cry — joining Lee’s captivating vocal delivery with an enchanting otherworldly visual style.

In an interview with Audacy Music, Lee discussed more about this new release and how it came together and how it relates to new material for Evanescence.

“[We are] very excited to have new music. This is the first of many [new tracks]. We are working on a lot of songs right now for the new album, but this came up through Netflix, and we were just really excited to have an excuse to get in there right away.”

In 2023, Evanescence shared a remix/remaster of their critically acclaimed debut studio album, Fallen, in celebration of its 20th anniversary. It’s been four years since the music industry has heard a new full-length project from Evanescence, so this news surely comes with plenty excitement for fans.

Although new Evanescence material is officially on the cards, Lee urges that they “don’t have a date for you. We are just working. We got off the road in November or something, and we’ve been just creative.” [SOURCE]

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Evanescence’s 2021 plans

As Evanescence gear up to unveil their long-awaited new album The Bitter Truth this year, Amy Lee tells Kerrang! that she’s doing everything she can to make the record as a whole an absolute must-have for fans.

“Right now I’m just wanting to make the package and all the extras, everything the fans could ever want and more while there’s still time to add things to it,” she reveals cryptically. When asked about the details, Amy adds, “The only reason I’m not being more specific is because I don’t want to fail and be like, ‘Oh, sorry, I tried to be that awesome thing I said, but I didn’t have enough content.’ I’m just trying to make something almost like an audio making of moment.

“There’s so much that goes into this whole process. I’ve got so many little pieces of audio. There’s tons of stuff that didn’t get used. It started with the voice notes because that’s how I write vocals a lot nowadays. I just have hundreds of those. If you were just to listen to those all in a row, I feel like that would be very boring after a while. I have a lot that are like eight seconds. So it’s like, ‘Oh, cool, that’s the melody of Wasted On You.’ There’s just a bunch of extra stuff. And I’m not positive what the limit of that is yet. I haven’t decided but I’m just collecting as much stuff as I can. So let’s see what can happen here!” [READ MORE]

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Amy Lee Talks ‘The Bitter Truth’ Album

During a recent chat with Kerrang!, EVANESCENCE singer Amy Lee was asked if the band’s latest single “Yeah Right” was a good indication of the kind of “curveballs” fans can expect from the band’s upcoming album “The Bitter Truth”. She responded: “I think there’s definitely more where that came from…

“When making a complete album, especially after all this time, I always want to just put out a statement, like, ‘This is where we’re at, this is who we are’ — it has to be a whole spectrum of emotions and reflections that make up who you are, who the band is,” she continued. “So far, I feel like each song that we put out is a very different colour of the spectrum and there are more colors yet to come, for sure.”

Regarding the most recent single, Amy said: “‘Yeah Right’ has been a long time coming; I started that song a decade ago. It was mostly there, it had been at the top of the pile for a really, really long time. We’ve always had a cool pile of extra scraps and pieces of unfinished songs. That’s just one that kept on not plugging in, and then something happened this year when we got together and started playing and pulling songs together in pre-production — I was, like, ‘I finally know how we can make it work!’ It’s one of those songs that we’re going to have to figure out how to do live because I don’t want to be glued to the Moog the whole time. It might be a good time to whip out the keytar.” [READ MORE]

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Evanescence’s Amy Lee Gets Back to Life

Amy Lee misses Brooklyn. She lived there for 12 years with her husband (and later their son, born in 2015), before they left their apartment for Nashville a year ago.

“The perfect year,” she says with an eye roll over Zoom. Lee had hoped to be closer to her family in Arkansas and friends in Nashville when she moved, only to find herself stuck at home with the rest of the world. “We haven’t gotten [to see people] as much as we would have liked to because of Covid, but now we are here, and we will be set up for a better next year,” she adds optimistically.

That’s not the only plan she’s had to readjust: Earlier this year, her alt-metal band, Evanescence, returned to the studio with producer Nick Raskulinecz, writing and recording songs for what will be their first album of new material since 2011’s Evanescence. While the pandemic slowed them down, the group has forged onward, working remotely at first and later, after getting negative Covid tests, at a Nashville studio. In April, they released the sobering power ballad “Wasted on You” as the lead single from their very much in-progress LP, The Bitter Truth, which is due to be released in early 2021. [READ MORE]

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Amy Lee Talks ‘Wasted On You’ & New Album ‘The Bitter Truth’

Rock Sound Rock Sound chat via Zoom with Evanescence vocalist Amy Lee as the band release their new single ‘Wasted On You’. Amy tells us how that song came together and what it was like filming the music video on iPhones while the band stayed in quarantine. Also, we get some early details on their upcoming new album ‘The Bitter Truth’ which is due for release later in 2020. Plus, Amy tells us what she learned from the band’s incredible ‘Synthesis’ project which saw them rework classic songs like ‘My Immortal’ and ‘Bring Me To Life’ with new instrumentation and perform live with a full orchestra.

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Amy Lee ‘blown away’ by Scottish fanbase

Amy Lee admits she is still blown away by her fanbase in Scotland after nearly 20 years of touring the world. The rocker, 37, will return to her favourite country next year alongside fellow big-hitters Within Temptation as part of a blockbuster partnership. And the Bring Me To Life and My Immortal singer admits she still gets goosebumps any time she gets on a Scottish stage. [Read Entire Article]