Marking two decades since the release of Evanescence‘s debut album ‘Fallen,’ Amy Lee joined a recent interview with Triple M. In the middle of the discussions about the tracks on the record, the vocalist revealed the song that she hated.
Talking about the Grammy-nominated single ‘My Immortal,’ Lee admitted:
“That’s the song I went and really hated for a while. Just so, so sick of it. And it’s funny because, like, there’s two recordings on ‘Fallen,’ and the main one that’s within the tracklisting is a demo from when I was a teenager that we did at a recording studio in the middle of the night in Arkansas on a bad-sounding keyboard. And my voice is just like not the way grown up yet and all those things.”
She mentioned the other version and explained what bothered her about the original:
“And we made this other beautiful version. This is on the record, too. We did it after we had a couple of years, knew what we were doing, and had a real producer. It’s my favorite, but it’s the one that I don’t hear as often, and it always pissed me off. Like, ‘Ugh! I can’t believe I’m listening to this demo!’ Because the label just loved the demo so much, like there’s magic in the demo. Maybe they were right, but that too. So, I went a couple of years without playing that song.”
Amy Lee’s dislikes about ‘Fallen’ went beyond ‘My Immortal.’ The frontwoman also shared that she and her bandmates didn’t like the rap part performed by Paul McCoy in ‘Bring Me To Life.’
In early 2023, the singer told Metal Hammer that the band only included that section in the live performances when they had a guest that fit it. Then, she added:
“And obviously, if we’re ever in the same town as Paul [McCoy], who originally did the part, we will have him come up because it’s fun and it’s cool and nostalgic. But that part, that sound, that’s not my style. That’s why it was such a difficult pill to swallow, even on one song. But we won because we didn’t have to change our whole sound.”
As the 20th anniversary Australian tour for ‘Fallen’ goes on, Evanescence keeps performing selections from the debut onstage. The band will kick off a Latin American tour starting in Mexico when the Australian dates are over in September.
