Some context to this two decades old clip: The early 2000s MTV era had many female artists constantly pitted against each other and tabloids and MTV making outrageous claims (like saying Amy "established herself" as a goth icon despite not saying that herself) often sowing discord and having interviewers ask questions to invoke controversy and beef. Amy was trying to assert her own artistry and in this clip she probably overcorrected a bit. However, I recently read an interview with Amy and she said she watched the Framing Britney documentary and had no idea about her personal struggles. Amy, Britney, Christina, all of these talented young women went through SO MUCH and were manipulated by noxious men in the industry (Amy was emotionally abused by bandmate Ben Moody and had things thrown at her at metal and rock festivals and was often the only female at these kind of gigs). These women went through hell and back and Amy has recanted a lot of this and doesn't even play this song live anymore despite being one of Evanescence's biggest hits. HOWEVER, the crux of Everybody's Fool about the lies, deception, manipulation, false advertising, and fake images and personas we ALL put on still holds true in this social media age. Remember, the past is a foreign country, people think differently there.
She also wrote this song as a minor and she grew up in a conservative Christian household in Arkansas. She recently said in an interview that she no longer resonates with some of the lyrics and that's one of the reasons why she changed the music video to be more about the lies of the media as she became more engrossed in the industry. We all have implicit biases. This is a similar situation to Taylor Swift and "Better Than Revenge." They were both young women trying to make sense of the world through their songwriting and sense they both wrote these songs at a young age, have grown from them.
1:20 Amy called it. Hate saying this but Britney is a perfect example. She had that perfect girl next door appeal to her. Sexually innocent. Nearly a decade later it almost destroyed Britney. She lost her spark. Hollywood betrayed Britney bc she failed to keep her good girl image that everyone held her up on a pedestal for. 😢
@abbied we all do! But it's kind of hard to get help it any better when you have 40 paparazzi in your face and the whole world calling you 'fat" and a "bad mom". .
Yes she is right there is fake pop stars and im just a adult stud lesbian woman is attracted to women born a female there is no music for stud lesbian women and stud lesbian women born a female no music for gay women and im a adult stud lesbian woman who is attracted to women only born a female i do not see nothing funny
"Cracker box idols" LMAO I fucking LOVE Amy! She is so damn right! And the song Everybody's Fool is the perfect description of this scenario. So true and spot on.
You guys do realize she's not talking about Britney Spears, she's talking about pop stars from that time, Britney is used as an example and yes I realize I'm very late on this but this had to be said
+Page Lomeli Even if she was.. I didn't see it as an insult at all. Britney Spears really is a sweet person who lived a FAKE life for so long for the media and the fans. Lee just (in the song) exposes those teen idols in a more brutal way. Spears herself kinda did the same with "Lucky" before the down spiral.
+La_trolette Everyone in the public eye is 'fake' in a way. I'm sure there are parts of Amy's life that are not shared with the public or that parts of her public life that are fabricated. I like Amy and her music but there was a certain arrogance and nastiness of artists like her Avril Lavigne, Pink who acted as if they are so much better than the other girls back at that time. They used marketing and PR themselves marketing themselves as sort of anti-Britney artists and really they could have let their music speak for itself. Amy defended Britney in 07 though and when she was recently questioned about this song being about X-Tina and Britney it looked like she felt regretful acting this way.
@@stipV yeah, they were just "chasing clout" 😒😤. It's like they had to almost make fun of themselves just to make a point of being the very point they were making fun of. ... They're far from innocent, & perfect themselves.
Even at a young age I realized how insanely talented Amy was. But it’s just now coming to me as a young man in my 20s, that she‘s extremely attractive as well. 2003 or 2023, she’s gorgeous.
I wish people would stop making fun of Amy Lee because of this video. She is famous for her career which is singing and most of those other singers are only famous because they go on stage half naked. Amy Lee is famous because she is actually good at singing!
Only fans of those pop stars would be angry at someone speaking truth about that and how it negatively affects both those of that lifestyle, other women in the industry and young people looking up to them and being defined very young by those images. She spoke nothing but truth about the reality of that. She also wrote the song when she was in high school, and said herself years ago that she moved past that and also has sympathy for those embroiled in such lifestyles and the sexism with which they were treated (such as Britney's situation)
Her character breaks the mirror in her hotel, reminds me of Britney's "Everytime" video when she throws a glass at a mirror at a hotel. Amy was on to something back then.
We don't know that Christina matured quickly. She might have been messy as fuck behind the scenes all these years and had a professional team to help keep it all from going public. Britney, on the hand, since the time that she released her first album had dealt with a lot of scrutiny in the media, constantly being berated and harrassed by journalists, paparazzis, judgmental parents alike for not only the music and image that she had the right to have but also her very public break up She's an entire human being and she deserves compassion and respect.
@@garryeagleChristina went through a lot also. Hence why Stripped was so personal to her because she put all her trauma, darkness, and insecurities into that album. Xtina was wise enough early on that the team around her did not have have her best interest at heart, and that her manager was stealing millions of dollars from her. So she fired him, and got herself a new manager. Something Britney should have done but she was too naive to believe that those around her were all just vultures.
She still looked gorgeous doing it haha. Especially the model shots and the motor cycle helmet. Point still loud and clear. Cracker box barbies are fake and Amy always look pretty
I much prefer Amy to Britney of course, but Evanescence/Amy herself is very image-driven. Has been from the start. That's just the music industry. Amy is not exempt from a 'fake' image in her videos, photoshoots etc. Of course I would say that Amy is a better role model than Britney though, I mean duh...
The problem with Britney is not her, it's the music industry! The people who abused her as a child in the Mickey Mouse Club and experimented on her to control her mind! They made her a puppet, she met the wrong manager! Look how Lindsey Lohan, Miley Circus, and Amanda Bynes turned out after beeing teen popstars! When they hit adulthood that's when the problem starts! Britney made it in the mainstream media at the wrong time with the wrong people in the wrong system!! I feel sorry for her because she was never bipolar and they have fragmented her mind into different alter egos different personalities! But now she broke her programming I think! Also look for the oh so little Cindy Lou role of Taylor Michel Momsen when she started, and now all grown up woman so "señorita sexy" but turned terribly wrong promoting satanism!
You have no idea what you're talking about. You have a very ignorant misunderstanding of the male-suits' manufactured and deceptive sexualized imagery and marketing of young pop stars to appeal to young people and especially h*rny men, vs rock bands like Evanescence and Amy's own self-defined image and visuals. Amy led her band and her own aesthetic was her own, self-created, a mix of things she loved growing up (Victorian, fantasy, child-like morbid stuff, metal), and she designed most of her own stuff. And in fact, like all women in the industry regardless of genre experience, Amy herself had been suggested by their label when they started out to lose weight and sexualize herself, and she strictly opposed that and in fact went even further in avoiding that. In the early days, when gross sexlst men would tell women in rock, like her, to shut up and take off their clothes, she told them to f-k off. That's what women who want to focus on music, art, their work, instead of purely selling sex and then being discredited as artists for that, do and should do.
Of course she, like all artists, are creating an image, an art, and a musical world of their own. The crux of Everybody's Fool was Amy showing self-awareness of that fact and she wrote it for her little sister to know that this industry is not always as it seems.
I'm a fan of Both Amy and Xtina because of their voices is like omg that I wish I had type of voices.. I wish they made one duet together not by of their image but its music. But I totally agree what's Amy coming from.
It's important to recognize the context of this video. In the early 2000s women were constantly pitted against each other by MTV and tabloids, often making outrageous claims and misrepresenting other's art to garner controversy (like MTV saying in this clip that she "established" herself as a goth icon). Amy's music was pigeonholed constantly and she had to assert (sometimes overcorrecting) her own artistry. It's also important to mention she only implied Britney but not say her. She mostly wrote this, as she said in the clip, to show the misery behind this industry. We've all learned so much in decades since what Britney went through. Amy has changed her views and she said in an interview that she saw the Framing Britney Spears documentary and had no idea what she was going through. Every star from this time has made mistakes. Amy has grown but the message behind Everybody's Fool still holds true in the social media age.
Okay everybody stop utilizing nasty words to describe somebody who is authentically a intelectual person , Amy has the right to tell her younger sister to stop following these women , because at 8 years old you have no business dressing like these barbie icons. Britney spears has cool catchy music , but what message is she sending to little girls at 17 " I am not too puerile , dress like me , and slumber with me" , and that is not a good message for an younger aduience so Amy lee is a great sizably voluminous sister for authentically caring
Britney is not sending a message to any little girls. She doesn't make music directed at that audience. It's the responsibility of the parents of these little girls to control what they watch. It is not Britney's responsibility at all
Just to be clear the TV station edited Britney and Christina to be the ones Amy Lee was criticising...I know she probably would have included them if asked to give a list, but, she didn't explicitly name anyone so don't hate her because "she hates Christina", pop fans.
@@lampad4549 how is she a hypocrite for criticising an industry that sexualizes underage girls? She isn't criticising the women specifically she was criticising how the industry turns them into characters and forces them into a box to sell. Do you know Britney was coached to sing the way she does to avoid comparisons to XTina? Her actual singing voice was nothing like she was forced to sound like and it almost ruined Britney's vocal chords. This industry exploits young women and their bodies for money and that is what Amy was was criticising. We all know how it messed Britney up and even Aguilera said she was tired of pretending to be someone she was not. The song is spot on. You can see a similar thing with K-pop Idols. Their whole images are manufactured. It's not them but personas the labels feel will sell
Amy's sister wasn't an adult, she was a child, who didn't know shit from shit. Amy on the other hand was an adult at the time, with some experience of that world in question, and knew of what she spoke. She was right to instruct her little sister on the proper way to go, and no, you breathless flout, it has nothing to do with the music and everything to do with the character and image of the girls "singing" up there. Imagine, respectability in today's young women! Horror of horrors!
I don't think so not to mention this interview is from almost ten years ago, her views have changed but amy has always been firm on never using ones body to sell music
Are you aware that Amy was 16 years old when she did that song? At that age you are not so aware of everything, and actually she did a great song, with a great meaning, she didn't insult those artist, she just said how can be another side of their live, there are so much fake artist now that live that way
i know its kinda obvious but nobody said she meant to britney spears so she didn't shade her lol. btw she is right i hate when pop artists do this bc it affect little girls but its also not the artists fault cause they are forced to
Brace yourselves....Butthurt Pop Fans are coming in.... Pffft come on people she just said "I don't want to offend anyone" and you people are making it out to be like she was attacking them when she clearly wasn't... sheesh these comments crack me up xD
Coffin Spectre She didn’t hold back because she was classy... she still trashed them... she didn’t say names because she’s a coward. I think it was repulsive how she conducted herself in this interview.
PHOENIX MINISTRY She wasn’t trying to offend anyone. The song is literally about exposing the behind the scenes life of celebrities, that their lives are not really as perfect and glamorous as people think it is. Besides I doubt that any of those Popstars listen to Evanescence anyway.
the lads did spoof the trl pop era but the didnt write a whole song about it like Amy did, so articulately she broke down the reality of the situation.
Nobody could have said it any better. I would give pop credit if they had any talent what so ever. Yeah they probably did at one point but who's to say they ever did. Cause now all you got to do in pop, to become famous is dress sluty, dance around stage like a stripper, and pretend to sing. ANYBODY CAN FUCKING DO IT!
+lera o. Lol I believe you talk about Push The Button? That was never her choice. She had to do it for a movie soundtrack. When you sign a contract with a company you can't say "that's not my style" or "I can't do that" :) Besides even if she writes pop she doesn't sing it naked on a "wrecking ball" :)
Amy Lee is awesome. Say what you want about her but even though a lot of her songs are dark they still have a good positive message to them but that’s just me.
Yep and I think with the whole free britney movement and now that everyone suddenly seems to have fallen in love with Britney, people are gonna shit on amy for saying this, but I think she still holds this opinion. Sexualization of women has gotten to a point that we don't a have a rock-singer or a mainstream artist who is no giving deliberate sexy vibes. Why does every woman has to be open and sexual for everyone to see. I don't understand this. There are girls who don't associate with Arianas and Rihannas. I mean Billie is kind of a good role model for girls in terms of not flaunting her boobs around. Girls do need tomboy type role models in music. I am sick that every mainstream artist is exaggeratedely feminine and princess-type, ugh!
Remember when girls wanted to look like Avril Lavigne,Hayley Williams,Lzzy Hale,Taylor Swift,Stevie Nicks,Joan Jett,Debbie Harry,Demi Lovato,Selena Gomez and Amy Lee Instead of the fake and plastic Kardashians,Jenners,Cardi B and Nicki Minaj Those were the days
@@Amber_xo_133 Oh sorry. I read wrong, my bad. I agree with you now people want to look like those unreal people (that are not necessary "singers", because there is a lot of "Instagramers").
Of course, she is not. She has not stripped around the pole or moan in her songs to sell records. Lmao Amy would have no problem with Whitney Houston cause she had talent. While Britney's talent was just dancing and being sexy.
Tell me you don't understand the point of the harm manufactured, hype-sexualized pop star imagery does to women in music, who already have a harder time than men in being respected as creators, without telling me. 😂
I don’t see a problem with what she was TRYING to say. she just said it in a rude way. She’s trying to explain that these girls are a product of their company and that they don’t have any creative freedom so that’s why they are “fake” but calling them slutty was a bit much. Still, everybody’s fool reminds me of Britney’s life like it’s so weird how she predicted it. The pink wig, the black hair and sweater looked just like Britney in 2007. Not to mention the Pepsi reference and billboard (britney lucky music video). So the video is very Britney spearsesque.
But that's the thing, it was slutty and everyone including the pop stars at the time would say that's what they were dressing as. There's nothing rude about the truth
@@octobergardner3255 but there's nothing wrong with that either. if that's how women wanted to express themselves back then...who cares? amy was obviously young here so I don't hold anything against her now but she definitely came off as bitter and childish back then. they're all talented ladies regardless. they just had a different target audience and that's fine. every female artist is different. no two are the exact same. she should've just did her own thing and left it at that. her comments were not needed in my humble opinion. Everybody's Fool is great and its true. but that interview? just no.
@@dadon4566 It IS a problem that all the mainstream artists (women) are flaunting their naked bodies. Billie is the new Amy in that sense, thank God for her. We need modest and tomboy type girls as well in the mainstream. I am tired of the same garbage Arianas, Rihanas etc. And she actually thinks the same. Check out her interview (Amy Lee interview with Arthur Kade) and she says quite the same thing so I think she hasn't really changed her opinion. Do you know what's the problem. That all young girls see is the same type of women. We need more tomboys and women who don't get naked at all. It that a rude thing to say or to as for?
@@georg9705 there's so much wrong with this comment. I hope you're not a man speaking on this. Billie is not the new Amy😂 Billie is now 19 and she's doing her own thing now. She's taking inspiration from people like Marilyn Monroe now. She's unapologetic about it too. Modest and tomboy aren't automatically the same thing. You can be modest and feminine too. Amy wasn't even a tomboy...like at all. and no you don't "need" tomboys in the media. you only want them in the media because you're simply uncomfortable. nobody's gonna dress up like a tomboy for you. people are doing what they want now. so if you wanna call a woman garbage for not dressing how you want them to dress for your comfort...that sounds like a you problem that you should get figured out.
Amy Lee is for real a great singer, and very talented, she is saying people like Britney Spears Is fake , I see you tube took down the video that expose Britney Spears real voice is a girl that sing back stage for her and her recording in studio.
@@sikerslalatm3147 not as dumb as you, you people believe anything, most singers loke her lip sync , you wouldn't know talent if it hit you in the face, Brittany Spears is a tool.
We Are The Fallen = Ben Moody's shameless attempt to pretend he never left Evanescence and is still living in 2003. Which I wouldn't have a problem with, since he's 50% responsible for Fallen-era Evanescence, except he tried to play it off as this original thing entirely divorced from Ev. Yeah, right, uh huh. Also, "propagating" means "to foster increased knowledge and familiarity." Which Amy certainly did with her little sister's taste in stars, revealing how tawdry and low they were.
(continued from the last comment I made) expose her body like that. And honestly Britney, Kesha and them are kind of fake. Kesha uses so much more autotune than a "singer" should and they are both more dancers than anything. Besides Amy doesn't care what people think of her, she's not a Bitch, she's telling the truth. Amy is a great role model for young kids...not Kesha, or Justin Bieber, etc. But like I said I'm still a pretty big fan of Christina Aguilera. But I'll always be Amy's biggest fan!
Kesha seem more authentic, u got it the other way around, Christina Aguilera and many others in her genre are the phonies, their marketing tools and rude people in real life
Not really. I mean, I like her in a nostalgic sense, but that's about it. The first album I ever owned was a Britney Spears album. I was like 4 years old at the time, so I've matured in my musical taste since then. Having said that, I still don't think it's right for Amy to talk trash and pass judgement on people, regardless of who they are.
Only like her in the nostalgic sense? Then why is your profile picture of her band's logo? It's important to remember the context of this time and how female artists were pitted against each other constantly by tabloids and MTV. She was trying to show how this industry isn't always what it seems. She has changed her views since (she saw the Framing Britney doc) and doesn't perform this song live any more.
Although I think what Amy meant was to speak out against the sexual objectification and unrealistic beauty standards expected of women, I don't appreciate her sex-shaming tone; women are free to be sexual if they want to be; the only problems are when they are treated as objects rather than human beings, and when a sexual image is expected of all women. It's a good thing Amy has matured since 2004.
Well, for example, licking hammers, expose his ass (with magnifying it with photoshop), simulate twerks on stage, be photographied taking drugs... For me, men doesn't have to do these things too. And you know, I'm not against low-necked, skirt, or underwear^^ (I certainly make english mistakes, sorry)
Your English is fine. There is nothing inherently wrong with licking a hammer, although it looks really stupid. Nude pictures aren't bad either; it's only bad if they were leaked without the person's consent. When that happens, the bad person is the person who leaked them, not the person in the picture. Twerking is a move from dance clubs. Drugs are not of a sexual nature, but weed is fine. Harder drugs are a problem. You may not be against low-neck shirts or skirts, but many people are :/ many people don't know how to mind their own business.
DeathOnTwoLegsxx I think Amy wasn't trying to sex-shame anyone. She just said that those kind of pop stars give bad examples for younger kids, like her 8 year old sister. I can see the point, why she doesn't want her sister to dress and act like Britney Spears in her videos (for example, not trying to offend any fans of her)
She did play it after 2004 a few times. And there are tons of songs she doesn't play, she can't possibly play every single song she ever wrote. Also, she's evolved a lot since the Fallen days and isn't really attached to songs she wrote when she was 15-18
lol this is from 2004 people, calm down. And honestly, Amy's telling the truth. I'm a big fan of her and I like Christina Aguilera too, who she bashed. I grew up listening to Britney and Christina, but have always been a big fan of Amy. Truth is, both Britney, Christina and these pop starts nowadays, expose their bodies. And honestly, she's telling the truth. It's ridiculous how these pop stars have to act fake. Christina has an incredible voice, some great song meanings, she doesn't need to
I agree, I love Evanescence and Amy, but all of these comments were totally uncalled for...and forget it. I doubt any of those people dissing you for liking WATF probably dont know you like Cristina, Floor or Tarja and probably dont know who they are -_-
You offended me by offending Carly/Ben/WATF, so yeah, I'm pissed. You have the right to be pissed at me, too. I admit, there was no way my comment wasn't going to stir the pot, so I shouldn't have said it. But I stand by it. I see similarities between the two bands too, but the only reason people are mad at them for it is because they branched off of Ev. Ev fans LOVE the extreme similarities between Ev and Noctura, or Ev and Earlyrise, but for some reason they all have a beef with WATF. It makes
I like how Amy Lee has never "established" herself as a "goth icon." Ever.
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Isn't she a goth rock star?
@@mahmoodshakir8306 The others may have given her this title. She never claimed it.
@@Oscaregarciaiii123 no. Stream Wasted On You out tomorrow.
but they were never goth
I miss the old MTV :(
Amy: I don't wanna offend anyone
Also Amy: Offends everyone every way possible 😂😂😂
without mentioning a single name. Based.
Some context to this two decades old clip: The early 2000s MTV era had many female artists constantly pitted against each other and tabloids and MTV making outrageous claims (like saying Amy "established herself" as a goth icon despite not saying that herself) often sowing discord and having interviewers ask questions to invoke controversy and beef. Amy was trying to assert her own artistry and in this clip she probably overcorrected a bit. However, I recently read an interview with Amy and she said she watched the Framing Britney documentary and had no idea about her personal struggles. Amy, Britney, Christina, all of these talented young women went through SO MUCH and were manipulated by noxious men in the industry (Amy was emotionally abused by bandmate Ben Moody and had things thrown at her at metal and rock festivals and was often the only female at these kind of gigs). These women went through hell and back and Amy has recanted a lot of this and doesn't even play this song live anymore despite being one of Evanescence's biggest hits. HOWEVER, the crux of Everybody's Fool about the lies, deception, manipulation, false advertising, and fake images and personas we ALL put on still holds true in this social media age. Remember, the past is a foreign country, people think differently there.
She also wrote this song as a minor and she grew up in a conservative Christian household in Arkansas. She recently said in an interview that she no longer resonates with some of the lyrics and that's one of the reasons why she changed the music video to be more about the lies of the media as she became more engrossed in the industry. We all have implicit biases. This is a similar situation to Taylor Swift and "Better Than Revenge." They were both young women trying to make sense of the world through their songwriting and sense they both wrote these songs at a young age, have grown from them.
1:20 Amy called it. Hate saying this but Britney is a perfect example. She had that perfect girl next door appeal to her. Sexually innocent. Nearly a decade later it almost destroyed Britney. She lost her spark. Hollywood betrayed Britney bc she failed to keep her good girl image that everyone held her up on a pedestal for. 😢
@abbied we all do! But it's kind of hard to get help it any better when you have 40 paparazzi in your face and the whole world calling you 'fat" and a "bad mom". .
I total agree with her that's why I love her she is true and relatable also most importantly REAL!
Every word you just said is 100 percent True :) Amy has a kind heart and a amazing Voice :)
Yeah, I think “and” is 100% true as well!
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Yes she is right there is fake pop stars and im just a adult stud lesbian woman is attracted to women born a female there is no music for stud lesbian women and stud lesbian women born a female no music for gay women and im a adult stud lesbian woman who is attracted to women only born a female i do not see nothing funny
"Cracker box idols" LMAO I fucking LOVE Amy! She is so damn right! And the song Everybody's Fool is the perfect description of this scenario. So true and spot on.
I like both Amy Lee and Britney.
I love both pop and rock music.
Isn't she bat shit though
This song still fucking rocks!!! And it's more suitable in this era with all the instagram and other type of shits happening around.
That's why I love amylee her music is real n the lyrics is deep and meaningful proud evanescence fan
You guys do realize she's not talking about Britney Spears, she's talking about pop stars from that time, Britney is used as an example and yes I realize I'm very late on this but this had to be said
+Page Lomeli Even if she was.. I didn't see it as an insult at all. Britney Spears really is a sweet person who lived a FAKE life for so long for the media and the fans. Lee just (in the song) exposes those teen idols in a more brutal way. Spears herself kinda did the same with "Lucky" before the down spiral.
+La_trolette Everyone in the public eye is 'fake' in a way. I'm sure there are parts of Amy's life that are not shared with the public or that parts of her public life that are fabricated. I like Amy and her music but there was a certain arrogance and nastiness of artists like her Avril Lavigne, Pink who acted as if they are so much better than the other girls back at that time. They used marketing and PR themselves marketing themselves as sort of anti-Britney artists and really they could have let their music speak for itself. Amy defended Britney in 07 though and when she was recently questioned about this song being about X-Tina and Britney it looked like she felt regretful acting this way.
It’s more relevant now
@@stipV yeah, they were just "chasing clout" 😒😤. It's like they had to almost make fun of themselves just to make a point of being the very point they were making fun of. ... They're far from innocent, & perfect themselves.
what’s funny is the everybody’s fool video is identical to britney spears meltdown. and it came out 4 years before it happened.
Even at a young age I realized how insanely talented Amy was. But it’s just now coming to me as a young man in my 20s, that she‘s extremely attractive as well. 2003 or 2023, she’s gorgeous.
I wish people would stop making fun of Amy Lee because of this video. She is famous for her career which is singing and most of those other singers are only famous because they go on stage half naked. Amy Lee is famous because she is actually good at singing!
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u damn right
Christina Aguilera can outsing her anytime
@@theguanenonli 😂😂
Only fans of those pop stars would be angry at someone speaking truth about that and how it negatively affects both those of that lifestyle, other women in the industry and young people looking up to them and being defined very young by those images. She spoke nothing but truth about the reality of that. She also wrote the song when she was in high school, and said herself years ago that she moved past that and also has sympathy for those embroiled in such lifestyles and the sexism with which they were treated (such as Britney's situation)
Perfect! She couldn't have written it any better, and it's one of my favorite songs. So true!
Her character breaks the mirror in her hotel, reminds me of Britney's "Everytime" video when she throws a glass at a mirror at a hotel. Amy was on to something back then.
A lot of their videos are similiar. It'd be crazy if they had some same video creater
Amy Lee foreshadowed Britney Spears' 2007 meltdown! Christina Aguilera on the other hand matured quickly and got more vocally stronger and artistic.
We don't know that Christina matured quickly. She might have been messy as fuck behind the scenes all these years and had a professional team to help keep it all from going public. Britney, on the hand, since the time that she released her first album had dealt with a lot of scrutiny in the media, constantly being berated and harrassed by journalists, paparazzis, judgmental parents alike for not only the music and image that she had the right to have but also her very public break up
She's an entire human being and she deserves compassion and respect.
@@garryeagle ugh, no
@@garryeagleChristina went through a lot also. Hence why Stripped was so personal to her because she put all her trauma, darkness, and insecurities into that album. Xtina was wise enough early on that the team around her did not have have her best interest at heart, and that her manager was stealing millions of dollars from her. So she fired him, and got herself a new manager. Something Britney should have done but she was too naive to believe that those around her were all just vultures.
MY BEAUTIFUL QUEEN
naah man amy aint jealous i mean i totally agree with her
she's awesome!!
I love how hard music makes you fight for the truth! Even after 15 years...
Whats the truth?
Sacrifice and Everybody's fool are the best songs of Evanescence ever!
She still looked gorgeous doing it haha. Especially the model shots and the motor cycle helmet.
Point still loud and clear. Cracker box barbies are fake and Amy always look pretty
I heard cocker box lol
Such a smart girl. Total respect.
Not really just entitled
@@lampad4549 If she' entitled it's because she has the right to, and she should be.
Definitely. 💯
today the music is pop..fuck that..we need rock
absolutely !!!!
OH YES!!!
Eww no
Nah, we need God
happy 34th birthday amy lee of evanescence !!!
Amy lee your amazing no matter where your at and I love your singing voice and your style ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️
I much prefer Amy to Britney of course, but Evanescence/Amy herself is very image-driven. Has been from the start. That's just the music industry. Amy is not exempt from a 'fake' image in her videos, photoshoots etc. Of course I would say that Amy is a better role model than Britney though, I mean duh...
The problem with Britney is not her, it's the music industry! The people who abused her as a child in the Mickey Mouse Club and experimented on her to control her mind! They made her a puppet, she met the wrong manager! Look how Lindsey Lohan, Miley Circus, and Amanda Bynes turned out after beeing teen popstars! When they hit adulthood that's when the problem starts! Britney made it in the mainstream media at the wrong time with the wrong people in the wrong system!! I feel sorry for her because she was never bipolar and they have fragmented her mind into different alter egos different personalities! But now she broke her programming I think! Also look for the oh so little Cindy Lou role of Taylor Michel Momsen when she started, and now all grown up woman so "señorita sexy" but turned terribly wrong promoting satanism!
But Amy Lee portraits herself as fake and a lie in her own video.. She probably knows that as well
You have no idea what you're talking about. You have a very ignorant misunderstanding of the male-suits' manufactured and deceptive sexualized imagery and marketing of young pop stars to appeal to young people and especially h*rny men, vs rock bands like Evanescence and Amy's own self-defined image and visuals. Amy led her band and her own aesthetic was her own, self-created, a mix of things she loved growing up (Victorian, fantasy, child-like morbid stuff, metal), and she designed most of her own stuff. And in fact, like all women in the industry regardless of genre experience, Amy herself had been suggested by their label when they started out to lose weight and sexualize herself, and she strictly opposed that and in fact went even further in avoiding that. In the early days, when gross sexlst men would tell women in rock, like her, to shut up and take off their clothes, she told them to f-k off. That's what women who want to focus on music, art, their work, instead of purely selling sex and then being discredited as artists for that, do and should do.
Of course she, like all artists, are creating an image, an art, and a musical world of their own. The crux of Everybody's Fool was Amy showing self-awareness of that fact and she wrote it for her little sister to know that this industry is not always as it seems.
I'm a fan of Both Amy and Xtina because of their voices is like omg that I wish I had type of voices.. I wish they made one duet together not by of their image but its music. But I totally agree what's Amy coming from.
Me too. I love both pop and rock music, including their subgenres: pop rock, pop punk and alternative rock.
Both Amy and X-Tina are awesome.
2:07 "so ridiculous" 🙂👌🏿 that is why i love her ❤
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Poor Britney :((( Amy is so pretty and I love some of her songs but this felt kinda mean
It's important to recognize the context of this video. In the early 2000s women were constantly pitted against each other by MTV and tabloids, often making outrageous claims and misrepresenting other's art to garner controversy (like MTV saying in this clip that she "established" herself as a goth icon). Amy's music was pigeonholed constantly and she had to assert (sometimes overcorrecting) her own artistry. It's also important to mention she only implied Britney but not say her. She mostly wrote this, as she said in the clip, to show the misery behind this industry. We've all learned so much in decades since what Britney went through. Amy has changed her views and she said in an interview that she saw the Framing Britney Spears documentary and had no idea what she was going through. Every star from this time has made mistakes. Amy has grown but the message behind Everybody's Fool still holds true in the social media age.
Miss this veiwpoint!!!
This is old, but still relevant in some way. Everybody's Fool is reality for a lot of people, I mean look at things today.
Thank You! Amy lee for the video! Wauww
Id drink the shit out of that cola lol
Okay everybody stop utilizing nasty words to describe somebody who is authentically a intelectual person , Amy has the right to tell her younger sister to stop following these women , because at 8 years old you have no business dressing like these barbie icons. Britney spears has cool catchy music , but what message is she sending to little girls at 17 " I am not too puerile , dress like me , and slumber with me" , and that is not a good message for an younger aduience so Amy lee is a great sizably voluminous sister for authentically caring
Britney was 16 when "Baby one more time" came out in late 1998
IT'S 2017 GROW UP BITCH! Britney Spears Pop Princess!
Britney is not sending a message to any little girls. She doesn't make music directed at that audience. It's the responsibility of the parents of these little girls to control what they watch. It is not Britney's responsibility at all
Wow I haven't seen this in years!!! Thanks for uploading ! :)
Just to be clear the TV station edited Britney and Christina to be the ones Amy Lee was criticising...I know she probably would have included them if asked to give a list, but, she didn't explicitly name anyone so don't hate her because "she hates Christina", pop fans.
She doesn't hate Christina, she's actually a fan of her "Stripped" album.
Well based on what she described it would include Brittany and christina.
@@Juandomngz hypocrite
@@lampad4549 how is she a hypocrite for criticising an industry that sexualizes underage girls? She isn't criticising the women specifically she was criticising how the industry turns them into characters and forces them into a box to sell. Do you know Britney was coached to sing the way she does to avoid comparisons to XTina? Her actual singing voice was nothing like she was forced to sound like and it almost ruined Britney's vocal chords. This industry exploits young women and their bodies for money and that is what Amy was was criticising. We all know how it messed Britney up and even Aguilera said she was tired of pretending to be someone she was not. The song is spot on. You can see a similar thing with K-pop Idols. Their whole images are manufactured. It's not them but personas the labels feel will sell
Amy's sister wasn't an adult, she was a child, who didn't know shit from shit. Amy on the other hand was an adult at the time, with some experience of that world in question, and knew of what she spoke. She was right to instruct her little sister on the proper way to go, and no, you breathless flout, it has nothing to do with the music and everything to do with the character and image of the girls "singing" up there. Imagine, respectability in today's young women! Horror of horrors!
i love her so much
I agree with you Amy Lee !!
Gods, she's so stunning.
I got to meet her once. We talked about hot tubs. I caught her off gaurd with a joke. ;-)
I trully love her!!!
I don't think so not to mention this interview is from almost ten years ago, her views have changed but amy has always been firm on never using ones body to sell music
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thanks for uploading:)
Ai como eu te amoooooo Amy Leeeeeeeee
Big respect
Are you aware that Amy was 16 years old when she did that song? At that age you are not so aware of everything, and actually she did a great song, with a great meaning, she didn't insult those artist, she just said how can be another side of their live, there are so much fake artist now that live that way
i am totally agree with amy lee
She's real.
she later apologized to britney spears in 2021
i know its kinda obvious but nobody said she meant to britney spears so she didn't shade her lol. btw she is right i hate when pop artists do this bc it affect little girls but its also not the artists fault cause they are forced to
Ooh, I love u Amy!!!!!!!!
"So I gave her talk..." lol! I bet Amy did.
Brace yourselves....Butthurt Pop Fans are coming in....
Pffft come on people she just said "I don't want to offend anyone" and you people are making it out to be like she was attacking them when she clearly wasn't... sheesh these comments crack me up xD
Coffin Spectre She didn’t hold back because she was classy... she still trashed them... she didn’t say names because she’s a coward. I think it was repulsive how she conducted herself in this interview.
PHOENIX MINISTRY She wasn’t trying to offend anyone. The song is literally about exposing the behind the scenes life of celebrities, that their lives are not really as perfect and glamorous as people think it is. Besides I doubt that any of those Popstars listen to Evanescence anyway.
im not a "pop fan" but can see when women are trying to judge and bring down other women. :)
the lads did spoof the trl pop era but the didnt write a whole song about it like Amy did, so articulately she broke down the reality of the situation.
Nobody could have said it any better. I would give pop credit if they had any talent what so ever. Yeah they probably did at one point but who's to say they ever did. Cause now all you got to do in pop, to become famous is dress sluty, dance around stage like a stripper, and pretend to sing.
ANYBODY CAN FUCKING DO IT!
Woww!!
no she is not. and even if she was, she's talking about the FAKE ones, not all of them!
Amo esse vídeo
Remember when every girl wanted to look like this instead of the Kardashians and Nicki Minaj those were the days
so...white?
@@princesa2198 no like a real human, not plastic
And now 10 years later...she makes pop music herself XD
+lera o. They ain't flipping pop!
Flaming Skull I'm only talking about Amy herself... 'Aftermath' album and other single songs. Evanescence is/was rock band yes.
+lera o. Lol I believe you talk about Push The Button? That was never her choice. She had to do it for a movie soundtrack.
When you sign a contract with a company you can't say "that's not my style" or "I can't do that" :)
Besides even if she writes pop she doesn't sing it naked on a "wrecking ball" :)
+lera o. It's not the fact of doing pop, it's the fact of being like Britney or Miley and girls of 10 years being like her unconsciously
Neil Arthur I meant this comment ironically when I wrote this. I actually understand what you're saying.
She was not refering neither Britney or Xtina, they were so fabricated at the beginning, but she is talking about someone else
Amy Lee is awesome. Say what you want about her but even though a lot of her songs are dark they still have a good positive message to them but that’s just me.
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she spoke the truth here
Yep and I think with the whole free britney movement and now that everyone suddenly seems to have fallen in love with Britney, people are gonna shit on amy for saying this, but I think she still holds this opinion. Sexualization of women has gotten to a point that we don't a have a rock-singer or a mainstream artist who is no giving deliberate sexy vibes. Why does every woman has to be open and sexual for everyone to see. I don't understand this. There are girls who don't associate with Arianas and Rihannas. I mean Billie is kind of a good role model for girls in terms of not flaunting her boobs around. Girls do need tomboy type role models in music. I am sick that every mainstream artist is exaggeratedely feminine and princess-type, ugh!
Thank God she didn't want to offend anyone.
Rock on Amy......Rock on:):):):):)
Remember when girls wanted to look like Avril Lavigne,Hayley Williams,Lzzy Hale,Taylor Swift,Stevie Nicks,Joan Jett,Debbie Harry,Demi Lovato,Selena Gomez and Amy Lee Instead of the fake and plastic Kardashians,Jenners,Cardi B and Nicki Minaj Those were the days
Sorry but Avril disliked too much the image of sexualized girls. She was always
authentic, thats why Ben worked with her.
@@TrueBeliever04 people now are fake and plastic
@@Amber_xo_133 Oh sorry. I read wrong, my bad. I agree with you now people want to look like those unreal people (that are not necessary "singers", because there is a lot of "Instagramers").
@@TrueBeliever04 I hate people who are fake,plastic and rich for no reason
emy esta certissima !!!
Love Amy :3 please keep kicking pop music's ass! Xx
She went from this to "Use Your Voice"...
And? How can it be normal that except Billie, every female artists is spreading her legs? Where are the tomboy girls?
@@georg9705 you must be 14 hahaha im not gonna argue with a kiddo lol
@@sidfara6362 I am 23. So you don't want tomboy type female artists to succeed?
She's so right!!❤😍
"im not like other girls" YIKES..
Of course, she is not. She has not stripped around the pole or moan in her songs to sell records. Lmao Amy would have no problem with Whitney Houston cause she had talent. While Britney's talent was just dancing and being sexy.
Tell me you don't understand the point of the harm manufactured, hype-sexualized pop star imagery does to women in music, who already have a harder time than men in being respected as creators, without telling me. 😂
She's not wrong though.
I don’t see a problem with what she was TRYING to say. she just said it in a rude way. She’s trying to explain that these girls are a product of their company and that they don’t have any creative freedom so that’s why they are “fake” but calling them slutty was a bit much. Still, everybody’s fool reminds me of Britney’s life like it’s so weird how she predicted it. The pink wig, the black hair and sweater looked just like Britney in 2007. Not to mention the Pepsi reference and billboard (britney lucky music video). So the video is very Britney spearsesque.
But that's the thing, it was slutty and everyone including the pop stars at the time would say that's what they were dressing as. There's nothing rude about the truth
@@octobergardner3255 but there's nothing wrong with that either. if that's how women wanted to express themselves back then...who cares? amy was obviously young here so I don't hold anything against her now but she definitely came off as bitter and childish back then. they're all talented ladies regardless. they just had a different target audience and that's fine. every female artist is different. no two are the exact same. she should've just did her own thing and left it at that. her comments were not needed in my humble opinion. Everybody's Fool is great and its true. but that interview? just no.
@@dadon4566 It IS a problem that all the mainstream artists (women) are flaunting their naked bodies. Billie is the new Amy in that sense, thank God for her. We need modest and tomboy type girls as well in the mainstream. I am tired of the same garbage Arianas, Rihanas etc. And she actually thinks the same. Check out her interview (Amy Lee interview with Arthur Kade) and she says quite the same thing so I think she hasn't really changed her opinion. Do you know what's the problem. That all young girls see is the same type of women. We need more tomboys and women who don't get naked at all. It that a rude thing to say or to as for?
@@dadon4566 And, of course she should be jealous that an artist who doesn't even wrote her oen hits or even B-sides, is getting more popularity.
@@georg9705 there's so much wrong with this comment. I hope you're not a man speaking on this. Billie is not the new Amy😂 Billie is now 19 and she's doing her own thing now. She's taking inspiration from people like Marilyn Monroe now. She's unapologetic about it too. Modest and tomboy aren't automatically the same thing. You can be modest and feminine too. Amy wasn't even a tomboy...like at all. and no you don't "need" tomboys in the media. you only want them in the media because you're simply uncomfortable. nobody's gonna dress up like a tomboy for you. people are doing what they want now. so if you wanna call a woman garbage for not dressing how you want them to dress for your comfort...that sounds like a you problem that you should get figured out.
Amy Lee is for real a great singer, and very talented, she is saying people like Britney Spears Is fake , I see you tube took down the video that expose Britney Spears real voice is a girl that sing back stage for her and her recording in studio.
That video was fake though…how much of an idiot can you be
@@sikerslalatm3147 not as dumb as you, you people believe anything, most singers loke her lip sync , you wouldn't know talent if it hit you in the face, Brittany Spears is a tool.
Amy Lee You Are The Best ♥
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Amy Lee is not goth so Mtv news should have done their research. She said so herself.
We Are The Fallen = Ben Moody's shameless attempt to pretend he never left Evanescence and is still living in 2003. Which I wouldn't have a problem with, since he's 50% responsible for Fallen-era Evanescence, except he tried to play it off as this original thing entirely divorced from Ev. Yeah, right, uh huh.
Also, "propagating" means "to foster increased knowledge and familiarity." Which Amy certainly did with her little sister's taste in stars, revealing how tawdry and low they were.
Waaaait a minute! Ty0koritoru...r u brazilian?
(continued from the last comment I made) expose her body like that. And honestly Britney, Kesha and them are kind of fake. Kesha uses so much more autotune than a "singer" should and they are both more dancers than anything. Besides Amy doesn't care what people think of her, she's not a Bitch, she's telling the truth. Amy is a great role model for young kids...not Kesha, or Justin Bieber, etc. But like I said I'm still a pretty big fan of Christina Aguilera. But I'll always be Amy's biggest fan!
Kesha seem more authentic, u got it the other way around, Christina Aguilera and many others in her genre are the phonies, their marketing tools and rude people in real life
1:25 ALL THE SMALL THINGSSSSSSS
I hate pop too but I love metal and classic rock
+Cephalotripsy1992 Oh yeah!
Not even kpop?
thangs stuff K-Pop is the shittiest thing I have ever heard
I love both pop and rock, including their subgenres: pop rock, pop punk and alternative rock.
Idyllic days of 1999 lmfao i can't breathe i wish that i was dead
"Daah" ajjsjajsj 3 Amy
why Dido is in the end?
Not really. I mean, I like her in a nostalgic sense, but that's about it. The first album I ever owned was a Britney Spears album. I was like 4 years old at the time, so I've matured in my musical taste since then. Having said that, I still don't think it's right for Amy to talk trash and pass judgement on people, regardless of who they are.
Only like her in the nostalgic sense? Then why is your profile picture of her band's logo? It's important to remember the context of this time and how female artists were pitted against each other constantly by tabloids and MTV. She was trying to show how this industry isn't always what it seems. She has changed her views since (she saw the Framing Britney doc) and doesn't perform this song live any more.
amy é a unica que tem MATURIDADE!
como ela ja disse "voce nao precisa estar semi-nua para fazer sucesso basta que seja talentosa"
Although I think what Amy meant was to speak out against the sexual objectification and unrealistic beauty standards expected of women, I don't appreciate her sex-shaming tone; women are free to be sexual if they want to be; the only problems are when they are treated as objects rather than human beings, and when a sexual image is expected of all women. It's a good thing Amy has matured since 2004.
Yes, but there's a limit between "sexy" and "vulgar" ^^
And what is this fine line? When does someone become "vulgar," and are the standards for men and women different?
Well, for example, licking hammers, expose his ass (with magnifying it with photoshop), simulate twerks on stage, be photographied taking drugs... For me, men doesn't have to do these things too. And you know, I'm not against low-necked, skirt, or underwear^^ (I certainly make english mistakes, sorry)
Your English is fine.
There is nothing inherently wrong with licking a hammer, although it looks really stupid. Nude pictures aren't bad either; it's only bad if they were leaked without the person's consent. When that happens, the bad person is the person who leaked them, not the person in the picture. Twerking is a move from dance clubs. Drugs are not of a sexual nature, but weed is fine. Harder drugs are a problem.
You may not be against low-neck shirts or skirts, but many people are :/ many people don't know how to mind their own business.
DeathOnTwoLegsxx I think Amy wasn't trying to sex-shame anyone. She just said that those kind of pop stars give bad examples for younger kids, like her 8 year old sister. I can see the point, why she doesn't want her sister to dress and act like Britney Spears in her videos (for example, not trying to offend any fans of her)
Amy i love you, but don't mess with Legendtina Aguilera ♥
she didn't do it.
She said the true so....
She doesn't play this song live anymore since 2004 for some reason
Since Ben left on the Fallen tour.
H Levine they played it in their last tour
Tommynski Actually, it's been on their set list for these new tours. It's their opener. Love it!
Tommynski she mentioned that it's because her thinking changed and she doesn't look at the song the same way as before
She did play it after 2004 a few times. And there are tons of songs she doesn't play, she can't possibly play every single song she ever wrote. Also, she's evolved a lot since the Fallen days and isn't really attached to songs she wrote when she was 15-18
lol this is from 2004 people, calm down. And honestly, Amy's telling the truth. I'm a big fan of her and I like Christina Aguilera too, who she bashed. I grew up listening to Britney and Christina, but have always been a big fan of Amy. Truth is, both Britney, Christina and these pop starts nowadays, expose their bodies. And honestly, she's telling the truth. It's ridiculous how these pop stars have to act fake. Christina has an incredible voice, some great song meanings, she doesn't need to
Poor Robert.
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Funny thing is that Britney herself took the cue from Amy, with the song 'Lucky'.
I agree, I love Evanescence and Amy, but all of these comments were totally uncalled for...and forget it. I doubt any of those people dissing you for liking WATF probably dont know you like Cristina, Floor or Tarja and probably dont know who they are -_-
You offended me by offending Carly/Ben/WATF, so yeah, I'm pissed. You have the right to be pissed at me, too. I admit, there was no way my comment wasn't going to stir the pot, so I shouldn't have said it. But I stand by it. I see similarities between the two bands too, but the only reason people are mad at them for it is because they branched off of Ev. Ev fans LOVE the extreme similarities between Ev and Noctura, or Ev and Earlyrise, but for some reason they all have a beef with WATF. It makes
I'm wondering if that was real glass that she broke or was break-away glass.
Rob Jr. she cut her hand in the video so it was real glass