The thing is Amy, the childish haunting in your voice, the tired piano playing, the build to an almost heartbreaking cry in the song is exactly what makes it so great!
She dislikes the sound of the demo and that she sounds like a kid on it. She does sound like a kid on it, she was a teen. She has the right to dislike that the label (yet again, as with Bring Me To Life) forced her to do something she didn't want by using an old demo version of the song instead of the re-recording she did.
If you haven’t heard the original I recommend looking it up. Just type in My Immortal Original Version. There’s even some extra lyrics in there which I love, but my favorite version is the Origins Version. I recommend giving that one a listen too.
Technically she's wrong. If anyone is to hear the song in a grocery store, chances are it's coming from the radio, which means chances are it's the Band Version, with a more mature Amy singing and the epic rock bridge.
I’m so confused now lol which version is the one she likes and which is the one released? I’m listening to the band version just found it and it sounds good hard to tell the difference
@@thang92 she hated the version from "Origin" (19 years old) and that is the version they choose for the album, they just added some strings. But they did re record it for the video with the rock part, so she sounds more mature. And that is the radio version almost anyone (that didn't buy the album) recognize. So she is kinda wrong. But if you listened to the song in the album first, the you probably won't like the "rock version" because it sounds a lot less emotional.
I like waaay more the origin version because Amy's voice sounds more fragile. And that is what's the song is about. The band version is good but meh. She really sounds like she is recording in the studio and not just letting it out.
@@User-mj3yq Fallen is their worst album, label-intervened, monotone, with the same one-note guitar across. And those who believe that label-pushed massively commercial albums = the best should wake up
NOPE! The band version (music video version) is. But I thought like you too, when I was 15. Back then I believed the Origin/Fallen vocal recording was better.
I think she hates on My immortal because Ben Moody wrote it and it was their biggest hit at the time until Bring me to life. Ben Moody would pretty much not let her have anything to do with the production of Fallen. His view was she was there to sing and that was it. There are videos on UA-cam "The making of Fallen" if you watch them you can see all Amy did was sing and make video tapes. I saw Evanescence in Montreal just before the pandemic hit and they only played a couple songs off Fallen My Immortal was not one of them. I get it that she hates Ben Moody and doesn't want anything to do with what he produced but these songs are Amy's now and no one outside of Ev fans even knows who Ben Moody is so she should embrace Fallen and claim it as her own.
Actually Amy wrote all the lyrics and melodies for the Fallen Album except for the songs My Immortal and Tourniquet. Tourniquet was originally written by Rocky Grey except for the second verse which was added by Amy. It's not true that Amy did nothing but sing. The making of fallen videos were recorded long after she had written all the lyrics. BTW David Fortman produced Fallen and not Ben Moody. Guess you're a bit misinformed in regards to the band's history.
In addition, during the regular tours they usually perform Going Under, My Immortal, Imaginary, Bring Me To Life, and even Whisper. Do you expect them to perform the entirety of Fallen when they're promoting a new album? 4 songs from each album is a lot. You have to realize Fallen is old by now and Amy has grown up a lot since those lyrics were written. It's normal for a musician to relate more to their recent efforts.
@@osamus1796 Sorry,.. I'm afraid you're misinformed or in denial. Tourniquet was a song from Rocky's old band (Soul Embraced). My Immortal was about Moody's grandfather. There's two songs down. Most of the other songs were written by Moody while he was still in High School they were reworked and rewritten over several years by Lee,Moody and Hodges but the original songs were penned my Moody. Amy's only contributions was the bridge to My Immortal and lyrics to rewritten and reworked songs. She had very little to do with the music portion as Moody not only plays rhythm and lead guitar he also plays piano. Being the bipolar control freak he admitted to being, who do you think wanted control over the lyrics and music on the album? Finally you only have to listen to the differences between Fallen and The Open Door to know they are two different styles written by two different people then Listen to Moody's album " We are the Fallen" and THAT is more in line with the Fallen album. I'm an Evanescence fan and I don't have much use for Moody but I do not deny he had talent. One last thing, in old interviews available here on You Tube Amy is quoted saying she wrote Bring Me to life when she was in a depressed mood and an acquaintance told her (not Josh Hartzler) that he could see right through her eyes down to her core. Now 2021 she is saying in interviews she wrote it about Josh. Which is it? When Bring me to life was written Amy was seeing Moody briefly then she moved on to Sean Morgan. Josh Hartzler was only a fling she had in school then rekindled it after breaking up with Morgan. Very unlikely Moody would have wanted that song on the album if he thought it was a love song about Hartzler, ESPECIALLY when he had feelings for her himself at the time. P.S. I am no no way misinformed about Evanescence.
@@T.N.S.A.F. Have you even read my comment? What the hell are you talking about it? There are multiple accounts of Ben and David saying that Amy wrote the majority of lyrics on Fallen. Amy knew Josh via a mutual friend. He's friends with David Hodges and he still is to this day. Here listen to the interview of David Hodges. ua-cam.com/video/59j1Ne9B2Xg/v-deo.html Fast forward to around 59:20. David is going to start talking about the writing process of Fallen. Ben wrote My Immortal when he was young. Hit songs like Bring Me To Life, Going Under and Everybody's Fool were written by her. As well as the whole album except for My Immortal and Tourniquet. You're definitely misinformed if you think Ben wrote the lyrics for Fallen. Ben wrote the music (guitar riffs and programming). Please listen to the interview posted above to enlighten yourself. You're clearly clueless regarding many things
For the Fallen version I like the background singing of the guy where he says "yeah", does anybody know what I'm talking about? And I also like the Band version, it doesn't have that "background singing" but it's a nice version too.
Uh, it is known that Ben wrote the words to My Immortal from a fictional story back when he was a teen, she said it back in 2003. She called it Ben's song. She co-wrote it on piano and added the bridge. She's never liked the song. She said over the years she eventually grew fondly of playing it in concerts
My Immortal becomes a totally different song, if you picture it being about her sister that passed away. It actually really makes sense if you think about it. It's probably not, because Hello was written about that, but I like to think Amy is deeper than writing a song about a breakup, you know?
"My Immortal" is based on Ben Moody's writings on his grandfather's death. Ben is the original, and former, guitarist of Evanescence. "Hello" and "Like You", were written by Amy about the death of her younger sister, Bonnie. I think Bonnie was 3 YO when she died, and at that time Amy was 6 YO. ☹
@@detectivekornfed Thats the truth! It was Bens song! Thats why is different from the others.. it took years to Amy accept it but now is classic for them. Still one of my fav songs. Wishing Ben didt leave. He didnt clain anything at all..
My Immortal is not about Amy's sister's death, and Amy didn't write the words (except the bridge), Ben wrote the words from fiction, from a short story. He and Amy co-wrote it musically and Amy did the main melody originally. Amy wrote most of Fallen from being in an abusive relationship; a lot of the songs stem from her feelings and experiences with that and the damage it did. Some exceptions are Hello, which she wrote about the death of her little sister when she was six.
I think Fallen was their worst album. They blew up because of their sound and Amy’s voice but people want her to remain that 21 year old when she’s not. She’s matured and gotten more creative and has taken control of her music finally.
Angela yeah i agree with u. i fell in love with the band because of her voice and the album with the music, like her voice casted a spell on me. plus she was very young at the time and at least trying to make a good start to the band. the origin album i don’t know too much about but the songs on their i knew were going on other albums. i also do not know much about the lost whispers album. i know it was in 2016 but some of the songs were taken from other albums and like the synthesis wish classical rock trying to get back to their band again. i think in all honesty, the bitter truth album will be a hit to us fans! i don’t even think it’ll go viral because nobody listens to evanescence anymore, but true supporters and true fans will take the effort and make it go viral again :) i know this has nothing to do with what u commented, but i just don’t like how people quit following because they thought the band wasn’t together anymrie or they just wish amy was young again. but even though she’s older now and has a kid, i look up to her and see that she is still the same person that was in the music videos of “my immortal” and she actually did all this. age just doesn’t mater to me, her voice is phenomenally a goddess❤️ her voice literally casted a spell on me to listen tot heir music and i really hope i get to meet her one day! also all my respect goes towards the band too. if there wasn’t an amazing band that gave up on her, there wouldn’t be an evanescence today. but throughout all the breaks and the members leaving and gaining new members to join, i’m SUPER thankful that more and more people are interested in joining evanescence. despite the coronavirus, i really hope they can be doing more live-streams as concerts. i don’t have any social media besides youtube and tik tok, but i really hope they’ll do a youtube live stream. idk if most of their followers are on youtube or what but i wanna meet all them ❤️
@@Dreambleed I know! So 20 million people are wrong then? The albums after that didn't sell nearly as much as Fallen did. It's the album they're most known for and will be most known for whether Amy/some fans like it or not.
@@bryanalvareeezy7578 I find that the debut album is usually the best of a band/singer, not in all cases but most, it's the debut that sells the most and gets the most attention.
I think she hates it because initially she was forced to use the old demo on Fallen. Amy, Ben and David wanted to use the new recording at the time (band version) but the label insisted on the demo.
The thing is Amy, the childish haunting in your voice, the tired piano playing, the build to an almost heartbreaking cry in the song is exactly what makes it so great!
Amy could sing a shopping list to me and I'd still love her for it.
She dislikes the sound of the demo and that she sounds like a kid on it. She does sound like a kid on it, she was a teen. She has the right to dislike that the label (yet again, as with Bring Me To Life) forced her to do something she didn't want by using an old demo version of the song instead of the re-recording she did.
Excuse me this wowan is my idol and she is a beautiful person and I love the original song
You know she's a goddess when she basically says, 'meh, wasn't really feeling it', and everyone listening to it back then is holding back tears.
she is so beautiful and somehow her singing voice is even more beautiful
“My Immortal” is the essential of the band, I love that song💙
This song was so real to what I was going through after my brother’s passing.
I LOVE THAT SONG TOO😙💗
true ❤
It's not at all, the song was chosen by the label, and it also doesn't really represent the band's sound.
I feel the same towards the demo. it's precious!
Queen of Rock
That is a beautiful song.. an absolute work of art...
You are a beautiful person...I adore you...so much love...I'm so sorry...must be a let down ...
I love it your music
I am the same way. The demo is not very good but the one that is in the music video sounds more mature and beautiful to me.
My immortal is still my fav song she sings
The piano stripped down was so raw and it was so touching and she is wrong the song was so heartbreaking and intimate
If you haven’t heard the original I recommend looking it up. Just type in My Immortal Original Version. There’s even some extra lyrics in there which I love, but my favorite version is the Origins Version. I recommend giving that one a listen too.
Technically she's wrong. If anyone is to hear the song in a grocery store, chances are it's coming from the radio, which means chances are it's the Band Version, with a more mature Amy singing and the epic rock bridge.
They used the vocals from the original (first recording)and layered them with new music to produce the record.
@@crimsonking8746 the band version has re-recorded vocals
I’m so confused now lol which version is the one she likes and which is the one released? I’m listening to the band version just found it and it sounds good hard to tell the difference
@@thang92 she hated the version from "Origin" (19 years old) and that is the version they choose for the album, they just added some strings. But they did re record it for the video with the rock part, so she sounds more mature. And that is the radio version almost anyone (that didn't buy the album) recognize. So she is kinda wrong.
But if you listened to the song in the album first, the you probably won't like the "rock version" because it sounds a lot less emotional.
@@jorgeescudero5034 oh yeah I get that I like the one in the album not the music video haha less rock more piano 😂 thanks for the clarification!
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I like waaay more the origin version because Amy's voice sounds more fragile. And that is what's the song is about. The band version is good but meh. She really sounds like she is recording in the studio and not just letting it out.
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I think by far there best she ever did great song
Hello is similar to My Immortal.. That's great too...
Not even remotely. Most of Fallen is better than it, but all their albums after Fallen are even better.
@@carpediemearth Fallen is still their and the best album to date
@@User-mj3yq Fallen is their worst album, label-intervened, monotone, with the same one-note guitar across. And those who believe that label-pushed massively commercial albums = the best should wake up
@@carpediemearth I think it’s their only album I can listen to from the beginning to the end
Goddess!
Simp
To my Granny and little brother
The demo/album version of Fallen are the best versions of tihs song!
NOPE! The band version (music video version) is.
But I thought like you too, when I was 15. Back then I believed the Origin/Fallen vocal recording was better.
I think she hates on My immortal because Ben Moody wrote it and it was their biggest hit at the time until Bring me to life.
Ben Moody would pretty much not let her have anything to do with the production of Fallen. His view was she was there to sing and that was it.
There are videos on UA-cam "The making of Fallen" if you watch them you can see all Amy did was sing and make video tapes.
I saw Evanescence in Montreal just before the pandemic hit and they only played a couple songs off Fallen My Immortal was not one of them.
I get it that she hates Ben Moody and doesn't want anything to do with what he produced but these songs are Amy's now and no one outside of Ev fans even knows who Ben Moody is so she should embrace Fallen and claim it as her own.
Actually Amy wrote all the lyrics and melodies for the Fallen Album except for the songs My Immortal and Tourniquet. Tourniquet was originally written by Rocky Grey except for the second verse which was added by Amy. It's not true that Amy did nothing but sing. The making of fallen videos were recorded long after she had written all the lyrics. BTW David Fortman produced Fallen and not Ben Moody. Guess you're a bit misinformed in regards to the band's history.
In addition, during the regular tours they usually perform Going Under, My Immortal, Imaginary, Bring Me To Life, and even Whisper. Do you expect them to perform the entirety of Fallen when they're promoting a new album? 4 songs from each album is a lot. You have to realize Fallen is old by now and Amy has grown up a lot since those lyrics were written. It's normal for a musician to relate more to their recent efforts.
@@osamus1796 Sorry,.. I'm afraid you're misinformed or in denial.
Tourniquet was a song from Rocky's old band (Soul Embraced). My Immortal was about Moody's grandfather. There's two songs down.
Most of the other songs were written by Moody while he was still in High School they were reworked and rewritten over several years by Lee,Moody and Hodges but the original songs were penned my Moody.
Amy's only contributions was the bridge to My Immortal and lyrics to rewritten and reworked songs. She had very little to do with the music portion as Moody not only plays rhythm and lead guitar he also plays piano. Being the bipolar control freak he admitted to being, who do you think wanted control over the lyrics and music on the album? Finally you only have to listen to the differences between Fallen and The Open Door to know they are two different styles written by two different people then Listen to Moody's album " We are the Fallen" and THAT is more in line with the Fallen album.
I'm an Evanescence fan and I don't have much use for Moody but I do not deny he had talent.
One last thing, in old interviews available here on You Tube Amy is quoted saying she wrote Bring Me to life when she was in a depressed mood and an acquaintance told her (not Josh Hartzler) that he could see right through her eyes down to her core.
Now 2021 she is saying in interviews she wrote it about Josh. Which is it?
When Bring me to life was written Amy was seeing Moody briefly then she moved on to Sean Morgan. Josh Hartzler was only a fling she had in school then rekindled it after breaking up with Morgan. Very unlikely Moody would have wanted that song on the album if he thought it was a love song about Hartzler, ESPECIALLY when he had feelings for her himself at the time.
P.S. I am no no way misinformed about Evanescence.
@@T.N.S.A.F. Have you even read my comment? What the hell are you talking about it? There are multiple accounts of Ben and David saying that Amy wrote the majority of lyrics on Fallen. Amy knew Josh via a mutual friend. He's friends with David Hodges and he still is to this day. Here listen to the interview of David Hodges.
ua-cam.com/video/59j1Ne9B2Xg/v-deo.html
Fast forward to around 59:20. David is going to start talking about the writing process of Fallen. Ben wrote My Immortal when he was young. Hit songs like Bring Me To Life, Going Under and Everybody's Fool were written by her. As well as the whole album except for My Immortal and Tourniquet. You're definitely misinformed if you think Ben wrote the lyrics for Fallen. Ben wrote the music (guitar riffs and programming). Please listen to the interview posted above to enlighten yourself. You're clearly clueless regarding many things
@@osamus1796
ua-cam.com/video/hXKyA14_u5A/v-deo.html
please skip to time stamp 1:20 in the video.
For the Fallen version I like the background singing of the guy where he says "yeah", does anybody know what I'm talking about? And I also like the Band version, it doesn't have that "background singing" but it's a nice version too.
Yes the background singing that you hear is actually David Hodges :)
I prefer the band /music video version though.
The date of this interview is *WRONG* , this was from 2017!
OHHHHH NO OOOOO OOOOO fucking hell WE ALL GOING TO DIE
She cannot deny it was originally Ben's song.
Uh, it is known that Ben wrote the words to My Immortal from a fictional story back when he was a teen, she said it back in 2003. She called it Ben's song. She co-wrote it on piano and added the bridge. She's never liked the song. She said over the years she eventually grew fondly of playing it in concerts
Amy doesn't even give credit to Ben who actually wrote the song. Amy is so petty, and holds grudges too long.
My Immortal becomes a totally different song, if you picture it being about her sister that passed away. It actually really makes sense if you think about it. It's probably not, because Hello was written about that, but I like to think Amy is deeper than writing a song about a breakup, you know?
"My Immortal" is based on Ben Moody's writings on his grandfather's death. Ben is the original, and former, guitarist of Evanescence. "Hello" and "Like You", were written by Amy about the death of her younger sister, Bonnie. I think Bonnie was 3 YO when she died, and at that time Amy was 6 YO. ☹
@@detectivekornfed Thats the truth! It was Bens song! Thats why is different from the others.. it took years to Amy accept it but now is classic for them. Still one of my fav songs. Wishing Ben didt leave. He didnt clain anything at all..
My Immortal is not about Amy's sister's death, and Amy didn't write the words (except the bridge), Ben wrote the words from fiction, from a short story. He and Amy co-wrote it musically and Amy did the main melody originally.
Amy wrote most of Fallen from being in an abusive relationship; a lot of the songs stem from her feelings and experiences with that and the damage it did. Some exceptions are Hello, which she wrote about the death of her little sister when she was six.
She may not like or recognise it, but everyone know and feel that their older songs are better
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I think Fallen was their worst album. They blew up because of their sound and Amy’s voice but people want her to remain that 21 year old when she’s not. She’s matured and gotten more creative and has taken control of her music finally.
Angela yeah i agree with u. i fell in love with the band because of her voice and the album with the music, like her voice casted a spell on me. plus she was very young at the time and at least trying to make a good start to the band. the origin album i don’t know too much about but the songs on their i knew were going on other albums. i also do not know much about the lost whispers album. i know it was in 2016 but some of the songs were taken from other albums and like the synthesis wish classical rock trying to get back to their band again. i think in all honesty, the bitter truth album will be a hit to us fans! i don’t even think it’ll go viral because nobody listens to evanescence anymore, but true supporters and true fans will take the effort and make it go viral again :) i know this has nothing to do with what u commented, but i just don’t like how people quit following because they thought the band wasn’t together anymrie or they just wish amy was young again. but even though she’s older now and has a kid, i look up to her and see that she is still the same person that was in the music videos of “my immortal” and she actually did all this. age just doesn’t mater to me, her voice is phenomenally a goddess❤️ her voice literally casted a spell on me to listen tot heir music and i really hope i get to meet her one day! also all my respect goes towards the band too. if there wasn’t an amazing band that gave up on her, there wouldn’t be an evanescence today. but throughout all the breaks and the members leaving and gaining new members to join, i’m SUPER thankful that more and more people are interested in joining evanescence. despite the coronavirus, i really hope they can be doing more live-streams as concerts. i don’t have any social media besides youtube and tik tok, but i really hope they’ll do a youtube live stream. idk if most of their followers are on youtube or what but i wanna meet all them ❤️
U must be on drugs or something 😂 Fallen their worst? Like... Seriously?
@@Dreambleed I know! So 20 million people are wrong then? The albums after that didn't sell nearly as much as Fallen did. It's the album they're most known for and will be most known for whether Amy/some fans like it or not.
You’re crazy. Fallen is their masterpiece!
@@bryanalvareeezy7578 I find that the debut album is usually the best of a band/singer, not in all cases but most, it's the debut that sells the most and gets the most attention.
Thats funny because its one of my favorite songs of hers haha and she didnt even like it 😅
She hates it because people love it and Ben Moody wrote it.
She never liked the song.
I think she hates it because initially she was forced to use the old demo on Fallen. Amy, Ben and David wanted to use the new recording at the time (band version) but the label insisted on the demo.
what's wrong with this woman's self esteem? constantly beating herself up over weird crap.
Such a waste of talent.
Ben took it from her.
My immortal is a very overrated song. Angel by Sarah McLachlan and Dark Paradise by Lana Del Rey are far superior