Evanescence - The Open Door
Track List : 1. Sweet Sacrifice
2. Call Me When You're Sober
3. Weight Of The World
4. Lithium
5. Cloud Nine
6. Snow White Queen
7. Lacrymosa
8. Like You
9. Lose Control
10. Only One
11. Your Star
12. All That I'm Living For
13. Good Enough
A few years ago, when Evanescence descended from the bus of Arkansas and sold 7 million copies of their debut album, Fallen, they were the only ones around Evanescence. As soon as you saw the video of "My Immortal", you knew you were in the presence of a teen-titan misery, as Amy Lee tiptoed through a marble palace of pain, in a white robe Victorian, it could have borrowed from Stevie Nicks, and a voice that came from you and me. But these days there are scads of Evanescences: looking for younger groups the right combo goth eyeliner, deader after death morbid tone and alterna-teens melodrama.
Without Evanescence, could there be one or My Chemical Romance Panic! At the Disco? Evanescence goth-metal bombast's got its impact Lee of spirituality, as she played piano and sang on his haunted romances with boys and God. In the process, she became America's favorite Christian zombie-vampire girl. Did that make her happy? One listen to The Open Door should let you know: Amy Lee is still extremely sad about boys, God and much more.
In the three years since Fallen, Lee has undergone some major changes in lifestyle. First, it is now a rock star, which is why she now writes songs about the pressures of fame ( "Weight of the World") and psycho fans ( "Snow White Queen"). She also split with guitarist Ben Moody, whom she met at Christian summer camp when she sang a ballad Meat Loaf. But, really, could replace Lee boys in the band mid-song and nobody notice. When the pain takes its corseted soul, as in almost all the songs on The Open Door, she overdubs of her bodice ripping big voice in a chorus. His singing is the highest in the mode of eighty-belters shoulder pad as Pat Benatar and Heart's Ann Wilson, who should burst songs like "Sweet Sacrifice" and "Call Me When You're Sober."
But Lee is the greatness of its banality. It always sounds like a very average Middle American girl who aspires to be "Good Enough," but who suffers from a percentage higher than the average of the magnetic attraction and destructive dudes. One of these dudes seems to be the Lord himself ( "Your Star"), and at least one other appears to be her ex-boyfriend of Seether. "Call Me When You're Sober" seems to be on the latter; "Sweet Sacrifice" is clearly aimed at Moody ( "One day I will forget your name / And one day sweet, you drown in my lost Pain") and "Lithium "is his ode to Kurt Cobain. How can we collect as many boys girl dangerous? Whenever she leaves the house, it seems to work in some messianic skater dude who puts on its "Cloud 9" and his "Lose Control", until it turns into "Lacrymosa," sobbing hysterically on a grand piano. But if Lee can sometimes make the difference between the Holy Spirit and the cute guy at the next locker, how do make it different from all other secondary schools girl? Or, for that matter?
He certainly says something that the best songs on The Open Door is the creepiest. It identifies with a fan who stalks her, in the seriously disturbed "Snow White Queen." She-out "Helena" to "Helena" in the teen-death trip "Like You", where she eulogizes her dead brother: "I long to be like you / Lie cold in the ground, like you. " Obviously, Lee earned a magnetic contact and destruction itself. But that's what makes the breakup songs on The Open Door feel real powerful.
Rolling Stone
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