![]() ![]() ![]() One of the things that set the song apart, besides Lee's beguiling vocals, was its rarity on rock radio, which remains testosterone-driven and male-dominated. Critics have suggested Tori Amos or Enya on acid being backed by Linkin Park or Nine Inch Nails. The song opens with a tinkling piano prelude before shifting into a bracing metal/hip-hop duet between Lee and Paul McCoy of 12 Stones. That success has been largely built on radio's (and MTV's) embrace of "Bring Me to Life," a track also featured in the key fight scene in "Daredevil." The movie bombed but did introduce the public to Evanescence's dark, epic, ethereal goth rock, with Lee's celestial vocals soaring above crunching power chords, melodramatic strings and sweeping choirs. After all, their major-label debut, "Fallen," released in March, has sold more than 6 million copies worldwide (and counting), making Evanescence the fastest-breaking new act outside of 50 Cent. The dictionary defines evanescence as "dissipation or disappearance like vapor," and while that might be descriptive, it's not particularly accurate for Evanescence. I felt like we finally found something that would fit us." ![]() We wanted a name that was completely out of nowhere, and when we found the word Evanescence, it was beautiful and unused, an untapped thing. "And because our music is, to us, like nothing else, it was really hard. "We looked for a lot of different names, and every word was one that was spoken commonly in the English language and every combination of words would remind us of something else," Lee says. Earlier this year, it was a word few people recognized, fewer knew the meaning of and even fewer could spell correctly.Īmy Lee and Ben Moody, who are Evanescence, found their unusual band name in a dictionary. ![]()
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