hey no one told me St. Vincent did a new album. yeah it’s just a piano version of Masseduction, I don’t care, I thought we had an arrangement, I trusted you people and you failed me
anyway it’s pretty great
Author / kybard
Woke Me Up Inside – 9. HELLO and Survival Mechanisms
seriously though this album cover is way better than Evanescence’s actual album covers
Hello: I’m your mind, giving you someone to talk to…
You’ve definitely heard “My Immortal,” but have you listened to “Hello,” otherwise known as the Evanescence piano ballad for real hardcore Evanescence fans? (we call ourselves “Evanesceheads”) (actually even better is the piano/instrumental ballad “Eternal” from Origin, you’ve probably never heard that one, I’m smarter and better than you because I have a functional grasp of Wikipedia and YouTube)
Woke Me Up Inside – 8. TAKING OVER ME and Putting the “Self” in Self Care
I’ll give up everything just to find you…
(thanks to my wife Melanie for catching that I’d like left a whole paragraph unwritten in here; oops. she is the Best)
Woke Me Up Inside – 7. IMAGINARY, aka In Defense of Safe Spaces
“I really hope that bird doesn’t poop on me”
(I lied! Here’s the next essay after all! You’re welcome!)
Where the raindrops as they’re falling tell a story…
Every time I hear “Imaginary” I get a little confused, because it’s never the version of the song I’m expecting to hear.
(content warning: discussion of triggers and psychological harm)
some stuff to read
there won’t be a new woke me up inside tomorrow because I have been somewhere right on the razor’s edge of Busy and Lazy. ah well.
in the meantime, here are some fun/distressing things to read:
Woke Me Up Inside – 6. TOURNIQUET and Intersectional Hazards
I tried to kill the pain, but only brought more… so much more…
The crucifixion was a suicide, wasn’t it?
(content warning: self-harm, suicide, anxiety disorders)
Woke Me Up Inside – 5. HAUNTED and Rape Culture
I can feel you pull me down…
(content warning: rape, sexual assault)
Honestly, I wish the song didn’t even use the word.
Woke Me Up Inside – 4. MY IMMORTAL and Posthumous Emotional Labor
Now I’m bound by the life you left behind…
Fun fact: If you’ve listened to Evanescence’s pre-major-label EP Origin, you’ve heard exactly the same studio take for “My Immortal” that you’d heard the first time you listened to Fallen. Against Amy Lee’s wishes, Wind Up Records stuck with that demo recording through the band’s initial album release and the song’s music video; it wasn’t until later, when the song was re-released as a single after Fallen was a hit, that Lee had the clout to insist on a proper re-record.
Woke Me Up Inside – 3. EVERYBODY’S FOOL and the Beauty Myth
it’s subtle, is what it is. very subtle
Have you no shame; don’t you see me?
I mean this in the nicest way: the music video to “Everybody’s Fool” is so hilariously on the nose that it is a perfect, center-of-target fit for its intended demographic, i.e. teenagers who think that “the man is selling us lies” is the most novel idea they could possibly have had.
Woke Me Up Inside – 2. BRING ME TO LIFE and the Bad Ally
How can you see into my eyes…
Amy Lee hated the “Bring Me To Life” that you heard on the radio.