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1337ard
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Just a quick point. Not once have you mentioned that people like her for her music, implying that only the image matters.
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I bloody do. I don't get why they get the accolades when Within Temptation and Nightwish (and to some extent Lacuna Coil) have the same image, but provide much better quality material. |
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I don't really contest their music. I enjoy it. I think fanboys go overboard, but you get that with almost any popular style of music. Course, the image is probably more important to a lot of people, but I wasn't arguing the music because I didn't see it as much of an issue. It's pop. You like it or you don't. Some people take it further and crusade over an image, and that's the only place I really take issue. I decided I liked the music before I knew what she looked like, and wasn't that impressed with her appearance. The music's cool. As for why they have the mainstream but those other bands don't, it's mainly image and marketability. Mainstream hype is all a marketing tool. Bands like Linkin Park and Evanescences aren't put there because they're the hottest of their genres, but because they're the ones that can be milked. |
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I didn't know shit, I was just really impressed with the little bit of chours I heard from the movie. I liked it cause it was something different. I personally like Evanescence for their harder stuff like "One Last Breath" and "Whisper". It's an odd combination to have a girl with a soft, almost operah like voice... mixed with the guitar and bass beat in a lot of their songs. I like it because it's soft voice and lyrics expressed in a hard way. At their concert Amy was screaming the lyrics, and usually when a girl screams her voice isn't half as good as it usually is but hers was beautiful... and that's what I like about the band. Amy could shave her head and have her boobs moved to her knee's for all I care. I'm also into Linkin Park, once again not because of an image. If you listen to a song like "Don't Stay" from LP, then listen to a song like "One Last Breath" from EV... you'll see they're the same in many ways. The guitar beats in the music are similar, but even more similar they're both considered rock groups, and both have earned a HUGE amount of respect for me because of their choice of lyrics. Evanescence is more poetic with emotion, where Linkin Park is more blunt and straight forward with emotion in their music. So hey... you have your own opinion and so does everyone else. You don't think Amy Lee is hot, I do. You can say she's not hot, you can say you don't like the music... but don't tell me and other people why we think what we think. Because I think I know what and why I think a lot better than you do. |
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Dude i think your right, i saw it somewhere Evanescene is on the 3rd place with their cd in the charts
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I find it fu>cking hilarious how any time Ev is brought up here all that's talked about is AMY. I love Amy: her writing, her voice, her style but this topic was about Ben. whatev.
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because they haven't had a single hit the mainstream like Bring Me To Life? I'm sure if they had a song of that well..magnitude, they'd hit it big too.
(BTW, BMTL drives me crazy, it's an overplayed POS now, and not even 15 different versions can make it good again) |
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I don't dislike Ev. because they have hit the big time whereas these bands haven't, but because these bands should have. WT an Nightwish haven't had hit singles in the US. But that does not take away from the fact that they produce music on a much better level than Ev.
I mean come on, Dead boys Poem or Sleeping Sun > My Immortal Over The Hills and Far Away or End Of All Hope > Bring Me To Life Listen to them if you haven't already. |
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1337ard
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I was only comparing them because everyone else does. I was merely trying to draw a parallel between female fronted rock bands as a point of reference.
Primarily because I was waiting for the "But those are different types of bands!!!!" When I mentioned a male fronted band |
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![]() Female-Fronted music isn't much different than male-fronted music of the same style. but it does seem people are more likely to draw comparisons. My favorite is Melissa Ferrick being compared to Melissa Etheridge and Ani DiFranco. You know the only comparison there? They're all lesbians. Ferrick is a LITTLE similar to Etheridge, but NOTHING like DiFranco. Even then, Ferrick and Etheridge don't sound enough alike for any comparison...Until you know they're gay. Then, of course, it all becomes clear. ![]() BTW, Evanescence is a cheap Stone Coyotes knock-off. Hey, they're both female-fronted. ![]() |
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ben moody was the band. its not gonna be the same in any way without him. they need to stop ripping off lacuna coil and go their own direction
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![]() ![]() I still fail to see how Evanescence "copy" Lacuna Coil. is it because they both have female leads? ![]() |
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their entire style. fyi moody wrote the songs...the rest of the band is mediocre at best. amy and ben are the only things that stand out
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Evanescence needs to stop copying Pat Benatar.
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And whoever sings that "I Love Rock'n'Roll" song.
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and you need to stop loving little boys
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singers are not musicians. and well their songs are easy and weak. they might sound good. but take away the programming and their sunk
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Singers are not musicians? Are you smoking feline laxatives again? Are you saying that if you sing you're automatically not a musician? Guess Trent Reznor, Ben Folds, Tori Amos, Kristy Thirsk, Dave Gilmour, Roger Waters and Paul McCartney aren't musicians then. One of my best friends has a master's degree in music and music throey. Her primary instrument? Voice. |
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hey ****ass they play guitar/write songs/program/and or play piano. get your shit right.
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And you need to relax.
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ok evanescence without samples and keyboards/piano in the backgroud. what do you have. a generic band that would still be in their parents basement.
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![]() They're not a generic band, they seem to have impressed people with their music. Sampling? What are you listening to? And if you've heard the demos or the acoustic versions of any of their songs - there is something there that I find interesting and obviously others have too. I really find it frustrating when people think that so and so is a "generic band." They must have something to get this far, hmm? |
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Hey haven't you heard. Evanescene is popular now. It's cool to make assinine statements about how they're no good. I went to the concert and it was by far the best concert I've ever been to. I'm not saying that cause I like the band. I've seen other bands I like. Evanescence just kicked ass. Why? Heavy guitar, and Amy's ability to scream at the top of her lungs, still sound good, and just fu>cking rock out. |
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im not ripping. im planning on seeing them in febuary
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Forum Happy Cat
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and amy lee plays piano and writes songs. Thank you for calling.
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dont you feel gifted. theirs this thing with words and spelling in it...have you read it?
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Baird
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sad. i dont envy you.
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you need a question mark after "gifted" and it's "there's"
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that's fine. You're the one who likes Evanessence
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Baird
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How lovely for you then.
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hey, destroyer, did you understand his 'words and spelling' post? I'm just asking because I didn't get a word of it.
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Baird
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I made an educated guess at what it meant.
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