Amy Lee Is Hot Comments Abound!
Hi, anyone remember Evanescence?
Me neither.
Oh wait, you do? Damn. Well, the one hit-wonders who brought you 'Bring Me To Life' are back with another single, 'Everybody's Fool', that could be a flop or a hit in the Top 40 charts, heavens knows, what with the sheer trash that somehow swamps that area of "music". The Top 40 charts may be as random as a pink weasel running into my kitchen and hitting me across the face with a candelabra, but Evanescence still have a few things going for them that have managed to get them to their position so far, and a lot of them are presented on this track.
They're not just Amy Lee's (vocals) looks. Besides that charming display of beauty, the actual track, 'Everybody's Fool', has a haunting introduction which combines Spanish-style acoustic guitar picking with an eerie choral part, which is then dominated, first by echoey drums, but then by an overdriven guitar and Lee's powerful, yet clearly feminine voice. Actually, there's a good point to be remembered - Lee manages to present a powerful vocal part in a rock song without resorting to the husky tones of Courtney Love or Brody Dalle, and without merely screeching like those night-time cats that comics tell me exist yet I've never actually experienced. The song continues in pretty much the same "rar-overdriven-guitar/hauntingly beautiful voice" style of the chorus, although Lee is backed up by those ghostly choir-women for the chorus, as well as more dominantly for the very short middle section. After the middle section, the song goes back to that tired part that we've already heard for the past minute and a half, and then we're done. So, the song has some nice, catchy, yet eerie parts to it, but there's not enough diversity in it at all, truly making it your classic rock song written for the pop/top 40 generation.
Oh, and Amy Lee. Rawr. Look, someone was going to say it, so stop complaining.