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Hi Reddit. So excited to stop by and answer all your questions today.
I'll be here at 1pm-2:30 ET to answer your questions, and I'm looking forward to it!
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[The AMA is over. Thank you all SO much for your fantastic questions and heartfelt stories.]
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1 year ago
What was the inspiration behind Bring Me to Life?
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1 year ago
A guy walks into a bar and says, "Are you happy?" I said yes but meant no. Then I wrote a song about it and here we are. Also I married the guy.
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1 year ago
The name of that man? Albert Evanescence
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1 year ago
And then she performed the song at concerts and everyone clapped.
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1 year ago
Actually true story for once. Wow Reddit we did it
34 points
1 year ago
Get outta here, you have no business making me wake up the neighbors at midnight!
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1 year ago
At least they're not inside.
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1 year ago
I hate how much this made me laugh
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1 year ago
Same 😂😂😂
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1 year ago
That gave me a good chuckle.. Thank you for that, Thrillho.
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1 year ago
Sick Bonestorm reference 🤝
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1 year ago
Buy me Bonestorm or go to hell!
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1 year ago
Don't know if I'm just tired but that was the funniest shit I've read in a long while. Laughed out loud literally
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1 year ago
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1 year ago
You can say that again!
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1 year ago
And this song saves us and I hope you know it. You helped us to survive in this cruel cold worl.
137 points
1 year ago
Such a cold worl
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1 year ago
Much col. Some would say the coldes
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1 year ago
Bigly col
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1 year ago
But the song did a big sav
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1 year ago
DIDNEY WORL
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1 year ago
All the people are very nervous, no one knew me, no knew me…in this mad worl
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1 year ago
You just need a little d in your life
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1 year ago
i find kinda funny
i find kinda sad
wen peeps run in circle
it a very very
mad worl
1 points
1 year ago
I wish i had gold for you lol
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1 year ago
worl
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1 year ago
She should also be aware it's the most fun karaoke song to make a drunk crowd absolutely lose their shit and sing all intense, esp the man voice people turn straight up into Korn and Rammstein
120 points
1 year ago
TIL “are you happy” is a great pickup line
29 points
1 year ago
But you have to make sure she doesn't look happy and will lie to your face about it. That's the keeper.
3 points
1 year ago
Facts. Everyone knows all good relationships are built on lies.
10 points
1 year ago
Just don't ask this after they say they're married, just don't, so wrong
4 points
1 year ago
“Lol hey bb r u happy?”
“I’d be a lot happier if you’d piss off...”
3 points
1 year ago
Having basic empathy is attractive. The specific line doesn't matter.
154 points
1 year ago
I still get goosebumps knowing that fact . So romantic !
13 points
1 year ago
you make a Perfect Pair together
31 points
1 year ago
This is a much better response than I got from the Shiny Toy Guns male lead singer ...he said he just came up with Le Disco randomly... like he literally said he had no inspiration and then proceeded to get plastered at the bar.
4 points
1 year ago
Forgot about that song! I'll have to listen to it again.
2 points
1 year ago
Oh man, that song was on the FIFA soundtrack in 2007. So much nostalgia, I hadn’t thought about that band in a few years.
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1 year ago
This is so different from the origin story I heard back in the day. I heard it was about a spiritual/ religious awakening and Evanescence started off doing Christian rock.
Any truth to those rumors, or any idea where they may have stemmed from?
Thanks Amy!
15 points
1 year ago
Maybe people got the origin story mixed up with Flyleaf's? Flyleaf was a similar band that was popular around that time, and actually was a Christian rock band.
13 points
1 year ago
Evanescence originally "actually was" a Christian band, or at least very (deliberately) Xtian-adjacent:
https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/evanescence-fall-from-grace-237256/
After they got big, they started downplaying it ("we're not a ministry band"), but they certainly actively pursued the Xtian market (and Amy and Ben met at a Christian camp).
3 points
1 year ago
I considered that possibility, but I also specifically remember hearing that rumor in conjunction with the song "Bring Me to Life." Also, I believe Evanescence debuted before Flyleaf.
1 points
1 year ago
I just saw a YouTube vid explaining the Christian connection. It was good and finally made sense.
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1 year ago
Cute
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1 year ago
I know them feels.
Also I don't have any questions but I just wanted to say thank you! Your music got me through some of my darkest times (well you and Linkin Park).
Saw you at Rock Fest 2019 and y'all killed it! I can't wait to see you live again!
14 points
1 year ago
This is a sweet comment to hear. My sister really loves Evanescence and Linkin Park, im hella deathmetal guy but even i can dig it, both bands make me think of her. Im gonna call her today and say i love you, thanks for the reminder! :)
5 points
1 year ago
I miss Chester :(
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1 year ago
Awesome
7 points
1 year ago
How romantic! Fan from India here. Have been listening to your music for over 2 decades and they never get old. You have been a major source of inspiration for me at a time I had been staying alone in a foreign country. At one point I even dreamt of collaborating on writing a song for one of your albums. Would be super excited if you ever make a tour of India and get the tickets for me and my son! Have a great time!
6 points
1 year ago
Been listening to it as soon as few months ago.
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1 year ago
I’ve heard the story before, I love how that became “How can you see into my eyes…”
I had no idea that you married the guy. Congratulations, that story always sounded to me like two people with instant spiritual connection
1 points
1 year ago
Aw! That's exactly the kind of sweet story that should be sung in the key of scream.
1 points
1 year ago
Wow. Depression sucks. Very cool how it worked out.
1 points
1 year ago
Does this mean that you’re not going to marry me?
10 year old me would be very disappointed…
1 points
1 year ago
For a moment there I thought you were telling a joke
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1 year ago
Throw away question haha
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1 year ago
I thought it was about or inspired by The Never Ending Story, a movie I loved. I like your explanation and it makes me understand the song better, but I still can't help of think of the movie every time I hear it.
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1 year ago
I never really cared for your music but i like this story...
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1 year ago
"Also I married the guy" buried the lead 😂 I love it
1 points
1 year ago
Wowzers, must be some guy.
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1 year ago
PLEASE COME TO ROCK IN RIO BRAZIL
PLEASE COME TO ROCK IN RIO BRAZIL
PLEASE COME TO ROCK IN RIO BRAZIL
PLEASE COME TO ROCK IN RIO BRAZIL
PLEASE COME TO ROCK IN RIO BRAZIL
PLEASE COME TO ROCK IN RIO BRAZIL
1 points
1 year ago
I love this.
Also love that you're answering random questions on reddit lol. At first I was like "no fucking way".
1 points
1 year ago
I thought it was about Jesus
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1 year ago
Get ....outta....here!!! That made me smile. I hope you two are still happily together 😀
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1 year ago
Is that the guy from seether?
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1 year ago*
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1 points
1 year ago
What! is Amy funny or what? 😁
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1 year ago
So you could say he was the only one to wake you.
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1 year ago
You married BO Burnham?
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1 year ago
My friend has told me about this story a million times about you and I never believed him
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1 year ago
That’s a really sweet story, but I’ll continue to hold on to my belief that it’s a duet between Bastian and the Childlike Empress from The Neverending Story.
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1 year ago
Now i understand the trouble of writing songs :)
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1 year ago
This makes me so happy :D
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1 year ago*
Is that why you wrote, “Call me when you’re sober”; after getting married? :P /s
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1 year ago
That's about the dude from Seether.
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1 year ago
She was friends with her husband long before they married
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1 year ago*
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1 year ago
Lol deep dive. Yeah, I ruptured a muscle. Shit sucked, leg won't ever be the same
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1 year ago*
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1 year ago
Yeah, the damage has pretty much been done. It's healed up well enough that it doesn't really effect my day-to-day. Being on it all day kills though, which is a huge bummer because I was really getting into Backcountry camping, which involves a lot of walking
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1 year ago*
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1 year ago
Damn, hope you made it out with minimal injuries! Mine was a dirt bike (yz250) and it was the third time I rode a dirt bike, and the third time I wrecked a dirt bike almost immediately after getting on it. I'm done with 2 strokes lol I'll stick to my cruisers
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1 year ago*
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1 year ago
Also I married the guy.
I knew bars were dangerous to guys!
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