Please let me point out that if Ben hadn't approached Amy in the first place to form Evanescence, Amy would likely be a hermit, writing music only as therapy for herself about all the horrible things she's been through...it was Ben who asked her if she wanted to start a band with him, and it was Ben who tried to make sure that the songs they came out with were ones that people could easily listen to and relate to...call him "commercialized" and "mainstream" if you want, but he was, IMHO, the brains behind the operation, whether he wrote the majority of the lyrics or not.

Besides, we've all seen what happens when Amy is left to her own devices...she comes up with stuff that gets little to no airplay at all. Musical genius? Perhaps...but one could argue that a genius would figure out how to get a little more radio time for her more recent efforts.

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