I think this might be my first post on this forum, even though i've been on here for quite a while... i just get updates from the forum on email... i've since moved on to nightwish and that was a while ago too... hehe.

anyway, sister spooky's thread that was moved here got my attention. on why some of us really dont like TOD. I've always wondered why most ev fans think the album is good too.. hehe. so i thought i'd give my opinion on the album.

i was quite anticipating the album... i loved fallen, loved amy lee, loved the haunting voice, the fabulous gothic fashion, the heavy music and the lyrics i related to... etc.. so I was eagerly waiting for the album.

I remember a lot of fans were feeling like i did. Disappointed. There was so much hype for the album... amy lee said in countless interviews, posts that the album was gonna be great but when we got to hear it...it was so anti-climax. Nightwish's album was highly anticipated and hyped as well but at least it lived up to expectation. And probably even more.

For one, TOD was different in style of music. I dunno what Amy Lee did... totally took out anything listenable from the songs and I think for the sake of 'creativity' and 'originality'. Why does creative and original have to be so boring and mindless? Sorry, just my opinion. So the music wasn't what I liked in Evanescence so it's like different stuff altogether.

Next, the singing! Oh my god. What happened to her singing sense. She dragged out every syllable and screamed on and on and on. It's like she didn't know good taste anymore. It's not effective occasional climactic screaming just mindless... and ANNOYING! I think one reviewer said the same thing... and I thought that he/she was so right. They also said it's like now she has full control and no 2nd opinion she cant judge properly whats good and whats not. They said Ben Moody served that purpose. I think they might be right on that. I wouldn't wanna sound sexist, like as if only a guy would be good enough to judge or anything... but Amy Lee really is not good in that department. She needs some direction. But of course we know what her feelings are on that. "Ben Moody is like poison" "Ben Moody held me back" etc etc. I mean like okay.... but now we see what she does on her own... you see how she probably needed that. Again, just my opinion. She said Ben Moody's composition were just rip-offs... I dunno about this. Sometimes people just try so hard to prove themselves that it doesn't work. The "rip-offs" worked better for that matter.

The next thing was that I thought at 25.... Amy Lee would have better and more mature stuff to offer. But she appeared to be the same. or worse.

a)dressing was still the same, I thought that was a bit teenager-like, I woulda thought she's past that and have become more sophisticated.

b) lyrics were repetitive, you woulda thought she'd become more mature...instead, with the repetition in subject and sentiments she sounds whiny and self-pitying.. there goes her credibility. If before you sympathized and related to it, now you're like "grow up!"... we've past that why havent you and she's older than a lot of us too.

and c) as a person I didn't like her anymore... she wasn't sweet and innocent like she was.. and I got the impression that was exactly what she was running away from. I wonder what she's so afraid of. I think you can control your life and be happy without becoming bitchy like she did. Like "Everyone back off, I'm so great now nobody can tell me anything im not gonna listen you all are just trying to pull me down blah blah". So my respect for her as a person was totally gone. I cant listen to stuff from people I dont like anymore.

and then i was thinking all the stuff she was saying like britney and christina being pop tarts... thats just lame. i find people who complain of the skanky ones are just late bloomers. next thing you know they're becoming sexy themselves. no problem with that, just that it makes you go like hmm...after all that talk. i think the same of avril...she said the same things.

what else? well will write more if i think of anything else. hard core fans dont murder me please... i have moved on to other bands. I dont bash bands i dont like for the sake of it. I just thought i'd give my two-cents so fans who like TOD can see the other point of view. Not to influence them but just for understanding...hehe. Like I get why people like TOD... amy lee still has appeal for them and they like that type of music. I dont. So yeah, to each their own! Seeyaaa...