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Originally Posted by Sweet Tigger
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If Amy was doing such a horrible job, she wouldn't have gone anywhere with Evanescence, and they wouldn't be around period.
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No one is suggesting that if you take Amy out of the band, it'd be better. We're saying that Ben + Amy = AMAZ0NG. Terry + Amy = Not so AMAZ0NG.
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I think she has worked her ass off, to get where she is now, and she does actually write her own songs, as well, it's all real, and honest, and very heartfelt.
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Again, no one is saying that she didn't work very hard and NO ONE suggested that she doesn't write her own songs or that anything she writes about is fake. It just DOESN'T come across as heartfelt as the Fallen songs. Just because you wrote a song about something real and feelings that came from a very real place, doesn't mean the song will come across that way. It's your job to make that song believable and to make that song connect with an audience. Many people have stated that Fallen just touched them deeper, touched them in ways that TOD couldn't. And frankly, the writing style is the reason for that. Her writing was very metaphorical before, so everyone could relate to it and everyone was touched in a different way.
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[...] people can't blame Amy for everything that goes wrong.
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Wrong. Amy had nearly 100% control of the material she put out for TOD. She took over the writing, the music, the look of the album... EVERYTHING. Therefore, she is ultimately responsible for the way the album is perceived... and she had a lot of help, because Fallen went multi-platinum. Several of the band members also stated that they had written for TOD and had wanted more participation on the album, but she was not open to it. That was her choice and she made the final decision... so I feel it's impossible to say that she can't be blamed for the way that album turned out. It turned out just as she wanted.
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I will always stick up for her, because a lot of people think its just so easy to be in the music industry, and that is so far from the truth. She isn't the kind of person who is just all in it for the money, this is her passion, and she actually is extremely gratetful to everyone who made her what she is today, witch is more than I can say for other artists.
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I think you're putting a lot of words in our mouths here. No one said that making an album was easy, that being in that industry was easy, or anything against her character. However, when a band puts out one album, their audience expects a certain quality of music and talent on the next album. TOD had expectations... Fallen didn't. We're explaining why we feel the way we do about the album. Flat out, TOD didn't do as well as Fallen and it got most of its sales because of the boost from Fallen. People heard that record and wanted to check out the follow-up to it, but it's not done as impressively as Fallen and has gotten very mixed reviews (also in stark contrast to Fallen).
We're not talking about Amy as a person. We don't know Amy. I personally couldn't care less if a band cares about their fans or is just doing something for the money when it comes to talking about their music; I would HOPE that if you're going to spend your life making music that you have a passion for it... no one was suggesting she doesn't have a passion for what she does. Regardless, you need to take that out of the equation. Just because she cares about what she does, doesn't necessarily mean the music will be amazing every time.
IMO, TOD was NOT any where near as strong of an album as Fallen. The majority census on the album was similar. People either didn't like it or liked it, but they didn't LOOOOOVVVVE it like they did en masse with Fallen. It's nice that you enjoy their music and you can support Evanescence... there's nothing wrong with that, but you can't doubt that the band is extremely different from what it was and their second album was very different from what Fallen was. People aren't going to simply love both albums just because they're from the same band.