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Review Summary: Many people were in awe with Evanescence made The Open Door. Nowadays there are pieces of Evanescence, different young bands looking for the right combinations of black eyeliner, dreary skin tone and melancholy teen drama. Evanescence's gothic-metal got an impact from Amy Lee's spirituality, when she would play her piano and sing about her dark romances with boys and God. Listening to The Open Door should let you know something, that Amy Lee is always sad about boys, God and more. The three years from Fallen, Amy Lee had went through some different major life changes. She is a rock star now and writes songs about the hard stuff with fame "Weight of the World" and crazy fans "Snow White Queen". She had broke up with guitarist Ben Moody, who which she met at Christian summer camp when she had sang a Meat Loaf ballad. When that pain takes over in her soul, which in like every song on The Open Door, she just bolts a emotional voice into her music. Her vocals are amazing , sung with such painful emotion, which fits breakup songs like "Sweet Sacrifice" and "Call Me When You're Sober."
Amy Lee's greatness is her uniqueness. She sounds like an average American girl who wants to be "Good Enough" but, suffers from major attraction to attractive and destructive guys. One of these guys turns out to be the Lord Himself "Your Star" and another guy turns out to be her ex-boyfriend. "Call Me When You're Sober" appears to be about the past, "Sweet Sacrifice" is about Ben Moody "One day I'm gonna forget your name and one sweet day, you're gonna drown in my lost pain" and "Lithium" is her respect to Kurt Cobain. When she leaves her house, she always runs into some dude who puts her on "Cloud Nine" and makes her "Lose Control" until she ends up as "Lacrymosa," heavily crying with her piano.
It means something that some of the greatest songs on The Open Door are the scariest. She shows a fan who was stalking her, which in "Snow White Queen." In "Like You," she talks about her deceased sister, "I long to be like you/Lie cold in the ground like you." Well, Amy Lee has an emotional touch with herself. That's what makes the songs on The Open Door feel extremely real.
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This is okay for a first review. Just try to avoid bringing up every song in the review, it reads like a track by track and those get a bad rap around here. Try to talk more about the album as a whole and what makes it so great as a full package. I'll pos.
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I won’t neg, because this is your first review and you actually tried to tell a story using the track names, which is an ambitious approach. It is also pretty damn hard to nail down. That being said, the delivery needs work, don’t try to tell a story just for the sake of it.
e.g. “Amy Lee's greatness is her uniqueness. She sounds like an average American girl who wants to be "Good Enough" but, suffers from major attraction to attractive and destructive guys.”
That’s not unique at all, it sounds hyperbolic… some may consider it fanboy-ish or troll like tbh. Be sure you can back up every grandiose statement you make during your review. Don’t give up though, keep trying and keep it simple when not sure. Cheers!
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Review tellsme absolutely nothing about the music outside of the vocalist's style and lyrics. You need to expand on
what the instrumentals sound like.
Edit: using song titles to tell a story only really works for extremely sarcastic, negative reviews. For positive reviews it
really doesn't achieve anything.
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"but, suffers from major attraction to attractive and destructive guys"
From what I remember, the guy was very average looking.
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dat summary
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Many people were in awe with Evanescence made The Open Door.
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Obviously I have heard a few Evanescence tracks but if I hadn't, your review provides me
with no idea of their sound. And yeah, you are kind of glorifying Amy Lee here, which is
kind of annoying to read, but the worst thing is that you act like she is the only person in
the band. Won't neg, cuz that isn't fair, but for your next review try to focus on more
than just Amy Lee and her average life.
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Im In Awe
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we all are
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Your intentions with this review are quite admirable, but the execution could use a great deal of improvement. Try and read some other reviews and write more like them. Eventually you'll develop your own style. That's how I started out (my early reviews are not that great), and by taking elements I saw in other people's reviews, I was able to use those elements as a basis for my own direction. You should do the same.
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