Evanescence’s Amy Lee admitted she was sick of the band’s hit ‘My Immortal’ during a new interview with The American Songwriter. The frontwoman spoke about the relationship she had with the song back in her earlier days, while stating that she wasn’t initially connected to it the way other people were.
The rocker recalled the years she did not want to play the song at all:
“It didn’t mean a lot to me in the beginning. That was a song I got sick of. There were a couple of years where I was like, ‘I’m not playing the song tonight. I don’t want to. I’m tired of it.'”
The rocker explained that she didnt’t write the song, but her bandmate Ben Moody did:
“That one’s not my lyrics. For the most part, that was Ben’s baby.”
Despite not liking the song, ‘My Immortal’ gained great popularity and has been the band’s last song on their set every night for the last few years. Lee shared what the song means to her now:
“It is the song before the last song in our set every night and it’s the moment where I say thank you for our time and being here. I really sing the words to the fans. It really means something to me now that it couldn’t have meant then because they weren’t there. It feels like it was always about that now.”
The frontwoman initially revealed the reason behind her dislike in 2004, claiming that she sounds like a little kid and it was not the original finished piece, but it was the demo that was released back then. Although the original piece was planned to be released, the record company liked the demo more than the finished piece, thus releasing the demo in the album, ‘Fallen.’
Below, you can listen to the song.
