Evanescence? Is that like a bottled water brand?
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WAKE ME UP INSIDE!!!
(I can't wake up)
(SAave maeee!)
I lived in England at that time and what my coworkers heard was
WANK ME OFF!
I CAN'T WANK OFF!
Hilarious to me, especially since it summed up my thoughts on the song.
I want a doctor
To take your picture
So I can look at you
From inside as well.
"Turning Japanese" by The Vapors
I'm pretty sure they are still an active band on radio rotation. It's not like asking "Ever heard of Hot Action Cop?
Hell yes i've heard of Evanesence:


Is that how saltpeter forms?
I think that might be a regional nickname for it - it does indeed form salts which are loosened from the inside of the brick/concrete (both have salts in) by water, and then transported to the outside by the same water.
I can't find anything relating saltpeter to the term "evanescence" but I know it forms due to humidity + capillarity in stone/brick walls (I recently moved into a house that has some so I only recently started learning about this) so I guess it is the same thing. The scientific name for it is potassium nitrate
Of course I have! Hybrid Theory is one of my favorite albums of all time.
They just released a new album this year which is pretty good. Plus heaps of "the youth" around my way ate wearing limp bizkit, korn and deftones merch, so maybe?
Just like kids in the 2000s wore Nirvana shirts. Retro. Vintage.
Really just get a video on tiktok with one of their songs. The amount of older music gen alpha listens to because they saw it on tiktok is insane.
I went to a Within Temptation concert. Evanescence was their low profile opening act. They played their old stuff and some of us millennials got hyped. No one cared when they played new stuff.
The sad truth is that Goth metal is a very niche taste and Evanescence is old news.
Sounds like a crowd problem.
The crowd should check out Evanescence's new stuff, it's good.
Within Temptation is still around? I haven't really listened to them in ages, the last "new" album of theirs I remember was The Heart of Everything, so apparently since 2007.
Now imagine me, a fan of Lacuna Coil, seeing Evanescence and Within Temptation go quasi-mainstream while they stayed in the shadows... With hindsight I suppose it wasn't that bad since they are still touring and making new albums, but still.
Yes I have! The video clip where she hangs on the windows almost ready to fall, is something I will always remember. It was a big hit back then.
Obsessively watched Dream Too Much with baby son. Years later tween son fills house with metal... Including Evanescence. Long con. In fact, if you have a metal newborn, check out Rockabye Baby - artists grownups love across genres in muzac versions for babies.
Wait they are this band for young mainstream people who think they are metalheads, no? ... [unintelligible zombie noises]
How could you not know Evanescence? They just dropped some new singles and they sound as good as ever. One of the songs even topped the Billboard Alternative charts. So it's not like they went anywhere.
Honestly maybe it's because I'm a horrid autistic Gen Z that didn't really like music until I play NV but even with my modern horrid niche tastes I still don't get why folks like/ liked Evanescence. Now if you'll excuse me I'm gonna go back to listening to Korpiklaani.
Where they really that big of a deal? They had that one song that was a tie into that forgettable Ben Affleck Daredevil movie.
They used to be really good!
They still are now, but they used to be too.
They pushed their way into the Christian market but claimed not to be a Christian band, in the Bring me to life/ My Immortal release they managed to get a pretty wide audience. Bring me to life, was pretty unique and haunting at the time.
they were only relevant for a few years dude. they are not a cultural icon.
They were pretty big, saying they’re not a cultural icon … do you by any chance have a penis and align as male?
Cuz … strong powerful recording artist who also is a woman making it mainstream in a genre dominated by men was actually in fact cultural moment and she was an icon.
In fairness so too was Nickelback
do you by any chance have a penis and align as male?
Wow. What an amazingly sexist way to 'no true scot' someone. Like, it went from merely trivializing to simply offensive.
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