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wew. Green Day won bunch! <33333 but congratz to all of them. Those are badass. oh please, don't arguing. TH is also a very good band! They deserve it. I know Green Day is the best (for me) but that's relative, so be peaceful please! :) xxx

Only the young sounds good, Hard Enough sounds like a good rock/pop hit, Magdalena sounds like a good adventure song, crossfire is an amazing song anyway, Swallow it sounds like a great song to listen to live, a bit like All These Things That I've Done. However, hearing these clips, i can't compare them to Hot Fuss, Sams Town or Day and Age, it just sounds so new! And i like that! xx

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So people have been asking me what my opinion on this was, because I used to be a huge Evanescence fan. I thought I'd post it here. I applaud the fact that Ben was willing to come out and try and be real without any limitations, but I think a lot of it was him trying to play the sympathy card as an attempt to get more people to like his band's music because they aren't exactly topping the charts. Naturally, I think a lot of Evanescence fans likely would like We Are The Fallen, considering that their sound is pretty much jacked from Evanescence's Fallen sound, but most of them feel as if they should trash and reject the band because they have this pseudo-devotion to Amy Lee. So I think this was his way of trying to target a demographic of people who, if weren't obscured by the whole "herp derp, Ben abused Amy, don't listen to his music!!1" barrier, might be interested in his stuff. He's making it seem like, "he's happy for Amy, he supports her, he's not a bad guy, yadda yadda" so Ev's fans might stop portraying him with devil horns. If Ben's story about why he left Evanescence is true, then I think it's cool that he was honest about it and made it clear that it wasn't as if he stopped caring about the band, as absolutely irrelevant as it is 7 years later. But I think his denial about We Are The Fallen being an imprint of Evanescence is either a load of shit, or Ben isn't a very good strategist. I'm gonna say the first option is much more likely. Obviously, Evanescence or not, whatever name you want to slap on it...Ben wanted to replicate the sound he had created when he was in Evanescence. If he wanted to start a "new" project, he would have made a profound effort to make something that didn't sound like Evanescence. OMG, it's so hard to not make your band sound like ONE other one! Instead, he drags in a black-haired, pale-skinned FEMALE singer, replicates the sound, AND WATF even performed Going Under and My Immortal at shows so epic LULZ at his line about not wanting anyone to walk on stage and sing Amy's lyrics. The whole part about how "of course We Are The Fallen sounds like Ev, it has three of the same members" was also a fucking laugh. So artists should only play one kind of sound? Look at Mike Patton, for example. Check out all of his different projects and tell me how absolutely none of them sound alike. What's Ben Moody's excuse? Whether or not he created WATF to take a dig at Amy, he wanted to try and jack the sound he helped create with Evanescence with another completely Evanescence-like project, and he's wondering why it's not successful. Would an Evanescence tribute band achieve mainstream success? Just because he was the guitarist and writer in the early stages of the band makes no difference now. He left. The door was open for him to create ANY other sound in the fucking world that hadn't been done before, and instead he decided to try and do the same thing before that obviously didn't work for him. What did he expect? In Ben's defence, I was one of those little rabid Evanescence fans mentioned above who would act like Ben Moody was Satan because "OMGZ, he wronged Amy Lee!!1" and now that I've grown and moved on to better, more in-depth music I see how silly it really is. Amy has alluded to the fact that Ben was abusive but no one knows what really happens and it's no one's fucking business. They're two artists and I think people let them both do their thing, regardless of whose sound sucks more. I think if people are fans of both Evanescence and WATF, then who the fuck cares? WATF sounds so much like Fallen anyway that it would be hard to not think it was good. The whole "I'm an Amy Lee fan so I'm not listening to that band" thing is stupid. No one should give a fuck about artists' personal lives and should keep it separate from the essence of someone's art and product. And again, in Ben's defence, it really is a lot of Amy's fault that people think he's such a terrible person. Maybe he made mistakes, but it should have never been anyone's business but hers and she should have been a little more mature with speaking about the private matters between her and Ben. What I personally think is that Ben is obviously still wrapped up in Evanescence, and that's his mistake. His novel-length apology and testimony as to why he left the band obviously shows it, and his attempt to recreate what he wanted to achieve in Evanescence is a dead giveaway. It sucks that he didn't get to achieve the praise and affection from Fallen that Amy did, but had he come back with a project that wasn't akin to the other one, he might have gotten some cred from listeners. Obviously, his butthurt inability to move on from the past stood in the way of him actually redeeming himself, proving that Ben is a really shitty marketer. That's my conclusion. And Evanescence are not bad, and they paved the road for my teenage self to end up discovering really good music. But their stuff really doesn't hold a candle to most of the stuff I listen to now. My advice is to not turn to bands who achieve mainstream success like Ev these days. Look harder and you'll find the good stuff.

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