Evanescence's Amy Lee Interviewed by Spiritbox's Courtney LaPlante

[@tylerwood5019]

It's time for Amy, and then some Courtney. Then some Amy and more Courtney.

[@CranialRatInfestation]

I don’t know why, this really got me 😆

[@ThePadawanGuitarist]

😂😂😂

[@sarahbenwell381]

Ha ha 👌🏻

[@zmbrand]

Why not both... On the same song?

[@Aadyagupta01666]

There is some screaming and some gothic singing and some more screaming and gothic singing

[@humanbean5878]

I would cry if they did a duet of Constance

[@TheLynx30]

Omg true, Amy´s voice could fit so well in that song.

[@DenyThisFlesh]

As great as that would be, I don't know if I want to cry to that song any more than I already have. Lol

[@ashkantiskipping158]

we allready cry when this song is on our hearphone ...., if they put their voice together we could colapse with a sweet smile . and have some spasm of pure love .

[@tschantz]

I've already cried enough to that song thankyouverymuch

[@carpediemearth]

I'd love a collab. Courtney on Amy again recently: "She’s such a great talent. She was one of the first women I saw who got up to such a high level [while dealing] with sexism in her industry, and then came out the other side in control. She chose to surround herself with people that she knows are going to be on her [side] and then uses her platform to uplift people like myself, who are also dealing with that sort of thing.” -- 2023 Kerrang interview titled 'From Amy Lee to Beyoncé: The icons who inspired Spiritbox’s Courtney LaPlante'

[@sweiland75]

Who isn't a victim particularly in the rock music industry?

[@danielgibeault8060]

These two should make a song together

[@OsamaBinDarrel]

Definitely ASAP!

[@Vossie81]

Best comment!

[@brianbailey9080]

Don’t tease me with a good time.

[@maegangaston6436]

No

[@EclecticEngineer604]

Yes please 🤘

[@SovereignKing]

Just hearing Amy say Courtney's voice is incredible was all I needed to hear. Hope they work together one day!

[@miguelromero9189]

Loved The Bitter Truth. I was blown away by its intro: artifact/the turn + Broken Pieces Shine. It’s just...marvellous!

[@sambell385]

one of the things I really love about Amy she is so smart so intelligent and such a real down to earth person ! there’s just something about her aura that’s real that’s pure and that’s beautiful as a human being ,she lives in the deeper realm of life much like myself! Love you my sister💝💝💝

[@ryanpritt4849]

Courtney is dead on about that intro tho... the way that flows into the first full track... shewwww. Immediate chills when I played that the first time.

[@rionka]

absolutely 💜💜💜

[@swampje1985]

I absolutely LOVE interview like this: just two music nerds geeking out over the smallest things. Stuff like this totally makes my day! :)

[@Bonz-vc8zd]

Good God I can't imagine how beautiful a song would sound if these 2 talented ladies collab.

[@Munchkin619]

I love this interview so much. Amy has been my favorite vocalist since I was 12 and Courtney is my current favorite vocalist. It’s so cool to hear them chat!

[@jhamilton1007]

Same, accept i was older than 12 when i became a fan of Amy's

[@kelli_kellz]

Such a great interview! It would have been so cool for Spiritbox to be on the tour with Ev and Halestorm.

[@irenerbustos]

Loved this interview. Only musicians can make Amy talk about her writing process for real.

[@jessefulton8841]

Amy is totally right, the things she keeps in the recordings of her vocals are really what make her sound. Her sound has always been raw and emotional, the breathy parts, the quiet vocals that sweep into loud resonating vibrato is massive and powerful.. as if she learned to sing from the other side.

[@thehumanbreath5547]

Thank you for the "perfection is boring". That's so true!

[@Channelisunderconstruction]

I could of listened to another 3 hours. These two ladies are awesome.

[@rionka]

Beautiful deep interview. Thank you for sharing 💗

[@GoalPost_er]

Great interview but now I really need to know what Amy thinks of Circle with Me....

[@Entelateral]

Man, this is huge. Make my day. 😍

[@marcela111075]

My favorite interview and two of my favorite musicians!!! Thank you!!! 💕

[@sergerives2]

Loved this interview so much 🤟🏼

[@richardjones38]

My favourite singer of the last couple of years interviewing one of my all time favourites! How has it taken me a week to find this? I can't wait to see Evanescence with Within Temptation, and for Spiritbox to actually get to play in the UK after the tour getting cancelled 3 days before I was due to see them. Thank you Amy and Courtney - for some reason I'm so pleased you're both fans of each other!

[@michaelmarhal]

both such incredible vocalists!

[@samanthasalinasdelcastillo4993]

wow, what a beautiful interview!!!

[@GuitarGirl4ever]

Now please collab 🥺

[@bigsway8495]

My comment on Twitter and you drop this. My day is made. Great work guys.

[@piecesofdoll]

the lead vocalists of my current favorite bands talking is like two worlds colide

[@Mr-ks5kl]

Courtney is amazing. Please somebody give her a Late Night Show.

[@thestu059]

Think a podcast would be just fine

[@IsaacEvFan]

WE NEED A COLLABORATION PLEASE

[@wholeepaul8104]

Qué divina y respetuosa su forma de entrevistar! Muy informada y racional. Qué bueno!

[@ruddyoficial]

Great interview. 🤘‼️

[@catlover5617]

Both of you have Outstanding voice Amazing. Love it!!!!

[@alvarieroberts720]

Many Amy Lee still looks amazing!

[@stevekania1495]

This was cool! Ty

[@humanbean5878]

This makes me want to get back into writing because it's a healing process...and I'm hurt...

[@guan_yu2375]

Fuck it up and start to write!!

[@humanbean5878]

@@guan_yu2375 you know what.....I WILL! THANK YOU!

[@GUevanescence]

Amazing interview ❤️❤️❤️❤️love both my queens😍😍

[@Ginn823]

Man I'd love to just get the chance to see Amy perform live! Missed her in Germany when was there for the ex hubbys army days! Lucky ass lol

[@imperfectmyst]

They need to collab

[@bruxaxofficial]

OMG 🖤

[@steel.oneill]

Great interview but it was the 2 ads every 5 minutes that really made this special

[@darkphoenix2]

I honestly kind of wish Evanescence would increase the complexity of their music, taking some more prog metal inspiration. Amy doesn't have to have screams and growls, but she has a badass almost scream in "Take Cover" with some nasty guitar work in the back, and that is the first time an Evanescence song made me do the stank face. Just a couple weeks ago I decided to actually listen to all of Spiritbox's songs besides the few recent singles they'd put out, and realized they are so fucking good and Courtney is another rock goddess. Not to say Amy needs to learn anything from her, but seeing her talk with a metal vocalist gives me hope that she would look for inspiration from groups like Spiritbox.

[@carpediemearth]

Funny as Amy is one of her influences and Ev is one of the influences on Spiritbox, as well as other bands/artists. Ev and Spiritbox are not comparable as Ev is primarily alternative and hard rock, and Spiritbox is metalcore. So your comment is an arrogant and pointed attempt to undervalue a band (and by extension all other bands) that does other styles to overvalue the one you prefer. Wanting to box Amy into a one genre/style is the opposite of what her musical journey has been over the years in and out of her band, which blends a variety of musical styles. It's absurd to want every band to fit YOUR one preferred music style, and devalue them as if any other styles and musical approaches are any lesser than your fav.

[@darkphoenix2]

@@carpediemearth I want Evanescence to sound more metal. Don't read into it more than that. Almost all of the metal I like is a blend of styles and variety.

[@carpediemearth]

@@darkphoenix2 Great, and for others Evanescence's erratic multi-layered mix of various styles is better without being drowned out or muddled by too thick-sounding guitars (and they've had plenty of loudness already). They often have a lot going on in the mix, some of which is barely heard because of swirling loud guitars. Not that harsh guitars on their own are a negative, it's just hard to make it work with how they layer the all the other elements, which are easily obscured to the ears if guitars are too "metal" sounding. Ev is a kind of band that if you as a listener are a purist attached to one specific genre you may not be fully satisfied. You're unlikely to get just purely one sound from them on an album. Even their orchestral album Synthesis has a mix of symphonic instruments with electronic/programming percussion. Making Ev just metal wouldn't be Ev anymore; it wouldn't have the various, contrasting nuances in sound. One example of this is The Open Door. Listen to it from top to bottom - it would never work as a purely metal album. It works as a fusion of gothic rock, symphonic, industrial, electronica, with classical and other styles. The eeriness of what Amy does there wouldn't work if it was a pure metal album. Songs from there like "Lose Control", "Snow White Queen", "Like You" (off the top of my head) lose their musical nuances and fusion with Amy's vocal harmonies if you just drown them in metal guitar. But I'm just talking of past work, maybe they make it work for future songs, but I don't see pure metal across the board in the cards.

[@darkphoenix2]

@@carpediemearth Sweet Sacrifice is almost a prog metal sounding track. Metal isn't just heavily distorted guitars, which the band has always used anyway. I imagine more varied song structures, a greater focus on instrumentals, and complex techniques like changing time signatures or polyrhythms. And, if Amy wanted to, a little bit of a harsher vocal delivery. I'm not just saying I want this because I like metal more now. A lot of Evanescence fans would agree they aren't really reaching the same level of quality as earlier. I personally find a lot of the writing on the last two albums to be repetitive or similar. Amy has written a lot of choruses lately that involve her just belting out long sustains while the instruments in the background do the simplest chugging possible. I want her to change it up and I want to hear sick riffs from the guitars, like what we hear in their earlier stuff.

[@carpediemearth]

@@darkphoenix2 "As earlier"? Fallen is literally a musically monotonous, monochromatic album with one-note guitar work from mediocre guitarist Ben, so I sure hope you're not referring to that lol. All their albums after Fallen have more of a focus on instrumental work, guess you missed my entire comment. Evanescence's whole MO is that, instrumentally fusing various musical elements and experimenting with that alongside Amy's voice. Sometimes even her voice goes down in the mix. Their albums post-Fallen have an eclectic mix of structures as well along the more standard ones. They're not a progressive metal band if that's what you demand, and there are plenty of prog metal bands to listen to. With the wide variety of music easily available to listeners, I don't get asking any particular band to fit your specific preference when you can just seek that preference elsewhere, and there's always plenty of metal. But you have your opinion, so agree to disagree.

[@Britfan06]

I wish Spiritbox was going on tour with Evanescence instead of Halestorm.

[@heathersimerly2824]

Going to see both of them with halestorm in ga in december

[@kelli_kellz]

I wish that they were on the tour as well, but not instead of Halestorm.

[@IceQueen625]

Not instead of Halestorm. But the line up should be Evanescence, Halestorm, and Spiritbox. That would be a killer tour.

[@DiegoVieira-lg9ff]

It's time for a collab

[@bruh.3940]

the multiverse exists

[@IsaacEvRock]

Badass singers

[@Nniikkii-ki7mh]

whats that? gwen stefanni?

[@Nniikkii-ki7mh]

more clowns

[@codarino3870]

very nice

[@purplestarowl89]

😮✨✨💜💛🧡

[@jessefulton8841]

I love how humble Courtney is tho, she may not know technical words, but she does an excellent job with what she does. I love her music!! Rule of Nines is my favorite rn!!

[@jasonrichardson1208]

I know that Nick, the producer of TBT, is the same producer for the self-titled album. I think the mixing of the self-titled album is flawless, so it's kinda curious that the vocal mix is a tad low on this latest record. I really feel that it was intentional by Amy, not because of any vocal shortcomings, but rather to showcase the other musicians more. Just my thoughts.

[@johngkiouIogIou]

.😮.❤.

[@Omertahun]

Courtney is going Howard Stern. Cool

[@Kiytcu]

Lucky girl Courtney

[@jul18th]

I liked this interview however, I kinda felt like Amy Lee didn’t acknowledge Courtney as a fellow colleague until the very end of the interview! Courtney showered her with praise and yet Amy Lee was talking to Courtney like she was just some rock journalist interviewing her! Did anyone else get that vibe from this?

[@b.entranceperium]

Yes. But she always does that to everyone. Word around the campfire is that she's a diva and completely hard to work with, but I don't know for sure. She could learn a few things from Spiritbox since they're the better band imo

[@xPaLmaaHx]

@@b.entranceperium Where did you get that info from, everyone that has worked with her in the music bussiness has said nothing but nice things about her, specially artist who always come forward as direct like Ice-T, Lemmy from Motorhead, Jonathan Davis from Korn, Lzzy Hale, Lindsay Stirling, Oliver Sykes, all these artist have said it was so amazing working with her, she always keep the same people around, the crew from her band has been the same in 16 years, every musician around every state and country they performed with local orchestras around the world were always saying how great it was being part of her projects, same with the producers and several music film directors she has worked with doing scores and soundtracks for films, she is close friends with most of the female fronted rock bands singers, literally nobody but Ben Moody, Shaun Morgan who were both her exes and John Lecompt the only memebr that was really fired, but that's kinda obvious since they ended in not the best of terms. Just go listen Lindsay Stilrling speech during her most recent tour, she learned a lot and she explains how amazing was being friends with Amy and getting to know her so down to earth and being such a boss yet a great friend and musician. So many people can't be wrong about her.

[@amandabaker2779]

Uh, go back to about 8 minutes she says "I can tell you're a musician by the way that you think about it" or something along those lines. Plus this was Courtney interviewing Amy - this was Amy's interview...

[@carpediemearth]

@@b.entranceperium The lies 😂

[@luizz_k]

Is it just me or Courtney sounds kinda older than Amy

[@commanderskweed4162]

I don't think it's "older", it seems more like Courtney is far more comfortable. Courtney to me comes across as far more in her element in this, Amy seems timid, or maybe unprepared for actual conversation. She does well enough with questions but loses it on the follow up.

[@tylerwood5019]

Courtney has a much deeper speaking voice than Amy

[@bluBlaq33]

Amy is an amazing ethereal artist, she the poster child in my opinion for that “light airy voice”, but Courtney starter only as an extreme music vocalist, amy can’t scream, Amy is part of trail blazer and an amazing musician, but Courtney’s vocal challenge is unmatched.

[@amandabaker2779]

@@bluBlaq33 Amy can scream. She just doesn't do it because it's not her style.

[@mmoon1928]

Yeah, Amy's a mezzo soprano & Courtney is an Alto so it's to be expected, both absolute goddesses 😀