Anyone here looking for a last minute Valentines’ gift? Look no further, your problems are no more! Evanescence’s Grammy Award winning singer/songwriter Amy Lee has courteously taken it upon herself to release the new single, “Love Exists”, an interactive valentine which allows you to personalize a virtual card with pictures and stickers to accompany the new “shmooshy” track. This feature is available now here.
The track alone can be ed on iTunes, Amazon, Google Play, or streamed on Spotify, Apple Music, and Amazon Music Unlimited. Whatever your view of Evanescence, we can all agree that this is pretty cool! If you’re hesitant to jump straight into this, check out the track below first.
Now make sure you’re sitting comfortably because it’s about to get lengthy. On the creative process and inspiration behind the song, Lee has said:
When I was in Italy filming the video for “Speak To Me,” I fell in love with a song I heard on the radio there. “L’amore Esiste” by sca Michielin. It seemed to follow me everywhere, got under my skin and just wouldn’t leave. I couldn’t stop listening to it, over and over the whole way home. I started piecing together what the lyrics meant and wrote my own twist on them in English. I showed my idea to one of my dream producers, Guy Sigsworth, and somehow convinced him to come to New York and recreate the song with me. Dave Eggar contributed his lush string arrangement and we all just lived in this song for a week at Flux Studios on the lower east side.
What an incredibly fulfilling experience it was to make this beautiful thing. And with such a talented, down-to-earth, and inspired team- with no rules or limitations beyond the ones we created. Guy pushed me in new ways and I learned a few things. It was a unique honor to work beside someone I ire so much on something that at the time had no plan, no album to go on, and made no sense other than how good it felt. It’s easy to get bogged down by the “point” sometimes, when what matters most in my opinion, in music-making, is following your heart. Finding a way to satisfy that deep need to express something that can’t be said with words alone.
Love is anything but simple. And it manifests itself in countless forms. It can be inconvenient. Painful. Easier to ignore than to trust. But we are still connected, despite how alone we feel sometimes. Can we be brave enough to love, knowing it’s going to hurt? Can we drop our cynicism long enough to see beyond the frustrations, the discontentment, the fear of the unknown and the anger for all we can’t control? Love is all around. Even in the darkest places. And it is worth everything. Look out, look in. Love exists.
As well as currently working on new material with Evanescence and heading on tour with them shortly, Lee’s single “Speak To Me” is to appear on the soundtrack for Voice From The Stone; a forthcoming supernatural thriller due April 28th featuring the likes of Emelia Clarke from Game of Thrones. It’s all about connections these days!
As mentioned earlier, Lee is in the studio with her band Evanescence (the day job), working on new music expected later this year. They are set play two shows at London’s renowned Hammersmith Eventim Apollo on the 13th and 14th of June although the 14th is already sold out.
Amy Lee’s Solo most recent solo album Dream Too Much is available now. Watch this space for new Evanescence music, which we expect before June.
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