Evanescence - Bring Me To Life (2003)
*1/2 (of four)
I have a history of prematurely declaring the demise of flash-in-the-pan artists I can't stand. I said - and prayed - Kid Rock would be done after his first album, and instead we got to hear the tin-ear duet "Picture" on four different radio format channels for 31 months straight.
So I can't say for sure that Evanescence's special brand of operatic adult-contemporary power ballads has seen its last thrust into the limelight. I can only get back down on my knees and petition the Almighty to banish Evanescence to the casino-venue circuit. Too bad the Almighty's already on their side.
"Bring Me To Life," as remixed for radio, trades off its chorus vocals between the regularly scheduled Female Operatic Adult-Contemporary Power Ballad Singer and Paul McCoy of 12 Stones. His job is to rap out the line, "Wake me up! I can't wake up!" in true wigger-punk fashion. I'd like to have his job. He doesn't have to work very hard.
Director Phillip Stolzl's template is a mish-mash here. It's a windy night in the city*, with sheer white curtains fluttering in the apartment of the slumbering Female Operatic Adult-Contemporary Power Ballad Singer, who dreams she's falling**. Upstairs, Paul McCoy's doing his "Wake me up! I can't wake up!" thing while the camera hovers outside.*** He wakes up the FOACPBS, she walks out onto her ledge and proceeds to climb up the side of the building.**** Will she make it, or will McCoy drop her to the streets below? What the fuck do you think?
* = Rendered in slow zoom with swooping side-to-side camera shots, a la Batman Forever.
** = a la Eminem's "The Way I Am" video.
*** = a la Nine Days' "Story of a Girl" video, Backstreet Boys' "I'll Never Break Your Heart" video and several anonymous others
**** = a la the eponymous character in Peter Jackson's three-hour holiday season waste of too much money King Kong
I have a history of prematurely declaring the demise of flash-in-the-pan artists I can't stand. I said - and prayed - Kid Rock would be done after his first album, and instead we got to hear the tin-ear duet "Picture" on four different radio format channels for 31 months straight.
So I can't say for sure that Evanescence's special brand of operatic adult-contemporary power ballads has seen its last thrust into the limelight. I can only get back down on my knees and petition the Almighty to banish Evanescence to the casino-venue circuit. Too bad the Almighty's already on their side.
"Bring Me To Life," as remixed for radio, trades off its chorus vocals between the regularly scheduled Female Operatic Adult-Contemporary Power Ballad Singer and Paul McCoy of 12 Stones. His job is to rap out the line, "Wake me up! I can't wake up!" in true wigger-punk fashion. I'd like to have his job. He doesn't have to work very hard.
Director Phillip Stolzl's template is a mish-mash here. It's a windy night in the city*, with sheer white curtains fluttering in the apartment of the slumbering Female Operatic Adult-Contemporary Power Ballad Singer, who dreams she's falling**. Upstairs, Paul McCoy's doing his "Wake me up! I can't wake up!" thing while the camera hovers outside.*** He wakes up the FOACPBS, she walks out onto her ledge and proceeds to climb up the side of the building.**** Will she make it, or will McCoy drop her to the streets below? What the fuck do you think?
* = Rendered in slow zoom with swooping side-to-side camera shots, a la Batman Forever.
** = a la Eminem's "The Way I Am" video.
*** = a la Nine Days' "Story of a Girl" video, Backstreet Boys' "I'll Never Break Your Heart" video and several anonymous others
**** = a la the eponymous character in Peter Jackson's three-hour holiday season waste of too much money King Kong
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