Evanescence’s Amy Lee has spoken about profitable Finest New Artist over 50 Cent on the 2004 Grammy Awards in a brand new interview.
Lee spoke with Daily Beast concerning the twentieth anniversary of Evanescence’s breakout ‘Convey Me To Life’-featuring debut album, ‘Fallen’. The interview ultimately touched on their ‘Finest New Artist’ win on the 2004 Grammy Awards, beating 50 Cent, whose nomination adopted the discharge of his 2003 debut, ‘Get Wealthy Or Die Tryin’’. The rapper responded to the rock band’s by strolling onstage as Lee delivered her acceptance speech.
“50 Cent hates my guts,” Lee stated, reflecting on the occasion. “It’s simply a kind of issues… I imply, in truth, we thought he was going to win too. It was such a wild evening. Individuals are like, ‘What was it wish to win a Grammy?’ and I’m like, ‘Traumatic!’ I imply, it’s great now, to have them, however it was surreal… I simply keep in mind pondering, ‘I don’t even suppose anyone on this room is aware of who we’re.’”
“He didn’t do something, he didn’t seize the mic, it wasn’t that unhealthy. He simply form of like, made an look,” Lee added, commenting on 50 Cent’s interruption. “No, he by no means stated something to me, however he likes to speak about me and the way he was robbed. I don’t need to begin a beef with him.”
In 2020, whereas delivering a speech in commemoration of being given a star on the Hollywood Stroll of Fame, 50 Cent expressed his bitterness over his loss to Evanescence that 12 months. “You bought the biggest debut hip hop album [but] you don’t bought no Finest New Artist trophy,” he stated. “The Finest New Artist, they gave that shit to Evanescence. Can you discover fucking Evanescence? I ain’t seen Evanescence since that evening. Since that evening they gave them the trophy.”
Elsewhere within the interview, Lee mirrored on how report label executives initially anticipated Evanescence to incorporate a male vocalist, as they have been frightened concerning the marketability of a female-fronted rock band. “Their preliminary mandate for us was that we have been going to wish to place any person within the band full-time and put him on like eight out of 11 tracks on the album, to be the feminine Linkin Park or one thing,” Lee stated. “As a result of that’s one thing that was like one thing else, after which [the label] may pitch it that means. And I used to be identical to, completely not. You’re not going to alter our band.”
Final week, the band launched a brand new TikTok filter designed to imbue movies with the identical pale blue-toned impact which characterises the duvet of ‘Fallen’. To advertise the discharge, Lee posted on the platform utilizing the filter herself, commenting: “20 years child! And I nonetheless don’t have a nostril! Let’s see you strive.”
The TikTok filter follows the band’s re-release of ‘Fallen’, which options remastered audio, B-sides, unreleased demos, reside recordings, and up to date cowl artwork.
Evanescence’s final full-length album was ‘The Bitter Fact’, which was launched in 2021 and featured the politically-charged lead single, ‘Use My Voice’. In a current interview with NME, Lee elaborated on the observe, saying: “Over the previous few years, particularly in my nation, all the pieces has been politicised to the purpose that all of us want to face collectively and use our voice.
“I’m not telling you what to consider, simply to get on the market. I consider that if all people voted, we’d have higher leaders. There are very clear rights and wrongs on the market.”