Here’s what she’s been up to since “Fallen.”
Declining to identify him, she said, “Most of ‘Fallen’ is inspired by that relationship.
I never want to say his name or see him again.
“It’s weird to stay in anabusive relationshipfor so long,” she said.
“But I guess that’s the way abusive relationships are.”
“I just think the next album can be nothing but better,” she told theSydney Morning Herald.
She spent nearly a year unplugged for write music
In early 2005, Amy Lee went underground.
She retreated to her Los Angeles home, where she unplugged her phone and began writing songs.
“I go into this kind of weird, dark, obsessed-with-my-own-sadness funk,” she said.
The songs that resulted displayed Lee’s evolution, both musically and personally.
“I got engaged last night,” she confirmed, as reported byCBS News.
“Is it ironic that I married a therapist?”
the writer of angsty songs joked.
“He’s always been the guy I had a crush on and never told and wrote music about.
He’s been my muse,” she added.
Several years later, Lee and Hartzler had some big news to share.
Leetweeted, “I’ve been working on a very special new project for 2014-A BABY!
Josh and I are expecting!
I’m so happy.”
“Our little cub, Jack Lion Hartzler, is here.
I have never known the depths of my heart till now,” she wrote in the caption.
“The world just exploded into technicolor.”
When the band’s tour ended, she took some time off a year-and-a-half off, in fact.
Eventually she began writing songs and contemplated working as a solo artist.
“I came back to, ‘OK, I do want to make another Evanescence record.
I want this to be about the band.”
Its called ‘War Story’ by Mark Jackson,” shetweetedin late 2013.
“It’s not, like, a soundtrack,” she said.
“It’s an atmosphere.”
“Today, for the first time in 13 years, I am a free and independent artist.
I have wanted this for so long and I am so happy,” she wrote.
When a fan questioned what she’d meant by that statement, she elaborated in afollow-up tweet.
“She compiled all four on “Recover Vol.
1,” a solo EP she released in early 2016.
), I’m getting inside it.”
“It’s cool to be able to show what else I can do,” she added.
“This is a total passion project for me,” Lee said in a statement toRolling Stone.
In 2018, Lee and Evanescence took “Synthesis” on tour, with an orchestra in tow.
In the years that followed, Lee continued to spread her wings via collaborations with other artists.
The following year, Evanescence and Halestorm toured together as co-headliners.
“SNL” cast member Laraine Newman.
“It’s interesting the way the film industry and TV industry work.
It’s so depressing how often things go so far and then get canned.
She laughed before adding, “It’s not my fault!
Or maybe it is.
Maybe I should stay away.”
While she and Lzzy Hale were interviewed foriHeartRadio Canada, Lee was confronted with that rumor.
“No, I have not been contacted or anything like that.
“They should ask me about that.
