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Merlin Alderslade

"I've always hated it. I sound like a little kid!" From label interference to an acrimonious split, the story behind the classic Evanescence song that Amy Lee (eventually) learned to love

Evanescence in 2003.

Amy Lee hated My Immortal at first. Yep. Hated it. That song that would become one of Evanescence's biggest ever hits? The song that made power ballads cool again in the 2000s? She was not keen, at least not on the first version everyone heard when the track was included on the soundtrack to that god awful Daredevil film in early 2003.

"I’ve always hated it!" she told Music Feeds in 2018. "I sound like a little kid, the piano’s crappy…and that’s the version that you always hear when you’re in the grocery store. When you hear me, it’s my 19 year old voice, and that’s always bugged me."

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