Music Review: Evanescence "Going Under"
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Going Under
Album: Fallen
Year: 2004
Amy Lee sacrifices her herself for her boyfriend in the dire "Going Under."
Agigated guitars open the single, setting a choleric tone. In the first verse, Lee pleads with him to understand her. She's stopped going to school for him in order to pay the bills. She's lied to her parents. She's gotten into fights with her siblings to defend him. However, he ignores her and flips on the television. His lack of caring usually pulls her down. However, she knows she's allowing him to be cruel to her and loathes herself for it. She hopes it will be the last straw and it will give her the strength to leave him. Everyday, her self-esteem is dissipating more and more. There's barely any confidence in her.
In the chorus, she says there's nothing to her anymore. She's a shadow who is disappearing into her boyfriend. She has to find herself again.
In the second verse, he is manipulating her by reassuring her he wouldn't yell at her again. He would be ok for a couple days and then blaming her for something he did wrong. She doesn't know if she should believe him. Her instinct has been dulled by his insults. Another part of her soul evaporates.
The chorus is sung again.
In the bridge, she defies his anger and tells him to yell at her all he wants. She tells him that no one will ever damage her again. She has to learn to love herself again, otherwise she will die.
A decisive guitar has a short solo.
The chorus is sung again.
Lee declares that she’s "going under" twice to end the single.
The relationship was a mistake from the start. She let him cheat on her and turn her into a servant. She had helped him through his unemployment. But when she lost her job (after taking care of him), he told her he would dump her unless she couldn’t pay the bills. After years of being called names and following orders, she can no longer see herself. However, she is determined to make it on her own. At the end, she has broken free of him.
Lee's gorgeous vocals are acrid in the verses. She can only bite her tongue when he asks her to do something. But during the chorus and especially the bridge, she is resilient once shes' alone. She needs to go solo now and release an album like Kelly Clarkson’s (which was essentially goth-free pop rock from former band member Ben Moody). The hypothetical album should also have a Heart cover, given the resurgence of 80s songs.
The toxic arrangement poisons the song with its metal posturing. It seeps inside every note and lyric, leaving a nasty rash.
The single's martyrdom is self-serving and immature.
Album: Fallen
Year: 2004
Amy Lee sacrifices her herself for her boyfriend in the dire "Going Under."
Agigated guitars open the single, setting a choleric tone. In the first verse, Lee pleads with him to understand her. She's stopped going to school for him in order to pay the bills. She's lied to her parents. She's gotten into fights with her siblings to defend him. However, he ignores her and flips on the television. His lack of caring usually pulls her down. However, she knows she's allowing him to be cruel to her and loathes herself for it. She hopes it will be the last straw and it will give her the strength to leave him. Everyday, her self-esteem is dissipating more and more. There's barely any confidence in her.
"Now I will tell you what I've done for you/50 thousand tears I've cried/Screaming deceiving and bleeding for you/And you still won't hear me (I'm going under)/Don't want your hand this time, I'll save myself/Maybe I'll wake up for once/Not tormented daily, defeated by you/Just when I thought I'd reached the bottom/I'm dying again."
In the chorus, she says there's nothing to her anymore. She's a shadow who is disappearing into her boyfriend. She has to find herself again.
"I'm going under/Drowning in you/I'm falling forever/I've got to break through/I'm going under."
In the second verse, he is manipulating her by reassuring her he wouldn't yell at her again. He would be ok for a couple days and then blaming her for something he did wrong. She doesn't know if she should believe him. Her instinct has been dulled by his insults. Another part of her soul evaporates.
"Blurring and stirring the truth and the lies/So I don't know what's real and what's not/Always confusing the thoughts in my head/So I can't trust myself anymore/I'm dying again."
The chorus is sung again.
In the bridge, she defies his anger and tells him to yell at her all he wants. She tells him that no one will ever damage her again. She has to learn to love herself again, otherwise she will die.
"So go on and scream/Scream at me I'm so far away/I won't be broken again/I've got to breathe I can't keep going under."
A decisive guitar has a short solo.
The chorus is sung again.
Lee declares that she’s "going under" twice to end the single.
The relationship was a mistake from the start. She let him cheat on her and turn her into a servant. She had helped him through his unemployment. But when she lost her job (after taking care of him), he told her he would dump her unless she couldn’t pay the bills. After years of being called names and following orders, she can no longer see herself. However, she is determined to make it on her own. At the end, she has broken free of him.
Lee's gorgeous vocals are acrid in the verses. She can only bite her tongue when he asks her to do something. But during the chorus and especially the bridge, she is resilient once shes' alone. She needs to go solo now and release an album like Kelly Clarkson’s (which was essentially goth-free pop rock from former band member Ben Moody). The hypothetical album should also have a Heart cover, given the resurgence of 80s songs.
The toxic arrangement poisons the song with its metal posturing. It seeps inside every note and lyric, leaving a nasty rash.
The single's martyrdom is self-serving and immature.