The open door
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The Open Door (English for. " The open door ") is the second studio album by the American alternative rock band Evanescence . It was released on September 25, 2006 on the Wind-Up Records label and has been sold over 5 million times worldwide.
Emergence
The recordings for the album began in September 2005, but could not be completed until March 2006, as guitarist Terry Balsamo suffered a stroke in November 2005 , which resulted in temporary hemiplegia . Parts of the album then had to be recorded in the neurological department of UCLA , where Balsamo was treated. In December 2005, the band split from their long-time manager Dennis Rider, which further delayed work on the album. The publication date has therefore been postponed to the end of September 2006.
As a pre-release for the new album, the single "Call Me When You're Sober" was released on August 15th in advance on the Internet and on September 25th as a CD single. A digital version of the album could also be pre-ordered from August 15th, which also contained an interview with Amy Lee and a bonus track called “The Last Song I'm Wasting on You”. The album was first released on September 25th in Poland , followed by Japan (September 27th), Ireland and Germany (September 29th), Australia (September 30th), the rest of Europe (October 2nd) and North America and Argentina ( October 3).
Subject
The lyrics of The Open Door were written for the most part by Amy Lee and are shaped by the previous conflicts within the band, which culminated in the departure of the band co-founder Ben Moody in October 2003, as well as by Lee's private problems.
In the first song "Sweet Sacrifice", Lee processes her departure from Ben Moody, with whom she founded Evanescence in 1998.
The second song "Call Me When You're Sober" (German: " Call me when you're sober ") is a settlement with Lee's former partner Shaun Morgan ( Seether ). In it, Lee criticizes his excessive alcohol consumption , the would have made a happy coexistence impossible and led to the fact that towards the end of the relationship it was "almost impossible to speak to him in a sober state."
With "Weight of the World" Lee tries to draw attention to the negative sides of her own celebrity and describes the pressure on her from countless requests from fans to help them with their private problems as a heavy emotional burden.
The fourth title "Lithium" is not, as has often been assumed, based on or inspired by the song of the same name by Nirvana and, like Nirvana's song, does not directly refer to the medical use of lithium (more precisely: lithium carbonate ) in the context of lithium therapy , but rather Rather, uses this drug as a metaphor for numbness and uptightness.
Like “Call Me When You're Sober”, “Cloud Nine” relates to relationship problems and separation pain and, according to Lee, has an autobiographical origin here as well.
With "Snow White Queen" Lee processed the personal experience of being followed by a stalker who invaded her privacy and made her leave her house at times. The text is written from the perspective of both the persecuted and the persecutor and alternates between their positions.
The seventh song “Lacrymosa” was born from Lee's fascination for Mozart and especially his Requiem , which had existed since early childhood . Early on, she developed the idea of covering part of this Requiem, the Lacrimosa (German: "tearful"), as a metal song, which she finally implemented in collaboration with Terry Balsamo for The Open Door. The song was originally intended for the soundtrack of the film The Chronicles of Narnia: The King of Narnia , but was rejected because it was "too dark and too epic" for those responsible.
"Like You" is, similar to the title "Hello" from the previous album Fallen , a ballad in which Lee mourns her deceased sister and expresses the longing to be close to her.
The ninth title, "Lose Control", deals with the subject of short sexual relationships .
In “The Only One” Lee processed her youthful experiences with narrow-minded and uninspired people who live in their own world. The intro contains a short sample as a funny element in which Lee mentions a "Tuna Afternoon" (German: " Tunfisch -Nach Mittag"), which was also the working title of the song. Lee added this sample on the spur of the moment after making a tuna noodle casserole the day it was recorded .
"Your Star" is about loneliness and depression and is inspired by a personal experience Lee had in Lisbon . When she got there at night after a long, exhausting flight and couldn't see the starry sky from her hotel room, which she had just been able to admire in her hometown, she felt depressed and abandoned and wrote the lyrics and the additional one has spiritual connotation .
In the twelfth song "All That I'm Living For" Lee describes her approach to songwriting and the therapeutic benefits she derives from processing her worries and problems in her songs. She also emphasizes how strongly her life has been shaped by working for Evanescence and how this is reflected in an ambivalent relationship to the band.
The final track “Good Enough” was spontaneously recorded by Lee at the end of the recording, when the rest of the album was finished and Lee was happy to have finished with the previous stresses and conflicts. This positive feeling of relief is also followed by the basic mood of the song, which, according to Lee, makes it unique compared to the rest of the band's songs.
reception
Reviews
The Open Door received mostly positive reviews from critics. According to Michaela Putz from laut.de , Evanescence would consistently stick to its concept and “tell about a melancholy-tragic spectrum of unfulfilled love and painful separations, consuming passions and hurt feelings […].” Another characteristic of the music is the interplay between hard guitar riffs and playful piano passages.
Rolf Zellweger from music.ch wrote that the new album would “combine the drama of classical music with the hardness and explosiveness of hard rock even more intensely” and also praised Lee's accented piano playing and her unique singing.
Rob Sheffield of Rolling Stone pointed out that, despite the negative and tragic mood of the album, Lee would be able to keep the connection to reality and address the common problems of an average American girl.
The Open Door was named "Album of the Year" at the MTV Australia Awards 2007 . The following year, Amy Lee received for her work on The Open Door the songwriter Icon Award of the National Music Publishers Association .
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The album was awarded 2 × platinum in the USA and gold in Germany and went straight to number 1 on the album charts in both countries. In the US, the album sold over 447,000 times in the first week of sales, significantly better than the debut album Fallen (142,000 times). The album has been sold over 5 million times worldwide ( Fallen : 15 million times).
tour
The first world tour began on October 5, 2006 in Toronto , Canada and passed through North America , Europe , Japan and Australia . The last concert was on December 15, 2006 in New York City .
The second tour started on March 16, 2007 in Fresno , California and passed through the United States , South America , South Africa and Europe, where it ended on July 5, 2007 in Katowice , Poland . During the European part, Evanescence also supported Korn on their Family Values Tour 2007.
The third and final tour took place from October 23, 2007 to December 9, 2007 and took the band across the United States and Mexico .
Track list
- Sweet Sacrifice (Amy Lee, Terry Balsamo) - 3:05
- Call Me When You're Sober (Amy Lee, Terry Balsamo) - 3:34
- Weight of the World (Amy Lee, Terry Balsamo) - 3:37
- Lithium (Amy Lee) - 3:44
- Cloud Nine (Amy Lee, Terry Balsamo) - 4:22
- Snow White Queen (Amy Lee, Terry Balsamo) - 4:22
- Lacrymosa (Amy Lee, Terry Balsamo) - 3:37
- Like You (Amy Lee) - 4:16
- Lose Control (Amy Lee, Terry Balsamo) - 4:50
- The Only One (Amy Lee, Terry Balsamo) - 4:40
- Your Star (Amy Lee, Terry Balsamo) - 4:43
- All That I'm Living For (Amy Lee, John LeCompt) - 3:48
- Good Enough (Amy Lee) - 5:31
Singles
- 2006: Call Me When You're Sober
- 2007: lithium
- 2007: Sweet Sacrifice
- 2007: Good Enough
- 2007: Weight of the World (only published in Colombia )
Web links
- Official website of the band
- The Open Door at Allmusic (English)
- The Open Door at LyricWiki
- The Open Door at Discogs
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b blogs.myspace.com: Will the real Slim Shady please stand up? - Evanescence's MySpace blog ( memento of the original from June 24, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . Accessed August 20, 2009.
- ↑ a b ultimate-guitar.com: Evanescence Guitarist: Filling Ben Moody's Shoes . Accessed August 20, 2009.
- ↑ evboard.com: Amy Lee - i love my album :) ( Memento of the original from June 28, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . Accessed August 20, 2009.
- ↑ a b c rollingstone.com: The Open Door: Evanescence: Review . Accessed August 20, 2009.
- ↑ a b Laut.de: Evanescence: "The separation was a big break in my life" . Accessed August 20, 2009.
- ↑ a b Staticmultimedia.com: "The Open Door" Purifies Evanescence's Amy Lee (October 15, 2006) ( Memento of February 6, 2010 in the Internet Archive ). Originally accessed on August 20, 2009.
- ↑ MTV.it: Amy Lee torna con 'The Open Door': semper dark, ma con un sorriso in più! ( Memento of October 16, 2007 in the Internet Archive ). Originally accessed on August 20, 2009.
- ↑ a b c d e f g h vh1.com: Evanescence: Amy Lee Explains the New Songs ( Memento from April 23, 2012 in the Internet Archive ). Originally accessed on August 20, 2009.
- ↑ Laut.de: Evanescence - "The Open Door" (CD review) . Accessed August 20, 2009.
- ↑ music.ch: Reviews - Evanescence - Open Door, The ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . Accessed August 20, 2009.
- ↑ NMPA.org: NMPA Announces 2008 Honorees ( Memento from July 16, 2008 in the Internet Archive ). Accessed August 20, 2009.
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