-–— On Fallen, an album by Evanescence —–- After all these years, its amazing to me how much this artist, let alone this single album, has stuck around with me since its release; how the emotions felt when I had first listened to each song have changed – rather, evolved – alongside my own metamorphosis of coming to accept myself and freedom from my own once-imposed prison. The deeper meanings of each song, once edgy and defiant in representation of my own attitudes to myself, now paints to me a gradient watercolour of a girl held back by his own gritty denial of herself and her fears to a pastoral bloom of life. This fades back to a solemn, yet still vivid, mourning of the boy she once hid from, now a passed companion whos life she has taken upon the obligation to bring to fruition. I have always found Amy Lees voice to be emotionally enthralling, melodically entrancing, and honestly, had filled me with a sense of once-confused longing. The album cover – a mildly androgynous (as its how I saw it then) yet primarily strongly feminine, struck someone screaming inside me. The dissonant harmonies and orchestral presentation surged a message set YOU free! Its as if I longed to have a voice like *hers*, a physical presentation like *hers*...and a want to be a hers. Its an emotional trip very time I have been listening to that particular album, let alone the artist in general, as I reminisce on the triumphs, accomplishments, emotions, hurts...and the little boy who could not bear to see the girl in which he lives on. —by Jessica Aerielle Blumenfeld, who will never forget the little boy Josh, once a cage now forever companion in memory
Posted on: Tue, 21 Oct 2014 06:31:22 +0000
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