Tuesday, July 3, 2012

Day 94: A song about break-up



My Immortal
by Evanescence

My Immortal is a piano rock ballad written in slow and free tempo with 80 beats per minute. Ben Moody was inspired to write it by a previous story that happened to him. Lyrically, it talks about a spirit staying with you after its death and haunting you until you actually wish that the spirit were gone because it won't leave you alone. The song became Evanescence's second highest charting single, peaking within the top ten of more than ten countries. It topped the charts in Canada, Greece and Billboard's Adult Pop Songs. 

Talking about the composition and the meaning of the song, Tom Reynolds of The Guarding said, My Immortal is A whimpering post-breakup tune in which lead singer Amy Lee pitifully mourns the end of a relationship over a piano accompaniment that sounds like Pachelbel after the Prozac wore off. My Immortal closely follows the "quantum tragedy paradigm" the shorter the time two people spent together as a couple, the more overwrought the song is that describes their break-up. Judging by the lorry-load of anguish Lee spews out, she split from someone she dated for about an hour (if her lyrics are to be believed, the guy was a real freak, too). 
source: www.wikipedia.org

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