Evanescence AIM Interview

AOLMusicTye: hi!
AOLMusicTye: thanks so much for chatting with us today
AmyOpenDoor: awesome. :)
AOLMusicTye: where are you right now?
AmyOpenDoor: in the middle of nowhere!
AmyOpenDoor: I'm in gulf shores alabama with my family.
AmyOpenDoor: right now I'm with my dad at an internet cafe having an iced coffee.
AOLMusicTye: haha. nice.
AOLMusicTye: has anyone recognized you yet?
AmyOpenDoor: nah. i look ridiculous.
AmyOpenDoor: I'm actually wearing something floral.... and I'm feeling nauseous about it. haha...
AOLMusicTye: floral! say it ain't so!
AOLMusicTye: this is going to TOTALLY ruin your rep ;)
AmyOpenDoor: i know.
AmyOpenDoor: well wadiya expect. i'm on vacation! :)
AmyOpenDoor: it's hard to be me ALL the time. ;)
AOLMusicTye: hehe. I'm sure.
AOLMusicTye: so first off, congrats on finally finishing the new CD
AOLMusicTye: it sounds awesome.
AmyOpenDoor: thanks!
AOLMusicTye: tell us a little bit about it. starting with the title...
AmyOpenDoor: well, i came up with the title for the album when terry and i had only been writing it for about 2 months.
AmyOpenDoor: I guess we were both a little blown away by the power we had as a team, and this new sound that started coming out. I thought it made a lot of sense, because i felt like we had the freedom to do whatever we wanted as writers
AmyOpenDoor: I'm older now and I'm not afraid to say as much :)
AmyOpenDoor: and also the music itself - i didn't feel bound by a structure or formula. and no one was saying no to my ideas.
AmyOpenDoor: the door was open for us to experiment and GET CRAZY!
AOLMusicTye: hence, 'The Open Door....'
AOLMusicTye: so you feel like the door had been more closed previously then?
AmyOpenDoor: i was trapped in a lot of ways...
AmyOpenDoor: I'm realizing more and more that a lot of my doors were closed because i was too afraid or insecure to open them.
AmyOpenDoor: ...but its beautiful outside. :)
AOLMusicTye: hehe. that's great.
AOLMusicTye: you really took your time putting the new cd together
AmyOpenDoor: yeah. I'm a perfectionist. especially now that I'm really the leader of the whole thing, i couldn't put out something that i didn't think was awesome!
AOLMusicTye: how long was the writing and recording process overall?
AmyOpenDoor: i think with writing and recording, this was about a 2 year thing.
AOLMusicTye: so much has happened between now and when 'Fallen' first came out
AOLMusicTye: what was the biggest hurdle you felt like you had to jump over to get here?
AmyOpenDoor: hmmm.... well, a lot has changed in the band. I guess I've realized how hard it is to keep a band together. It's like a 5-way marriage.
AmyOpenDoor: I think the scariest, most stressful thing was Terry's stroke.
AOLMusicTye: yeah, i can't imagine how scary that must have been
AmyOpenDoor: It was a real eye-opener. I think we both appreciate our lives and the time we have here a lot more.
AOLMusicTye: he's ok now, right?
AmyOpenDoor: yeah, he's had to work really REALLY hard with physical therapy to get back to rock star shape, but he's doing great.
AmyOpenDoor: He's going with me to Miami this weekend for some Latin American press. :) should be interesting.

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