Your life before EV [Archive] - EvThreads Message Board

Clayton

10-29-2006, 07:28 AM

Jeay_L

10-29-2006, 07:46 AM

I was listening on the radion, Was horse back riding..
Hmm.. Reading..

just an illusion

10-29-2006, 07:58 AM

Well, my life wasn't miserable without Ev. I liked many different bands, but I've never been fond of a band for such a long time (I've been an Ev fan for 3.5 years now).

GirlAnachronism

10-29-2006, 07:59 AM

Nothing... I'm serious. I had no friends and no life... not much has changed.

Summers

10-29-2006, 08:01 AM

I was obsessed with HIM. But now Im obsessed with them both :p

Shari

10-29-2006, 08:06 AM

I was a real geek...I did horse back riding (if I still could go, I would go again), I knew a LOT about horses (it's unbelieveble), I watched Animal Planet every day. I got bullied in high school first 2 years, and I listened Celine Dion. And I wasn't a funny geek at all. I'm still ashamed for those years... :o

As you can see, my life had changed a lot...thank god for the power of music... -_-

Dan

10-29-2006, 08:15 AM

i liked bands like blink 182 and sum 41. Then I doscoverd avril lavigne and i worshiped her :eek: :eek: :eek: thankgod that changed!

scenceable

10-29-2006, 08:56 AM

before evanescence my life was empty!

egh, I was actually really depressed for a few months, just as ev came out. hmmm. then again, I was 13, heh.

I don't really remember what I listened to. it wasn't good music, thats for sure...

keziya

10-29-2006, 09:09 AM

My life was sad and empty. I felt I had nothing to live for *insert dramatic music here*...lol jk. I didnt really listen to music tho. I was really into playing soccer and other sports. I never really realized the effect music could have tho. All i used to do was listen to the radio. but then again i was like 12-13 also and i dont think kids that age really get into music.

Ev was the first band I was really into. Just cuz they're so real and the music is fricken awesome and original. A nice contrast to whats going on in the music world these days.:p

GirlAnachronism

10-29-2006, 09:17 AM

Aerdna

10-29-2006, 10:04 AM

I really didn't do...anything :o I wasn't a music junky or anything, and I never really listened to much music before Ev except in elementary school for the boy band/pop era :p I went on the internet as much as I do now but I usually went on Neopets or something stupid like that.

Ev, in someways, enlightened my life [/cornball] I was 12 when I got into them and at that point, everyone started becoming music junkies and were all like 'ZOMGz, Muzix = lyfe!' and I guess I was a bit influenced to join into this group of music lovers too, and at first I started listening to some hip-hop and then I found Ev, and no one influenced me to listen to them, I found them on my own :) [/lasttimei'mtellingthatstory]

keziya

10-29-2006, 10:05 AM

I'm 13 and i've been listening to Evanescence since the day Fallen came out. I LOVE music I always have I always will.

Good for you then. Im glad you got into it at a young age.;)

milas_lacrymosa

10-29-2006, 10:09 AM

besides metallica, guns'n'roses, nirvana, pantera etc. I worshiped t.A.T.u., Avril, Christina Aguilera, cut all of my hair off (I stll regret it), watched tv, had no life at all...
and then evanescence came, and my life suddenly changed... not that alot, but I'm gratefull for not listening to Avril and Christina anymore... I really don't know what I heard in that... ... hmmm...

Daniel_b38

10-29-2006, 12:00 PM

I was boring. Didn't care much for music. Boring. But then this new group comes along called Evanescence and opened up my eyes. I was at the age of 11 then though xD

Hethlouise

10-29-2006, 12:08 PM

my life was goin downhill actually, CMWYS was the 1st EV song i loved, i'd heard their stuff but i wasnt fussed.
Honestly id contemplated not living anymore, coz i was a hollow shell of a person, i listened to Anastacia, just for the difference of her voice, and thats all i really did.my life generlally sucked, bullies and all that, for being different, not liking the chava music, liking my own (aka 1 singer) music. EV introduced me to a new scene of music, which i am thankful for,

lowercountry

10-29-2006, 12:11 PM

Life existed before Evanescence?

jade19

10-29-2006, 01:11 PM

Not too much has changed for me besides the fact that I procrastinate on my homework a lot more and I have a lot less money than I did back then. Ohhh and I also have a lot more to do when I can't sleep which is a good thing. And lastly I use to be able to stay focused in class whenever someone used the term "the essence of....." or " the origin of..." my brain trails off after those terms are said now. :cool:

TheFallenLithium

10-29-2006, 01:20 PM

I was a hopeless loser. I cut my classes all the time. My life pretty much revolved around going out when I wanted and staying in playing Nintendo when I wanted. Ironcially enough, Nintendo is the reason I found out about EV. I first heard them during the Fusion Tour back in '03. I fell in love with their music and have been ever since then.

Yumi Yan

10-29-2006, 02:51 PM

Life existed before Evanescence?

ha ha! Oh yeah but not so good! :D

well I've just nocied that thread and... ok I was stupid (I still am little bit) pink girl with light hair and... Britney Spears songs (I still have all 4 albums....grrrr..) untill I heard Bring Me To Life.. At first nothing BUT.... more longer more greater... Now I'm who I am... but still sucks couse I still don't know who the hell I am! But Evanescence really helping me a lot!

X_Arielle

10-29-2006, 04:07 PM

I didn't really have a life before Evanescence, then again I started liking them when i was 10...I didn't really have a life before 10 years old.
All I cared about back then was what was for lunch.
So Ev was kind of my first obsession, other than Barney and Elmo...and maybe looking for different ways to eat a marshmallow. I also used to really like Celine Dion. Now I have Ev plastered everywhere and I got into drawing, reading, writing and piano.

Afterglow

10-29-2006, 04:42 PM

I actually lived! Lol. I was just obsessed with other musicians and TV shows

Ginger Fish

10-29-2006, 05:21 PM

My life was the same except that I didn't listen to Ev. =-P

Cfw828

10-29-2006, 06:08 PM

Before Evanescence, I'd really just started getting into rock.

Having been born in the birthplace of hip-hop, I had been introduced to other kinds of music, but not nearly as much as hip-hop and R&B (which I still listen to although not as often).

Then, I decided to start listening to rock music. First, came Metallica's Black Album...an album I'd always heard about, but hadn't actually listened to until 1999. Then came 3 Doors Down's debut The Better Life.

I'd started going online and such around the same time.

Then, I'd watched WWE and heard a clip of Bring Me to Life...and I was like "I've got to hear this."

So, listened to the radio one day and WLIR played Bring Me to Life in full.

["Wonder Years" Moment]I didn't know it at the time, but "life" as I knew it would never be the same.[/"Wonder Years" Moment]

If I didn't have Evanescence:

I wouldn't be as much into music as I am now, actually considering a career in radio broadcasting.
I wouldn't be going to concerts. Evanescence was my first major concert experience.
I wouldn't have nearly as many friends.
I wouldn't have a tattoo.
I wouldn't be travelling to different states without my parents.

Draconian

10-29-2006, 06:14 PM

I'd be sitting here, drowning myself in work, being barely exstant and miserable about it. Possibly with....depressed....tendencies.

Now I have some friends who I really love talking to and who I can actually relate to, more of a passion for music (and the bands I've only just recently learned about), and a safe haven for when things get to hectic. :)

dark_whisper

10-29-2006, 06:29 PM

my life was extremely blaaaah...seriously. Ev made me more in love with music then ever!

dreamchaser_83

10-29-2006, 06:29 PM

before ev....wow. ok 4 years ago...i had graduated high school the year before i got into them (2001). lets just say you wouldn't recognize me then. i was a big time poser. i always tried to fit in and never had a real group of friends. on the weekends and after school i was alone with nothing to do other than hang out at home with my mom.

so right after graduation i got my first full time job at movie gallery. it occupied most of my time, but i still didnt have the group of friends that everyone else did. so the next year (2002) i got into evanescence. something inside me changed. i could relate to the songs and was inspired every time i listened to them. i then decided that it didn't matter if i fit in or not, life is what i make of it.

so to make a long boring story short, i was a poser trying to find myself and fit in. ev (amy) helped me realise that its ok to be different and you don't have to be popular to be happy. i live by that, and now my life is so much better. and i can mainly thank evanescence for that. THANKS!!!!! :D

billy_magnum

10-29-2006, 06:37 PM

I was way more into Metallica and Pantera ya know the hard stuff/fast stuff. One day I heard Bring Me to Life on the internet and wasn't into it at first except for that voice. It seemed to hit me at the core and kinda wash over me with this chilling kind of peace and inspiration. In the course of 1 day Ev. was slowly but steadly taking over me. The next two songs I heard were Field of Innosence and Hello. That was it I was completely obsesed and I hadn't even seen Amy, didn't even know her name was Amy, hadn't seen the band, and espeacialy I had NO idea how to spell or say Evanescence! :p I didn't hide it either even when my hardcore metal friends would make fun of me. In the end I converted most of them to Ev-Heads and the ones who didn't convert probably listen to Ev. secretly. Lol. If it wasn't for Ev. I'd be into the same tired old music but I wouldn't have written a fraction of the songs I've written since that day. Also I don't think I'd be as happy or sane without them. Thanks Ev!

perfect ghost

10-29-2006, 07:36 PM

I don't really remember a WHOLE lot before evanescence because I was pretty young when I really got into them, and my life before Ev was a lot more lonely, and my emotions were a lot more bottled up.

paraWHORE

10-29-2006, 09:52 PM

My life before Evanescence was honestly, really twizted and confusing and stuff.. But at the same time, it wasn't the worst thing in the world. Just because I happened to find the most amazing band in the history of the world doesn't mean that they made my life any better (they did tho... Haha). I was just going thru the ****tiness of becoming an adult and all that great stuff... Going into Jr. High, then High School... Without the most influential person in your life isn't easy but in finding Evanescence they just seemed to make it all worth it. I mean, I wasn't going to kill myself or anything... I was just really confused. Honestly, I still am. But now I feel like my life holds so much more meaning then it did before. That's not just because I had Evanescence in my life. It's the fact that I had Evanescence in my life that made me understand that I wasn't the only one going thru what I was going thu.

It's love :)

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Sakhmet

10-30-2006, 01:54 AM

Before Evanescence, I was 13 years old. If I hadn't gotten into them, I might have ended up different. I might be exactly the same. I don't know whether they've hurt, helped or had any effect to tell you the truth.

x.everybodys.fool.x

10-30-2006, 03:58 AM

Codger

10-30-2006, 04:18 AM

My life is the same now as it was before Ev, as Ev are just a band, and it's only music, not life changing (cue the people who claim Amy Lee saved their life...)

FrozenFears

10-30-2006, 04:40 AM

I was listening only pop music. And then Ev came, my music style has completely changed. :)

x.everybodys.fool.x

10-30-2006, 04:58 AM

My life is the same now as it was before Ev, as Ev are just a band, and it's only music, not life changing (cue the people who claim Amy Lee saved their life...)

music can be life changing

Cloud~Nine

10-30-2006, 08:27 AM

I was listening only pop music. And then Ev came, my music style has completely changed. :)

Oh..I know that...ive heard pretty much pop music,but after BMTL my life has changed :cool: :cool:

kylo4

10-30-2006, 09:46 AM

I liked only a few bands before Evanescence, and when I heard them in mid-2003 I was instantly hooked. When I started listening to them I forgot about all of the other bands that I liked and could not stop listening to Fallen. Now that the Open Door is out I'm hooked on them all over again.
Seeing as how I was just about to enter high-school, Evanescence's music was there for me to help me out and calm my nerves. Now it helps me cope with bullying and is there to get me out of tough spots. The lyrics and the music I can listen to whenever and it'll make me feel better.
That is what my life was like and is, while liking Evanescence.

Ale

10-30-2006, 11:01 AM

Life existed before Evanescence?
HeHe very good question....;)

Anyway....(I feel terribly ashamed but I've read that I'm not the only one...) before Evanescence for me existed only Avril Lavigne, before her Britney Spears and before before before Lene Marlin...
I'm happy to have known Evanescence...They saved my life! I don't even want to imagine the person I would have been today if I had gone on listening to that "music"...I should propose a holiday to celebrate the day I listened to Fallen for the first time and I became an Evanescence fan....(but I can't remember the date lol....:p )

Natalie

10-30-2006, 11:15 AM

i can't imagine my life witout Ev's music now lol but before them, i didn't really have any favorite bands or anything... it sucked :p

Scarla

10-30-2006, 11:47 AM

before Ev iwas a lonely little freaky kid with no close friends (well the last parts still true lol) and i had hardly any good music to listen to i was on a one way route to being a chav lol

Animato

10-30-2006, 01:33 PM

Was I the only one who did a double-take at the title? :P

Well, life was life and still is. Now I have a more diverse soundtrack to my life! At least, Ev were one of the groups who influenced me to listen to some music styles I'd never paid much attention to before.

EternalWanderer

10-30-2006, 03:25 PM

Let's say, I was very young when I first heard of Evanescence, I was like 14 or something. But my life was pretty miserable before Ev, seriously...! It's just that I never had found a band that really healed me in a way. I cried all the time about the things going on and I just couldn't let it go. Avril Lavigne came into the spotlight, and I still like her first album, Let Go (I don't have the other ones...), and with her music I was kinda able to scream my heart out. But I guess that wasn't enough, there was just too much to be pulled out!
Then came Evanescence, their musiic is therapy to me, I can relate to it perfectly and it's so powerful that I can get all my feelings out! It also inspired me a lot through writing. I write a lot and the Ev-Therapy helps me express myself. I can honestly say it changed my life, I'm much happier now because I've learned how to express how I'm feeling trhough art :D

ryanoceros

10-30-2006, 04:39 PM

in a way, things were so much easier and happier before i first heard bring me to life. i was one of those popular sporty, abercrombie-obsessed boys and i didnt have any problems. i usually listened to rap and pop but as soon as i heard that song, something made me want to listen. and then i immediately fell in love with them. i ended up buying the fallen cd. and the songs really openned my eyes. i started liking more alternative rock bands. i started wearing band t's and metal colted bracelets. but listening to all evanescence's songs so much made me depressed for no personal reason. i mean, its not like i could've possibly related to the horribly sad lyrics. just this year, after my cousin/best friend died i was so depressed that listening to nothing but depressing music only made it worse. i began to lay off all the melancholy music and goth-looking clothes. i started listening to other things such as one of my new favorite artist, Jack Johnson. i needed music that would tell me it was all gonna be ok. but i still love Evanescence more than all the other bands, im just not as obsessed. but i still have to be pretty obsessed if im on this message board, lol. and now, though i still love evanescence especially for their new album, i really like jack johnson as well as Matt Costa. They've all inspired me to write my own music and become more involved with art.

Corinne

10-30-2006, 08:13 PM

Well, my friend Ellen (<3 ya... this is that story from CYLC!!) used to talk about them ALL OF THE TIME and it would annoy me soooo much!!! i had heard Bring Me to Life and My Immortal, but i didn't know who they were by. well, lets just say that whenever she would talk about them, i would call her obsessed *bangs head against wall* Then i found out that BMTL was by them. DUH!!! so i decided to actually LISTEN to it and My Immortal. instead of just hearing it. and then i "woke up", shall we say (ha ha, "wake me up inside, wake me up inside"...). I bought Fallen. then i bought Anywhere but Home. by then that was like the only music i lsetened to. and now i am greatly in debt to Ellen for telling me about them and "bringing me to life" (ok i'll stop with the corny jokes now... really!).

Ellen

10-30-2006, 08:19 PM

Aw, thanks, Corinne...I think. =)

*ponders over life before Ev*

I honestly don't remember much music before Evanescence, besides *Nsync and all that pop stuff I listened to when I was maybe 8! I heard Ev for the first time in 5th grade, when I was 10 or 11. My friend had the CD in her car. The first song I heard was "Imaginary" and it's still one of my favorites. Before I heard Ev, I guess I was into Avril Lavigne, like most 12-year-old girls at that time. I agree with a lot of what EternalWanderer said. My life wasn't bad or anything, just...Avril just didn't cut it, though I respect her music and all that. Evanescence really got me into rock music, and I'm definitely thankful for that. =D

Syd

10-30-2006, 08:26 PM

I didn't really have a life before Evanescence, then again I started liking them when i was 10...

Good god, I feel old.

Sheesh.

Clairic

10-31-2006, 12:23 AM

My life before Evanescence. Well let see, I didn't have a life before Evanescence I was only 12, so I didn't need a life cause I was only 12. But I used to like Hilary Duff when I was 10, when I turn 12 sawed Evanescence in 2003 with Bring Me To Life I loved it so much I stille did like Hilary Duff but when she was at some MTV thing I heard her lip singing I got so mad, I stop likeing her when I was 12, I was happy that I stop likeing her. I think Evanescence help me in a way because now I know who I'am now. Hilary Duff isn't a artis Evanescence is, I know how to do photography, drawing, singing and poetry, cause of Evanescence, and my Mom didn't like that I like Hilary Duff. We fighted a alot, but we are very GOOD friends now. And now I'm happy of who I'am.

Leia

10-31-2006, 05:34 AM

My life is the same now as it was before Ev, as Ev are just a band, and it's only music, not life changing (cue the people who claim Amy Lee saved their life...)

Same really. Ev are just a band- a good one, yes but my life is pretty much see friends, meet new people, do uni work, actual work, sing and do music. I think its really important there's something more to a life than just a band. Musically, before ev, I think I was just beginning to realise I liked rock music - Muse was the main band I really liked. But no huge difference really.

Music can be life changing, yes, but I think its important to have a diverse range of music, not obsess over one band. Ev are obviously really inspirigin and helpful but, as ryanoceros wrote they can also be very dark and depressing. I listen to Ev but I'm not ashamed to say I will still listen to Madonna... random radio songs. If I just listened to Ev over and over I'm sure I'd sink into a deep depression sometime soon.

But I agree with Clairic that Ev was part of working out who I am (sounds so corny) in that them and muse etc is music I feel best listening to. Before that, I didn't know what music I liked. I knew I didnt like cheesy pop bands like Blazin Squad so knowing what music I liked def. formed a bit of myself. I can comfortably rattle off my music taste to somebody now and know 100% its not fake or false- its a ture reflection of myself.

EternalWanderer

10-31-2006, 05:27 PM

Let's say Amy didn't obviously save our lives... And, talking about my life, I didn't really know at the time that Evanescence was kinda healing me in a way, I just know that now, looking back. But, of course one can't only listen to one band, I also listen to Madonna sometimes, as I do listen to many other songs by many artists, others than Ev. But Ev stands out by being the only band I really can relate with and the only band I really care about and want to buy all the cds (along with Dido).

nemofellfirst

11-01-2006, 05:01 AM

Like others here, Ev helped me to realise who I was and who I wanted to be. Before I heard them, I had no direction in music at all, and through boards like this one I've discovered many great bands that I probably would never had heard of otherwise!
But I wouldn't say it's changed my life. That's a pretty big thing to say.

Deni

11-01-2006, 04:24 PM

Ev popped up around the same time my belief in God popped up. Then my life changed.
Before that it was hilarious.

xX~SURVIVOR~Xx

01-07-2007, 01:50 PM

Errrr i was abused from the age of 12 by my boyfriend, have been since :( I was sitting in the corner all the time, not talking, lying to cover up what he was doing, using various "coping" stategies which i won't write in detail on here. i didn't know enough about life to know i'm not the only one it's happened to, it's not the end of the world and it sure as hell isn't RIGHT. That's where ev came in, I could sit in my room, and instead of listening to meaningless sscreaming I could listen to words, to someone who'd gone through it all. :) my life is better for ev for sure!

so yeah I was the dressed in black, shy, bullied kid in the corner, now i'm *looks down* still dressed in black, but no way on god's earth am I ever putting up with that crap again :)

Myuzik

01-07-2007, 02:41 PM

The same as it is now...nothing changed because I started listening to Evanescence

aislin

01-07-2007, 02:56 PM

I'v always been a different girl then the other girls off my class. And there were bad things happend to me when i was younger - so i agree with "canadianfire, That's where ev came in, I could sit in my room, and instead of listening to meaningless sscreaming I could listen to words, to someone who'd gone through it all. my life is better for ev for sure!"
the songs are really good written by Amy, they really helps you, when you're feeling down

There was a periode that my clothes were black, but now i have different kinds of clothes.

Kelly

01-07-2007, 03:12 PM

I used to like the OC. But then they killed Marissa and.. Ah, it just got boring.

*fallen angel :)

01-21-2007, 01:24 PM

You're not gona belive this (or probably will) but I used to listen to singers like Nelly Furtado and Shakira (that was like 3,5 years ago) and before that was all kind of portuguese, european music that was just empty. That and my life was just boring without any kind of obcession and pretty much sucked! But thanks god I found something!!;)

rock queen evanescence

01-21-2007, 01:38 PM

simply , the ev lyrics brought be to life again specially imaginary song , i listen to it every day since the first day i heard it , and now i'm crazy about TOD i listen to it ev day and i can't live without it .

Lee

01-21-2007, 01:59 PM

Dull and Musicless. When I began to really like Ev in late 2005 it changed my life, my wardrobe changed masses, as did my beliefs in things and my outlook on life. It also bought my music back to life. I was doing Theory work at the time and I hated it but I began to focus more on it and I started picking things up better and in September 2006 I started learning Piano because I wanted to be able to play like Amy.

So yeah lol.

guitar*goddess08

01-21-2007, 02:13 PM

hmm i used to listen solely to rap and R&B only... nothing else... i knew all the lyrics and stuff... but then after the ninetys **** rap and stuff started coming out, then i discoverd Ev.. ever since then ive picked up the electric guitar, LOVE Guitar hero II, my clothes have changed to more black and evanescence clothing.. my nails are always black, and i wear black eyeliner.. but im still the same old me, just my outter appearance changed cause thats who i really am i believe... Evanescence also allowed me to finally sing some quality music and discover lotsa new bands like all kinds... 30 seconds to mars, flyleaf, Candlebox, Nirvana mushroomhead, Ra, Staind, all kinds of stuff... cause i never heard rock before

dieromantic

01-21-2007, 03:50 PM

Cirafly24

01-21-2007, 03:58 PM

Well, I'm a lot more into music now, in general. I've always liked music, but there wasn't much that really grabbed me, you know? After Ev came around, I started paying more attention to a lot of things that I never really bothered with before; like different instruments, composition, vocal techniques, etc. I used to judge a song on whether or not it had catchy lyrics...now I feel like I have a much better understanding of music.

It also got me back into singing, which has always been a passion of mine. Before, I never thought I was really good, and I was too embarassed to sing in front of other people. Since 2005, I've practiced almost every day, and I've expanded my range by over an octave. Now I'm more confident with it, and I am comfortable singing in front of a small audience (still working on it ;))

kiddietyte

01-21-2007, 04:19 PM

My life was boring, tedious, and indifferent, and to say the least i had absolutely NO taste in music.

xx_i_dont_sleep_xx

01-22-2007, 12:23 PM

before ev my life was incomplete! lol. i got into ev when i was 13. before that i was just starting to get into rock music, began listening to linkin park and marilyn manson, basically just getting into the whole scene. i didnt like bring me to life the first time i heard it! but it grew on me....until i became the obsessed freak i am today! :D

Ciera

01-22-2007, 01:10 PM

i listened to cringe worthy pop....
and i was a girly gir:o
was very fake
till i found this band andf showed the REAL me :)

Lorelei

01-22-2007, 01:19 PM

My life wasn't that much different to be honest. But I have to say that Ev has pushed my life in a different direction and has been a positive aspect of it all. Before Ev, I loved music, I played guitar, composed songs, went to gigs... all like I do now I suppose. However, through this great band, I've met alot of very very good friends :) I had just turned 15 when Ev came out in the UK, now I'm about to turn 19 so I'd have to thank Ev for inspiring me during the "terrible teens" :p After coming a custom to Evanescence, I was able to express myself better because they did it so freely.

imaginary_light

01-22-2007, 01:44 PM

Ooooh it's kinda weird that i've changed so much in a year, now i think about it......

Well...i'm a relatively new Ev fan even though i did like BMTF when it was a single (i was 9.....still a fan of S Club 7, so you couldn't have exprected me to go mad rocker back then)....well roughly 2 months before i started getting into ev, i got the Destiny's Child album for christmas (late 2005) and for about a month and a half, maybe a tad longer, i played that album everyday...i was also obsessed with everything and practically anything pink, especially if it was fluffy. I was girly. Very girly, even though i'd always thought gothic clothes or whatever were kinda cool, even though i wouldn't wear them personally. There was a time when i was about 9ish when i liked punky clothes...but it didn't last. So really, i'd always been girly and into hip hop and r'n'b....shame on me. Luckily, early 2006 My Immortal got in my head, even though i didn't realise who it was by at first. Then i listened to Fallen on the internet just about everyday just for My Immortal and BMTL.....and then i just loved fFallen. Since my obsession began, i've ditched the pink (well apart from when it's part of something pink, black and stripey) and now i wear alot of dark purple and black, trends annoy me even more, i have turned my girly room into an Ev gallery. I've been inspired to make my own clothes, and i've got back into art again. And one of the most important things, i'm more confident and i don't give a crap what people think of me! Yay to ev for saving me!

Sick Forever

01-22-2007, 04:26 PM

I did something horrbile. So horrible it makes me sick. I listened to Radio Disney. And I was a hopeless nerd, trying to pretend to fit in. And then about a year ago, at 13, I think, I was watching an AMV and Tourniquet was the song it was put to. I loved it, and listened to it constantly. then finally, I looked in the credits for the name of the band, Googled it, and feel in love with Ev instantly. I am now nothing at all like I used to be, and I`m eternally grateful to Evanescence for pulling me out of the dark pit that was my life.

riona

06-26-2008, 05:18 PM

i listened HIM and go to school. boring :D

riona

06-26-2008, 05:44 PM

yes. i remember i felt id like to find some band with a great woman in front, but there was no such like this. so when i first heard evanescence it was simply clear:D

Amy_lee_freak99

06-26-2008, 06:04 PM

my life was the same.....actually.
....I worship alot of female singer's...and i am still a crazed H.i.M fan.
Then amy lee of evanescence came out and i was like yay a dorky long haired chick like me! i loveee her....and she has a amazing voice double yay haha

Stc139

06-26-2008, 06:07 PM

Ev actually made me like music-I just couldn't get into songs-now that i have found ev, more bands opened up to me and soon I liked lots of bands

~Angel~

06-26-2008, 06:29 PM

I was more of a R&B and Hip/Hop girl....but after hearing Evanescence for the first time I was like "Wow. I like it....." So hence I got into Ev and other Rock Bands.......

h>>>

06-26-2008, 07:04 PM

Life existed before Evanescence?

not really. not for me. before evanescence i was obsessed with bowling for soup (its not like thats a bad thing).i was a nobody in 2003 and now in 2008 i'm a somebody. thanks guys!

Batman

06-26-2008, 07:09 PM

I was into Avril Lavigne and Jack Off Jill.

:-P odd combination.

FrozenFlames

06-26-2008, 07:25 PM

Let's see...pre-2005 (when I bought Fallen), I was trying (and failing) to fit in. I was (trying) wearing what everyone else was wearing, listening to what was on the radio, and liking what everyone else liked. I was also stuck on NSYNC and Britney Spears, even though they were LONG GONE. After listening to Fallen and realizing I loved it, I slowly got sucked into EvWorld. Now, I'm perfectly happy the way I am, could care less about being popular, and found my own style.

stratplayer8107

06-26-2008, 10:44 PM

My life before Ev was all "fake." I kept telling myself that my "marriage" of three years was just fine, and had been following the same pop band from Sweden, for 13 years, only to find out they were phonies as well. I will admit, it was Ace of Base. Some of you may or may not know them. Anyway, it wasn't until New Years Eve of 06, that I dropped following Ace of Base and all pop music, to hardcore Ev fan. I went from being emotionally and verbally abused to finding myself again, through Ev.

Darth Escence

06-26-2008, 11:22 PM

I was actually really into Nelly Furtado, Missy Elliot, Hilary Duff, and all this other really bad music. It was so embarassing. When I first heard Evanscence I really didn't like them and my friend bought me their CD. After listening to Fallen a couple of times I became obsessed and left everything else behind.

Kokuei

06-26-2008, 11:22 PM

My life is still pretty much the same as it was before, maybe a bit before the **** hit the fan. I was so happy when I discovered Ev because I'm like "hey, here's a girl who understands and has gone through some of the same things I have. If she can say 'screw you guys, I'm leaving' then so could I". BMTL was (and still is) a really big song for me. I always felt so 'bleh' and wasn't sure what was wrong and after hearing all of their other songs (from Fallen and before) I understood and have been trying to fix it. The Open Door helps with that as well. Their music is powerful as are the words and they proved that a girl can rock out just as hard as the guys. We're not all Britney clones.

Since Ev (and KoRn and Linkin Park, since they were technically the first two rock bands that I loved), I've gotten into Slipknot, Disturbed, H.I.M, The Used, MCR, MSI, NIN, alot of different J-Pop and J-Rock artists and sooooooo many others. I do still listen to some of the Pop, Hip-Hop and Country that I did before, just not as much and only if I'm in the mood for it.

corpse_bride808

06-26-2008, 11:37 PM

I was a POP fiend.
A Britney Spears-bot, Christina Aguilera worshipping kid.
Though because my cousins were older than me by a few years, I was already exposed to the rock genre and liked it.
I also listened to Linkin Park and Good Charlotte and Korn and all that but only when my cousins were around.

When I FIRST heard Evanescence, I COMPLETELY changed.
I went from a slutty (literally.. well, in the way that I dressed) 12 year old whose parents didn't care about what I wore, to a 'metal head'.

My clothing changed and my attitude did also.
I went from a spoiled b*tch to .... a mellowed out 13 year old.

THEN DRAMA with the family happened a lot, still continues, but now that I know more about Amy and her experiences in life, I can go by that and see how she got through it, because at some point I've either gone through the same thing or am in the process =}

And... now I'm almost 18 years old and I can still say that IN MOST ways, I have changed for the better because my eyes were opened up a little bit

TomatoSoupIsBlue

06-27-2008, 02:15 AM

I was just wondering. Now all EV fans spend most of their time listening to EV music, hanging their rooms will posters of EV, buy clothes like EV, make clothes like EV, talk/think/dream about EV, everything EV...
don't worry I'm the same way :D

but I was wondering how was your life before you knew about EV? What were you thinking/talking about all the time? What were you looking for on the web before you met EV?

Tell us your story!

I'm not going to lie, I don't buy/make clothes like Amy's, nor do I hang posters of Ev, dream/everything about Ev.

They're awesome. Definitely in my top 5 bands ever. But that's it. They're just a band.

And my life before Ev? I was pretty much your normal kid. I found Ev when I was like 10, so before that I played outside and worried if I'd be home by the time the streetlights came on. :)

Concrete Angel

06-27-2008, 02:18 AM

Life musically before Ev, (right before they came into mainstream) was LinkinPark..who I adored, still do.(there was first that comparison of Ev and LP by many music critics then). Incubus, Staind, Puddle Of Mudd, P.O.D., and most of the other similar bands that were out then. I heard "Bring Me To Life" first on radio. I thought that is awesome..who is that? I made a list of cd's I wanted, and mispelled it (not knowing I did at the time). It wasn't an ordinary girl-fronted rock band, which at the time, was probably one of few. I got the cd. I listened through. I read the lyrics. Immediately I felt a sense of.."this is it". This fits. This is me. I personally connected with not just the songs..the music, the lyrics..but it was almost a spiritual empowerment that finally this music gave my feelings a reason to be heard, and understood, bringing me to one with myself. I was an instant fan, following them during the success of "Fallen"...and the rest is now infamous.
So there was life before Ev..Musically and emotionally. There will always be pain in my life, so life now is better after the discovery of Ev music. It's almost like it's an anchor when you're out a sea, and its dark and stormy. It grounds me.

paranoia13

06-27-2008, 02:39 AM

Before, I listen to pop music like Mandy Moore, Avril Lavigne and so on... It's my guilty pleasure but when Ev came, I cleaned my shelves and made room for their albums! :D

XxSacrificedXx

06-27-2008, 03:10 AM

before I discovered Ev...I was in year 7 and trying to be Goth...and skipped school and got caught :p

frozeninside

06-27-2008, 03:34 AM

before ev, my choice of music was mixed, heavy metal was not in this mix, until i met ev. i never listened to meaningful music, until i met ev. i never listened to emotional music, until i met ev. i never had any friends, until i met ev, because i never acted like myself, but amy showed me that being yourself can help you from being critisized by the people around you. like all those whores or people otherwise known as "celebrities"

TheIslander

06-27-2008, 04:26 AM

Meh...wasn't much different. I listened to rock and metal, I adored WT, and then BMTL was all over the radio, so I decided to try the album...

Kokuei

06-27-2008, 04:48 AM

Funny enough that I heard BMTL first and then I came across a site for an anime that I watched and it had My Immortal playing in the back ground and that cinched it. I almost cried listening to her voice and I don't do that with songs. She is one of the rare artists that actually have a good voice without all the programming to enhance it

riona

06-27-2008, 05:05 AM

lol i notified now before ev i was about 16.. i started on new high school and girls in classroom hates me, they was like "haha amy lee freak, its so embarassing." so i kept my faith for all of those years and i have something to live for even if everything around fall down. :)
and thats a point

LongLostLies

06-27-2008, 05:10 AM

Ooooh duuuudes, ma life was so totally mundane before Ev maaan.

AllAlone

06-27-2008, 06:29 AM

I was Green Day fan :D
lol

echo

06-27-2008, 07:00 AM

Well, I'm a little bit older than Amy. I was living the college life: studying, partying, doing internships, going on spring break and graduating. Now it's the real world (which can be pretty rough), but Ev is a nice escape for me.

2fast4all

06-27-2008, 07:09 AM

I was a gamer, listen to the radio a lot, and doing nothing.

Rock Nymph

06-27-2008, 07:55 AM

I was a normal 11 year old. I'm way better with Ev.

Chiara

06-27-2008, 08:27 AM

I was obsessed with pop music and pop singers like Spice Girls, 'N Sync,Five,Blue,Britney Spears etc. Thanks to Ev, i discovered the real music and great bands.

Chili

06-27-2008, 08:27 AM

I was just like I am now. More or less. I was thirteen when Fallen came out (I'm eighteen now, gosh times passes by...o.O) and I was already really into rock and metal, I worshipped HIM and Nightwish and Hammerfall and Sentenced and all that stuff. Fell in love with Ev on Day #1 though and I still love it to bits. It's the only band that has a song for every single emotion I get. So it always kinda fits. It took me quite some time to get my hands on all the Demos and Unreleased stuff though... probably the whole year after Fallen came out.
Geez, I devoured that album... I knew all the lyrics by heart after I'd had it for three days I think. Same with TOD by the way.

DeathByLemons

06-27-2008, 09:30 AM

it wasnt that bad, i grew up listening to classic rock bands (especially the who, styx, and rush :D) in my dad's truck. i didnt have alot of friends but i played video games alot :| but i am happier listening to ev :) but i still love classic rock :party: :party:

dreamchayser

06-27-2008, 10:14 AM

I am older than Amy, as well... My life before Ev? Pretty much the same as now, wake up, work, come home.. only difference now is I have a 3 y/o little girl who rocks out and sings along to Ev.. :D

Marionette

06-27-2008, 10:55 AM

A black lifeless hell hole.

KIDDING

Um, I was listening to a lot of Michelle Branch and Avril Lavigne (I was like, eleven) andI heard BMTL on the radio. Four years later...I call them my favorite band and my lifesaver. :-) The first time I heard BMTL, all I thuoght was "Wow, I wisah I could sing that high and stil soudn good..." Then Ym stepmom burned the CD and saiod, "Here, you might like this" and " I was like, "OHHHHH" lol

ErgoProxy

06-27-2008, 11:02 AM

Before Ev I listened to LP a lot, so if Ev had not come around, I think I'd be a bigger LP fan right now. Or actually not because MTM is still a major disappointment, :P.

Homers_child

06-27-2008, 11:19 AM

I was like 11 or 12 sooo, I'm assuming I was still a fan of Britney and Nsync haha. I know I had a poster of Nsync, and it eventually got teared down and a poster of Amy from that crow photoshoot got pasted up haha. Oh yeah. :cool: I fell in love from the first time I heard BMTL. My parents were a little shocked I could go from like bubblegum Christina Aguilera to like 'gothic evanescence' :o .

haha and then of course, came the dark ages, were Ev was on break for like 5 trillion years. I started straying and ended up with punk rocker Avril Lavigne. Woah, who knows what happened there. Dark ages, indeed. :bangshead:

rae22

06-27-2008, 11:57 AM

I was obsessed with pop music and pop singers like Spice Girls, 'N Sync,Five,Blue,Britney Spears etc. Thanks to Ev, i discovered the real music and great bands.

Dude, I was right there with you. Except by 2003 (oh God, that's only 5 years back! That seems like FOREVER ago!), I moved past those musical disasters and I started to embrace rap/hip-hop/r&b (which I still enjoy to this day). However, with the release of Fallen, it was my first step towards rock music and I began to love female-fronted bands such as Ev, Lacuna Coil, Nightwish, etc. etc.
Now, of course, my iPod playlist is COMPLETELY varied - from rock to techno to opera to broadway to pop to country to rap to blues and any spectrum in between...
What can I say? I LOVE music!

But I could NEVER imagine myself talking about my life AFTER Ev...omg, it's just too preposterous!! THIS NEXT ALBUM BETTER NOT BE THE LAST!!! :(
((Random: We need a "Best of" album for Ev...that would totally kick ass!))

The Swirl Cloud

06-27-2008, 12:02 PM

I've never liked any band so much and I don't think any band will ever be as good.
Every single song she has written that I have heard has moved me and I admire Amy so much:)

echo

06-27-2008, 12:52 PM

I am older than Amy, as well...

Yea! I thought I was the only one!!! :D lol! We should start our own club! ;)

Snowy Winter

06-27-2008, 01:06 PM

Himmelslicht

06-27-2008, 01:07 PM

Not different, to be honest.

HangMan

06-27-2008, 01:11 PM

I found that I had a bad taste in music before Ev xD

Umm well Lithium taught me a few things (Like not to wallow in self pity) and Going Under made me realize that I have to keeep myself going and not focus on those who try to bring me down.

I dunno I don't think the massive changes are due to Ev but the music has been a great comfort to me at times and I love the songs.

samuel

06-27-2008, 01:13 PM

Well before EV came into the world I was obsessed with Goldfrapp debut dark album "Felt Mountain" I also listened to Ladytron and HIM a lot. I think music was really boring until EV came along. GF, LT and HIM are still great bands. :D

EV introduced me to a new scene of music, which i am thankful for,

Me too.

Evans

06-27-2008, 01:15 PM

My life before was kinda upsetting. Even though i've been listening to Marilyn Manson's music since i was 11, my life back then was kinda, let's say, empty.

But since late 2003 and first days of 2004, my life changed thanks to awesome people i got to meet.
Thanks to Evanescence i met my best friend Karol.
She's a hardcore fan just like me.
I've also get to meet people that i talked to on Msn.

And sometimes i remember my life before that evening when i got my Fallen copy, it was rainy outside and a few days before i left my mom's house.
It brings me a lot of memories.

dreamchayser

06-27-2008, 01:46 PM

Yea! I thought I was the only one!!! :D lol! We should start our own club! ;)
lol, yeah, really!!! ;)

DeMarzi

06-27-2008, 02:04 PM

I liked a completely different style of music. I was pretty much into whatever was on MTV, whatever was popular.

Ev changed who I am, and I like myself much more this way.

Bloodlust

06-28-2008, 02:37 AM

I wasn't into music at all. When I got into Evanescence, I felt comfortable exploring other bands. However, Evanescence is still my favorite. :)

That's pretty much it though. I don't put to much weight on entertainment. Real life and entertainment should stay separate in my opinion unless it's a positive force.

Concrete Angel

06-28-2008, 02:54 AM

Numbness.......no hope....not that much interesting in music as now.....
That time of my life I understood that I was depressed for one and a half year and I have those weird feelings.....I couldn't find a way out .....so I had locked inside myself.....
I know Amy feels uncomfortable when some of us say : ''You have saved my life''
but......it's true.....I believe in Amy more than anything in this world,she is a role model to me! :)

Aww that's so beautiful Snowy Winter. *hugs* I can't say the music saved my life, but it became a huge part of my life..music that gave a voice to my feelings, and reflection from my soul. I have always loved all types of music, still do, but there was just a connection with Ev music. That, and out of the many songs, the many album's I have, I seem to always reach for Ev. It's really familiar to me now since after the one billion plays, but somehow, sometimes it still seems fresh and alive, and expresses just the emotion I may be feeling. I know all about that pain and depression. Sounds like Ev played a big role in your life, or like me, helped me try to figure mine out. :)

Snowy Winter

06-28-2008, 03:20 PM

PerPetuaLLyLosT

06-28-2008, 03:24 PM

er...i didn't really listen to music that much before i discovered Evanescence mainly because i only knew about the "popular" stuff and i didn't like it very much. i went through a brief (very brief) period where i liked robbie williams EEEEEEKKK! when i was younger

also after Evanescence i started to actually practice piano not just go to the lessons and i am so freaking happy cos i love it now :D:D:D:D

EVangie

06-28-2008, 03:57 PM

My life before Evanescence. Well let see, I didn't have a life before Evanescence I was only 12, so I didn't need a life cause I was only 12.

here the same, i was only 12 when i started listening EV, first Bring me to Life made me obsessed with Amy, i didn't know her name was amy but her voice was just the best thing that happened to me...before that, i listened a little bit of Marilyn manson or Korn because a friend was a fan of them at that time but i used to listen pop music too lol
Then Fallen was the first album that i heard and loved all the songs, all the day listening and asking for the songs on the radio... I changed a little, but Ev helped me a lot :)

Phucket

06-28-2008, 04:00 PM

It's been the same as it always has. ****ty. Oh well, **** happens. :D

She Beckons Me

12-19-2008, 05:41 AM

I didn't listen to rock music at all. Was too harsh for me. Now I listen to more stuff, Evanescence being a must.
I had no interest in writing poems, now I'm nominated at the PFA
I also plan to take piano lessons.
I was pretty much lost.

paranoia13

12-19-2008, 09:05 AM

Before, I listen to pop. I never listened to rock or metal. Thank God I found Evanescence. It's like an eye-opener or some sort. Like She Beckons Me, Ev is one of my writing inspirations.

Leeta Kane

12-19-2008, 09:19 AM

Paranoia13 took the words out of my mouth. I was a boy/girl band kind of chick before Ev. Ev changed almost everything about me. For the best, of course.

Katie@EvThreads

12-19-2008, 09:22 AM

Well, I'm in grade nine now, and I've been listening to Ev since grade three.
So, there's not much I can say about my life before them.
I was a kid, I did kiddy stuff. I didn't really see their music as anything more than music then, anyways.
Now I see it as more, and Ev's music helps me through a lot of bad situations.

AMDtje

12-29-2008, 06:15 AM

Aww that's so beautiful Snowy Winter. *hugs* I can't say the music saved my life, but it became a huge part of my life..music that gave a voice to my feelings, and reflection from my soul. I have always loved all types of music, still do, but there was just a connection with Ev music. That, and out of the many songs, the many album's I have, I seem to always reach for Ev. It's really familiar to me now since after the one billion plays, but somehow, sometimes it still seems fresh and alive, and expresses just the emotion I may be feeling. I know all about that pain and depression. Sounds like Ev played a big role in your life, or like me, helped me try to figure mine out. :)

That's almost exactly the way I feel.

Before Ev my life was pretty much "destroyed". I had nobody where I could share my bad moments with, there was almost no hope. I got bullied for years on school, my first love ended up in a disaster, my mom did care for me but was unable to help me, and it went from bad to worse until there is that point you just can't take it anymore. I just wanted to disappear from this world, from everybody...

I struggled through live and one day I just heard BMTL on TV.
I never heard of the band Ev before.

When I started to know EV my whole life changed.
It changed my view on things, started to think differently.
But most of all, the music just reflected my feelings and pain.

Their music really took the pain away, until I stop playing it, then the pain comes back but the pain sure is different.
When I listen to Ev I can just "disappear" from the world.

It's like Ev wrote the songs for me, about me. I know it isn't but you get the idea.

Now it's like Ev lives inside of me, everyday, every hour ...
To say it in Ev words: Angel of Mine. Their are my guardian Angel and still to this day when I got problems, pain, feeling sad and so on I always think about Ev.

Their impact on my life is enormous. And I still can't thank Ev enough.

My Immortal touched me deep into my heart and made me alot of the person I am today. It's the singing and the words from Amy that have the most impact. But that's kinda logical isn't it?

eve_nescence

12-29-2008, 09:50 AM

They've totally changed my life.
I can't say they saved me.. but it's kind of close.
They have this awesome lyrics that for the first time ever I can feel related to.
And I think they came just when I needed something like this in my life.
I was moving out with my mom and I just hated my life in that moment.. but then I met them and everything changed.
And the most beautiful thing about them.. it's the people, the awesome people I've met because of them.
I made some really good friends that share this love to evanescence.
And it's awesome have people who really understand you.. besides music.
So.. I own them what I am now.

Thanks Ev! :D

Night.Hawk

12-30-2008, 12:56 AM

Jake

12-30-2008, 01:59 AM

Sad, Cold, Gloomy, Fake, Un-Inspired, Lazy

Along the lines of that.

2fast4all

12-30-2008, 02:35 AM

Hmmm I guess I was very dull, boring, gaming a lot, and tired, I still am now but sorta different. It was sometime last year a girl who I used to be friends who introduced me to Ev (well I already had 2 songs going under and BMTL sitting im my mp3 collection but never listen to it) and then things changed. I got hooked on to fallen and the open door for months and on, listen day and night (yeah sound stupid but the lyrics have meaning). Now im not really friends with that girl but I should thank her for recommending this band :). Without Ev I would have never found out other bands like nightwish, WT, epica, etc.

K-Unit

12-30-2008, 04:26 AM

A dark abyss of gloom and unfulfilment.

Well... not actually.

Wolfie©

12-31-2008, 02:22 PM

I had a life before Evanescence?

Fallen

12-31-2008, 02:27 PM

my life was just like anyone elses' school work watch TV and play video games,,nothing important for fun to do or anything that actually felt like it was a part of my future except the obvious like school and crap

Firewolf1988

12-31-2008, 06:26 PM

It was bad, I listened to country... Nah, I'm kidding. I didn't really have a lot of inspiration. I love writing so I guess you could say it was empty because I didn't see anything to motivate me, nothing really got the creative juices going until I found Evanescence.

And I met my best friend through Evanescence because one day she told me she had BMTL stuck in her head, we've been very close ever since.

ev4ever

01-02-2009, 05:11 AM

not a rock life for sure! i used to listen greek music but know i absolutely changed my opinion about music and generally my lifestyle!

denied

01-02-2009, 06:47 AM

I was really stupid! I used to listen to a lot different singers, bands etc. but never liked more than 1 or 2 of their songs. Before i saw BMTL video I liked Black eyed peas and shakira and omg, wasn't I srupid?

mlxjaded

01-03-2009, 10:57 PM

FutileGrief

01-03-2009, 11:23 PM

I'm not going to lie...before Ev I was in with the "ghetto" crowd. Rap music was basically the only thing on my iTunes. I feel so ashamed! The only rapper that I still like is Eminem because his songs actually have meaning in them. Then I found Ev and everything changed. :)

I know it's none of my business.. but why should you be ashamed? You can't help to like the things you like, and I think it's perfectly normal (and sane) to listen to different types of music. We are not suppossed to like everything the others like, there are no rules that teach you that. There are stereotypes that tell that a rocker shouldn't like rap and all that, but why follow them?. Sorry, moving on. *runs*

Anyways. My life before Evanescence... well this band has completely shaped my personality, for sure. But I don't think it has "changed" me... it was an inevitable evolution I was bound to have. I started to listen to evanescence when I was 15, now I'm 21, so their presence is obvious, and will always be a huge chapter in my life.

DeadPuppet

01-04-2009, 07:27 AM

eeer Avril Lavigne freak :P I'm more of an Alanis freak now tho

Savannah5123

02-02-2009, 05:35 PM

i was into people like mariah carey and beyonce when i was a young kid, but when i got into Ev i also got into TONS of great music from all kinds of different genres

FallIntoMyself

02-02-2009, 05:44 PM

I was into happy music more or less. Now I appreciate the darker side of things as well as some classicial music because Ev's Field of Innocence and Listen to the Rain and some instrumentals like on the Sound Asleep EP helped me understand music a little more. I like more dramatic and vocal stuff now thanks to Ev and Amy lee.

amyzynha

02-02-2009, 05:48 PM

it's was just so suck! Ev changed my mind and my life!

I_saw_her_bleed

02-02-2009, 06:23 PM

Before I liked Evanescence, I liked music a lot but wasn't really into following specific bands. I would just occasionally hear a song I liked and not pay too much attention to who it was by. Getting into Evanescence was kind of the gateway for me to become serious about other bands, too.

aylah

02-02-2009, 06:51 PM

Before Evanescence I listened mostly to whatever was on the Top 40 list. Pop hits all the way, and thats actually how I heard Ev for the first time, first Bring Me To Life which I instantly loved, then came My Immortal and loved that aswell. Checked out some more from Ev and then that was me - all Ev all the time. And thats like.. 6 years ago or something like it. Still love Ev more than anything! It's just a part of my life and who I am. :)

buckeyejosh8706

02-02-2009, 10:03 PM

Vern

02-02-2009, 10:35 PM

Before Evanescence, I didn't know the meaning of life! I thought it was all about male quintets and little kids losing their innocence to the music industry. But now I've seen the light. Life is actually about coffee and drama over fired band members.

Anywho, Evanescence just happens to be the first band (the Backstreet Boys don't count...) that I really got into. I would probably still like the same music, I just happen to listen to Evanescence before Linkin Park.

Lacrymosa_xx

02-02-2009, 10:54 PM

I Had No Life Before Evanescence.
Jokes.
Umm no, Ev Was Really the First band i was REALLY Into.
Ever Since I Heard My Immortal i loved them. Even thoiugh not really knowing who they were.
Ev Changed my life :)

Ayria

02-02-2009, 10:54 PM

Before Evanescence I was doing crack cocaine, Amie Lee turned my life around. :(

Lycan

02-02-2009, 10:57 PM

Before Evanescence I was doing crack cocaine, Amie Lee turned my life around. :(

HOLEY SMACK DADDAY.

That's weird. Before Ev, I used to watch Teletubbies, play with rubber duckies and eat french fries. Now I listen to Goth music, smoke pot, sniff coke and kill people. Amie Lee made me a monster, A Monster I tell you!

:bangshead:

Ayria

02-02-2009, 10:58 PM

HOLEY SMACK DADDAY.

That's weird. Before Ev, I used to watch Teletubbies, play with rubber duckies and eat french fries. Now I listen to Goth music, smoke pot, sniff coke and kill people. Amie Lee made me a monster, A Monster I tell you!

:bangshead:

Well... uh... NOW I'M A SCIENTOLOGIST! HA! :p

Lycan

02-02-2009, 11:05 PM

Well... uh... NOW I'M A SCIENTOLOGIST! HA! :p

Oh? Ah...Hmm...well, I uh, have to go now.

*backs away slowly*

Kokuei

02-03-2009, 12:11 AM

In all seriousness, there really wasn't a band that consumed my life before Evanescence. I would listen to pretty much anything, bought a lot of different CDs and such, but never really "obsessed" (for the lack of a better word) over anyone else. To this day even, I enjoy many, many, many different bands from all kinds of genres, but Evanescence is the only band that I take the time to join all the fan clubs and forums with. I'm not sure why. Something with Evanescence just kind of stuck, but hey, I'm not complaining. :D

That's how I am too. EvClub was the first and only fanclub that I ever joined. I can't say that Evanescence got me into rock. I had been listening to the rock of the 70's and 80's ever since I was young (long live Queen, Journey, Ozzy and Meatloaf! :D) and was introduced to the modern rock through Linkin Park and KoRn. I was hooked onto those two bands because I felt like they understood what I was dealing with during my teenage years. Then came Evanescence and the understanding went deeper because it was mostly coming from a female's point of view and not just a guy's.

LCjustonce

02-04-2009, 01:12 AM

Before Ev I was into rap, r&b, and latin hip-hop. I was a real gangsta and because of the objectifying lyrics in rap music, I had no self confidence and had low self esteem. Amy's angelic voice caught me in Daredevil. Then Ev totally changed my life, she was a strong woman through her music. Telling her stories in her lyrics gave me what I needed to love myself. Gave me the strength to be me. I wouldn't be who I am today without their music. I joined the forums, EvBoard, and yes EvClub. I have posters and magazine clippings on my walls and even an Ev logo tat. Although I have many many bands I listen to, that I fully enjoy. Ev will always be my #1 no matter how long the hiatus.

P.S. I am obsessed ;)

joahana666

02-05-2009, 07:31 AM

hmmm .. me before i listen to all punk music and i am addicted to avril lavigne.. i wear balck t-shirts with the quotes of "punks not dead" lol *SO LAME* but when i heard the BMTL it's like wow there is a greater artist than ev.. and they teach me how to listen gothmusic
when i'm in 3rd yr highschool i am so addicted to ev music and it's like hey i should smoke, i should drink alcoholic drinks(because i saw that on ABH dvd) i should not do this kid's thing.. i should be a an adult and leave the adolescence life...
and now because of that i learn how to smoke and get drank.. THANKS EV!! :bangshead: but i love it :D

KTRN90

02-05-2009, 08:15 AM

LCjustonce

02-06-2009, 11:18 PM

drak_dragon

02-07-2009, 01:10 AM

I didn't listen to anything before Evanescence. I didn't play piano, sing, or even care about music at all. I barely knew any lyrics to any songs, only old ones my parents played.

Some girls were doing bring me to life at school for a talent night, the minute I heard it, I was hooked for life. I changed so much. I listened only to Ev for 3 years, no other bands, and I wanted to play piano like amy, so I learnt the piano, now music is my entire life, i live for music, my career is music, everything is just music.

Pretty crazy how a song can completely change the rest of your life, and everything that you do, how everything falls together.

VioLeeta

02-07-2009, 11:39 AM

uhmm well, my friend and I went through a dark period of listening to A LOT of Hilary Duff... like we were basically obsessed, but thankfully my other friend sat me down to listen to BMTL and I was cured. hahah :D

I was listening to that crap too. At one point of my life, even Eminem. I am truly ashamed by that. But than, I grew up. First song I heard was Going Under.

LCjustonce

02-08-2009, 07:50 PM

music is my entire life, i live for music, my career is music, everything is just music.

Pretty crazy how a song can completely change the rest of your life, and everything that you do, how everything falls together.

I concure. I live and breathe music. They're the reason why I am getting into radio.

EvFan28

03-08-2009, 01:31 AM

Before ev I used to listen to nothing but hip hop music!!! Don't get me wrong I still like some of it but no rock music at all!!!! It wasn't till my brother bought Fallen and I was like "I love this!!!!" so now Ev and rock is all I mainly listen to!!! I love Ev!!!

The Only One

03-11-2009, 02:17 PM

I was online but focused on the Xena forums/fandom.I had graduated HS and couldn't pay for college so I was sleeping in the day and online at night. I had heard of Ev from my friends but wasn't into them. They invited me to a concert because they had an extra ticket and I acually contemplated not going. I went, it was AMAZING thus ending my life before Ev.

Musically I was listening to pop/pop rock whatever z100 was playing. Not really taking an interest into any band besides No Doubt. Ev was responsible for opening me up to other, better music.

Adz

03-11-2009, 04:27 PM

Hmmmmm life before Ev. Lol i would say my life was crappy but tbh my life wasn't really happening. i was 11 when i first found Ev and i guess i was 12/13 when they really started to influence the way i dressed and the music i listened to. before i would just wear what i could find and listen to what everyone else liked, i wasn't really an individual. Since listening to them, Amy has taught me that it don't hurt to stick out and that the people who bitch on you are hurting worse themselves. And the band is definitely something that people associate me with and is definitely a partof me. Amy continues to inspire me and stuff and turst me, has made my life now so much more interesting and happy. :)

PurpleAmharic

03-11-2009, 04:30 PM

Life before Ev... well, my mind thought in a very non-abstract way.
Their music has changed my world... I don't take everything by face value much at all now, I wait and see until what is underneath breaks through or becomes clear to me.

Immortal_soul

03-11-2009, 05:34 PM

Hmmm before evanescence, i was very young then, I listen to all kind of music...
But now I dont know ,I m crazzy...my friends gone crazzy to, its always, amy done this,amy done that, every day...and if someone talks bad things about amy or evanescence, I hit them...Im crazzy I know...Im obsest to much...
but its nothing new,before evanescence I was obsest with a cartoon caracter, Sailor Moon..hehehehehehe....funny I know...

FiLiPa

03-11-2009, 06:17 PM

Before Evanescence i was into Britney Spears and Christina Aguilera and N'sync and all that crap!

Then i wasn't into any kind of music...i was searching for something with feeling, not just music made for people to buy it! Then i heard BMTL....I HATED IT! *a chick singing rock music? what the hell is this?*.

But then my friend came over to my house and downloaded BMTL *this music is awesome* and i said to him that i didn't like at all, but he insisted.
3 days after i had the CD and i'm a huge fan till this day...I'm an evanescencaholic and i'm proud :D

kevzgurl

03-11-2009, 11:26 PM

I had convertered from pop princess to rocker chick when I was 11 (seriously) in 2002 about a year before I ever heard Ev. I started listening to stuff like Disturbed and all that instead of Britney Spears. My first metal album was Drowing Pool's first cd.

When I heard BMTL for the first time on the radio I instantly fell in love with it. I had never heard of any bands like Lucana Coil or Nightwish, so I was like "a girl can sing rock like that!?" It was magic. and here I am. Crazy freakin fan (not stalker crazy though.)

I just think in a lot of respects without the music of Evanescence I wouldn't be who I am today.

an0thercreation

03-11-2009, 11:39 PM

Thinking about this makes my brain hurt, because I really was such an idiot before listening to Ev. I really discovered Ev. in Summer 2004 when my friend from Ohio sent me a burned disk of Fallen. I had heard of them from her and listened to them online before that. The first video and song I heard was Going Under. I was just entering that rebellious phase and I thought it was so cool because it was so much darker than what I usually listened to or watched. I was a complete girly girl/snot. I was a geek, to sum it all up, and I was rude to a lot of people my age.

I remember when Ev. and Amy really took a hold of my life, and really influenced me, and I think I really got into Ev. with the release of ABH, because it really showed how real the band, especially Amy, is. It inspired me to be, or rather, find, who I was. It also inspired me to embrace my talent for music, something I wouldn't have done if it wasn't for Amy. I would've neglected taking piano lessons just as I was doing and I wouldn't have taken any voice lessons or started writing music. I wouldn't be persueing a music career or anything. I mean, Ev. really shaped who I am today and who I strive to be. Most of all, besides honestly saving my life, because God only knows what path I was on then, they taught me what real music is, and it came from someone who really had a passion for the art. I mean, I'm just so glad I found this band. None of my friends understand how I could like them so much, but I guess it's meant to be that way :]

xoxoxo
ann

lone_rain777777

03-15-2009, 02:33 PM

I didn't really listen to music much at all before Ev....

princeofpersia

03-15-2009, 02:45 PM

I'm An Evanescence fan ; Therefore I Am

my Life before Evanescence ... hmmmm .... :(:(:( ... really i can't Descrip that ...

Life?!!

<3 Wolby

03-18-2009, 05:00 PM

hmm my life would be the same except i would be missing out on A LOT of amazing music. and i would have one less inspiration in my life.

understanding1989

03-18-2009, 06:03 PM

Hmmmm.I can't really remember much. It was the beginning of 2003 when I first started liking them. If Evanescence wasnt in my life i probably would have a LOT more money. :P haha. oh well.. every penny was worth it.

A*Morbid*Hope

03-18-2009, 08:16 PM

Honestly? this is gonna sound lame, but numb...the whole BMTL thing I took to heart, [/lameness]

°Daria°

03-19-2009, 05:09 AM

Before I was a fan of Ev, I listened only to german music and so...
And I didn´t understand the lyrics of some song, but I wasn´t even interested.
But with Ev I saw the meaning of some lyrics and began to listen to a new music genre.
Well, a new genre to me.;)

marianne

03-19-2009, 05:40 AM

I was just wondering. Now all EV fans spend most of their time listening to EV music, hanging their rooms will posters of EV, buy clothes like EV, make clothes like EV, talk/think/dream about EV, everything EV...
don't worry I'm the same way :D

but I was wondering how was your life before you knew about EV? What were you thinking/talking about all the time? What were you looking for on the web before you met EV?

Tell us your story!

well i guess that before i heard about ev i was listening to the wrong music. like rapping because alot of people liked rapping then i didnt know anything else is what i might like. also the way i dress now and anything back then i thought that if i was different and liked different things then they would slag me off and it bad bad to do that. also i guess that i was ( and still a little bit am.) a tomboy and i had been a bit of a geek. and i am still and was very quiet so i found it hard to find friend but i had friends who are younger than me i still have. but now i know that if your different then dont care wht other people will think.

marianne

FivebyFive

03-19-2009, 05:52 AM

God, Evanescence for me was like the first MAJOR influence on my life. I mean, I liked songs and singers and bands but Evanescence were the first band that actually stuck with me for longer than 6 months, and its now been 5 years. And I actually stumbled across them by TOTAL accident, but I've never looked back.

My favourite singer before Amy was Amy Studt (stuck with the Amys) and my favourite band before Evanescence was Green Day.

sannie

03-20-2009, 02:09 PM

Hard to say, my life wasn't so different before Evanescence. But now I have wonderful music to listen and I have made new friends, thanks to Ev :-----)

EmptyChild

03-24-2009, 02:58 PM

I don't think I listened to music anywhere NEAR as much as I do now and I certainly wasn't as open to new music as I am now.

My taste in music started to change a little time before Ev came onto the scene (due to a friend introducing me to rock music) then Ev came about and it opened my eyes to what I was really missing. It was then I started searching the internet for new and unique bands.

espetjuh

03-24-2009, 05:08 PM

well, ev music made me go deeper into my feelings and my music and amy is today a font of inspiration in my life... but, musically, everything keeps in its place, my fave bands keep being the fave bands I had before ev.

milas_lacrymosa

03-24-2009, 05:35 PM

It's hard to say actually, I don't remember much of my life before Evanescence. I remember only a few years back, because then, I was the big t.A.T.u. fan. Like, a really big fan.
Before that, I don't really remember. I was just an average kid, hanging out with totally wrong people (not that they were bad influence or anything, but my best friend then would be the same as... dunno, a person I only say hello to now).
Then there t.A.T.u. appeared, and only few people stayed my "friends". You know, the gay issue :rolleyes:
And then, few years later, Evanescence appeared, and turned my life around, completely. They were a major influence.
And then, those few friends that stayed before... Well, it wasn't that they left me. We kinda left eachother- I wasn't afraid of not being accepted anymore.
So, then I really found my people.
It's been six years now, and those people sticked around, no matter through how many fases I went through, and how weird I knew to be.
And I realized- well, damn, I was really missing out on so much, including the REAL friendships.

So yeah, I believe Ev really changed my life completely, and that it so wouldn't be the same if they weren't around (the same goes for t.A.T.u., who just fell apart few days ago- it feels like Nightwish/Tarja all over again :( )...

I'll be thankful to my Evanescence forever <3

Jay Cullen

03-24-2009, 06:00 PM

Before EV?
Geez, I think Black Eyed Peas were like, my fav band ever. Haha. Along with t.A.T.u.
Then I fell in love with Bring Me To Life and ever since then, EV and I have been happily in love. ^_^
EV has definitely opened my eyes to other music though.

Clairexx

03-25-2009, 07:50 PM

God, it's hard to imagine what I did. I guess I just listened to whatever was most popular on the radio. But, Evanescence is so much more dramatic, tells a story and it actually makes me happy. I'm also Amy Lee obsessed!

evan__soul

03-27-2009, 09:21 PM

My life before Ev, was the same that after.
I mean, EV didn't change my point of view, but, it make me more open to listen another bands, met the music world (because was the first band i ever listened to)... But, the great voice of amy, make me love evanescence until today! ,

goodbye..

murphdogg35

04-01-2009, 12:16 PM

Ummm...Before Ev I listened to alot of country, stuff on the radio, and classic rock. But after my first ev concert i discovered seether, breaking benjamin, and three days grace...so thank god for Ev! :p

kaska_kiki

04-13-2009, 10:57 AM

......was empty(joking:D). I used to listen to pop music(sic!).Fortunately,my life has changed and now I know what is right for me:)Ev rules forever!:party:

luthien.evans

04-24-2009, 06:24 PM

Well,i used to listen more pop music and hard/emocore =x
But about 2004/2005 i started to listen good bands, and one of them was Evanescence! I knew a music that i loved and made me a person that valorize the good things of the life.

joahana666

05-07-2009, 12:44 AM

AileeDubaron

05-07-2009, 01:06 AM

I was about to post here and saw Claytons sig and avatar and I left immediately to love lostxpain haha oh well, I needa my life before Adam thread lol

Back on topic, I dont remember much b4 Ev lol. I know I was a loner and stuff, I guess Ev gave my life meaning ha, It helped me out of my chronic depression... Even worse B4 Ev I hated Rock and listened to gangster rap the majority of the time haha... Oh well

I still remember the first time I heard them. I was in the car with mommy dearest, and we were driving down Fair Ave. next to the home depot lol. I remember I was talking with her, then I heard this high pitched squealing coming from the radio haha. I cranked it up, stopped midsentence and me and her just listened to rest of BMTL. I was like wow that was amazing ha, (she thought the same thing lol) Then the anouncer was like thats BMTL from a new band Evanescence, Its out on the Daredevil soundtrack... So I was like mom lets go to Walmart and buy that cd lol. So we did and on the way home I played it again, followed by MI. We got to my street by the end of MI and my mom was in tears haha...
Yup they touched me so much I remember exactly everything that happened that day... Im glad I do lol.

Ev Rocker

05-08-2009, 08:23 PM

omg I`m listening to TaTu right now! I`m shocked people would drop a friend cuz they listen to a "gay group" I belive its mostly an act and I love their music. Anyways evanescence is my all time fave band right now and has been for almost 7 years I think..has it been that long?? I do listen to other music though and I always have. Before Ev I was obsessed with No Doubt ( mostly Gwen) Then Hanson I was totally in love with the drummer for EVER..then I met a real man (whom I married later on) Then I got really into Avril then Evanescence. Haha I used to love listening to Aqua, they are so bouncy! I will say that I never really looked up to anyone like Amy..I have a lot of respect for all she`s been through and she is an amazing artist. She defenitly helped me realize that they are people out there like me. I NEVER fit into any social group. And Amy made me feel like it was ok to be who i was. I`m not gonna go and say I`m obsessed tho cuz I only have one ev poster and its not up I have never even seen a t.v interview. :o Besides you-tube that is..

TheEscapist

05-11-2009, 03:48 PM

Complete full empty.

-I learn english because...Evanescence
-I start to listen music and discover wonderful group like Nightwish, Pink Floyd or The Beatles thanks to...Evanescence
-I become a guitar player because...Evanescence
-I meet the love of my life thanks to...Evanescence
-I don't kill myself because I have a friend called...Evanescence

Before Evanescence there was an empty shell with my name. After "Fallen" I really start to live.

XxJessxX

06-18-2009, 03:06 PM

My life sucked before i started listening to evanescence. I felt completely alone and useless i mean i feel like that now sometimes but i definitely had little to no passion about anything.Now i write Poetry and i feel less alone and i'm really interested in Music.Evanescence was my first favorite band and they still are and i don't think that is ever going to change no matter how old i get.

Lady Elizabeth

06-19-2009, 11:01 AM

Before evanescence I was a naive seventh grader trying way too hard to be something I wasn't. I lost a parent and had to move to a ****ty apartment, be teased every day at school, and basically go through the horrors of being 13 with a lot of issues in my life..Bottom line is that evanescence saved me in every sense of the word. I was completely dead (and not just in an angsty teen sort of a way) and they brought me back to life. I wouldn't be the person I am today,6 years later, without them. I would be nothing, and I owe my life to their influence.

Sorry if I sound dramatic, but it's true :)

Raptured Light

07-01-2009, 02:47 PM

Before Evanescence, I never really fit in. I tried to be like everyone else, and I even thought I was like everyone else .When I got Fallen, I started to find myself. And after that when someone I knew died, the combination of tragedy and Evanescence is what I think really changed me. Either way, Evanescence will always get credit. Now I realize what I am; and as I think back, I always knew I was different. I just never knew in what ways or understood what to stand for. Now I do.

Wisps_of_Soul

07-02-2009, 08:53 AM

I was into a lot of my younger sister's stuff before I found them. Ev got me attatched to the piano, and pushed me into teaching myself how to read music. (still working on it)

Before I would put my heart into drawing, school, and reading. I still do all that stuff a lot, but now Ev takes up a lot more of my time. Not that I mind...I love it! :D

TODSacrifice

07-02-2009, 10:37 AM

Hmm...well I've always been an AVID music fan. I write songs, play guitar, had been doing the acoustic singer/songwriter thing performing live for the last 3 years. I'm big into bands/artists such as the Beatles, Floyd, Joni Mitchell, Neil Young, Radiohead, Nirvana, Nine Inch Nails, the Who, CSN, etc.
Normally, my life is ok--it has its ups and downs like anyone else's but just recently I started putting myself back together. At the start of the year, I lost my Mom to a long battle with Multiple Sclerosis. That, in a way, shattered me. I lost a couple of friends in the process due to my behavior (I was acting out in a carefree way though I was far from carefree). Good friends told me I wasn't acting like myself and so forth. I also sort of lost touch with my creative musical abilities (didn't write nearly as much).
Just recently, I started putting the pieces of my life back together. I do think EV's music had a hand in helping me do so. I actually *feel* alive again, thankfully. I discovered Evanescence and that sort of ignited something in me. I felt I could relate to many songs and I finally felt excited about something again, a feeling I hadn't felt since before my Mom passed.
I'm also in the process of starting up an art rock/indie rock band in which I play guitar and write. So far, it is a singer and me. We've got a jam session coming up with a keyboard player. I definitely call Evanescence an influence for this upcoming band. So hopefully good times are to come. I need some light in the darkness if you will.

RockFaerie2007

07-02-2009, 03:39 PM

I was nobody. I had no meaning in life. I just lived day by day, wondering why I wa even alive. And then there was Ev... enough said ;)

bella1111111115

08-13-2009, 10:34 PM

i was like nine or ten when they came out it really helped to hear someone singing about how i was feeling
i was the same with animal planet
i was on my own alot but i liked it that way (my cousin and fav person at that point in time had moved away and i was never close with my mum or the rest of my family (she had post-natal depression when she had me so i was always an anti-social child i didn't make friends until is was like 6 or 7))

SanePsycho713

08-14-2009, 08:25 PM

Before Ev I was a slightly insecure pre-sophomore in high school. I would listen to pretty much all the super-mainstream stuff (pretty much all the stuff on the radio). Then I discovered ev, decided it was ok to be a guy and still express emotion (I used to think it was uncool to be sensitive and I would bottle it all up), and now I'm a confident highschool junior who basks in oddness and Ev and all the unusual styles and stuff. I also decided to pursue music as a career after becoming obsessed with Ev. They kinda started the first huge turnaround in my life. I'm really grateful for Amy, Tim and Terry, and all the former Ev members.:)

whisper01134

08-14-2009, 09:08 PM

well i've always known who Evanescence is and Amy Lee like since i was 8, but i rediscovered them and wow, cant even remember life without them!!

Catfreak10

08-14-2009, 10:23 PM

Well I discovered Evanescence when I was about 8, but I became a fan when I was in 6th grade :p but before I knew Evanescence I was heavily into Rap and a few rock/punk bands (Linkin Park, Green Day, ect.) I was a freak! XD but in the beginning of 6th grade I began to lose a lot of friends and I felt so alone :-\ then I heard CMWYS on the radio so I decided to give Evanescence a chance. I though their music was pretty good, but I started to read the lyrics to each song and that's when I fell in love :)

Since then I've just been another big evhead :p

lostpain

08-14-2009, 11:16 PM

i heard to pop music
play videogames
do stupid things

its just because of Ev that i bought a keyboard just to play Ev songs

thanks Ev(specially to Amy) for doing such a great music:)

Sithstress

08-14-2009, 11:22 PM

seriously, who had a life before ev?

Catfreak10

08-15-2009, 11:36 AM

seriously, who had a life before ev?

Very good point :p

facu2929

08-16-2009, 10:26 PM

My life without Ev, was watching Power Rangers, and listening to crappy songs on MTV---
Just horrible!!
xD!

Like the Kelly Clarkson's song: My Life Would Suck Without Ev :)

pianista92

08-26-2009, 01:58 PM

I can't even remember =(
I was to young and confused when I first listened to Ev and my whole life's changed.

xMidnightExodus

08-26-2009, 02:13 PM

corpse_bride808

08-26-2009, 02:45 PM

I can't even remember =(
I was to young and confused when I first listened to Ev and my whole life's changed.

Haha, that's exactly what I was going to write. I literally can't remember anything that great about my life before Ev, probably because I was so young :)

I pretty much remember everything about my life before Evanescence. Eventually, you guys will remember. Even if it takes a few shots of Tequila and some Lime;)
*Kidding :p*

My life before Evanescence, was basically the same as it is now. Only, because of Evanescence and the numerous interviews of Amy and the band; I can understand it better and know what to expect next :D

The Evil Fairy

08-26-2009, 02:53 PM

Mmm... my life before Evanescence?? What are you talking about, I wasn't born! :p

thunderhead777

08-26-2009, 05:35 PM

I was a drunk who was quickly spiraling down an abyss of depression and self-loathing...not to mention reckless behavior and straying further and further way from the goodness that I had held inside before all of it.

I don't attribute all of my success in overcoming all of that to Evanescence alone, but Fallen was a major influential part of that success. (It also inspired me to do what I had always dreamed of doing...write and sing original music. It took 6 years from then get to the point of being able to do it, but I've managed to make one song so far this year.)

I care not to remember too many details of all of that past. But I am eternally grateful to Amy and the rest of the band for what they created, and to God for giving them the talent to do it. :)

EVFAN32

08-27-2009, 04:09 AM

Mmm... my life before Evanescence?? What are you talking about, I wasn't born! :p

They "brought you to life" ;) hehehe

The Evil Fairy

08-27-2009, 04:15 AM

They "brought you to life" ;) hehehe
exactly, u said it! :D

LionxLamb

08-27-2009, 01:10 PM

my life before Ev?
it has sucked as hell.

its like Amy had opened my eyes with her lyrics.
my-life-is-much-better-now-with-Evanescence. <3
they changed 'ME' - in a good way.

MissingBra

08-27-2009, 02:08 PM

I do not remember, I spent so much these years (?) haha,
I began to listen to Bring me to life when I was 13! ._.
But Ev definitely changed my life, besides the first band that I became a fan :D
:D :( (?) :cool:

NicoleHoliwell

08-28-2009, 03:12 PM

I was a geek! Really! I looked like an idiot, and I was obsessed with school... omg... horrible times...
and like about 3-4 years ago when I found their album in a music store my life really changed... happy times, yay!!

immoRtaLSofi

10-13-2009, 03:32 PM

I just hear them for the first time last year! When i was 12 (now im 13) and 1 month before i knew them i was reading Twilight and i was talking every moment about it.
And i listened to Demi Lovato (now i hate her), Nelly Furtado (now i only like 1 song of her), Fergie (i still like her), Black Eyed Peas (i still like them) and the Jonas Brothers (now i dont like them much).

When i first listened to Ev:
I was bored on the beach, then my aunt asked me if i wanted to listen to her ipod, i said yeah. Then i listened to a Gwen Stefani song i didnt like it, so i saw it said "Ben Moody/Amy Lee/David Hodges" on a song. And in a magazine i had read something about Amy Lee and i liked her, so i listened to that song. it was called "Bring Me To Life" and i LOVED it from the first time i hear it.
So i listened to BMTL until the ipod had no batteries :D

Jesse

10-13-2009, 08:01 PM

I have t admit. Before I knew Ev, my life (in the musical plan) was kinda boring... lol

jamie20m

10-13-2009, 08:05 PM

Before Ev, i never knew good music. Just top 40 pop crap.

Even_1n_death

10-13-2009, 08:06 PM

my life was sad i was living in a lie no ofence to rapers but i love that

when i began to evanecence

i ligth com to me

in that moment i feel so good enough for that song i am fan

facu2929

10-15-2009, 10:54 PM

Before Ev? Seriously, I had nothing to love as much as Ev.
Their music helped me soo many times!
There should be a poll in this thread. Was there a life before Ev?

Rockharpered

10-15-2009, 11:03 PM

Before Ev I thought Rosie O'Donnel was the shiz. Thank you Ev... For saving my life. *insert tear here*

Gunn

10-16-2009, 10:08 AM

Before Evanescence? I just didn't listen to music lol and now I listen to everything and anything from Dance to Metal. Evanescence gave me awesome taste in music ;)

MartaDec

10-16-2009, 10:37 AM

Well.. mine:

I listened rock before but I dindn't listen metal as now I do.

I pass different stages with Evanescence (Obsession is the hardest:rolleyes:) and definitly Evanescence chage my life, but It was good before.

And I don't wear black clothes all the time or gothic clothes or clothes similar as Amy wear but I'm a big BIG fan!

thaaaaanks ^^

Ligeia

10-17-2009, 09:32 AM

My life was pretty much like it´s now. I listened to music on the radio, I read books. Let´s just say nothing special happened to me, I was just some random kid listening to a lot of music.

<3 Wolby

10-22-2009, 08:24 PM

well i sure as hell spent a lot less time on the internet :P

Eva

10-25-2009, 04:03 PM

Before Evanescence? I just didn't listen to music lol and now I listen to everything and anything from Dance to Metal. Evanescence gave me awesome taste in music ;)

well i sure as hell spent a lot less time on the internet :P

well those two pretty much sum up mine... :p

yeay for first multi-quote ever!:D

FartherAway

10-25-2009, 04:21 PM

I listened to Atomic Kitten, haha! And then I saw Bring Me To Life when I was....12 years old, and I loved it! I went to the store to buy 'Fallen' and since that day I was in love with Evanescence.

imaginary_pug

10-25-2009, 05:12 PM

i try not to think back to then tho honestly me and ev where always meant to be i was 8 wen bring me to life came out i heard loved it it was my athem for the next month then 3 years later i heard it gain and never lookd back since,

SeleneBlack

10-25-2009, 05:14 PM

I was 13 when I heard Bring me to Life. Ev changed my life. I found a goal. I want to be a pianist since then. I've started having piano lessons just to play Hello(my fav song of all time) and I matured a lot thanks to Ev.

Lukarious

10-25-2009, 05:43 PM

Before ev, i was a virgin... jus' sayin' ;p

digz7

10-25-2009, 05:51 PM

i was a lot more like naive i guess but that has nothing to do w/ev lol. It just so happened that i liked ev the same time as i discovered the massive amounts of dumb descisions the supreme court has made in the past 50 yrs on cops rights lol. But other then that i was the same person i still like the same shows and same games and sports lol

flipermoura

11-01-2009, 01:21 PM

Before I knowing the Evanescence Band and listening to music " MY IMMORTAL" , I was here talking with my friends in Brazil for the MSN. We conversáva them to me diverse assusntos all the week ends. When the Evanescence Band launched the Fallen album, I listened to music MY IMMORTAL in a Brazilian radio rock and I was from there in ahead that I started to like the Band. Only that I did not want to only listen to musics of the Evans and yes participate of some Forum regarding the Band. Some years if had passed and I searched in the site of the Google if he had some Forum regarding the Evanescence Band until I found some and I was registering in cadastre and leaving some post' s and making new friends. More pra front I was knowing that the Evanescentce Band was recording compact disc TOD (THE OPEN DOORS) and was infecting themselves and being still more being plus one fan of the Evanescence Band. I wait that the Amy together with the integrant ones of the Evanescence Band make to each year a different compact disc with new musics, DVD' s, video clip' s new and much more new features in such a way for fans how much pra they themselves.:party:;)

LockedFear

11-02-2009, 06:53 AM

Before Evanescence I had no life :p Ok, being serious. Evanescence once gave me an opportunity to value their music and I started to listen to another kind of music which became to be my favourite music. 2003 wasn't a good year because I had no idea about these sites and the only information I could get was via TV, and we all know that TV information is not always official. At the end of the Fallen era, I became a member of the spanish official fan club and I could have more information about the band. I have to say that "Bring Me To Life" was all the time at the radio stations and I reached the point of saying "WTF, Stop releasing this song!". I did not hate the track but I got tired of hearing their first single that I decided to buy the album.
Now, I can say that I lived from the very beginning the TOD era. And it's an awesome experience, although there were only two concerts in Spain. These days, we all can know that it's starting a new one, and I hope all things go well for the band.
Before Evanescence, I used to listen to all music stuff but I was like 12 and I had no idea about the music and the talent of the musicians and the most important thing: I did not have critical awareness. :)

JadyLee

11-02-2009, 11:51 AM

Where there's Evanescence, there's life. So I don't remember my life before EV =[ I really don't! All the best things happened after!

understanding

11-24-2009, 08:19 PM

Before Ev, I used to listen to anything that was 'in' (at that time, cheesy pop songs), seriously. After Ev, I started to listen to good music.

Now, the people who knew me when I was a child, says, 'You, the little girl who used to listen to that stuff... and now is an Ev fan. Who would have guessed it?'

BlackPhoenixx

11-24-2009, 08:40 PM

well, before Ev in my life, there was certainly no Evthreads in it, the place I flock to everyday to escape the world...It may not be the best place at times, but it's where I share my love for the music and the band and it's where I feel appreciated.

Puteri

11-25-2009, 08:56 AM

I was one of those people who tried to fit in but don't know how-yeah, I'm lame. One of the ways I tried to fit in was listening to whatever they are listening like Britney spears, Christina auguilera and all those ****. But when I found this band, I just stop being lame and just be myself-unique among my friends. I know this band won't be just phase for me... Long live evanescence

spikdk

11-26-2009, 01:23 PM

Before Ev i basicly never been that fan of anyone.

Black Lace

12-02-2009, 10:27 PM

I didn't have a life BEFORE Evanescence - literally. Evanescence has been around for 14 years, and I'm 14 years old so I've grown up with Ev ;)

xSweetSacrifice

12-07-2009, 03:37 PM

I was really lame before I found Evanescence :P

I listened to music like Mariah Carey (:O!) and didn't really have my own tastes. I found Evanescence when I was going through a depressing time, and their music helped me :D

Since I first heard My Immortal, there hasn't been a single day that I haven't listened to them xD :D

SongWriter1038

12-07-2009, 05:44 PM

my life before Ev was no life i ever want to relive again..

A life without Ev is no life at all.

Mortalache

12-07-2009, 07:46 PM

my life before Ev was no life i ever want to relive again..

A life without Ev is no life at all.

^This sums it up for me..lol. Evanescence really changed what I cared about when it comes to listening to music, not just the lyrics but the emotion in between. Before, I really didn't relate to the music I heard or what I took from it. Now, not only do I appreciate variety, I'm always looking for songs that have that depth and emotion I hear in Evanescence.

Before Evanescence I wasn't doing art, now I look at all I've done and can't believe it. I would have never taught myself to play piano; I would never have felt motivated to improve my creative writing skills or to feel it's okay to express myself.---If any of that makes sense.

Their music has just been very important to me...

MyTrainIsOff

12-07-2009, 09:31 PM

I was afraid to feel sad and listen to sadder music before. I decided I wanted something tougher and Evanescence was a natural follow through from the powerful metal I was listening to (as weird as that sounds, Kamelot turned me onto Evanescence)...I just wanted more guitars and emotions in my music and they allowed me to express some emotions I was feeling at the time...feeling: sadness (Missing), fear (Whisper), moodiness (Cloud Nine), sympathy (Tourniquet), loss(Like You), Confusion (Your Star), anger(Call Me When...) et cetera.

Before hearing Your Star I kind of wrote for other people but after that song I started writing for myself and have become more open in my song writing.

I also hadn't really taken to the Piano before I saw and obviously heard Amy Lee play it, I had liked some artists before who used it (Delta Goodrem mainly), but they didn't make it accessable to me to actual play and compose songs on it..Amy inspired me to pursue piano training..and compose songs on the piano.

amy_rock_on

12-07-2009, 09:56 PM

i don't remember my old life... but it was so much bored!!!!!!!!! and i think before Ev, i hadn't life!! i didn't live!! i was a sad person! with a sad life! evanescence and amy are my only hope, my only peace, my only joy , my only strange! hehe! i love this band and i hope it live forever!!! well it will live inside of me forever!! i'll always remember this great band!! because is the BEST!!!! :D

Weeping_Willow

12-07-2009, 10:00 PM

OMG I was raised up in the ghetto so LOL!!!!!!!!! I REALLY REALLY liked The black eyed peas!!! but now it's like eh whatever cause i got into evanescence. back then i wasn't really into music at all....but i was into....orechestra and stuff....so idk....
I'M SO GLAD THAT EVANESCENCE IS IN MY LIFE!!!

=)

Dear Destruction

12-07-2009, 10:25 PM

My life before ev,
hmmm well that would be only 12 or 13 years of no ev. It's weird now to think that the band has been apart of my life 6 years! It's sooo crazy to think about.
Anyways before ev, I was pretty young.
My favorite singer was Jewel, I also loved listening to Michelle Branch.
Other favorite songs of mine when I was little was Celine Dion's "my heart will go on"
I was huge into Hanson and The Spice Girls. lol
I've had some pretty big things happen in my life, my grandpa died of cancer when I was four, and even before ev, i started writing music to let go of my sadness. Yes I was only four, I may have not understood the concept of death. But I knew something was wrong and didn't want to believe it. I started writing music, to release what I felt.
And then when I was 13, I heard of Evanescence.
I never heard of another band who's lyrics fit me to a T. Every. single. one. of. them.
Immediatly I became hooked to this unique band that I still cherish and adore until this day.

Yeah so that was kind of a pre-ev to after ev story.