Adriano Bernard

Anyway, the Therion would skin you alive for the comparison you made between them and a song by Eva (which has nothing to do with herion, it is unbelievably predictable).

Now I’m going to get real, and hard. You're in a bad spot, kiddo, can you explain to me where you got this information from? From Amy's website? Do you even realize that it's all fucking fictionalized? That these fairytale bullshit stories are published and written by the majors you hate so much? If I were the majors, I would create a comic book with this story: Ben Moody, the big bad wolf, drags the poor and romantic Amy Lee to the sacrificial altar of commercial music. Yes, because Ben is the wicked ogre wanting to take all the money that his virgin friend will earn with her sweet lark voice. Ben Moody and the record label (a dreadful money-making machine, an ally of Ben Moody) torture Amy by forcing her to strip her songs of the beautiful and “underground” elements that are so alternative and out of the ordinary. Amy is forced to give in, but being clever, she manages to communicate her despair to her fans through her vocal tone (sometimes comic and amused, other times desperate. But you’re the only one who hears this; to me, Amy always sings the same way) and through the lyrics, hoping that a particularly intelligent and sensitive fan notices her situation and comes to rescue her from her crystal castle-prison, where Ben Moody has locked her up. And here comes Terry Balsamo, who with a swift stroke of the sword decapitates Moody and frees Amy; Balsamo learns the solos in less than a month (and I wonder: what solos? What? Evanescence don’t even remotely understand what a solo or an instrument is; what they do is lay a nu-metal carpet under Amy Lee's upupa voice so that kids can think that Evanescence is metal). Joking aside, more or less as you tell it, that's how it went: poor Amy, an artist of such caliber trapped by the major! I still wanted to point out that the old albums from the Eva are a little less crap than the recent ones, but they’re still shit: they can’t write a riff that hasn’t already been heard 30,000 times! They haven't invented anything; they are the faded, commercial photocopy of real dark/gothic bands they try to emulate. No creativity in their compositions. None. All these mental movies and stories you tell yourself are truly sad; I believe that even Amy isn’t aware of the things you’ve imagined (because that’s what it is, you’re the only one who sees them) in the tones of her voice. Wow, I admire you though; you could even make Britney Spears seem like a genius (also trapped by the majors, poor thing, she used to make underground records)! And even if the Eva weren't created in a boardroom by a major, know that their music sounds like it was. Do you know how many bands there are that make crap like Blue or Britney Spears but aren’t famous because they’ve been less fortunate? The fact that a band isn’t famous doesn’t exclude that this band can make a kind of music intended for that kind of market. So far I’ve joked, but what I want to tell you is: the music of the Eva is objectively mediocre (not shit; shit is something else entirely, but mediocre), whether created by the major or not is irrelevant, because the result is music that feels like it was made for a commercial purpose. As for the new album, anyway, it’s not up for discussion; it’s a copy of the previous one, with bland songs flatter than a surfboard. Zero ideas. Regarding the lyrics of "Lithium," here’s the translation; it seems written by a five-year-old: "It’s true, we’re all a little crazy but it’s so clear now that I’m free
the fear is just in our minds
it takes over all the time
the fear is just in our minds
but it takes over all the time
you, poor sweet innocent thing
dry your eyes and show
you know you live to break me
don’t deny it, sweet sacrifice
one day I’ll forget your name
and one sweet day, you’ll drown
in my lost pain
the fear is just in our minds
it takes over all the time
the fear is just in our minds
but it takes over all the time
you, poor sweet innocent thing
dry your eyes and show
and oh you love to hate me, is i

oh my god, why did I do it? why did I write here? help!!!

Better not to comment.

So Devon's still alive! :)

You’ve piqued my interest, I’ll look for them. I hope they have nothing to do with the aor...

No please, the Europeans, no. I hate them with all my being! :-). Anyway, in the end we're in agreement, we consider the genre the same way, only you listen to it while I don't. At least you don't exalt the genre or the Europeans, as others do... I find it an insult to hard rock to define the Europeans as hard rock, honestly. Bye.

Well, I don't doubt that it's better, but that doesn't mean much... In the end, we agree: I don't want to contest the messages that this music wants to communicate, nor its originality ((by now I'm looking for originality in hard rock (also because I don't believe there's much of it) I simply seek quality)). And I find that this work lacks quality as it is vulgar, predictable, sugary, and even tacky. I mean, if one can create beautiful, fun music with the philosophy of "sex, drugs, and rock 'n roll", then that's great! The fact is that for me, the Motley, the Kiss, and the entire '80s scene we talk about had these ideas at the core of their music, but that didn't help them create quality music. Their proposal was the worst "hyper-melodic tackiness," trivial, ignorant, and vulgar in every respect, not just in terms of meanings but also as MUSIC. Anyway, Scaruffi is not looking for moral values in this type of music at all; he is simply making observations. What I want to say is that even by copying, one can create quality music: let's take Diamond Head as an example; their music is certainly not innovative (except for the fact that they manage to blend Metallica with Led Zeppelin, but let's ignore that small detail :D), they seem like a carbon copy of Led Zeppelin. However, their compositions are of quality, far from trivial.

changed my mind.

Cptgaio, if you want, keep pretending you don't hear, but I've already pointed out that I wasn't the first to insult. It's true that perhaps I use words that are too "violent" and hit the mark, but that's my style: I'm certainly not the one insulting anyone, but I have received insults that I replied to. Did I insult the reviewer? I don't think so; the suggestion to make it a case study was ironic! Anyway, "keyboard riff" is a term he coined, or maybe I'm the ignorant one. At this point, let's all stick to keyboard solos then :-) Bjork, and since when would I have anything against you? We are perfectly in agreement on the Scorpions, anyway.