- Amy Lee is sometimes a good singer, but often a horrible oversinger.

- I found the production (Weight of the World’s tinkling toy pianos, anyone?) more interesting than the actual songs.

- I read that Amy Lee wrote ‘Snow White Queen’ about a stalker. That is because she is a celebrity. She gets stalkers and that is both creepy and awesome and would never happen to you, because you are not an awesome poser goth. I find this incredibly pretentious and just stupid and it pisses me off.

- It’s okay if you want to write all the songs on your album about the same thing, but if the perspective of every song of your break-up obsessed album consists of ‘You are holding me down’ and/or ‘The best you can do is to let go of me’, that is probably an issue. Not to mention that those perspectives are sort of excessively egotistical, and more than a little troubling.

- I realized that Evanescence seem to be stuck in perpetual break-up obsessed adolescence, and that really is not my thing.

I really loved their last album. I heard a couple tracks on this that I liked. So I bought the whole album from iTunes so I could enjoy it all.

This album doesn’t have the songs flowing into each other like the first one did, and most of the songs are the kind you would expect after a breakup. (it didn’t really improve the songs, too many ballads)
I guess since I was waiting around for this album I expected far too much. Still I like all the songs which is rare. Hopefully the next album will be an improvement over both the first and this one.

This album takes a couple listens to warm up to, but after that, you won’t be able to turn it off.

I’m absolutely loving Sweet Sacrifice and Weight of the World right now.