It’s a very strange room, isn’t it? It’s got padded walls like a room in an old-fashioned asylum, but halo-esque suspended neon lights like you absolutely wouldn’t put anywhere near such a room. Look, it’s the rest of Evanescence, in a padded room, featuring guest vocalist Paul McCoy of the Christian rock band 12 Stones, performing at a window. It feels like the song’s over! But the song’s not over! Someone make that.Ī residential block in CGItown – these days this would probably just be done using a real building and a drone, but it obviously made sense in 2003 to just computer the fuck out of it. Like, in your waking hours you had a voice like a dog farting off a boat, but in your sleep you had the voice of an angel. You know how people sometimes talk in their sleep? Imagine if you found out you sang beautifully in your sleep. He’s also directed operas and several German films, including one called Goethe!, with an exclamation mark, about the poet Johann Wolfgang von Goethe – sort of like in Friends when Joey is in a similarly exclamation-marked play about Sigmund Freud, called Freud!. Wouldn’t it be horrible if she just landed on a pavement now and splattered all over the place, and the remaining three minutes of the video were just a static shot of her, all mangled? It certainly would! Director Philipp Stölzl would probably consider it though – he spent several years as Rammstein’s go-to guy, so knows his way around a bit of fucked-upness. It’s all fine! Look at how fancy her pillows are. Again, the effects haven’t necessarily stood the test of time – it’s all a bit, 'Fuck it, let’s slap a load of filters on.'īut she’s still in bed, so it’s a dream. Oops, she’s plummeting through the air now, ever so calmly. Wake up, Amy, this nu-gothic rap-metal anthem won’t sing itself! “And he looked at me and said, 'Are you happy?' And I felt my heart leap, and I was like, he totally knows what I'm thinking,” she said. She was in an unhappy, abusive relationship at the time, but doing her best to hide it, and she felt like this guy could see right into her. It belongs to Amy Lee – mezzo-soprano co-founder of Evanescence – who wrote this song about an encounter she had in a restaurant with a friend of a friend. That gargoyle is not a very good bit of CGI, really, is it? This flythrough is very calming – it’s like being a very, very slow Spider-Man. There are neon signs, Gothic domes, fog-covered skyscrapers… It’s half Batman Returns, half Batman Forever.Īh, some nice piano. 2003’s computers must have been absolutely straining at the cogs to render this. Not just any city, the most CGI-tastic city in the world.
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