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"Perfect Dream" is an unreleased song by Evanescence. It was originally recorded in the initial sessions for the band's third album with producer Steve Lillywhite in early 2010. However, the song along with the material recorded during that time was scrapped by the label because they felt "it didn't sound like Evanescence." Amy Lee confirmed she owns those unfinished recordings and intends to "finish some, re-do some, and keep others to herself."[1]
Background
Perfect Dream
"Stompin' Steve" video.
On March 19, 2010, the song was teased on a Twitter video named "Stompin' Steve" in which Amy Lee, Chad Copelin and Lillywhite dance to it and record stomp percussion.[2][3] She later revealed the song title on EvClub and gave more details about the song. She and Lillywhite discussed the stomp used in the track on his radio show, East Village Radio:[4]
Steve: Ah! The stomping! Well, that’s about me, that’s nothing to do… Steve’s stomping…
Amy: No, it was pretty funny! Well, that’s us in the studio. I mean, I wonder if they know what we were doing.
Steve: We were doing some, some stomping, uh…
Amy: A stomp track.
Steve: A stomp track.
Amy: To, like, effect and filter and make into a really cool, like, beat.
Steve: Right. And I was stomping, we had to stomp on the beat. Now, I realized...
Amy: *laughs*
Steve: As I was, see these are all these thoughts that are all gonna happen within a split second, but as I was jumping up I realized I’m a little ahead of the beat… so I need to hold, I need to slow…
Amy: I need to defy gravity and stay in the air longer and that doesn’t work. *laughs*
Steve: Exactly! That’s what I was trying to do! And all these split second decisions happened in my mind that actually ended up me, falling over, and uh…
Amy: It was priceless.
The song was not included on the final track list of the self-titled album.[5] In 2015, Lee confirmed the initial album was scrapped by the record label, but she acquired the rights to the unfinished recordings and intends to rework and release some of them in future works.[1]
On December 22, 2021, a hacker claimed he has a folder with Broken Record songs and other unreleased/scrapped material, and that "Perfect Dream" is finished and has "weird guitars" on it. No snippets were leaked.[6]
In July 2024, an alleged new snippet leaked online, but it turned out to be AI-generated.[7]
Lyrics
Reaching above, so high above |
Reference
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Watch Amy Lee Cover Chris Isaak's 'Baby Did a Bad Bad Thing' (loudwire.com) (December 16, 2015)
- ↑ Lee, Amy (March 19, 2010). "http://twitvid.com/96BB7 - A very worthy first twitvid in my opinion.... ladies and gentlemen: Stompin' Steve." Twitter.
- ↑ Evanescence in the Studio [Twitvid March-2010] Amy Lee & Steve (March 20, 2010)
- ↑ Part 2. Steve Lillywhite interview with Amy Lee (East Village Radio) (March 23, 2010)
- ↑ Evanescence. Evanescence. Wind-up Records. 2011.
- ↑ There is a rumour that the hacker has the finished studio version of Perfect Dream... (December 2021)
- ↑ "There is an alleged snippet of Perfect Dream floating around." (July 29, 2024)