[Amy Lee]:
"'What You Want' was first conceived in New York with Tim, Terry and I. Just sitting in the living room jamming. We turned my house into two different studios. I had a studio on the top and in the living room we pushed all the chairs out of the way and made a station down there where I can play the real piano. It feels good people to just play the real piano sometimes. We were just writing, playing off with each other. And that groove just started happening, that verse between Tim and Terry. And I was like, 'oh cool.' And I kind of took to the next part, I was playing what now is the chorus. All of the sudden they got all excited and I was like, 'really? That's the chorus? I don't know, we didn't even try that hard.' 'No, that was really good.' Yeah, I love that song. It's catchy and fun. I loved it, it's gonna be the first single. It's different for us. I feel like it's a good representation of Evanescence now. It still sounds like that band, it's heavy. But at the time it's not trying to be heavy. It's fun, the vocals are fun. I'm excited about it."

Evanescence

Evanescence is an American rock band founded in Little Rock, Arkansas in 1995 by singer/pianist Amy Lee and guitarist Ben Moody. Evanescence was originally promoted in Christian stores. Later, the band made it clear they did not want to be considered part of the Christian rock genre, like fellow Wind-up Records artists Creed. Some of their most popular hits “Bring Me to Life,” “My Immortal,” and “What You Want.”

In 2014, the band parted ways with their long-term record label Wind-Up and became independent artists. In late 2016, they released a Ultimate Collection box set featuring all their albums along with the 2000 demo album Origin and a B-sides compilation Lost Whispers.

In November 2017, they released their fourth album, Synthesis, featuring a reimagining of some of their past songs plus two new original songs with the spotlight on full orchestra and electronics.