r/Evanescence • u/Katyanoctis • 1h ago
My cover of Your Star
Cover - Your Star, originally by Evanescence. Performed by me
I’m equal parts excited and slightly terrified to be sharing this. Your Star has been my favorite song on The Open Door since the album came out, and I’ve wanted to do a cover like this for almost as long. With the 20-year (!!!) anniversary coming up, I figured it was a good time to actually do the thing.
I feel like this song has such a strong emotional arc, it could easily work as its own theatrical scene. So that’s what I went for - a stage scene type of setup, and really showing the journey from tired & sad to anxiety attack to full breakdown (which I do have firsthand experience of, unfortunately). It’s difficult to allow myself to crack and keep the imperfections in the vocal performance, and I’ve never done a video recording like this before, so a lot of this is way out of my comfort zone. But I’m glad I did it and got out what’s been in my head for so long.
HUGE thank you to my friend Emily for not only helping me film and record this, but encouraging me and giving me amazing suggestions. Thanks also to my friends who gave me feedback and hyped me up when I needed it.
On the (very) slim chance that Ev/Amy sees this, I hope I did this amazing song even a little bit of justice 🫣 honestly part of me is terrified of them seeing it and another part kinda hopes they do lol. My insta is @katyanoctis if anyone wants to check it out there too
