{"id":2421281,"date":"2026-05-18T04:36:39","date_gmt":"2026-05-18T04:36:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2421281"},"modified":"2026-05-18T04:36:39","modified_gmt":"2026-05-18T04:36:39","slug":"how-evanescences-latest-single-confronts-the-false-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/how-evanescences-latest-single-confronts-the-false-world\/","title":{"rendered":"How Evanescence\u2019s Latest Single Confronts the \u2018False World\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>There\u2019s a sense of catharsis running through Evanescence\u2019s latest single \u201cWho Will You Follow?\u201d, and according to frontwoman Amy Lee, that was entirely the point. With its music video released this week, she tells us how the track was born from the chaos, disinformation and emotional exhaustion defining modern life.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking to <em>Rolling Stone AU\/NZ<\/em> in a recent interview, Lee said the song \u2013 lifted from their forthcoming album <em>Sanctuary<\/em> \u2013 was shaped by the overwhelming state of the world right now, from political unrest to online misinformation and growing social division.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think thematically, it just feels really on the nose of what so many of us are feeling right now, which is just completely overwhelmed by a flood of lies and just like a false world existing on the surface,\u201d Lee said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe song is about breaking through the lies, you know, to find each other, to find the humanity that absolutely exists within us and underneath it all. But we got to face that darkness before we can defeat it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Check out the new music video below.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"op-interactive\">\n<div class=\"jeg_video_container jeg_video_content\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Evanescence \u2013 Who Will You Follow (Official Music Video)\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ak4Ti54Y6rY?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p data-start=\"1072\" data-end=\"1381\">\u201cWho Will You Follow?\u201d serves as the first taste of <em>Sanctuary<\/em>, Evanescence\u2019s first album since 2021\u2019s\u00a0<em>The Bitter Truth.\u00a0<\/em>According to Lee, the song immediately stood out as the obvious lead single after more than three years spent building the record.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1072\" data-end=\"1381\">\u201cIt\u2019s hard to choose a first single, kind of. But this time it was, we all just knew,\u201d she explained. \u201cWe didn\u2019t even really have a conversation. It was like, \u2018Yeah, that\u2019s the first single.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"observer-sub-form justify-content-center my-3 p-0 d-flex align-items-stretch bg-dark text-white\">\n<div class=\"observer-sub-form-info p-3\" style=\"justify-content: start;\">\n<h2 class=\"h5 mb-0 observer-title\">Love Music?<\/h2>\n<p class=\"observer-desc mb-2\">\n            Get your daily dose of everything happening in Australian\/New Zealand music and globally.        <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"spinner d-none\">\n        \n    <\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p data-start=\"1615\" data-end=\"1839\">Lee opened up about how the emotional weight of the current political and cultural climate seeped into the album\u2019s writing process, calling music an essential form of release and human connection.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1841\" data-end=\"2033\">\u201cPeople are being killed in our name. We are becoming so desensitised to just a violent truth,\u201d she said. \u201cIt just feels like the bad guys are in charge.\u201d <em>Sanctuary<\/em>, she added, became a way to process that anxiety without letting it consume her entirely.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"2133\" data-end=\"2343\">\u201cI think that\u2019s part of the challenge for all of us in this time \u2013 to remember that that isn\u2019t the whole world,\u201d she said. \u201cThe music is my journal. It\u2019s always been that.\u201d<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"2133\" data-end=\"2343\">She added that she hopes the album can offer listeners the same catharsis it gave her while making it. \u201cMusic is really necessary right now,\u201d Lee said. \u201cI need the release and I need to feel connected to the human spirit and not some robot trying to sell me something in return.\u201d<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"2133\" data-end=\"2343\">Lee also teased a potential Australian and New Zealand tour for the new album \u2013 see <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/au.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/evanescence-tease-australia-new-zealand-tour-2026-94841\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"2133\" data-end=\"2343\"><em>Evanescence\u2019s Sanctuary arrives June 5th.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script>\n\t\t\t! function (f, b, e, v, n, t, s) {\n\t\t\t\tif (f.fbq) return;\n\t\t\t\tn = f.fbq = function () {\n\t\t\t\t\tn.callMethod ?\n\t\t\t\t\t\tn.callMethod.apply(n, arguments) : n.queue.push(arguments)\n\t\t\t\t};\n\t\t\t\tif (!f._fbq) f._fbq = n;\n\t\t\t\tn.push = n;\n\t\t\t\tn.loaded = !0;\n\t\t\t\tn.version = '2.0';\n\t\t\t\tn.queue = [];\n\t\t\t\tt = b.createElement(e);\n\t\t\t\tt.async = !0;\n\t\t\t\tt.src = v;\n\t\t\t\ts = b.getElementsByTagName(e)[0];\n\t\t\t\ts.parentNode.insertBefore(t, s)\n\t\t\t}(window, document, 'script',\n\t\t\t\t'https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/fbevents.js');\n\t\t\tfbq('init', '243859349395737');\n\t\t\tfbq('track', 'PageView');\n\t\t\tfbq.disablePushState = true;\n\t\t<\/script><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source au.rollingstone.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There\u2019s a sense of catharsis running through Evanescence\u2019s latest single \u201cWho Will You Follow?\u201d, and according to frontwoman Amy Lee, that was entirely the point. 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