Wake Me Up Inside (Can't Wake Up)

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Category: Meme Status: Confirmed Year: 2013 Origin: Tumblr Region:

Type: Song,

Tags: wake me up inside, can't wake up, save me, nu metal,

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countessofblooms Follow jihaad yall im losing it, TIL the "WAKE ME UP" in bring me to life was added on bc the record company thought the song should be more masculine LMAO?? jihaad this is wild In the shadow of 9/11, American masculinity was in crisis and the music industry seemed keen to cash in on the resulting anxiety by assembling legions of male rap-rock malcontents. Meanwhile, singer-songwriter Amy Lee's sketches of gothic metal with classical foundations became Evanescence's 2003 debut, Fallen. But while shopping the band around for radio play, Wind-up Records head Ed Vetri was allegedly told radio stations wouldn't play "a chick and a piano." So Evanescence reluctantly agreed to add male rap vocals to its lead single, "Bring Me To Life." Paul McCoy, frontman of 12 Stones, came in to insulate chauvinistic rock listeners from Lee's operatic subjectivity. The song would peak at No. 5 on the Billboard Hot 100 and earn a Grammy for Best Hard Rock Performance in 2003 -yet its resulting acclaim was a double-edged sword for Lee. "I've never tried to abandon my femininity with the band," she said in a 2013 interview. "I think it's very aggressive. I embrace that femininity. But I remember having many talks with the suits about that being a negative thing." Lee would later ditch the rap and assert her own vision of the song on the 2017 album Synthesis. -Suzy Exposito rqqu omfg alder-knight Bring Me to Life - Synthesis Evanescence 2 h-------- Source: ihaad #music #masculinity #1 need an industrial remix stat 98,165 notes

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About

"Wake Me Up Inside" and "Can't Wake Up" are lyrics from the 2003 alternative rock song "Bring Me To Life" by Evanescence, which are associated with images of a calm-looking subject juxtaposed next to a picture of the same subject appearing distressed.

Origin

On April 22nd, 2003, the song "Bring Me to Life" by Evanescence was released.

On May 13th, 2013, Tumblr user maohshounen posted and edited version of a skeleton rocking chair^[1] (shown below, left) with a red filter and glowing eyes with the description "ah yes my throne" (shown below, right). The earliest example of the association between the image and the Evanescence lyrics was posted to 4chan's /v/ (video games) board on February 11th, 2014^[5].

Spread

On February 27th, 2014, an anonymous 4chan user posted a cropped screenshot of the skeleton images with the filenames "WAKE ME UP INSIDE.PNG" and "(CAN'T WAKE UP).PNG".

WAKE ME UP INSIDE.PNG (CANT WAKE UP).PNG

On December 19th, Tumblr user aoimine highlighted the images.^[6] On March 2nd, 2015, a photograph of a WWE professional wrestler Dean Ambrose juxtaposed next to a flipped and cropped version of the photograph with the caption "WAKE ME UP INSIDE" / "(CAN'T WAKE UP)" was posted to the imageboard 420chan.^[7]