Amy Lee has been doing covers for famous songs non-stop recently, following the birth of her baby. Amy has done covers of Portishead‘s “It’a a Fire,” U2‘s “With or Without You,” and Led Zeppelin‘s “Going to California.” Lee has recently done a cover of the Chris Isaak‘s 1995 favorite “Baby Did a Bad, Bad Thing.”
In the video, Amy Lee goes from blues and slow to upbeat and fast. On Lee’s own Facebook page, Amy Lee states that this song was more of a chance captured by Lee when she sang it for the film, The Cabin In The Woods, which was not used in the make out scene between the girl and the taxidermy head of a wolf that was mounted on the wall, but Amy covered it especially for that particular scene. “This cover and I have history. We’ve been through a lot together! It all started back in ’09,” said Amy Lee, “We were hanging out writing together anyway, so I decided to take a stab at it with my collaborator and friend, Will Hunt (producer/owner of Spaceway Studios in Ft. Worth). They sent us the scene to write to and we had a blast making a short part of this version- we LOVED it! …They didn’t!”
The song was going to be on the next album that Amy Lee would write with Evanescence, but unfortunately the song didn’t work for the new album was left out. “That album was the first time I watched something I was working on totally blow up in my face. The suits had a change of heart during a frustrating recording process and I was told that none of the songs I’d been pouring my heart into for a year, in any form, were good enough — time to start over,” Lee said, “I was devastated. I was furious. I was determined to take control of the situation and use it to push myself forward”.
Amy Lee hopes to use it along with the other covers and singles that didn’t make the cut for some of the Evanescence albums. But while she is going through the collection, she will work on some for an album and there will be some in which the musician will keep for her own, hopefully as some wonderful nursery songs to lull the baby to sleep.