LOS ANGELES, CA  [Friday May.14.2004]  /WMQT.com/ -- Amy Lee has a guilty pleasure. She admitted to Rolling Stone that she uses Christina Aguilera's "Stripped" to warm up before a show. The singer said Aguilera's album has some good songs and it's in her voice range. But Lee added that she feels like Aguilera is "misrepresenting everything feminism is supposed to be." The St. Petersburg Times recently asked the Evanescence singer for her view of feminism.

Lee says, "There are a lot of people in the industry right now that try to come off as, in a way, feminine, and that they're standing up for their rights as women by giving men exactly what they want. And that just doesn't make any sense to me. Like, 'I'm a woman, so I can do whatever I want and take off all my clothes, which just happens to conveniently sell the most records.' So, I don't think that's feminism at all."

Lee continues, "Feminism is being able to be yourself and not try to please everyone and not try to be what everybody wants you to (be). And not try to gear everything you are toward turning guys on so they buy your album." She adds, "Not that sexuality is wrong, it's great. It's human. We're supposed to be that way. But there's a lot more to the human brain and the human body than just sex."

Evanescence plays Coachman Park in Clearwater, Florida this Sunday, 5/15. To read the full Amy Lee interview, go to visit ://www.sptimes.com/2004/05/13/Weekend/_Music_is_my_therapy_.shtml.

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