female vocals. On the other hand, it reflects the soundtrack background of the song. I did not know if I would have to use a stunt double for most of the angles, which would have restricted me a lot, but then it turned out that Amy did everything herself, hanging on Paul's arm for hours without getting tired. In the end, she is the one who made that shot strong." On February 1, 2022, the video for "Bring Me to Life" surpassed 1 billion views on YouTube, becoming the first Evanescence song to reach this milestone. As of October 2022, the music video has over 1.1 billion views on YouTube. According to Joe D'Angelo of MTV News, Lee's "teetering on a ledge" in the video shows a "distressed and emotionally wrought heroine." MTV's Gil Kaufman described the scenes of the video: "Lee dreams that she has super Spidey powers, climbs up the outside of a building, spies on her creepy neighbors, then plunges into the abyss." Corey Moss of MTV felt that "as intense as a superhero movie, the sequence also gives a nice visual to the song's most memorable lyric, 'Save me.'" John Hood of Miami New Times wrote that the "gothopolis backdrop" in the video "would make Tim Burton green with envy". Ann Powers from the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel wrote: "You might not immediately recognize Amy Lee's name, but you would know her if she plummeted past you from the top floor of a tenement building." The music video was nominated at the 2003 MTV Video Music Awards for Best Rock Video, but lost to Linkin Park's "Somewhere I Belong". Live performances Evanescence performed "Bring Me to Life" as part of the set-lists of the Fallen and The Open Door tours, during which guitarist John LeCompt performed McCoy's vocal parts. A live performance from the tour filmed at Le Zénith in Paris is included on the band's concert CD and DVD Anywhere but Home (2004). The live recording contains a piano and vocal solo before the song's intro. Evanescence performed the song at their War Memorial Auditorium concert in Nashville, Tennessee on August 17, 2011, in promotion of their third album, Evanescence (2011). They also performed the song during the 2011 Rock in Rio festival on October 2, 2011. On February 16, 2020, Lee performed "Bring Me to Life" with Japanese band Wagakki Band at Osaka-jō Hall, in