The video for the song was nominated in the category for Best Rock Video at the 2004 MTV Video Music Awards . According to Jon Wiederhorn from MTV News , the shots of the video are " evocative and artistic , resembling a cross between a foreign film and a Chanel advertisement . " Joe D'Angelo of MTV News said that Lee 's disconnection in the video shows a " distressed and emotionally wrought heroine . " Rob Sheffield of '' Rolling Stone '' praised the video saying that Lee looked like a " teen-misery titan " and that she " tiptoed through a marble castle of pain " . He also concluded that she could have borrowed the dress from Stevie Nicks . During an interview with '' Spin '' in 2011 Lee said that it was weird for her to watch the old videos of the band including the one for " My Immortal " . She explained , " Just watching our oldest videos , it 's weird . I definitely remember watching ' My Immortal , ' like , ' That was not some dream where it was really somebody else . ' I 've totally had a couple of those moments . It 's cool . " Evanescence performed the song at the 2004 '' Billboard '' Music Awards on December 8 , 2004 . The band was joined by an eight-piece string section during the performance and a stage backdrop of knotted , decaying trees were placed on stage in order to showcase the " powerful vocals " by Amy Lee as stated by a writer of '' Billboard '' . The band additionally performed the song at '' Late Show with David Letterman '' in March 2004
2004 MTV Video Music Awards
2004 MTV Video Music Awards
My Immortal