Song · Evanescence
“Better Without You” by Evanescence
From the album The Bitter Truth (2021)
“Better Without You” by Evanescence appears on 3 radio countdowns from 3 stations in 2021. It was first released in 2021 on the album The Bitter Truth. Its best result is #13 on the 93X Top 21 Songs of 2021. In the combined RockLists rankings it is the #20 hard rock song of 2021 and #114 of the '20s.
"Better Without You" went out in March 2021 as the fourth single from The Bitter Truth, Evanescence's fifth album, and it's a kiss-off: the narrator declares her independence from someone who has been trying to run her life. Amy Lee sings lead and plays piano, Jen Majura and Troy McLawhorn handle the guitars (Majura adds vocals too), Tim McCord plays bass and Will Hunt drums, and the writing credit goes to Lee, Hunt, McCord and McLawhorn along with producer Nick Raskulinecz, who also mixed it.
It welds hard rock heft to electronic textures, and critics went for its defiant sound; it turned up on four year-end lists of 2021's best songs. Eric D. Howell directed the video, a performance piece released that April, and the song has since found a place in the band's live set.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
RockLists rankings
Hard Rock & Metal
All Rock Formats
Year-end countdowns
| Year | # | Station | Countdown | of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 26 | SiriusXM Octane National (SiriusXM satellite radio) | SiriusXM Octane Big 'Uns Countdown Songs of 2021 | 30 |
| 2021 | 13 | 93X Minneapolis-Saint Paul, MN | 93X Top 21 Songs of 2021 | 21 |
| 2021 | 23 | 98KUPD Phoenix, AZ | 98KUPD Top 98 of 2021 | 98 |
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