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Evanescence’s Amy Lee and Chad Stahelski on the ‘John Wick’ Director Making His First Music Video for ‘Fight Like a Girl,’ and Why He Wanted to Evoke ‘Old-School MTV — Like Whitesnake!’ (EXCLUSIVE)


Evanescence's Amy Lee and 'John Wick' producer Chad Stahelski talk about the making of the music video for 'Ballerina' song 'Fight Like a Girl.'

Up till about the time that “Ballerina” was coming out, it didn’t look as if the movie’s end-titles song, the Evanescence/ K. Flay track “Fight Like a Girl,” would get its own music video. Lee actually collaborated with other women on two tracks for the “Ballerina” soundtrack — “Hand That Feeds,” with Halsey, and then “Fight Like a Girl,” with rapper/singer K. Flay, whom she cold-called to hook up with her on the Tyler Bates-co-written tune. Lee explains the song’s origin story: “I’ve known Tyler Bates (the movie’s composer) for a few years, and we always talked about working together on something but hadn’t had the reason.

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