[Wifey Reaction] Nightwish - Ghost Love Score (Floorgasmic)
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So COOL that you introduced your wife to NIGHTWISH !!! My husband is now a huge fan, too ! He will come home and say, "...Put on some of that stuff you listen to all the time now !!!". Great reaction ☺️
So funny seeing you sitting there presenting Nightwish as a proud daddy 😄
We all know that feeling btw 😉
True I usually show someone either ghost love score or Elan and then yours is an empty hope just because of the face people make when they realise floor is growling 😂
Thats why reaction videos are so lovable =)
Always nice when a reactor shows the wife nightwish
Suddenly Missus starts her own Nightwish reactions 😁🇫🇮🤘❤️🎶🎹🎸🥁✨👍
@@wanmac31 Sara...meet Jen.
I loved watching your face now that you knew what was coming. That’s my feelings every time I watch a new reactor react to my favorite band.
Same here
Yep. I get that same look when I introduce someone to NW!
Great, Sarah is s great add to the channel. We have learned three things. 1/ She is lyric focused which is cool contrast to Tom, 2/ She does not see Tom’s reaction videos, 3/ She listens more to Tom than Tom listens to her 🤠. More Sarah to the channel... loved her thoughtfulness
As requested by your wife here again some backstory of our Dutch Valkyrie Queen Floor Jansen. She is the third and present singer of Nightwish and considered the best and most versatile female singer of our time. She joined the band 'After Forever' in 1997 at the age of 17. My favourite song is 'Energize Me'. They made a very beautiful music video out of this. After Forever disbanded in 2009 and Floor started her own band 'Revamp' from scratch. Here she experimented with different vocal styles within one song, such as from full operatic to serious growls in seconds. The songs 'Disdain' and 'Wild Card' are good examples. September 2012 came the call from Nightwish to fill in for the remainder of the American Tour as their second singer Annette got ill. Floor had just 48 hours to learn the whole setlist (there is a documentary made of this world tour ('Please learn the setlist in 48 hours'). The lyrics of the songs of Nightwish are very poetic and the music as a whole is challenging, but Floor pulled it off and she stayed for the whole world tour, culminating in this iconic Wacken 2013 Open Air festival. It was obvious that the combination Nightwish and Floor Jansen was made in Walhalla, so she became a permanent member of the band in 2013 as the relationship with Annette and the band was strained even before she became ill. Floor continued to perform with 'Revamp' for a couple of years, but it became clear that she could not combine the two for much longer, so Revamp disbanded in 2016. Floor did a side project called 'Northward' where she dived in the Hard Rock scene. The song 'While Love Died' is a must see. Her stunning performances on the Dutch TV show 'Beste Zangers 2019' gave her at last some more recognition in her home country where she was relatively unknown until then. There are numerous guest appearances with other bands to find on RUclips. To see how to get a crowd of metalheads slienced and in awe, watch her featuring with the band 'Epica' and the song 'Stabat Mater Dolorosa'. And to see her in full opera mode watch her rendition of 'O Mio Babbino Caro' from Puccini. As live concerts were cancelled and home isolation due to the Covid situation, Floor discovered RUclips in the last year and uploaded many interesting videos on her channel. Mindblowing covers, chats with her idols and other singers, vocal masterclasses and so much more. Her 'Fan Friday' videos are hilarious. She even made a video reacting to herself performing this at Wacken. Floor is a high sensitive person, so peace and quiet is as important for her. Living by the woods in Sweden with her husband Hannes Van Dahl (drummer of the band 'Sabaton'); daughter Freja (just turned 4 years); a horse and pony; a dog and 3 cats, she found this.
Well, Floor is a great and versitile singer, but that really isn't unique. There are other singers with the same qualities that just didn't have the fortune to become the lead singer of a world-famous band. The real genius behind Nightwish is Tuomas Holopainen.
There’s an awesome doco I think called women in metal. Floor was a huge part of organising it and she talks about her burn out and joining nightwish
@@IvysPoison1987 You probably mean 'Soaring Highs and Brutal Lows'
Tom, never argue your wife. And somewhere she is right. Lyrics are important when listening Nightwish.
Tuomas is "The Poet" so yes, lyrics are important in Nightwish song's. This songs lyrics are a bit obscure though (deliberately, Tuomas like you to make up your own story)
Agree but she could have done it after the reaction instead of watching it first
I would say there's a place and time to argue with your wife but saying that she cannot have lyrics available is just an opinion and her opinion is just as valid as yours. I would have recommended letting her read all the lyrics first and then proceed with the reaction. Another good option is to just press the CC button on the button right corner of the player and use official subtitles (closed captions) for automatically time sync'd lyrics.
There is two ways to argue with your wife. the bad way and the good way. neither works. Happy wife, happy life.
@@MikkoRantalainen The closed captions for videos are rarely valuable lmfao.
be the first to hello to the wife and welcome.
Wacken is Germany.
82,000+ people at this open air concert.
Floor has only just joined the band for about 8 months.
this will be her biggest concert ever.
this is not havy metal music it is symphonic metal music.
the burning bull's head is the logo of the Wacken festival.
to get to know the artist, it might be nice to comment on the video of Floor Jansen herself, explaining and commenting on her own singing in the video! .
You can also find covers on Floor Jansen's channel and masterclasses where she explains how she sings.
with kind regards Hollandduck from the Netherlands
Symphonic Metal is a subdivision of heavy metal
@@rogeriopenna9014 Nightwish is a subdivision of music :-)
Love that sneaky smile like "í know" what's coming!🤣
Nightwish is always best shared.
And to think that was 13th out of 15 song list. Floor has been singing for over a hour. Still has two songs to go. An still no sign of her getting tired.
Tip: Most Nightwish videos have closed captioning as an option -- she can read along right on the screen. Nice reaction! 🤘🔥🤘
P.S. The fiery bull horns are the Wacken Open Air Festival logo. Wacken is in northern Germany.
As long as it's official videos, otherwise they tend to have incorrect lyrics.
From what I’ve gathered, and my impression as a writer myself, I believe this song is absolutely about Tarja. I know some don’t like to see Toumas in this light, but it’s something many men (and women) have experienced. I’m convinced Toumas was in love with, or essentially obsessed with Tarja. They may or may not have had a rendezvous or two, but I think he saw her as the perfect woman for him, being from the same hometown, then in his band, a deep musical connection and personal connection. She’s gorgeous, with a gorgeous voice and great musical aptitude. Much for a composer to be attracted to. And we tend to be obsessive personality types, which enables us to focus so intensely on a song to its completion. I’m sure he imagined her as his soulmate, and envisioned their future as making beautiful music together and traveling the world, etc. But then came Marcelo, first shattering the dream, drawing her attention from the band, and then becoming her manager and creating a wedge between her and both the band, and Toumas. The extreme response in both the open letter to Tarja, and the lyrics of “Poet and the Pendulum” tell me it was more than just a band thing. Other songs also seem to be expressions of this young love obsession and the turmoil around it. Often these experiences are the best primers for great songs because there is such intense passion, longing, pain, and cauldron of mixed emotions there. Totally not judging him, but rather fully relate to this, and I love that he expressed it in some of the most amazing songs ever written.
Y'all are so lucky. You have the forest AND the trees. (Talkin' about y'alls relationship,btw) Good to learn to appreciate both. Great reaction!
Funny and weird marriage it's... 25 years ago I meet my Wife! I'm a Metal head to the core, She was a office girl, we were in different directions... Through all this year's Metal won and now she is the one who get the tickets to the concerts...🤘🤘🤘🤘👍
Ha, we are exactly the same!! My wife bought our tickets to Nightwish 18 months ago for Wembley (now scheduled for December 2021)!
Still workin' on it..
@@BlueCipher Good luck!
@@BlueCipher working on it for 21 years but i failed massivly she realy doesn't like the sound of guitars shredding......but still good luck buddy
I agree with Sara, and the lyrics are a very important part in the Nightwish songs, so deep that they are worth the effort and time taken to read them
Singers sing what they can
Floor sing what she want ❤
It's classed as symphonic metal they use a real orchestra to record a backing track, the flaming bulls head is the symbol for the Wacken festival. And yes, dive into the lyrics but you will have to make your own interpretation as they are never explained by the writer the keyboard player Tuomas.
The real orchestra they use. Is the London Symphonic Orchestra. They give them the keyboard players arrangement.
Thanks for the reaction!
Toumas lyrics are always poetic written and have a deeper meaning. But it's not always known, sometimes you can figure it out, sometimes not. Toumas has told in interviews what some song are about. But the important thing is what the lyrics make YOU feel.
This song I believe is about unanswered love, love that can not be. It's hard to hear in this live version but the quire is singing (from my memory):
"My fall will be for you
My love will be in you
If you be the one to cut me,
I will bleed forever."
Regards from Sweden
Ulf
🤘🙂 Enjoy the Ride. Welcome to Nightwish 💐 💘
You guys made me laugh as my wife and I have had the same schtick going for close to 48 years.
Sarah should know that Ghost Love Score is just the tip of the Nightwish iceberg. One interpretation for this song is that it is about a person loving another while the object of that love is totally unaware, which is the "Ghost" part of it.
Officially Nightwish is considered symphonic metal, but with their latest album Human:||:Nature, they're basically a genre in their own right.
Sarah needs to trust you when you say, "- Just experience it and read the lyrics at the second look".
Also, Sarah, PLEASE wear the headphones on both ears. All of US want you to have the maximum experience. Read the lyrics before or after the first look. You wount regret doing it in that order!
Much Love!
PSA Most of the offical live videos have the correct closed captions so if you want the lyrics press that cc button (no more bickering)
Yeah, that was a bit awkward...
🤘🤘❤🤘🤘 So happy you're sharing!!! 🤗❤✌
The only thing that we love more than someone reacting to Nightwish is when a reactor introduces someone to the band. This was awesome. BTW, the band is backed by the London symphony orchestra and the Metropolitan voices choir. So a "wall of sound" barely begins to describe it. Wacken is in Germany. 82,000 people were at this concert. The only one that truly knows what the song means is Tuomas, and he'll only say that "It means whatever you need it too"
How can you appreciate this when you only listening with one ear!
Yes indeed, Wacken is a village in Germany.
All the symphonic music you hear (on almost every song of Nightwish is written by Tuomas (keyboards, the composer and poet of almost 95% of all NW songs) but is performed by the London Philharmonic Orchestra. Since there’s not enough space on stage for a full live orchestra (and also couldn’t go with them on world tour for more than a year) it’s a running soundtrack pre-recorded at Angel Studios, London. This orchestra is featuring on every album NW released since ‘Once’ (except the last one Human :|: Nature which is performed by Blue Dot Orchestra). ruclips.net/video/HcxjKlUcjXo/видео.html
The background choir you frequently hear are the Metro Voices, a choir group also based in London.
At some songs a boys soprano performed: Guy Elliott, 2nd boy soprano: Tom Williams, courtesy of the Reigate St Mary's Choir School. Child choir: Young Musicians London.
And your wife is right, their lyrics took a huge part of how Tuomas likes titel his messages. (But everything has an important role into that. Every individual instrument has it’s purpose, even the interlude, the pyrotechnics, the color of lighting and the images on the screen behind the band) everything contributes to creating the correct sphere and the wanted to experience the right emotion.
Sarah, tell us your favorite music style, singer or band, so we can suggest you to watch Next cause Nightwish and/or Floor can do and did performing almost every music genre you can imagine.
Fantastic, you must have your wife beside you on all of your reactions. Watching you two was worth it's weight in gold. Loved it, and yes your wife is beautiful. Now, give her some space and let her react in her way. It was fun to watch. Thank you
It is good you sharing this with your wife, everyone should know Nightwish. Tuomas is the keyboardist/composer/founder, he is a musical genius and true poet. Tuomas writes 90-95% of all lyrics, music, and infuses the symphonic sounds where needed. This band has so many wonderful songs, and Floor is our Valkyrie Goddess and Queen. Welcome to the journey, Nightwish is far more than just a band.
I'm not even 3 minutes in and I'm in stitches about the arguing about lyrics xD So relatable.
The thing with Nightwish lyrics is they’re very poetic in nature, with layer upon layer of storytelling and subjective meaning. Nightwish can be appreciated in the first listening, absolutely, but trying to comprehend and truly understand a piece on the first listen is nigh on impossible. XD the more you listen to one of their songs, the deeper the meaning you will pull out of it personally.
Great reaction! Nightwish is a lifetime journey to humanity. Like marriage 😂 Greets from Finland 🤘🇫🇮
You SO have to watch Floor Jansen reacting to her own performance of this song! She put out the reaction video a few weeks ago. Watch it together, and you’ll fall in love with Floor the person.
Welcome to the club, Sara. Hope you enjoy Nightwish, just as much as we do 👍 and thank you Tom, for introducing your wife, to this wonderful music.
Toumas, "the Keyboard player" writes 80-90% of all Nightwish songs.. He sends out the initial tracks. Everybody add their character, they get together, collaborate to put together the final product... Then Toumas composes the symphonic and choir parts, works with various symphonies to record the backing tracks that are used in the live performances..
Floor is classically trained she went to a rock academy and studied musical theater and opera she's been performing in bands since she was 16 she also was a vocal coach for 15 years she's still a vocal coach but doesn't teach she can also play flute, violin, piano and I'm pretty sure guitar
Pfft... Don't forget - Floor definitely plays emotions...
@@horscategorie exactly
Nightwish lyrics are very poetic, so it can be hard to get the full understanding in one listen. But there are many people in the comment section that are really good at interpreting them. There are so many meaningful backstories to Nightwish songs. "Poet and the Pendulum" having the most impactful backstory (in my opinion) that you would need to read up on before listening to the song, so you can get the full experience. Also "Greatest show on earth" talking about the Evolution theory. etc. the list can go on :) Hope to have you along for the ride Sarah :) and thank you for the wonderful reaction both of you :)
Bold prediction at the beginning. She liked it xd. It is so fun to share Nightwish with people.
Wifey, the background is based on the ability of the keyboardist, Tuomas, sometimes called the Metal Mozart. He composes 95% of their music.
Hi Sarah! You’re going to have a great time learning this Finnish Band’s history. You met Floor. Since lyrics are (and should be) important to you, take some time to get to know Tuomas Holopainen the keyboardist, composer, poet, and founder of Nightwish. He’s unassuming, humble, and pure genius with his compositions. He likes to label himself as just a songwriter. HA!!! Enjoy your trip down here in the Nightwish rabbit hole.
Ward Hart, this was well done.
Great reaction guys! You two have great chemistry. You feed off each other well.
Ok, we all know this band is loaded talent wise. But you gotta give a shout out to my man Jukka on the drums. He just kills it with style on the drums. Often said that this is HOW you play the drums. Use damn near everything on the kit. Dude has style and is a rare talent in his own right. Carey is probably my god of drumming but Jukka, ah Jukka is my king of drumming for his technique and style and just flat knows his craft. Looking forward to the day he makes a return. He makes me wanna pick up my sticks again every time I watch him.
Great reaction video. Nightwish is the best and Floor is just the best female.vocalist in the world! Keep up the good work and stay save. And uhmmm, please remember....the wife is always right! 🙂 Greetings from The Netherlands....land of the windmills and Floor 😍
Ghost Love Score is about unrequited Love. The song is a conversation between a poet and a Siren from the deep. The poet knows that fully embracing his love means surrendering himself completely to the siren. And the Siren is doing her best to entice him to join her.
The Score in the title refers to a piece of cinematic music. The music that plays in the background all along the movie, a piece that changes with what happens on the screen.
Great to see Sarah - I hope she can find the time to sit in for further reactions. My Wife now thinks I'm obsessed with Floor but I secretly know that she is too!
N.B . When you finally get to cover 'I want my tears back" , be certain to show the live at Buenos Aires 2018 version - Floor is a vision - don't tell the Wife I said that! 😆 🤣
She loved being apart of it!
@@TomTuffnuts “She loved being apart of it…”
That typo made me chuckle, m’man 😎
Nothing to argue about, some of us want to know the lyrics first, some don't. Neither is wrong.
Hello Mrs Tuffnuts! :)
Enjoy the Floorgasms!
I kinda agree with wife regarding seeing/reading the lyrics cause it's kinda make the music understandable. I am more on deciphering the lyrics before loving the instruments playing. I feel more connected to the song if I know what the lyrics means
All Hail to our Queen Valkerie, hail to your lady too.
The wifey has a great understanding of music, i like her.
"Ghost Love Score" seems to be a mental image of a secret love. Don't let yourself be fooled, because GLS is sung by a woman. It was Tuomas Holopainen, who was composing the song, a man who was surrounded by a thousand lakes ("Land of a Thousand Lakes" is what Finnland is called in Europe) - so water related themes (Oceanborn) were very commonly used by him. Honestly I think that Tuomas was inspired by Tarja Turunen, whom he invited to become the first singer of Nightwish: "We used to swim the same moonlight waters..." (both grew up in same community "Kitee" in Finnland), "A siren from the deep came to me..."(who else than Tarja), "Forgive the adoring beast" (calling himself beast) and on and on. On account of Tarja, Tuomas imagined alot with the (unrequited) love themes (even in "Devil and Deep Dark Ocean"). Just for those who don't know of the (platonic) relationship between Tuomas and Tarja: ruclips.net/video/z2FwdgZqhyg/видео.html . Things became unbearable after Tarja met her husband (manager), who acted like a siamese twin of Tarja, representing rather the opposite of whom Tuomas would call a friend. Tuomas was able to pull through that by burying his yearning in "The Poet and the Pendulum" and became open minded for his Happy End (meeting his wife in 2009 and inviting Floor Jansen to his band in 2012).
Yes, this is how I understand the meaning behind the lyrics as well. The first part is about the innocent crush of a young boy turning into a unanswered, destructive passion or obsession of a grown up man in the second part. Loosing innocence is an important, reoccurring theme in many of the earlier songs of Nightwish. Tuomas has said that many of his earlier songs are like his diary, so he got his inspiration for them from his own life. However, it is debatable whether the subject of his longing is Tarja. It could be but only Tuomas knows this for sure.
Very well put, I am fully with you on this interpretation.
allways fun to watch a second reaction and this is how we feel, we love to see people react to Nightwish because we know what's comming so we love to see the jaw dropping effect that Nightwish has great reaction btw and the greetings from the Netherlands
If your wife is interested in lyrics she has some tough task to solve Nightwish poetry by Tuomas the keyboardist, composer and lyricist. In GLS she was trying to figure out why Floor sings long beautiful notes ”my fall will be for you...” while the lyrics go ”My fall will be for you, My love will be in you,
If you be the one to cut me,
I'll bleed forever” That’s the part where choir sings these lyrics, imo they are the thoughts of the singer but Floor sing out loud only this short sentence. Hope your wife takes part to your journey, she’s going to have such ear candys from Nightwish songs. Have a nice day.
Loved to see you watch this again, you have obviously watched it many times and it just grows better and better. Sarah will too, as soon as she gets over the outfit Floor was wearing. I am well past that now and the whole band just gells and you can tell they are having a great time. You both were ace, watch it again and then watch a few more compositions.
Hello Mrs Tuffnuts :)
Tuomas often writes very poetically so the songs can be intricate and often metaphorical.
He has said he wants people to get their own meanings from his music, but this one is basically about lost love, or some think unrequited love.
Yes Waken is in Germany. The band is from Finland, the lead singer is from the Netherlands, but lives in Sweden, and one more member you don't see here is from the U.K. lol
Yes, this is exactly the thing with Nightwish - you love them, and are kinda "proud" and like to show them to friends etc... and then if they like them too, thats so nice feeling... :)
One of the main reasons many mates in Army like watching dozens and hundreds reactions...
Great to see some competition!
A pity Sarah missed Emppu walking around, she might have wondered what was going on :)
Like a movie score... so many changes, captivated. Wow, that was 10 minutes?
Yay, General Gabriel will guide you.
Ghost love Score is also known as Ghost Love Floor because Floor came up with the last part.
Hail the Valkyrie Goddess of Metal and Empathy and her Brothers. 😎😁😎😁
Lol..the bickering 😁😁
Lyrics can be checked out later or use subtitles. ‘Feel’ the music on a first listen then once you’re familiar with it dive into the lyrics although with Nightwish a lot of the lyrics are metaphorical so can be difficult to interpret
The firing Bull belongs to the Stage, Symbol for the W.O.A. he is inbetween 2 stages during the Festival, no matter which Band plays
Just wanted to mention that if you're not really metal fans that Floor has done covers of songs in many different genres on her RUclips channel and on the Dutch TV show beste Zangers that she was on so you might want to check out some of those too at some point
Lyrics are always important.
😂😂😂 Wife is always right. The lyrics are open to interpretation. It’s broadly about love. The bull fire thing is from the festival not a Nightwish thing.
It’s just as teasing and endearing every time a person who has received a Nightwish revival tries to cringe at other people by the rabbit hole in Nightwish’s music. You are both wonderful. Just about that is a partnership in marriage, ... 😉 🥰
Greedings from Finland, ... 👍 🥁 🇫🇮
Husband: “Let's do this song again for tens of thousands of views and help the channel along.”
Wife: “Okay, but if we're doing this we're doing it *right*.”
Jukka doesn't get enough credit, he beats the hell out of the drums in this performance.
Agree! Love how floor acknowledges him in the end.
I love introducing people to my favourite band too. And it's great that NW appeals to such a wide range of people: male, female, young, old. What's not to love?
Good job! - in more ways than one! G'day from Australia, Sarah! (Don't argue, Tom! You're already ahead!) Yes, Wacken is in Germany. About 1,900 people most of the year and then 100x that for the festival! 82k people watching the song in this video! That is the London Philharmonic Orchestra and the London Metro Voices Choir in this song - written, composed/orchestrated, conducted and recorded by Tuomas Holopainen (multiple keyboard player in the video) and Pip Williams. Pirates!? - Have a closer look at Jukka, on drums, and Tuomas on the keyboards (no rum but he does have wine!) Got yourselves another new subscriber! Thanks for fixing my OCD "Glitch"!!! 😉
Wifey"s soul snatched by the Valkyrie Goddess
Ooooooh GLS! Show her TGSOE next!!! Please! Hi Sarah! Nice to meet you!!! Welcome to the amazing world of NIGHTWISH!!!!!!!
How Floor sings the meaning of the lyrics into the music is one of the most important things for Nightwish composer Tuomas.
Yes. But to be honest, that is what you can expect from a professional singer. Floor isn't an amateur.
Lyrics it’s not everything, music is a universal language of emotions! Lyrics is important, but for me my priority is the sounds and the voices of instruments and singers and the harmony and sequence! Respect to you, let us appreciate the rare beauty like this masterpiece!
Floor is the Master. Il Maestro. A masterpiece by Tuomas Holopainen
Its awesome to see you loving this so much! Nightwish is amazing.. I recommend Nightwish - The Islander (live)
"I like to know the background of the band"
You're in for a treat 😂
she looks like "OK, what's the fuzz about?"
Hey Tom, thank you for sharing NW with your wife. That is the only way this band can grow in the USA. Please share NW with all your friends and family. And remember NW is an amazing live experience. I have seen them 6 times of the years and they are incredible. Now with Floor even more so. Great video. Thanks!
Probably the last thing you want to do on a first listen with most Nightwish songs is try to focus on the lyrics. They are very poetic and metaphorical in most cases and trying to understand the lyrics on the first listen probably won’t happen, so just sit back and enjoy the sound that is Nightwish.
Absolutely agree. Lyrics are important of course but they can be looked into later. For me it’s about feel and emotion. The song can have great lyrics but if I don’t ‘feel’ it I won’t revisit it.
@@Mind-your-own-beeswax Fell in love with the sound first. The band members next. And now the hard part of understanding the lyrics. I get much from reading comments...and the research I do on my own helps me understand how the band has survived to be what they are today. This is a ride that never stops.
It doesn't help that the lyrics are often accented wrongly. “I have lost the PATH-before ME the one beHIND WILL lead-me” for example. Tuomas wins you over with the music and then the lyrics hit later.
This is why you should never argue with Floor.
When she punches, 82,000 people punch along with her.
💪✊
Dear mrs Tuffnuts, you are spot on - Nightwish gives you an experience, and in each song!!
This one is a Score, just like the title says. The songwriter - sorry - the composer is the Tuomas (Keyboard) - a phenomenal poetic acrobat into lyrics, that goes from fairytales, deep personal emotions over stories and into his deep interest in evolution, nature and science. You will have to kickstart your imagination and knowledge about the wonders of the world, nature, biology, humanity and human behavior, internet behavior - and music. This band are not just skilled musicians with a deep musical and knowledge background - they actually invents new ways in music.
When Tuomas starts writing a new album, he research and writes for 1/2 - 1 year. During this process, he imagines and hears Floor's voice in his head, just like he hears the instruments, chorus and background symphonies. (he sometimes gets help from some of the others, or they come up with something)
Tuomas records a tape on piano with the melody, and Floor gets the lyrics in writing. This tape he sends to the others. They listen and interpret all the songs in their interpretation - and adds their style/interpretation - sometimes they gets a brief translation from Tuomas.
After - 6 - 8 weeks, they all meet in the camp, deep into the Finish woods, directly to a lake - no other sounds than the nature as background inspiration.
Then they start merging and mixing all the versions into 1 piece. Sometimes a song changes dramatically, including the lyrics, but mostly they just adds all of the other's fingerprints and personal touch.
Of course Floor as the lead singer, is the key to the songs, and Floor's interpretation of the lyrics are crucial. Floor is a highly sensitive person, and able to add emotions and passions in her singing and body language, like very few others. She is also one of the most powerful singers in the world, and that is very useful for all the songs she performs, especially in the duets with Marko (bass) and or Troy (Uillean pipe, bouzouki, flutes). She switches fluidly between all known singing styles, including those she has invented herself - she is a true voice acrobat and athlete - the perfect storyteller.
It takes 18 months to create a new Nightwish album.
I could see you tried counting like in normal songs - but this is Symphonic Metal, a merge of both, often composed with chapters and lots of transitions like symphonies - and with 3 phenomenal singer, with Floor as lead. Floor is by far the most versatile, talented, powerful and skilled singer in this century. Her voice toolbox, breath and voice techniques are incredible and she is constantly evolving. In this Wacken 2013 concert, range were around 3 1/2 octaves, but she has more now!!
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I will give you a hint:
Please google " The Greatest Show on Earth" - the book by Richard Dawkins, and read the description.
Then react to:
The Greatest Show on Earth, from Tampere 2015 - this is the book in music, effects, singing techniques - and musical evolution, if you listen carefully enough.
And!! Important!!! - stay on until the video is completely finished - the speaking afterwards is an important part of the song.
This is something that you have never experienced before - not kidding - this is Symphonic Metal - this is Nightwish.
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Or - if you as a singer yourself, would like to try something out of the ordinary:
"How is the Heart" , the acoustic version from Planet Rock Radio 2020 - only Troy and Floor, from a promotion tour last spring.
You just try yourself to copy her voice techniques here in this sweet ballad (chapter 2 is written to Floor as a tribute from Tuomas).
In the Planet Rock Radio interview, Troy calls Floor's voice for "Stratospheric" - the look at his face at the end says it all.
Greetings from Nightwish Army Denmark 🇩🇰 👍 💪 🤘 🤘 - and enjoy your journey into the Nightwish Universe. Your musical background gives you an advantage to really understand Symphonic Metal
Yay, I like this video very much. Nightwish has the orchestral tracks done by London Philharmonic Orchestra in Angel Recording Studios in London. They alsoo used Abby Road Studios in the past and do use East European Orchestra's on occasion.
I've been watching all your videos here this past week and glad to see you showed the misses too. Just wondered if you had to explain why you seemed more happy lately than normal? Lol. Keep the videos comming and hope she joins you on another nightwish video.
Nightwish army, UK (Grey Rangers) reporting in.... Welcome Mrs T, always a good experience to see a reactor introduce their spouse to the symphonic metal rabbit hole......sit back, buckle up, and brace yourself for the musical journey of a lifetime.... You'll laugh, you'll cry, you'll be entertained, educated and moved. And that is just one albums worth of Nightwish.
As suggested, try the closed caption option with the video and catch the lyrics in real time... I'm a recent finder of Nightwish, 59 years old guy from middle England... Guess quality is quality at any age eh.... So enjoy your journey and I look forward to seeing the "team reactions" 🤘🤘👍
groups like Nightwish and Epica are classified as Symphonic Metal they melodic tunes come with the territory
You're great 😂
(Sarah you need to watch this again..leave the lyrics and enjoy 😁 this is the greatest show in history of modern music)
13:48 i love that part when the music seems to collapse on it self then she sings the redeem me i think she starts the climb from there floor begins to ascend the scale hovering at a note before each ascent till she belts out on top this is from a semi musical note as i have seen vocal coaches react so
Nightwish goes right to your dopamine centers. Since she knows something about music it has to go through a few more filters to get there. You could see that process in her face.
She asked for background!? OH SNAP!!! Well, I've been enjoying their music for maybe a year, so I'm a NOOB here, but she just yanked the Nightwish Army's Chain! Unleash the DRAGON!
Greatest show on Earth next? Your wife would find so much to dive into regarding lyrics. And I bet she would loooove the newest album Human I Nature.
Tom don't worry, that was her FIRST time having a Floorgasam! Floor is classically trained, Operatically trained and of course Rock!!! Nightwish has brought them altogether and blown my mind!!
Have you tried turning on closed captions? Nightwish embeds the lyrics into most of their videos...
The flaming bull skull is the official emblem of Wacken, it burns throughout the festival.
hahahahah O my god Tom!! Is impossible not to enjoy your reaction... again!!! hahahah Loved it!! (of course, excellent reaction from the wifey
She is totally right: lyrics with Tuomas are central. Floor does a great job not only vocally but with her interpretation of the song.
First things first Tom, congratulations your wife is gorgeous! You definitely kicked past the coverage on that one! Secondly, she is absolutely right! Tuomas is such a gifted songwriter and every single phrase, sound and lyric all work together to establish a feeling/reaction within the listener.
If you like change ups just wait until you get to "The Poet and the Pendulum" and "The Greatest Show on Earth" - our poet/songwriter at his best. The lyrics are full of often repeated metaphors and are deliberately open to interpretation. It's all about the feels, but The Army knows all the words to every song.
Fun fact: You could just have turned on the subtitles. :P
Edit: The flaming bull is the logo of the Wacken Open Air festival.
Old, old rock/metal fan here, and I can say I am also new to Nightwish and am so impressed. Especially with this song! I am in awe, and never thought it would happen, but this is a worthy successor to Sweet Child in Time by Deep Purple.
This probably means nothing to you but Deep Purple, Led Zeppelin, and Black Sabbath were the cornerstones of my musical reality for decades, and while more bands have come along, Nightwish and Evanescence have made me want to listen to music again - Epic!
Welcome Sarah and Tom, it's great to see you two reacting to the greatest Symphonic Metal band ever existed, imho. Sarah, the 'flaming bull's head is the logo of the Wacken Open Air festival, nothing to be affraid of. I personally understand your interest for the lyrics, they are written by the keyboard player, Master of music and poetry Tuomas Holopainen. The singer is our Valkyrie Goddess Floor Jansen, she's a vocal teacher /coach as well. Check out her website. You'll be suprised.. Greetings from the Netherlands Nightwish Army East Division. 🤘🇳🇱🤘
Hello Sarah and Tom. Lovely to see you enjoying Floor and NW! Wacken Open Air is the biggest metal festival in the world. It is held every first week in August. Wacken is a township in northern Germany. It is a cattle area hence the bull's logo. Btw. in a lot of non-English speaking countries the "A" is pronounced as in "car". The "J" is pronounced like "Y". So Floor's surname is pronounced like YAnsen. The name Floor derives from Flora, the goddess of spring and flowers. If you like to see 2 goddesses at work check out Epica (a Dutch metal band with frontlady Simone Simons, a good friend of Floor, who was Simone's vocal coach), their songs "Sancta Terra" and Stabat Mater Dolorosa" both feat Floor. I think you will be blown away! Greetings from the Netherlands
Nightwish Army, North America, Midwest division, reporting for duty.
Hubby likes it more than wifey...