SHE'S SINGING OPERA! IN A METAL SONG! REACTING TO NIGHTWISH: STORYTIME - LIVE IN WACKEN 2013
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- Опубликовано: 10 окт 2024
- After the support and success on my first Nightwish reaction video, I"m doing another one! This time we join the band in the year 2013, in Wacken, and we'll be listening to their song Storytime LIVE.
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Tuomas writes the stories, the band brings them to life, and then Floor tells them like no one else can. .
Very well put! 👏
Thats perfect dude 😃🤘🏻
Absolutely!
Ya nailed it
Really like that perspective
Tuomas (Keyboards) is the writer & composer and founder of Nightwish he is the Metal Mozart and the brains of the band. This song is about remembering all those child hood stories you loved as an adult.
You are insightful, engaging and entertaining. Nothing disappoints me more than a reviewer who watches a NightWish performance and has nothing meaningful to say during or afterwards. Something beyond “wow” is called for! You never fail to answer that call. Excellent work. Thank you.
Thank you so much for your kind words, it means alot. 🥹 I’m so glad you enjoy my reaction. ❤️ It’s hard to please everyone, but when I do please some it fills my heart with joy!
This song is written from the perspective of the story itself...Tuomas' ode to the art of storytelling, stories, and where they can take you in your imagination. (IMO)
If you think this outfit is stunning, wait until you see her outfit in the Buenos Aires 2015 show.
Don't you mean 2018.
She was totally stunning.
The pipes around Tuomas' keyboards is just a stage prop.
Which is believed to be an homage to en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sibelius_Monument which itself is an homage to the Finnish composer Sibelius
Not just a prop, it's also a wine rack 😁
The pipes are indeed a stage prop which you also will find in the film ‘Imaginaerum’. The stage is maybe simple because this is performed at Wacken, which is a festival where a lot of groups perform on rotation, using eight stages. Buenos Aires, Tampere and London are solely Nightwish performances with maybe a other group as pre program.
@@Duskwind_ touché
Yes, we cannot forget the wine rack! Cabernet Sauvignon if I'm not mistaken. ;)
The level of talent and dedication in this band is awe inspiring. The result is a band that is incredibly tight. Every member of the band has an important part to play. The heart and soul of the band is the keyboardist, Tuomas Holopainen. He is not only an extremely proficient musician but the composer of most of the music that Nightwish performs and is often called the Metal Mozart. The more you listen to them, the more you will appreciate the band as a complete entity, with the single purpose of producing the best music that they possibly can. It really doesn't matter what song of theirs you listen to next. They're all different, and there isn't a bad song in the bunch.
The pipes are a stand for multiple keyboards (and some wine). If you need more Floor, check out After Forever live. A very young Floor.
Yes you cannot forget about the hidden wine rack
As a fellow enjoyer of wine, I appreciate the effort to hide it while also giving an epic performance LOL
if you start to Floor solo and select Beste Zangers, please choose my uploads with the intro and outro. Start with Vilja lied because it was the first time Floor let us know her!
Absolutely the way to go.
Hi Jennie, yes I concur. Everybody ever recommending Floor in BZ2019 should remember to request the "intro/outro" versions. They're so much more fun & context. Therefore: "Floor Jansen - Vilja Lied (2019) + intro and outro (With eng subtitles)". All hail the FloorOpTV Ch@nnel!! 😉
Hi Jennie, yes I concur too.
Question to you Jennie, do you still have the videos of Floor's performances on "Sing Meinen Song 2022" (with English subtitles)? Because they were at least as great as Beste Zangers 2019.
Thank you so much for helping to provide proper and good videos for me! 🤗❤️
thank you for your work / greetings from NW-Army-Germany
The burning skull is the symbol of the festival "Wacken open air" I have tickets to go next year for the 4th time. The pipes are just a prop around the keyboards. The stage was a bit simple because it is a festival. Another band played before them. The greatest show on earth was a Nightwish concert in Tampere, so they had more time to put up the screens. Greetz from the Netherlands.
Hi from Munich Fifi, since Wacken is near the Danish border you should consider going there as well in the coming years. As far as I know the tickets for the 2025 venue are sold out.
As people say, "singers sing what they can, Floor🌷 sings whatever she wants", she can even rap in a language that doesn't exist. Literally. Be prepared for many Floorgasms..And falling in love with her is inevitable.
Tuomas wrote this song about the wonder and happy memories of his lost childhood. But as he always says "The song means whatever you need it to", so you are 100% correct in your interpretation 😊
I know that you don't want to be locked into too many Nightwish reactions and want to explore other adventures, but when you decide to do another one it should probably be 'Everdream". I think that you would really like that one. Again, thank for indulging me in my obsession with this band and for another awesome reaction 🥰 Luv ya little sister
I’m glad my interpretation was okay and I understood the message! It’s absolutely beautiful. 🥹 Of course my dear, it’s my pleasure! 🤗
Tuomas Holopainen only plays keys, writes almost all the music and lyrics. The guy, Troy Donockley, in The Greatest Show on Earth plays numerous wind and string instruments but plays on only a few at this concert. However this is still an incredible concert that introduced so many to Nightwish and Floor Jansen who was only in the band ten months and sings every song written for the two previous singers. Tarja Turunen ( 1996-2005 operatic) and Anette Olzon (2007-2012 pop) then Floor who took over mid tour with 48 hours to learn the setlist !!
There is one song which is equal to this concert ,is in Argentina I Want My Tears Back , audience incredible and Floor dances , also the 6th member of Nightwish on the pipes is on this song
This is definitely my favorite performance of that song.
Pause as many times as you want-this is a reaction video. You will receive MANY song requests. But when you're ready to go off on a tangent, watch Epica "Sancta Terra". Floor joins her Dutch bestie Simone Simons in a shared song with Epica (the group), a live orchestra and a chorus {yea, Girl Power!). You've got a lot of editing ahead of you. Stay true to your approach to reactions. You're spot on!
Yessss a live orchestra is what I want to see! I mentioned to my army friend when I saw Love Ghost Score that I wished the orchestra was there live. This sounds amazing and like a must see!
This whole concert is epic , i bought the CD about a year ago having never heard of them before , i saw Ghost Love Score loved the singer (Floorgasm ) and the drummer both epic
The music and Lyrics where written by Thuomas (keyboards) Also, when he wrote this song, Floor was not with the band yet. It was in the time of their second singer (Anette Olzon)
You are ready for Everdream from Wacken 2013. You are. And by the way...welcome to the Army !
All Hail Queen Floor !
The perspective is from the Human imagination and the fascination we hold for stories. We all write our own individual stories on the journey of our lives. We are all in Love with Floor. That is just a stage prop for his keyboard setup. This is a big metal festival. Usually Nightwish has big back screen to atmosphere. It does make sense. This was a single for Nightwish in 2011.
Nice to see you are back, keep'em coming lady!
Thank you! Will do!
Two things: 1. You want to give her a hug! Get in the queue!! 2. The DECORATION around the keyboards is a copy of a part of the Jean Sibelius monument in Helsinki. Just had to clear this up for you. On a more serious note: That was a fine and honest reaction to this amazing band and the best singer on the planet! Thanks for that. Be well. Enjoy life.
To me, much of Nightwish's lyrics deal with the child-like self that we tend to lose over the years. No matter how hard we try we can't regain the innocence of childhood... tho it is fun to try.
Tuomas often refers to himself as "Dead Boy" or "the Dead Poet", noting the passage of these two states-of-mind: the 'death' of the wild, open-eyed youth/astounded at every new discovery and experience, and the boundless imagination that many of us lose as we gain 'responsibility and stature' as we age.
The Dead Poet reference is, to me, the Lover, The Creator-of-images and Sound, The fragile edge that we have as we create (easily broken, often subject to being broken down by the betrayal of those whose opinions matter most, etc... can I use "etc",.. maybe I should explain more?)
Anyway, when exploring a lost aspect of youth and exuberance, Nightwish taps this imagery over and over, and it works (for me).
I miss the creative part of being an engineer in the 80's/90's ... now I'm just a dentist in a rural area where people often get 'creative' with the drus and dangerous activities they mix together, but I digress.
I miss making a new thing out of just ideas and parts and bits of electrical knowledge.
But then again, there's is nothing like rebuilding a damaged smile.
Anywho
Glad you gave us another reaction... refreshing !! Thank you again
- - Blind Doc Jones, alleged Honorary Nightwish dentist, amp tech, and babbling idiot.
Voice coach reactions are a dime a dozen. There aren't many reactors who do lyrical analysis and Tuomas's brilliant writing deserves discussion. Good stuff.
Eh eh. Nightwish Army Soldier...Present 🤘
Woohoo!I just woke up and found this! I like to say that Storytime is my favourite Nightwish song - except for all the others! As you have been told, the organ looking pipes surrounding the keyboard are just a stage prop (where Tuomas hides his stash of red wine!) The flaming cow skull is the symbol of the Wacken Open Air festival, which for 90% of the year is a sleepy cow town in Northern Germany but transforms into one of Metal capitals of the world. Nightwish's concert there in 2013 was special, it was the first time they headlined at Wacken and also the first chance many of the attendees got to see Floor live as part of Nightwish (many were already familiar with her from her previous bands) (BTW I am loving your SOMA playthrough!)
Thank you Michael for leaving your feedback and words of support, you’re too kind! 🤗 I’m so glad you’re liking my new reaction content as well!
I love the infectious happiness in this video!
Floor looks ever more badass in the "Devil in the Deep Dark Ocean"(live in Buenos Aires) video! Also, its like peak theater kid stuff! So amazing!
I see this song as an ode to literature and children's literature more specifically. Nice reaction, more please!
That makes sense! Like I said, it also took me back to the Grimm brothers stories, so it’s interesting you say that 😄
This is one of two costumes she wore at this concert. The other one had a wee little malfunction making her a half beat late to the stage. It was fixed during Ghost Love Score. The malfunction was a zipper under her left arm. When I was at this concert, I couldn't see it. On these camera shots and on the DVD I can see it, but it's really minor. She changed outfits during the musical number and returned to the stage for "Bless the Child". Fun Fact: when I bought my tickets for WOA 2013 and NW, Anette Olzon was still the singer. Anette was fired in... October(?) 2012 and Floor was asked to finish the tour with NW. Her performances ramped up the crowd and we wanted her permanently. Both of these costumes were auctioned off I think.
Keep them coming please
Will do! 🫡
Yup. When we march in we do it in numbers. Welcome to the rabbit hole!!
A few weeks before this concert Floor was on Dutch TV signing Puccini Aria live ,,,Greetings from UK,,😎
I think the interpretation of this song is Floor is singing as the voice of tales. Think of video game plots, movies, novels, fairy tales, folk lore ect. all rolled into one. That is the voice Floor is representing. In my opinion the most important line of the song is "The core of all life is a limitless chest of tales."
I agree with the latter, and also why I wanted to point it out. It’s so beautifully poetic and absolutely true imo.
There's 80,000 people in that crowd. If you need to leave for whatever reason, like passing out, the best way to go is up and to the front where the security and staff will help you land safely.
Wacken is a festival with many other performers on the same stage so the stage setup isn't quite as customized as it would be on a solo concert where they just perform on their own.
"I am the story, I am the tale that reads you real." That is the essence of this song IMO. The perspective of it. The song kinda taps into that wonderful sense of nostalgia and childlike wonder.
The ''pingelsounds''.....heerlijk nederlands en engels door elkaar ....😂. and it's a great song
Ja das toch verschrikkelijk. 😂 En hier thuis (ik woon in Denemarken) is het al helemaal erg: Deens, Engels en Nederlands door elkaar 😂
@@fififemke 😆...ja ik ken het, internationaal chauffeur hier 😅. Maar het nummer is geweldig, nederland heeft soms juweeltjes op internationaal gebied....floor is er 1 van
Welcome from Arkansas USA. Enjoyed your reaction last week. This entire concert is as good as the 1st two - including this one - songs. With Nightwish, no two songs are alike and they change up alot within songs. I'm 73, I grew up in San Jose CA and have seen countless concerts live going back to the 60s and 70s. This band is the best I have found in the last 30 years. Every one of them are world class musicians and all 3 of their female singers have been world class singers as well. There is so much in front of you to experience. All of us out here have been where you are so let it rip, enjoy every second. You're in for a treat.
Thank you for your kind words and support! I love the little bit of history you told about yourself, I appreciate it when commenters do that. Makes me shape an image of who’s watching. 😄
Storytime, like every song at this concert, was written by Tuomas (keyboards) for the 2 prior singers. Imaginarium is the name of the album for the tour in 2012/2013. It is also the name of the movie they made with the album. I have not seen it, but this song was part of the movie, which I understand was about an aging composer.
Subscribed to be part of your Nightwish journey. Greetings from Germany 🫶🔥🤘
Floor is married to the drummer of the band Sabaton. You should check out their song “Christmas Truce” be sure to stay for the credits because it’s Floor doing the vocals during them. Btw the burning bulls head is the symbol of the festival because it’s in a cattle town in Germany.
The surround on Tuomas's keyboards is a copy of a sculpture in a Finnish museum.
It's Tuomas' homage to the famous monument (outdoors) in Helsinki dedicated to Jean Sibelius, Finland's most famous composer
See, I knew there was more to it than meets the eye! I love it, thanks for telling me!
@@RDB2002 Thanks, I knew part of it at least.
This video was recorded when NightWish was the headliner for the Wacken music festival.
The bands didn’t have as much control over the stage design, as there were a dozen bands a day performing each day on it.
But the music still shone through.
Pretty crazy how these videos blow up. this one at 7,5k after 10h and your first one already at 28k. Great job femke :D
It’s amazing yet frustrating. 😂 These videos are super fun to do, but also extremely low effort compared to how much work goes into my gaming videos. From start to finish a gaming video takes me about 8 hours until upload, whereas reactions take me about 3 hours. HOWEVER to be fair, the reaction videos include already high quality content (and aren’t monetizable, unfortunately, but very fairly), whereas my gaming videos rely a 100% on me as an entertainer to make the video enjoyable. Also, the gaming niche is *extremely* oversaturated, bc let’s be fair, we all like gaming. 😂 I love creating gaming content too much to ever turn into a 100% reaction channel, but it’s definitely refreshing to have some videos do well for a change! 🤗
@@fififemke totally get that, thats why the reaction scene is so big I guess, cause almost anyone can do them in one way or another. Still, you need a talent, to make them more than just the video you are showing.
Exactly! It’s short content, unless you’re a yapper like myself LOL, and doesn’t require lots of editing. Of course you still need to be moderately entertaining, but it’s definitely a surprise how little work these are as I thought gaming content was the niche that was lowest effort (as compared to doc-style YT videos, for example). Hopefully one day my gameplay videos do as well, that’s the dream, but for now I’ll just enjoy this ride and take it all as it comes. 🤗 And thank you for acknowledging and appreciating these little personal successes for me. 🥹❤️
The moment you realise Floor is an operatic soprano 😂
The song is from the album / film music Imaginaerum and introduces the main character. Film music means that there is a Nightwish film of the same name. The tinkling is a music box on the main character's piano and you will hear it again. The main character mostly only sees himself as a child in a dream world. This world is dying because the main character is dying. When he is halfway clear-headed, he tries to rebuild his relationship with his daughter.
The opera singing is not in the original because the singer Anette Olzon (singer number 2) could not sing classical music. Only the background choir can be heard there. Tarja Turunen (singer number 1) has extensive classical training and has left her mark on Nightwish:
NIGHTWISH - The Phantom Of The Opera (OFFICIAL LIVE)
The stage design is the same as Greatest Show. There is a large display and three smaller ones, with some pyrotechnics around the band. That hasn't changed since that tour until today. Only the content of the displays changes.
"I just want to be her friend, I just want to hug her", that is one looooong line to be joining... 😉
Tuomas's stage prop is actually a wine holder with 3 keyboards (maybe the other way around 😏).
The song is telling you never forget to dream and use your imagination and fantasy, no matter age and anything else. Hold it dear - it is one of the keys to a wonderful life.
One of the best NW songs (in my humble opinion). The drop at the end when it goes from operatic back to metal is just epic. Great song and great reaction. Keep up the good work. Greetings from the Nightwish Army (Sydney, Australia Division) 🤘🇦🇺
Awesome reaction to this most incredible band - sub'd for the Nightwish journey 🤘
As the lyric you stopped on say:
I am the story
I am the tale that reads YOU
I’m the journey
I’m the destination
It’s could be about stories personified.
You are going down the rabbit hole! Enjoy!!
Not so explosive you said, yeah right lol
That instrument is nothing other than a stage prop to hide the keyboards
That’s the way it’s done. Great reaction!
10:29 not passed out, its called crowdsurfing or the fastest way to get to the toilets if you're stucked in a mass of people. 😉
Nightwish Army Member, Outpost Eatonville Washingtin State, checking in ma'am! To many of her fans, Floor Jansen is more than a mere "sexy beast". I like to describe her as such: If Ann Wilson and Freddy Mercury had a female love child, then taught this child EVERYTHING they knew about singing and showmanship, Floor Jansen would still be better! 😊❤😊
Nightwish Army NC reporting. Glad to see you continuing your Nightwish journey - so many songs you should look at. Do more and more - the Nightwish Army will be here for it!!!
The poet and the pendelum of nigthwish great performance and great lyrics
stop it promoting this for a new listener!
Hallo vanuit Zeeuws-Vlaanderen Femke .
met Nightwish en Floor Jansen heb je nog een hele mooie muzikale ontdekkingstocht voor de boeg .
ik hoop ook dat je het solo werk en Beste Zangers 2019 van Floor in je reactie video's gaat doen .
trouwens over dat met je vader muziek delen gesproken .
ik hoop dat je samen een reactie video wilt doen op : Alone - from hart ( corona cover van Floor Jansen )
deze heeft ze in haar Thuis-studio gemaakt tijdens de corona Lockdown en maatregelen waar dat ze dus niet mochten samen komen om te repeteren of concerten geven .
maar om toch haar stem te blijven oefenen en ONS haar fans iets te geven om naar uit te kijken maakte ze covers en Fan-Friday's .
ik hoop dat je Beste zangers 2019 serie wil beginnen bij het eerste optreden van haar in de show : Floor Jansen - Vilia lied Beste Zangers 2019 .
ik ben benieuwd naar de rest van je video's en natuurlijk ben ik nu ook geabonneerd zoals dat hoort .
met vriendelijke groet Hollandduck .
The meaning is given away in the title. The song is dedicated to story tellers. Writers, composers, poets, etc. People being helped over the barrier are usually on their way to the restroom. Greatly enjoyed your reaction and commentary. 😄🤘
Thank you for your feedback and kind words! 🤗
If you like that epic stuff you definitly have to listen to Ayreon. dosn't matter witch song but I would say everbody dies live or also the day that the world breaks down. And then if you want a little bit harder but epic sound listen to Epica and the song Consined to Oblivion live from the Zenit. I think yu also love it.
The perspective in which it is written: The narrator (Floor in this case) is not a corporeal person but is the spirit, the child of the past that lives on within every man's (or woman's) heart. In other words childhood innocence which slowly dies as we become adults, yet the spirit of it lives on. This theme of childhood innocence lost pervades many of Tuomas' lyrics.
This makes total sense, how could I have missed that?! Thank you for sharing this!
Hi Femke, leuk dat je Nightwish hebt ontdekt. Ik wist voor vijf jaar ook niet hoe populair Floor was in het buitenland. Ik ontdekte haar pas na Beste Zangers. Nu een groot fan van Nightwish. Tips voor de volgende? EverDream ( zelfde concert Wacken 2013 voor 82000 mensen) en Shudder of the beautiful (Wembley 2015). Nu luister ik naar hun nieuwste album Yesterwynde. Een geweldig nummer op,dit album is An Ocean with Strange Islands. Genoeg om te ontdekken bij Nightwish, die ik inmiddels al drie keer live heb gezien. En compliment voor je Engels trouwens.
We don't care if you already watched GHOST LOVE SCORE, we still want to watch you react to it .
No we don't.
@michaeljones8877 😂😂
You could react to Floor herself reacting to that performance and get to know her better, too. She is one of a kind, you will love her even more after seeing how lovely, humble, down-to-earth goddess she is ❤
@@annev6895 that's a good idea 💡 👌
@@michaeljones8877 you don't I do
you just might be ready for Ayreon. Lots of floor, Irene (Floors sister) and Simone and a few others you will soon be a fan of. Damian Wilson, Anneke van giersbergen , tommy Karevik etc etc.
For a start without Floor I highly suggest Guilt machine live or Amazing flight in space. With Floor I suggest Valley of the queens or Eye of ra.
The way that the world breaks down can be a bit much but alsio a great start on Ayreon (Floor is in there)
The organ pipes at Tuomas keyboard is decor, but it looks cool right..
The empthy crib of peter pan, is for everyone to crawl in, and start making stories for the world, those who made the stories is the memory that we hold dear, the song is basicly saying to go use your imagination, and tell stories, yes use your fantasy.. its also a ode to those who did so, the great poets, writers, and storytellers of the world....
It used to be more than a decor. They used it for pyro as well and fire came out of those pipes. You probably knew that, but wanted to mention it. In Wacken it was a decor/stand/homage to Finnish composer Jean Sibelius (Sibelius monument in Helsinki in Sibelius park). I don't what exactly Tuomas has thought though. Might be other things as well.
She is 6'1 or 2; 6'5" here in her heels (boots). From her voice, stage presence and buffed height, Floor owns the stage.
I love your reaction. When reactor start interpreting the songs thats the best, because nightwish sobgs bear so much meaning. Behind every song there is a story.
I really want to see you react to some of their newer stuff. Like Noise has much to interpret or Shoemaker has a wonderful story.
Actually anything would be great!
The Greatest Show On Earth was a Nightwish Concert, while this was a Festival.
So the first has their fully own designed stage that suits the concert.
Floor Jansen is one of, if not, the greatest Singer ever come from the Netherlands, yet is is mind blowing that she was hardly known here, in her own country untill Beste Zangers.
Most Dutch people thinking of Dutch Symphonic Metal, do not know anything beyond Within Temptation, which is extremely dissapointing since Dutch Female Vocalists are world famous elsewhere. You want to dive into a bit more? I would highly recommend Epica - Sancta Terra (feat Floor Jansen) Live Retrospect show - Epica is another dutch band with an amazing vocalist (Simone Simons) and this show features them with a full orchestra and Choir and Floor as a Guest for this song. It is a bit heavier though, than Nightwish.
Promise me to react to : the greatest show on earth✅️, everdream, the poet and the pendalum , devil and the deep dark ocean, romanticide, phantom of the opera , stargazers.Those are my most favorite❤❤❤❤❤ love from the Netherlands
IMAGINE the mileage some prop guy got out of some PVC pipes, fasterners, glue, and spray paint. Whatever they spent on that keyboard surround, it was worth 1000x that.
Don't worry about pausing. People who just want to listen to the music can just go to listen to the music. People should be coming to your channel for your reaction, opinions and to answer your questions. And of course to suggest different avenues to explore.
Hi there fififemke.
NW army Finnish Jaeger battalion reporting to duty. All I have to say is that longest songs by them are Greatest show on Earth (21.30 minutes), Poet and the Pendulum (14minutes and chance). Now before you do the Poet song which is from Wembley, London 2015, you should do some research on what made Tuomas Holopainen (keyboardist, song writer, composer of the band) make this song. Also Yours is an empty hope is a great example how low growls are done by female. Lol. Also songs like Ever Dream, Song of myself, Romanticide ,and many more you hear Marco Hietala sing with Floor. Marcos the bass player. And Troy Donockley is the multi instrumentalist. He mainly plays the Irish bag pipes called Uillean pipes or pipes of the elbow. Flutes, guitar's and he also sings some songs.like Carpenter. It's from Buenos Aires in case you're interested.
Once you have seen more SRO concerts you will see common occurances like crowd-surfing. The activity at the front was someone being passed over the barrier, where Security sets them down and directs them to the side and back into the crowd.
This show was the final performance at Wacken 2013. 82,000 people were in attendance to watch Nightwish close this 3-day festival. The act immediately proceeding them on this stage was Alice Cooper.
To me this song is about imagination, creativity as the core of human existence. It's that longing for something untangable in the human nature also referred to as "saudade"
"I am the story that reads you" is what I gather from it, like a POV from a story itself. If that's the case, it's rather unique theme for a song.
The pipes aren't an instrument, they're just a stage prop, i.e., a keyboard stand. He has his Korg synthesizer boards back there. The pipes are modelled after a famous sculpture at Sibelius Academy in Helsinki, Finland. The flaming bull's head is the corporate logo of the Wacken (Vokken) Festival and have nothing to do with Nightwish. The fans are just crowd surfing across the mosh pit. When they get to the front, the security guys catch them so they don't fall and get injured. By the way, we've got two examples now to measure from, and the jury is out: Your delivery style and peppering of humor and personality are simply perfect. Don't change a thing, IMHO.
I’ve never been to any rock festivals or concerts, so it’s just great to see this and see how it’s handled. I love how security is part of catching the crowd surfers. 😂 It’s hilarious how the people surf en-masse and security is there to catch them LOL. Thank you kindly for your words of support, it means a lot to me! ❤️
Floor is the Goddess of Metal !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
She is known as the Dutch Valkyrie Goddess of metal.. so you forgot a part ...👍👍👍👍
Hoi Femke, glad you liked the wave of NWA 😂
Never, never ever excuse yourself for pausing and replaying parts! It's a reaction, everyone who only wants to see the performance has the right to watch the original video.NWA members are here to see you discover the little and big gems of the performance! We've seen it at least a hundred times (some over a thousand) .. so take your time!
Groetjes ❤
How fun. You look completely delighted. Welcome to our Valkyrie! "Such a theater kid"... has anyone told you she studied musical theater? "What is happening?"... you've never seen someone get to the restroom at a rock concert? Well, now you have! :)
Beautiful reaction. Thanks from Argentina🇦🇷😉
The "motorcycle on crack" is really just 3 keyboards behind a fancy frame of pipes similar to an organ. The pipes are decorative. Tuomas plays the keyboard / Synth. He also writes all the music. The pipes are played by Troy which is another guy. Troy does play everything haha. Guitar, flute, low whistle... they once asked "which instrument do you play?" and he said "Yes" (joking, but not joking).
The lyrics, in my interpretation, talk about the power of stories and imagination. Imagination gives us power to sit by a fire and imagine the universe. Storytelling allows us to share what we imagined with every other human. All the good things about life can be shared through stories, if only we dare to imagine, and keep it alive. Imagination motivates us, gives us goals, makes us wonder if things could be different, then inspire others and do it. The core of all life is a limitless chest of tales. Without our tales, we have no life, we can't imagine a better world, so we can't create it. We can't wonder about things, so we can't discover anything new.
Please listen to "Lanternlight", sung by Floor, and Troy in back up, it is beautiful!
Hello fififemke. USA checking in. I am so pleased you have decided to continue listening to our favorite band. They are so incredibly special to us so we show up in droves when someone new decides to take the plunge.
As an American, I can gauge how famous or infamous someone is here. But not being Dutch, I have no idea where someone like Floor Jansen ranks in The Netherlands. If you have any insight and could share it in a future Nightwish reaction, I think a lot of us here on RUclips would be very curious. Thanks. You are positively charming.
I’m so glad to enjoyed the videos, thank you for your support. 🤗
Regarding Floor’s popularity, I’ll touch upon it shortly here: The Netherlands is in my opinion not very open to rock or metal on conventional radio. We have 1 mainstream radio channel (I know of) that caters to alternative music/rock that’s called 3FM that might play their music. I don’t think I’ve ever heard their music on the radio tho. I was personally not familiar with Floor, even tho both my dad and stepdad are both into rock music. Floor and Nightwish are probably well known in non-mainstream media and people who actively look for new music like this, but they wouldn’t be any type of band to chart on mainstream media. Some rock bands that would be found are: The Killers, Muse, 30 Seconds To Mars, Greenday, Editors.
I hope this helped answer your question!
GODDESS FLOOR IS THE BEST SINGER IN THIS PLANET!!!
NOBODY LIKE HER!!
ALWAYS TOUCH YOUR HEART AND SOUL!!!
The "organ" is fake, only for decoration. But the synthesizer is quite capable. Tuomas plays a lot of instruments on them. However they also use orchestral background tape, which is extremely difficult to keep synchronised with in a live performance. That requires perfection, especially from the drummer.
Austria is with u 🫶
Great reaction! This song is from their Imaginaerium album, a concept album based on an old composer on his death bed relieving the memories of his life. One of Tuomas's favorite topics or themes in his music is lost innocence. As a poet and artist Tuomas values the sense of wonder and imagination that innocent children have. In Storytime the composer is remembering the joy he got from childhood tales, thus the references to Peter Pan and Alice in Wonderland (Tuomas often uses literary references in his lyrics and as inspiration for songs). It is through these childhood stories that we discover ourselves and who we are (I am the story that will read you real).
Song is inspired by a popular British Christmas movie The Snowman. Storytime" was born when Tuomas wondered why no-one had made a remake of the film, and pondered on what his version of the score to the scene in which "Walking in the Air" plays would sound like. Tuomas "How would it feel to take a midnight flight with a snowman through the most wondrous landscapes, like in the classic animated Yuletide film? The meaning of our very existence is created though stories, tales and imagination. They are at the very core of humanity." Walking on the Air is a very popular Christmas song in the UK and Finland and Nightwish did a beautiful cover of it with their first singer Tarja that is worth reacting to.
That stage set was relatively simple also because it wasn't just their show: Wacken is a festival, with many bands using the same stage one after each other, so they only have a limited time to set everything up. Also, the flaming cow skull is the Wacken logo.
Scottish Division checking in....Floor sings we follow...and SHE WILL have your soul too..😊
"De pingel-sound..." Okay, that's a new one. :-) Yet, saying this concert/song is done "pretty basic" shows you already got spoiled when starting with TheGreatestShowOnEarth song in Tampere. The whole Wacken 2013 concert is full of gem songs, the stage setup may not be as luscious with every song. For more pyro action, watch the Wacken 2013 opening song "Dark Chest of Wonders".
Her outfit in Buenos Aires in 2018 will blow your mind. "I Want My Tears Back" from that show is a must. In fact, anything from any of their shows is a must. They never disappoint.
Thank you for the reaction! Just in case I'll repeat my suggestion-request here: Charlotte Wessels -- Chasing Sunsets. Dutch metal goddess -- what else to dream for :) Btw, Storytime is one of my all-time favourites from the Nightwish)
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I am the story, that will read you, dear !🤘🤘🤘👍 Thank's for your reaction!
That organ-like instrument is just a stage prop for the keyboard.
Michigan Tank Division here!!!!!.
NIGHTWISH BOTH BARRELS 🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘
Lanter Light their latest release (couple weeks ago) has become my favorite song in my 63 years. i have to listen to it several times a day its that freaking good. if your soul needs tending to this song is magical
None of the songs from the Wacken 2013 show were written for Floor and she had significantly reworked the vocals on at least two. On Storytime, the chorus she sings with her full classical technique was not sung by Anette Olzon but by backing vocalists. On Ghost Love Score the extended vocal finale is all Floor. There are live performances of Ghost Love Score with all three Nightwish lead singers, Tarja the Ice Queen, Anette the Elf and Floor. It's a case of a great song sounding great for any performer.
About the keyboard surround , earlier in the tour it had some pyro shooting out of the pipes but they stopped doing that so it was either not working or not safe.
This is at a Festival so even-though they are the headliner here it is not their “own” show and not all 82 000 people attending would have been there to see Nightwish. Just for some perspective 😊 like your reaction and I think Floor is a national treasure 🫶🏼🇳🇱
1:47 "Requests.. like Ayreon.." (grappige uitspraak trouwens.. Ai- [as in "ay car@mba"] -rion, haha).
H3ll YES please!! You'd be jumping straight into the melodic metal Universe, where it usually takes reactors quite some time to arrive there. So here goes once more (Dutch: komt-ie!): "Ayreon - Everybody Dies (Ayreon Universe)". And then just continue to surf the Wacken wave for a bit with e.g. "Romanticide". Groetjes! 🤘
Definitely should listen to the studio version (2017) of Ayreon's "The Day The World Breaks Down" (Ayreon - The Day That The World Breaks Down - The Source (2017)) before you listen to any other Ayreon. It will give you far more insight into the Ayreon Universe and it includes both Floor and Simone Simons (lead singer from Epica). Then Everybody Dies, then everything else from Nightwish, Ayreon, Epica, Floor's solo work, Beste Zangers, Tarja, After Forever, Blind Guardian, Dream Theater, Unleash The Archers, everybody else that you meet during your Ayreon Universe explorations, etc, etc, etc, oh and Dimash, Lara Fabian, Diana Ankudinova, Angelina Jordan, Cakra Khan, Beth Hart, then Led Zeppelin, Deep Purple, Black Sabbath, Moody Blues, Jethro Tull . . . oh and I forgot Pentatonix, Home Free, Voice Play . . . - you're going to have to start reacting more than once a week! 🙂
Nightwish Shadow Unit from Estonia reporting in ! 6'1'' Dutch Valkyrie Goddess spotted !
And you witnessed first hand a "Dutch Windmill" , and to finish you off, The Operatic "Cruise Missile" !!!!
Her name is derived from the Roman Goddess of Spring, Flora.
Floor Jansen is called the Valkyrie Goddess of Metal and Empathy.
She is a soprano, with a range of more than 4 octaves (Eb2 to F6).
She can sing from classical to belting and raspy vocals like screaming and death growls. And she's also a voice coach and teacher to boot. Plus, huge vocal nerd 😉.
Floor has 3 distinct styles. Head banging(straight forward, then back), hair whip(almost like cracking a bull whip) and the Windmill(continuous 360 degree revolutions). Why Windmill? Well she is Dutch.
Awesome tune , although it is kind of a pop/rockish sound (originally sung by Anette, the second singer of Nightwish), but Floor gave it soooo much POWER !!! Including this "Operatic" part, what was originally done by children's choir because vocal limitations on their second singer (Great singer also, I might add), but Floor has none of that "Limit".
Nightwish lyrics are often a bit interpretive, and not as "straight forward" as many other bands, because Tuomas ( The Metal Mozart Tuomas Holopainen: founder, leader, keyboardist, songwriter and the main composer for Nightwish.) prefers people to put their own interpretations and life experiences into the lyrics. you connect with songs on a personal level when there is something there that relates to things you have gone/are going through, and you may even find new connections later on in life when you have gone through other big events/emotions. there might be songs you are quite indifferent about (oh, nice song) and then you go through something big and all of a sudden it makes you break down in tears because now you relate to something in the lyrics you didn't before, and see it from a whole new perspective. imagination and life experiences are powerful, and Tuomas has great appreciation of this.
This was recorded at the 2013 Wacken (pronounced Vahken) Open Air festival in Germany in front of an audience of 82,000 people (one of the largest heavy metal festivals in the world and one of the largest open-air festivals in Germany). The fiery bull head is the symbol of the festival.
We hope, that there is more coming.
NWSU/FloorFan/Epican/Ayreonaut/TWA/PauFan 🤘😎🤘.
The "organ" is just a keyboard stand, not a real organ. But you're right - Nightwish makes for the crowd a full experience by everything possible including the stage equipment, large stage scren, stage lights or pyrotechnics... And there is very imprtant thing - the band members are perfectly able to communicate with the audience and do what the people need in the right moment for their greatest experience.
Imaginaerum - album, movie and red wine! Tuomas selected a Spanish wine 2010 to be the Nightwish "Imaginaerum" wine - nice drop if you can still get it! Tuomas has said that he would play all of the orchestral parts himself - if he had ten hands! Opera in metal? Have a look at "Stabat Mater Dolorosa" by Epica with their friend Floor! ruclips.net/video/nhtOORYTGx8/видео.html
Tuomas sounds like my type-a-guy, choosing an album wine. What a guy! 😂🙌🏻
imagine when you are introduced to Tarja Turunen, the first singer of this band. she is the queen of opera-metal