So funny seeing you sitting there presenting Nightwish as a proud daddy 😄 We all know that feeling btw 😉

@AussieGoblin618

3 жыл бұрын

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 😂

@benedictmohr1075

2 жыл бұрын

Thats why reaction videos are so lovable =)

Always nice when a reactor shows the wife nightwish

@wanmac31

3 жыл бұрын

Suddenly Missus starts her own Nightwish reactions 😁🇫🇮🤘❤️🎶🎹🎸🥁✨👍

@alanfoster6589

3 жыл бұрын

@@wanmac31 Sara...meet Jen.

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 ☺️

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

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.

@paisa20

3 жыл бұрын

Same here

@CamiPeanut

3 жыл бұрын

Yep. I get that same look when I introduce someone to NW!

Tom, never argue your wife. And somewhere she is right. Lyrics are important when listening Nightwish.

@richardgoddard37

3 жыл бұрын

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)

@ninakiewiet

3 жыл бұрын

Agree but she could have done it after the reaction instead of watching it first

@MikkoRantalainen

3 жыл бұрын

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.

@miklis203

3 жыл бұрын

There is two ways to argue with your wife. the bad way and the good way. neither works. Happy wife, happy life.

@xtravagentk1275

2 жыл бұрын

@@MikkoRantalainen The closed captions for videos are rarely valuable lmfao.

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 KZread. 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 KZread 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.

@Nikioko

3 жыл бұрын

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.

@AussieGoblin618

3 жыл бұрын

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

@schout33

3 жыл бұрын

@@AussieGoblin618 You probably mean 'Soaring Highs and Brutal Lows'

The quality of the lyrics in Nightwish' songs is like the quality of their music and the quality of the voice of Floor, Marko and Troy. Many bands have only one of these qualitys. Luckily for us, Nightwish have them all: Lyrics, Music and Voice.

@rogeriopenna9014

3 жыл бұрын

Like Rush then

@erickvermeulen9734

2 жыл бұрын

Well, the lyrics are poems (and I think poems are a grade higher than lyrics), with double meanings, metaphors, analogies and word plays - takes a long time to comprehend them

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)

@DougsShack

3 жыл бұрын

Yeah, that was a bit awkward...

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

@rogeriopenna9014

3 жыл бұрын

Symphonic Metal is a subdivision of heavy metal

@stephaneboisvert8990

3 жыл бұрын

@@rogeriopenna9014 Nightwish is a subdivision of music :-)

🤘🙂 Enjoy the Ride. Welcome to Nightwish 💐 💘

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.

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.

@shspurs1342

3 жыл бұрын

The real orchestra they use. Is the London Symphonic Orchestra. They give them the keyboard players arrangement.

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.

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.

@Enderu666

3 жыл бұрын

As long as it's official videos, otherwise they tend to have incorrect lyrics.

I'm not even 3 minutes in and I'm in stitches about the arguing about lyrics xD So relatable.

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...🤘🤘🤘🤘👍

@davidstephen6753

3 жыл бұрын

Ha, we are exactly the same!! My wife bought our tickets to Nightwish 18 months ago for Wembley (now scheduled for December 2021)!

@BlueCipher

3 жыл бұрын

Still workin' on it..

@davidstephen6753

3 жыл бұрын

@@BlueCipher Good luck!

@alexcrouwel6942

3 жыл бұрын

@@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

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.

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

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.

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!

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

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.

Great reaction! Nightwish is a lifetime journey to humanity. Like marriage 😂 Greets from Finland 🤘🇫🇮

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.

Wifey, the background is based on the ability of the keyboardist, Tuomas, sometimes called the Metal Mozart. He composes 95% of their music.

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"

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). kzread.info/dash/bejne/epeszK2lhcbQiNI.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.

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..

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.

Hello Mrs Tuffnuts! :) Enjoy the Floorgasms!

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.

@pen7759

3 жыл бұрын

Ward Hart, this was well done.

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

@horscategorie

3 жыл бұрын

Pfft... Don't forget - Floor definitely plays emotions...

@lillihartman9802

3 жыл бұрын

@@horscategorie exactly

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

How can you appreciate this when you only listening with one ear!

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 😍

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

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! 😆 🤣

@TomTuffnuts

3 жыл бұрын

She loved being apart of it!

@HansWeilenmann

3 жыл бұрын

@@TomTuffnuts “She loved being apart of it…” That typo made me chuckle, m’man 😎

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

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 :)

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!

Bold prediction at the beginning. She liked it xd. It is so fun to share Nightwish with people.

Nothing to argue about, some of us want to know the lyrics first, some don't. Neither is wrong.

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.

How Floor sings the meaning of the lyrics into the music is one of the most important things for Nightwish composer Tuomas.

@Nikioko

3 жыл бұрын

Yes. But to be honest, that is what you can expect from a professional singer. Floor isn't an amateur.

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 KZread 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 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

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...

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.

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 😁😁

Wifey"s soul snatched by the Valkyrie Goddess

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.

@johnolexa1543

3 жыл бұрын

Agree! Love how floor acknowledges him in the end.

All Hail to our Queen Valkerie, hail to your lady too.

😂😂😂 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.

Have you tried turning on closed captions? Nightwish embeds the lyrics into most of their videos...

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.

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

"I like to know the background of the band" You're in for a treat 😂

Lyrics are always important.

Fun fact: You could just have turned on the subtitles. :P Edit: The flaming bull is the logo of the Wacken Open Air festival.

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

Love that sneaky smile like "í know" what's coming!🤣

"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: kzread.info/dash/bejne/rGZ62cagitTOqco.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).

@fortuna7469

3 жыл бұрын

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.

@jiansonz

3 жыл бұрын

Very well put, I am fully with you on this interpretation.

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, ... 👍 🥁 🇫🇮

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.

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.

@Mind-your-own-beeswax

3 жыл бұрын

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.

@randymarple9830

3 жыл бұрын

@@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.

@sordel5866

3 жыл бұрын

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.

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.

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!

This is why you should never argue with Floor. When she punches, 82,000 people punch along with her. 💪✊

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.

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.

The flaming bull skull is the official emblem of Wacken, it burns throughout the festival.

Tom, do what all the clever guys do: Listen to your wife! Especially when they have a better understanding of the subject. ;-) Floor is just as important to the text as it is to your wife. She wants you to feel the text. But for this you have to know the text and that's why your wife wants to understand the text. Rumors say that the text is about Tuomas' love for the first singer Tarja. But she was never interested in him. This unrequited love is the ghost in the title. Some of the text remains puzzling because only Tuomas knows what it is really about. Fun fact: During rehearsals, Floor changed the ending. In the original the ghost fades vocally. Floor was too boring and sings out her 3.5 octaves. She also adapts other songs to her voice, if less dramatically. The Original with Tarja: kzread.info/dash/bejne/i4N4pa9rZq2-f7w.html

@Honken55

3 жыл бұрын

Silly rumours.... he wrote about love a lot in his younger days as most guys do... Now when he matured its more about science and nature....

@wagnerrastelli2432

3 жыл бұрын

@@Honken55 I agree. Those lyrics are mostly about some romantic and abstract idea of a love that is pure and innocent, almost childish. It seems more like he was reading too much 19th century poetry than he was in love. Honestly I've been reading Nightwish lyrics to see if I can find it cause I think it would be fascinating if he was in love with Tarja and writting about it... But I can't see it. I think it's more or less settled in the Poet and the Pendulum that he saw her as a muse for his poetry and art (he also saw the band as an entity with it's own symbols and mythology) which is kinda obvious if you think he was writting the songs for her voice and her interpretation

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"!!! 😉

How dare you give your wife a Floorgasm. :) Seriously though, I've been going onto my 30th year of my marriage, and yes this is exactly it. No bickering - no fun.

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!

groups like Nightwish and Epica are classified as Symphonic Metal they melodic tunes come with the territory

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.

That smirk "I know what's coming, and you don't, yet"!

Ghost Love Score is a song less about the specific lyrical content and more about the journey, artistry and entirety of the song. It takes the listener on a journey through the beauty and uncertainty of love, of what, of why, of who, is not specified. The song begins as an almost lament and ends in a climactic explosion of emotion, in every aspect.

I love that long marriage husband and wife stuff going on there... 🤣🤣🤣

Wacken is in Germany. The greatest Metal/Rock festival in the world. In 2013 there were still 82,000 people. A few years later, over 130,000 people traveled to Wacken. Today 0 😒

@dieseldog00

3 жыл бұрын

Not to worry coyote, today might have been zero, but the time will come when Wacken will be flooded with fans again. The pandemic has to be buried in the deepest hole we can dig, and then we will return to wonderful normalcy.

@TomTomson81

3 жыл бұрын

@@dieseldog00 The virus does not go away. We will have to learn to live with and will hopefully be vaccinated well.

@LuriTV

3 жыл бұрын

that's not entirely true. Wacken is capped at 85k attendands. The organizer could easily make the festival bigger but they don't want to. They would need to renew the whole infrastructure to do so and it would most likely spiral out of control and become less worthwhile to do so.

@TomTomson81

3 жыл бұрын

@@LuriTV You're right 85,000 maximum. Didn't want to spread any misinformation, but I'm very sure that I've read that 130,000 traveled to Wacken. Then probably not everyone got a seat or tickets, but the village was full.

The wifey has a great understanding of music, i like her.

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" 🤘🤘👍

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!! * * * * * 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. ** 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

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?

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.

Singers sing what they can Floor sing what she want ❤

Got up as I couldn't sleep and started to watch this video. Started laughing and grinning . You are SO married!! :)

Welcome to Nightwish!

LOL... got a kick out of him trying to hint that she should sit up where we can see her face.... was hilarious, and very genuine!...

Your wife should appreciate anything by Nightwish or Floor although maybe not the heavier stuff if that's not her bag, but who knows ?. Maybe replay Shallow or Let it Go, or a new one to you Alone which is best known by Heart.

@TomTuffnuts

3 жыл бұрын

Alone should be up tomorrow with our Reaction! So AMAZING!

@Mind-your-own-beeswax

3 жыл бұрын

Tbh heavy stuff wasn’t my bag at all. I don’t come from a metal background and in fact disliked metal until very recently. I started with the more melodic songs as much as I could but gradually got really into their heavier tracks. Now I love them all equally

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!!

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.

The Wacken Open Air (stylized spelling W:O:A) is a heavy metal festival held for the first time in 1990, which takes place annually on the first weekend of August in the municipality of Wacken in Schleswig-Holstein and is organized by ICS Festival Service GmbH (International Concert Service). Almost all types of hard rock and metal are represented at the festival.[1] It is one of the largest heavy metal festivals in the world and one of the largest open-air festivals in Germany. In the years 2011 to 2019, the number of participants was around 85,000 people, 75,000 of them paying visitors.

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!

Don't give up hope. They are supposed to give 4 performances in the states. October 1st and 2nd in Los Angeles, October 5th in New York, and October 7th in Lowell, MA. Check their official website. Enjoy your Nightwish journey.

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

LoL that face of you at her final yell kills me! 👌🏻❤️