'What Did She Say'?! Girlfriend’s Mind-Blowing First Reaction to Nightwish's 'I Had an Angel!
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- Опубліковано 8 чер 2024
- Hey everyone! So today, we are reacting to NIGHTWISH, and their symphonic metal song, "I Wish I Had An Angel". Watch Steph sit in awed silence as she reacts to this insane song!!
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Nightwish is a powerhouse of symphonic metal hailing from Finland, known for their cinematic soundscapes and profound storytelling through music. Formed in 1996 by keyboardist Tuomas Holopainen, the band combines metal with classical music elements, creating a distinctive, epic sound that has garnered a massive global following. "I Had an Angel" is a track that showcases Nightwish's signature blend of thunderous metal riffs and soaring symphonic arrangements. The song delves into themes of loss and redemption, conveyed through powerful lyrics and emotive music. It's a perfect example of how Nightwish can craft deeply moving narratives within their songs, making them resonate with fans across different backgrounds and tastes. This track, like many others from Nightwish, is not just a song but an emotional journey, making it an excellent choice for a first-time listener to experience the depth and passion of symphonic metal.
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Hello Stephanie and Rob [ A View From the Stage ] ! Nightwish fan here, your musical quest summoned me.
Welcome to the world of symphonic metal! And thank you for checking this legendary band! This music video is from their 5th studio album "Once" (2004), then together with Tarja Turunen [pronounced Tarr-ya], the 1st female singer of the band, and Marco Hietala, bassist and singer.
About the instrumental and vocal added parts - it's good to know they recorded their orchestral and vocal back tracks with prestigious institutions as London Philharmonic Orchestra. London's The Metro Voices choir group and London's Young Musicians Children's Choir as their regular partners.
Since this is your first Nightwish reaction, it is my duty to give you the [updated] short history of the band concentrated by Ann Waychoff, one of the biggest Nightwish fan who has since passed away (and I am doing this in her memory):
" Nightwish was started in 1996.They are considered a Symphonic Metal band, with a female main singer. They are from Finland.
Tuomas Holopainen [pronounced Tuo-mas], the keyboard player, composes and writes the lyrics for 95% of their music. [Sami Vanska was the bassist of the band starting with their 2nd studio album, he was with them until 2001. Then Marco Hietala was bassist and vocals, since 2001 to 2020. He recently announced his retirement both from the band and the public life for the next year at least. Then in May 2021 Jukka Koskinen [pronounced Yukka] became the bassist of the band, for the Human :II: Nature tour - and recently, the band announced he became a permanent member] And there is the guitarist Emppu Vuorinen [he also recorded the bass lines for their 1st studio album]. Then there is Troy Donockley from UK who is a multi-instrumentalist and vocals. Jukka Nevalainen [pronounced Yukka] is the drummer. In 2015 due to Jukka's health issues Kai Hahto became the drummer and as of now is a permanent addition.
Nightwish has had three singers. 1st one was Tarja Turunen [pronounced Tarr-ya] (Operatic vocals) - you just heard her. She was with them until 2005. The 2nd one was Anette Olzon from Sweden (Poppy, strong vocals). She was with them until 2012.The 3rd and current singer is Floor Jansen, from Netherlands (power, operatic, soprano.....most versatile).
There are live concerts that you should use depending on what era. From Wishes to Eternity and End of an Era (Tarja), Montreux Festival live 2012 and Exit Festival (Anette), Live at Wacken 2013, Live at Wembley, Live at Tampere, Vehicle of Spirit, Decades live (Floor). I hope this helps.
I want to welcome you to the Nightwish community. I hope you like them enough to continue the journey. Believe me Nightwish will surprise you with their songs. You will never know what to expect. They are unbelievable live. I want to warn you that Nightwish fans are hard core. So be prepared. lol "
For an extended set of suggestion (with links), I posted 2 huge comments in the community tab in my main YT channel: www.youtube.com/@gabriel.bardac/community
I tell you one thing... This is an authoritative voice on NW
@@Boa_Omega ... and now that voice of Nightwish has developed and is much, much better. 👍🇫🇮
@@pen7759 sure. Be nice if they adjust the script to insert a definition of German Lied singing. Vs opera. Save me retyping it out by hand on my phone in every new reactor's video. 😎 finger gets sore eh.
@@Boa_Omega nice 👍
When it's Nightwish, always choose the live version if available. Especially when it's Tarja and Marco singing a duet; they never quite managed to translate the chemistry they had on stage to the studio. Check out the version from the 'End of an Era' concert! Greetings from Finland!
Hello!!!
Amazing powerful old Nightwish! You must watch The Phantom of the opera End of an Era concert 2005 .Tarja s operatic voice and the power of Marco s voice will surprise you! Greetings from Greece😊
That is most assuredly coming!!
@@aviewfromthestageand slaying the dreamer too, Tarja does some beautiful belting. in the siren she is also amazing. I can also suggest something from her solo career "Shadow play in circus life live show" where she sings less operatically.
Such a classic, I love Wish I Had an Angel! Tarja and Marko have such a great chemistry, both vocally and also on stage.
It was so exciting that Tarja and Marko released a new music video together this year, 20 years after this video came out!
I hope you'll do more!! :) Thank you :)
Oh she so needs to watch them do Phantom of the Opera! Marko makes such a sinister Phantpm
Phantom of the Opera from End of an Era shows off her voice way better
Nice honest reaction! 🙂👍 Everybody have already say so much, so I will say only, that I will follow your Nightwish journey and just "🔔". Greetings from Finland! (by Nightwish fan since 1998)
That's what I'm sayin! It's ALL about the honesty, and we keep that goin through every single video that we put out! Cheers from the USA!
Great reaction guys welcome to Nightwish. Starting with the first singer Tarja. Tarja is more classical/Operetic with her vocals, next is Anette who is more Pop sounding and now there's Floor who can pretty much sing any genre. Enjoy.
P.s. may i Suggest Ayreon. If you want to be introduced to new bands a lot of them nordic Arjen always has new talent with his musical metal projects.
Nice to see the original music video. They are so young there. There is no doubt some post-production.
I wish the bass was not hitting the stops and distorting the music for this reaction.
If you do Phantom, try the one with Tarja, and the recent live video from 2022 with Floor, who is pitch-perfect live, and a powerful singer.
It is clear you are very aware of the music from the bands from the Nordic countries.
Greetings from Canada, i am a big Nightwish fan, particularly with Floor and Marko.
Yeah, I very much enjoy most of the Nordic bands that I have heard. I went from knowing very little to a bunch over my life. What are your favorites?
This song revolves around frustration Tuomas Holopainen (Nightwish's keyboardist & principal composer( had while at a bar with his girlfriend. According to Tuomas:
"I was there with my girlfriend at the time, and all these guys kept hitting on her. Even people I knew - guys who were certainly aware that we were dating - tried to chat her up. There was a full-scale hookup going on on the dance floor. The line ‘wish I had an angel’ just slammed into my head. I [thought] it was so corny that it might even work. In a way, the dance beat conveys the setting of the song, and is an essential part of what that song’s about. Lyrically, it’s the most down-to-earth, redneck, truck-stop song I’ve ever written".
Wow! I imagine he was pretty annoyed. BUT kind of a happy accident to be able to create this song. Everything sure happens for a reason 🤪
Not Norway, Nightwish is a Finnish band who now have a Dutch lead singer Floor Jansen and an English multi instrumentalist, Troy Donockley. This was early in their career with Tarja Turunen (operatic style) on lead vocals.
Tuomas Holopainen ( keys) songwriter composer.
Not opera, German Lied singing.
Maybe check out the live version with the current vocalist, Floor Jansen.
Finland 🤘🇫🇮
Ensiferum, Sentenced, Korpiklaani, Amorphis for example
Tarja’s voice IS perfect…always..🤘🏻
100% agree..
I heard this was written by the keyboard player, Tuomas (main writer\composer), because when he was out on a date - other guys (not the band) were over-the-top hitting on his date despite knowing she was with him! Nightwish Army, Blue Mountains Corps, Australia. edit: yes, Steph - Marko is awesome! p.s. Try Delain, Epica and Within Temptation from The Netherlands. Tristania from Norway and Sabaton from Sweden. Also.... Kobra and The Lotus from Canada!
I have heard this story! Where there's smoke there's fire!
This song was made for a movie or TV show - but it never materialized. I love this song and both Tarja and Floor do it justice.
Either way, it's an incredible song! And yeah.. I"m super excited to check out Floor. She seems to be the lady who can sing ANYTHING!
ive been a Nightwish fan since the beginning..and never once thought this was electronic drums...not even once
The beginning is. You can hear a distinct switch right before Tarja sings, when it goes to regular drums. That's not a slight against them, I just heard it in the production. :)
Tarja and Marko!! 🤘Next slaying the dreamer (end of an era show) please!!
Nightwish has had 3 different singers or 3 different eras. With Tarja the queen (you have listened) all begun, Anett for 5 years and now Floor Jansen (until 2012), the goddess valkyrie of Metal. You must listen to NW now. Floor is the cherry on every cake. Unbelivable. Best female vocalist you can iagine. So please check out Gabriel's list and your life will never be the same.
Stephanie might prefer Noora Louhimo's voice: "BATTLE BEAST - Master Of Illusion (OFFICIAL MUSIC VIDEO)". Or Netta Laurenne's. Samckbound's guitarist, Teemu Mäntysaari, is currently playing in Megadeath: "Smackbound - Change - Official Music Video". Also: "Dave Mustaine's double?". Speaking of Nordic music, Sweden is obviously the guiding light. Finland is probably a bit of a dark closet of the bunch. At least has been that in the past. Documentary about Michael Monroe has been running on Finnish TV this week, and it addresses 'the best kept secret' thing and difficulty of making it outside Finland. The funny thing is that there are US musicians, who know Finnish music, while the general US public not so much: "PEACEMAKER 1x5 Hanoi Rocks scene", "Hanoi Rocks - 11Th Street Kids Live 1981", "Michael Monroe -dokumenttielokuva tulossa elokuvateattereihin" and "Michael Monroe - Ballad Of The Lower East Side (Official Music Video)". Dave Grohl knows at least one other Finnish band: "Nirvana - "Run Rabbit Run" Live 10/30/88 Olympia, WA" and "Smack: Run Rabbit Run (live 1984)". Smack toured in the US, but In one of his documentaries, Grohl told how in their youth they used to order small-label and self-published albums from overseas. Has Rob come across this band? They were popular in the Nordics and knocking doors in the Europe: "Shell Super Oil mainosfilmi, esittää: Hurriganes", "Making of Roadrunner - Day One", "Hurriganes-Road Runner" and "Hurriganes - Get On", Here's a movie and a band based on the joke of making it in the America from Finland. The band ended up performing in the MTV Music Awards in 1994: "Leningrad Cowboys Go America (1989) Trailer", "Leningrad Cowboys Go America - Do you have rock'n'roll?", "Leningrad Cowboys - Sweet Home Alabama (1993)" and "Leningrad Cowboys Total Balalaika-Gimme all your loving". Before there was Leningrad Cowboys, the core members had a band called Sleeper Sleepers: "Sleepy Sleepers - Highway (1982) HQ". Since those days Finnish bands have toured the US and gained popularity there. Here's couple of those bands. Quentin Tarantino is fan of the first one: "Laika & the Cosmonauts - Sauna-Soul" (original song: "Soulset - Sauna Soul"), "James Hetfield with Apocalyptica One LIVE San Francisco" and "PANTERA "Cemetery Gates" Gone Polka by STEVE 'N' SEAGULLS | Metal Injection". And some bands have toured in Finland: "Lemmy from Motörhead vs. Hurriganes" and "Albert Järvinen & Lemmy "Countdown" (1984)". Metallica toured in Finland, and maybe got a riff for 'Enter Sandman" from Stone: "Metallica & Stone Rockstop 1988 (Finnish television)" and "Stone - Get Stoned". This: "Red Hot Chili Peppers talks about Finnish fans" and "RHCP interview Provinssirock '88". When Faith No More toured in Finland in 1992, they listened to this CMX album on their tour bus: "CMX - Pyhiinvaeltaja". Billy Gould ended up producing an album for CMX. Then there's popular bands (in Finland) you probably haven't heard of. This one was listed as such in Rolling Stone Magazine: "melodikakofoniko Eppu Normaali - Kitara, taivas ja tähdet".
And yet ANOTHER comment for Battle Beast. I'm tellin ya, we are going to HAVE to react to that band!
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Hi Rob & Stephanie, greetings from UK
If you want a voice with more of an edge, you want more Marco and you want a heavy tune then I have two recommendations for you;
'Romanticide' from Wacken 2013 festival, or 'Yours Is An Empty Hope' from Wembley 2015.
Both feature the current singer Floor Jansen who has one of the most versatile voices in the world. Floor can be Operatic like Tarja (you just heard her), she can sing in a Pop style, a Metal style, a Classical style, or all the way down the scale to Death Metal growls!
Super excited to hear Floor!
Nemo and Sleeping Sun .. back in the days of Music-TV in Germany i wait for this to write the Name of the Band to check out.. still here 🤣
Hahaha!
Tarja ❤❤ yeah do Phantom of the Opera or The Siren from End of an Era both with Marko, Tarja's voice has a naturally clean, she's classically trained after all sound but it's also so unique and mystical
YES PLEACE!!! Phantom of the opera and you don’t disapointed. This group do only good music!
Nightwish Army Germany cheicking in.
Nice reaction....but pleaseeee......introduce her to the LIVE Side of Nightwish...Wacken 2013 is THE Startpoint...and there will be no AutoTune..... happy to follow that journey.
All Hail Queen Floor !
We WILL be hitting up live Nightwish! In approximately 2 weeks time!
I think that this song is so long ago than I don't thing that pitch correction was a thing back then. I would like to know when pitch correction auto tune came around.
Autotune and it's brother simple pitch correction came around in 1998. Cher-Believe was the first song to feature it. Once that happen, the floodgates opened. Being that this is 2004, that is MORE than enough time. NOW, that's not to say that Tarja or Marko can't sing their faces off! Because they most assuredly can. I just hate what it has done to the music industry. People who CAN'T sing are making millions... to quote Lester Bangs in the film Almost Famous.. "..it becomes and industry of 'cool' "
In Finland: Nightwish, Sonata Arctica, Stratovarius, Battle Beast, Apulanta, Indica, The Rasmus, Tarot, Beast in black, Timo Rautiainen & trio niskalaukaus, Wintersun.
In Sweden: Roxette, Sabaton, Dragonian, Tiamat, Amaranthe,
In German: Rammstein, Blind Guardian, Headhunter, Powerwolf, Damn of Destiny,
Denmark: Amaranthe,
I keep hearing Battle Beast across SEVERAL commenters... SO I do believe that they are going to be next!
i'll always recommend listening to NW live. and if you delve into Tarja's solo career, you really want to listen to her live. NW tends to overproduce their vids. for Tarja best live with NW is End of an Era or Wishes to Eternity and Summer Breeze. Floor is WAcken 2013. Annette is best heard in studio for the most part.
You should check out Battle Beast for equally talented but rougher sounding female Lead singer.
Great voice NOORA LOUHIMO from Finland.
Nightwish started in 1996.
Nightwish released an amazing compilation of live performances from the song Tribal in December 2023. Nice to check where Nightwish is now.
BTW just below the Nordic countries 😄there is a little country with great music bands like After Forever and Epica. Not going to tell you the name of this country but some Nightwish fans call it Floorida🤓
I’m pretty sure those Danish bands come from Deutschmark, as all Scandinavians do… Right?🙃
How’s the weather in Amstelhavn btw? I’ve heard it gets bloody damn cold up there, near the Arctic Circle. Do you have polar bears?🐻❄
hard dark spell-binding Tarja (and Marko too) with Nightwish:
(even some rocking on invisible guitar, head windmills, and etc theatrics too)
(remember, the concerts/albums/covers must be BEFORE 2006, for Tarja's performances)
(not ranked, just listed)
1. Slaying the Dreamer
2. Planet Hell
3. Wishmaster
4. Kinslayer
5. Ghost Love Score
6. The Siren
7. End of All Hope
8. Dead to the World
9. 10th Man Down
Your girlfriend may prefer this song performed with Floor Jansen on lead vocals.
Wacken 2013 is a good option - no pitch correction. 🇬🇧🤘🤘
No! She must watch the same song from Tarja live from the End of an Era concert!
@@alexandra-md5he That is a good version, but it is sung in the same style so would be unlikely to alter her feelings towards the song.
The song is different live and Tarja is different live and more operatic than the official video.@@dazjackson1972
The song live in the End of an Era is different because there Tarja sings it with her operatic voice.@@dazjackson1972
The song in the End of an Era is different because Tarja sings it there with her operatic voice
Great reaction, new subscriber here :) Check Wacken 2012 version of this song with Floor. Greetings from Finland!
Added! Thanks for comin by!
ALL hale the REAL TRUE QUEEN 👑 of NIGHTWISH and of ALL FEMALE SYMPHONIC METAL SINGERS!!!, the very beautiful looking and very unique voice of the enchanting TARJA!!!😀👍👍🤘
❤Tarja❤ouve mais nightwish com a cantora Tarja,walking in the air,ghost to the opera,the siren e muito mais,ela foi a primeira cantora da banda e pra mim a melhor até á data.....e continua a cantar agora a solo...❤
Check bye bye beautiful
Pues deberian de reaccionar las canciones de Nightwish en vivo especialmente la era de Tarja porque su voz se aprecia mejor en los en vivos y antes de criticar la voz de Tarja seria bueno hacer una seguidilla de la voz de Tarja y su evolución hasta como solista luego de ahi pueden sacar una conclusión ya que Tarja ya casi 19 años que dejo la banda en ese lapso de tiempo casi 2 décadas hubo muchos cambios vocales en Tarja en Nightwish solo era una adolescente y joven que estaba estudiando canto como solista es oro en bruto en cuanto a tecnicas y vocal se refieran 😏 no se queden solo con Nightwish en la era de Tarja siganle tambien como solista hasta ha colaborado musicalmente con Scorpions en el año 2010 😏
Great song! No apologies, Stephanie! Her voice is amazing but I’m not in the mood to hear from an operatic singer much. He had a sneer like her grew up on the Henry Rollins Band.
Denmark? Are you sure you didn't mean the Netherlands.... the Dutch are the progenitors of much of the female vocal prowess in the Euro-metal scene.
The Danes?
I mean, no disrespect, but can the guy on Stage Right name a few Danish bands/vocalists that would compete with the likes of Floor, Simone, Anneke or Diane?
Just giving you grief... I know it was a slip of the tongue.
Dutch, Danish, same difference. All these Funnish Norwegians come from Deutschmark anyway.😊
Watch Floors version
Can you make the video smaller please, I can still almost see it. Shame on the mess.
I'm pretty sure I could make it smaller. :) Thanks for the suggestion! And yes, I am being sarcastic. And also yes, if you REALLY need the video for your own eyes, it is pretty easy to find. :)
Your head is twice as big as the video screen....UGH