Oh you ladies will LOVE Floor's cover of Lady Gaga's "Shallow" from the "A Star is Born" movie soundtrack. Floor covered it on a Dutch TV singing show called Beste Zangers in 2019. ALL 8 Floor performances will KNOCK your socks OFF!!!!! including the FINALE of "The Phantom of the Opera"!!!
Even 68 years old, with a history in the music industry in the Netherlands...No one ever touched me with her voice as this lady does....It is pure magic.
This is one of several covers filmed in her home studio during lockdown. Her husband is behind the camera. That microphone is in the neighbor hood of 6-7 thousand dollars. Sir Joost van den Broek is playing the piano. He played keyboards with Floor in her first band, After Forever. Played with and produced her band ReVamp, does a lot of work with Arjen Lucasson in Ayreon and other projects. And has produced many other artists, including EPICA and Blind Guardian. Heart's version is a cover as well. The original is from 1983 by i-Ten. One of the other covers she did here, is "Let It Go" from Frozen.
You should watch her and others in Beste Zangers. She does a duet with Henk Poort at the end of the season, which you should save for last. Every person is the main guest for one episode, and other people sing a song for them. A song that means alot, a song they wrote/made, or something that fits their life. There are some episodes available with English subtitles.
Yup, the goto versions are the English subbed "intro/outro" versions. Way better experience and they also tend to get blocked less. Channel "Floor op TV" --> playlist "Beste Zangers 2019". Cheers!
These cover's by Floor, five or six of them, were done during the Covid lockdown for her fans....They were recorded, in her Barn, from her home in Sweden, with her husband Hannes Van Dahl who is the drummer for the Swedish metal group Sabaton....You must hear Floor's cover of "Frozen", which she did for her daughter....
There is only 1 female singer who could ever come close to the fantastic Ann Wilson & that is of course the just as fantastic Floor, imagine those 2 doing a duet, if you want a duet, try Floor with Epica doing Sancta Terra, the cuteness will blow your mind
Hello Kathy, Lulu and Donna, Nightwish Army Italian division here. Floor can sing what she wants, when she wants and how she wants without doubt. Whether she sings alone or with Nightwish or Sabaton, or Epica (with her best friend and wonderful singer Simone Simons) or with the Ayreon project the result does not change. She is from another planet.
Floor Jansen was also in a Dutch live tv series in 2019 called Beste Zangers or Best Singers, definitely check out All of her performances, awesome 😎 request
This version of Alone with only the piano is absolutely beautiful. Floor did also in lockdown time a cover of Adagio from Lara Fabian. React to that one. It is one of my favourites❤💥💯
I love Floor bringing the goosebumps but as a piano teacher i always have to give a shout out to the piano accompaniment which is just as outstanding! 😊
Thank you! As you can see Floor is wearing a shirt with a wolf and the text “I howl and I roar cause I’m not afraid anymore”. She has a wolf tattooed behind one ear and a dog behind the other, as to show 2 sides of her character. Here the wolf in her seems to be dominant, she really howls!❤
Love your reactions ladies. So full of joy and positivity. Floor appeared on a Dutch show called Beste Zangers. Talented singers got together to sing each others songs or songs that meant something to them. Floor, a relatively unknown singer to them, came in and amazed them with her power and versatility. Any song from the show will amaze you, but Phantom Of The Opera will blow your socks off!
Donna is right about trying to sing a Ann Wilson song.But if anyone can pull it off is floor.The younger ladies need to learn heart, it is a fantastic band.hi from a very snowy Finland.
Great one. Seen a lot of recommendations for "Beste Zangers" and as the saying goes: "I concur". However.. If you want to do yourself (and the viewers) a very big favour, go and watch the versions that are English subbed and include the before/after banter between the participating singers. Adds a ton of fun & context. All of Floor's performances on Beste Zangers are to be found on Jennie Nopper's channel "Floor op TV", goto playlist "Beste Zangers 2019" and you're in for a whole lotta treats. Besides Floor's performances, there's at least one by another singer that deserves special mention, which is Emma Heesters singing to Floor. You'll see it in the playlist. The song is called "Strong" and it was written by Floor for her mother who suffers from a painful chronic illness (RA). Cheers from Amsterdam! P.s.: start with the first one by Floor from the 1st episode, "Vilja Lied". Choose the "Phantom" with Henk Poort as yr last one, since it aired later to begin with and besides that, it's also not on the playlist and tends to get blocked of & on.
Hi ! Beste Zangers with Floor Jansen and Henk Poort and the Phantom of the opera. Now this is a spectacular performance you must see. As a new subscriber I hope we´ll see more Nightwish and Floor within your reactions. I like the way you all react in the same time here. Waiting for more to come. Greets from snowy Finland. Take care.
One thing that I really like about her homemade covers is that you get to see her up close. In this video you can really see that she actually feels the song intensely. After the song is done you see her look over to the cameraman (her husband) and thr look on her face really goes with the mood of the song. She has stated in several interviews that she is an empath and you can really tell that she is. This is one of many things that sets her apart from most singers and makes her extraordinary.
Nitpick alert: this song is actually not a Heart cover, because Heart's 1987 version is itself a cover. The original was made by the AOR (radio rock) duo I-Ten in 1983 and can be found on their sole album "Taking a cold look".
@ronnie1587 you are absolutely right. I think the correct credit should be given. It's like the Led Zeppelin song "When the Levee Breaks" was written and preformed back in the 1929 by Memphis Minnie and Kansas Joe McCoy.
You should hear her doing these other songs she did from her barn LET IT GO EUPHORIA OBLIVION also any song from her solo album PARAGON. Then there is her duet (not really) with QUEEN "Who wants to live forever" Floor has always said that is who she would have really loved to do a duet with
🤘 MORE FLOOR 🤘 Her husband is Hannes Van Dahl drummer in Sabaton and they have two daughters Freja and Lucy She sings in the end of "SABATON - Christmas Truce (Official Music Video)"
Great cover version of this song. Ann Wilson from Heart has always been one of my favorite singers. Floor is one of my favorite singers on this side of the century lol. This version is much more stripped down. But a great song can be performed many different ways and still be as powerful. Great singer, great song, great reaction! You oughta check out Nancy Wilson from Heart with Greta Wilson on vocals, and Alice N Chains doing Barracuda live!!! You'll love it. Have a good one ladies!!! 👏🤟🍻
NORTHWARD - While Love Died, One of the many sides of Floor. Dark Sarah - "Dance With The Dragon" feat. JP Leppäluoto, Nice "Phantom Of the Opera" vibe but twice as good. Poets of the Fall - Carnival of Rust, One of the best music videos ever, decent music also.
Love your reactions! Check out Floor's channel for videos about her home life - she has horses, a large garden and a few dogs and cats in her life; you'll find that she's pretty down to earth. The "Covid Sessions" were a real treat for us fans when no one could go out; it was her way of keeping sane and keeping her vocal instrument tuned. Someone suggested the Frozen video, which is good (not a fan of the song) but I like the follow up one even better (Into the Unknown). Her best cover though has to be "Shallow" on the Dutch TV show Beste Zengers - it will blow you away.
I recemment you to watch all the performances of Floor in the Dutch tv show "beste zangers" she sings different styles and in different languages (English, Dutch, German, Spanish) and at the end se does a super good duet with a Dutch tenor.
She is on her home studio where she sings and her hubby, the Drummer of the Swedish metal group Sabaton does his drumming. She recorded several covers in her studio during covid to keep her voice strong. There is a fun documentary/promo about a company reorganizing their garage and gives you a look at their home in Sweden, studio, and garage. Mini interviews in it as well. Has subtitles.
Nice reaction ladies. During covid ,the Valkyrie Goddess sang the song OBLIVION from the movie Oblivion with TOM CRUISE. 😊 Of course she knocked it out of the park.She is a Goddess after all. ❤😇😇😇😍
During the lockdown, Floor really spoilt us all! Ramping it up, Floor style. :) Lovingly videoed by her husband Hannes, the drummer from Sabaton, that last nod, "Yep, that'll do it!"
Dear Kathy, it's all okay. Mispronounced names is no shame. With all the different languages in this world, no one will or should be offended. You gave your best shot 👍👌🤘👏 BTW, how astonishing is she??😊
Great reaction ladies. This wasn't Floor's first time singing this song. She used to sing it in concert with her first band After Forever and she also did an acoustic version with Marko, Troy, and Kai during the Nightwish cruise on the Baltic Princess in 2015 (ua-cam.com/video/ObT2E9QTIZs/v-deo.htmlsi=SYAp5a4vDuGpyv7T) In a great bit Troy started playing the theme from Titanic and then Floor rushed on stage stoping then and chewing them out for singing that song while on a cruise. That said this version from her Covid cover videos is by far the best version. My favorite of Floor's pandemic video's was her cover of Oblivion from the movie of the same name staring Tom Cruise. Another great song from that cruise is their acoustic performance of Edma Ruh. (ua-cam.com/video/g3fjBAhOXIM/v-deo.htmlsi=eNxPxoMJifrQZxz_). Song is inspired by the Patrick Rothfuss books of the Kingkiller Chronicles. The Edema Ruh are a group of nomadic performers who travel about the countryside performing music, plays, and storytelling. They are the keepers of the culture and myth. A beautiful song that was almost the first single off Endless Forms Most Beautiful instead of Elan. Tuomas clearly identifies with Nightwish being like the Edema Ruh.
Some people have mentioned Phantom of the Opera from Beste Zangers, but the song you need to start with from the series is Vilja Lied (Vilja’s song), from the Merry Widow operetta. Floor was first up to sing and nobody really knew what to expect, they were thinking that this “heavy metal singer” was just going to scream. Reactions were priceless and everyone had to pick their jaws off the floor (hah)! Long version with subtitles, so turn on the cc (top right)! ua-cam.com/video/JN80AfHiUTY/v-deo.htmlsi=6kJJOnAqQan2X_kl
I was actually going to suggest this, as well as them all going down the entire Beste Zangers rabbit hole for that season. I think it would come as a shock to them that as well known that Floor is around the world that she was unknown to her home country.
Can't wait till you check out Floor on the music variety show called beste Zangers. She does a duet with Henk Poort. The Phantom of the Opera. It's a pearl clutching song. Phenomenally performed. Hope you'll be reacting to that one soon. Thanks again for this great reaction. Floor is just remarkable in every way.
Floor loves it to cover good songs. Not to imitate, but to give her feel to these songs. Adagio is beautiful! . She sings this in her "studio"in the barn next to her house. Her husband (drummer Sabaton) records it on video, where he also has his drumkit and stuff.❤ No sampling stuff and just Floor doing her thing. (instrumens are often done by her friends in music in Holland, Finland or even NW members)
You will love the 'Beste zangers' performances of Floor. It is a Dutch TV show where every week, one of the 6 contesters perform a special song for one of the other contesters, that all singers. Floor blew the group away, aswell as every viewer in the country. Vilja lied, shallow and phantom of the opera and mama are my favourites.
This was done in Covid time. Husband filiming (not really professional). Nice song though, done very well by Floor. To see more of the versatility of Floor: look at 'Beste Zangers', a TV-programme from The Netherlands. I particularly like 'Shallow' and 'Phantom of the Opera". I really think you will be amazed!
Heart is touring again. Ann is 73 and Nancy's 69. You could check out the official video from Heart. Ann is still touring and Nancy has been touring but not together. FLOOR IS AWESOME
Yep. You get gold like this when its just Floor in her barn. Btw that's a $6,000 mic. As far as Floor in her own, you gotta react to Floor covering "Euphoria". This was for Beste Zangers. But she couldn't actually be there cause she just had gall bladder surgery and was ordered not to fly. So the show came to her. #EuFLOORia ua-cam.com/video/FOBgrpkOIVE/v-deo.htmlsi=w1pZ5fYA51nYeXIk
And yes you are right, that is an amazing microphone. yours for $6,000 !! There are so many other solo performances either at home, on Dutch TV show in 2019 called Beste Zangers including her exceptional solo version of Shallow by Lady Gaga. She also sings songs in Dutch, German and Spanish as well as English. Plus there are videos of some of her recent solo concerts.
This is a powerful song when done by Heart with Ann on lead vocals. Floor just cranks this up. There are a couple other great Heart covers out there. Two come to mind, Gretchen Wilson doing "Barracuda" and Halestorm doing "All I Want to Do is Make Love to You".
05:13 That mic is $6,000 worth of cool. And even with her seated, and singing mostly in her chest voice, it’s hangin’ on by its fingernails. 🤣🤣🤣 If you’d be interested in hearing a beautiful piece of music with Marco fronting, and Floor doing backup vocals….. ua-cam.com/video/ciLVx51IZjM/v-deo.html it’s the concert with the shoes and dress in the pix I sent Lulu. 😏👍🏻 💙💙💙All Hail Floor !! 💙💙💙 Infantryman-Nightwish Army. US Regiment. Kentucky Battalion RIP Ann Waychoff-Commanding General-Nightwish Army
Floor doesn't do covers, she can add so much to a song that it sounds better than the original version, without detracting from the original performer. She is world class.🤟🏻🤟🏻🎶🎶
100% agree. Every cover she does, sounds like her very own song, and puts the original artists to shame. Not saying it to be mean, but it's just the plain truth. Floor is the best female vocalist on earth currently.
Great reaction, ladies. You should check out Floor's performances on the Swedish TV show "Beste Zangers". She does "Shallow", "Phantom of the Opera" with Henk Poort, a song in Spanish "Que Se Siente", and a couple of others. Very cool stuff if you like listening to Floor Jansen. There's another performance of hers on yourtube where she does full blown Opera "O Mio Babbino Caro: by Puccini.
You're absolutely correct, Richard. It's Dutch, like Floor. I forgot that. I think I was looking at something from her husband, Hannes, when I wss typing. My bad. Thanks for catching that!!!
Covid times. she recorded many covers in her barn in Sweden. You should also look into Beste Zangers (especially Phantom of the Opera} and Sing my song. And there is her solo gig from Amsterdam on youtube. she also released her debut solo album and played TWO gigs at last year's festival in France. one solo and one with Nightwish. Finally, she was called in to open for Metallica in Amsterdam last year. and it is, indeed Yansen.
Great reaction as always. I’m sure others would agree to check out the rest of the lockdown covers she did as well as checking out her performances on beste zangers 2019. The show is amazing but the 2019 season was something else, floor was immense as well as all of the other singers that were on that season
hello misses, yes recommend all of her covers on her channel. i, also, recommend her covers on " the beste zangers" 2019, particularly phantom of the opera. also the 2 acoustic version of Nightwish on planet rock. and the 2 featuring she made with Epica
Floored. As decades ago, I threw the TV out of the house for quality of programs not good enough, I had never seen or heard Floor. She came to my attention through my very, very, old mother who liked to watch a specific Dutch TV program. The program invited musicians known in contemporary music scenes and asked them to perform something "classical". Floor sang a song/aria from an opera by Puccini - very famous song called "O mio babbino caro" - O daddy dear - in which a young girl tells dad she is in love with a man and he has to allow her to marry him or else she will kill herself, throwing herself off the bridge into the river. ua-cam.com/video/UeTyAZtV5wI/v-deo.html The other Dutch "modern" singer that came to my notice, Anneke van Giersbergen, sang a song/aria from an older opera by Purcell written for an all female cast in times when women should not perform on stage. Here the main character is dying and sings "When I am laid in earth" asking forgiveness for if she ever hurt people's feelings. ua-cam.com/video/GReAuHUcRAI/v-deo.html These songs are supposed to be sung in a pretty voice, and the ladies do that very well. Probably, in the original time's fashion, emotion should not seep through, only pretty singing, but these two do that tastefully good. Wow
Floor sang full opera on a Dutch TV show in front of an audience of classical music lovers. They look alarmed to think "who is this metal singer" performing on their patch. The introduction shows a brief background to her day job in a metal band. It is well worth watching to see the audience's faces and what they must be thinking! ua-cam.com/video/Od_qcbw3f5Q/v-deo.htmlsi=9MZh7pebH2Tp6CJc
🤗🍒🤘🏻😘Great job again girls, there are many more songs where Floor only sings from the Beste Zangers 2019 of Lady Gaga (For example) and her old bands After Forever and Revamp
For grins, check out this more traditional version she did in 2013: ua-cam.com/video/6bwZ2zWVZd4/v-deo.html A lot of people hate on the double kick drums in it, but it doesn't bother me \m/
More suggestions? Hehehe ok "Epica - Sancta Terra (feat Floor Jansen) Live Retrospect show" I think you guys would love that too (Epica is another Dutch Symphonic Metal band with a Female Lead.)
By the way, check also the former singer of Nightwish Tarja Turunen, especially her great collection of covered Christmas songs Dark Christmas, especially covers of All I Want for Christmas Is You, Frosty the Snowman or O Tannenbaum 😊
Great performance wasn’t it? Yes it’s Yansen, no biggie! This is by far the best cover I’ve ever heard, she puts so much emotion into it! There’s a great band called Plush who’ve done a great Heart cover of Barracuda; their singer Moriah makes an outstanding performance of it! This is a band that toured with The Warning last year, they went down really well!
Oh you ladies will LOVE Floor's cover of Lady Gaga's "Shallow" from the "A Star is Born" movie soundtrack. Floor covered it on a Dutch TV singing show called Beste Zangers in 2019. ALL 8 Floor performances will KNOCK your socks OFF!!!!! including the FINALE of "The Phantom of the Opera"!!!
Yeah try shallow and cryyyy
I am 54 years old and I have never heard a more talented and beautiful singer. Every song she sings alone and with nightwish gives me chills.
Same age, same feeling Steven. She's the best out there ❤
Even 68 years old, with a history in the music industry in the Netherlands...No one ever touched me with her voice as this lady does....It is pure magic.
This is one of several covers filmed in her home studio during lockdown. Her husband is behind the camera. That microphone is in the neighbor hood of 6-7 thousand dollars.
Sir Joost van den Broek is playing the piano. He played keyboards with Floor in her first band, After Forever. Played with and produced her band ReVamp, does a lot of work with Arjen Lucasson in Ayreon and other projects. And has produced many other artists, including EPICA and Blind Guardian.
Heart's version is a cover as well. The original is from 1983 by i-Ten. One of the other covers she did here, is "Let It Go" from Frozen.
chris never dissapoints;)
@@alexandersteinmetz6857 🤘🤘
...and Oblivion M83 from same solo cover series - Epic too 🤘😊🤘
And Adagio, an original18th century composition, also performed by Lara Fabian, and Dimash.
Joost is still a LUL! LOL!
You should watch her and others in Beste Zangers. She does a duet with Henk Poort at the end of the season, which you should save for last. Every person is the main guest for one episode, and other people sing a song for them. A song that means alot, a song they wrote/made, or something that fits their life. There are some episodes available with English subtitles.
i concur .her cover of SHALLOW on this show just freaking blew me away
YES please!!
I agree. Everything she did on Beste Zangers is fantastic.
Yup, the goto versions are the English subbed "intro/outro" versions. Way better experience and they also tend to get blocked less. Channel "Floor op TV" --> playlist "Beste Zangers 2019". Cheers!
These cover's by Floor, five or six of them, were done during the Covid lockdown for her fans....They were recorded, in her Barn, from her home in Sweden, with her husband Hannes Van Dahl who is the drummer for the Swedish metal group Sabaton....You must hear Floor's cover of "Frozen", which she did for her daughter....
Sitting on a rocking chair in her homestudio, hubby Hannes van Dahl making the video and famus Joost at the piano . Greetings from nwAse Sweden
very good sweden with holland
There is only 1 female singer who could ever come close to the fantastic Ann Wilson & that is of course the just as fantastic Floor, imagine those 2 doing a duet, if you want a duet, try Floor with Epica doing Sancta Terra, the cuteness will blow your mind
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Hello Kathy, Lulu and Donna, Nightwish Army Italian division here. Floor can sing what she wants, when she wants and how she wants without doubt. Whether she sings alone or with Nightwish or Sabaton, or Epica (with her best friend and wonderful singer Simone Simons) or with the Ayreon project the result does not change. She is from another planet.
Floor Jansen was also in a Dutch live tv series in 2019 called Beste Zangers or Best Singers, definitely check out All of her performances, awesome 😎 request
This is my favorite Heart song, and she certainly took it on and delivered an awesome performance.
All the songs on her UA-cam channel are fantastic.
This version of Alone with only the piano is absolutely beautiful. Floor did also in lockdown time a cover of Adagio from Lara Fabian. React to that one. It is one of my favourites❤💥💯
I love Floor bringing the goosebumps but as a piano teacher i always have to give a shout out to the piano accompaniment which is just as outstanding! 😊
Thank you!
As you can see Floor is wearing a shirt with a wolf and the text “I howl and I roar cause I’m not afraid anymore”. She has a wolf tattooed behind one ear and a dog behind the other, as to show 2 sides of her character. Here the wolf in her seems to be dominant, she really howls!❤
Love your reactions ladies.
So full of joy and positivity.
Floor appeared on a Dutch show called Beste Zangers. Talented singers got together to sing each others songs or songs that meant something to them. Floor, a relatively unknown singer to them, came in and amazed them with her power and versatility.
Any song from the show will amaze you, but Phantom Of The Opera will blow your socks off!
Donna is right about trying to sing a Ann Wilson song.But if anyone can pull it off is floor.The younger ladies need to learn heart, it is a fantastic band.hi from a very snowy Finland.
Hi! If you want to hear Floors nice voice you should try her "How's the heart" ,, acoustic version ,, It's really nice ! Love your reactions :)
I saw her do this song in 2007 with her band After Forever when they performed in Atlanta at ProgPower USA
Great one. Seen a lot of recommendations for "Beste Zangers" and as the saying goes: "I concur". However.. If you want to do yourself (and the viewers) a very big favour, go and watch the versions that are English subbed and include the before/after banter between the participating singers. Adds a ton of fun & context. All of Floor's performances on Beste Zangers are to be found on Jennie Nopper's channel "Floor op TV", goto playlist "Beste Zangers 2019" and you're in for a whole lotta treats. Besides Floor's performances, there's at least one by another singer that deserves special mention, which is Emma Heesters singing to Floor. You'll see it in the playlist. The song is called "Strong" and it was written by Floor for her mother who suffers from a painful chronic illness (RA). Cheers from Amsterdam!
P.s.: start with the first one by Floor from the 1st episode, "Vilja Lied". Choose the "Phantom" with Henk Poort as yr last one, since it aired later to begin with and besides that, it's also not on the playlist and tends to get blocked of & on.
Praw! I can give that a push, but the buy me a coffee list is now filling up the requests queue until end of Februari
You should see how beautiful she looks and sounds singing Adagio then.
Fun fact (always a must) - Heart's "Alone" is a cover too. The original is from I-Ten, 1983. And Floor is killin' it 😍
I've seen this before and leaves you speechless as to well she does it ....and she's sitting down as well !!!!!
Definitely check out more of Floor Jansen Solo work and her previous bands, After Forever, Ayreon and Revamp.
And she does it while sitting down.
There is a fan-made video substituting Floor's version of "Frozen" into the original animation. Phenomenal.
Hi ! Beste Zangers with Floor Jansen and Henk Poort and the Phantom of the opera. Now this is a spectacular performance you must see.
As a new subscriber I hope we´ll see more Nightwish and Floor within your reactions. I like the way you all react in the same time here.
Waiting for more to come. Greets from snowy Finland. Take care.
Phantom of the Opera with Henk Port at Beste Zangers.
Shows a different side again from Floor and showcases her beautiful voice. Enjoy it ladies !!
She's amazing!!!
Floor is the Goddess of the human voice. No one compares to her. She is not human. She poors tears out of you seemingly effortless....
You should watch her with Henke Port singing phantom of the opera in beste zangers
Hello, ladies. Floor is so wonderful. Thank you for this reaction. Loved it.
Glad you enjoyed it
we love mommy Floor 🐕
One thing that I really like about her homemade covers is that you get to see her up close.
In this video you can really see that she actually feels the song intensely. After the song is done you see her look over to the cameraman (her husband) and thr look on her face really goes with the mood of the song.
She has stated in several interviews that she is an empath and you can really tell that she is.
This is one of many things that sets her apart from most singers and makes her extraordinary.
Nitpick alert: this song is actually not a Heart cover, because Heart's 1987 version is itself a cover. The original was made by the AOR (radio rock) duo I-Ten in 1983 and can be found on their sole album "Taking a cold look".
It's not nit-picking if it's actually a fact😊😅
Cheers
Ronnie
@ronnie1587 you are absolutely right. I think the correct credit should be given. It's like the Led Zeppelin song "When the Levee Breaks" was written and preformed back in the 1929 by Memphis Minnie and Kansas Joe McCoy.
Nice fact. I've seen rx to this a bunch of times and not seen this info b4
Most common mistake in music land……
Floor recorded this in her home studio with her husband Hannes Van Dahl ( Drummer for Sabaton ) doing the filming!!!
Ann Wilson of Heart heard it and said she liked it - that's when you have a seal of approval - not that Floor needs anyone's approval.
You should take a look at floor on beste zangers some great songs on there
She kills it in the Beste Zangers show, you should watch all these preformances
You should hear her doing these other songs she did from her barn
LET IT GO
EUPHORIA
OBLIVION
also any song from her solo album PARAGON.
Then there is her duet (not really) with QUEEN "Who wants to live forever" Floor has always said that is who she would have really loved to do a duet with
Or everything else she does...lol
🤘 MORE FLOOR 🤘
Her husband is Hannes Van Dahl drummer in Sabaton and they have two daughters Freja and Lucy
She sings in the end of "SABATON - Christmas Truce (Official Music Video)"
Great cover version of this song. Ann Wilson from Heart has always been one of my favorite singers. Floor is one of my favorite singers on this side of the century lol. This version is much more stripped down. But a great song can be performed many different ways and still be as powerful. Great singer, great song, great reaction! You oughta check out Nancy Wilson from Heart with Greta Wilson on vocals, and Alice N Chains doing Barracuda live!!! You'll love it. Have a good one ladies!!! 👏🤟🍻
NORTHWARD - While Love Died, One of the many sides of Floor.
Dark Sarah - "Dance With The Dragon" feat. JP Leppäluoto, Nice "Phantom Of the Opera" vibe but twice as good.
Poets of the Fall - Carnival of Rust, One of the best music videos ever, decent music also.
The director or producer, I forget, of Carnival of Rust did the Imagenareum movie too!
This was done from Floor's home studio in Sweden. All of her covers a beautiful.
Love your reactions! Check out Floor's channel for videos about her home life - she has horses, a large garden and a few dogs and cats in her life; you'll find that she's pretty down to earth. The "Covid Sessions" were a real treat for us fans when no one could go out; it was her way of keeping sane and keeping her vocal instrument tuned. Someone suggested the Frozen video, which is good (not a fan of the song) but I like the follow up one even better (Into the Unknown). Her best cover though has to be "Shallow" on the Dutch TV show Beste Zengers - it will blow you away.
Wellwell, as a 80's teen i think this is my favorite of Floor's Corona -times home videos. 🤘🤘🤘
I recemment you to watch all the performances of Floor in the Dutch tv show "beste zangers" she sings different styles and in different languages (English, Dutch, German, Spanish) and at the end se does a super good duet with a Dutch tenor.
She is on her home studio where she sings and her hubby, the Drummer of the Swedish metal group Sabaton does his drumming.
She recorded several covers in her studio during covid to keep her voice strong.
There is a fun documentary/promo about a company reorganizing their garage and gives you a look at their home in Sweden, studio, and garage. Mini interviews in it as well. Has subtitles.
Nice reaction ladies. During covid ,the Valkyrie Goddess sang the song OBLIVION from the movie Oblivion with TOM CRUISE. 😊 Of course she knocked it out of the park.She is a Goddess after all. ❤😇😇😇😍
My favorite of all her Covid era covers.
at 6:30 she is wearing same Rings from Wacken concert 2013 , that's why the close up
During the lockdown, Floor really spoilt us all!
Ramping it up, Floor style. :)
Lovingly videoed by her husband Hannes, the drummer from Sabaton,
that last nod, "Yep, that'll do it!"
Dear Kathy, it's all okay. Mispronounced names is no shame. With all the different languages in this world, no one will or should be offended.
You gave your best shot 👍👌🤘👏
BTW, how astonishing is she??😊
Great reaction ladies. This wasn't Floor's first time singing this song. She used to sing it in concert with her first band After Forever and she also did an acoustic version with Marko, Troy, and Kai during the Nightwish cruise on the Baltic Princess in 2015 (ua-cam.com/video/ObT2E9QTIZs/v-deo.htmlsi=SYAp5a4vDuGpyv7T) In a great bit Troy started playing the theme from Titanic and then Floor rushed on stage stoping then and chewing them out for singing that song while on a cruise. That said this version from her Covid cover videos is by far the best version. My favorite of Floor's pandemic video's was her cover of Oblivion from the movie of the same name staring Tom Cruise. Another great song from that cruise is their acoustic performance of Edma Ruh. (ua-cam.com/video/g3fjBAhOXIM/v-deo.htmlsi=eNxPxoMJifrQZxz_). Song is inspired by the Patrick Rothfuss books of the Kingkiller Chronicles. The Edema Ruh are a group of nomadic performers who travel about the countryside performing music, plays, and storytelling. They are the keepers of the culture and myth. A beautiful song that was almost the first single off Endless Forms Most Beautiful instead of Elan. Tuomas clearly identifies with Nightwish being like the Edema Ruh.
Some people have mentioned Phantom of the Opera from Beste Zangers, but the song you need to start with from the series is Vilja Lied (Vilja’s song), from the Merry Widow operetta.
Floor was first up to sing and nobody really knew what to expect, they were thinking that this “heavy metal singer” was just going to scream. Reactions were priceless and everyone had to pick their jaws off the floor (hah)!
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I concur
I was actually going to suggest this, as well as them all going down the entire Beste Zangers rabbit hole for that season. I think it would come as a shock to them that as well known that Floor is around the world that she was unknown to her home country.
The version of Heart is a cover also. The original is by a band called I-ten.
Can't wait till you check out Floor on the music variety show called beste Zangers. She does a duet with Henk Poort. The Phantom of the Opera. It's a pearl clutching song. Phenomenally performed. Hope you'll be reacting to that one soon. Thanks again for this great reaction. Floor is just remarkable in every way.
Wow Floor !!!!!! Wow.
Floor loves it to cover good songs. Not to imitate, but to give her feel to these songs. Adagio is beautiful! .
She sings this in her "studio"in the barn next to her house. Her husband (drummer Sabaton) records it on video, where he also has his drumkit and stuff.❤ No sampling stuff and just Floor doing her thing. (instrumens are often done by her friends in music in Holland, Finland or even NW members)
Floor Jansen the Valkyrie Queen of Metal.
Floor released a solo album with her own work called ‘Paragon’, definitely worth checking out ❣️
You will love the 'Beste zangers' performances of Floor. It is a Dutch TV show where every week, one of the 6 contesters perform a special song for one of the other contesters, that all singers. Floor blew the group away, aswell as every viewer in the country. Vilja lied, shallow and phantom of the opera and mama are my favourites.
Good one.try Floors cover of Adagio.
Check Floor singing Let it Go from Frozen which she did for her daughter Freya during lockdown ! Better than the original in my opinion !!
This was done in Covid time. Husband filiming (not really professional). Nice song though, done very well by Floor.
To see more of the versatility of Floor: look at 'Beste Zangers', a TV-programme from The Netherlands. I particularly like 'Shallow' and 'Phantom of the Opera". I really think you will be amazed!
Thanks, it's a beautiful song
Great reaction, ladies! Floor has an amazing voice. You should check her channel on youtube...lots of really good songs.
Lovley song❤❤
You should definitely react to the Heart version now❤❤❤
Heart is touring again. Ann is 73 and Nancy's 69. You could check out the official video from Heart. Ann is still touring and Nancy has been touring but not together. FLOOR IS AWESOME
Maybe with Nightwish being on touring hiatus, we'll get to see an Ann Wilson/Floor Duet... 🤞
Just wait until you find Floor's televised performance of Puccini's "O Mio Babbino Caro".
Yep. You get gold like this when its just Floor in her barn. Btw that's a $6,000 mic.
As far as Floor in her own, you gotta react to Floor covering "Euphoria". This was for Beste Zangers. But she couldn't actually be there cause she just had gall bladder surgery and was ordered not to fly. So the show came to her.
#EuFLOORia
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And yes you are right, that is an amazing microphone. yours for $6,000 !! There are so many other solo performances either at home, on Dutch TV show in 2019 called Beste Zangers including her exceptional solo version of Shallow by Lady Gaga. She also sings songs in Dutch, German and Spanish as well as English. Plus there are videos of some of her recent solo concerts.
This is a powerful song when done by Heart with Ann on lead vocals.
Floor just cranks this up.
There are a couple other great Heart covers out there. Two come to mind, Gretchen Wilson doing "Barracuda" and Halestorm doing "All I Want to Do is Make Love to You".
Chriso6719 is coreect, the microphone is an AKG c12VR tube thing, 6 grand.
Must be bomb proof Floor has been known to wreck/ blow mics.
05:13 That mic is $6,000 worth of cool. And even with her seated, and singing mostly in her chest voice, it’s hangin’ on by its fingernails. 🤣🤣🤣
If you’d be interested in hearing a beautiful piece of music with Marco fronting, and Floor doing backup vocals…..
ua-cam.com/video/ciLVx51IZjM/v-deo.html it’s the concert with the shoes and dress in the pix I sent Lulu. 😏👍🏻
💙💙💙All Hail Floor !! 💙💙💙
Infantryman-Nightwish Army. US Regiment. Kentucky Battalion
RIP Ann Waychoff-Commanding General-Nightwish Army
Floor doesn't do covers, she can add so much to a song that it sounds better than the original version, without detracting from the original performer. She is world class.🤟🏻🤟🏻🎶🎶
100% agree. Every cover she does, sounds like her very own song, and puts the original artists to shame. Not saying it to be mean, but it's just the plain truth. Floor is the best female vocalist on earth currently.
Great reaction, ladies. You should check out Floor's performances on the Swedish TV show "Beste Zangers". She does "Shallow", "Phantom of the Opera" with Henk Poort, a song in Spanish "Que Se Siente", and a couple of others. Very cool stuff if you like listening to Floor Jansen. There's another performance of hers on yourtube where she does full blown Opera "O Mio Babbino Caro: by Puccini.
Beste Zangers is NOT a Swedish TV programme but an annual Dutch show that first appeared in 2009
You're absolutely correct, Richard. It's Dutch, like Floor. I forgot that. I think I was looking at something from her husband, Hannes, when I wss typing. My bad. Thanks for catching that!!!
Covid times. she recorded many covers in her barn in Sweden. You should also look into Beste Zangers (especially Phantom of the Opera} and Sing my song. And there is her solo gig from Amsterdam on youtube. she also released her debut solo album and played TWO gigs at last year's festival in France. one solo and one with Nightwish. Finally, she was called in to open for Metallica in Amsterdam last year. and it is, indeed Yansen.
Great reaction as always.
I’m sure others would agree to check out the rest of the lockdown covers she did as well as checking out her performances on beste zangers 2019.
The show is amazing but the 2019 season was something else, floor was immense as well as all of the other singers that were on that season
Cool, thanks!
I get Floorgasms every time I hear her sing
This song was actually done originally by I-Ten. Hearts version was a cover.
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Tommy Johansson also does a cover of this, just as perfect as Floors cover.
Shallow, phantom of the opera with Henk Poort or anything she did on Best Zangers.
The cover of "Barracuda" by Gretchen Wilson and Alice In Chains at the 2007 Rock Awards will blow your minds! Yes, Barracuda by Heart!
hello misses, yes recommend all of her covers on her channel. i, also, recommend her covers on " the beste zangers" 2019, particularly phantom of the opera. also the 2 acoustic version of Nightwish on planet rock. and the 2 featuring she made with Epica
Floor has been singing professionally since she was 16. Her Birthday is Next Month
shallow from lady ga ga sche sing it also by beste zangers
Sitting and belting, few can pull it off as spectacurilly as Floor
Great rendition by a truly great singer. Listen to the original with Anne Wilson of Heart she is the greatest female rock singer of all time.
Let in Go from Frozen Next, with Floor Jansen
Floored. As decades ago, I threw the TV out of the house for quality of programs not good enough, I had never seen or heard Floor. She came to my attention through my very, very, old mother who liked to watch a specific Dutch TV program. The program invited musicians known in contemporary music scenes and asked them to perform something "classical".
Floor sang a song/aria from an opera by Puccini - very famous song called "O mio babbino caro" - O daddy dear - in which a young girl tells dad she is in love with a man and he has to allow her to marry him or else she will kill herself, throwing herself off the bridge into the river.
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The other Dutch "modern" singer that came to my notice, Anneke van Giersbergen, sang a song/aria from an older opera by Purcell written for an all female cast in times when women should not perform on stage. Here the main character is dying and sings "When I am laid in earth" asking forgiveness for if she ever hurt people's feelings.
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These songs are supposed to be sung in a pretty voice, and the ladies do that very well.
Probably, in the original time's fashion, emotion should not seep through, only pretty singing, but these two do that tastefully good.
Wow
Even the great Anne Wilson has to relinquish ownership to Floor.
The mic is an AKG C12 VR, aporox $7000
Should also try her live acoustic How is the Heart. Or the Live Lady Gaga cover of Shallow from the Zangers show
Floor sang full opera on a Dutch TV show in front of an audience of classical music lovers. They look alarmed to think "who is this metal singer" performing on their patch. The introduction shows a brief background to her day job in a metal band. It is well worth watching to see the audience's faces and what they must be thinking!
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🤗🍒🤘🏻😘Great job again girls, there are many more songs where Floor only sings from the Beste Zangers 2019 of Lady Gaga (For example) and her old bands After Forever and Revamp
Highly recommend you check out Floor's cover of Lady Gaga's "SHALLOW" from the 2019 Beste Zangers show. Phenomenal.
Ladies, nice reaction as usual. Also you need to check How's the Heart ,, the acoustic version .....
Annother very good cover from Floor is Oblivion - M83 also recorded in during the same time and the same environment - You will like it :-)
For grins, check out this more traditional version she did in 2013: ua-cam.com/video/6bwZ2zWVZd4/v-deo.html A lot of people hate on the double kick drums in it, but it doesn't bother me \m/
More suggestions? Hehehe ok "Epica - Sancta Terra (feat Floor Jansen) Live Retrospect show" I think you guys would love that too (Epica is another Dutch Symphonic Metal band with a Female Lead.)
By the way, check also the former singer of Nightwish Tarja Turunen, especially her great collection of covered Christmas songs Dark Christmas, especially covers of All I Want for Christmas Is You, Frosty the Snowman or O Tannenbaum 😊
Great performance wasn’t it? Yes it’s Yansen, no biggie!
This is by far the best cover I’ve ever heard, she puts so much emotion into it!
There’s a great band called Plush who’ve done a great Heart cover of Barracuda; their singer Moriah makes an outstanding performance of it! This is a band that toured with The Warning last year, they went down really well!