NIGHTWISH - The Poet And The Pendulum (REACTION) with my wife
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- Опубліковано 9 лют 2025
- Here it is! One of the greatest Nightwish songs - The Poet And The Pendulum! Goes without saying that this performance lives you speechless! And even if you are not a Nightwish fan, you should watch it at least once! Hope you'll enjoy our reaction and please visit our channel again! Stay safe and be kind to each other!
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Tuomas is an empath, a very deep feeling person in touch with who he really is. The more you know yourself, the more you'll understand the lyrics. No coincidence these incredible musicians came together, they are all empaths. Nightwish is beyond words.....
the power Floor has she can express and tell the story so good that she takes u on journey
I don't cry, you cry... Just feel it broh. There is no other way.. 😌
This may be the most important, honest review of this song. I could see it hit you the way hit me.
Funny how you can hear this and feel somehow.....tired ( wrong word ) or emotionally drained ...or strained .....what ever you use to describe it ....it can definitely elicit a physical response....
no idea if it has been pointed out already in the comments but during the dialogue in part 3 where he says he only has 3 minutes to live and counting. 3 minutes literally passes before the pendulum swings and kills Tuomas. That is some top notch composition if you can say one thing and follow through with the exact time spoken.
Your response from the poet and the pendulum (amazing, emotional song) is perhaps the best! But anyway all your (Nightwish) reactions are human, to the point, joyfull and great! Thanks and keep going! Shoemaker live is an advice!
Their best song....., 😘😘😘
The song is composed in the same way as a depression works. Hard cuts between sections. Absolute emotional fluctuations from one extreme to the other. Through all stages until death.
This was also the last time this song was played. It is no longer sung. Tuomas has finished with this and thus this song only exists in the archive, so to speak.
It is an absolut masterpiece.
Fantastic reaction. They don"t do this song anymore, the last act "Mother & Father" are words of comfort said to him by his parents
Well it's too emotionally charged for Tuomas if I remember he declined doing it anymore live. Not 100% certain of this.
@@thamor4746 yea I was hesitant posting that because I wasn't sure myself, I think he said it some where
I know that they play it in Portugal like in september 2016 but now i don't know if they are playing it in shows but is one of my favourite nightwish songs
@@pedronatalino5122 They are. Not always, but they do.
Great reaction 😊
Aaawww, you guys are just awesome.
I really think that Toumas is the modern day Freddie. I mean compositionally and lyrically speaking.
They are just so similar with the escapism of the lyrics as well as the instrumentals. It's just like WOW!
Anette lost custody of a child and had to sing this song at a concert that night - she ran crying from the stage.
Loved your reaction, so honest .
Tuomas got Floor to deliver his pain feelings to us, to our heart
I think Floor does that anyway with every song she sings.
@@jamesanderson5268 for sure.
Floor being the voice for Tuomas' songs to me is a perfect union. Tuomas has such deep feelings, and nobody on the planet can push emotions onto listeners like Queen Floor. All the other members are simply superb artists, masters of music if you will.
Great reaction!
I rarely get through that mother and father part without tears and didn't get through it without tears this time either. It's just so emotional...
This song saved my life. I had gone through a deep depression for years and yes there was a time I felt the urge to end it all. The song, when I heard it first, hit hard. But the last words "The beginning" gave me hope.
I'm far from those bad days and do believe that the song helped me enormously. Tuomas is an absolute genius!!
Great genuine reaction from you both. Thank you!!
As another person who suffered from depression, tried to drink myself into oblivion.... drinking nearly a 5th of Bacardi and a two liter bottle of Coke almost every night! This was from the 1980's until 1999 when I quit, and turned my life around. I am 23 years, 3 months and 9 days sober!
This song always brings tears to my eyes....it's a masterpiece!
@@larryd4352 Well done 👍
same here this was a lifesaver for me also guess i am not the only one
Congratulations yet again. Within a few hours your reaction has been posted in Floorworld, the Floor Jansen fansite.
The greatest show on earth,live in Tampere…..also incredible beautiful.
This song is beyond a masterpiece. It hits me so deeply inside. This sort of beauty I didn’t know existed not so long ago.
The test regarding listening to the song or feeling the song. Well, if you kinda weep alittle at the end there, then you know. Yes, its a masterpiece ✨
I saw this tour in 2015. It was a bonus seeing them perform this song. it's something they rarely do, because it's very emotional for Tuomas (Thats why you see Empuu walk over to him)
Great review I feel same x
Your silence at the end told more then your words.. You felt it.. And that's what it's supposed to do.. Stay safe 🤘😁🤘
Nightwish (with Floor) is healing in so many ways. Thank you so much for your reaction, bye
I saw you reaction first time. ,you are good🥰 and just got an new subscriber now ❣
I love this song and crying always part Ocean and Mother and father and when Tuomas point his hand to his neck, always.
Tuomas had said that in this time he really wanted to do suicide. Luckily he did it on the stage. This song was him as therapy.
This composition has saved lives..
Thanks for another great reaction to another great song. I love your channel. This is an extremely emotional song. I love how Tuomas borrowed ideas from "The Pit and The Pendulum", a short story written in 1842 by Edgar Allan Poe. The story deals with the psychological torment of a prisoner in the Spanish Inquisition who is publicly tortured and executed for opposing the Catholic Church. He finds himself in a dark room full of rats with slippery sloped floors leading to a Pit with a swinging Pendulum overhead. The Pit signifies Death, the Pendulum represents Time and the sloped floors, rats and darkness symbolise Fear.
The protagonist of the story opposed the Catholic Church as he was angry with God for taking away his birth mother, adopted mother and wife with plague and disease.
I wonder if Toumas's anguish was caused NOT because he fired Tarja (the original singer) from the band, but because he felt publicly tortured and judged by his so-called fans for doing it the way he did. I believe the score was arranged into 5 separate acts to represent the 5 stages of grieving. Greetings from England 🏴
Again an other outstanding reaction from you, ❤️
Btw, your pauses in the videos are spot on, keep up the good work! Have an other look at the video without stopping an you might get some more details.
And are you familiar with the poet Edgar Allan Poe? And the poem Pit and the Pendulum? Theres i symbolism taken from that one.
See you soon again.
You did Great 👌 that pendulumpart makes the tounge discodance. Great reaction guys 👍
This is Tuomas' the most impressive and beautiful song of Nightwish 💓
The more sadness carves you until you are empty, the more joy you can contain.. I am so glad that this opus exists! It filled my dark spaces with emotion when I thought they had all been drained. That ending..... Such light!
excellent reaction, this song really grabs the heart and emotions, I always have tears when I listen to this, Annette was first to perform it, but Floor's interpretation is so much better
For people who know the study of motivations (action, emotion and thinking), this song seems to be written from a so strong emotional depth that it seems to correspond to a "type 4" on the enneagram of personalities. Reading about "type 4" can give some background understanding on how this could have been created.
Pure hypothesis, I do not know Tuomas personally of course.
Listening to this exciting song isn't wasted time and it never will be how many times you listen to it.
Its magnificent i love this piece
My favorite reactors on youtube. Simply love you two
I feel the parts are stages in the mind of a person with suicidal thoughts:
I *White Lands Of Empathica* : Traumatic loss of innocence/security
II *Home* : Raging thoughts of self hatred and a feeling of being uprooted (longing for home even if you are already home)
III *The Pacific* : Acceptance of the fact death is the only right answer to your problems, romanticising how peaceful it will be if it just all stops.
IV *Dark Passion Play* : raging thoughts about actually committing suicide and how it will settle the scores and what will happen after your death
V *Mother and Father* : getting help , being granted forgiveness and not committing suicide.
I understand your feeling, as you said, “unsettled”, after experiencing this song. I love it. It’s a true masterpiece. But I can’t just put it in the disc player and listen to it like I would any other Nightwish song. I have to be ready for it, emotionally and mentally, because I know it will hit me hard. It always does.
Great reaction by you both. The long pause at the end before either of you spoke says it all. How do you even formulate a response in your mind for something like this? You did well, though.
The "Metal Motzart" does not write songs. He puts life to music . He transforms a story ..or a moment or a feeling in a powerful visceral way....and lucky for us Floor conveys that emotion directly to the feeling part of you being.
I loved your reaction to this song. I’ve noticed that men seem react more strongly to part 5 (Mother and Father), which is beautiful and interesting.
you together is just great ..
Nightwish is absolutely legend, with all 3 singers! I hear them now for over 20 years, at the beginning friends laugh at me saying what is this, but i feel all time that this is one of the greatest bands of all time.
My fave Nightwish song, the arrangement is pure genius.
There is a version with Marko only, doing all the singing and narration. The album version with Annette is very moving as well, but Floor brings the empathy up a notch.
Floor's performance is absolutely unrivalled, in every respect.
Just a notch?
@@gregjetnikoff7124 Tis a vera noice (and huge) notch
@@rientsdijkstra4266 a typical day for Floor.
Floor on an off day is better than 99(.99999)% of the singers out there.
Was about to put the same...
Demo version of "The Poet and the Pendulum"
With Nightwish it is literally impossible not to have an emotional reaction. To have better understanding, you have to listen several times. Each song is a virtual sound, vocal and lyrical challenge to your senses.
I cried along.
Best reaction ever, thank you
Very good reaction, thank you so much!
must have been out of this world to be there live..
Thank you for sharing your wonderful reaction. This song brings tears to me when I listen to it. . .
I love you 2 both, you are just amazing, and how much perfectly you understood this masterpiece. I say it was good that you made a little search about this song so you understand better what it is about, obviously if no research you would be in deep emotion anyway. I do t know how many times I have listened to this great song (100+) but still my eyes (as a male) gets wet. I just can't help it. Great reactions. I love all that so far I manged to see but definitely you two will be on my radar. Greetings from Hungary. 🤗
I love you guys !
I think it was good that you did research a bit cause it makes it easier to understand this deep and complex masterpiece by Tuomas. That year 2005 Tarja leaving issue is also in songs "Bye Bye Beautiful" and "Master Passion Greed". Fortunately Tuomas did not end the band or anything final...new beginning came.
"Be still, my son, you're home. Oh, when did you become so cold?" 😭😭😭
I am always speechless, listening to this song which I did at least more than 50times. I was thinking that it may be of of the most beautiful composed, written and purest songs I've ever listened to. Most songwriters telling their personal stories but here you are so close with him, feeling his pain and makes you sickened knowing the suffering he had. I feel that my loyalty in life is way bigger than many people around me. If I had to betray my dearest I personally choose death before that. So imo opinion it doesn't need to do something with depression but your loyalty to your dearest and most precious soul you know from childhood on. Betrayal doesn't heal and will stick you till the end and thus bigger than life in itself. It is a tough song to swallow but so worth it to go through it!
One of the greatest pieces of music ever written and performed. I love how you both are really moved at the end. I love your honest reactions.
the last part gives you the feeling of regret - regret all the things you did or didn't done - the feeling of lost...
Once Floor started performing this song, she was able to evoke the perfect emotion for every part of this masterpiece it became very difficult for Tuomas to perform while hearing Floor’s vocals. I have heard that at most shows he would have the sound engineer’s take Floor’s vocals out of his in ears. Yes this was an Annette era song, but Floor gave it life.
Yeah, you've got a good grasp of people with dark thoughts. I've had these thoughts all day everyday since I was a small boy, around seven.
Wonderful reaction, beautiful. 😉🤟
In this world there are musicians, there are singers... But Nightwish and Floor is pure magic! It is music for the spirit, for the soul! Transcend this plane. Nightwish and Floor make this world a better place! Greetings from Argentina.
Exactly... there are artists who are technically perfectly trained virtuosos... but will never to be able touch the soul like Tuomas and Nightwish... the magic....
Edit: cheers back to you from Finland 😊
My No 1.
Some (not all) of the highlights:
The guys checking up on Tuomas to see he's OK. There was a point where he had the vocal turned off in his in-ear.
Floor acting every part, particularly with her hands - tearing her hair, showing love.
"Sparkle my scenery" - just beautiful.
Father and Son, reflecting the words of his mother when he returned home. Particularly "you have such oceans within" and "all you need is to feel my love".
The final, sublime, ethereal three phrases.
Floor waiting and looking over to check on Tuomas (Marco and Emppu already there) before saying her final thank you.
The initial whispering wouldn't mean much as it is the final spoken words, spoken backwards.
The song charts stages of emotion/depression and the end of an era for the band ("The End") and finally the birth of a new era ("The Beginning").
It includes the anger stage of course (Marco section) and there is an angrier version that has Marco only singing, that was the demo version - angrier lyrics too.
Note that in Tuomas' lyrics, Poet is generally him.
This song has made many of us have cried to this song. Many of us have been through depression and been helped by Nightwish (and I have some dpecific people in mind). For me this was a particularly helpful song. It ends in hope as well as sadness.
Anettes version is surprisingly good but this is by far the best.
New bass is Jukka Koskinen.
Marco's parts are now sung by Floor and Troy.
This is never performed now. Tuomas said the band has got past the anger and depression that spawned the song.
Great reaction.
Think you should do the other big one now.
The Greatest Show On Earth.
It will lift you up for sure:)
This one will leave you in tears from happines.
It's the story about the evolution of life , from the Big Bang until now.
Amazing how they put that much in just one song............!
Awesome reaction. Thank you.Mother and Father really hits me. WOW!!!!!!!I am mess again.😭😭😭😭😭🤘👍
And al the fans had their opinion what happened with the band.
The public pressure was even more important, how Tuomas had to deal with it. And was even difficult for him. Al the negatively.
Indeed he's a musical genius.
You guys are spot on in your reaction. This is a deeply personal and emotional song for Tuomas, the band, and their fans. It is specifically about the depression Tuomas felt when Nightwish's fans turned on him and blamed him for the rift with Tarja. When they performed this song Tuomas often had the sound engineers turn off the lyrics in his in ear monitors because it was too emotional for him. You will see Empuu and Marko come over and check on him throughout the song, especially at the end. Nightwish no longer performs this song and the never will in the future. Tuomas has said that he and the band are no longer the people they were then. That they have grown and have all moved on from that time.
One of the best explanation of the lyrics I have found is by an artist named Annika Hausen. I would provide the link but everytime I do my comment gets deleted so google her name and Poet and the Pendulum. The song uses imagery and lyrical structures from Edgar Allen Poe's the Pit and the Pendulum to explore his own pain and despair. It starts with the end, i.e. the end of the Tarja era of the band, and finished with the beginning. i.e. the start of a new era of the band with a new singer. The mother and father section has word spoken to Tuomas by his mother that helped him through his low points and Floor does an incredible job of making us feel that pain but also the hope for the future. A truly amazing song.
Floor is an Empath, which makes the way she sings, more personal than most. She's something to behold.
With Nightwish you´re never ready.. you think you are but you´re not.. Been a fan since 1997 @ their first gig in Kitee.. Seen +60 shows and they still amaze me, thought that ive seen and heard all but oh boy, ive been wrong!!! Been crying, laughing etc etc in their shows..
You nailed it....Thankyou its very emotional.
Thank you🙏❤🇫🇮.
Thank you for this beautiful reaction.
This song saved me from a terrible burnout. Floors voice did the impossible. She made me cry and the relief is impossible to describe. I now have a tattoo on my left arm because Nightwish and Floor saved my life with this song.
One of the best and most sincere reactions I've seen to this song. I expected Dominika to cry at some point during this song (which you did, during "The Pacific") but when I saw Andrei become emotional during "Mother and Father" I knew both of you had understood its essence. Just to let you know, Tuomas asked the sound engineer to cut Floor's vocals from his earpiece, just for this song, because he didn't think he could keep it together if he heard her singing. This is my favourite Nightwish song (specifically this live version). It's just an absolute masterpiece. Talking of masterpieces... just wait until you get to The Greatest Show on Earth
The split was such a painful time for everyone involved but both Tuomas and Tarja have been so decent about it in Interviews, never saying a bad word about the other, and for that I respect them a lot. And nowadays they seem to be good with each other. Tuomas' father died last year and Tarja immediately sent her condolences which he said he was very touched by -- I think that says a lot about who they fundamentally are as people. It wasn't meant to be, but I am glad they're all in a good place now 🤍
My favorite Nightwish song, a masterpiece. I always cry.
Your reaction (the both of you) ....... whay else can be said. 👍
It's also worth noticing - Tuomas was joined at the end with Empuu and Marko, who were around at the time of Tarja's dismissal. The method of dismissal led to a lot of pain for both Tuomas and Tarja. People picked sides and there was a lot of pain. When Tuomas dismissed Anette, he didn't do it publicly. However, when it was discovered, the press made fun of Tuomas. There was even a cartoon with a prison holding Tarja and Anette and a caption "who'll be the next Nightwish singer?". Tarja's husband triggered anger on various levels for Tuomas. Two other songs made it onto the "Dark Passion Play" album because of this tumultuous time. One was "Master, Passion, Greed" performed by Marko but never performed in concert. It was aimed at Tarja's husband and Tuomas regrets it. The other song was "Bye, Bye Beautiful" performed by the band with Anette. The video is misleading. However, the words are clear - it's directed at Tarja herself. Tuomas felt that the album was sort of himself working through the pain.
This song hasn’t been played for years and will probably never be played again.
At the end when Marko and Emu go over to stand by Tuomas gets me every time. They, more than anyone, know the hell Tuomas went through when the NW fans turned on him when Tarja left.
Which was really unfair because the whole band made the decision to fire her. Marko was the one who said (in his book) he’d leave if she doesn’t go.
Epic reaction👍👌💓
And yes....Floor is the only one who can sing and perform with so much emotion, she hits you right through the heart.
Kind regards from the Netherlands ❤❤
Hello, someone posted this reaction video of you reacting to TPATP on FloorWorld. So that’s why I checked it out. And I’m happy I did. I love this song and I think you did it justice. You are genuine people. I subscribed to your channel to watch more NightWish with you. You probably have a long list but may I suggest “ The Devil and the Deep Dark Ocean “ nice interaction between Marko and Floor. One of my personal favorites. Thank you 🙏 🤘🫶🇳🇱
This song will never be performed again it is in a class of its own it is a masterpiece great reaction floor's lament at the end just goes straight to your heart ❤ Tuomas is a genius and this band are incredible great reaction ❤ ♥
Hi there,told you,this is art,a masterpiece.
They dont play this anymore,
The last part,where Floor stand up and sings with Tuomas ,makes my eyes tear up everytime,i will always love you,fantastic🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰
Waiting on that….thanks
In a interview tuomas said he considered the greatest show on earth his greatest song but the poet and pendulum was the bands GOAT God bless
Yes!!! I like your reaction very much! Nightwish performances always unsettle me and I am a 51 year old trash metal fan that discover them 2 years ago and they made me cry almost in every song.
this was one of the best first listening reaction to tpatp i have seen, thank you !
"stopping to much" ... no ! you did not !
may i request again some older stuff ?
Tarja, "the Pharaoh sails to Orion" live 2001 and "Beauty *OF* the Beast" live
Anette, "rest calm", "turn loose the mermaids" and "Meadows of Heaven (Lyric Video!!!)"
thanks
...and i always enjoy your reactions ;)
Those damn Onion Ninja again….Every bloody time I listen to this they get me….When she sings "Tuck me in beneath the blue" I am normally done...tissue time...…this is a masterpiece. And I have heard this one like 683 times already….
Very thoughtfull reaction - thanks for taking this one so serious. This one deserves some deep thoughts...
Thanks for the time !....next one maybe a little Power Nightwish to enjoy ?! - I would recommend "Last Ride of the Day"....for some positive energy 🙂
All Hail Queen Floor !
I think the poet that died is the Tuomas that wrote for Tarja as a person and a voice, in the last part his parents bring him back from depression and a new Poet is born, one that will write for someone else, and a new chapter begins.
Beautiful song and beautiful reaction.
This song title was inspired by "The Pit and the Pendulum" by Edgar Allan Poe.
I cried again..going through some rough times myself so this grabs me even more...so beautiful and said at the same time! 🖤
Sad I meant..
Great reaction from you both, so this is a masterpiece of a song, only one song comes close to this, Greatest Show On Earth, live at Tempare, Finland
Every day i watching UA-cam i wish to find you video to nightwish. Yours videos make me smiling. Helou from Finland🤘👍👌👌
WOW. I’ve read nearly all the comments to your reaction and this song. Never have I seen so long comments for a song. It’s really shows the impact Nightwish has with their fans 💥💥
your interpretation is so beautiful, bless you :) , take care
Floors performance in this masterpiece is absolutely STUNNING. It is one of the best and most beautifull pieces of music I have ever heard. Only a few top pieces from classical music come even close for me.
Thank you. Depression and hard times creates art and this is art.
Oh my. Masterpiece! Prepare. Every time I hear it My eyes are teary ❤️
You can never be ready hearing this first time. You just have to hear it and later on if you listen to it again you can appreciate the music better without getting too much with the emotional hits.
I don't know if you ever watch other reactors but in this case, about this song, I would recommend watching this: "The Poet and the Pendulum by Nightwish - Viking Reacts".
He suffered from a major depression and explains the build up of the song looking back at his own ordeal sharing every feeling he went through. And in my personal opinion it is what Tuomas felt dealing with the departure of Tarja and the turmoil it caused. Have some tissues ready.
A year ago Mental Amanda, who calls herself suicide survivor, reacted to this song totally blind based on someones suggestion. She knew nothing about Nightwish. But based on her own experiences her interpretation of the lyrics was spot on. Which does not mean there is only one
(correct) interpretation. But every part, the stages of grief, if you will, of the lyrics spoke to her.
For me, an emotional connection to a song is a must. It's the whole reason I listen to music.