dead boys poem and poet and the pendulum are tuomas's most personal songs and Floor's voice and performance take them on another level. i cry everytime i hear them.
Floor is able to bring out the soul of each song. Just what Tuomas' masterpieces needed. She always sings in service of the music. For sure, there's stage presence in spades, but no act to draw attention to herself. She's actually so selfless that she can afford to become a medium for the story to be told and the music to flow freely. No ego in between. That's the energy & emotion I feel each time I listen to this music. This is way beyond singing. Cheers from Amsterdam!
Floor's rendition of this one is so powerful it moved me to tears when I first saw/heard it. It was written long before she joined band but she really creates an empathic delivery. It's an amazing composition by Tuomas and performance by all. Thanks for the great reaction!
New Nightwish recruit and lifelong Electric Light Orchestra (E.L.O.) fan here from England reporting for duty. Thank you for your beautiful reaction to a beautiful composition. Thank you for being a part of my new pleasure. Toumas and E.L.O's Jeff Lynne are up there with the best composers ever in my humble opinion 👍😊
In Finland the National Bird is the whooper swan (cygnus cygnus) an extremely beautiful bird. That goes completely together with the mythology and it plays a role in the finnish national epic Kalevala.
Great reaction to a great old Nightwish song that Floor made her own. My favorite Emppu solo as well. One of Tuomas’s most emotional pieces. Keep exploring Nightwish. Might be time for The Greatest Show on Earth. Eventually, The Poet and The Pendulum, probably Tuomas’ most emotional masterpiece, will blow you away, but perhaps getting to know the band and their history first would be best. Enjoy!
Only research needed to The Poet and The Pendulum is that kicking first singer out was a very big deal back in the day. Media circus what happened in Finland surprised Tuomas. Many fans and media guys blamed Tuomas. There are fan fictions about Tuomas being suicidical which is not true. The song works even if you don’t know the history completely.
Hey Pandora, I really appreciate the way you take the time to read the context and the poetry of each song before experiencing the music performance. Thank you.
I can't keep my eyes dry when listening to this song, but you had me in tears during the reading of the lyrics. You dit that beautifully. I loved your reation.
Tuomas has such great empathy. He knows people are different like he is, philosophical and mindful, but he know a lot of them can't find a good place to land in this society. I believe this song is a tribute to those people
This is a very emotional and personal song for Tuomas. The small child's voice represents Tuomas' inner child speaking. When asked what this song was about "Tuomas has said about this song, that it's about if he were to die tomorrow, what would he want to say to everyone that he loves, and that love him..." Notice the small boy on the screen reaching out to the flying swans on the screen. The swan is the guide to the afterlife in Finnish mythology. He is reaching out to implore them to take him with to the other side. A beautiful song filled with sadness from an unfulfilled destiny.
This song is so well written,composed,produced and performed live,that it tears me up everytime,especially when Floor changes it up midways with abit of a deeper,more soulfull voice......then she has me weak!😍😢
Again, Thank you for your insightful way of doing these reactions/analysis of Nightwish songs, this one is a real beauty. agan Thank you! really looking forward to the next one. ❤
Pandora! You already made me all choked up just by reading the meaning of the song like that! Geesh... This is such a beautiful, delicate song, to me (and I know for many others as well) this one is special because this is a young Tuomas talking to us, the double cadence on the phrase "I wish I didn't feel for you anymore" always makes me cry, but then the queen manages to bring the positivity back with the second part of the song, is so powerful and uplifting, that you can't help but smile through the tears. Complex feelings caused by an special, complex and beautiful man's masterful mind
Thank you for this lovely reaction. This is one of my top 5 Nightwish songs and as others have mentioned is one of Tuomas's most personal songs. He has said that this song is how he wants to be remebered if he were to pass away. Makes me tear up everytime.
Thank you for explaining the meaning behind it. I tried looking it up in the past but I've only gotten different stories that didn't quite make sense, yours is much more believable. The only thing I could find is the boy talking is 11 years old. I've seen the video alot, when Floor raises her hands during this part of the crescendo always gets me. It is by far my favorite song. Thank you🌹
Fact: Surfin' on UA-cam, there's one combination that always catches my eye and interest without fail. The combination of our lovely Pandora + Nightwish. Just sayin'
K D Lang? I believe sung constant cravings. Great song by the way. As for this amazing song. Tuomas writes his feelings into his music both musically and lyrically. I like how you research and read the lyrics that way you truly understand and feel Nightwish as a band.
Wow! I’ve heard and loved the song, but you read the lyrics so beautifully it gave me a renewed appreciation for the lyrics (and Tuomas’ writing skills! Thanks!
Nicely done, well read and reacted. This show was awesome with so many favorites in it.....A tear in the eye is not uncommon with this one....especially tonight having left my daughters side at Middlemore...... 10th man down from this show gets overlooked by so many ;)
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@@PandoraPlaysMusic According to Tuomas, the song is the “mother of all Nightwish songs,” about himself and how he wants people to remember him as when he passes away. He said "This is the most personal song I’ve ever written. My testimony for the whole world. With this song I want to apologise everyone who deserves my apology. It also makes an “I don’t care” -statement to them who deserve it. The song is also about what Nightwish means and has meant to me. It’s all, without it I’m dead. I have created it and it has created me. When I pass away, this song’s lyrics are of what I wish to be remembered. An Ocean Soul."
There is so much genius in this work that it is difficult to know where to begin. Everything, from the stage set to the lyrics to the music itself has a purpose. Floor's heart-rendingly beautiful performance is beyond comparison - only she could deliver the emotional truth of this work. There is so much more here to understand. Note the swans in the background - these are the swans of Tuonela, said in Finnish mythology to be the conveyors of souls to the afterlife. Note how the boy has his arms raised in the hope and the longing of embracing that journey, yet - there he remains. It's worth a listen to Sibelius' The Swan of Tuonela to see where part of Tuomas ' inspiration came from. Here's Herbert von Karajan and the Berliner Philharmoniker: ua-cam.com/video/HjyLWoJvtME/v-deo.html. Exquisite. Emppu's ravishingly beautiful solo is David Gilmour class in the way it conveys the sadness, the anguish of a soul who has been left behind in a lonely and forsaken world. It's a cry of anguish, reinforced by the funereal march of the music behind and complementing the solo. You'll hear that same sort of expression in David Gilmour's last solo of Pink Floyd's Comfortably Numb. I always felt that towards the end, it became the funeral march of a lost and tormented soul. All of the anguish and regret of something glimpsed and lost is distilled and channeled into one extended searing cry. So it is with Emppu's solo, yet it is so deftly and effortlessly woven into this masterpiece of Tuomas' that you don't quite realize what it's doing to you. Note that there is none of Emppu's usual smirking or goofing around in this one. He is dead serious (excuse the pun) and it shows in his expression. So much so that he has to turn away from the audience when he is done. This is what the composer/keyboardist of Nightwish, Tuomas Holopainen, has said about this song: "This is the most personal song I’ve ever written. My testimony for the whole world. With this song I want to apologise everyone who deserves my apology. It also makes an “I don’t care” statement to them who deserve it. The song is also about what Nightwish means and has meant to me. It’s all, without it I’m dead. I have created it and it has created me. When I pass away, this song’s lyrics are of what I wish to be remembered. An Ocean Soul". I should add, Pandora, that you are among a handful of reactors who get what's going on here. Of that handful, you and another reactor who calls herself Mental Amanda (she's a suicide survivor) truly understand what Tuomas is conveying to us. We insist that Tuomas is a genius and yes, he is all that and more. But for all that, he is a modest man who hungers for comprehension and yes, love. Fortunately for him (and for the world), he is married to another Finnish vocal angel, Johanna Kurkela - so love at last. And unsurprisingly, they and Troy create beautiful music together. The desire for wisdom in Tuomas' soul will never be quenched, and we should feel fortunate that we happen to inhabit the same world line that he does.
I like the way you determine the context of the song and then read the lyrics. I think most reactors miss out on the song feeling without knowing what it’s all about. 😄🤘
Not sure you should read those song analyses from songfacts, because their name should be changed to load of BS. The song is about Tuomas himself. He stated more than once he had a very happy childhood. He wrote this song at age 22. Just a few years before he was a regular Finnish teenager, but at age 22 he all of a sudden was the composer and bandleader of Finlands biggest export product over iron ore and forestry. He lives for the music and "The Child" (aka Nightwish), but it comes at a cost: He has to make very adult decisions to make it work. The responsibility of hundreds jobs hanging in the balance on his performances and creativity. That responsibility weighs on him. I think at the time he was not yet ready to be the great Tuomas-Metal-Mozart, but he was no longer young Tuomas either. At this point in time he struggles with being so popular and identifies more with the boy-Tuomas that no longer exists ("dead boy") Tuomas told in an interview that (at the time) he wrote the song as a eulogy...this is what he wanted people to remember if he were to die.
Empuu doesnt smile at end of his solo. Ive never seen him so un-animated. Makes me cry.
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I got legit chills from your reciting of the lyrics. It's not every day you hear Floor's part in spoken word.
I adored the way you read the poetic lyrics at the beginning, you read them as they should be read! Tuomas would be proud!
dead boys poem and poet and the pendulum are tuomas's most personal songs and Floor's voice and performance take them on another level. i cry everytime i hear them.
Floor is able to bring out the soul of each song. Just what Tuomas' masterpieces needed. She always sings in service of the music. For sure, there's stage presence in spades, but no act to draw attention to herself. She's actually so selfless that she can afford to become a medium for the story to be told and the music to flow freely. No ego in between. That's the energy & emotion I feel each time I listen to this music. This is way beyond singing. Cheers from Amsterdam!
Excellent, bro 😇😇😇
Perfectly said! This woman, this band ....
Floor's rendition of this one is so powerful it moved me to tears when I first saw/heard it. It was written long before she joined band but she really creates an empathic delivery. It's an amazing composition by Tuomas and performance by all. Thanks for the great reaction!
The collision of two empaths ,Tuomas genius and Floor interpretation .
Tuomas Holopainen metal Mozart
Notice how somber Emppu is when he plays the solo. They are a group of empathic souls and Floor just sings the hell out of it!
🤩👌💥💯
Most of Emppu's solo parts stay in the 'theme' of composition....
Cool reaction.
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Wonderful reaction, it's so clear how much you feel the words and music of Tuomas 🤘
New Nightwish recruit and lifelong Electric Light Orchestra (E.L.O.) fan here from England reporting for duty. Thank you for your beautiful reaction to a beautiful composition. Thank you for being a part of my new pleasure. Toumas and E.L.O's Jeff Lynne are up there with the best composers ever in my humble opinion 👍😊
very great song form Nightwish my friend
Nightwish Army UK popping in for an emotional reaction.
One of the many many many "must hear" from Nightwish 😍
The band’s teamwork at its best. Floor is unbelievable in this song. She does so well to not overpushing, every instrument flows together.
Thanks !!
Thank you for your thoughtful reaction. This is a masterpiece of sad beauty. It gets me every time. Every time.
If you look at the back drop you see little boy reaching for swans. In Finnish mythology swans carries dead souls to Tuonela (Death's domain)
Interesting. That explains quite a lot. Thank you for that.
Wow! How interesting! Thank you!
In Finland the National Bird is the whooper swan (cygnus cygnus) an extremely beautiful bird. That goes completely together with the mythology and it plays a role in the finnish national epic Kalevala.
..thank You ⚘
Great job in reading the lyrics,had goosebombs just by that....one of the best songs...great reaction thank you
Great reaction to a great old Nightwish song that Floor made her own. My favorite Emppu solo as well. One of Tuomas’s most emotional pieces. Keep exploring Nightwish. Might be time for The Greatest Show on Earth. Eventually, The Poet and The Pendulum, probably Tuomas’ most emotional masterpiece, will blow you away, but perhaps getting to know the band and their history first would be best. Enjoy!
Only research needed to The Poet and The Pendulum is that kicking first singer out was a very big deal back in the day. Media circus what happened in Finland surprised Tuomas. Many fans and media guys blamed Tuomas. There are fan fictions about Tuomas being suicidical which is not true. The song works even if you don’t know the history completely.
You make me smile, you make life happier That’s my reaction.
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What a great song, what great lyrics, what tight and perfect instrumentation. What a good reaction.
Thank you for this brillant reaction video, it was wonderfull and emotional. Every time i hear this great piece of music, i have tears in my eyes.😘🥰😥
I had tears from you just reading those lyrics. This song is so deep and I really feel connected to what is said. Tuomas is so brilliant!!
This boy was a Nightwish fan, who had a serious illness and died. This song was dedicated to him.
Hey Pandora, I really appreciate the way you take the time to read the context and the poetry of each song before experiencing the music performance. Thank you.
I can't keep my eyes dry when listening to this song, but you had me in tears during the reading of the lyrics. You dit that beautifully. I loved your reation.
While his guitar gently weeps
Tuomas has such great empathy. He knows people are different like he is, philosophical and mindful, but he know a lot of them can't find a good place to land in this society. I believe this song is a tribute to those people
This is a very emotional and personal song for Tuomas. The small child's voice represents Tuomas' inner child speaking.
When asked what this song was about "Tuomas has said about this song, that it's about if he were to die tomorrow, what would he want to say to everyone that he loves, and that love him..."
Notice the small boy on the screen reaching out to the flying swans on the screen. The swan is the guide to the afterlife in Finnish mythology. He is reaching out to implore them to take him with to the other side. A beautiful song filled with sadness from an unfulfilled destiny.
This song is so well written,composed,produced and performed live,that it tears me up everytime,especially when Floor changes it up midways with abit of a deeper,more soulfull voice......then she has me weak!😍😢
Again, Thank you for your insightful way of doing these reactions/analysis of Nightwish songs, this one is a real beauty. agan Thank you! really looking forward to the next one. ❤
Great reaction Pandora! one of my favorite songs always get tears in my eyes!
There is a legend. God did not stop creating the heaven and earth until the seventh day. He created Floor on the eighth day 💥💥💥💥
Pandora! You already made me all choked up just by reading the meaning of the song like that! Geesh...
This is such a beautiful, delicate song, to me (and I know for many others as well) this one is special because this is a young Tuomas talking to us, the double cadence on the phrase "I wish I didn't feel for you anymore" always makes me cry, but then the queen manages to bring the positivity back with the second part of the song, is so powerful and uplifting, that you can't help but smile through the tears. Complex feelings caused by an special, complex and beautiful man's masterful mind
Nice KD Lang reference! She's great!
Glad you enjoyed this heavier song...it cuts deeply!
Thank you for this lovely reaction. This is one of my top 5 Nightwish songs and as others have mentioned is one of Tuomas's most personal songs. He has said that this song is how he wants to be remebered if he were to pass away. Makes me tear up everytime.
Thank you for explaining the meaning behind it. I tried looking it up in the past but I've only gotten different stories that didn't quite make sense, yours is much more believable. The only thing I could find is the boy talking is 11 years old. I've seen the video alot, when Floor raises her hands during this part of the crescendo always gets me. It is by far my favorite song. Thank you🌹
Nice reaction, thank you 😊🇫🇮
Thank for a beautiful reaction ❤
9:35 I swear nobody can captivate a crowd the way Floor can, be it tens of thousands of fans like this or the small group of peers on Beste Zangers.
If one could spend couple hours inside Tuomas's mind, when he creates these masterpieces.. It could be such a ride.
Fact: Surfin' on UA-cam, there's one combination that always catches my eye and interest without fail.
The combination of our lovely Pandora + Nightwish. Just sayin'
Nice reaction , and yes i know " constant craving " by K.D. Lang 🤣🤘🤘
K D Lang? I believe sung constant cravings. Great song by the way. As for this amazing song. Tuomas writes his feelings into his music both musically and lyrically. I like how you research and read the lyrics that way you truly understand and feel Nightwish as a band.
Wow! I’ve heard and loved the song, but you read the lyrics so beautifully it gave me a renewed appreciation for the lyrics (and Tuomas’ writing skills! Thanks!
Tuomas actually said this, Dead boys poem, might be the best song i ever wrote:)
I believe it!
I like how you broke it down do the same thing with poet and the pendulum at wembley.
Nicely done, well read and reacted. This show was awesome with so many favorites in it.....A tear in the eye is not uncommon with this one....especially tonight having left my daughters side at Middlemore......
10th man down from this show gets overlooked by so many ;)
I hope your daughter is okay. ❤️ x
@@PandoraPlaysMusic appreciate the the time you take to understand a songs meaning and intent,bravo to you :)
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@@PandoraPlaysMusic I hope so too........Ovarian Cancer at 24 .
This is about Tuomas, this is his most personal song .
Yes, when the camera is on him at one point you really feel how deeply connected he is to it. Really moving x ❤
@@PandoraPlaysMusic According to Tuomas, the song is the “mother of all Nightwish songs,” about himself and how he wants people to remember him as when he passes away. He said
"This is the most personal song I’ve ever written. My testimony for the whole world. With this song I want to apologise everyone who deserves my apology. It also makes an “I don’t care” -statement to them who deserve it. The song is also about what Nightwish means and has meant to me. It’s all, without it I’m dead. I have created it and it has created me.
When I pass away, this song’s lyrics are of what I wish to be remembered. An Ocean Soul."
There is so much genius in this work that it is difficult to know where to begin. Everything, from the stage set to the lyrics to the music itself has a purpose. Floor's heart-rendingly beautiful performance is beyond comparison - only she could deliver the emotional truth of this work. There is so much more here to understand.
Note the swans in the background - these are the swans of Tuonela, said in Finnish mythology to be the conveyors of souls to the afterlife. Note how the boy has his arms raised in the hope and the longing of embracing that journey, yet - there he remains. It's worth a listen to Sibelius' The Swan of Tuonela to see where part of Tuomas ' inspiration came from. Here's Herbert von Karajan and the Berliner Philharmoniker: ua-cam.com/video/HjyLWoJvtME/v-deo.html. Exquisite.
Emppu's ravishingly beautiful solo is David Gilmour class in the way it conveys the sadness, the anguish of a soul who has been left behind in a lonely and forsaken world. It's a cry of anguish, reinforced by the funereal march of the music behind and complementing the solo. You'll hear that same sort of expression in David Gilmour's last solo of Pink Floyd's Comfortably Numb. I always felt that towards the end, it became the funeral march of a lost and tormented soul. All of the anguish and regret of something glimpsed and lost is distilled and channeled into one extended searing cry. So it is with Emppu's solo, yet it is so deftly and effortlessly woven into this masterpiece of Tuomas' that you don't quite realize what it's doing to you. Note that there is none of Emppu's usual smirking or goofing around in this one. He is dead serious (excuse the pun) and it shows in his expression. So much so that he has to turn away from the audience when he is done.
This is what the composer/keyboardist of Nightwish, Tuomas Holopainen, has said about this song: "This is the most personal song I’ve ever written. My testimony for the whole world. With this song I want to apologise everyone who deserves my apology. It also makes an “I don’t care” statement to them who deserve it. The song is also about what Nightwish means and has meant to me. It’s all, without it I’m dead. I have created it and it has created me. When I pass away, this song’s lyrics are of what I wish to be remembered. An Ocean Soul".
I should add, Pandora, that you are among a handful of reactors who get what's going on here. Of that handful, you and another reactor who calls herself Mental Amanda (she's a suicide survivor) truly understand what Tuomas is conveying to us. We insist that Tuomas is a genius and yes, he is all that and more. But for all that, he is a modest man who hungers for comprehension and yes, love. Fortunately for him (and for the world), he is married to another Finnish vocal angel, Johanna Kurkela - so love at last. And unsurprisingly, they and Troy create beautiful music together. The desire for wisdom in Tuomas' soul will never be quenched, and we should feel fortunate that we happen to inhabit the same world line that he does.
Up in the top 5. As intentions Poet you can bet it has some autobiography.
Tuomas says it is his most personal song.
Lovely reaction ❤️
I like the way you determine the context of the song and then read the lyrics. I think most reactors miss out on the song feeling without knowing what it’s all about. 😄🤘
I didn't realize it till you said it, but it does have some likeness to K.D.Lang and constant craving!
Right?! Thank you:)
Think I said it on all of your NW reactions...you are amazing to read the lyrics..❤️ it...and im not into poetry..
Pandora thank you, we are too Lazy for translate text from song, when you read text of the song I understand point And Beauty of the song.
The song basically about Tuomas..
hello beautiful
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Not sure you should read those song analyses from songfacts, because their name should be changed to load of BS.
The song is about Tuomas himself. He stated more than once he had a very happy childhood.
He wrote this song at age 22. Just a few years before he was a regular Finnish teenager, but at age 22 he all of a sudden was the composer and bandleader of Finlands biggest export product over iron ore and forestry. He lives for the music and "The Child" (aka Nightwish), but it comes at a cost: He has to make very adult decisions to make it work. The responsibility of hundreds jobs hanging in the balance on his performances and creativity. That responsibility weighs on him.
I think at the time he was not yet ready to be the great Tuomas-Metal-Mozart, but he was no longer young Tuomas either.
At this point in time he struggles with being so popular and identifies more with the boy-Tuomas that no longer exists ("dead boy")
Tuomas told in an interview that (at the time) he wrote the song as a eulogy...this is what he wanted people to remember if he were to die.
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Glad to hear it:)
🇬🇧 Norfolk with you on this one ☝️