If you haven’t checked it out yet, please listen to Dan’s cover of Fairy Tale by Shaman. He covered it 12 years ago and then 6 years ago. The one from 6 years ago is phenomenal. The beginning has a hymn called Jesu Salvator Mundi by Bartolomeo Cordans (1700-1757). It’s absolutely beautiful!!!
This song really encapsulates the majesty and awesomeness of the formation of the solar system, Earth, and the slow development of life until humans finally arrive to shake things up.
A new record I think for this song when it comes to the number of *pointless* pauses to ruin everything. Even pausing at least 3 times in the dang OUTRO, including SIR Richard Dawkins speech, what the heck man. As other have said, Nightwish isnt that full of themselves to write a song called this about THEIR own music...sigh.. It's about the creation of everything, the evolution. Evolution is a proven thing. The fairytale book with Noah, Abraham, Josef, Jesus, etc etc, is just that, *fairytales*. There's absolutely ZERO proof either of the *characters* in that book existed. It's a made up thing by someone long time ago. And it stuck around, because humans are at the end of the day, not capable of anything unless they have someone 'watching' them. Voila, let's pretend there's this being up in the sky watching us. The most epic scam in the history of humankind- religion. So successful they raised millions of buildings, aka churches, where the scammers can collect money, and avoiding to have to pay taxes. Talk about an epic scam. Why would this God need money? Isn't he all-knowing, and whatnot? Long time ago, it was said he was up in the sky, probably sitting behind a cloud watching us. Fast-forward to today, we have airplanes and rockets flying thru the sky, you would think we would've crashed into this "God" fella by now eh? OR, could it be that we're simply the product of e v o l u t i o n. Where there's tons of actual facts and proof. That, versus a book with made up characters that no one has ever seen, and no one can prove they're NOT made up. I recommend the 3 little pigs, and possibly red riding hood, both are also very good fairytale stories. But we *know* those stories aren't true, because we can pinpoint who and when it was written. It baffles me how brainwashed religious people are. Why believe in something that no one can prove ever existed? Again, only proof is some fairytale? Found proof of Moses? Is there a divided sea he forgot to 'close' we can use as proof? No? oh, how strange, you would think something that epic of a skill would've stayed around for us to see as proof. Very suspicious how there's literally nothing to prove anything the religious nutcases claim. Yet they're pick up the pitchforks as soon as someone claims evolution is the true story behind why we are here. A 1 vs 1 fight. One has tons of proof, and more coming. The other one has...belief..? Well if I believe in Santa, does that make him exist suddenly? If there was a God, why do we have wars, famine, violence. Why are humans so quick to jump at each others' throats? Aren't humans made in likeness of God? If so, then God would put Saddam and Bin Laden and Hitler to shame. They existed for a period of time only. God is the one, if we are to believe the fairytales, the one that created us, he/she/it is the reason the world is going to h-ll. So...praise god, thank him for making us the worst creature on the planet? What about the other planet, what about the other galaxies...did he/she/it make that too? Oh we can't pray for anything. yet the brainwashed lunatics keeps praying to that entity in the sky. Yet never ever have a prayer been answered. So, if this God existed, why isnt there a single prayer that's been proven answered? Dont give the lame excuse that "god's will" blah blah, if it's his will to ignore prayers, then why the heck are these nutcases praying then? And even worse, most of it happens on sundays. Guess which day they wrote is his/her/it's day off? Sundays, the big prayer day, the day they pray to this made up entity, it's like talking to a wall or empty space. No one's there, the entity is not available right now, try again tomorrow. Try tomorrow, still no luck with the prayers. Then keep trying, day after day, month after month, year after year, til the day your life ends. And not a single prayer during your entire lifetime had been answered, and you wasted your life believing in fairytales. Meanwhile there are unborn ghosts that could've made a difference in the world, but you got their ticket to "Life" and wasted it on living in a fairytale, bringing nothing to the world, just falling in line with the other brainwashed lunatics. Evolution is real. God created everything, is dumber than a children's cartoon. There's the list Moses had, the 10..whatever. How come we humans check off that list every single minute, and yet nothing happens? Again...fairytale, that way too many countries force upon children at very young age, getting them brainwashed. The benefit of being an adult, I can make up my own mind, and look at the evidence. Looking at all the wars in history, the ugly things humans have done, how many good people were taken away from us way too soon, while the scumbags of the world keeps rockin'. Yeah...there's totallly a "God".
Bestie, in the vein of other great mid-tempo Band-Maid songs like Daydreaming, About Us, Memorable, Anemone, Endless Story, PAGE, Wonderland, Awkward, Start Over, Mirage, At the Drop of a Hat and Smile, was co-written by Michael Einziger of Incubus. MISA's playing and bass tone are setting new standards... and Akane's drumming is so in-the-pocket and distinguishable... and Kanami's solo is Daydreaming masterful! The recording and mix are as enjoyable as the song and beautiful MV! And Miku’s English lyrics are heartfelt. Is Band-Maid a band of fashion-forward, trend-setting Besties? 💞 Thx, Mikey, Band-Maid and Pastor Brent! FYI - The Maids just released a "Making of Bestie" on their websites where they explain the song and look of their awesome MV.
Great reaction Master Pastor Brent. Love your take of the songs in your reactions. You're right, we all take away something a little different from any music/song. PO!🕊 🤘😆🤘
Sounds familiar, lol, although I did love Akane's fills and Mincho's solo, as well as their gorgeous look from the get-go. I'm still not sure I will get over that abrupt ending, though. 😁
Me too. They have two songs like that for me, oddly, both collabs. I wonder how the Warning one will hit me. I guess it isn't pure Band-Maid I'm expecting or something, even though their early stuff was essentially collab too, and I love that. I dunno, it's weird.
So many bands over the years seem to focus on negative emotions like rage. Band-Maid always brings the more positive feeling, love, friendship, being yourself, striving for what you want to be. This is one of the many reasons I love this band. They lift my heart with every song.
They even make "Hate?" one of their few songs which really doesn't have a positive message...well, I guess it depends if displaying hate for someone who cheated is a negative message...some could see it as a positive...LOL. But even a song about pure hate and distain...Band-Maid makes it sound upbeat and happy... And the conversation between MISA and Kanami in "Hate?"...sounds like pure happiness to me. PO!🕊
Pastor Brent, the best words to describe this song is beautiful (in so many ways), ethereal, angelic. The Maids, dressed all in white, look aangelic, especially Kanami with her gossamer lace "angel" wings. She then takes us soaring into the heavens with her solo. What a song of love and friendship. These Maids are so special.
This song really is a masterpiece... No matter what you believe when it comes to Evolution. I don't claim to understand everything about "Evolution!" ...nor do I understand a lot of the "Old Testament" ...but that's okay. I know, where I grew up, there were places where I could go and unearth fossils of sea dwelling creatures... Mainly sea shells and ferns and other plants! I had probably 1000 lbs of fossils put around the tree in our backyard! It was a fun hobby!
Five instrumentalists & one vocalist ( there are some backing tracks from the studio ( it doesn't pay to haul a full orchestra & choir around), but basically it is six people producing this incredibly dense sound.
Glad I found your reaction of this song. This song is so so heavy on so many levels. What you may not know is that this band and singer go back over 40 years. I first saw them when I was 12 in 1984. Back then the singer Blackie was a wild man deep in the occult. WASP was/is a shock band. Blackie would drink blood on stage and throw raw meat into crowd. I drifted away until just very recently where I saw a commercial for their upcoming 40th anniversary tour. So I started listening to the last 30 years of what I missed. The other night I fell asleep with RU-vid on and I woke up to this song being played live. I never heard it ever. The song is very catchy so I figured out the name and pulled up the lyrics and I was absolutely blown away. I know Blackie was brought up in the church but obviously drifted away when he was young. Being this the last song on their last album for ever I wonder if he’s asking for forgiveness. I’ve read he’s come back to the church and have heard him say in a recent interview that Christ is his savior so it hit me very hard that someone like him has written a song that has uplifted me during a very dark period in my life. This is the very last place I would’ve expected inspiration and a connection to God to come from. So very heavy. Thanks for reading. Thanks for your positivity! My knees are so bloody and I just need to catch a break. Take care !
