GINX Reacts | Nightwish - How's the Heart Acoustic | Live Reaction Replay 

Floor is the best singer on the planet

Having seen her live 1st of June I can tell you - there is no better female singer in this world! Such a blessing to be in her timeline.

This song touches that heart so easily. Floor and Troy do a wonderful job.

Floor takes the story of the song and processes it emotionally to determine how she is going to present the song. She has said that sometimes it is difficult for her to look at individuals in the audience because of how emotional she gets.

There’s always an added something that Floor adds to a song. Emotion.

I saw Nightwish in concert at Wembley stadium during the last tour, nothing can prepare you for the power of Floor's voice.

🇬🇧 Norfolk strapped in Troy is now deaf in his left ear 😂 and the smile at the end says everything 😊

"How's The Heart" should always be sung this way! It's more emotional and it touches the audience with more of an impact! Floor is a generational vocalist...the best I have heard in my 66 years!

Troy plays: Uilleann pipes, tin whistle, vocals, guitar, keyboards, bass guitar, pump organ, bouzouki, cittern, bodhrán, mandola, harmonium, aerophone and anything that can't run fast enough to get away. Fun fact for you: In her home studio, Floor uses an AKG C12 VR mic. Not a cheap beast. The other one in this session was an acoustic version of Nemo.

This song is special, a song about human empathy...We really need to care more, and fight less .... I really Like the original version, but that acoustic version just hit's so well into my soul and heart ❤. It is more personal...Also, this songs message, is more Powerful in this way, than its original version !!! I was fortunate enough to see this song played acoustic Live and it was beyond beautiful .... The second verse Tuomas wrote for Floor, her husband Hannes van Dahl and their daughter Freja. This is Tuomas way to say: Thank you Floor for saving the band back in 2012 and make us great again. he wrote the part "We met where the cliff greets the sea" about her relationship with Hannes van Dahl, the drummer of Sabaton (although is also a clear reference to Élan), and "Now there’s one who came from me / A child of light, another tale", which is about her giving birth to their first daughter Freja. How cool is that? I mean, he really did what the song is about: human empathy. And what a better way to show it by dedicating a little part of the song for his friend and band mate? She said she went to tears when he mentioned it to her. And I can see why, it is a beautiful song. NWSU/FloorFan/Epican/Ayreonaut/TWA 🤘😎🤘.

FYI..the guitarist is multi instrumentalist Troy Donackley, who also plays bouzouki, all wind instruments on the planet, Uilleen pipes (they are awesome), among others, and sings partial lead on The Carpenter and My Walden....legend is he was asked in an interview "you play......is there anything u don't play," to which he supposedly thought for a minute and then said "yeah, ice hockey". I'm guessing he can play ice hockey a bit also, tho

Thanks again Ginx for doing this reaction. This is a special song for me because we do need to ask people more often, how's the heart. Thanks for answering my question about the recording being clean. I knew as a pro audio engineer that you would be able to tell...🥰

I love this version so much! Troy is just awesome. Floor never ever dissapoints me. She is my vocal hero.

So good. Everytime. 👏

Troy is now deaf on one side...there 's a second song called:" Nemo". same show and also acoustic.beautiful as well. thank you for your lovely reaction.greets from the NW Army in the Netherlands.

My favorite Nightwish song!!! And I looooove this version so much!!! Can't wait to see Floor again beginning of July😍

🤗🍒🤘🏻😘 Great Job again

I think this arrangement was so well liked, they played it this way on one of the virtual concerts and in some of the following tour, although the band returns to the stage and gently joins in near the end. Saw it played this way live in Montréal May 2022, loved it.

For me this is a divine performance.

Most people when you see them ask ``how are you`` but honestly they don`t care. This song hit`s me in the soul { like all Nightwish song`s} but I say this often now because I really mean it.

I like your way to see these Videos.. thank you Great Musikstrukture (thanks to Tuomas) Great Singing (Floor) Great band (all) AND Great Crewwish (all Technics and hard worker behind the stage)

I remember them just getting in this video plus the one of Nemo at the same studio right before Covid hit - then it was cancelled concerts after cancelled concerts until they were able to finally take Human Nature on the road live - also i love, in this clip, how Floor backs away from the mic before sshe belts out the later chorus - I figure that she knows by now how much the mic can take LOL!

THIS solidifies the value of the Gwen Factor! Keep. It. Up. Please. Meanwhile, the NW catalog beckons... Thanks, Gina, for another lovely react. More, more, more! Cheers rl 🤘👹🤘

Hmm that note at 7:12 "heart" pierce through my soul !

Yeah, she's one hell of a storyteller, but she also has Holopainen stories to tell. They're both empathic geniuses. Troy is such a perfect fit for Nightwish and AURI with Tuomas. Tuomas can play multiple instruments (I've heard ten) and Troy can play practically anything (I've heard at least thirteen instruments). AURI is Toumas, his wife Johanna Kurkela, and Troy, with Kai adding percussion when needed. It's Nightwish Soft in many ways ... pure genius.

I think you are spot on - Floor is a unique storyteller. She is capable of holding back and still sounding so powerful and intense, that it is going directly through your ears and into your mind and spine, so the story is felt deeply. I have heard her without any mic (doing classical) - she is mind blowing powerful, also in the emotional parts.

In which Floor Jansen proves she can, in an emergency, function as car alarm, air raid siren, train horn or fog horn.

Thank You so much, I loved that so much, Lady you rock, Floor is without doubt the most versatile Female singer in the world today, So is so underrated, and unknow in a lot of places it is untrue, she will be Always My Queen

Great reaction 🎉This is terribly difficult song to sing , and Floor sings so wonderfully in this song❤ . Troy with the acoustic guitar is a masterclass🤘🤘🤘

Have you seen the microphone that Floor uses at home for her recordings/podcast etc? AKG C12 VR

I don't know what kind of sorcery this is, but I am totally enthralled by it.

Goosebumps

The best aucustic song by nightwish Gina . I know you will appreciate the mic setup on the guitar since you are a audio engineer and the lyrics are emotional and beautiful sung by the Dutch windmill floor or otherwise known also as momma floor because she is in fact a mother Gina. She is married to sabatons drummer which you have reacted to sabaton previously. Wintersun Alex ❄️👋❤️

Story by Tuomas Holopainen, delivery courtesy of Troy and Floor.

Gina, the sound guy did a good job not only is there a fret board mic and a body mic, but Troy's Fylde (UK) guitar is also using it's internal pick up, it's plugged in if you look. My best wishes from here. Richard.

Spine tingling 🤘

The second verse was written for Floor.🤘🎸The lyric video is also worth a listen it is different.🤘🎸

Funny thing aside, Floor mostly uses her own AKG C12VR microphone, which is in a class of its own.

Floor has musical theater training. I don't think very many rock singers have that type of training? Floor also claims to be a high sensitive personality, which helps her to feel every word she sings in a very personal style.

Thanks

What a nice way to end a work day, for me. Thanks!

There's quite a big difference between How's the heart Acoustic and the original also they did one more together Nemo acoustic

I don't know if this is true, but I heard someone say that Floor destroyed some microphones earlier in her career (by overload not by throwing them or something).

🤩👍💥💯🎼 🤘😎💙🎶

This make’s you happy doesn’t it, reminds me some what of Nina&Frederick 🤔

The fourth of July I'll see here together with Anneka van Giersbergen who's the mother of European metal. What the do I don't know. Will it be good? I'm very, very, very sure. I'll report after that concert on discord Gina. Greetz from Pieter.

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You were live? Sorry to miss it.