Heavenly Harmony: RebekaReacts to 'Utopia' by Forestella! 

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Thanks to react to Forestella again ❤❤❤❤

The message from that closing part was the old biblical warning about NOT eating from the tree of the fruit of knowledge. And you're right about it being very Queen-esque. Freddie Mercury would've loved Forestella! Thanks again! 👋 😊❤

I decided to go with a rock opera genre and contacted Valensia, a composer who was greatly influenced by Queen. At first, it was a song about the Spanish city that Valensia loves, but after several revisions, the current song was born. It is said that a lot of time was invested and prepared to create this one song.

They actually gave a brief to the composer of the music that they wanted a Queen vibe , because they knew Valensia Clarkson was a mad Queen devotee ! They wrote the lyrics but he contributed the Spanish place names you hear..because though he is dutch-born he lives and works in Spain. And yes, you must go back several times…it’s what Forestella advises too! 😅

Thank you for your interesting review! This is the 2nd part of their trilogy. You can see act 4~6 here. The 1st part was their Save our lives and you can find act 1~3 there. Some fans said the 3rd part is White Night, but I think White Night is out of trilogy because in the album description of KOOL which was released later than White Night, it was said "또한 'KOOL'은 세계수(World Tree) 3부작 시리즈 도중 발매하는 스핀 오프 싱글로, 세계관의 경계(Borderline)에 있어 이전 앨범의 여러 요소를 숨겨두었다. 이로 하여금 숨겨진 요소와 그 의미를 찾는 재미도 느껴볼 수 있을 것이다." "KOOL came out in the middle of trilogy as a spin-off single." This is what I read, so I'm guessing the trilogy isn't finished yet. The theme of the song was like Utopia for human beings might be dystopia for nature. And we need to find a way to co-exist because human beings are also a part of the nature. In the end of Save our lives- their original song as well, previous of Utopia, you can see the World Tree was growing up. That concept of world tree of life is from Nordic myth's Yggdrasill so their concept and story is also a crossover of the biblical metaphors and nordic mythical symbols.. and they took the 4 elements idea of Aristotle in the Save our lives like each of Forestella is representing an element like the Fire, the Water, the Air and the Earth. Interestingly, their vocal ranges fit the elements for each too. We can just guess and imagine stories, I think we can get everything clearer when the 3rd part is released. The composer is a Dutch named Valensia who lives in Valéncia in Spain. Forestella requested him to make an operatic part like Bohemian Rhapsody as Valensia was so strongly influenced by Queen, like to have made Queen tribute album himself. Actually his first demo version of Utopia was named Valéncia, like Barcelona by Freddie Mercury and Monserrat Caballé, a hymn for Valencia. But Forestella changed the lyrics to suit their World Tree and Utopia concept. It's interesting that still we can find some names of local spots in Valéncia, lol. They had more than 17K takes and used more than 400 tracks for this one song. It took more than 2 months of recording as far as they said. As always they sound better in live, so check out their live performance in Mnet too! This song is really addictive and became an earworm in my head like constantly.