Thank you for your reaction to Forestella! 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. 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.
Obrigado por sua nova reação maravilhosa. FORESTELLA encomendou a composição a "Valensia Clarkson", uma compositora muito inspirada em "Queen". "Valensia", ela mesma uma multitalentosa, elogiou explicitamente os talentos e habilidades incríveis de FORESTELLA. Aliás, a vocalização da música foi desenvolvida pelos próprios FORESTELLA - sob a direção de Kang HjungHo (soprano/rock) e em coordenação com "Valensia".
Eu amo esse M/V. De fato, as imagens e os vocais, tão rápidos e poderosos, são um desafio para os olhos e ouvidos e deixam uma impressão avassaladora. Uma obra-prima em todos os aspectos. Aqui, tudo até ao mais ínfimo detalhe (letra, simbologia, coloração) foi coordenado com a mensagem. Quanto mais você ouve e vê, mais entusiasmado fica. Este grupo incrivelmente talentoso é único e imbatível.
Eu também recomendo fortemente a versão fantástica de FORESTELLA de "Smooth Criminal". (Seu marido já reagiu a "Thriller".) É um novo vídeo (também enviado por sua gravadora, os direitos autorais não estão bloqueados. Também insanamente boa é a versão de "Inner-Universe", vozes inacreditáveis e habilidades vocais e, novamente, um estilo completamente diferente.
