Floor is the best singer Nightwish could have ever get. She can sing everything with her own style and heart, sometimes even better than original version. I love her.
I am dreaming of a day when I read the comments of a Nightwish video and I don't read any discussion about which singer was better. Hey it's been some years already since Tarja left!
Irtap Wake up because that day is unfortunately never coming. Bon Scott died 35 years ago and I still see AC/DC videos where people bicker about him and Brian Johnson. Floor can stay with the band for another 15 years and it's not going to make any difference. Fans of the former vocalists would not change their mind about her. If you find them annoying, just ignore them.
+Irtap The thing is that you can never give everyone what they want. For example as much as I like Floor and as much as an amazing job she did with the band this will forever remain Tarja's song. It was made for her voice and you can hear it. On the other hand I like her version of I wish I had an angel more.
+Grim Reaper It is NOT and it's never been "Tarja's song"! It is Nightwish song. You can choose what version you like more but it's not Tarja's song"".
Grim Reaper Obviously it's subjective. I can't speak for the other person, but usually comments like "this song will always be this person's song" never sit that well with me, you know. But I have no problem if you prefer Tarja's version and I see that you did not disrespect Floor, so I respect your opinion.
***** Apparently Floor sings old NW songs "without a single trace of emotion..." Like, wtf!? The people who say that seriously make me want to slam my head into my keyboard! >.
Hamster Munchies Yep dead on HM she sings the songs like they come from her soul as if they were written for her. Tarja was amazing by that ship has sailed and Floor brings so much more I guess 3rd times a charm I have seen all three live and she is the best imho
It's amazing how a voice timbre changes the sound of a song. It's like two completely different songs - Floor/ Tarja. I love how Floor makes this song sound tender, soft, really ''sleeping, weeping''. Job well done!
+Dimitris Makridis Tarja's reputation is diminished by her degenerate fans. Every time you say Tarja's name in conjunction with a negative word or phrase, you cause people to associate that negativity with Tarja to the point that her name alone leaves a bad feeling with people. You and those like you, are destroying your idol without even realizing it.
+Elämän Vettä THANK YOU! Every Nightwish video seems to have someone bitching about Tarja being gone. She had a great voice, but the constant whining it beyond old. I think Floor is simply amazing.
Nightwish with Floor is totally awesome! They all seem to be more enthusiastic about what they do and they have every right to be! I can't wait to hear more from them.
Nailed it! F*cking nailed it, Floor! Absolutely beautiful and worth the wait. Come back to Australia and please perform this. I have chills!! Now, if on,y we can see a Phantom of the Opera with Floor and Marko!!
The first sounds of Nightwish to ever hit my ears was this song as sung by Tarja and has been a favorite of mine ever since. However Floor does it well. Just in her own way. I must admit that I like it. Love Tarja and Floor.
FLOOR, je suis chanteuse aussi depuis 20 ans... Je t'ai suivie depuis mon jeune âge... J'ai actuellement 49 ans... Continue ma GRANDE................................................... BISOUS DE LA FRANCE QUI EST TOUJOURS La...................
I went to the concert at Wembley on the 19th of December and I can honestly say that this band has been a true inspiration, their music and presentation really hits the emotions, I have not felt feelings like this since Deep Purple MK2
It's a compliment that it sounds so beautiful when it's recorded without professional equipment. She is a great singer just like Tarja. I think its wonderful to have Floor in Nightwish. They have both different and beautiful voices and i like both singers a lot. :) I hope to see them live once again. Their concerts sell out quite quick.
ty floor you are the front women NW needed so glad your at the helm now I have had the pleasure of seeing all three singers live an your are the best so far imho
Dammit Floor, stop making us tough metal heads cry. I keep freaking my poor husband out because I don't normally cry at anything, he thinks I'm having a mental breakdown or something.
I think we have to feel lucky we had a chance to hear songs like this one sung by Tarja and Floor. We should also consider us lucky because Nightwish has now not only a great voice but also a great presence on the stage.
Nightwish improved on perfection with Floor's voice fronting this song (Live). Unreal! Saw the band last night in Portland, OR. I lack words that would do the performance justice... Breathtaking...
I always thought Tarjas Version was holy - but THIS is so fucking awesome - I fell in love with that great song again. Floor did a magnificent job here - gonna listen to it again! And again. And again. ....
***** Your opinion, Gothic... But not mine... For me both version are good, and Floor give this song a another side of its beauty... Do we need to compare it?
***** Pharaoh Sails to Orion? Hahaha... Mostly this song was growled by Tapio Wilska... Now, lets consider.. Floor Jansen could sing with operatic voice and growling easily by herself, does it mean she is perfect candidate to song the whole song of Pharaoh Sails to Orion, right??... About Phantom of the opera? Yeah, Tarja is a bit better... Swanheart, still in waiting, Floor is not singing this song yet...
***** Floor can sing easily the high notes... She has wide range of vocal and also power to reach a very high notes till F6... About elvenpath, kinslayer and swanheart, we cannot judge Tarja is better than Floor, while we don't have any evidences that Floor has ever singing these songs...
Okay, this is simply bullshit - I didn't compare them at all. I just stated, that I loved Tarjas Version, and that I love Floors just as much in (if not even more as MY PERSONAL TASTE, without any knowledge about the practice of singing...). At no point I said who would be better. I love both. Please stop this holy war, FFS - this is a never ending story...
It's not you who compared them, +Christine Kuhrt... but +Gothic Chronicles when he/she said Tarja is better... and so on.. And it's not a holy war... I just said to him/her that for me also they are both equally good and we don't need to compare them.
I so wished I could go to this show, did not have the money or a babysitter! I hope you come to philly or Atlantic City again soon. Nightwish is on my bucket list. Floor Jenson BELONGS in Nightwish, She did this song justice.....finally...love you Floor!!!
Monica Cahill Are you aware Nightwish is coming back to Pennsylvania and New Jersey in 2016? 19 FEB 2016 SAYREVILLE, NJ, US Starland Ballroom with Sonata Arctica & Delain 24 FEB 2016 PITTSBURGH, PA, US Carnegie Music Hall with Sonata Arctica & Delain
I am really into this band, so unique. I did look at Nightwish along with others back in 2000 but the only band in this genre I followed then was Evanescence. Got into these now because of Floor and Troy. Only band in the world with a great mix of Uilleannn pipes blending beautifully with superbly written music and everyone at the top of the game. Ummm what was the last band in my lifetime that rings that bell? Of yes Led Zeppelin !
How amazingly brilliant would it be if Nightwish made an album or an EP of remastered songs, only they would be sung by Floor.... Pretty sure that wouldn't happen, but the thought gives me happy tingles
Correction: "The degeneracy of the modern Western mind." Once the source of the highest cultural achievements known to human history; now just the fountain of filth and gutter language. Oh, how far we have fallen.
Could be you are incapable of an intelligent response/comment and thus have decided to prove your ignorance by being bully. And really if this is all you can come up with, you really are an insignificant piece of gutter trash whose time would be better spent contemplating your own navel. Perhaps you could gain some pero all insight that way.
Muy de acuerdo con lo que escribes, cuando Floor interpreta "las viejas canciones" logra superar prácticamente todo lo que Tarja realizó en el pasado. Es que tiene ese carisma, esa entrega , versatilidad y ese sentimiento que sólo ella puede vivir y expresar en las canciones que interpreta .
Even her early songs are impossible to be sung from one singer - examplpe "Follow in the Cry". Mayan played it with Simone and Laura Macri /latter is a real opera singer/ and still could not do it like Floor ;)
Hahaha! That song. Have you seen that video when the three of them sing it? You could only hear Floor when it came to THAT part (you know what it is). From time to time, I go back to listen to it because it's so epic, hahaha! As for the debate, each signer has her/his signature, and not any other can sing like they can. It would be boring if that was the case. Loved the "old" Nightwish, the first one, the one I discovered and that made me discover Symphonic metal (oh that holy day when Nemo passed on the TV). The Anette era didn't start well, for me. I was disappointed and couldn't listen to the songs from DPP that often, lol. But then Imaginaerum came and made me enjoy Anette's voice with Nightwish (Slow, Love, Slow, Scaretale, Song of Me to name a few)... And then Floor came. The Flying Dutch Woman. A monument in the Symphonic metal community. Oh girl. I already knew she could sing, but when I heard her rendition of some of NW's songs, I was blown away. Who would have thought that Ghost River could be so awesome (one of my least favourite song from the album)? That Ghost Love Score could become even more epic (that, I had never thought possible)? Who would have thought that Sleeping Sun could be sung like this? I'm sorry, I think I got a bit carried away and deviated from the original thread, lol!
Yep, THAT moment...:D But I must admit my favorite version of this song is the live version from Pinkpop 2004! That recording (the whole concert actually) shows Floor at her best! Sure, maybe she couldn't hit good the high note in My Pledge #1 but considering the intensity of her performence (she was headbanding more than all Amon Amarth members combined, dancing arownd the stage, commanding the crowd) NO ONE could. Magnificent singer as Lori Lewis can hit it - actually better than her (those Ginnunngagaps she performed!!!!) but not with all windmilling Floor does on stage ;)
Tarja,Anette and Floor all brought their own colours to Nightwish, they told their own story and went away, let’s respect all of these Artists, I’ve had as much good memories with sleeping sun as Eva and Elan .
***** No shit Sherlock, the facts would be that Tarja is vocally superior to Floor aha. Lmao Tarja's operatic voice is not "forced" in your context, she is classically trained to sing like that. If anything Floor's operatic voice is "forced" especially now since her head voice has gotten more thiner and less rich.
+Remy van Tol Floor is simply karaoke with this song. It's literally the same pathetic arguments for Floor stans. You point out " bad pronunciation and those weird and harsh vibratos at times " but never point out her rich head voice, excellent dynamics, supported range, natural dark sound etc. Bad pronunciation is a small flaw. Floor strains a lot on belted notes, that's a worse flaw but no one seems to care b/c they are too dented in the head. Does Floor have any gradual dynamics like Tarja? No. Can Floor do sustain high 6 octave notes like Tarja? No. Does Floor have a supported range like Tarja? No. Does Floor have any demonstration of a live proficient vocal agility like Tarja? No. Can Floor do different vocalization of her different registers in the same way Tarja does? (aka more variety such as staccato, fortissimo, macarto etc.) NO. Don't argue "versatility" when you don't know the half of it. Off course all the Floor stans will agree with you since I've yet to encounter one with any sort of musical knowledge or even the slightest rationality.
que hermoso canta Floor Jansen había dejado de escuchar esta banda la escuchaba con tarja y me gustaba mucho Pero creo que se renovó y suena muy bien con Floor Es una mujer muy imponente y su voz potente y muy dulce a la vez la hace única
Somehow Floor's version feels a lot more emotional than Tarja's version. Tarja's version sounds like a priestess from Avalon á la Morgaine le Fay and Floor's version sounds like the cry of a battle queen. I loved both, but Floor's version just moves me more.
OMG Yes! She's singing it like she means it. Tajra's version was better, because her voice better fits in this song, BUT Floor with this version crushed every other singer who'd tried to cover this
Good version, and I admire her for bringing this classic to the whole audience. But this song will never be the same anymore without the original singer.
