Shall I be the first to humbly request a dual reaction to How's The Heart next weekend - the official lyric video followed by the acoustic Planet Rock version? I'd love to hear Chase's thoughts on how you convert a song to acoustic, as well as the usual insights. I'm learning so much from these reactions :)
Yes Chase. Do a double reaction to How’s The Heart. Yes yes yes. Please. Pretty please. Both versions are awesome but I love the acoustic version ❤️❤️❤️ as a true Canadian I am saying please do a double reaction and thank you. And I’m sorry for begging so much 😊
"Stuff, they should do, and they do do it, cause they know, what they're doing, and they know, how to do it, because - they're - Nightwish!" You deserve an extra applause for this :-)
RE: Lyrics. A few thoughts on them: "A Pale blue theatre stage" is our world. Pan is both the god of theatre and nature, a musician, a prankster, and he is very, very naughty. The song seems to suggest that Pan found humans and gifted them with imagination, the ability to tell stories and the ability to dream. There are several literature worlds mentioned in the song. I get the feeling that the song says both that our story is ours to write, and that it is through stories that we advance as a species and dream and invent to go to the moon. For some reason, I get the feeling that Pan did this just for his own amusement, but perhaps this is just Tuomas. ;)
There are quite a few easter eggs in this one, I'll give you one of the easiest ones and then you can discover the other for yourselves. To There And Back is a reference to the Hobbit.
It’s a reference to Pan’s Labyrinth - “sacrifice yourself instead of the innocent”. Which in this case is the planet earth - a pale blue theatre stage as you said.
All the Literary references start at Labyrinth (which can mean so many different stories), but more importantly "Keystone Earth" which is basically "Earth Prime" in a lot of multiverse-stories, but here it is the version used by Stephen King in multiple books. This is the cornerstone: We are Earth Prime, the Keystone Earth, and all those imaginery worlds, even the idea of a multiverse, start here.
Telling you to do a better job? I would rather cut off my toes one by one than telling you to do 'a better job'. There is no better. You are one of, if not THE, most interesting reactors or better said: analysts to listen to. Musical development, instrumental techniques, use of effects. And it seems almost nothing escapes your ears. Be very proud of those ears, they are unique!
Floor's doing some extreme vocal gymnastics on this album. The arpeggios, melodies, legato and staccato pieces ... Tuomas gave her a workout and she rose to the challenge.
Like a master detective, Chase investigates my favorite song on the album helps me to appreciate it's complexity and beauty even more. Thank you sir, I am now having a damn good day!
I believe Tuomas writes for his personal pleasure but also he wants to write something his friends will enjoy playing/singing and something that will challenge their professionalism and skill. Imagine how each reacted when they got the demos sent to them and then when they all gathered to hammer out the finished product. I also enjoy being challenged by music, no problem at all the directions 'Human:Nature' has taken me.
Again no words to describe this masterpiece. Emppu btw introduced this song, said that it was quite difficult for an old man to play. And continued ”hopefully the live version of this song will not turn out to be a pan cake”
It is a song about art, how we create art, music, theater, plays etc...the way Tuomas composed this song to a whole minimusical is amazing. This whole album is just music in an other dimension. Really great reaction again, it's amazing how much one learns from your musical skills, thank you.
I feel like it's more about our imagination. Pan comes from Greek meaning "all" or "every", basically saying that everything we have done and know of, came from our heads first and then turned an idea into reality.
No one mentioned that the vocals are impossible to sing... I can't sing along in some parts... Tuomas leads Floor to make like a guitar solo with her voice...
I still find it absolutely baffling that the people who criticized Endless Forms Most Beautiful, saying things like "you have a ferrari for a vocalist, yet you drive her like a prius" are still on that same shit for this album. This is one of the most vocally difficult albums I've ever heard.
Joe Mamone some people love to criticise unfortunately. Reverting to the same (wrong) arguments is often the only arrow in their quiver. Or they simply have hearing problems.
Dear sir, you better listen to the whole album Imaginaerum. This song is like a strong reminder of that. Fans are not divided here at all, because this kind of sound is now a part of Nightwish signature. Other thing: This is one of the most "filled"/"packed" songs I´ve ever heard in my life. So many things pressed into one composition, so many things going on. That´s what I love - inventiveness, creativity, and absolutely zero laziness.
The "Swiss army knife of singers" is probably the most apt descriptions that I have heard. As time goes on, it is even more accurate. Nightwish uses transitions frequently and effectively. This album, "Human - Nature", is just another transition for direction for Nightwish. Different in theme and flow, but still an incredible masterpiece. Tuomas is a master and Nightish as a whole is incredible adept at using the masters works to the most amazing presentation.
you're right about it not being an easy listen - and that applies to the whole album. and some fans not liking the album is to be expected, naturally, when some (/a lot) of the songs are so different from anything previous. i think it's normal and fine, it's not to everyone's taste, people are allowed to have opinions. when i first listened through it, i honestly only liked shoemaker and endlessness. now some other tracks (like pan) have really grown on me, others still haven't. and that's alright, i can always go back to old albums to listen to what i like haha anyway great reaction as always! and i'm absolutely seconding the people asking for weak fantasy before tribal, live in tampere with lyrics!! weak fantasy is one of my all time faves
During our time of dealing with being quarantined due to virus. Not being able to see this band live. Playing their new material. It is heartbreaking. But when Touring. Starts back up. Greatest Show On Earth😊
I think it may be their best album. Or at least, I think songs like this one, "Shoemaker," and "Tribal" are on a different level than anything else they've done before.
TUOMAS made the statement that, he believed this was Floor's best singing up to this point. For TUOMAS to say that, really got my interest up. The parts over at the end of the song, remind me of Alice in wonderland were the queen's guards are chasing alice. Don't know why.
Easy, Emppu, easy! :-) We all know the face Emppu's going to make right before playing that riff! Great reaction as always, Chase. It's nice to see you enjoying this music the same way as we do, and of course to listen to all the details in Tuomas' compositions that you're picking up so quickly. And it was so nice of you to give a shout out to the NightDreamers' reacticide. It's an amazing group of people and an important part of the army.
Great reaction, as always. I am not one to go to art museums to look at paintings or so but this album made me think that I might understand why people do it. This album is not a collection of songs to listen to in the background or music to just have fun with, it is a collection of art pieces - each one to be stared at in awe. And each time to look, you find something new. But I also get that not everybody likes "their Nightwish" this way. It's quite a departure from old ways. For me however, it's just plain awesome.
This comment brought to mind that period when The Beatles spent months and months working on the "White Album" with all its varied styles, studio trickery, and encyclopedic personality shifts, then went back to ground with Get Back and Abbey Road. As beautiful as Human. :||: Nature. is, it's not exactly sing-along, dance-along music, and I don't think they can build a live set list entirely around these selections (can he?!?!?!). Tuomas has to know this, and at some point we will get new, evolved arena rock metal for which we're all ready already.
The thumbnail is already a masterpiece. Liked the simplicity in the design, not cluttered like some others I saw which irritate my eyeballs. Came here at 9:00am and realized have to wait for another hour lol. More time to make PANcakes then! Emppu called this track Pancake anyway.
Pan reunites Oceanborn vibes, Once vibes, Imaginaerum vibes and EFMB vibes. It's the best song of the album for me and definitely one of their most spectacular ones. I love how it starts soft and gentle and slowly builds up to madness.
I'm watching your NW reactions again and again.... 😅 I've learn so much about music that I love thanks to you. And I realy hope you will meet Tuomas one day 🙂
I've listened to PAN many times, watching your reaction is like hearing it for the first time again and in a way I've never listened to it before. Love it!
"The Swiss Army Knife of singers"!!!!! THAT'S ONE HELL OF A GREAT DESCRIPTION OF FLOOR JENSEN!!!!! glad you finally made it to this my favorite song on the new album!!! Awesome reaction and technical breakdown as always man!!
Can we just take a moment to appreciate the addition of the introductory snippets to the beginning of each video? Absolutely they've been around a few months, but that really added to the production when he started doing those. As always, thumbs up for Chase!
The opening section would be an amazing opening to a live set but the whole piece is like a complete show. How do you follow that. As always they keep us guessing. As a newcomer to the Nightwish world I'm so envious of the journey that all the Nightwish army have been on.
Another great reaction there Chase you're one of the few reactors that is giving the musicians the honor and respect for there hard work. Keep up the nice work and Have a damn good day.
🌟 G'day Chase.😊 🇦🇨 Thank you for guiding me thru this. I love this album. Tuomas shares 🤗 the wonder & beauty 💖 he embodies with the Epic talent that is Nightwish 🎶🎸🎤🥁🎺 🎹. I can just close my eyes ☺️ & fly off into the stars ✨ 💞.
I have a delay about a week. Just wanted to drop by and say I loved your reaction for this video. Emppu is so underappreciated, glad he got his moment to shine :)
As a player I find this to be one of the best songs on the new CD. This song is about the unleashing of the human imagination and our need for storytelling. You have to imagine it to make it real! There are copious references to books, literature, movies, fairy tales, and games in this song. I loved your reaction and analysis of the composition and rhythm patterns in this song. Until now, I did not catch the half time drum signature on the ending guitar power riff. I had been so focused on the riff itself. As usual, you are a pleasure to watch and also hear your thoughts about the musical nuances within the different song sections. The next one is more straight forward and fan friendly. How's your heart Chase? Peace my friend.
Great reaction and analysis as usual, my good sir. I have seen fans complaining that Tuomas did not really use Floor fully o this album, because she is not belting and such, but I think they are missing the trees for the forest, as many vocal coaches I have seen analyze songs on this album, all concur that the vocal syncopations, multi-notes in one syllable, etc. will make this a killer to sing live.
When Chase starts getting COMPLETELY lost for words, we know we are hearing true astounding. "Not an easy listen" . I find it SO easy to listen to. Admittedly a great deal doesen't go into my brain through my ears. I burrows straight into my brain though my chest and flows up my tear ducts
"S-s-staaaaahp being so good!" Priceless. Out of all the reactors, you have to be my favorite. Thank you so much. This is a strong tie with Tribal for my personal fav off of the new album and watching you react to it was so much fun. Thanks again
Iiiiiit's Pan time! You got that right about playfulness, haha! Pan is about creativity and storytelling. It references Guillermo Del Toro (Pan's Labyrinth), Neil Gaiman (Stardust), Tolkien ("There and back again" from the Hobbit), Tir na nÓg (Land of the Youth) form Irish mythology etc. It's also the Greek god Pan, who by nature is playful and creative and musical. It's encompassing Human Creativity and it's mischievous side. It's playing with ideas, creation and chaos. It's beautiful. You nailed it with one word: Everything. Also, it's the most Nightwish Nightwish song I'm ever heard. For How's the Heart? the acoustic version is worth checking out because the song on the album is GOOD, but the acoustic performance is something else entirely.
I really look forward to Saturdays just for these videos! Thank you for this series, its been incredibly insightful. I really hope you get to discuss their music with them one day (and film it!!)
One of the things I love is when people tell stories about story-telling, and Nightwish always does this wonderfully, the same way they do everything else.
This is the 4th song I have heard from this album. I cannot even begin to say how much I think this could be one of the GREAT all time albums...from anyone. I am not stupid enough to say THE BEST. They are quite capable of surpassing all previous. I am wondering when we are going to get to the point to where it SO good we won't be able to appreciate it, because it will be beyond us humans...
I knew already that there was a lot packed into this song and that there's a lot of twists and turns and playing around with the song structure but Chase's analysis and breakdown really helped me to appreciate it even more.
Why does this song have the fandom divided? Why was I not aware of this?? I am actually very surprised to hear that because this song felt like one of the most Nightwish songs on the album.
I normally focus on guitars in songs, cause that's just my preference, but I have to say that the drums in this song are really impressive. They practically command attention, they're so prominent (and skillful).
Nightwish front woman Floor Jansen has her own fossil brittle star. You may be surprised to learn that there is a connection between a 66.7 million year old fossil brittle star and the singer of a symphonic metal band, but that connection is there and it is called Ophiomitrella floorae. Snake stars are so-called echinoderms and are therefore related to starfish, sea lilies, sea urchins and sea cucumbers. Echinoderms or Echinodermata (from the Greek echinos, spine and derma, skin) are an animal group that occurs exclusively in the sea. It is not special to find fossil Echinodermata, and individual parts of it certainly not. But that the discovery of a brittle star yields a new species for science, that is very special. The fossil that serves as a reference for the species description (the so-called holotype) is a miniscule limestone thingy, the lateral arm plate, a part of one of the five arms of the brittle star. The thing is more than 1 millimeter long and has a row of eight kidney-shaped scars where small spines were once attached. On the basis of its shape it was concluded that the frills originated from the arm of a species of the still occurring genus Ophiomitrella, but not of an already known species. So a new name had to be invented. In translation the dedication reads: "Named after Floor Jansen, lead singer of the Finnish band Nightwish in recognition of her long career in metal, her great interest in (paleo) biology and the use of fossils for the artwork of the band". How science and music meet in a tiny fossil. This is Google translated text from an article in a dutch newspaper, www.trouw.nl/cs-b4747c05 august 29 2020
Ooh I've been waiting to watch you *live* this song. It's grown to be my favorite. I can listen to it on repeat as both an outlet from a rough day and motivation to challenge my work. Yes, there is SO MUCH in this. The music, the lyrics, the imagery, and the meaning behind it all. Like others from the album, it seems to take a few listens/watches to catch it all. This band makes nearly every other band seem casual or lazy on occasion. It's only been a few months for you into a genre you didn't really listen to and a band you hadn't heard of, but there's no going back now! We call it symphonic metal, but to factor in the wit and extreme detail, I'm thinking of calling the music intense intellectualism!
perfect imnsight into the song, great reaction. "So smart and considered" "the swiss army knive of" (reactors) ^^ thats what id direct abck to you =) i lean a ton about music when listening to your pauses XD
Excellent as always, so thank you! I agree completely about Floor's lower register! As much as I appreciate her entire range and incredible skill as a singer/performer, there are a few notes that she touches in her lower register that to me are just Gold! You'll hear it on one word specifically, in How's The Heart as well. Cheers for another awesome break-down of this incredible music!
Like on the Greatest Show on Earth, we lucky ones, who have born in this era and can experience NW masterpieces like this PAN kicking my soul to the roof, full of energy and joy and tears to realize all this is happening right now. Thank you again peeling those Master's tricks what makes you wonder hear and there, how this experience is so everything and beyond.
Thank you so much, Mr. Master Pause. At first I didn't understand anything of this song. Liked it, but always got lost somewhere in the middle. It took me three rewinds, but now it makes sence. Lead the way!
Very good reaction as always. What i feel we really need is for you to team up with Elizabeth from the Carismatic voice and just go through some of the Nightwish top songs together. That would be truly awsome.
@@ChaseCarneson Well I'm just sitting here, having a good time, astounded by your insights. It seems like you are the one putting in all the hard work here - obviously enjoying it, but still :-)
I still maintain "Song of Myself" is my favorite, but this one is a serious challenger! It may take over, in time. Your commentary/explanations may spur that transformation. So, thanks for helping me grow! BTW, I also look forward to seeing this performed live. Unlike you, I won't be able to attend a show, partly because of coronavirus but also because there's no way I could stand that long. Still, I hope to see live videos soon.
This is my favourite composition. I'm in the discord group, but I don't speak often and I did not know that it's a divider. I love everything about it. Especially the story/film/play references.
I hear an ode to Stephen Sondheim in the section "Enter the Woods, Tir Na Nog..." and of course the Disney references of snow, glass, apple... but also the "Beautiful tragedy, wonderful fantasy" directly from Cinderella "bibbity bobbity boo". Just so many amazing references, I missed most of them, I'm sure.
I like how you are not sorry anymore about going back xD Also, I saw in the chat repetition that someone asked you about Ghost River, you definitely need to do that one! Maybe right after the new album series. It's essential Nightwish. Anyway really hope the well connected people in the discord can get you a chat with Tuomas and/or the rest of the band some day, would be fantastic
Tir na nog In case anyone was interested In Irish mythology Tír na nÓg or Tír na hÓige is one of the names for the Celtic Otherworld. That's what Wikki says but happy to be corrected.
"Something wicked this way comes" is a quote from Shakespeare's Macbeth, but it's also the title of a Ray Bradbury novel. Interesting facts: Dandelion Cater is an impact crater on the Moon named in 1971 by the Apollo 15 astronauts after his novel Dandelion Wine; Bradbury Landing is the 2012 landing site within Gale cater on Mars - RB had died 2 months before the landing; his novel Martian Chronicles is actually on Mars, on a special DVD sent to the planet in 2008 as part of The Planetary Society's contribution to the Phoenix lander mission.
We will only actually understand just how good this song really is once it gets played live. I think it's right up there at the very top of the (very impressive) roster of Nightwish tracks.
Interesting note about the domino pieces in the video. They all show 1, 4, 5 and 6: the most commonly used chord progression in music, particularly pop. I like to think it’s a naughty, subtle dig from the band at the simplicity of the majority of music that they come to destroy :).
The evolution of the song mirrors the evolution of mankind. The reference "Something wicked this way comes" is the impetus for change. The music explodes in intensity the same way change happens for mankind, through a major historic event (ie: war, disaster, epidemic, etc.)
Group of Genius musicians imagined and composed by a mastermind. Tuomas really saw and used everyone’s potential on this album. Great to hear Kai showing what he can do on drums.
This song is about how fantasy books and mediums (play tv movies songs) etc molds us as individuals.. Pan, Peter pan. Labyrinth (pans). There and back again(the hobbit) Something wicked this way come (that dark fantasy) Etc etc It's a brilliant composition of brilliant mediums that helped form our future
It’s so refreshing to listen to music that is so well written and composed (and also performed) ...I really had lost my love of music and then discovered Nightwish by chance in a RU-vid rabbit hole night and it sparked a new love for all the amazing music and bands I never knew (thanks US music companies 🤬). I truly enjoy your input and analysis of these bands and songs as well as your true appreciation for them as well. Between you, your boy Tank, Julia Nilon, and the kids from Suite Clarity I get the gamut of all the things I want to learn from each of these songs. Thank you all for that. I hope I’m able to see them live at some time...seems I’m gonna have to make the trip across the pond to do so though. Oh well ...I’m up for that 🤘
Agree with it not being an easy listen, which is what I love about the piece. It takes time and several run throughs to get to know it, and when you do it's a friend for life. It took me a really long time to get through the album, because I had to go back and listen to the tracks again and again, leave them for a little bit, then come back and just discover even more gems in the composition. Another awesome reaction. I love being on this journey with you!
I think it's time to have a listen to Marko's solo work. I'm constantly reminded to suggest this as his face appears at the end screens. BUT! Take a path less traveled and do a Finnish one. Isäni ääni or Kiviä are excellent ones. Just let his voice sooth your ears. Hear the emotions. And if you're interested, have a listen in English as well.
I've often wondered just how excited the members of both the choir and orchestra react when they are given the news that their next project is involving a new project for NW...Great Reaction! (Coughing) Still waiting for (Coughing) a reaction from early (Coughing) NW "High Hopes"...(Coughing) damn this cough! 👊 Edit: Made a challenge to B.B Gun (Tank) for same review...still waiting...
Floor actually openly said that she had to work extra hard to get this entire album right and Kai had to buy a new drumkit specially for this (mostly, for Tribal, which you've already done and I can't wait to hear your take on it).
