Vocal Coach REACTS - FLOOR JANSEN & RLSQ "Energize me" (live 2009) 

I concur! This is when Floor really started to show exactly what a Floor Jansen is.

Same. She never forgets to acknowledge/thank the other musicians. Ditto with her guest appearance at Epica's Retrospective concert, where she did "Stabat Mater" with Simone Simons. She gracefully thanked the conductor/orchestra. Floor has always been a true teamplayer.

This must be the first reaction to this video ever. The "setting that was quite similar" - is it "Floor Jansen zingt Ave Maria"? Imagine a classical album with her. Recorded in a big room with its natural reverb, without any artificial effects, without the sterile modern production and without compression, so we could hear her _real_ voice on a recording for once. Dreams...

@@noneofyerbeeswax8194 WT..? YT notification came through for once!!! Yes, it was Floor doing Ave Maria in 2011 when she was still recovering from her burn-out. Her only gig in those dark & piano black days. Your comment helped me retrace the video featuring Floor clearly smashing the mic to pieces, like I said 😇 Horrible recording, but in the context of it all oh so touching. Cheers from da Modderland!

@@noneofyerbeeswax8194 That imaginary album would be the one I'd take with me to the proverbial deserted island. Dunno if Ken c.s. mentioned it (I believe Ken may have hinted at this) and I'd have to rewatch, but with all of the emphasis laid on the benefits of classical training here (vowel formation etc), I'd really like to point out that many a classically schooled vocalist would utterly fail, should they've tried their hand at reproducing Floor's performance here. Classical training has benefits but it can also act as a vocal prison. Tales are still being told of songsters trying to break out & getting lost. Never to be found again.. So ALL HAIL Floortje, the girl nxt door who just happens to be a once in many lifetimes vocal giant 😎

Story behind is that it was a running gag amongst fans of the GODDESS that SHE could even sing a phonebook at it would sound beautifull...... Somehow that station got knowledge of that and surprised her with their sudden request....... Of course SHE fullfilled all expectations ..... Since then the fans are waiting for an album: "Grandma`s Recepies"........🤣

@@HCH944 Haha yup, the album would be an instant buy for me. These were my suggestions at the time: Now begins the long wait for a "Best of.." collection of Floor-sung txt: #1 Phone book blues (check) #2 Assemble Me! (Ikea manual) #3 Fill my taco (sung recipe) #4 Traffic Jam (sung route planner) #5 You can do it (sung guide for self-help) #6 Squat with me (sing-along fitness) #7 Stay safe (sung directions on fire extinguisher) #8 Ignite (sung precautions on fireworks) #9 Elevate me (sung elevator floor indication) #10 Lest we forget (sung list of musicians sacrificed by the music industry) L!nk tt phonebook video: "Floor Jansen singing the phone book (Live NPO Radio2)" - ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-CLUr1DLwEQg.html Cheers from Amsterdam! 🤘

@@BrendonChase_2015 🤣👍 Second all, especially the IKEA manual (in Swedish, of course). Love the double meaning behind some of these. Something only trve kvltists will understand...

@@noneofyerbeeswax8194 Trve kvlt endures! 🤘

@@BrendonChase_2015 stays forever in the list....downloaded......thanx......

Yes ,i would agree ,but musical theatre is in general not as raw/gritty as Floor does,so Floor just made her own genre "gritty musical theatre"😅 Just making fun,but the studies she did just enhanced the enormous talent she already had,in my opinion. Floor started of with "heavy" bands and i considder that also as a kind of study and in a way it was her luck,otherwise you got probebly a second Tarja,who started the other way around with opera and singing in a metal band. I don't think there would be a singer like Floor is ,if she started with conservatory classical/opera singing,there probably would be more restrictions to her singing.😉🤘

Smart.👍🤣🙃 The guest is most likely using a dynamic mic which has much lower sensitivity and output signal than Ken's condenser mic. That's my SWAG as an electronics engineer.

@@noneofyerbeeswax8194 Ah thanks, probably you are right.

i,m dutch but i don,t like epica after nightwish is within temptation the second best my humble opinion

@@jzundert it's just that you like pop metal, that's fine, everyone has their own tastes 😉

@@wildhoney126 i say only i don,t like epica and i like symphonic metal--country--rock and roll--- jazz--dutch folkmusic--classic music--irish music---i love so much kind of music but not epica it,s my oinion only mine do respect that

@@jzundert I actually don't care, it was an offer for the author of the channel, not for you 😁

@@wildhoney126 thank you for this very nice answer en verder kun je de pot op

I listened to it, cool song, thank you!

@@ewaa37911 Your welcome

Her facial expressions are priceless. She's so happy singing these songs, even without a band. I always find it strange when people say she "doesn't" like classical singing. What she's using here, is the most classical technique imaginable: bel canto. I can imagine that she doesn't like the _modern_ way of "classical" singing though, which is very strict and restrictive. Modern sopranos are not taught to utilize their voice to its full potential, they're taught to stick to one, most efficient, technique, drill it to perfection and ignore everything else. Many an opera singer would fail had they attempted something like what she's doing here.

Would be interesting to know what it was exactly that Floor didn't like. I know she's commented on it over the years in ways that can be interpreted in several ways. Also the moment she said so could be relevant. We all know for instance that Tuomas wasn't keen on repeating the Tarja vibe all too often, to put it mildly. Thank goodness for that! In such a context, Floor as the newbie singer would do well to distance herself a bit from her classical training. Keep in mind tho, that the one visiting teacher who really inspired her at the Rock Academy where she couldn't find was she was looking for, caused her to pursue additional years of training in musical theatre and opera. One thing stands out to me if you'd take the "didn't like" position at face value and that is Floor's behaviour rather than her words. In ReVamp, which was her baby so to speak, she inserted the "classical" thingy (which she supposedly didn't like) rather frequently. She even did so in a very enjoyable cover of Lady Gaga's "Bad Romance". Perhaps you've seen it, great fun! - ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-IGVYBmkLrGA.html Cheers!

@@BrendonChase_2015 What a great clip! The only trve way of singing pop songs: have fun and make fun of them. The only thing I've heard (or read?) Floor say is that female opera singers sound unnatural and she doesn't quite like it. But of course, people took it as "she doesn't like opera". I won't be much surprised if some time from now, someone takes a video like the one you linked as a proof that she never really liked metal either and has always wanted to become a pop singer... The operatic technique has been developed and perfected with one single purpose in mind: to create a natural resonance and project the sound without a microphone. How beautiful and intelligible it sounded, was of little importance. Some opera singers have learned to adjust their technique when singing with amplification. Dianne van Giersbergen, for example, doesn't sound the same in her metal band as she does in an opera house. There are others who never learned this... but I'm not pointing fingers here.😊

Maybe i misspoke but im pretty sure Floor said in some video ( dont remember which one , so many ) that she didnt particularly like it and her to only study for 1 yr kinda supports that , most singers who do study classical usually do it for years , i think you need about 6 yrs to really have mastered it .....its amazing how good she is with only 1 year .

@@silverblack5475 Haha, no you didn't misspeak abt Floor commenting on it and for sure many would need their entire lifetimes worth of classical schooling to approach her level after only a few months. The "it" being the schooling. Floor used the classical style so very often (before NW) tho, that her vocal choices showed a genuine love of the style, applied the Floor-way of course and provided she was entirely free to make artistic choices of her own. I always took her comments to apply tt schooling itself and the prospect at the time of becoming a full blown classical singer. Sure glad she didn't like that idea. Cheers! BTW, did you see the clip I linked to? It's a hoot!

She sang live, in real time (in Dutch: "live EN rechtstreeks") at the Uitmarkt Festival here. One take, multiple cameras. That's how the TV show "Podium" worked. No lip syncing. Cheers from Amsterdam

And what would be the point of such an elaborate scheme? It's not some kind of official recording made to impress people and make money. This video only exists because someone back in the day decided to rip this fragment from a TV broadcast and post it on YT - much like all other After Forever/ReVamp/pre-Nightwish Floor videos that are not filmed on a calculator powered by a potato. Nobody but her old fans even knew or cared about it until 3 years ago. Mic is quite obviously standing right there on the floor in front of Floor, about 1.5 m (or 5 ft in freedom units) away from her. There are a few more around the RLSQ. Typical setup used to record classical concerts and opera singers.

Who tf !? Floorn Jansen lip syncing !? Are you fuxxing crazy?!