Apart from the incredible voice and versatility, what Floor really separates from other others is that Tarja and Annette were singers, Floor is a performer. She lives the song, tells the story, expresses the emotions and keeps your eyes on her. I truly think she is more in the Freddy Mercury league.
Great reaction. Floor just did it again, let us speechless with his performance. The song was one of my favorite and now with this live version just makes me love the song even more.
This song is just magical! I have seen this one at the Metrpolis in Montreal. It was a special night And... J'ai aussi vu cette chanson avec Tarja en 2000 au Medley rue Saint-Denis qui n'est plu. J'aime les deux versions, Floor Jansen m'a fait redécouvrir le groupe. Merci Elvann!! Continue!!
OMG Elvann I loooooove how excited you get at the beginning and then seeing the progression of all those emotions throughout. Such a beautiful song and absolutely stellar performance from the Valkyrie Queen
This Floor Jansen is really unbelievable,of course the band should not be forgotten,if you can reach a 77 year old Guy. Who never was into This metal stuff,Bravo!!!!
Awesome to see such high praise from another music creator....they definitely took this to another level with Floor! Thanks! Cheers for a healthy and prosperous 2020!
One of my all time fav songs. Really liked Tarja´s version. BUT now this... Heard it now several times, first tears are coming out when Floor start singing, and when song continue, later it is like somebody is trying tear the heart off your chest... When Nighwish is doing beautiful music, it is really beautiful. And when is it is connected same time to sadness..., it really feels in your heart. Music by Tuomas + Floor´s voice = a killer combination!
Hei Jukka olen samaa mieltä kanssasi että tämä on hienompia Nightwish biisejä,varsinkin sanoitus on aivan super koskettavaa tekstiä ja kyllä minunkin mielestä Floor on jotenkin sielukkaampi jos nyt näin kuvaisin häntä laulajana!
If you know the Tarja version, this is good. But what Floor does with this reagranged song... speachless! This dynamic voice with the perfect pitch and all life! That is what musics heaven must sound like!
Floor's stock has always been very high for me and you would think it could not get much higher, but it did . When I heard her cover of "Shallow" I lost it... She just blew my mind that a lady who growls and windmills could perform a song that was so intimate and personal ...like she was in your own living room singing directly to you . It was so warm...and I have seen many a strong boy breakdown when they react to it . I know you already covered it here, and I suggest anyone who has not seen it CHECK IT OUT
You know, I love all Nightwish singers. I think each of them brought something special to the band. But Floor has the magic to turn a song that you think it could not be better, into a spectacular, special, newborn song. That's what I love from her. To me, this song got a new level and meaning after Floor's version.
Elvann,you just created a new sensation, when the reactor becomes the focus as much as the reactee....LOL. I just keep watching the emotion overwhelming you in the first 60 seconds after Floor starts singing.She just has this effect,such is the sheer artistry,technique,passion,emotion she is gifted with,and we are lucky enough to experience.A person like Floor is a once in a lifetime experience, and right now she is at the peak of her powers.That she has chosen to spread her wings with Beste Zangers just proves what a true gem she really is.Not just gifted as an enormous talent of our times,she is both commanding and emotional,and we all need to appreciate her every day we are gifted with her presence.
Floor is such an emotive singer that when she sings she makes you feel every emotion. When she puts her mind to it she can hardest man or woman cry. She's done it to me many times.
This concert is exceptional. But with the exception of Amaranth, any other song performed both here and at Wacken, I prefer the Wacken version. Especially Wacken Ever Dream. I think the only reason I'm not a fan of Wacken Amaranth is that I never liked the use of the audience to sing some lines of a song, I want it performed by the artists. This concert adds so many new and incredibly well performed songs to my "Floor Jansen in Nightwish" official live collection (i.e. well recorded live songs that have no studio version with Floor).
Damn, this is definitely one of my favourite reactions so far! The pure emotion is written all over your face and eyes and that's what Nightwish is all about! Love it and this video just made my Friday more perfect. Thank you, Elvann!
It's perfect. It is so good. Can hardly be done better - or made more musical, present and stylish. Yes, but she doesn't sound like a professional opera singer ?! (sarcasm warning - you know).
@@igors1208 Yes.. indeed.. Technique on itself is empty. But for a strong emotional person like Floor technique can help to make the expression of emotion easier: she can concentrate on the emotion where lesser singers would be struggling to get the notes out...
It was a light in the darkness. To hear someone else surviving such pain and creating ART. That's pure Hope and help. Sometimes ALL you need is tô know that someone endured the same shit as you. Maybe broken maybe not, but there is a way. That's what I fell when I hear this song. Sorry for the longe time to respond. But is not a easy subject for me.
@@felipegaldino9336 Agreed. This past year was a real rough one for me. Discovering Nightwish early last year brought me many comforting and joy-filled moments that kept me sane. So many people in the Nightwish community have expressed the same thing.
Don’t worry Elvann, no words needed, I know what you’re saying. Floor sounds like a powerful angel when she performs. And I love the energy you radiate In your reaction videos Elvann and enjoy listening to you sing too.
You're adorable, I love how excited and emotional you get! I was somewhere there in that crowd, crying my heart out. I've been in love with NW for 15 years and that was the most magical day ever! I've seen them before but the setlist was epic and it got immortalized in this epic bluray!! I was amazed by Tarja but honestly, I think Floor makes everything better. She just makes the songs her own and brings them to life with more soul than ever. Can't wait to see them again this May ♡
Dear Elvann, I only can agree with you! This performance left me speechless too... I already love Tarja on the original, but once again Floor has put it on a higher level and made it her own, especially at the end...it is Floor, what more to say...
I love Tarja, she is fantastic and there are so many Nightwish songs she recorded that are amongst my favourites. I always thought no-one else would be able to perform them as well as she could, but Floor has proved me wrong time and again by making her own version of the song, different to Tarja's but equally incredible. And that is great for fans as it's like getting a new song that is as great as a favourite old song. I'm so glad Floor joined Nightwish as she seems to have brought new life to the band, but that doesn't stop me from still loving the other singers too. Keep up the great Nightwish reactions. And I WASN'T crying. Nope. Not at all.
I acctually enjoyed alot of instrumental rearrangements of the older songs. The slight alterations were probably made to keep Troy present with them on stage, but the changes was really well made and many songs was performed with double guitars etc. so it didn't feel pushed. What I enjoyed most with the Decades tour was the great vibe, everyone seemed so happy just being togheter on tour.
Tarja was great. But Floor - well, she gives Tuomas the space to create what he would have been unable to do with Tarja. It's a completely different era. Floor is a goddess.
Its a wonderfull piece of music. All hail Tuomas. For Floor the point is she does not sing. She puts an emotional spell on every word that comes out of her mouth and plants it in you heart.
Exactly. Floor has so much personality and emotional presence when she sings that it cannot help but affect the listener (unless you are an incarnate Tarja fan and / or opera fan. But then it is more the technique and the sound you are looking for than the actual overall musical expression).
Love...love...love this song (Song of Myself still my all time fav tho)...it sounds so ''evolved'' with Floor singing it...liked the Tarja version as well but...sorry...this does sound even greater/better...instrumental its a bit different indeed...and sooo cool 🎶🎵🎶😊🤘👍👍 Realy love your reaction here Elvann...and yes...i let a few tears as well 😊😁 Floor keeps doin that to us haha...makes us cry and feel happy and in aww all the time... Nightwish fits great with Floor...Floor fits great with Nightwish...Best Perfect combo in Nightwish history i would say 🤘🎶🤘🎶🤘😊😊 Well dear Elvann...again another great and lovely reaction vid... Love watching your vids so much...always makes me smile 😊 thank you for that 😁😁 Please never stop making these (NW) react vids...love watching them... Big Hug 🤗 from the Netherlands 🤗🎶🤘🎵🤘🎶🤘🎚🎛🥁🎸🎤🎺🎹🎶🤘🎵🤘🎼🤘🤘🤗😊😁
Liked your reaction (again) while listening this song. My opinion as a old Nightwish fan from the late '90's, there is no doubt. This Floor's renditions is the pinnacle.❤️
This one has become a special song for me; unfortunately relatable. Whenever I need a pick up I come here. Your sweet reaction always helps. Hope you're well, Elvann.
Hi Elvann! Nice reaction.. I guess only a few could be as excited as you with it 😁.. I love how Floor gives her own twist to the classic Nightwish songs.. See you in the next one!!
Utterly beautiful, both the performance and your reaction. Tarja did this great but this is on another level so much more emotional and meaning, the end is amazing, the beginning is amazing, the middle bit amazing...is this the perfect version? Thank you.
Hallo, you are so right..we all know she can deep crowls and highest notes..but there is something in her voice, that touched my soul...🤔greetings from northern germany 🤗
@@ralfmeyer9086 I really think it´s pur magic and a gift she got. Something u CAN´T describe, even as Vocal Coach. It´s a touching Voice just a less people have on earth... Greetings from Hamburg. ;)
Great, great reaction. I have never seen a reactor that wants to be the lead singer of Nightwish as bad as you do. And you know what? I think you could pull it off.
This song had ruined so much music for me in my teen years. It's just been so epic and heavenly wonderful, I loved that song and for many years, nothing could top it as my favourite. Then, eventually, Tuomas created Ghost Love Score. But for me, that's still part of the holy trinity of symphonic metal ballads: Dead Boy's Poem, Ghost Love Score, The Poet and the Pendulum.
We are witness to the acts of Immortals. These performances will be legendary. Generations will gaze in the same wonder and awe as we are. Between Tuomas's genius and Floor's talent and skill, Nightwish's music will live Forever.
Floor is the best story teller ever and Tuomas is the best story writer, need music to make a knot in your throat? Just go for Nightwish. I'd really love to listen to Floor singing The Siren
First came the chills of the impending death, then the tearful sadness, the calmness and beauty of a soft wind blowing, yearning for eternal peace as your soul is carried away, then bestowing your final farewell as you enter the afterlife. Finally someone who does vocal justice to Tuomas' lyrical genius. Floor is amazing in so many ways.
More than Floor's performance, what I really like about this version of the song is the new key. Since Emppu tunes his guitar one step down compared to the original.
Thank you for sharing this with us, was also overcome by emotion . What a powerful song . Suggestion for review " Ayreon Universe - Age of Shadows Live at Tilburg 2017 " With Marko and a cameo by Floor.
Best song of the show for me, I think her voice is strongest here maybe as it is in the middle of the concert and this interpretation of the song is brilliant.
Dear Elvann, your reaction was sweet and worth the while watching it! This, with "Gethsemane", is my "initial" favorite song from NIGHTWISH, and one of the key songs to understand Tuomas' lyrical world. Already incredibly moving back then, now it has been recorded with power and faith in every word that opens a new, triumphant perspective. In this version, the "boy" perseveres! :) And - I truly hope "Dead Boy's Poem" shall be underrated no more - if it ever was...
The boys voice, reading Tuomas' words... ouch Floor explores with her voice in so many ways, always adding to the meaning. Emppu giving his solo, hmm, a bit grim, not his usual self. The boys voice again: "I wish I didn't feel for you anymore", bigger ouch! Tuomas has said that he asks the Tech to turn off the vocals for his in-ears. Marco and Troy jamming! Floor goes so deep (without growling) then winds up gradually to a crescendo "Ocean soul".