Yeah, you can squeeze quite a few singing lessons from that performance. It's not even a trad cover, more like a tribute with a different instrumental arrangement and vocal approach than Lara Fabian with Floor not competing, just showing us her interpretation.
If you want to hear Marko sing he sings “The Islander” and “My Father’s Voice” he sings very well with Floor. Haha if you want a different color to Floor listen to “Yours is an Empty Hope” from Wembly.
I love Empoo standing there grinning. "I've gone through 3 singers, three bass players and a few others. I've been doing this for 25 years and I'm just getting started!" LOL
Thank you for your gracious shout out, and thank you more for continuing to react to Nightwish! You'll not regret this decision. New subscriber here. Greetings from Romania :)
Gabriel, I see u everywhere. I started to look for Nightwish reactions a while back and the reactions to Floor never disappoint. Thank u for putting Nightwish on the map for a bigger audience, they really deserve it. Sad about the news about Marko tho. For me he's a big part of the group. Gonna be hard to replace him, so I hope he'll be back after a while. But Nightwish conquered other band member changes.
Welcome to the Nightwish Army. We are one and we fight together. Some of our best weapons are love, empathy and respect. Our powerful secret weapon is a flower. Naturally as a Dutchwoman she's called Floor. Floor is a Dutch variant of the Latin name Flora. Flora was the Roman goddess of flowers and spring. When you listen to her you also become one. You become an ever-opening flower and start to fully realize your potential. We are so glad you're here. With us you can feel at home.
Great reaction. Speaking of Marko, react to Romanticide. It's more of a metal song but you'll get to hear Marko on backing vocals. He too has an amazing voice! There's still no news on a replacement for him but in his resignation letter he did state that he would honour a couple of this year's commitments. Hopefully the 2 online virtual concerts that Nightwish will be performing on the 12th and 13th March. Tickets available from their official website. They'll be performing songs from last year's album release, Human :II: Nature, live for the first time. Stay safe 🤘✌
Loved your reaction video! I think you will appreciate "dead boy's poem".... not only a beautiful song, but the breath support and control.... oh so georgious.
There is a one "white hat" guy in the audience, who didn't look impressed. I'm really looking forward to meet him and wake him to Life 👊😅. Haha! Jokes aside, this is a wonderful performance. ⛄👍
@@ianhutchison7214 You mean the RIGHT place ;) I don't think anyone in their right mind can appear there, during that concert, and think they're in the wrong place.
Nightwish Army reporting from the Netherlands. Welcome to the wonderful world of Nightwish. What you've heard here is just the tip of what this band can do. Nightwish really hits you in your hard. And that's what makes this band so unique. There were 82,000 people there. Her name is Floor Jansen and she is Dutch. Try Song of myself with Floor of course.
Hi Lauren, I like your reaction(s) - If you want to hear why we are all disturbed by Marko leaving the band - hopefully just for a while - then listen to some of the songs he leads or some of them he and Floor do together. Can't remember if Gabriel has noted which songs they are. From this concert, Floor and Marko: Romantice, Ghost River, Ever Dream, Last Ride of the Day... Marko alone (almost) The Islander from Tampere, Kiss While you Lips are still Red from London Wembley Arena, and the most fantastic cover of Pink Floyd "High Hopes" - just to name a few
hey Lauren great reaction/insights,just a reactor tip: please go back a bit after resuming from a pause to maintain song continuity your viewers will appreciate it :) cheers
Please react to Nightwish rendition of "The Phantom of the Opera" Helsinki 2005 End of an Era concert. To hear Tarja the original Nightwish female vocalist and Marko, the bassist (in the role of The Phantom), on vocals. That's a great performance.
Yes our Floor is magical. She can do it all without any effort. Simply the best female singer of our time, but you will experience that once you see a whole lot more of Floor and Nightwish 🇳🇱🇳🇱🤟🏼🤟🏼
Regarding Marco...he is not just stepping down from Nightwish, but from public life in general. He is 55 years old and has been a professional musician for 30+ years, so he’s done his time. One thing you haven’t discovered yet is what a great singer HE is! Two of Nightwish’ most beautiful songs are The Islander (live at Tampere) and While Your Lips Are Still Red (live at Wembley), both of which have Marco as the lead vocalist. I think you’ll be surprised by.his voice.
This is 2013 floor chach out "dead Boys poem "😱😱😱 I know no ather singer I know can sing like This so stread on and with out vibrato 😍😍😍😍😍😍😍 She is just a godess😍😍😍😍😍
Hi! I'm a huge Nightwsh fan and it's great to watch someone knowing them. Although I have a suggestion in a totally different style. I think you would love to react to Lalah Hathaway live with Snarky Puppy "Something". This presentation won a Grammy and it has so much soul in it and unexpected technicalities. It totally worth take the time : D
Hi Lauren, check out the singer Simone Simons, she is the singer for Dutch symphonic metal band EPICA, she has a very distinctive high register pop and classical voice, they have a very different sound to Nightwish, incorporating orchestra and huge epic choirs, this is one of my favorite live performances: Epica - Unchain Utopia (OFFICIAL LIVE VIDEO)
Yes the stripped down acoustic version of "How's the Heart" is crazy... I mean I like the full instrumentation version as well, but the acoustic version is special..
Another symphonic metal band you should react to is Epica and their vocalist Simone Simmons . I recommend Sancta Terra , live which features Floor Jansen of Nightwish singing a duet on this song.
There is another singer that I'd like to introduce you to and hopefully get your take on her performance. Her name is Paulina Villarreal. What is interesting about her is that she is officially the drummer of a band with her other two sisters; their band is called The Warning. They are a hard rock power trio self starter band out of Monterrey Mexico. Paulina does sing lead for a couple of songs while she plays the drums. However, for this performance that I'm sharing, she steps away from her kit to play the keyboard and sing. This a live performance of a song titled "Black Holes" from 2018, recorded at The Dakota Bar in Mexico: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-lM8KeQ_tNQc.html . Her older sister Daniela on guitars is the band's lead singer, but this time provides backing vocals. The youngest sister, Alejandra, plays the bass and joins in at the end to harmonize with her sisters. Interestingly, when you listen to the lyrics, it's a heavy song, but Paulina smiles at the beginning when she realizes the the audience has started to sing along with her. At this time, Paulina was 15. Daniela was 17, and Alejandra was 13. Despite their young ages, they've already been performing live for 5 or so years, honing their talents and skills in small venues (like the Dakota Bar) and large metal / rock festivals. I hope that you give these sisters a try. Thanks and take it easy! 👍👌🤘✊
YES! These young ladies are pianists and 2 play the sax in addition to their drums, bass, and guitar. They just completed their 3rd album and we are eagerly waiting for it to come out!
So this popped up on my suggested vids just before I was going to bed at 3:00 in the morning. Big mistake watching it as know I can't sleep as how can you not get super pumped to this song. Love nightwish. Great reaction too
Amazing song and very interesting video! It'd be super cool if you could react to the studio version by the singer that the song was written for (the official music video)
Nightwish Army Germany reports for Duty: What you should do: How to open s Show - Dark Chest of Wonders - Wacken 2013 Nice Start - Ever Dream - Wacken 2013 More grit - Ghost River - Wacken 2013 Solid Banger - Romanticide - Wacken 2013 My personal favorite and a MUST SEE - Song of Myself - Wacken 2013 How to end a Show - Last Ride of the Day - Again Wacken 2013 - Every song from that Show is a Killer Lets talk about Versatility - Yours is an empty Hope - Wembley Must see - The Islander - Tampere Open Air Energy - Weak Fantasy - Tampere It is getting deep - Poet and the Pendulum - Wembley The BIG Final - Greatest Show on Earth - Tampere Dont use shortcuts...stick to the Running order...it will be a treat.... Great Reaction !! Floor Jansen, First of Her Name, Queen of the Valkyries, Lady of Nightwish and Protector of our Metal Realm. Long may she reign. Bow, mortal !
Anneke Van Giersbergen with band the Gathering and the song Travel. The song Travel is about the classical composer, Mozart. The Gathering heavily influenced Thomas as songwriter as he stated in past interviews and Floor Jansen has said the same thing about the band the Gathering and their vocalist Anneke Van Giersbergen. React to The Gathering's live version of the song Travel please.
I want to repeat a comment. We do not mind if you stop the song, but rewind a bit to let us as listeners get back into the flow of the song after you pause. Please....;o) Thank you and keep them coming...;o)
Definitely check out more nightwish and check out Ayreon live show featuring Floor Jansen and Marco from nightwish as guest singers and other singers from different bands, awesome 😎the eye of rah live show and the age of shadows live show, awesome 😎
Hello, Lauren ! I really enjoy your videos. You have both technical expertise and enthusiasm for the subject, and you strike an excellent balance between the two, allowing neither to impinge on the other. Part of that is due to your own personality, which I find delightful. I am not in any way a singer, Well, I do make noises around the house when it's just me and the three dogs at home. I take heart in their lack of criticism of my vocal renderings, until I remember that they can't actually talk. This is how low my bar is set - my regular audience doesn't have opposable thumbs. When my roommate comes home I have to be quiet, or else I'll see both of his opposable thumbs turned down. He's a big believer in professionalism, and thinks I should leave the singing to the professionals. When I pointed out that (by his metric) the only people who should be allowed to have sex are hookers and porn stars, he went off on a rant about the crappiness of his love life. (I don't know, might "harshly overcritical" be part of the problem?) I do recognize my weaknesses. I'm pitchy as hell - never could find and hold an accurate note. I can usually cover that using effects of volume, phrasing and intonation, which locates me firmly in the Loose And Sloppy camp. In my early twenties I fronted a lot of bands that lasted no more than half an hour after the beer ran out. Technically, they would be better described as Clever Names for Bands than actual musical entities. The biggest venue I ever played was a two-car garage with a Ford Pinto parked in the other half. My shortest-lived band lasted exactly this long: "You wanna rock out?" "Okay . . . uh, naah, I left my guitar upstairs." But this doesn't really dim my enthusiasm for singing. I don't have to have any ability to enjoy it, and take an interest in how it's done. I watch home-improvement shows on TV, but that doesn't mean I have the skills or desire to restore a 19th-century farmhouse in Rhode Island. I'll never go to Space, never discover a new species, never find an elegant mathematical solution that revolutionizes Theoretical Physics. These ambitions are not why I watch the Science channel. I also can't make movies, build cars or fly a plane. I don't have to. My point? That you shouldn't think that your audience is limited to those hoping to improve their singing abilities. There are also a lot of people out here who enjoy your channel without a practical reason for watching. This doesn't mean you should dumb your content down to appeal to the merely interested. If anything, you should make your channel more technically sophisticated, to spark the imaginations of those of us with nothing else to gain. And who knows? Someday I might just dig that dusty bass guitar out of the back bedroom and figure out how to play. Stranger things have happened. if I ever do, I'll count you as an inspiration, okay?
They’re doing a livestream concert in March with a touring bassist, but they haven’t announced who yet (and we don’t yet know if they will be the permanent replacement for Marko)
react to "Your's is an empty hope". the growling voice is Floor's. haha very vertile in every vocal way..she can do it all. the nightwish army embrace you and will follow. greets from the netherlands.
I'd really like you to react to JP Leppäluoto. He's a singer from Finland with a really unique baritone voice. The live performance of his cover of a Finnish song called "Mombasa" shows his range quite well, as well as his own song "Kuoppa" and "I Once Had Wings" by Dark Sarah, which is his "solo" more or less with that band. His song "Piilevää Pimeää" also really shows his ability to convey emotion. He has done a lot of work in English as well, with his first band Charon and another called Northern Kings. (One song that always gets to me is "World Lies Still", but unfortunately there aren't really any good quality videos of it, or any songs where it's just him singing in English. 😅) Sorry for rambling. It's just that I love JP's voice and music, and I haven't found too many videos of people reacting to his work, which is a shame, in my opinion.
Great reaction Lauren! Please react to Floor singing Phantom Of The Opera on the Dutch TV show Beste Zangers. It will absolutely blow you away - I promise.
I'd recommend Ever Dream and Romanticide from this same show in back-to-back reactions. It's a great show of Floor's voice, but also Tuomas' emotions. Ever Dream is hopeful and fun and and full of the potential for new love. "My love it lies so deep... ever dream of me?"... and then Romanticide is the end of the relationship culminating in a "fight" vocalized by Floor and Marko with them screaming at each other through a full scale vocal run. "Dead boy's alive but without sense, a near death experience. Heart once bold, now turned to stone...".
A Dutch singer in a Finnish band singing at a German metal festival to an international audience in English that sets an example of perfect diction and enunciation even for native English singers and speakers! It just doesn't get any better than this! Thank you for following my suggestion regarding Gabriel's comment on "Ghost Love Score" - you won't regret it. Just wait until you get to three-part harmonies from all the vocalists in Nightwish (one of whom you have yet to see at all)! And you have yet to discover the folk side of Nightwish - the rabbit hole is deeper than you can imagine, although I think you have realised why we call Tuomas the Metal Mozart.
NW is at it's peak during the Wacken 2013 concert. It is very impressive and memorable. There is a lot of nostalgia in knowing that this can never happen again..."You cannot step into the same river twice"!
I've watched hundreds of NW reactions. Always fun. Yours is very good. Got lucky. Hit most of your pauses (a trick with NW songs) pretty good. SOmeday Gabriel will add suggested timestamps for pauses ;-). I have a question. I am a huge opera fan also. I've always wondered if as a performer what would you give to perform in front of 82K+ fans who knew the words and were as pumped to hear you as these fans were? I've always felt it was a disservice to performers to just stand and clap and say bravo! I've heard great performances of arias that I just wanted to stand and fist pump screaming YES! Although I have yet to figure out how to react in a "Metal Way" to Puccini's Tu? Tu? Piccolo iddio! Butterfly always crushes me! BTW the South Americans are INSANE! THe Wacken crowd was subdued compare to the BA crowd here. If you want to see real crowd watch the Shoot to THrill River Platte Concert By AC/DC. This is one of the largest stadiums in the world!
Hello Lauren. If you really want to see and hear two brilliant voices on a stage, then take a look at the video, Epica-Sancta Terra Floor Jansen and please make a reaction video of it. Simone and Floor on one stage. I think the two best voices are in power mode. This is really, really big cinema Lauren.
Maybe step back in time to the original female singer of Nightwish Tarja singing Phantom of the Opera with Marko. | Much Love. Peace & Respect | Stay Safe
When I learnt Tarja left I was detroyed, first song I listened to was this one, with Annette, and I thought: omg, this sounds like Roxette! But then I discovered Floor.... Yeep, Nightwish was back!! Walkyrie Goddess!
If you like Nightwish... check out Jinjer - Pisces (Live Session)! DON'T do any research and DON'T listen in advance. They are a metal band from Ukraine. Their singer, Tatiana, is AMAZING.
Do you know about THE FIRST TAKE channel? I highly recommend you to check it out. The channel concept is that every invited singer is given one chance to do a live recording. Success or not depends on them. Unedited raw voice and only the first take counts. I suggest: ・Lisa - Homura (from a movie that has grossed $384.5 million and still counting) ・The Gospellers - Hitori (ゴスペラーズ - ひとり) ・Wacci - Tarinai (足りない) ・Little Glee Monster - ECHO or try one of the 3 most-watched videos (make sure to turn on the subtitles)🔥
Hey this was a Fantastic video qtha k you so much for reacting to this song. This is definitely my favorite song can you please react to Nightwish Romanticide and Song Of Myself both from Wacken 2013 and Yours Is An Empty Hope from Wembley 2015. 😁🤘😁💜🙏🙏
You don't stop Nightwish understood in the middle of singing. This is dishonorable. The beautiful singing of her interrupted simply dishonorable. You shouldn't be a voice teacher anymore.
For another example of extensions from and combining speaking and singing voice, have a listen to Geoff Castellucci from Voice Play performing "The Oogie Boogie Song" cover from "the Nightmare Before Christmas"
Hello Lauren, do you imagine what is to merge japanese teenage girls from a JPop background and Heavy Metal? Please check *Babymetal - Akatsuki* at Budokan Black Night live concert.
You might want to check out geoff castellucci's cover of sixteen tons and cover of high and dry. He is the bass singer of voice play... Also voice play just did a cover of carry on my wayward son if you are interested in checking that out as well..
Also ...am I the only one that thinks this is basicly Floors bio? "I AM the voice of never never land, the dreams the innocence of every man". Yes, I agree.
If you want to see Floor go super operatic with Nightwish, I highly recommend checking out Stargazers live at Tampere. Its an old song written for their first vocalist, Tarja, but Floor really knocks it out of the park.
