Twitch Vocal Coach Hears Oi Jouluyö/O Holy Night sung by Floor Jansen for the First Time

[@Joffreaux]

Hi Charlie. I was on Twitch when you reacted to this but it was a joy to watch it again. I can recommend everybody that is interested in in-depth analyses of great music, is an (aspiring) singer and wants to improve or is just interested in joining a great community to join the Twitch channel. You won't regret it, I promise.

[@CharlieCalottaReacts]

Thanks so much, Casey! I appreciate that you've taken interest in the core of what my content is about! I'm looking forward to seeing you around more!

[@Joffreaux]

@@CharlieCalottaReacts You know who I am :) Does Capriani ring a bell? :)

[@CharlieCalottaReacts]

@@Joffreaux oh myyyyyyyy!!!!!! Well welcome even more, my dear friend!

[@pete_lind]

@@CharlieCalottaReacts Multi language singing , Saara Aalto - Monsters LIVE in 34 languages , kzbin.info/www/bejne/gmq8ZHSunLtknJY. 4 min 2 sec

[@CharlieCalottaReacts]

@@pete_lind thats hella impressive 👏

[@michaelsargeant4993]

Love this Duet with Freya

[@corneliusantonius3108]

😁🎶👌

[@ralfmeyer9086]

🥰🥰🥰🤗🤗🎅

[@anssia3123]

It's not actually Nightwish, but a Finnish metal Christmas tour. Floor was one of the many singers that performed here, it's basically a metal all stars supergroup performing Christmas songs. I like to assume it started as a drunken joke on some backstage and ended up being a massively popular yearly tour. True or not, it's been going on for over 10 years and something like 7 albums. Thanks for another fantastic reaction. Super informative, you manage to explain things so clearly that even me, who can't sing or don't know much about it, can sort of understand what's going on. Happy Christmas!

[@rdmrdm2659]

Pregnant floor still was playing the crowd like an instrument.

[@one42chrisp]

When Floor first joined Nightwish she lived in Finland for a year and learned quite a lot of Finnish.

[@pekkakarppinen1608]

Floor has lived in Finland. She understands and speaks Finnish for some. And her bandmates are mostly Finnish, but they are quite fluent in English, l think. But there she sings it mostly phonetically as she do with some others of her 8 singing languages (to date). And the "Holy Moly" is so high note yoodling, that we don't hear the words anyway 😅). This performane is still most impressive one. ⛄🎅👍

[@pedroserrano4485]

This lady sounds good in any genre and tone, she has something special.

[@donniemarler3909]

I know it's a cliché but this beautiful woman is absolutely glowing. What lullabies that baby has coming 😉😊😇

[@jasminwolf7412]

Love this performance so so much! She is perfect in every way! Love this woman. Powerwoman! ❤️

[@CharlieCalottaReacts]

Power house. No excuses. A top tier singer of the world regardless of gender

[@huehue3687]

@@CharlieCalottaReacts Hey Charlie. Unrelated question to this video, but here goes. Your reaction to Leprous - Slave is blocked/muted on your twitch VOD, any chance it will make it youtube?

[@CharlieCalottaReacts]

@@huehue3687 it is scheduled to come out soon :) I have a huge list and just trying to trickle them out instead of completely flooding the place. But yes, it is not blocked.

[@huehue3687]

​@@CharlieCalottaReacts Cheers!

[@tkai6055]

She is singing in finnish... oh man. We are very little weird dark country with even more weird and hard but oddly powerful language. I just LOVE when someone so great does the work to learn our odd but truly wonderful language. Kind of makes me (finnish is the language I think with) feel seen. Thank you Floor ❤️

[@tkai6055]

And btw she is not just "making sounds", she has also studied finnish. This much I know.

[@garywinters4636]

I think we need to promote the Raskasta Joulua (Heavy Christmas) Festival, more often. There are some amazing performances during those shows. Granted, they are in Finnish, but still. haha.

[@rog2224]

For Floor singing in another language in which she had little grounding - Beste Zangers 2019, the Rolf Sanchez episode. Floor, then, had almost zero Spanish. Que Se Siente is the track. She learned it phonetically, but, from the performance, you'd not know

[@CharlieCalottaReacts]

Fantastic example Roger

[@Sadistiq]

She is so beautiful, she just shines. I'm loving your reactons, every morning I always gotta check if you uploaded something new. :D

[@nimedhel09]

Ok, so, I've been pregnant, and I'm not as tall as Floor by a landslide (1m60) and also had a big baby in the belly, so even thinking about breathing somewhat correctly was a dream at that point. Even more so because baby liked to move a lot and hit my thoracic cage (I still remember how much that hurt) and EVERYTHING hurt. I am in awe of a heavily pregnant Floor doing anything of this caliber, honestly. Hard to believe the quality of sound and even the sustained notes when your lungs are compressed (as are most of your organs) and being able to stand for more than 5min when your pelvic bone and hips are all shifting and stuff. I suppose that being fit helps on some level, but still: mad respect. It's also the same with Simone during the Retrospect show (sorry, going on a rant here). She was in the first trimester. The first trimester is as hard as the third, but for different reasons. Your body is litterally creating life from two tiny cells and sustaining it, changing your whole body to accept it and stuff. The tiredness, the nausea and shortness of breath is horrible (also: boobies hurt like hell for the first one, did not know that, but yeah, aouch). Seeing people commenting asking why everyone is so impressed blablabla always annoys me. It should be aknowledged how HARD it is to perform to that level being pregnant. Does not matter how far along you are, it's HARD, period. (Also makes me wonder if people even know what creating life entails, physically? Because they seem to think it's easy when it's not, and let's not even talk about all the dangers associated with being preggers - a lot of them you don't know about until you are in the situation too, it's crazy)

[@lujalainen1]

Christmas spirit go up every time when hear this performance :) thanx to great reaction and happy sunday .

[@rockaddicthamburg8599]

Try Epica ft. Floor: "Stabat Mater Dolorosa" Simone and Floor going classical.

[@CharlieCalottaReacts]

Can't wait to hear this one

[@papaverweg]

Me#2 special that one at Epica’s ‘Retrospect’ 10th anniversary concert supported by a 70 pieces orchestra and choir. kzbin.info/www/bejne/h6LHp3mGd6yBZsU The funny coincidence with the song you just heard is that now Simone was pregnant. (Although less months than Floor was)

[@MustaLaatta]

@@papaverweg around 3 months then...

[@digitalspecter]

"Jouluyö" is a bit hard to pronounce.. Floor said she can almost manage it when singing but that it was still challenging to try to say it :) Some languages have impossible looking clusters of consonants .. Finnish has words that are all vowels and I guess that can be tough too.

[@billattercliffe8655]

BTW, check out her singing of "Que Se Siente" in Spanish on Beste Zangers. She doesn't speak Spanish and obviously learned the song phonetically, but she was able to convey the emotional content and meaning nevertheless.

[@badsiony]

Nice reaction :) Just a correction you should make in the title, it wasn't Nightwish playing with her this time.

[@nomansvan827]

Love this. Best Christmas song ever. Do a Christmas Album Floor!!!

[@lost_in_a_crowd_of_3257]

she's amazing anyway but singing like she did here while being very pregnant. i just have no words to describe how spectacular this performance was

[@ArumesYT]

About the jaw wiggle... I'm not a vocal coach, just an amateur singer. But when I'm completely relaxed, I always produce a straight tone. No vibrato at all. I have to move the tone up and down consciously to get vibrato. Disadvantage is that it takes effort, and makes it harder to produce vibrato on gradually shifting vowels like the i in "find", which kinda moves from "uh" to "ee". Advantage is that I have complete control over vibrato, even to the point of getting it in sync with the rhythm of a song. And that producing a straight choirboy-like tone takes no effort at all, while a lot of singers find that hard to do (well past the boy age, I'm 43). Now to get to the point: when I need to produce a strong vibrato, e.g. large tone difference on a loud voice, like Floor did here, my jaw wiggles as well. It's just muscle use as Charlie Calotta says. When you use those connected muscles strongly, it's practically impossible to keep the jaw still. You might even say that allowing a bit of jiggle is a form of relaxation, and keeping it still at all costs is an extra effort. So if it's relaxation we're after, just let it wiggle a bit if that's what it does.

[@velvetxwings]

12:34 may just be her most beautiful live moment EVER.

[@k.l.7788]

As a mother of two I am shocked to see how she can keep singing like that while pregnant, because when I was pregnant my lung capacity was about 5%.

[@CharlieCalottaReacts]

Singing requires us to find release and body space in the weirdest places. That's maybe why she is leaning forward to let gravity create more space in the back of her thoracic cavity where the lungs take up the most space. Super smart singing.

[@k.l.7788]

I cannot sing, and I'm also under 160cm, but I'm super impressed!

[@JariJuslin]

I love how she walked an extra mile to connect with the audience and sang and also spoke a bit in Finnish. The song has English words and the audience certainly knows English, but making extra effort for people you sing to ups the ante. Also, the English words certainly don't refer to Finnish historical events. With IPA it's mostly about being able to pronounce the phonetics in the language, but she's Dutch, sings mainly in English, is married to a Swedish person and travels around the globe with a Finnish band, so she certainly has wider catalogue on linguistic and phonetic understanding than your average American.

[@marinaandersson4381]

Raskasta Joulua, "Ave Maria", please! Floor and Marco....

[@johnscaramis2515]

Pregnant Floor or white angel Floor? Forgot the question, doesn't really matter

[@pete_lind]

He can do triple reaction when Marko has done , Ave Maria , with Tarja Turunen and Elize Ryd (Amaranthe vocalist) they all have different style and voice .

[@ralfmeyer9086]

@@johnscaramis2515 hallo friend, both are amazing 🎅 i love the white Angel. Its a coulor, i never see by her👍

[@marshallsnyder8423]

Thanks for clearing up the jaw wiggle thing, for me, it's had me a bit puzzled. I might point out that Tarja has said that she can no longer sing live opera, because she has spent way too many years with a microphone, that she'd have to go through a rigorous retraining process(unspoken: I don't want to). I"ve seen a live video of Floor without a mic with a string quartet, no problem, but it's not something that she normally does(at least in a public way).

[@bertbouwhuis]

Looking at and listening to your comments proves to be an educational experience (repeatedly!) so today, again, I learned something from you about Floor (and singing). Thanks Charlie, worth my subscription every time I listen!

[@CharlieCalottaReacts]

Thanks so much, Bert!

[@erniedinda509]

Nice reaction and thanks for the info, especially about the IPA. Wonderful performance and song.

[@PAULSWorld131]

I'll give you the link of her 2019 version. It has an intro, where she explains what she encountered when singing in Finish. She is talking there about stuff you mention in this reaction. She talks about the difficult Finnish words and vowls, and how she learned and managed to sing them correctly. She did quite some struggling and hard work on this, she says (starts at 0.48min.) When listening to the 2019 version, i think you as a vocal expert can also hear the difference between pregnant- and not pregnant. Good reaction, very interesting Charlie : kzbin.info/www/bejne/bJLWd5mBpqplrMk&ab_channel=NightwishArena

[@572Btriode]

Just what I was going to do so Charlie could make the comparison between pregnant Floor and; how shall I say, not pregnant Floor.

[@mantailuaa]

I was in that Oulu consert few rows from the stage, she is such a lovely person. And her voice resonates in the listeners body, you can really feel her singing. I cant explain it better.

[@gollosus8741]

You have so much Nightwish songs to discover, both with Floor and with Tarja. Can't wait! I wanted to suggest a bunch songs but let's keep it simple. The Poet and the Pendulum, Ghost River, The Greatest Show on Earth, Shoemaker, + The Phantom of the Opera with Tarja.

[@CharlieCalottaReacts]

If you want, you can use our special !request command in the discord server to add them to the permanent list!

[@cornflowerofsweden1288]

Thank you so much for this reaction. Since I'm not awake when you're online, I have to settle for KZbin, so please continue posting stuff here. I like learning stuff, even if I'm hopeless as a singer, because it makes me appreciate and understand more of what I hear from Floor. I can say that the only bad thing about being a Nightwish fan, is that you tend to note how bad almost everything else is in comparison. My playlist looks like it's copied directly from the setlists of the four big Nightwish concerts...

[@CharlieCalottaReacts]

I'm planning on doing earlier streams sooner to get more of our Northern European friends involved! Please keep an eye out!

[@Paul_C]

Thanks for this one, didn't realise you did this when I wrote my comment before 😃

[@CharlieCalottaReacts]

Hey no problem, Paul!

[@antti-jussikemppainen305]

Have to say that I have not only enjoyed your reaction/analysis' but also learned a bunch about singing. Thanks for the both!😀 As we are closing in on the holidays and you already did at least one song in finnish, here's another one: Jarkko Ahola - Sylvian Joululaulu. Don't be fooled by the orchestra accompanying him, he's a metal singer first(which I am certain that you'll pick up)and everything else after that. kzbin.info/www/bejne/e3TMpGdngJqJhbM

[@qayaki]

Floor is always smiling during these live shows. I think Poet And The Pendulum (Wembley Arena live) is the only song without smiling.

[@tatw167]

She smiles a little there too, but it's a sad and compassionate smile.

[@ThatKeterScp]

@@tatw167 yeah, like a comforting one

[@marcusbonde9142]

Yesss! I hoped you would react to this...

[@skeletor196]

Here is one for you Floor Jansen - Puccini: O mio babbino caro - De Tiende van Tijl kzbin.info/www/bejne/i5a3qnSQqbtoras

[@papaverweg]

She is smart and beautiful in every way but mostly in singing. 😍

[@darquemode1165]

I may not be able to read the IPA, but I sure do enjoy drinking a Founders All Day IPA now and again!

[@annhelensjostrom9065]

Take a look at the masked singer Finland (soumi) and "Tohtori".... Just saying. 😍

[@CharlieCalottaReacts]

I heard the good news! More Marko coming up!

[@pdutchie4924]

You can see Floor having a jaw wiggle in the Phantom with Henk Poort, love to hear your opinion on that. This was a beautiful performance again btw. 😍

[@laatdovahkiin7405]

I've seen her sing with and without jaw wiggle. I think it's a conscientious decision she makes during the performance.

[@CharlieCalottaReacts]

It's on the way, Pauline! Great to see you!

[@pedroserrano4485]

For me the most important is how the singer sounds... just saying.

[@CharlieCalottaReacts]

@@pedroserrano4485 that totally makes sense! I'd say that's the case for most people!

[@pedroserrano4485]

@@CharlieCalottaReacts yes, I suppose, I'm used to spend time listening music at home or in the car, not watching videos so often.

[@billattercliffe8655]

About the jaw wobble, it's interesting that with Floor, sometimes it's there and sometimes it isn't. I wonder if she is using the wobble, consciously or unconsciously, as a means of adding emotional content or for thickening her vibrato. Before hitting the "COMMENT" button, I checked out Floor's performance of "Stargazers" at Tampere where she indulges in a more operatic performance for the Finnish audience, as a throwback to the Tarja days. Of course the camera work is of no help, but watching carefully as best as the video allows, Floor is using a chin wobble on some sustained notes and not on others. Even in this performance, we can see that the jaw wobble is only there some of the time. That would be an interesting question to ask her on her "Fan Friday" videos.

[@CharlieCalottaReacts]

She can create a richer tone and add vibrato with the wobble. It does take away some of her natural resonance though. When she makes vibrato without the wobble, you get more acoustic resonance that travels better without a microphone. Notice when she does it whether or not she has a microphone.

[@CharlieCalottaReacts]

Ultimately it's a vocal color thing

[@k.l.7788]

I read that when you sing certain notes you must relax your jaw, and when it’s really relaxed the muscles cannot hold it up and it starts to wobble.

[@CharlieCalottaReacts]

@@k.l.7788 not necessarily though. Like if you relax your jaw without singing, does it wobble? If not, you should be able to sing without wobble too

[@MisterJ56]

There's also a NON-PREGNANT version 😉: kzbin.info/www/bejne/bJLWd5mBpqplrMk

[@Kooaateeii]

As a finn I love this song but only if a singer can really sing it. She can. Kiitos

[@monksuu]

If you look at en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:IPA/Finnish you'll see that Finnish is pronounced pretty much the way it's written. Also, fonetic alphabets are very close to Finnish alphabets or vice versa. We don't have any silent letters or too many exceptions (we have 1: "ng"). W is there to mainly write old family/last names (pronounced like the normal V) and Å/å is to accomodate our history (and their names) with our Swedish overlords for 700 years before being under the Russian rule for a century or so. We didn't like our eastern neighbors so we didn't take any cyrillic letters from them. ;) Ou houlii nait...

[@liavanwissen1963]

Thank you for this reaction. Please try Ayreon with everybody dies (live).

[@torbenjohansen6955]

Thanks

[@CharlieCalottaReacts]

My pleasure!

[@stevedalley8378]

Hi Could Somebody please tell me if it was Sina the Female Drummer who's on youtube that was standing front row at-3m15s. thanks.

[@pekkapuikkonen8792]

I think I've seen floor sing in 6 different la gages that I can think of

[@jamesschwarz007]

8: English, Dutch, German, Spanish, Italian, Finnish, Swedish and Latin. She speaks 3 languages fluently: English, Swedish and Dutch. She also speaks some Finnish, but she never "Finished learning Finnish".

[@monksuu]

@@jamesschwarz007 No Finn has finished learning Finnish either. ;)

[@impugnu7852]

@@jamesschwarz007 I wouldn't be suprised if she speaks German too, was taught at school.

[@isaflechas]

@@impugnu7852 I can’t remember the interview but it’s an old one, where she said she spoke German but that it was rusty. 🤷‍♀️

[@eddiecreutzburg7375]

Even pregnant, she is Impressive

[@friedadewerker1899]

🙏🏻❤️

[@50original44]

im on the doctor show?

[@eTraxx]

really like the way the women were put up front in the audience so they could support the highly pregnant lady singing :)

[@CharlieCalottaReacts]

Who put them there? 🤔

[@eTraxx]

@@CharlieCalottaReacts I would *presume* (dangerously close to assume) someone doing publicity for the event .. but then .. what do I know! :)

[@CharlieCalottaReacts]

@@eTraxx yeah idk.......

[@donniemarler3909]

I remember when my late wife was pregnant so long ago. She felt fat and ugly and I could have wept looking at her because I had never seen anyone so beautiful.

[@Rhuanjl]

I don't think this is Nightwish - Floor but with different musicians there.

[@tonisomrot1224]

Now think who have the best spot in this event ? Who ?

[@CharlieCalottaReacts]

👶

[@ralfmeyer9086]

One Question, friend. What do a Opera Singer, without a mic, Singing again a Metal Band..i mean they louder than a Orchestra hihi 🥰🎅 i have a another Question, what is the different between Italian Opera (Verdi) to German(Wagner). That intressent me very much..🤔🤗

[@CharlieCalottaReacts]

That is a BIG topic, Ralf. I can't truly explain it in a youtube comment. Please come to the twitch stream and I'm happy to talk it through there!

[@ralfmeyer9086]

@@CharlieCalottaReacts 👍🤗

[@CharlieCalottaReacts]

Hey! Welcome to the channel! Feel free to join us on the next live reaction stream by following Charlie at twitch.tv/charliecalotta and join the discord (linked above) for stream updates!

[@mattphillips2530]

Outside of Queen Floor and the obvious Dimash there is one other "unknown" voice you have to hear, and this is the perfect opportunity to suggest her: please react to Kim Sohyang's stellar version of this same song: kzbin.info/www/bejne/j6jKd2Z9rtGoY5I She is a whole rabbot hole unto herself to rival Floor

[@thomaslilly9558]

Nice B B S, thanks. I don't care if her jaw wiggles like jell-o, I care about the sounds that come out. This was probably Xmas 2016, her daughter Freja was born March 2017. Good info about singing while pregnant ( sharing space ). I know Simone of with child sing a duet with Floor and sounded great. Humans...Quite the adaptable beings.

[@CharlieCalottaReacts]

I agree! Very impressive vocals. Glad you know what you like about singers!

[@marttivuorinen8475]

One Image i get from these videos of this particular concert IS.. Other babies are kicking in their mothers bellies.. But I bet Freya was windmilling and showing horns 😜🥰😍💪

[@AlfaJones]

If you ever need a quick "correct pronounciation" on something Finnish google translate is quite handy. It's absolutely rubbish for actually *translating* any Finnish, but setting the language to Finnish the robovoice reads it quite correctly.

[@GenXHBReacts]

It is strange what my mind latches onto sometimes....this time its that she is wearing comfortable shoes. Of course because she is pregnant, but it is just what my mind latched onto lol

[@machintelligence]

When she signed up for this gig, she wondered whether she would need to wear a Santa costume. Obviously she did not.

[@eaaaaaaaaaaaaaa5]

Ok, it is obviously Floor singing. But the band is definetley not Nightwish.

[@vpiili]

It is from "Heavy Christmas" -tour in Finland i.e. a tour where heavy metal musicians play traditional Christmas songs.

[@alanfoster6589]

Wearing heels, but not high and not pointed. No time to risk tripping.

[@alanfoster6589]

Fine analysis, by the way.

[@adamtaylor9617]

To quote my currently pregnant vocal teacher: The accidental pee factor is something she wasn't expecting. When she watched this performance, she noted that floor changes techniques halfway through and generates more power in her voice , probably because she realized she wasn't going to pee if she pushed this time.lol Things us guys never have to think about.lol

[@CharlieCalottaReacts]

That's NUTS. Thanks for the knowledge lol

[@christinaalgate4899]

Floor calls herself a vocal technique nerd.

[@CharlieCalottaReacts]

Floor?

[@christian53050]

Singing in Finnish while pregnant, bring it...

[@isaflechas]

I personally don’t like too much when she sings like this... but I’ll listen to her anyway 😂

[@CharlieCalottaReacts]

Hey, I respect that. This channel is all about directing how singing works. Like it? Hate it? If you're here, you'll figure out what "it" actually is!

[@corneliusantonius3108]

You can not keep Floor from a podium.

[@Klojum]

Showing the climax of the song in the first 10 seconds of your video reaction is perhaps not the smartest move. Just like with movie trailers, once you've seen the trailer you have already seen the movie for 75-80%. Just my $0.02 .

[@CharlieCalottaReacts]

I figured that if you're watching a reaction video you're listening for insight, no? Maybe I'm wrong to assume people have hears the whole song before. My YT stats are showing that most people are watching passed that point haha

[@christian53050]

Floor sings in Finnish while in heels and pregnant...ok then

[@jukkaramo3351]

BLAA BLAA BLAA BLAAA