First Time Reacting To Nightwish - Weak Fantasy

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[@Doinita.]

Check out all Nightwish reactions 😊 : kzbin.info/aero/PLBxxPN1NmvZrsaoeXyqvNKrhL2UiN6fpK

[@craigbolton5093]

As another reactor recently commented- “You can’t be stupid, and be into Nightwish.” I concur.

[@RuthlessBiscuit3]

I concur

[@Tarkus_]

I saw that too. You can, but you'll miss out on a lot of the magic. I get what he's saying, though. I consider Tuomas the greatest songwriter of my generation, and I'm in my 60s.

[@robertsheeler321]

I Concur

[@zoeystar4668]

Yes. I watched that reaction and also concur. Nightwish pushes the listener to think in so many directions. This is what I'm drawn to love about Tuomas's provoking compositions.,

[@orangeguppie6897]

I concur!!!!!

[@WNYretiree]

One of the best reactions to this brilliant song that I have heard.

[@Starman_67]

I concur

[@eminabrestovac]

Yup ❤

[@ellenbones]

Exactly! Really opened my eyes to the stunning lyrics even more

[@silverblack5475]

You knocked it out of the ballpark with that reaction .😊

[@FromG2eminor]

I was never into lyrics in music. I only focused on the music itself. Nightwish makes me more open minded to lyrics and poetry. I akways catch something new each time i listen to them. You added to conversation to this song in your reaction. Great job! Yes, you are NW army now 😊

[@darkaria8]

Right on reaction! Many reactors are there for music, but you are delving into the deep lyrics that Tuomas writes. I applaud you for looking up the word "necrocracy". Tuomas's writes his lyrics to tempt us into looking up words we are not familiar with but which expound his thoughts perfectly. Umm, at mark 14:59ish, not country-western sound, but more folk music or, if you will, music associated with folklore. "Weak Fantasy" is among my favorite top 10 Nightwish songs. Thank you so very much for your reaction. Keep it rollin'. Cheers!

[@AGDinCA]

I love that you immediately recognized Richard Dawkins' voice! A true fan, clearly!

[@EderNovacki]

Dude your reactions are dope af! keep 'em coming. About the "witchcraft filling your void", I think, refers to the 'god of gaps'... kind of something like 'well, i don't know what that particular thing so it must be something unnatural" ...

[@ishort0967]

Thank you for the support and appreciation ☺️‼️

[@QofyReacts]

I did think so thank you for that Eder

[@MrDempmeister]

⁠​⁠​⁠​⁠@@QofyReacts It’s all about us humans needing a sense of coherence. I really love the work of Aaron Antonovsky, basically it explains why we are so prone to believing in stuff that are clearly made up in order to achieve peace of mind and make sense of the world around us. If a loved one dies it’s a part of gods plan, if a magician makes a car disappear its magic and so on. Tuomas really nails it by writing “witchcraft filling your void”. It’s the shortest and most accurate summation of all of this.

[@missrubyphoenix]

Absolutely loved your lyric dissection, totally on point with the story of the song

[@deniseduncan7363]

This is a profound piece, Nightwish is new to me in recent months. Your channel is always a go-to for me when learning new groups, artists, songs. Welcome back and thank you.

[@Peter_Pan_71]

Insightful and a good reaction. Have a good day and greetings from Finland🤘

[@ishort0967]

☺️‼️

[@ishort0967]

🤩 wow‼️. Always love hearing your perspective ☺️❤️‼️

[@rickphil9999]

Hello again QoFyReacts. Absolutely nailed this reaction from beginning to end. This is such an amazing song and lyrics by Tuomas Holopainen. Loved it. and thank you.

[@ishort0967]

Thank you for the appreciation ☺️‼️

[@QofyReacts]

thank you for watching

[@sateentuoksu]

@@ishort0967 ?

[@Tarkus_]

Even if I didn't understand the lyrics being sung, this is easily a top 10 Nightwish performance for me. With the lyrics, it's probably top 5. And your reaction, analysis and breakdown is undoubtedly the best I've seen. Well done! 👍🤘🤟

[@ishort0967]

Thank you for the appreciation ☺️‼️

[@gunterreihnhol6507]

Not so subtle take on organized religion excellently executed.

[@ankpe]

Well done indeed.

[@AudioVile]

I was happy seeing you react to Nightwish! I'm a total newbie to symphonic metal, but I really like this band! I am consistently impressed by Floor's ability to sing "above" the intense instrumentals. The lyrics are fantastic as well. "Fear is a choice you embrace..." That is so profound. Fear, along with anger, insult, joy... are ALL examples of emotions we CHOOSE to feel. There may be an initial, 'automatic' reaction to something seen or heard, but we CHOOSE what to carry forward. Very intense lyrics! Great reaction, QoFy!!!!

[@maire9990]

This is easily my favourite reaction to this song! I love how genuinely interested you are in the song and the meaning of it unlike some reactors who just let the song play and barely even listen. You also seem like such a smart guy :D Keep up with nightwish, im loving these videos!

[@ishort0967]

Thank you for your appreciation and support ☺️‼️

[@tonygmichael6434]

Great job reviewing this kickass song! Very strong lyrics with this one!!

[@monicacarolina6480]

Hi sir, thanks for your great reaction. Love from Holland.❤

[@craigbolton5093]

Great analysis!

[@jimharris367]

Brilliant reaction dude, you pretty much nailed the lyrical meaning - great job 🤘

[@ishort0967]

Thank you for the appreciation ☺️‼️

[@bocatampere]

Great lyrics. Great song. Great reaction. Thank you 🙏🏻🔥❤️🤘🇫🇮

[@ishort0967]

☺️‼️ Thank you for watching

[@skeezesmith7954]

Nightwish is a secular band. Tuomas has said that he has no problem with people who aren't. The 'fantasy' referred to in the song is religion. 'Robes of lust' refer to the pedophilia that was exposed. Great song. Enjoyed your breakdown. As a child my parents took me to church and so I became a believer. I'm 80 now and having been in a warzone for 18 months and seeing what has been going on in the world over the years, I lost that belief a long time ago. 😊🤘

[@FromG2eminor]

I am a believer who loves Nightwish. This song has such depth that it relates to any leadership or individual under that leadership. The poetry and musicianship of this band is so amazing to me.

[@skeezesmith7954]

I am a believer in Nightwish. I worship at the altar of Floor. 😉🤘

[@jyrkim.8635]

I feel you. I often say that there is so much horrible and sick things going around in the world that if there is some almighty god or whatever hanging around somewhere and they just decide not to do anything to this, I don't even want to be friends with that dude.

[@black4pienus]

@@jyrkim.8635 Epicurus said it well: “Is God willing to prevent evil, but not able? Then he is not omnipotent. Is he able, but not willing? Then he is malevolent. Is he both able and willing? Then whence cometh evil? Is he neither able nor willing? Then why call him God?”

[@monicacarolina6480]

They are not against faith, but the blind worship and following of the church is the theme. We have brains to think, not to follow bindly

[@black4pienus]

I love seeing Tuomas headbang/windmill. And I'm still amazed he can do that and play keyboard at the same time! I was also impressed by your one braid windmill. lol.

[@rosedouglas9586]

My favorite part of thsi reaction is at 4:21 "because its my channel"!!!!! Indeed! And thats why i watch every single one of your videos, and most ...more than once. Great reaction! Loved it. Thanks for sharing your perspective.

[@ishort0967]

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[@jaskau2462]

🤩👌💥💯🎶 Now you are getting into the 'sneaky brilliance' on their compositions and lyricism. Cool Cool reaction män and keep on rockin with this magical band. 🤘😎 🇫🇮 💙

[@Tica..77]

Love u2 QoFy ♥️ Was asleep when this posted, but damn awake now🤘BEST reaction I’ve seen to NW’s WF!

[@adlicious100]

Mister ...You Understand 🔥🦁🕊💥💜👽🪷....thanks 🎯 .... love and light from Holland 🌷

[@ishort0967]

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[@theuserformerlyknownas-ou7wd9]

the 'like' button is just not enough - I need an 'absolutely effing brilliant' button - well done Nightwish, well done Qofy

[@louisminten7889]

Excellent reaction. 👌👍This song is one of my favourites. The lyrics are crazy good❤💥💯

[@ishort0967]

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[@sateentuoksu]

First time seen your reaction - instant subscription. You're awsome! Understanding the meanings right away, spot on, and also adding your own thoughts. Perfect ! ❤

[@markclements7767]

Hi Qofy, greetings from UK I was told that this song was composed when the news headlines were all about atrocities carried out by some people in the Catholic church against children My take is that this is a warning against organised religeon bending people to their will, and has nothing to do with searching for the truth of God. I may be entirely wrong..... "You live for the days to come" - religion promises that you will be rewarded when you get to Heaven "Your only truth, tribal poetry" - you can only rely on what you and your neighbours/family know to be truth, not what some institution tells you is the truth "Witchcraft filling your void" - where we don't have answers, religeon offers us miracles to explain it I read somewhere that Tuomas made mention in an interview that religeon is usually a matter of geography. If you are born in the Middle East you will be bought up to be a Muslim, in Italy you would be a Catholic, in India maybe a Hindu etc... Since these religeons have different views about God, how can they all be true? In the Nightwish song "Last Ride Of The Day" there is a lyric......."What's God, if not the spark that started life?" I think that all people of faith or not can probably agree on this 😉

[@QofyReacts]

thank you for that

[@MrsGod67]

It's amazing how well you read into those lyrics! I'm looking forward to your next NW reaction and will surely check out more from your channel 👍

[@QofyReacts]

More to come!

[@lauremo4005]

Fantastic reaction, one of the best for this song, which happens to be in my top three favorite NW songs. Subscribed because I enjoy thoughtful, intelligent analysis of lyrics and you delivered.

[@ishort0967]

Thank you for all the appreciation ☺️‼️

[@michaelfreeman1634]

The is a line in the Nightwish song "The Greatest Show on Earth" that deals with these same subject matter as "witchcraft filling your void". That line is "Enter the God of gaps". Both lines relate to the historical human tendency to create a God for anything that cannot be explained...eg Thor was created to give reason for the existence of thunder

[@enflameddrago2350]

First time I've see you, and I think your comments and interpretation was brilliantly stated. Have a great one😊 love listening to you!

[@gunterreihnhol6507]

I think what you thought was country music may have been Middle Eastern und possibly a reference where many of our religions started (Mesopotamia, Ur mit Moses). Just my take. Tribal poetry possibly die Bibel, Quran etc...

[@pentheroliver3794]

So glad that you reacted to one of my Top 5 Nightwish songs. My understanding of "Witchcraft filling your void" is related to the need of going every sunday worship your lord with the idea of drinking is blood & eating is flesh as a sign of devotion. The Devil & the Deep Dark Ocean (Live In Buenos Aires) and Shoemaker (Live Hellfest 2022) are the two others performances in my top 5.

[@gunterreihnhol6507]

👍👍

[@franshinlopen2166]

I nearly left when you said it was going to be a lyric video. Luckily it was a live version with lyrics! I think you really nailed the meaning of the song. Very much liked!

[@robing6796]

This was a thoroughly made reaction. Good job 🤘🤘🤘

[@Bonovin]

Thank you for a great reaction on this brilliant song !! Greetings from nwAse Sweden

[@TimoArula]

Correction has to be made ! Floor Jansen doesn't headspin !!! Floor has 3 distinct styles. Head banging(straight forward, then back), hair whip(almost like cracking a bullwhip) and the Windmill(continuous 360 degree revolutions). Why Windmill? Well, it's more awesome and she is Dutch !!!!! This song is against organized religions based on tribal religious texts, especially The Bible, it's not against personal faith in some Deity. However, one should realize that all those religious texts are & have been interpreted and used to justify unimaginable cruelties, persecution, discrimination etc., the worst being the idea that man is separate from nature & by some divine right above all other lifeforms, which explains the current almost catastrophic state of our planet. lyrics are spot on - so many fractures in our world have a root in the fantasy that each of the religions/sects/whatever are THE ONE way. This song speaks, with anger, against the fact that we humans are destroying ourselves and this world based on a power structure that needs to be made obsolete - we ALL deserve better. I LOVE this Song . Especially Floor's Freddie Mercury pose at the end . Speaking of Freddie ,....Floor's first band After Forever did a Cover of Queen's song "Who Wants To Live Forever " : Who Wants To Live Forever kzbin.info/www/bejne/r4GvpZqrZ9WDn8U Nightwish Shadow Unit from Estonia and a FloorFan 🤘😎🤘.

[@goranelez9956]

Don't know which is better: performance or criticism level for religions. Love it anyway.

[@dianabryson5264]

I love how you break down the words and what you think they mean . Nightwish is in my opinion the best band in the world. Toumas is a qenius in his song writing .

[@danieldias6832]

"Witchcraft felling your void" I would think Tuomas was refering to miracles and relogion itself...how we use it to explain the unexplained to us, it's a witchcraft( a tale) felling the void in our very own beeing

[@anneliendekramer9243]

Great reaction...one of my favorites songs.

[@ishort0967]

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[@robing6796]

And also your thoughts on theology are spot on. All religions are most likely sprung from stories and fairy tales. If JRR Tolkien lived 3000 years ago, and his stories started to be widespread, his stories might have been a religion today.

[@rihc3584]

Thank you for yours wise worlds

[@griesi31]

Your analysis of the song was really great. My interpretation of the song is this: the song is a call not to blindly submit to any ideologies or worldviews, but to always turn on your mind yourself. This applies to religions but also to political ideologies. I would interpret "witchkraft fill in your void" to mean that we humans tend to label everything that we cannot explain rationally (void) as "magic" or "mystical power" (witchkraft).

[@Starman_67]

Great reaction. Your analysis is on point for me. You get from the lyrics what matters to you or works for you. I'm sure I've heard Tuomas say something to that effect. You get a subsciption from me for this one.

[@peterpritzl3354]

I appreciate your insightful comments. Wanted to hit the 'L' button as usual, when reactors start their usually useless drivel, but man, I appreciate your interpretations. Thank you for presenting them with such a depth of understanding.

[@QofyReacts]

Thanks for sharing!

[@Doinita.]

🔥🤩

[@bea7719]

Nice reaction, more NW please❤🤘

[@ishort0967]

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[@lucavanburen6441]

Thank tou for your explanations of the text.❤

[@sarifahhidayati3704]

Please ........ reaction @Novia Bahmid 🇮🇩 🇮🇩 #This Mountain # Thank you so much for your reaction and good blees you 🙏

[@ishort0967]

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[@jamieberrings9753]

Brilliant reaction. You really hit the meaning. The music is amazing. I had to look up necrocrocy. It amazes me that Thoumas’s first language is not English.

[@ishort0967]

Thank you for watching and for the appreciation ☺️‼️

[@jasonmarshall7572]

The Salem witch trials. Women where killed as they where accused of Witchcraft or being Witches. Witchcraft filling your void lyrics. Filling your emptiness. Nightwish is known to be educators in there belief's.

[@venomous2058]

“Witchcraft fills your emptiness” to me means the emptiness within; the search for love; the sense of life; the answer to the question of who one actually is or should be is only answered and fulfilled through belief in a magical (divine) power instead through the search for real knowledge by questioning everything that one may not understand.

[@sjc9121]

Tampere 2015: kzbin.info/www/bejne/pGTcinxoi7yXeZI 1. Shudder Before the Beautiful, 2. Yours Is an Empty Hope, 3. Amaranth, 4. She is My Sin, 5. Dark Chest of Wonders, 6. My Walden 7. The Islander, 8.Élan, 9. Weak Fantasy, 10. Storytime, 11. Endless Forms Most Beatuful, 12. Alpenglow, 13. Stargazers 14. Sleeping sun, 15. Ghost Love Score, 16. The Greatest Show on Earth

[@moniquevanderveeken8960]

Good reaction!

[@user-Rockmagix]

Absolut wonderful analyses of a deeply true lyric. Lets not believe in fairy tales, no matter who comes around with it. And make sure your child is grown up in believing only in his own experience.

[@ishort0967]

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[@ireen1962]

You are pot on ! ❤

[@michaels247]

After that song and after listening to Richard Dawkins book, I steped out from church. Nobody shut tell you what you have to believe. Too many pepole died an still dying because of religion. Thats what I understand from this song. Great song, great poetry from Tuomas, great reaction from you! Thank you!

[@jvalfin3359]

I interpret "Witchcraft filling your void" as the role and purpose religion assigns to your life (disregarding what you want and think). I think they're hinting at the fact that people who lose their religion later in their lives struggle to find meaning and many times have an existential crisis because of it. And when they don't believe anymore, their life has a "void" that was previously occupied by their religion, which motivated them to endure hardship and being made to shovel thrash for the people at the top. Just like "living only for the days to come", but once they no longer believe they will live forever, for what have they endured difficult times until now? Instead of setting goals in this life, all they ever had were goals in the next one that they no longer believe in.

[@majbrat]

The witchcraft line is, I think more that people are searching for something, anything to believe in, so they get fulfilment from other places.

[@robertsheeler321]

Excellent reaction and a good analysis. your in the right area. Tuomas often writes songs only he can understand , he always leaves interpretation up to the individual.

[@ishort0967]

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[@QofyReacts]

thank you!

[@clivematthews5296]

Witchcraft filling your void is about finding something beyond reality to fill the space in your life. Also referred to in The Greatest Show on Earth as "The God of Gaps" where people need a God to fill the gap in their lives.

[@tracyfarnath2270]

I saw an interview with Troy and Tuomas talking about not believing in God and organised religion. Troy actually said you are told about Santa and the tooth fairy and God, but for some reason as we get older some people still believe in God he says its, nonsense. He's English like me and I'm not saying there's no religion over here but if you compare the percentage of church goers to say the US our numbers are far lower, you sound English. This is in no way meant to insult people who believe in God I don't but respect other people that do. Your reactions are always funny informative and interesting. 🇬🇧

[@QofyReacts]

I’m not one to compare belief in God to Santa as it oversimplifies the system however, the analogy of growing out of it like the tales from our childhood is spot on. God is a phenomenon that had been used to explain things we didn’t understand and now the more we understand the less visible and relevant a God is to us anymore. Some people keep it around as a crutch to deal with harsh realities of life. Fair enough. As long as the belief doesn’t cause them to harm themselves or people around them, they can have whatever belief they want. I thought I needed it until I tried to walk without it and I realised I didn’t need it at all in the first place.

[@moniquevanaken2638]

That is exactly my view on this subject. Well said!

[@yerviniansamvel]

Im Nightwish army soldier but also im waiting you to react for new stray kids songs lalala and megaverse

[@yerviniansamvel]

Oh you did already 🙂

[@rafj2000]

The meaning of a necrocracy is a little different. North Korea is a necrocracy as Kim Il-sung iofficially is still the leader, and that same applies to many religions (so: dead people, not so much the deity itself)

[@TheGrannyNut]

You don't listen to Nightwish and remain stupid. They are going to drag you screaming and kicking towards education. Utter brilliance! "Witchcraft filling your void" - my understanding would be disdain of people choosing to believe in religion which holds them down instead of standing tall and moving forwards.

[@Kriis78]

My understanding is bound to the concept of "God of gaps" (saying that what science can't explain is due to a God, thus proving existence of God). "Witchcraft filling your void" can be refered to the prayers/worship of a God, that can explain the 'voids' in science in its missing explanation of some concepts in the world. Tuomas also did this reference in a more direct way in "The Greatest Show on Earth", also mentioning the fear : Gave birth to fantasy To idolatry To self-destructive weaponry Enter the God of gaps Deep within the past Atavistic dread of the hunted f

[@cahayabaiduri5785]

Be carefully when spin you head😂😂😂😅

[@whirledpeaz5758]

Another popular fairy tale first sentence " If elected, I will....."

[@Redwine7911]

When you have only one truth, that being religion, fed to you, from the time you come to this world, with your mother's milk, you have no other option but to fill the void inside with things that are deemed "witchcraft" by that same religion.

[@tanianuraeni2967]

Please reaction Twice "i cant stop me"

[@Ukkoslapsi]

You know all the toxic occult bullshit people try to patch their anxiety with? That one.

[@littlemouse7066]

that's not country western it's something a bit celtic.

[@QofyReacts]

thank you

[@AGDinCA]

_You live only for the days to come..._ I think this is referring to those religious believers who await Armageddon.

[@nicod1361]

hmm I think your interpretations of the lyrics are a bit off, but great reaction, cheers

[@QofyReacts]

It would help to know what the correct interpretation is.

[@nicod1361]

@@QofyReacts the song is less about so called "religion"(s) being a fantasy, and more about how people look for stories and fantasies in general ,witchcraft( being a wide range of dark worship practices) tales ,etc to fill that "void" instead what they( the lyrics) perceive as the "better tales" being "science" and "nature"

[@temet_fin]

The music and lyrics by Tuomas are one of s kind. Anyone can interpret the lyrics just any way they like. Which is probably why it's not easy to not like them. Thanks for the best reaction I've seen for years.

[@Zozo-K-]

@@nicod1361here’s what the song is about…straight from the mouths of Troy and Tuomas… kzbin.info/www/bejne/kHvYiH-hidynfNUsi=zl24dP5pjXkgrrrf