Nightwish - Hiraeth | Reaction/First Listen!

[@buddyjarjoura5166]

The final part of Hiraeth is so emotionally striking and powerful. I nearly wept. Captures the longing and sorrow and happiness of homesickness so perfectly.

[@666Hagro]

The best song on the album

[@minimalisticmj3113]

Nice reaction =) This Song hits me so hard i got "Hiraeth" as an tattoo in the Nightwish font a day after the Album release.

[@fjnw]

"I picture Floor dancing this interlude on stage" (or the way you said it). Me too! We so need to see these songs live!!!

[@nikkireviews]

😂 I'm glad you thought that too. And for sure, I wanna see all these live as well. Hopefully one day!

[@percyob1]

Hiraeth is also a longing for what once was, what nearly was and what could be. It's a very Welsh/Cymraeg thing

[@samusahlsten5948]

During the metal-part I also was imagining Floor dancing. Very good reaction as always.

[@nikkireviews]

Heh I'm noticing I wasn't the only one! 💃🏻 And thank you! 💛

[@davidellinsworth3299]

Just watch her move when they (eventually) do this one live

[@APMM58]

Nikki, always impressed by your analysis of the lyrics. Greetings from the Netherlands 🇳🇱

[@nikkireviews]

Thank you so much! 💛☺️

[@trekkerj]

Can't wait until next week. I think the Weave may top your list.

[@Tarkus_]

That's a really good one!

[@mw4rdi]

I think so, too. That's truly a masterpiece.

[@nikkireviews]

I'm very excited. You've been hyping it up! I can't wait. 😁

[@glenngunnis6642]

Nightwish doing Nightwish things! Great reaction Nikki!🤘🤘

[@nikkireviews]

So good! And thank you! :)

[@frankramakers]

Again a great reaction. As I've said before, there are no bad songs on this album.

[@nikkireviews]

Thank you! And nope, not one so far!

[@Rackelhane]

MiniFloor is gone. Welcome back Nikki. Nice to se you. This is a beautiful piece of music. Thank you for reacting to Nightwish. Cheers from a finn in Sweden.❤🎉

[@jimharris367]

Great reaction Nikki, love this one more with each listen, it perhaps was a little overshadowed initially but it really has its hooks in me now 🤘

[@RolfMeyer-cl7ou]

Yesterwynde. For me, Nightwish on fire. What a Masterpiece

[@papa6036]

Thx Nikki for your reaction....dont know really how to analise the lyrics,but Hiraeth always brings me in a melancholy mood as the whole album does.Sometimes I think just let the music talk and everything is fine for me.Floor and Troy just humming UUUS and AAAs is so great and make this album my album of the year. Greetings

[@124Spider5]

❤🤘NIGHTWISH. WAS, IS AND ALWAYS WILL BE - NIGHTWISH🤘❤

[@SRocks59]

Very nice reaction again Nikki ... 🤘

[@nikkireviews]

Thank you, and thanks for watching. ☺️

[@Mars-is4un]

🤗🍒🤘🏻😘 Great song huh Nikki

[@NickBR57]

I was listening to all three versions again today and remembered that Hiraeth wasn't on my server version of the orchestral version. When I checked all my NAS devices it wasn't on any so I got out the disc and found there is no orchestral version of Zhiraeth which seems odd as there is definitely it hestea in the band version. Perhaps not enough to make an orchestral version? The lyrics in the booklet don't give the first lines in Welsh which is what Troy sings (like My Walden). I love this though - both vocalists are incredible. The melody is beautiful too. Tuomas, of course, writes great lyrics An altogether wonderful track.

[@nikkireviews]

Hm that's interesting. 🤔 Maybe we won't ever know for sure. 😅 But yes, otherwise - the lyrics are absolutely amazing as always.

[@theovanderstorm3171]

Isn’t it because they didn’t use the orchestra for this song that there is no orchestral version?

[@NickBR57]

@@theovanderstorm3171 Makes perfect sense 😂 Thanks for highlighting my stupidity, d'oh!

[@bujin1977]

I was a little disappointed with this song that we didn't hear Floor singing in Welsh. 😂

[@paisa20]

Thanks

[@gilsorger6548]

It has direct translation to portuguese: Saudade.

[@nikkireviews]

Hm I looked it up and it seems to match with what I looked up for a close translation and that's a melancholy, longing nostalgia. All seems to translate to about the same thing. 💛

[@gilsorger6548]

@nikkireviews yes, but I was always told that only portuguese had a word for it. It turned out that welsh also have one. I didn't know.

[@nikkireviews]

Ooh I see

[@flavio_spqr]

@@gilsorger6548 I grew up with the same assumption. And it's sort of a myth in the Portuguese language, that no other language can directly translate Saudade. Maybe the Welsh also thought that Hiraeth couldn't be translated. It was cool to find out this bit of trivia.

[@bujin1977]

@@flavio_spqr I'm not sure we thought it couldn't be translated, just that there was no direct English equivalent.

[@BracchiAlessandroFineArt]

❤❤❤❤❤❤

[@nikkireviews]

♥️♥️😁

[@Kelsi_the_lamentation]

🤘💎🔥

[@Tarkus_]

👍♥️🫶♥️🤟

[@cwm8565]

This is one of their opuses ngl.

[@zbygniewprlwytzkofsky6614]

My Gaelic sucks, but that is the language!

[@bujin1977]

It's not Gaelic. It's Welsh.

[@cyborgx2078]

You have to react to rock/metal music that people want to see. Your Slayer video got about a thousand views, a well-known band that many people want to see a reaction to, the secret is there.

[@nikkireviews]

I definitely wanna do more Slayer very soon. I try to mix it up and keep some variety, cause I stumble upon fans of one band and not the others - but I definitely notice which bands do better and make note to do more of those just cause it's what people want. I think Angel of Death might be next!

[@clivematthews5296]

But that means that she would only play mediocre but popular bands. Two of the most viewed reactions were Oasis !!

[@bujin1977]

I'm not a Welsh speaker, but I can understand a fair amount. Unfortunately I just can't make out what is said at the end clearly enough.

[@EduardOgg-z5o]

Thank God we will see Nikki again🙃, I found your creation 🤔!, I would rather see you as you are. Nice reaction😘

[@duncanwyer2460]

If you have listened to Auri then the ending reminds me of that

[@wanmac31]

🤘😊🇫🇮💙🪄🎼✨💯👍

[@nikkireviews]

😁🔥🎸💫🌠🎼