NIGHTWISH REACTION | Weak Fantasy

[@RolfMeyer-cl7ou]

Great reaction. You know, what the lyrics means. Respect from northern Germany 🤘

[@brendankelly3063]

There's nothing like Lady Floor in full flow 🇨🇮☘️🇨🇮🤟🤟🤟🤟

[@derrickparran]

I forgot how good they are. I've been in the GHOST rabbit hole. Great reaction!

[@Thorgrim247]

You nailed it Kelly.

[@tonyg8471]

One of the best live performances to be found anywhere. These are absolute professionals. As for the song...I think your take on this is very similar to mine. Tuomas wants us all to individually decide what meaning his music provides. But I don't believe this one is not too difficult to figure out. It's always nice to see another American recognize the brilliance of Nightwish.

[@karihaapanen7520]

Respect.

[@glenngunnis6642]

The BEAST!!!🤘🎸

[@zbygniewprlwytzkofsky6614]

Indeed, and at 6:53 Marko switching from the lower guitar to the upper bass while his voice seems fully independent from his playing.

[@ManuelGuajardo-zd7hx]

Well what did you expect from the dutch windmill momma floor Jansen girl from maine? Just another day at the office for floor you could say she never disappoints Kelly and considering nightwish now has members from wintersun makes nightwish which wintersun and nightwish are sister bands which even better which actually they weren't in nightwish at this point in time of this video jukka the bass player from wintersun replaced Marko and Kai the human drum machine from wintersun replaced jukka the nightwish drummer so now you know Kelly later nightwish videos will show them once you get to them and as always great analysis and considering you have experience in singing you analyzed floors singing perfectly. Much love wintersun Alex in humid Texas ❄️❤️

[@Mars-is4un]

🤗🍒🤘🏻😘 well done as always Kelly, I see that you have Pink hanging behind you, do you know Davina Michelle? Listen and watch the cover of Pink!🤗

[@jvalfin3359]

Definitely about the control by fear part of organized religion. Also criticizing the aspect of not living in this world, but rather "forsaking this one with scorn", looking only at the next life and being motivated by fear. Of course, not all religions or denominations do this, but a lot do.

[@manuelmorante9465]

👍👍😎😎🤘🤘

[@tarmotyyri6733]

🇫🇮❤

[@jroutasula5250]

Are you really american? from USA? You react lyrics and it is very rare in american react studios. Well done. More Nightwish and Your opinion about them are welcome. Greetings from Finland.

[@RolfMeyer-cl7ou]

Yes, i agree

[@dianabryson5264]

I am an American and the reason that Nightwish has been my favorite band for over 15 years is that the lyrics are as important as the music. I only like a hand full of American bands. Every member of Nightwish past and present are the best at what they do and wonderful human beings!!

[@fearisachoiceyouembrace]

🤘❣️

[@strabel803]

🤔 "It shouldn't be like that" well , Religion ALWAYS was and is like that ,build on fear and lust of power, the world is getting less religious in time ,and one day,we will be mostly free of these tribal believes.😏 Really a great song and lyrics.🤘 Don't want to make it political but. "we"in Europe know what is going on in the USA and religion has corrupt or infiltrated your political and judicial system,i read that about 70% of American people are religious, in Europe and espescially northern Europe that is much less than 50% ,some countries even less than 20%. So ,just to explain the different view we have in Europe regarding religion.😉

[@dianabryson5264]

I am an American and also a Christian and what you say is true we have alot of people who are corrupt and say they are religious , I`d say that 90% of our current government are. This is one of my all time favorites and the lyrics are spot on !! I am always in awe of the music Nightwish puts out, every song is a masterpiece. I really haven`t followed any American band as I have with Nightwish for many years. In fact I`m sitting here thinking about what concert I`m going to watch tonight as I watch at least one every Saturday night

[@strabel803]

@@dianabryson5264 I think there is a misunderstanding here,religion in general is not much "liked",especially in Northern Europe,so,you saying you are a christian and liking Nightwish is a bit a contradiction ,because,Nightwish ,at least,is very critical about (organized) religion, christianity is a big part of that. FEAR IS A CHOICE YOU EMBRACE.

[@dianabryson5264]

@strabel803 So bottom line since I believe in God that I can't like a band like Nightwish. I'm tolerate of other people's beliefs good, bad or indifferent .

[@strabel803]

@@dianabryson5264 No ,ofcource not, i like some gospel singing, as a singing style but, as a atheist, i mostly don't like the lyrics but, you say "the lyrics are spot on" for "weak fantasy" were you are part of a religion they sing about in a very negatif way. Maby you have a different understanding about your religion than Tuomas/Nightwish ? Just my personel opinion: I f people believe in the bible or Koran,i'm not so tolerant,because these "books"are not very tolerant towards people who think differently and i surely don't like interference of religion on daily live.

[@dianabryson5264]

I am not " Bible Thumper" . I do not even go to any type of church. I have no issues with Atheists most of my friends are. My thoughts on some organized religion is that they do try to install fear on their people. That said I'm going to watch the Tampere concert again.

[@FrankWirth-ij4rq]

Im an old crappy drummer. So I know great drumming. This band has had 2 of the best. Kai is a BEAST on this. "Tribal "official live is a real Kai show. Ceck it out/ New sub make it happen.

[@NickBR57]

Great drumming, love Marco (watch him sing "mother's milk"). Here's some background: This song, being anti-organised religion, caused a lot of controversy. Here are some band comments about that: MARCO: What comes to the new lyrics, "Weak Fantasy" was the only one that actually hints at ancient tribal literature We obviously realized that religion is a touchy subject and that we'd have to carefully consider the tone of the lyrics. It's still funny that you can publicly criticize and mock art and politics as much as you want, as well as artists and politicians but when you stick your finger in the hornet's nest of religion.. uh-oh. TROY: We were working on "Weak Fantasy" for quite a while. Tuomas originally used more direct, aggressive metaphors, but in the end, we decided to opt for a more ambiguous tone. Some people might still find "Weak Fantasy" confrontational, but you can have different interpretations as well. The wisdom is in the eye of the beholder. TUOMAS: We discussed this stuff with the band for hours on end, and everybody stood behind the lines in Weak Fantasy" for instance. In Nightwish, I have never felt the need to neither rebel nor preach, and that hasn't changed, but if the listener stops to consider different viewpoints because of our music, that's always great. There's never enough open, intelligent, and unprejudiced discussion in the world. Marco- There's obviously nothing wrong with leaning a higher power per se. A belief in something supernatural can comfort you and help you get through the day. But its just horrible when people use ancient religions as an excuse for their own utterly condemnable acts or to instigate senseless indiscriminate hatred towards others. Blind fundamentalism seldom leads to anything good, whether you bow to Allah. Jahve, Jesus, the Flying Spaghetti Monster, or something else. TROY: As the wisdom goes, if you could reason with a fundamentalist, there would be no fundamentalists. TUOMAS: It's only during the last years that l've started to question my own religious stance. Why have I been a Lutheran and believed in the kind of God Lutherans do? It's simply because I was born in Finland in the 1970's. In another culture, in another time, there would have been another god above others. In 10th century Denmark, I would have worshipped Odin and Thor. If I'd been born North Korean, I would've been forbidden to believe in any kind of Supreme Being In other words: what you believe in - or what you think you believe in - is based on pure coincidence. TROY: It's baffling, but some of my friends are actually afraid that I will be cast intothe fiery pits of hell. I can only compare these dear friends of mine to chain smokers in this respect: they know it's unhealthy, but they still refuse to quit. I don't understand why people believe in something without any proof, yet laugh at other similar beliefs - I mean, if I were to claim that you can live to be 150 by eating just yoghurt, nobody would believe me. They would ask me for some kind of proof and research findings. Why can't they apply this logic universally? TUOMAS: To be precise, I consider my- self an agnostic atheist. I don't believe in God, so that makes me an atheist How do I know that God does not exist? I don't, but neither does anybody else. That's why I am also an agnostic. To confess that you do not know some- thing is actually an intelligent and constructive stance. It makes you humble, unlike a blind belief in something unproven MARCO: We had just returned from an 18-month hiatus, so everybody was itching to make some noise again even to rehearse! It's always interesting to play new material, because new songs are not in muscle memory yet. I'm using a double-neck instrument for "Weak Fantasy" for example, and there's a moment when I have to leave the bass humming, turn on the guitar, and, on a certain eighth note quickly grab the other neck. You have to practise these things quite a bit to be able to play them with confidence.