Opera Singer REACTS to Shoemaker by Nightwish

[@nickhiggsthesinger]

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[@Magga-f3z]

MOOR FROM FINLAND BEARWOOD- RISE ABOVE feat MARKO HIETALA 2024.

[@Jerrytheberry2040]

Don’t forget Floor dabbled in opera for only about a year

[@gerardcote8391]

Nick just watched your Nightwish Ghost Love Score video.... very excellent.... now you got to do Versailles, they are a Japanese Symphonic Metal band.... the singer has an amazing voice, you'll not be able to make out what he says unless you speak Japanese.... but watch Faith and Decision live with English Subtitles so you know what he is saying.... guaranteed you'll put him up there in top tier singer's as well.

[@gerardcote8391]

Note there are 2 basic styles of Metal.... we can called them Heavy Metal and Melodic Metal....all other subgenres are variations of these.... So you seem to be interested in Melodic Metal.. These include Prog Metal. Power Metal, Melodic Metal, Symphonic Metal, Melodic Death Metal, Neoclassical Metal, Glam Metal, etc.

[@nickhiggsthesinger]

Important note: I mention "Poet and the Pendulum" in this video, which has not been released on my channel yet (at least at the time of this comment). It's currently in "KZbin Jail" waiting to be released from copyright. Much love to you all!

[@anneke1969]

I believe that if you take the videos from Nightwish's website, there is no issue with copyright. x

[@akashvankessel1249]

Can't wait. 🙏🏻❤️‍🔥

[@edwardscott482]

Awesome! Can't wait!!!

[@priscilla1986ify]

Wow!!!!! Can't wait ❤

[@fizzyridertoo]

P and P is one of the very few Nightwish songs that can give you copyright issues. Same thing with Sahara, which may be why so few react to it.

[@RDB2002]

Not only is the spoken part a quote from Romeo and Juliet, it's inscribed on the urn that carried Shoemaker's ashes to the moon.

[@572Btriode]

Spoken by Johanna Kurkela, who also happens to be Mrs. Holopainen. (Edit: I don't think Nick did Shakespeare at school 🙂)

[@stanchase9705]

Definitely need to listen to the studio version of Shoemaker

[@orangeguppie6897]

I concur!!!

[@flavio_spqr]

I concur!

[@Piia2023]

I concur

[@572Btriode]

I concur.

[@juninho8slojuninho8slo71]

That!

[@louisminten7889]

A huge compliment for the cameraman/woman who captured her facial expression perfectly in this beautiful song

[@dolfvink7416]

This performance was at Pinkpop 2022 in Landgraaf in the Netherlands. It was quite a special one. Not only that Nightwish was playing in Floors homecountry, this was also Floors second appearance that day and on that festival. Pinkpop had Floor as a solo artist and with Nightwish, with only 2 (or maybe 3) hours in between both perfomances. That edition of Pinkpop, Metallica was headlining the day and singer James Hetfield was in the audiance to watch Nightwish. He was that much impressed that he went backstage to talk to Floor. When Metallica came back to the Netherlands to perform in front of another 50,000 spectators in the Cruijffarena in Amsterdam, their supportact couldn't play because of illness of one of the bandmembers. Less than a week before the gig, they asked Floor to fill in and yes, Henk Poort came with her, singing The Phantom of the Opera.

[@thebutcherp]

don't forget that it was freaking hot that day, like 34-36 degrees in the open field and her first performance was in the midday sun, it was freaking amazing to be there that day ;-)

[@MichaelMikeTheRussianBot]

O_M_F_G!!! Wish I could have been there - Floor, Henk Poort, & Metallica? Holy_F!!!

[@jessicakoster2543]

The most mindblowing thing about that day isn't just this performance. Earlier in the day she performed solo on Pinkpop as well. And that still isn't all, she did both shows in about 30 degrees Celsius (86 degrees Fahrenheit)!

[@Idefixu]

Yes indeed. During one song Floor climbed upstairs where Tuomas and Kai are playing, and she said something like "The Finns here are playing in a sauna". And the audio quality of this video is not the best. The studio version, official lyric video, is great.

[@bettymajoor]

​@@Idefixu " barbequed Fins".

[@christorn8499]

Yes she did unfortunately!

[@Alicatt1]

Indeed, I was thinking of going but chickend out as it was far too hot outside for this Scots lad living not far from where Pink Pop was. Hellfest or even better Dreichbrand were far better recordings. At Gelsenkirchen Floor asked us to sing along with her singing Shoemaker :)

[@juharaty5449]

@@Alicatt1 Sing along?!?!?!?!?! Yeah, good luck with THAT! 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@fmfdoc5194]

There are bigger female vocalists out there, but none of them are equal to Floor. She is the greatest vocalist in music today.

[@markschattefor6997]

Lizzo??? that thing is bigger. but not so much of a singer. The only one that is on a level like Floor could be Lisa Fisher, but she preferred to stay on the background.

[@sulliken77]

You REALLY want to see the Lyric Video of Shoemaker.

[@juharaty5449]

YES!!!!!

[@tracyfarnath2270]

I agree.

[@grahambatchelor3576]

I concur....

[@dew2334]

It’s probably about time to react to The greatest show on earth.

[@Ayrack12]

I concur

[@HCH944]

I concur

[@chadbennett7873]

The masterpiece of masterpieces. I consider it to be the greatest composition of my lifetime, and that's saying a lot! I'm an old fart.

[@priscilla1986ify]

Live at Tampere ❤

[@RikvanderSchalie-c2q]

@@priscilla1986ify Tricky. Tampere has the visual effects, Wembley has the man himself.

[@vblomb]

Ayreon - Valley Of The Queens (Ayreon universe)

[@yoligonzalez6011]

The ending of this Song Always makes me cry because it's so beautiful.

[@hellen__1]

Same here

[@ToTheWolves]

Always

[@chrismcmeekin9943]

You were right about the dulcimer 12:30 "Stars calling with the sound of a dreamlike dulcimer" and Tuomas incorporated that into the music!

[@laudatosiadastra1218]

Nightwish is more than music. It hits in a different way. Floor’s voice and stage presence is otherworldly✨

[@chadbennett7873]

As are Toumas' compositions. Everybody in the band brings something special and unique to every song and performance.

[@laudatosiadastra1218]

@@chadbennett7873 100%

[@troygerencer1620]

This Woman is what others should aspire to be , she is a role model for achieving excellence in her field , and she is about delivering for the fans and doing it Floorlesly 😁 This is why we love her 👍🇦🇺

[@RalfOltersdorf]

Her voice goes straight to the heart and electrifies the hole body, she is the best female vocal singerin the world🤩❤💥

[@andypullin4702]

When you consider that Floor redid the studio version of this in her own home studio because she wasn't happy with the first version, and she said it was very difficult to sing it perfectly - to be able to do it live, without autotune, just shows how good she is and how much hard work and practice she must put in.

[@annemarie9602]

Thank you for this nice comment. My husband was an astronomer. At his funeral our daughter read this particular poem from Romeo and Juliet by Shakespeare. This song means a lot to me.

[@joretavara5265]

The studio video you have to WATCH.

[@anaguq4651]

YESSS❤

[@Thorgrim247]

All it takes to join the ranks is a passion for great music and the intelligence to understand the depth of Nightwish music and compositions. Tuomas is fascinated by science, biology, nature, and the human existence in all its beauty and wonder. Floor is always using the colors of her vocals to tell the story. Remember, Floor never claims to be an operatic soprano. She only loves to incorporate it into her myriad vocal textures. The spoken words are a quote from Romeo and Juliet. Tuomas also loves literature and poetry. Your the best Nick. Great vocalist as well.

[@SergioSBloch]

I cry every time I hear this song... even live. The classical operatic but just gets the tears going. When they released this song they weren't confident they would be able to pull it off live because it takes all Floor has to give to pull it off.

[@pondboy3682]

And it just about takes all I have to take it all in as constant full-body chills wash over me for every second of it. This is the one song that goes so far beyond Floorgasm that I feel my soul about half a second from leaving my body forever.

[@SamZapadinsky]

I shouldn't drive and listen to this song for that very reason 😂

[@kaidrache2395]

The "Laudato Si" is my ringtone since Human:Nature was published. You have no idea how many heads have turned when Floor starts with her pipes fully open :D

[@Maireadmoss]

Have you seen the reaction to this song by the French Canadian Guylian Prince? His channel is called Lectio Musica.

[@youaremysecretstream]

I highly suggest "How's the heart" live Planet rock And definitely 🙏🙏🙏 young Floor with her band Revamp singing Disdain live at Graspop 2010. Clean singing, belting, grid AND real opera!!!

[@blueeyes1110]

Awesome song shows her range in many forms of vocal master plushies blonde LOL

[@rickphil9999]

Hello again, Nick, from a huge Phoenix Nightwish fan. I had the great pleasure of seeing them perform live at the historic Warfield Theater in San Francisco on May 18th, 2022 with my lovely wife of 43 years, Carol. The entire show was spectacular and this song was a spectacular highlight. Thank you for continuing to react to our beloved band. Merry Christmas and Happy New Year.

[@user-Rockmagix]

Which song of Floor you might choose, it could not fail. She is the ultimate best female singer of our lifetime. Whatever guard you have up, when Floor's voice comes in she cut's thru it like a fresh sharpened butcher knife and get's you right into your soul and while your bleeding out you feel satisfied. When Floor goes into her emotional mode you can sleep in the finnish winter outside in the woods and still be warmed by her voice and feel comfortable. I hope you will some day get to the latest album where she sang in all the vocals in just 6 days after giving beirth to her second daughter some weeks ago. Yesterwynde: This album is like an old concept album by Pink Floyd, you might take the time to listen to it from the first song all thru to the last one. After about 50 times now it grew on me up to the 5 best albums I own - and I am 64 now and own about 8000 records. The last song -Lanternlight- is my personal song of the year 2024 by far. It is very, VERY different but exactly that is the reason. For me Nightwish has evolved to those rare bands, that create art without any consideration to what anybody expected or to say it the short way: Nightwish does Nightwish things. Much Love from Germany to you and your passionate reactions!

[@js0988]

Tuomas, Floor, Troy and their previous bass player Marko are all very into science. And a lot of Nightwish songs have had science themes. Like the Greatest Show on Earth for example. And Nightwish also gets a lot of love from the scientific community, a lot of animals and geological formations etc. have been named after the band or members of the band. There is a beetle named after Floor Jansen, the Tmesisternus floorjansenae.

[@ecbftl]

And Nightwish got special permission to make a video in the London Natural History museum, and also support a land fund to preserve important Natural areas. See the music video for Ad Astra. It is the final movement of Tuomas 30+ min symphony piece from the same album called All the Works of Nature that Adorn the World.

[@WardDorrity]

The goddess ascends...

[@rapapfel2651]

video suggestion: The greatest show on Earth

[@nicschu456]

Yes, please!

[@gabrielaflores4500]

YAAAAAAAS

[@TerhiMalmi-p6g]

Live in Tampere. Tuomas plays fireworks 🎉

[@jeffk1482]

I haven’t seen a similar comment yet scrolling through, so will add this: Part of the unusual feel of the melody and rhythm is that Tuomas wrote it mostly in Iambic Pentameter. That’s the style Shakespeare often wrote in. I think Tuomas knew he wanted to use that quote from Romeo and Juliet all along, so maybe he said to himself “Why don’t I write the entire piece like Shakespeare would have?”

[@oktober-vh6gl]

the ending easily sooths the savage beast, and brings grown men to tears. simply beautiful.

[@bujin1977]

I guess you're too young for this, but in the early 1990s, Eugene Shoemaker was a household name across the world for his discovery, along with his wife Carolyn and David Levy of the comet (Shoemaker-Levy 9) that smashed into Jupiter. For a 17 year old just gearing up to go to university to study astrophysics when the comet hit in 1994, it was an exciting time for me.

[@bengmelea8646]

1:00 Yeah Nick makes a reference to Shoemaker but called him a "geologist" rather than a "astrogeologist" the latter giving Shoemaker an "other worldly" dimension.

[@scottclark3761]

Sitting in awe is a big part of listening to Nightwish.

[@Trevor21230]

My favorite part of this song is actually that Latin phrase, "Laudato si ad astra". Altogether it can be translated as "Praise be to the stars" or "Praise be to the cosmos". But each half by itself is also meaningful. "Laudato si" is one of the most important and recognizable phrases from the writing of Saint Francis of Assisi, and translates to "Praise be", with the important thing being that there _isn't_ anything specific that you're meant to be praising. Just the universe, the Earth, and all of Nature and human experience, which is certainly fitting for a man like Eugene Shoemaker who was so enamored with the entire cosmos, from the largest of planets to the smallest of rocks. "Ad astra", or "To the stars", meanwhile, is sometimes used in ancient Latin writings as shortened version of a phrase meaning "Like finding a path to [walk to] the stars", describing something incredibly difficult or unlikely to the point of being akin to trying to find a way to walk to the stars. This, I think we can all agree, is equally applicable to the man who proved that the craters on the moon were caused by asteroid impacts and not vulcanism, was an early proponent of the idea that a large asteroid impact led to the extinction of the dinosaurs, co-discovered the comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 which was orbiting Jupiter in an unstable orbit at the time, and later became the first ever observation of a collision between two celestial bodies, was instrumental to the Apollo Program, and eventually became the first and only person to be at least partially interred on another celestial body. My _second_ favorite part of this song is the spoken word part, "And when he shall die, cut him out in little stars, and he shall make the face of heaven so fine that all the world will be in love with the night, and pay no worship to the garish Sun". This is in fact a quote from _Romeo and Juliet,_ and also happened to be Eugene Shoemaker's favorite Shakespeare quote. It was written on the gold foil which was wrapped around his urn (for lack of a better term) on the Lunar Orbiter turned Lunar Impactor satellite which became his headstone on the Moon. I'm pretty sure it's also carved into his Earthly headstone, too.

[@TheMightyOdin]

Nightwish Army Canadian Shield division reporting for duty.

[@jaakkomaaniemi2136]

The but you quoted last is actually Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet. Read by Tuomas's wife, Johanna Kurkela (vocalist of Auri, Tuomas's, her's and Troy's folk-ish project).

[@Garbox80]

Her voice is *perfect* for that part.

[@k.l.7788]

Saw Johanna last night with Troy here in Finland singing christmas songs, she is just a pure fairy and very talented singer. ❤

[@markusdd5]

As someone who has seen this live 3 times: This ending is like the sound being driven directly into your chest like a knife through butter. It's one of these mouth-open-looking-dumb-moments.

[@yerviniansamvel]

They all have deep connection to nature,love this band

[@txg161]

Not sure why you chose this concert over Hellfest 2022 when it was the most suggested in the comments from your previous Nightwish reaction (better performance and better sound mixing). Please, react to “Dead Boy Poem” from Buenos Aires 2018, next. It’s a really beautiful song that has personal meanings to Tuomas. This song has made many grown men (and women) cry (rightfully so). It’s super touching. You will love it. Thank you.

[@jobvermuyen5382]

18:42 yeah! When I think of Nightwish, i also most of the times think of romanticism. Just the value of nature, the world, the sky the ocean just like you said. The beautiful poetry about our world, makes me pair nightwish with romaticism. I hope you understand what i mean lol. Just the meaning and things/values they write and sing about in their songs, and how they play/sing those songs. So emotional!

[@nickhiggsthesinger]

THE BAND: Tuomas Holopainen - Keyboards @FloorJansenOfficial - Vocals Emppu Vuorinen - Guitars Kai Hahto - Drums Troy Donockley - Uilleann pipes, low whistles, bouzouki & vocals Jukka Koskinen - Bass

[@valksyvalksington6155]

There had been doubts that this track would ever be sung live- the first few times I was holding my breath the whole time. Before Shoemaker, Floor said Everdream the hardest to sing live, I guess this one surpasses it. I get why it moves people to tears when they see her do it on stage.

[@mazlub3401]

Yeah… when I saw them live in Amsterdam in 2022 I really was in tears 😮 it was.. just overwhelming I think. In a positive way! ❤

[@christine.and.bella1]

...I love how perfectly unperfect Floor is...she sang the lyrics of the second verse twice 🙂...her voice is dancing over the melody...I can't find the right words to describe this celestially beautiful voice combined with that lyrics and that masterpiece of music...

[@dragluian]

I saw Nightwish a couple years ago and this was the highlight of the concert.

[@TheMightyOdin]

Me too but also seven days to the wolves. Being only a few feet away from floor she found a gear I hadn’t seen before and blew me away.

[@regreg8521]

Yes....OMG!!!!!.....the most amazing voice have ever heard!!! Not only this score....but all the song variations!!!! Majestic!!!!😮

[@joanseb]

React to Epica and Floor - Sancta Terra

[@blossomkck]

I definitely concur

[@littleraven28]

I was there in the crowd. It was hot as hell and the guys were struggling to play. Floor gave goosebumps to 70.000 people 🖤❤

[@HenrikAskestad]

When I saw them do this live last summer Floor started by saying: Here’s a song you all can sing along to 😂

[@ulvsbane]

I think that their most powerful message is in the song "The greatest show on earth". The line "We were here" is so powerful and comforting, to me at least. We are all going to die but we were here!

[@irenehabes-quene2839]

Of course we are watching. I must tell you something what the negative critics (old NW fans who haven’t gotten over Tarja’s dismissal) what they said about this song and Floor……they said she would never be able to pull it off life! Well she just showed them that they are wrong and she is incredible. They will however never acknowledged that they are wrong.

[@jimrentz]

The lyric video is blended much better and the band and Floors vocals are well balanced. Also the graphics on the lyric video are spot on in going along with the vocals...so yes, you should do the lyric video as well. I normally like the live videos from Nightwish much better...but not in the case of this song. Seeing the earth set at the end of the lyric video is wonderful, just wonderful and adds so much drama to Floors Classical vocals.

[@BigzampanoXXL]

Tuomas: Floor is the best in what she is doing. In concur. IMO. Thanks for your reaction. I love it. Please take a look to the studio version (video) as well. Many thought she will not do it live. But we have Floor who need no autotuning, she is pitch-perfect. She can deliver on highest levels every time - with a passion we love. Not to forget the composer: TUOMAS - Thank you for challenging Floor.

[@Wolf-ln1ml]

19:50 - Just to make sure, that little passage (read by Tuomas' wife, Johanna Kurkela, a pretty good and successful singer as well) is from Shakesspeare, "Romeo and Juliet", and it's inscribed on the little urn with part of Shoemaker's ashes that's on the moon 😊

[@anne-marievandruenen600]

Yes! Do the studio version too! the video is amazing, you will love it.

[@theatomicpirategirl]

that ending always gets me and i always cry. it's so beautiful.

[@jonboy2950]

I like the way their songs are composed completely around her voice.

[@Soilesusan1]

Dear Nick, Floor has perfomed opera song called 'O mio babbino caro' by Puccini. You can find it on KZbin. I'd like to have your reaction to that. She has very trained voice, but she can use it like nobody else can. Even growling on some songs.

[@eszterjakab6082]

Please make a second version and listen to the studio version!

[@donepearce]

If there is one song that you should hear the studio version, this is it. And that way you also get the benefit of the wonderful video.

[@stephanie.r382]

I agree !

[@Donna-C]

I concur

[@moniquevanaken2638]

I concur!

[@brianproctor411]

Great reaction! Thanks for joining the Nightwish army, your only mission is to listen to the music and promote the band as you are wonderfully doing.

[@redguern]

Name a pop singer that can do that live at a metal festival in the afternoon sun in over 30C.

[@bettymajoor]

Cool Pinkpop 2022. Floor talking Dutch. I was there. ❤My first Nightwish concert 😊

[@bpetrikovics]

Definitely in the top 3 song endings from Nightwish. Not exactly what you'd expect on a concert like this but totally jaw dropping.

[@davinki2885]

You have to hear her growl (yes!) In 'Yours is an empty hope'.

[@youaremysecretstream]

Thank you! Pinkpop is quiet early in the year (after lockdowns and US touring, Floor was also in between in Southafrica for a weekly show) The festivals at Hellfest and Deichbrand 2022 have a better recording quality and the hole band was in a better shape!!! (Her onsets have been better!)

[@AbeIJnst]

"... Shoemaker en het gaat niet over een schoenmaker" (Shoemaker and it's not about a shoemaker). Love my language and always gives me a sense of pride if I hear it spoken by world famous artists 🤩

[@ratsoftheplague]

Honestly knowing that the Laudato part was yet to come made your reaction even better. Saw shoemaker live and the imagery + the music + the voice nearly made me cry ❤

[@hijtohema]

Eugene Shoemaker and his wife Carolyn Shoemaker were especially known as comet hunters. Together with astronomer David Levy they discovered the comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 that broke apart under the gravitational forces of Jupiter in 1992 and plunged into Jupiter in 1994.

[@yvonnevanwaegeningh-tiggel4577]

Yes, yes, yes! Please do another reaction to the studio version of this song. The video is really beautiful and you'll be able to hear a lot more details that are a bit obscured in the live version. Can't wait to see it! By the way, there's one other thing that's very important to mention about this live performance: Nightwish have the guts to perform these things totally live. Not like a lot of artists these day who will switch to prerecorded vocals for high or difficult parts (see the Wings of Pegasus channel for lots of info about this). So kudos to Nightwish for keeping it completely real and authentic.

[@Bugsy-dq2en]

What a stunning performance. Not only do I love hearing Floor, I love watching her sing too; the power she emanates in those ending sections is otherworldly

[@terryhunt2659]

Hello, Nick! A great reaction and analysis, as always. For interest, the lyrics you re-quoted at 19:27 are from Shakespeare's _Romeo and Juliet_ (spoken in performances by Tuomas's wife Johanna Kurkela, a singer who with Tuomas and Troy make up the 3-piece band Auri), where Juliet is eulogising the dead Romeo. The lyric of Floor's operatic closing, 'Laudato si' ["Be praised!"], is a quote from Francis of Assisi's 1224 'Canticle of the Sun', the first poem known to have been written in Italian (rather than Latin). KZbin reactor Guylain Prince OFM, a Quebecois Franciscan friar and metal fan, has a fine analysis of 'Shoemaker' that you might enjoy. As Brother Guylain explains, Pope Francis used the same phrase to title his second encyclical in 2015, in which he called for action to combat climate change. It's likely that Tuomas was aware of this when he wrote 'Shoemaker'.

[@Wriwnas1]

I love this song and it never occured to me that change in the perspective highlighted with the male vocals..thank you for making me appreciate even more a song I adore.

[@TwinCamDude]

This band is the epicness of Epicness. Floor's voice is beyond any words.........unbelievable that this band isn't widely known for their performances. Except on YT.

[@KelgeriaGames]

Thanks Nick, your videos are becoming fast my favourites. I like the way you break down the videos. Its add a newe dimension listening to the songs. Especially this one. And offcource i love Nightwish. Floor as always is not off this world. A true godess.

[@Maireadmoss]

Hello from Nightwish Army Sydney Australia. I love science metal with a touch of prog and a garnish of opera. My comment appeared twice and when I deleted one they both disappeared. That's Nightwish shaking the ether.

[@Bonovin]

Laudato si ! Ad astra ... This is GOOD , it was a very hot afternoon..... the studiovideo is very powerful and great . Greetings from NW army . Sweden

[@GaryPatefield]

So good seeing the joy burst through as you hear that voice unleash such perfect emotive sound !

[@hijtohema]

For the video registration you have to thank the tv director. This was a live tv broadcast for one of the licensees of NPO2 (the 2 top right in the image), the Dutch public broadcasting system.

[@ViaVeritas]

Very good reaction! 💖 I think that Tuomas has come here from some star, because how else could he make such beautiful music and lyrics, and likewise Floor and have taken the whole excellent band with them. 💖🌌🕊

[@FeniX_BG]

Greetings, Nick. Awesome videos you make. The Nightwish army is so worldwide, so best of all form Bulgaria! Thumbs up with both hands :)

[@AndrewCampbell-w4e]

The Ad Astra ending piece is so beautiful. Shoemaker is a great song. Can't wait to see what you make of Greatest show on earth.... Do the Wembley version for a bonus guest star ✨

[@eliza.rose.morrison]

YES!!! The Pinkpop version is my absolute favourite! 😊🤘

[@EyesOfGehenna]

The spoken part just before Floor starts her operatic style, is from William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet. The person who spoke those words for this song is the wife of Tuomas.

[@juharaty5449]

The finale is one of the most beautiful pieces of music ever written, for me on a par with Dido's Lament in Purcell's opera Dido and Aeneas. Makes me cry every time. Breathtaking music!

[@billattercliffe8655]

One thing I rarely hear being discussed in these reactions, is that Floor is singing outside. She has to deal with varying winds, temperature, humidity, pollution, heat (or cold), sun, rain, plus the mental aspect of singing to a crowd that may only partly be fans of the band. I believe that when this performance took place it was stinking hot. From what I've read, Wacken 2013 was a mud bowl. In her ReVamp days the band often played to a hungover crowd in an early time slot. To sing to a hungover, wet, cold, dispirited crowd and still deliver your all, is the mark of a true professional. This performance was a mid day slot where many people were just wandering about, getting lunch, etc. The singer and the rest of the band have to focus on their fans at the front and ignore the rest of what is happening at the back of the crowd. Imagine going all out like Floor is at the end of "Shoemaker" and seeing people at the back of the crowd meandering about, not paying any attention. Takes a thick skin. At Pinkpop Floor also put on a solo show with a mix of After Forever, ReVamp, Nightwish and her solo material. She talked about being relieved that the crowd didn't dissipate when she launched into her set. There's a mental toughness aspect for a performer at these outdoor festivals where you may have to deal with watching droves of people walk away because your material isn't what they like. Not for the fragile ego.

[@Alicatt1]

Yeah Pink Pop is not exactly a Metal concert either

[@user-Rockmagix]

Floor never thinks about all that disturbing stuff, the only question she has is, if there is someone to hold her red wine in between....

[@GeertDeLange-k5x]

We listening to an angel ❤

[@WLsmiling]

Love love love Shoemaker! One of my favourites is: the greatest show on earth

[@MichaelMikeTheRussianBot]

" .. and that's why we love them." Yep As I've said before, Floor doesn't just sing it, she lives it, every time, every song. (& Tuomas, & the rest of the crew too[esp Ville Lippainen & crew, who artfully capture those beautiful moments]) :)

[@Syriand]

All they do is pure magic !

[@goranelez9956]

They were performing in scorching heat, using not so great festival sound quality. Deichbrand, Hellfest or, even better, official lyric video, are great representatives for this song (including tears in audience). I heard this live, can't describe the feeling.

[@jpdemer5]

The phrase "eternal Earthrise" is a bit of genius from Tuomas. Seen from the Moon, Earth barely moves in the sky - and from Shoemaker's resting place, it would be forever hanging on the horizon.

[@dianabryson5264]

Being a member of the Nightwish Army is for every fan. Ann Waychoff was the super fan that started the Fandom. She passed away in 2020, Gabriel is the one we call the General as he has a wonderful list that you probably have already.

[@fabiolavieira4571]

It’s my first time watching this performance and it just made me cry at the gym hahaha This ending made it look like Floor singing is lifting Tuomas up. It hits me every time.

[@joakimbackryd7752]

you should listen to Yours Is An Empty Hope (live at Wembley is a good version), Floor growling is an experience you don't want to miss out on :)

[@lenaherbert9813]

So glad you liked it, Nick!! Great reaction and I loved your face at the end 😂 Cheers!

[@thomashwang9375]

Still waiting , the poet and the pendulum, live at wembley, love how your analysis is really technical, and very honest when you u tag first " first time listening " you reaction of ghost love score is by far top 3 for me

[@greywuuf]

I urge you to do a part 2 , the studio version is masterful.

[@ProfOfHifi]

This could be the song to also react to studioversion because the finale is so epic.

[@orangeguppie6897]

@@ProfOfHifi i absolutely concur!!!!!

[@neilhilton8469]

I would agree that the live versions are always worth the listen. The album version of this song sounds huge, well, it does to me. that coupled with the video, its worth a listen That text spoken “When he shall die, Take him and cut him out in little stars, And he will make the face of heaven so fine That all the world will be in love with night And pay no worship to the garish sun.” This quote is from William Shakespeare's play Romeo and Juliet. It was inscribed onto a piece of brass foil that was wrapped around the capsule that carried Shoemake's ashes to the moons surface

[@guidoheuts]

As always great reaction Nick😉 The part you're reading at the end of the video is not written by Tuomas, it is actually a part from William Shakespeare's famous play; "Romeo And Julliet". However, that part is spoken by Tuomas' wife Johanna Kurkela, so he kept it into the family. 🤘Greetings from the first airborne division of the Nightwish army based at Maastricht, The Netherlands.🤘

[@OJB42]

Yeah, that laudato si, ad astra ending bit is just totally epic!

[@helli0n824]

yes indeed, there are some Nightwish songs that you HAVE to know the Studio version of .. this is one another one is "Music", the opener for the 2020 Album Human:||:Nature