THIS GIVES US HOPE! Mike & Ginger React to LANTERN LIGHT by NIGHTWISH

[@mdudley52]

My opinion is that this album is a masterpiece of lyrical and musical masterpieces

[@petriuusi-makela8535]

My 93-y old father is now in terminal care. This song is so important for me now. Greetings from Finland. ❤️🇫🇮

[@MikeandGinger]

❤️

[@busher69]

May the Lord be with your dad and your family. Bless you all.

[@naruto9121983]

this song Tuomas written it for his father that died on 2021 and its the last song on the album. one of the best songs i heard in my life

[@pdutchie4924]

Agreed

[@michaelwanklin3580]

This song will be played at my funeral. So deeply touching. Tuomas is a genius.

[@Rancid-Jane]

I was going to have Shoemaker played at mine. Now with your suggestion I will also add Lantern Light. I hope they allow two video songs at one funeral. If not, I will just have to come back and die a second time.

[@Rackelhane]

This album is one of there best. This was the last song on the album...and the Nightwish trilogy. I love the direction Nightwish has taken on this album..they are progressing. Thank you guys. Cheers from a finn in Sweden.🎉🎉🎉

[@Frightspear]

Pure Floor. I love this song. Btw, this song was Floor's pick for a single, it made her cry when she first heard it (I had the same reaction to this song, it's so touching). Tuomas lost his father a few years ago and he wrote this song out of that emotion. The message is to enjoy life, as it's beautiful and should be celebrated instead of grieved when it ends. Nightwish is their own genre and no other band comes close to the level they are at. Never, in the history of music entertainment, have a set of skills and talent collided in such powerful manner. Tuomas is a true genius as a composer and with lyrics.

[@Rancid-Jane]

It still makes me cry.

[@anskamp4780]

Where do I start 🤷 . Last August my brother suddenly died , since then I am strugling my way trough it . Then I heard this song , it made me cry like I never did 😥 . But I also felt so comforted and peacefull , a glince of hope ✨. I should have know'n , only Floor can make me feel like this , I thank her and Nightwish from the bottom of my heart ❤

[@MikeandGinger]

❤️ I’m so sorry for your loss 🙏🏻- G

[@anskamp4780]

@@MikeandGinger thank you .

[@nicschu456]

So sorry for your loss. My mom died last year, I so relate to what you felt with this song. Wishing you strength💖

[@anskamp4780]

​​@@nicschu456 thank you , I wish you also all the strenght and hope you can get , for now and in the future ❤ .

[@busher69]

I lost my wife last October. I know the pain you have endured. I miss her everyday. At first I couldn't listen to any music because of the memories. Eventually that passed and like you, leave it to Nightwish to show alil light at the end of the tunnel. Here's to both of us movin' on.

[@2727rogers]

This song is new but for me it is already up there with Dead Boys Poem has my favorite Nightwish song. My father passed away in 1998 and I can't help but think of him when I hear this masterpiece. Well done Tuomas and well done Floor.

[@pdutchie4924]

Dead boy’s poem was always my favorite but this tops it, it’s gorgeous❣️

[@NickBR57]

My father died 2 months after Tuomas' so yes, it hits hard.

[@2727rogers]

@@pdutchie4924 Agree 100%

[@dimitrisnikoloulis4071]

Tuomas , the band itself and the Queen Floor , make your heart melt. She is Diva! Hurt , tears in your eyes , if you had a loss in your life that hurt you , bad .

[@Rancid-Jane]

Some of us adore the YESTERWYNDE album.

[@NickBR57]

The new album is a superb progression of Tuomas' composition and poetry. It takes repeated listening and some thinking about, so not for those who don't have the time or inclination to make an effort (very common in these days of 30s tik-tok attention span). Lanternlight is the most approachable, perhaps, and currently my favourite but they are all good.

[@tonyg8471]

This video/song is stunning. Floor strikes deep into the soul---if you let her in. I really like the new album. Yes, it's an evolution of the Nightwish sound, but no one else makes this music. Thank you Tuomas. And Floor? Well, she's Floor Jansen!

[@silverblack5475]

React to " an ocean of strange islands " next its one of the best Nightwish songs EVER

[@michaelwanklin3580]

Oceans is now my favourite Nightwish song

[@k.l.7788]

You haven’t done An Ocean Of Strange Islands? It is a must.

[@stgfx7]

I am finding,and sometimes slowly that every song on Yesterwynde is a work of genius, of Tuomas' genius at constructing or reconstructing life into song. Kittos Nightwish!

[@magnusabigor5830]

Mourning is the hardest thing I've ever had to deal with.

[@LarryHolmack-c1j]

I understand, my father passed from a heat attack at 80 years old, and my mother passed on November30, 2023, at 90 years old. Morning for the loss of ones parents is difficult!

[@streetx4817]

As a whole, this is the best Nightwish album! Listen to the whole album in order with the lyrics on. It's a masterpiece.

[@zbygniewprlwytzkofsky6614]

There are no bad songs on this album, but you have to take some time to enjoy it, no hasty stuff

[@pdutchie4924]

Lanternlight is breathtakingly gorgeous ❣️ Not able to listen to this with dry eyes, it goes straight to your soul. It’s so fragile and strong at the same time. What a gorgeous piece of music composed by Tuomas and so emotionally sung by Floor. Tuomas said that Lanternlight is a song of love to celebrate live of the people that passed. In this case mainly his dad I guess.

[@WardDorrity]

I'm 73 and I am the last man standing in my family. I understand the loss, yet I still live with hope and intent. Nevertheless, Floor's voice and this composition is akin to an emotional depth charge to the heart. There is a tenderness and vulnerability in her voice that I have not heard before. And her face, good Lord, her beautiful face so expressive and adorned with nothing save her heart and soul just melts me to my core. Some of you get it. Some of you don't. I do, and that's all that matters. Kiitos to all of you in Nightwish for delivering such epic and emotional story telling.

[@Piia2023]

This is the final end of the trilogy, the 📽️ shuts everything up with one of the most beautiful ballads ever. ♥️

[@stevenhopwood8195]

That is absolutely beautiful. As far as NW fans go, what you complaining about you still have one of the current greatest composers and I may be biased, the best female singer in the business. I think you have to realise Tuomas isn’t in his 20’s anymore so his music reflects this. I have heard the new album and I love it. Not disappointed at all. ❤️🤘🎸🎻🦘

[@qpruleok5798]

Floor is the best vocalist there is out there full stop, who else can sing as brilliantly as she can in any genre NO ONE AT ALL, as for this tune it is a masterpiece TO CALL IT A LULLABY IS AN INSULT TO ALL INVOLVED IN THE MAKING OF IT

[@MikeandGinger]

Agreed

[@NickBR57]

Bingo

[@patchouli2274]

@@MikeandGinger That's very honest comming from you. The dept and the meaning of the song you can find in the comments, not in the reaction. The Army is again very nice

[@LarryHolmack-c1j]

I concur! The whole album is magnificent!

[@jewfish68]

"I am you who climbed off of my back." If I've lasted til then I'm a gonner from that point. It's maybe the most beautiful sentiment I've ever heard for someone who has lost a father.

[@tarmotyyri6733]

Thanks for sharing your reaction to a song that Tuomas wrote to celebrate the life of his father that passed away in 2021. For me it empowers us to recognize our connection to nature and one another, ultimately signifying that even in times of uncertainty, despair & sorrow, there is beauty and hope to be found under the glow of the lanternlight. P.S. Their new album "Yesterwynde" is a sonic masterpiece.

[@alessandrobellini931]

Tuomas Is a Genius, floor Is an angel!

[@lujalainen1]

meadows of heaven and lantern light are like sisters songs :) thanx to great reaction and have wonderful day.

[@deanabennett8461]

I agree

[@danielgarri30]

I think is is on my top 7 Nightwish songs ever.

[@anthonyquane5039]

❤❤❤❤ this song will make you cry it's absolutely amazing fantastic 😢and very imotional indeed nightwish at their very best x tq in the uk

[@frankmerris8821]

just might be my favorite song period

[@JWNanaimo]

Nightwish just continues to evolve bringing philosophical and social mores into context via the incredible Nightwish communication tool…their music🤘🤘

[@diceau]

i love this and think that this album is their best and ginger is right. It is a new change for them and they have grown as a group and so has their music.

[@Kelsea-2002]

I have to honestly admit that I had some problems with this album at the beginning. I certainly had to listen to it 10 - 11 times in its entirety until it grabbed me. In the meantime, however, it is very high up in my Nightwish album ranking. Lanternlight, however, immediately overwhelmed me emotionally from the first note and became my absolute favorite song by Nightwish.

[@duncanwyer2460]

Love how the album starts and ends with the sound of a projector 😊 has to be listened through from start to finish

[@RolfMeyer-cl7ou]

Floor so close to the camera with minimal make-up. You see life. Tuomas, thanks, for my song of 2024.

[@arminbach3722]

Awesome Song❤❤❤❤

[@jopes4855]

"Story that has not finished yet" Well said. Greetings from Finland! 🤘🎶 🖤 🎸🇫🇮

[@monicacarolina6480]

Some people are stuck in a genre, I love the new album, it is typical Nightwish with beatific lyrics, full orchestra as always. It’s a brave and bold move to let your creativity flow. This song is so beautiful, I can’t stop listening. It starts sad, as we all are when we lose loved ones, but then there is warmth and hope. Cherishing the memories you have of someone and accepting death as the end of suffering and a new phase. ❤

[@Mars-is4un]

🤗🍒🤘🏻😘 Great great job and what an amazing song huh 🎶🎼

[@argantyr5154]

When bands with a huge fan base, that have been around for decades comes out with a new album, there will always be some of their Fans that are dissapointed that it didn't end up exactly as they hoped for, no matter if your name is Nightwish or even bigger Bands like Metallica. This does not mean that the Songs are bad it often just means the Band are evoving and a Band like Nightwish have never sounded exactly the same sure there are songs/albums that can have familiar styles but if you look the changing over lets say any 3 bands you can certainly hear the difference. And that is just natural as the Artist are maturing and getting new experiences as life goes on. I wasn't the biggest fan of the Album when it came out, but often in Metal you need to hear songs 10-15 times to really appriciate the Songs, and the lyrics, unlike most radio friendly pop 3 min pop songs, that you need to fall in love with in 3 listens, and then after having heard them 10 times you are getting more are more bored with them at least thats the way I feel.

[@greeniesr]

"PERFECTION"....Last song on Album

[@johnfreeman5310]

Tuomas wrote this to honour his father who passed in 2022

[@eviljeep]

This might be my song of the year 👌 And i spend too many times listening to new music 🤟 tx for the react 🙏

[@rnowak85]

Lovely reaction.! Final song from the final album of the trilogy of Endless Forms Most Beautiful, Human Nature, and Yesterwynde. Laternlight feels to me like someone saying goodbye to family and friends as their life comes to the end. Loads of beautiful imagery in the lyrics of seeing the end, of reminding those we love that we will always be present, of lamenting the unfinished things we leave behind (as is always the case), and then walking "to the trees". Since Tuomas is famous for writing lyrics for multiple interpretations I could also see this song where the narrator is death personified, much like the way the lyrics in Music were. A third way I see it is that the lyrics aren't necessarily about a person but are instead a metaphor for humanity and our walk through the eons of our existence which would fit well with the themes of the album trilogy. A number of references to Auri and other Nightwish songs. "I am in the light and flood" and " I am in the four winds" IMO are shout outs to the Auri songs Light and Flood and The Name of the Wind, very beautiful instrumental that have a similar feel. For me the line "I am you who climbed off your back" gives me Decades in the Sun vibes and of course "To the meadows I go" is tapping into the same symbolism and meaning as Meadows of Heaven. Heartachingly beautiful song and a perfect bookend to the album and trilogy. A beautiful tribute to Tuomas's father and all that are the lantern light for our journey through life. I agree with Tuomas, if we have lived a life of joy and meaning then we shouldn't be sad at the end but celebrate a life well lived. I think this song and Epica's Tides of Time will be the songs for my funeral when I pass.

[@grahambatchelor3576]

The band has matured. Back in the day with Genesis, we had 'Adult Orientated Rock' well we now have 'Adult Orientated Symphonic Metal'. You also really need to listen to the whole album from start to finish. It will then become apparent.

[@stevecole4613]

Watching from the UK. I agree with other comments that their other new song,'An Ocean of Strange Islands' has the dramatic Nightwish sound that you enjoy. The album is a masterpiece, and for me their best since 'Once'.

[@tonilaitinen5197]

The thing with dissatisfaction when it comes to Nightwish's music is that there is such a vast catalogue of their songs of different styles and few singers, that the band also has very different kinds of fans. Each has their own favourites and this makes it nearly impossible to satisfy every fan with every song or album. Yesterwynde seems also to be not an easy listener. Many of the songs need time to get used to and really sink in. I have found myself thinking every now and then "this is not Nightwish", but then I try to explain myself why and what Nightwish actually "is", and I really dont think you can put them in any box.

[@larryd4352]

This song was written by Tuomas for his father who passed in 2021. I understand it being for my father, who passed in 2011, and my mother who passed in 2023. It's for all of us. I know that I want my sister to sing this song for me when it's time for me to go....she has the voice of an angel! Lanterlight is the last song on this CD...as this CD is the last of the trilogy.. I was listening to the CD in my SUV this morning, and the first few songs are more along the lines of Symphonic Metal! ( which I love!) I have not finished it yet...but I am looking forward to it!

[@hajovelt3083]

Ginger you are right when you say the new album is different to former NW Music. I believe too since Marko's leaving Tuomas writes the Lyrics and the Music layers especially for Floor and Troy.

[@jompuusi]

Greetings from Finland 🥰

[@eTraxx]

This is the last song on the last album of the trilogy. She shuts the projector off.

[@michaelshort2388]

People just don't like change. There are still people who aren't over Tarja leaving.

[@Kelsea-2002]

I'll put it this way; there's bad music, there's good music, and there's Nightwish.

[@qpruleok5798]

Can not stand Tarja voice Floor is 10x more talented in all departments

[@johnlindquist1784]

@@qpruleok5798 I concur!

[@MikeandGinger]

Haha. Too right.

[@WardDorrity]

They have been left behind, then. Not surprising.

[@k.l.7788]

Yesterwynde is my favourite album from Nightwish, just amazing story. ❤

[@camaradepopoff7052]

Mike you actually have a voice very close to Troy's, same "color", and when you speak (even if such moments are rare in this video :D, but at 8:00 we have a representative sample of that voice) it's like I'm hearing an interview of Troy, that's funny. I'm sure that you singing songs where Troy has some lines (Song of Myself, etc) would be pretty convincing.

[@MsAndreas1977]

Ive bin with nightwish since the beginning. This is my favorite album

[@paisa20]

Thanks

[@ZenMorph]

Tuomas and crew are doing what they should, they are evolving as creative souls. Life is a journey of movement and transition, of growth. To compose another Ghost Love Score, per se, would be a sign of stagnated creativity. They are moving and evolving and I prefer to move and evolve with them.

[@ez0950]

Personally, after listening to the album a few times. I think it is my personal favorite Nightwish album ever. At first I could not say that.

[@elsenm3965]

You are wrong, Tuomas didn't try to cope with anything, he did what he wanted with this new album and it is grandiose !

[@jerrybk1]

Many love the album. Only issue some have is the mix. Music is boosted and hard to hear floor at times. There are vocal boosted Floor options from fans . I think it's amazing album with very special uses of instruments

[@MacZussie]

I love the new album, though I had some problems with that first single, yet it fits within the album, why I have settled my initial sentiments

[@MacZussie]

0:00 P.S. Nightwish is evolving continously and their new songs are all different - of course no re-makes of older songs at all

[@skeezesmith7954]

I watch a lot of reactions to Nightwish and I've yet to find anyone who has said anything negative about the new album. Overall, this album is heavier than their last. 😄🤘

[@MikeandGinger]

Our last couple reactions had comments to that effect. 🤷‍♀️

[@optimusakc]

I think the main thing some people are complaining about on this album is the mix with vocals. A couple singles were strange for the hard core OG Nightwish fans for sure. They are "growers". Regardless of what side you stand on with that opinion "most " people really love the rest of the Album!

[@572Btriode]

As your commentators have rightly said, Tuomas wrote this after the death of his father, but he said, I quote: "The last song on the album, Lanternlight, might fool you into thinking it's a sad song, but it's actually a love song and ends up on a very positive vibe. If you have somebody who has lived a very happy and a really long life, it's a moment of celebration and not of grief. This is the message we want to send." Notwithstanding that, I understand Floor had a lot of tears doing it. Thinking out loud, the whole album, Yesterwynde - wind back to your yesterdays and I think the album itself needs to be heard in sequence from start to finish, the tracks are complementary and lead you on a journey. Lanternlight - magic lantern as the first projectors were called, the album starts and ends with a domestic movie projector, the much older, family recorded moving memories. As I see it. . . . . . . . . . I think it is the final act in a trilogy of human and natural connections from Tuomas, Endless Forms most Beautiful/Human :||: Nature/Yesterwynde. And Mike has lost a lot of weight since I was last here, looking good !

[@clivematthews5296]

And now you need to listen to An Ocean of Strange Islands from this latest album

[@JWS-66]

I am 58 and think this new album has great "'Nightwish" Masterpieces...Tuomas is a great composer, one of the best at this moment IMO

[@richardh1467]

👍👍👍

[@Rancid-Jane]

The first time, and several subsequent times, I watched this video I began to weep. I wept all the way through. After watching innumerable times. I still weep or at the very least my eyes dribble a bit. Floor is a master at wringing the emotions out of a song. Midway through she also gifts us with the saddest smile I have ever seen. My heart just breaks.

[@christinaalgate4899]

Hi Guys

[@MikeandGinger]

👋🏻

[@musicfan9291]

Not sure what the dissatisfaction. I think this record is great. Strange Islands may very well knock 7 days and Weak Fantasy as my all time favorite.

[@torpitsanas9010]

Thanks. New album is very good, but need least 3-5 listens to get really in it. After first listen I really not like it/or i was like ???. Probably because there is so much details and album is quite progressive. Definetely better than album Human:II: Nature. You dont have done "An ocean of strange islands" ? That is crazy song:)

[@scottfield5849]

🤘😊👍

[@JCMacLeod555]

The only dissatisfaction is from the Tarja or death crowd who still haven’t gotten over events of almost 20 years ago and have hated everything since.

[@jpdemer5]

Different Nightwish is still Nighwish, and still terrific. (Some folks just want more Wacken 2013.)

[@markclements-bs3mb]

Hi Guys, greetings from UK I think you would like another new song "An Ocean Of Strange Islands". It has a much more traditional Nightwish feel to it

[@joretavara5265]

Compouser Tuomas Holopainen metal Mozart

[@busher69]

Ginger, I think you nailed it with your comment on new legs going in another direction. The band members are all artists. Artists don't spend all of the time in one place. They are always reaching. Isn't that part of why we love what they do? I for one, don't want Tuomas brilliance to go stall with variations of the same thing over and over agin. I may not always be hit by the same emotions as in the past but how can anybody not be impacted by Lanternlight?

[@k.l.7788]

Yesterwynde is my favourite album from Nightwish, just amazing story. ❤