Mike & Ginger React to NIGHTWISH - The Greatest Show On Earth
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Mike and Ginger celebrate Ginger's birthday with the Nightwish epic, The Greatest Show on Earth. Stick around, most of the discussion is after the song! - เพลง
The reason Floor was extra emotional was that her parents were in the audience
Here's some nice pre- and after-show footage of this concert.
Short interviews with Floor, her parents and Tuomas and Marko.
Most of it is in Dutch, but there are subtitles.
It's from a Dutch tv program called " De Reunie" (The Reunion), where old school classes reunite. This episode is with a class from the Dutch Rock Academy, where Floor studied.
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And her sister Irene
also first time nightwish performance back to finland with her new singer floor. very emotional situation whole band.
@@lujalainen1
Very first time when Floor performed in Finland as a lead vocalist for Nightwish was already in November 2012( Hartwall Areena 10.11.- 12) when they came here in FIN for the world premier of the movie "Imaginaerum"...Guess it was gig #14 with them for Floor J.
“The nitrogen in our DNA, the calcium in our teeth, the iron in our blood, the carbon in our apple pies were made in the interiors of collapsing stars. We are made of star stuff”.
- Carl Sagan
"We come from nothing, we go back to nothing. What have we lost? Nothing! Cheer up, you old bugger..."
Eric Idle
@@ChrisPage68 😆
Dust with a meaning, precious and rare - Nightwish (Endlessness)
"A cookie has no soul, it's just a cookie. But before it was milk and eggs. And in eggs there's the potential for life."
Jean-Claude van Damme
@@ChrisPage68 always look on the bright side of life
GINGER !!! FROM THE NIGHTWISH ARMY ...HAPPY BIRTHDAY ...WHAT A WONDERFUL WAY TO CELEBRATE !!!
Thank you! 🥰 - G
The Nightwish Army would like to congratulate you on your 47 years.
Hope you have a nice day in this time of covid.
Wish you a lot of health.
And finally the big moment the best show on earth. Enjoy it.
Thank you! ❤️ - G
The most epic song ever written.
Congratulations Ginger. A beautiful choice, excellent. Having fun. Wonder-full smile; always adorable to see you two.
Thank you 🙏🏻- G
This is a true masterpiece and also ingeniously put together. Have you noticed the use of the "enters ..." to get into the next stages of our evolution?
Floor: enter LUCA
Floor: enter Life
Marco: enter Ionia
Floor: enter history
Floor: enter ratkind
Emppu: Enter Sandman
Very cool- G
And in the next album, enter music.
Damn I never noticed before
And our end also.
So well put. Many don't even get emppu doing the sandman riff. Guess if u know, u know. 😏
The guttural noises are Troy, Marko and Floor together. And when they played Wembley Dawkins came out on stage and read the last part live, in front of 12.500 metalheads.
Very cool 😎- G
For me as metal head the "Cambrian explosion" was very well implemented musically. Love it, it was a biological big bang on earth.
@@teardrop-in-a-fishbowl The slowest explosion ever... 20.000.000 years. But it's really fast on a geological scale.
@@darkiee69 I know, both is true.
@@teardrop-in-a-fishbowl But that's the part that creationists seems to missunderstand. They think that it means that everything came to be at a moments notice, like a real explosion. Not that it took twenty million years. But then again, they think the earth is 6-8.000 years old.
Happy birthday G.
Before starting Nightwish Tuomas studied biology, it was during studies in the US his host family brought him to a Metallica concert and Tuomas life changed. And Floor wanted to be a biologist when she was a kid.
Troy is playing an Irish low whistle in the beginning, in the Wembley version he plays electric guitar with an E-bow.
LUCA = Last universal common ancestor.
The writing in the garden = DNA, its just 4 letters: A,C,G and T.
We were here! It goes both for us as a specie, and for us as individuals. The odds of you being born as you is1:400.000.000.000.
The text Dawkins reads at the end is from Darwin.
400 000 000 000 000
@@oo.llpee.7457 Actually, it's 4 (AGCT) raised to the power of 3 billion (bases in the genome.)
Stupefying odds indeed.
They are all so incredibly talented yet so humble. Actually gives me hope for mankind
The greatest show ever. 🥰🥰❤️🥰🥰
As I wrote to another reactors wall: and 23000+ humans wondered next morning where their voice had disappeared Floor shouting: "AS LOUD AS YOU CAN - We Were Here!!""
She also said that this should be shown to all students in scools - Luca, Devionian Sea, Lucy - this would make kids to dig in Earths history 🙂🙂
Happy birthday, and thank you for sharing this present with us! On a side note: In the Dawkins monologue at the end, I always imagine him saying, "Certainly those unborn ghosts include greater poets than Keats, scientists greater than Newton, singers greater than Floor . . . wait, sorry, scratch that last one . . .that ain't happening."
...bands greater than N...evermind
@@StergiosMekras....composers greater than Hol - NOTHING TO SEE HERE!
Lolz - G
You deliverd one of the best and still happy (birthday) analysises for this wonder of music. Very well done. Did you paid attention to the dress Floor was wearing, the dna helixes, what an attention to detail. This is a monumental piece. I enjoyed your show even when I have seen and heard this piece of music many many times before. And cheers also for your birthday, so well and adequate selected beautiful music that celebrates live.
Thank you! ❤️ I did notice her dress. Very cool - G
Also, the dress is in the Finnish colours, blue and white.
what a very cool love letter to nature and earth and hopefully more folks that can give back and yes it is a absolutely epic song everything about it i love how her outfits blue and white double helix design
As a biology nerd myself this song always makes me smile thinking about how crazy it is that we are here. I loved that you commented and understand the biology and science behind the lyrics but also on how the music followed this...the calm and then the chaos. I personally always thought too that the fact that they throw in a brief evolution of music was really great. I like too that the “Homo Sapien” section was really short compared to the opening piano, etc as it shows too that we are a speck on the timeline of this planet. The opening lyrics and the way sung by Floor always gets me a little as I picture somehow being there to see the first sunrise and how incredible that would have been. The first two verses after that might be some of if not my favorite lyrics not only of Nightwish but any song...again science guy here. Happy Birthday and cheers 🥂
Thank you 😊 - G
Brings tears to my eyes every time I hear it.
Happy birthday Ginger! You are such a character!!!
Tuomas had a Christian upbringing, his grandpa was a priest, the leader of the local evangelic lutherian congrigation in Kitee, a small town of 10 000 people, where Tuomas, Emppu, Jukka and Tarja are originally from. And there were many priests in the family before him. Tuomas grandpa had seven daughters, but no son. That was the end of long line of priests in the family. Tuomas, by the way, is a mean pipe organ player. A short 2 minute clip on YT proves that. He also used to play the clarinet and the saxophone.
In an interview in 2007 the interviewer was teasing/provoking Tuomas by saying Nightwish is a religion. "Whenever you write a new song your followers read the lyrics like they were a holy scripture." Tuomas: "I like the way you put it. May I quote you on that? My gradpa is smiling in his grave."
Based on an interview I have the understanding that Tuomas' wife Johanna Kurkela, a well know vocalist herself, the new album of Auri, with Tuomas and Troy, was just completed a couple of days ago, has some kind of religious conviction or belief in a supernatural power, God or whatever you call it.
Since we are talking about convictions, I can tell I am an atheist. In Finland the state church, though the politicians decided not to call it that anymore, still has preferencial treatment by the state of Finland, and I would like to see a change in that. I would like the church to do it's own job, without the help of the state. The Church can still force it's beliefs in schools.
68%, (the number is going down steadily at the rate of about 1 percentage point a year), of Finns are, STILL!, members of the state church, many because of tradition only. If you ask the members how ofter they go to a church service, the most common answers are not at all or once a year. The awerage is one time per member per one year! Members in name only! In Helsinki 50 % of people are members of the church, it's going to go under 50% soon.
Ten years ago 40 000 people left the church in one month, as a protest against how the church treats homosexuals. Normally around 50 000 per year. There is this internet site where you can resign from the membership. It started in 2003 and as of today 750 000 members have used the service. 3,8M members are left today. The population of Finland is 5,5M.
Less and less children are being baptized. Younger generations are quite secular.
Some already suggested Nightwish "Weak Fantasy". The song is about religion, religious oppression, letting fear dictate your life. I prefer the Tampere version over Wembley
Hi again from Helsinki.
Happy birthday Ginger! Weak Fantasy would be the perfect next Nightwish song.
Thank you- G
yes, great song, great lyrics.
Last time I was this early all of this was the Devonian Sea
Coelacanth?.... and I thought I was a fossil! LOL!
Underrated comment... :-)
I love your genuine smile Ginger and Mike's restrained exuberance. Great song and reaction. You two get it. Thank you both. I'm in your age group, I'm 50 and Floor makes me cry. Whether you believe in evolution or God, when you hear Floor I'll go with God, she was sent from Heaven.
If "god" was possible, I would like her to be like Floor - but she's got a lot to live up to. 😜
Thank you ☺️ - G
As much as I love The Poet and the Pendulum and what it does represent, I STILL think for me it’s this song that can ALWAYS make me ball like a baby no matter how many times I hear it or see it, it’s just so magical!!! And then actually SEEING IT LIKE THIS, ohhh my this is the most moving performance I’ve ever seen from Nightwish or from ANY group ever in my life!!! 👌👌😀😀
Mike a lucky man , ginger will be young forever ,,and Mike will contole a starship traveling the Cosmo's, immortals ❤️
When taking your drink just before the first pyro I thought to myself: Bad timing. Please don‘t choke“ 😎
Happy birthday Ginger!
As a paleoevolutionary biologist myself, this song really pushes all of my nerd buttons, and when you add this to the fact that I'm also a classical musician this is quite possibly one of my favourite songs of all time. The instrumentation is phenomenal, the key changes fantastic, and the fact they have fireworks interlinked with the E major chords at the beginning which symbolises the formation of the earth and possibly the formation of the moon after the impact from Thea, is just mind blowing.
And when you put Prof. Richard Dawkins into the mix, narrating from his book, the song for me is just perfect!
Opus perfectum, indeed.
Thank you! - G
Happy Birthday ! This is the most beautiful party ! Celebrating life and science with Nightwish music. Greetings from Transylvania !
Thank you! We definitely enjoyed it 😊 -G
This is my current favourite Nightwish Song...
Tuomas is gifted where most are. Tuomas is also the mastermind behinds 90+% of Nightwish's music. Including this. Also you guys will love the Human. :II: Nature. album...when you're ready for it.
Happy Birthday Ginger, wish you one amazing day with Mike.
Thank you, Carlos! It was fabulous 🥰 - G
Happy Birthday Ginger.
You picked the perfect song to celebrate. This song is truly a masterpiece. Of course all of Nightwishs songs are, but this one in particular. Someone once said, on a scale of one to ten, this is a 50. And I totally agree.
Have a great day. 😁👍🎂
Thank you 😊- G
Love this song.
Happy birthday Ginger! Celebration of life on your birthday with fireworks!
Indeed! Thank you 😊- G
Happy birthday, Ginger. Great song to choose for your special day. I believe Marko has commented that he can sing as loud as he wants to, as Floor will always be over the top of him. Really great reaction. ❤️🤘🇦🇺
Thank you 😊- G
Hi Ginger. 21. Oct. is my 52. birthday. So, congratulations to you too :-) I am a Nightwish fan since almost 20 years now and enjoy your reactions since the beginning. Please carry on. Greetings from Germany, Luge
Thank you Luge! And Happy Birthday to you, as well! - G
happy birthday Ginger, you beautiful soul.
Thank you, Lovely! 🥰 - G
Happy birthday Ginger. Love the dress, matches your hair. What a way to celebrate your birthday with the Magnum Opus of Metal Mozart of Music.
Nightwish was killing it, everyone was magnificent. The Valkyrie Goddess of Metal and her Brother ,the Viking Lord.... those harmonies.... out of this world. Hail Nightwish
Thank you, Eddie! It was fabulous 🥰 - G
You wanted epic, you got epic.
Happy birthday, Ginger, and thank you for your participation in the greatest show on Earth!
Thank you ☺️- G
Happy birthday Ginger, best birthday present to here , to dream, to enjoy and there is still more.
Thank you ☺️- G
Happy Birthday!! May all your Nightwishes come true!
All of them?! 😜 Thank you 🙏🏻- G
Happy birthday Ginger. What a great way to spend you day. Many more, be safe.
Thank you ❤️ - G
You look sweet and happy on your birthday Ginger. what a nice celebration to react to The Greatest Show On Earth. Congratulations!
Thank you, Marc! I absolutely loved it! - G
Happy belated birthday Ginger I hope your day went well....
Btw.Floor has a beetle named after her . *Tmesisternus Floorjanseni* .. And Tuomas has bug named after him, *Sciophila holopaineni* ..!! and Nightwish have ther own to . i do not remember what it is, sorry. ( but hey you gott your "fireworks on your B-Day !! Stay safe.
Very cool! - G
Tanidromites nightwishorum
Floor also has a starfish named after her Ophiomitrella floora and the band have a crab named after them Tanidromites nightwishorum.
Pretty awesome! :D
They also have a rather new discovery The Alpenglow Rockshelter - a prehistoric rockshelter discovered in Pennsylvania, USA named after their song Alpenglow. Nightwish is truly out here making their mark on science and History 😊😊
Alles Gute zum Geburtstag.. Wunderbare song, danke and bless.
Hallo, kann mich dir nur anschließen..
Greatest Show On Earth + Firecrackers for your birthday G !! Happy Birthday !!
Right?! Amazing! Thank you - G
Happy birthday - great reaction. I have watched it 100x and still get full Body chills...greetings from Denmark.
Thank you ☺️- G
happy birthday Ginger, hope you have a great day.
Thank you! - G
About 23m is Bach then Enter Sandman. This was their last concert of a world tour. They wanted to do Tampere last so they could be home for Christmas.
Happy birthday lovely woman🥰🥰🥳🥳
Thank you! - G
‘73!! ... Great build year!! 😁👍🏻
Happy birthday! 🥳
Greetings from the Netherlands.
Thank you 😊- G
Happy birthday Ginger and thank you both for being honest and so fun! Dawkins rocks!
Happy Birthday Ginger, Awesome choice from Nightwish, This tune always puts me on another planet. Cheers \m/
Thank you ❤️ -G
Now when seen the "after show", yeah Tuomas has "always said" that music doesn't matter at all, its what the music does to you, feelings, thoughts and all that, that matters, so spot on! nice reaction again Thank you!
There's a line in another Nightwish song called Last Ride of the Day. What is god if not the spark that started life. Great song to check out, its their concert closer at Wacken 2013
Happy Birthday Ginger!!!!
Thank you! - G
Happy Birthday omg you look younger!! Thank you for the reactions and keep it up with the NightWish train ;)
Thank you!❤️ - G
Heh, Tiktaalik is specifically mentioned on this album.
AND I love the nod to Oilers, Ruotsalainen, Siltanen, Kurri, Hagman, Tikannen
Well done. You both did this justice. Bravo.
Congrats Ginger 🎉🎁💐🎈🎊 ! I love how you Guys think and talk about believing, our planet, our world🥰 It's such a interesting and beautifull topic to think and talk about.
Thank you, Liesje! I couldn’t agree more- G
That would be Troy Donockley with the Irish Tin Flute and Uilleann Pipes (Irish pipes of the Elbow). He is a master musician (As all Nightwish Members are) and plays a plethora of instruments and provides vocals much more since becoming a permanent member.
I chuckled at the distracted by the shoes comment knowing the Floor is 6'1" without them.
Happy Birthday Ginger, on your special day!
☮🎇🎆✨🎉🎊🎃
Thank you!! - G
Wow, this is going to be my third comment, but there is so much to talk about. Elizabeth Zahroff, aka The Charismatic Voice, feels the same way about science and evolution as you, and has a t-shirt you are going to love, Science is magic, but real. She wears it on her reaction of The Greatest Show On Earth. It's worth checking out, not only does she know what she's talking about, she's an accomplished opera singer herself.
Very cool! I shall give her a boo - G
For me, this one, and “The phantom of the opera” with Tarja and Marco, are the most epic performances they have done. I love their other songs, but those are best to me, and “last ride of the day” is a close second to the first two.
If you enjoyed Marco and Floor get their version of Ave Maria recorded in December 2019. The Finnish metal community put on a show that translates into Heavy Christmas this from there.
At Wembley Richard Dawkins joined the band on stage at the end of the song and did those words live.
Floor's joyous facial expressions make you want to cheer them on like a football team!!
Hey guys, here in Brazil is almost 2am. I am still wake only to watch your reaction. That was great, congrats. I listened this song or watched this video or another video performance hundreds times and that don't boring me even a little bit. Amazing song, stunning band and Floor is out of this world. Said that, we need to schedule someday to drink margaritas and discuss more about Nightwish 😬😉
(Waves to Brazil) Thank you for waiting up with us! Margaritas up! Cheers - G
Happy birthday Ginger! Another great reaction, and I like how you went through it twice so that you could add your reactions at perfect moments later instead of randomly stopping and messing up the flow of the music, full marks! You two seem so like me and my wife - several years ago she had started to get interested in nuclear physics from someone she knew who had sailed on a nuclear submarine. I'll never forget her reaction when she asked me how a nuclear power station created electricity (I used to work in the labs at a nuclear plant). She was gobsmacked to learn that all it essentially did was boil water. She' d thought the electricity was somehow transferred in an exciting, possibly quantum way directly from the radiation somehow.
And now we regularly have discussions about string theory, gravitational lensing, quantum computers, entanglement etc.
It is good, imo, to have an enquiring mind, to keep that aspect of childhood with you as you grow up, so that you can still see wonder and beauty around you, that there are always new questions to ask, new avenues to explore. If you grow up in a situation where you are told that we know everything, so don't ask questions, you stagnate.
/endrant
You might also like "Exist" by Avenged Sevenfold. It has Neil DeGrasse Tyson in it.
[edit] About the "any sufficiently advanced.." was Arthur Clark.
Couldn’t agree more! My mother thinks it’s weird, the kind of conversations we have together. But I can’t imagine a more boring life, than to just babble on about nothing important 🤷♀️ These things around us really are like magic. It’s fascinating.
Appreciate having you around 🙏🏻 - G
I will watch anything nightwish related. Happy bday btw.
Happy Birthday 🎂 💐 Epic. Thanks for the reaction 🌠🔥👋👋👋😊
We Are All Made Of Dying Stars. Give thanks to GAIA
Thank you ! - G
Happy Birthday
Happy birthday. Looking beautiful as always.
Thank you, Tony 😘 - G
for some reason .. the end of the song is more emotional for me ... love when they come out and interact with the fans ..
Happy 25th!!!!! Love your work guys, please stay real. Keep up the good work
Happy Birthday Ginger with😘from northern Germany WE WERE HERE i forget, in the Wembley version, Richard Dawkins himself come on the Stage. Goosebumps😊
Thank you ❤️ - G
Great choice Ginger! Happy birthday! 🎉🎊🎈🎁🎂
Thank you 🙏🏻-G
Stopped the video and made my own margaritas. Happy Birthday!!
Well done! And thank you 😊- G
Happy Birthday to you Ginger! 😉😁😘😘
Thank you! - G
It doesn't get much more epic than that.
Wembley version has Richard Dawkins but in this one they performed in front their home crowd. It adds a bit more emotion which I think shows at the end.
HAPPY BIRTHDAY GINGER 🎈🎂💗
Thank you! - G
Happy birthday. I think it was a great epic song for you birthday. When they get to We We’re Here part it is so emotional on many levels. Thanks for the great reaction and enjoy your birthday.
Thank you, Paul! - G
Excellent reaction. You gave us a present on your birthday.
Happy Birthday to you, Ginger!
Thank you 🙏🏻- G
I always end a mess with this song. What a powerful message behind three words: "We Were Here".
Indeed - G
Happy birthday G.
Happy Birthday Ginger!!! From one Libra to another.
Now you had fireworks on your birthday. Happy ?? :-)
Hug and kisses from Belgium!!
Loved it! Thank you, and happy birthday, back! - G
HAPPY BIRTHDAY GINGER..have a nice day,from Italy...Stay safe
Thank you ❤️ - G
Congratulations Ginger. One of Nightwishes Magnum Opuses in my opinion. Not only can Floor sing but she can replicate a Theramin with her voice lol.
Definitely one of Nightwishes songs I like the most! Also the shortest feeling long song I know...
Edit, almost always seem to get a tear at the "We were here"..
Thanks to you both for the great recap of the meaning behind this great performance. And happy birthday, Ginger!! Mine is tomorrow!
Thank you! And Happy Birthday to you! - G
First: Happy Birthday 😊 Great reaction once again. My hometown 🙏🏻🇫🇮
Thank you 😊 - G
Happy Birthday Ginger.🎂🍹. Great reaction guys. We were here!🤘
Thank you 😊- G
I read somewhere that critics, and even Steve Harris f Iron Maiden said this show propelled them to the top of the top tier of bands performing live today, and that they are really in a class of their own.
I believe it! - G
The utter genius of Tuomas,fantastic composition.
Indeed 🥰 - G
as a so cald often in the world a very direct blunt Dutchman I loved your faces during the reaction Wel done and Greetings
Happy 21st birthday!
Haha 😉 Thank you - G
8:44 She's the first I've seen, and trust me I think I've seen all reactions to this song, who noticed the shoes from Floor. They have in fact little unicorns heels as you can see in this picture. i.pinimg.com/originals/ca/c8/a0/cac8a0ab16d7889096388768610b744e.jpg
I ALWAYS notice the shoes 😜 - G
Great picture (marilyn monroe effect)! :P
Since you've seen lots of reactions to this song, I gotta ask you something. Have you ever heard a reactor notice the EDM beats after the _Enter Sandman_ riff? I've never heard anyone notice but I'm sure I haven't seen them all.
@@AGDinCA No I have never seen anyone notice the EDM part on their own. They always get told in the comments and then
@@ieradossantos Yep, that's kinda what I was thinking, too. Thanks for the feedback.
It was sweet to see your tears Ginger. Nightwish has wrung more tears from my eyes than all other musicians and bands I have listened to, combined.
Happy birthday to You! I like yours reaction. Ans that its best song ever.
Thank you 😊- G
Happy Birthday G. Loved the reaction. You and Mike, please feel free to talk theory with us anytime :) Till next time.....
Thank you 🥰 - G