Nightwish - Lanternlight - Margarita Kid Reacts!

Hauntingly beautiful - so much emotion in this song and video! It's easy to get lost in it and start thinking about your own losses in life. So powerful I might need to wait a little while before I can listen to it again.

[milipro]

There is just something about Floors voice that literally touches my soul.

[Inanna]

well i know now what song i wish to play when i switch to the eternal gardens above. what a stunning song

[MelvinDickover]

Floor describes this as a love letter to life and letting it go. the loss was Tuomas's father, so his piano becomes a symbol. Yesterwynde has been described as an emotion that does not exist in any human language. The films are memories, the lantern I interpret as the feeling in you after a loss, cold, no music because the piano is in the snow, the lantern dark, then as you go through the grief, the lantern comes back on, but the loss (piano still in the snow, but now far distant) is still there.

[pdutchie]

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.

[Rackelhane]

Floor is like a warm hug when you need it most. No wonder eyes get wet. Thank you for this reaction. Cheers from a finn in Sweden. 😃👍

[Rockmagix]

Lanternlight is definitely my personal song of the year. Period.

[michaelstamper]

The "wynde" part (pron as in wind a handle, rather than wind that blows) is a medieval British word denoting time passing. So when Troy sings about walking "into the forest of Yesterwynde" at the end, it's a quiet acknowledgement that we will all eventually move from being part of our own present to being part of someone else's past.

[schout]

Tuomas and Troy together came up with this (until now) unexisting word 'Yesterwynde'. This whole album deals with the concept of time. 'Wynde' can be seen as wind (sailing the ocean of life encountering 'Strange Islands') and winding a clock (the watch in the snow in the video).

[greeniesr]

Tuomas writes, Floor sings, "PERFECTION"....

[WardDorrity]

This is another Tuomas Holopainen masterpiece. He only keeps on getting better as his talent and vision matures. Absolutely stunning. Who else writes and composes like this? This composition is as deep as the Marianas Trench and has more layers than a baklava.

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. 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.

[rickphil]

What a lovely reaction to this wonderful song. Floor is otherworldly in her ability to amplify the emotions that Tuomas put into the lyrics and composition. And Troy's gentle voice rounded it out nicely. Love the whole album.

[chriso]

Good call on the slower beautiful ballad. Yes, Tuomas is the primary songwriter and wrote this one. . Although Tuomas said that it's not a sad song. When someone lives a long life, you should celebrate it, not mourn. His Dad passed during the writing of the album. Heard this is the first one he wrote after that happened.
4th single from the new album, Yesterwynde, dropped on the same day as the album. First album with Jukka Koskinen on bass. Yesterwynde is a made up word, they didn't know what to call the record, how to express what they wanted, so Troy made it up.
Floor recorded all the album vocals, in about 6 days at her home studio, 6 weeks after giving birth to 2nd daughter Lucy.
Last song on the album, it ends with a projector winding down sound. The first track starts wit ha projector winding up sound.
You did the first one "Perfume of the Timeless". The other 2 are "The Day Of..." with a music video, and "An Ocean of Strange Islands" with a lyric video.

[musicseeconcertphotograph]

This song is deep and touches deep.
It‘s about the ones we lost but who are not fully gone.

I`m in the light and flood
I`m in the four winds
I am the waves shaping pebbles flawless gems
I am the snow on your palm

When even Floor has teary eyes while recording the video …

[JosueSantos-yc]

What's truly wonderful about this song is that, for those of us who have been with Nightwish for decades, we can read between the lines of how truly deep this song goes. This song makes so many connections to many of their previous songs in this album, as well as past albums. Then there's the easter eggs that Nightwish fans just recognize. It's like we almost KNOW the exact language Tuomas speaks, and I do not mean Finnish, or English. It's an emotion. This song is about our parents, it's about our children, it's about our decades in the sun, it's about our predestination... our endlessness in the ancient unseen stream of life. An incomplete weave that just goes on and on. It's been built by all of our ancestors, to be continued by our predecessors.

I started tearing up in the middle with "I'm in the light and flood"... That duet at the end is on another level though. When I first heard it, I started SOBBING. So I feel you.

[dmj]

Within roughly a year and change Floor

did a solo album,
started a tour on it,

was simultaneously prepping for a NW tour,

then diagnosed with breast cancer,

had surgery and then chemo,

got pregnant, then

started her solo and NW tours AT THE SAME TIME,
at least once opening as Floor and closing the same show with NW while pregnant,

and only stopped after collapsing backstage from exhaustion I think while maybe 7 months pregnant...


6 weeks after giving birth started recording the vocals for current NW album....

Serious Valkyrie spirit indeed, and has to have to have core muscles of steel to sign 6 weeks after birthing ...most have issues moving comfortably at all at that stage....

[pekkakarppinen]

If somebody is wondering, who is the white dressed gentleman at the end of Kodak film (and in the album booklet). He's pope Leo XIII (d. 1903), the first pope in film. Why they chosed him, l don't know. But he's considered been way ahead his time.

[eTraxx]

I remember stopping in front of a 16th century Flemish landscape in a museum that locked me in place .. the utter beauty of the painting at that moment felt like I had been hit up beside my head. Simply .. I was seeing an example of why museums exist .. that such beauty exists. I have felt much the same listening to this multiple times .. my eyes get moist at the end .. I'm sure someone can explain the chemicals being pumped from my brain .. possibly it's confused .. neither fight or flight .. but .. attention?

[Thorgrim]

Tuomas lost his father in 2021 and this is his love song to his father's memory. Yesterwynde is a word created by Tuomas and Troy. They were looking for a word to describe a sense of nostalgic memories for the past and the people we have lost on our journey.

[jadebelle]

I don’t think anyone can listen to it and not shed tears. I couldn’t.

[anssia]

This is the most beautiful thing I have heard in years.