23 Feb 2009 | The hiding amaranth — beauty without borders
Being misanthropic, depressed, and constantly alienated, I do try to cheer myself up from time to time. One of the most common ways I do this is by finding some gem of a music video to drool over.
"Bye Bye Beautiful" by Nightwish, Dark Passion Play (2007)
Yes! You guessed it. Gorgeous models backed by even more gorgeous music. And I simply adore Marco Hietala, the guy who accompanies Anette Olzon in the duet, even despite his, uh, double goatee (is that a double goatee?). Such a sexy voice. And speaking of sexy, see that punk rocker-esque keyboard player with the black eyeliner? I realized (just yesterday) that he was the composer/lyricist/mastermind/genius Tuomas Holopainen himself. I seriously had no idea he was that dashing in real life.
"Amaranth" by Nightwish, Dark Passion Play (2007)
THE quintessential rock video. Really pop in disguise, despite the heavy riffing, but I'm not complaining. Beautiful, beautiful stuff.
As an aside, Dark Passion Play is the first of Nightwish's studio albums to feature their new vocalist, Anette Olzon of Sweden. Her predecessor, Tarja Turunen, was fired in an open letter in 2005. The majority of fans are still divided about the move, and I myself think the rest of the band's demeanor towards her was uncalled for. ("Bye Bye Beautiful": "Did you ever hear what I told you? / Did you ever read what I wrote you?" It's really a spiteful farewell song to Tarja.) However, though I greatly miss Tarja's operatic vocals (after all, classical singing can't be beat), I'm gradually warming up to a Tarja-less Nightwish. In the long run, it probably was the right decision, given that they were moving away from classical vocals anyway. And if they keep producing euro-metal gold like "Bye Bye Beautiful" and "Amaranth"… well, then, I'm OK.
"The Islander" by Nightwish, Dark Passion Play (2007)
Beautiful folk ballad. One of the most haunting and visually arresting works of fine video.
And that concludes your musical update from Jenny-fa.
Tags: metal, music videos, Nightwish
Deanna says:
Oh! Me likey. Except yea, that weird chin hair thing…He should braid it into like two little pigtails
9:29 pm | Tuesday, February 24, 2009
Jenny-fa says:
"Pigtails"? Holy **** I did not need to imagine that. *gaaaaaaaah*
9:58 pm | Tuesday, February 24, 2009
Deanna says:
Hahahah. My bad. In music news, well not so much news as I just wanted to announce who I totally love and adore and maybe you should too…: Leon Jean Marie. <3 <3 <3
12:22 am | Thursday, February 26, 2009
Deanna says:
Oh I forgot my top three faves:
1. Bring it on (my ringtone!!)
2. Make it right
3. East end blues.
I say at the very least 'Bring it on'. Lemme know what you think!! I even told my bestfriendtheupsman about it :P
12:26 am | Thursday, February 26, 2009
Jenny-fa says:
Hmmmm, Leon Jean Marie… not my usual cup of tea, but not bad. I zoomed on over to YouTube after I read this, and I saw the music video for "Bring It On." Pretty cool. I like UK artists in general.
2:03 am | Thursday, February 26, 2009
Deanna says:
Yea! The video is pretty cool :) And I think UK artists are good as well :D I'm not big on slower songs like that, I generally like loud and fast but as soon as I heard 'Bring it on', I was like OMGOSH LURRRRRVEz. Yes, with a z. My friend made me turn it off because it sounded depressing -_-
2:44 am | Thursday, February 26, 2009
Jenny-fa says:
Hahahaha lurrrrvez.
"Depressing"? What?
9:10 pm | Thursday, February 26, 2009