I 100% agree! But also totally understand that she didn’t want it to be too strong when singing instead of speaking 😊

From what, theft?

No, she must not. Have you not seen what she does to wooden poles back home on her farm with a hammer that is nearly as big as her? She can stomp you into the ground, if she wants to.

Floor is precious. Her well-being is essential.

Second coming of the Christ she is.

She deserves 100 white knight to keep her safe

Agreed. She is the only one (as far as I know) who can actually make me al teary eyed by just watching/listening her doing an interview.

Yeah, FloorJanssen, sounds really Dansk. 🤣

Yeah Harry Kane still can't haha

The Nightwish World heritage ! Floor 🌷 Irreplaceable, unique and property of the entire world, and which it is considered of great importance to preserve.

Rudi Carrell was not even close to starting it. You are just too young to know. 😉

Heintje?

​@@TubetakerBHV er hat es salonfähig gemacht haha

Not with SDP they have great lyrics and catchy music

@@kieskop4684 Definitely not my cup of tea, but fair enough. At least, these guys honoured Floor and her music when it was "her" episode, which can't be said of Mr Clueso and Mr Jones.

@@BrendonChase_2015 how could you have seen "her" episode? It wasn't aired! 🤔

@@stephsteph4574 Sorry, where did I say that I saw the Floor episode?

@@BrendonChase_2015 so you just listened to the songs?

It is Symphonic Metal.

@@marcusknorpp5060 yeeees. ;)

Fair point. And Floor's BZ19 performances are legendary already. One of those, "Mama", she sang in Dutch. How did that sound to the ear? [assuming that you're a native English speaker]

@@BrendonChase_2015 I've listened to it previously. It's not a song that would make my playlist. But it's more the song than Floor's singing. I know that when I made my disparaging comment about German vocals one must believe that there are exceptions to the rule. For instance, Vilja Lied is one of four by Floor on Zangers that made my playlist. I'm feeling bad now and need to go back and review the entire set of performances from the German project and see if my response makes the same impression. Yeah, as far as I'm concerned the language should be irrelevant to whether one likes a performance or not. I am a native English speaker (though I have been exposed to other languages speak none of them) but I have several on my playlist that aren't in English - Diana Ankudinova, Derniere Danse, Rechenka and Crow are among my favorites, Giulia Falcone, SOS, the construction of the music by the composer has strong emotional hooks for me. In the past for 90% of the music I enjoyed I didn't care about the lyrics other than how the voice as an instrument fit musically into the performance and song construction that was key. What the words mean was less important. I was never into poetry really. Maybe my musical appreciation growing up on jazz has something to do with that.

@@bertjones3010 Yet language does seem to make a difference and that's where it could get interesting, hence my q abt how Dutch sounded to your ears compared to German. Growing up in Dutchieland, 'pop music' was mainly an English affair. Anything else sounded funny and not in a good way. As if they tried too hard. But we were like 12yrs old, what did we know? And fortunately most of us have matured in appreciation of other languages in pop music, right? Not me. I didn't grow up beyond our childhood dogmas that pop music is sung in English, chansons in French, so-called "Schlagers" in German and if it can't be helped the odd song in Dutch. Floor doing Vilja lied was a magic start to a magical season. The German language shone through Floor there, precisely bcz it wasn't a pop song. Curiously enough, it would've sounded meh to this Dutchie had it been sung in English, as so many 'classical' songs don't sound right to my ears in that poppy language. Classical needs either German, Italian or French, but Latin before anything else. So perhaps, the answer to the question of "what's the difference that makes the difference" has a little something to do with the "linguistic culture" one grows up in? Anyhew, interesting exchange, ty. Cheers from Amsterdam!

@@BrendonChase_2015 Yes, thanks for the exchange Brendon. I'll leave you with one song from the 2018 season that I enjoyed a lot - Davina Michelle - Duurt te lang kzfaq.info/get/bejne/pMWaZMadtdeppps.html I don't think the language and I don't necessarily know what makes it leave such an impression. It's the first and only song by her that I was intrigued by.

As a native speaker of German, I have to say that you are absolutely right that German doesn't sound nice when you sing it. But when spoken it's not that bad.