Nightwish interview - Tuomas Holopainen (part 1)

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Tuomas about not living a dream come true, Angels Fall First, a passion for songwriting, the Decades album, Oceanborn, the evolution of Nightwish, The Poet And The Pendulum.
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Video interview with songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Tuomas Holopainen from the Finnish symphonic metal band Nightwish. FaceCulture spoke with Tuomas about not living a dream come true, Angels Fall First, a passion for songwriting, the Decades album, Oceanborn, the evolution of Nightwish, The Poet And The Pendulum, line-up changes, not being a control freak, his most essential songs, the big picture, band chemistry, writing new songs for Nightwish, and a lot more! (31/01/2018)

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@OzOsgood 5 жыл бұрын

If Tuomas weren't such a master story teller and brilliant musician I think he would make an excellent pirate.

@LittleVeni 5 жыл бұрын

Mmm, maybe for what he looks like, but I think he's so much into other treasures than gold coins. :>

@zolek78 5 жыл бұрын

The first bit of the interview seems to indicate that he could have been a marine scientist

@Feather92 4 жыл бұрын

Yeah true I thought the same , he looks like pirrate with a sword 😊 love his style

@brewswillis9783 4 жыл бұрын

Dread Pirate Tuomas. lol

@peterbehringer63 4 жыл бұрын

Also: in another lifetime he could be a cool, calculating visionary CEO of a major company or owner of an innovative. company

@SomeYouTubeTraveler 4 жыл бұрын

7:52 "We've been on that 'film music metal' path ever since." *I FINALLY KNOW HOW TO DESCRIBE NIGHTWISH TO MY FRIENDS*

@bekfasttime7001 5 жыл бұрын

Tuomas is one of the greatest composers of all time. An absolutely genius mind.

@hennieniceguy 2 жыл бұрын

Youre are so right about Thuomas .

@MarjattaJewelry 2 жыл бұрын

I agree

@krisumusic 6 жыл бұрын

Tuomas is the reason I started learning piano 10 years ago but songwriting itself is why I continued and wrote 9 whole albums. Love you Tuomas for showing me the path.

@mikebarnes7441 4 жыл бұрын

Oooh big shot here wrote 9 albums... I can write 10 albums my next week if I disregard QUALITY

@milannikolic1098 3 ай бұрын

He is a reason I started learning it today!! ❤🎉

@begumdogan89 3 жыл бұрын

Tuomas's music made me fall in love with Finland and made me move here! Some people think that I am crazy but never underestimate music's power on someone's life. I held on to Nightwish in my darkest time and changed me as a person in many ways..I hope I can thank him in person one day, but even the thought of it makes my heart beat faster!

@Tirryna 5 жыл бұрын

Any interview with Tuomas I've seen, he never really looks like he is enjoying himself. This interview, however, I saw a gleam and something whimsical in his eyes and smile. Very very nice to see that!

@jeanny2396 5 жыл бұрын

"... the poet and the pendulum, the song, where i literally kill myself, in the song, so that i wouldn't have to do it in real life"💔 poor dear😭

@strikebr 4 жыл бұрын

The good thing is he got his pocket well stuffed with a lot of money.

@dubm0 4 жыл бұрын

@@strikebr You think Chris Cornell and Chester Bennington were poor? Millions of dollars (or even a wife + kids) won't help one bit if you feel totally trapped inside your own head.

@strikebr 4 жыл бұрын

@@dubm0 I said the good thing is. I didn't mention anything bad. I know how depression can be destructive, no need to be a genius for that. Tuomas said once how his creative job works: He sucks in all the good feelings, bad feelings, and things happening at the moment, and then he spits it out all that mood in form of songs, leaving nothing inside. It's a nice way to keep negative mood outside and avoidiong depression.

@youssefa.2251 4 жыл бұрын

From "Tuomas found naked and dead" to the new album's "How's the Heart underneath the silence" There's always hope.

@shenghanwang6342 6 жыл бұрын

Holy shit...Exactly the opposite way I am approaching, I have always dreamed about a career as a musician, but finally succumbed under the glamor of biological science and am recieving the training required for a academic career. From again another aspect, no wonder every Nightwish song for me sounds like "song of myself".

@joshcavaradossi4813 5 жыл бұрын

thats the same feeling when Floors end the different songs very similar or same, but i love the ends jajajaja

@Bangieflea 4 жыл бұрын

It's rare to find a well prepared, in depth interviewer asking thoughtful questions. Thank you for the work

@FaceCulture 4 жыл бұрын

Thank you for your kind words, and for watching of course ;)

@nightgathering 5 жыл бұрын

What a man. A sheer genious, amazing musician/composer and the writer of such emotional and meaningful lyrics that have embraced my soul so many times. Thank you Tuomas.

@predatoria_aquatica 4 жыл бұрын

The Poet..the best storyteller in music.. his lyrics are just magical.. just my opinion

@stimpsonjcat67 4 жыл бұрын

Tuomas complementing other bands...wonderful. Last of the wilds is my favorite Nightwish song as none of us fans can argue about who sang it better. Thank you, Tuomas...for all of it.

@christineking5017 6 жыл бұрын

Wow! This is the most interesting interview from Tuomas, or any other musician/songwriter, I've ever heard. The questions the guy asked were great. Getting all of that introspection on the various Nightwish songs, and albums, is so awesome! Very substantive and deep interview. Wow! That stuff Tuomas was talking about concerning the writing of The Poet And The Pendulum was fascinating. I will be listening to that song with newfound insight. Tuomas is such a unique and interesting guy. IMO he is one of the very best songwriters today. I have never heard a song from him that I didn't like. There are some that I don't care for as much as others, despite the fact that, on their own, they'd be awesome! They just have to stand up next to his great songs. This is the kind of interview that one must view at least twice to make certain they got everything! Now on to Part 2!! Thanks for posting! : )

@richardjensen7186 5 жыл бұрын

"This is my forte." Wowwww, SO true! The evolution of Nightwish, and Toumas, has been a wonderful journey.

@NettieKay 6 жыл бұрын

I have so much respect for him, so interesting that he originally wanted to study science.

@Danjo37 6 жыл бұрын

Nettie Kay it kind of explains the greatest show on earth. Why he made that song

@Mrtheunnameable 5 жыл бұрын

That seems to be common in Nightwish

@MikeBenko 5 жыл бұрын

It's not surprising tho. He is clearly a fiercely intelligent person. Intelligent people also tend to be deeply curious, so going into the sciences wouldn't at all have been surprising. Another interesting point is that music is essentially an expressive form of mathematics, it's an established fact that musicians and mathematicians share neurological similarities, they might perceive and express things differently, but they both work on different expressions of the same thing. There are a quite a few famed musicians who dable in sciences, Queen's Brian May is an astrophysicists (a published and accomplished one), Brian Cox is a particle physicists and professor, Milo Aukerman punk rocker and molecular biology researcher or more historically Alexander Borodin Romantic composer, chemist and professor.

@sccrespoc 6 жыл бұрын

This is by far the best Toumas' interview. I never thought the poet and the pendulum was that important to him

@Tyacatt1977 6 жыл бұрын

yes that album was a dark time in his music life....if you see the very last live show w/ Tarja ..u can see just why ..and what happened after that concert..the letter written to Tarja, departing her from the band

@Latexi_LMX 6 жыл бұрын

Poet and The Pendulum, one of my fav NW songs still, seen it live, it is still EPIC

@a.molsdal6954 6 жыл бұрын

I always thought that at the contrary. I think the song is all about Tuomas put into music.

@Paul_C 5 жыл бұрын

Guess you never experienced the loss of, as it says in the song, 'the shoulder to cry on'? At the same a shame and a blessing...

@codyphilips4511 5 жыл бұрын

@@Paul_C I dont think the shoulder to cry on was meant as Tarja, it was Nightwish fans. Tuomas puts all his feelings and emotions into his songs, so in a way cries on his listeners shoulder. But after firing Tarja fans were crying themselves, and for him it felt like fans turned against him. So he couldn't cry on the shoulder anymore, cos the shoulder cried more and he felt like whore for the cold world. Like he needed to continue entertaining people that cared more for drama than for his feelings. You can still see some people on comments saying what a horrible person he is, continuing same old fake gossip and spreading lies about him despite many people's experience of meeting him and realising what a kind, gentle person he is.

@24SparrowJack 5 жыл бұрын

This man is immensely talented

@KateMoondance 6 жыл бұрын

Interviewer: I wanna start with July six... Tuomas: ??? Interviewer: Emm, 1969... Tuomas: ... Tuomas: 1996 Interviewer: Whooops, sorry :D Seems like interviewer was pretty nervous :)

@eruidfhjcvbn 6 жыл бұрын

or just horny

@dentistlinguist6569 5 жыл бұрын

@@eruidfhjcvbn Lol!

@Velarik 5 жыл бұрын

dentist linguist 😂

@lizzyq7807 5 жыл бұрын

I would be nervous if i was interviewing Tuomas too! LOL

@victoriaalbastra6325 4 жыл бұрын

Or German... They switch digits in german. It's confusing at times

@itzHastyy 5 жыл бұрын

This is an awesome interview, great questions that actually get Tuomas involved and interested in the topic on a level deeper than just a sentence or so answer. Awesome interviewer, awesome guest, I thoroughly enjoy Nightwish and the rest of Tuomas's work.

@evaDrepuS 4 жыл бұрын

I was thinking the same thing about the interviewer. Very well thought out questions.

@mortemus9562 5 жыл бұрын

What to say that hasn't been said about him before, just simply and artist through and through in every sense of the word. Tremendous respect for him and the rest of the band

@teedepefanio5687 5 жыл бұрын

We love you, Tuomas!

@ladywytch129 5 жыл бұрын

I think I could listen to him speak for eternity! Maybe interspersed with his wonderful music!

@TeemarkConvair 3 жыл бұрын

so very interesting to see behind the curtain, so to speak, and hear the thoughts that produce such epic emotional sounds. i have commented elsewhere that i really think many people seem to accept the power of the music without realizing almost all of it emanates from this one man.

@XodusOnan 5 жыл бұрын

A musical genius. Absolutely brilliant

@camilianas 4 жыл бұрын

my first crush

@KEMETGaming 5 жыл бұрын

He's my favorite pianist

@fdsannie 6 жыл бұрын

No spoilers. Very good interview!( Both parts)

@lathspellinfield 5 жыл бұрын

I enjoy watching him performing brilliant, with his such warm smile. They got right chemistry as a band with strikingly different characteristics and of course good videos :) love u guys \m/

@epiczeven6378 6 жыл бұрын

Great interview.

@Blueberryblues 4 жыл бұрын

Very interesting interview !

@strikebr 4 жыл бұрын

The interviewer was almost walking on eggs talking to Tuomas, but he did very good questions, that thing about Poet and the Pendulum, to turn off the lyrics is heavy.

@Zlaterrr 5 жыл бұрын

I have been a nightwish fan since I was like 12. I am now 28.

@river114 5 жыл бұрын

Carl-Johan Hellstrom same

@evilme5534 3 жыл бұрын

such a beautiful human being and a damn talented 1 too :) thank you Tuomos for all that you have given us

@marcusson1983 3 жыл бұрын

Good interview

@viniciusmoussa7256 3 жыл бұрын

Very nice!

@MarcWN 5 жыл бұрын

Great guy!

@jeannettesimpson9778 4 жыл бұрын

A really good interview. Very insightful.

@FaceCulture 4 жыл бұрын

Thanks Jeanette!

@Piia2023 5 жыл бұрын

He is a genius...💓

@robcreel4257 4 жыл бұрын

The Maestro! The mind of a genius.

@jonathanday6692 2 жыл бұрын

The date was correct the first time. He is an alien from another planet and was brought back with the Apollo 11 moon landings.

@rafaelc.5705 5 жыл бұрын

Now here lies an academically trained Biologist who wishes he were a musician :D

@victoriaalbastra6325 4 жыл бұрын

I'm a biologist too, but I don't want to be a musician. I would like to learn to play the guitar though.

@rafaelc.5705 3 жыл бұрын

@@victoriaalbastra6325 Cool! I know how to play the flute though, but just as a hobby :)

@amoralamexicana1378 4 жыл бұрын

Coisa mais linda! ❤

@rsbreth 4 жыл бұрын

The Master!

@jyrkilehto9329 6 жыл бұрын

Olisi kiva kuulla muutama biisi mihin pystyisi johanna kurkela hempeydellä ja nightwish voimakkuudella. Nightwish fani.

@Hilariumosis 5 жыл бұрын

He doesn´t want to hear the lyrics yet you see him at times singing along xD

@mennawaris144 3 жыл бұрын

No, can’t you understand that even if he didn’t want to hear others singing it, he was the one who wrote the lyrics, he can’t forget them. They push through.

@JayTor2112 5 жыл бұрын

It always bothers me when musicians crap on their old material. I'm a new fan and I'm loving the first album right now.

@Daniel_C_Griffin 4 жыл бұрын

I wouldn't say he crapped on it; but rather seemed to lament it was such a far cry from what the band turned into. It definitely does sound like a demo; which isn't a bad thing at all, the music is still stellar, but it's no Wishmaster or Once.

@shilohstore6086 5 жыл бұрын

I feel like the pen and the Pendulum kind of scares him it's almost like he's ashamed that he didn't have faith and how good things could have been and now that things are going really well in hindsight is 20/20 he's so glad that he didn't fall into that mindset that he doesn't want to be reminded.

@SomeYouTubeTraveler 4 жыл бұрын

It's wonderful that he had an outlet, and it saved him... I dare say that out of most of the people who commit suicide, if they would've had the chance to look back on that time in their lives 20 years later, they'd be telling themselves to not give up, and to keep on living. But in the moment, when the world is crashing around you, it's nearly impossible to see any hope. Without a creative outlet, something to pour your emotions into, the battle to Live is a million times more difficult.

@JudgeJaco 5 жыл бұрын

I can hear the interviewer is Dutch.. :-P

@Fvader 5 жыл бұрын

Saw them in '99

@shaulablack1 4 жыл бұрын

Omg, I've wondered how he felt listening to the songs that immortalized his feelings of the time he was writing them. Whenever I write or produce something, after it's finished I never want to see it again, because I change all the time and the things I did in the past don't make sense anymore. I think if I wrote lyrics and 15 later still had to listen to them, I'd hate it.

@maboleth 4 жыл бұрын

Well, when you make something monumental, having great quality, you can go back and be proud still. Especially if you have big fans and you know what you did was genuine and seriously good or made you of what you're now. As a photographer I can see what you mean - there are many times I just don't like to review my images after a while, having only handful of my personal favourites that I'm really proud of. Still, my clients and people around me get fascinated by something I have long forgotten or never thought it was that important. That makes me happy. But yeah, I think the creators move on once they create and process something.

@jeremendoza5492 3 жыл бұрын

I'm not gay but I love u Tuomas I fckn love u

@polishheavies8205 5 жыл бұрын

Can't believe why this video has 4 dislikes

@spacewalkerrr 4 жыл бұрын

my highschool crush all over again...

@eehoo1 6 жыл бұрын

Question! Are there spoilers in this interview about the setlist for the upcoming Decades tour? There are some people like me who like to be surprised and haven't even checked the tracks on the Decades compilation album for this very reason... Thanks

@DutchmanCalypso 6 жыл бұрын

No spoilers :)

@silviahannak3213 Жыл бұрын

This was an German Interviewer..messed up the date cause in german you start with 6 and (und) 90 but in english it is 90 6. Haha. Yes even after 20 Years you can enjoy their Songs. Timeless Classic. We are all Suckers for Epicness. Movie Music or Audiovisuell Stuff. Yes..it is a cool Ride that takes you away.

@FaceCulture Жыл бұрын

Dutch, but close haha. But that's exactly where my brain made the mistake :)

@vickieeh1 3 жыл бұрын

He is a genius

@RBANTI 5 жыл бұрын

I could not hear the questions. But that didn't matter!

@stephencooper1266 4 жыл бұрын

Thank fuck he chose music and not science

@TheEuzkatroika 2 жыл бұрын

MadMartigan!!

@ThallanarRabidtooth 5 жыл бұрын

It just occurred to me that I have never heard Tuomas speak. For some reason, his voice doesn't seem to match his face. I thought it would be lighter.

@leopalo1568 5 жыл бұрын

I noticed his English voice is somewhat deeper than when he speaks Finnish (I'm also Finnish btw)

@dergre3226 5 жыл бұрын

@@leopalo1568 Finnish language is so cool! :D

@johannessilver8653 5 жыл бұрын

Oceanborn - still the best !

@trene6559 5 жыл бұрын

Century Child! Get yourself in order, man! 😜

@johannessilver8653 5 жыл бұрын

No...Oceanborn it is still...as written. But you are right that it is difficult to pick one cause they all are great.

@Daniel_C_Griffin 4 жыл бұрын

@@johannessilver8653 Guys... Wishmaster. Come on....

@magnusabigor5830 4 жыл бұрын

Thou art lord.....................

@Hebee1000 5 жыл бұрын

First of all man, shame on you. Second, ty for the joy you have brought to my life.

@aleksanterikaansalo 3 жыл бұрын

Бровь у него - топ.

@SandraNelson063 4 жыл бұрын

I need the P&P. I need help burning the rope. Nightwish continually gives me a hand up. Life with depression is not for sissies.

@nk937 5 жыл бұрын

Man interviews God!

@L3onOfKings 5 жыл бұрын

lol... true. He walks among us. Nightwish is the meaning of life.

@Sheepleton 4 жыл бұрын

Every time I hear someone from this band speak I'm ashamed of America's education system...

@WesselsReaper 4 жыл бұрын

Sheepleton exactly! These people speak english as a second language BETTER than native english speakers 🤦🏻‍♂️

@captainfantastic3490 4 жыл бұрын

@@WesselsReaper They Don't Dumbass! He Means Nightwish Members Speak Wisely.

@stormrising2623 4 жыл бұрын

The dumbing down of American students is intentional. Strip their ability to think critically and logically. Much easier to control mindless masses.

@elftwinks 4 жыл бұрын

They guys are awesome. Their private lives are their business. Floor yansen is the best thing that happened to them. The others,in my opinion did not connect or belong and were less talented. Floor can literally wipe the floor with them. X

@sirenfromthedeep8619 4 жыл бұрын

1969😂😂😂

@SpringOffensiveCat 5 жыл бұрын

We all know Nightwish is not your biggest dream, we all know marrying Tarja was your objetive xdxd.

@nickcervenka8756 5 жыл бұрын

This interviewer is horrible. :(

@FaceCulture 5 жыл бұрын

Sorry you feel that way Nick. Most people seemed to like it. What kind of questions would you have preferred?

@nickcervenka8756 5 жыл бұрын

@@FaceCulture Not the questions, but how he carried himself. He came off super nervous, took forever to get to the point of his question (Tuomas cut him off multiple times), was quiet, etc. Maybe it was his first interview, but it was pretty rough.

@FaceCulture 4 жыл бұрын

I guess you're right in that I could articulate a bit better ;)

@WesselsReaper 4 жыл бұрын

FaceCulture i believe this interviewer did a great job, obviously Toumas is relaxed enough to open up a bit more than he normally would

@antongcollector3873 4 жыл бұрын

mastermind of music but also a mastermind of lies...He fired Tarja and Annete...totally disrespectfull

@replay759 3 жыл бұрын

Yeah well Tarja was leaving her self even before she got fired so its not really neccesseary to blame tuomas for that.. and THANK GOD he fired annette she sounded terrible.

@mennawaris144 3 жыл бұрын

Maybe you should learn the reasons that led to letting Tarja go. It was all Marcelo, Tarja’s boyfriend, that was turning Tarja against the band and wanted to decide everything, even where the band should have concerts. He wanted them to only perform in big arenas to get more money and got Tarja thinking that too. - No South America anymore, not enough money coming. So it was Marcelo and lust for money that ruined the whole thing. You can check this all up, just google. You can start with Open letter.