{"id":274,"date":"2007-09-03T22:25:53","date_gmt":"2007-09-03T21:25:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tinyplanetblog.com\/?p=274"},"modified":"2007-09-03T22:25:53","modified_gmt":"2007-09-03T21:25:53","slug":"nightwish","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tinyplanetblog.com\/?p=274","title":{"rendered":"Nightwish"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was wandering around YouTube earlier and stumbled on the latest <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nightwish.com\">Nightwish<\/a> video, &#8220;Amaranth&#8221;. I&#8217;d forgotten it was out there so I had a look. I really like what Annette Olzon has brought to the band. Her vocals are much more accessible and her style far more grounded than Tarja Turunen&#8217;s. That&#8217;s not to say you can easily compare the two, because their styles are utterly different. I&#8217;ll have to wait until <em>Dark Passion Play<\/em> comes out before I can make my mind up who I like more, but she&#8217;s off to a good start. In the meantime, check out Ms Olzon doing her thing in &#8220;Amaranth&#8221;:<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">[youtube]http:\/\/youtube.com\/watch?v=GdZn7k5rZLQ[\/youtube]<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">For the sake of comparsion, here&#8217;s &#8220;Nemo&#8221;, featuring Tarja:<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">[youtube]http:\/\/youtube.com\/watch?v=xAKf1gTx7qM[\/youtube]<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">And while I&#8217;m at it, here&#8217;s &#8220;Amaranth&#8221; on the piano:<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">[youtube]http:\/\/youtube.com\/watch?v=U8XcMavRrHk[\/youtube] <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was wandering around YouTube earlier and stumbled on the latest Nightwish video, &#8220;Amaranth&#8221;. I&#8217;d forgotten it was out there so I had a look. I really like what Annette Olzon has brought to the band. Her vocals are much more accessible and her style far more grounded than Tarja Turunen&#8217;s. That&#8217;s not to say [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[9],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tinyplanetblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/tinyplanetblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/tinyplanetblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tinyplanetblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tinyplanetblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=274"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/tinyplanetblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tinyplanetblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=274"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tinyplanetblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=274"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tinyplanetblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=274"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}