@seraph7:
Thanks for asking me - but unfortunately I'm not able to do miracles in this case.
See, the lyrics by Tuomas have always more than one level and interpretations of them are subject to build from each interpreting person's own experiences, values and views of the world in which s/he lives his/her life.
If you wish, you can easily see his lyrics as frameworks where to build your own meaningful story to finish it. Which I think is the main reason why Nightwish's songs are so fascinating and appeal to so many different type of people around the world despite their actual cultural background.
IMO, I see "Whoever Brings The Night" as an essay dealing with the powers of the darker forms of humans' sexual lust and random desire, the kind we all propably have as an inbuilt factor in our minds. But as I said, the real meanig of the lyrics has intentionally left to be filled in by the listener.
@The Stormbird:
I think that for us who knew Nightwish from the very beginning, it never was "Tarja & The Boys", na d the image did not change after she was fired from the band. We knew how she was asked to join the band, how her vocals influenced Tuomas and Emppu moving from the original idea of atmospheric acoustic mood music into metal and we really appreciate her as one of the pioneering vocalists in female fronted metal.
On stage she had the role of main vocalist and did it perfect. The fact that she lived in different places due her studies and thus couldn't take part of the band's rehearsals wasn't a secret and the band worked well in that way from the very beginnig because she had moved out from Kitee before the band was formed. The reasons that lead to her dismissal had nothing to do with her as an artist, it was the issue with her husband/manager trying to take over the command of the whole band through Tarja.
Most of newer fans in North America have known the band only after "Once" was released there in October 2004, and they don't know the band's previous history at all, so for them it is easier to build an image of "Tarja & The Boys" based on the incidents that happened after Christmas 2004.
@Tramz
Those who saw Tarja as the only or the most important part of Nightwish are people who have learned the pattern from the maistream pop scene where the "star" is everything they ever are let to see. No pics of musicians on the CD booklets, maybe their names in small print. The big machinery is well hidden and most people are not even able to realize it's existence. For those not previously familiar to rock and especially metal it is maybe hard to understand that the "unit" to deal with shall not be the single frontperson, but the whole band.
In all honesty and respect, we should appreciate and cherish both the Tarja era and the new Anette era of Nightwish equally based on the awesome music rather than anything else.
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