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Seconding Visions of Atlantis. The new lineup is incredible. For catchy songs, try Monster, Tonight I'm alive, Clocks. For longer, more epic symphonic metal, try Master the hurricane, Dead to the sea, Where the sky and oceans blend. For ballads, try Freedom and Ashes to the sea. You must watch their live videos, they are up on YouTube. Their live energy is infectious 😍
I don't think Alicia maliciously threw Billy under the bus. She just seems to be someone who genuinely doesn't understand finances or try to understand them either. Add to that, she's new to reality TV and probably didn't realise how the edit would look or how much fans would overanalyze things.
Jo-Ellen's political views does not make Liz a good person. The two are uncorrelated in my opinion. There was a situation, irrespective of who is the worse human, Liz is the one who acted worse in that moment.
Not the person you asked, but answering as a fellow Imaginaerum fan - this album is a no skip for me. Songs like Storytime, Ghost river, Last ride of the day and Scaretale are bangers. Turn lose the mermaids helped me during my father's cancer/passing, it's so soothing. I want my tears back and Song of myself are the right amount of longing for lost innocence for me. This album is just perfect from start to end. Add in the Wacken 2013 Live performance with Floor Jansen, and yep, it's PERFECT!
I recently came across Charlotte Wessels' "Chasing sunsets" and it blew my mind. Since then, I've found "The crying room", "Ode to the west wind" and "Human to ruin", which I've also loved. However, I also stumbled upon a lot of songs that sounded more "pop" to me. I would like some more metal influenced songs, whether heavy or even ballads, with unique melodies and guitars. Any recommendations would be greatly appreciated here! Thanks in advance!
I'm so confused. One or more men are eliminated each week until just 2 remain. In the finale, just 2 are supposed to be left. The rest come back for the Men Tell All. Is that what he's alluding to without actual knowledge of how the show works? Because why would the men come back for her finale?
This is the part that makes me wonder if Rulla knows and is just trying to keep it under wraps. She left the polo match and returned to the polo match. What even was the point of leaving if she didn't go to the in-laws? And if the MIL was sick, whether hospitalized or not, how could they leave the kids with them and go to Polo? When Ashley's toddler was sick during the boat ride, she left and didn't come back. Priorities. 🤷🏻♀️
I can sort of believe it. I felt like she was very toned down in the reunion, compared to how she's been the whole season. She went from a fan favourite to being perceived as a villain by many. There's also legal stuff going on with their friend Dino. It might make sense to lay low now than risk a dangerous fall from grace next season.
I'm not an US citizen but in my country, if you're still legally married, you cannot legally remarry. If Brian was not yet divorced, how would he and Rulla get married? Surely if Rulla has a prenup she had her lawyers go over her marriage certificate of all things, and she seems savvy too. I'm starting to believe the rumor that she had an affair with Brian while he was still married to Alicia's Spanish teacher. That would explain this whole discrepancy. Surely Rulla knows her own wedding date!
Oh yes Charlotte is amazing and special, undoubtedly. I listen to her era of songs a lot, even the more pop sounding ones. They're catchy as hell. I just mean that I like how metal it sounds now. Hopefully it gets better with Diana with more album releases. I remember for Nightwish Anette was a perfect fit for Imaginaerum, her second album 😊
Delain with Charlotte Wessels, as much as I adore her, was becoming more and more "pop" sounding towards the end with some heavy elements. Delain with Diana now is much more heavier and much more representative of symphonic metal. Compare "Vengeance" with "Underland" and you'll understand what I mean.
Kamelot with Roy Khan was 10x better than Kamelot with Tommy, but it's not because of the vocals but because of the writing/ modern production. Tommy is a damn good vocalist. I love his work in Ayreon.
What infuriates me even more is she didn't even take a look at the video. If she had looked, from her husband's clothes/demeaner/background clues she might have actually been able to know for certain if the video is old or new. How can she dismiss it as old or fake without even looking at it? This makes me think she doesn't actually want to know, she's just pretending that she does hoping no new info lands in Jo-Ellen's lap.
The poll won't allow a sixth option so I can't add Brian, but would anyone have picked him? Add in comments lol.
Rulla is actually delusional. "When I was on my death bed." I'm sorry what? 😂
I like Billy. From what I've seen of him on the show, I really do like him. I don't know what the prenup situation is with Alicia, but I really am rooting for these two!
Also, did you guys catch when Liz's husband Gerry said "definitely not a question for me" when the question said "what have you never told this group?" 👀
I'm in love with The Holographic principle. Ascension, Once upon a nightmare, Dancing in a hurricane and the title track are my favourites. The music of these songs grab me. Ascension has a pretty cool intro. Once upon a nightmare tells a story, starting with a ballad and narration before delving into more heavier sound. Dancing in a hurricane has that oriental-like percussion that's at the heart of it. And the title track is a typical epic Epica song, the scale change at the end hits different. I'm someone who also prefers the older stuff to the newer ones, so I love you like this album too! 😊
When are the confessionals filmed? I notice every woman is wearing basically 2/3 outfits for all the episodes' confessionals. It makes me think that the entirety of confessionals was filmed after filming on the season wrapped, and not in between.
I'm comparing it to BN shows. There the cast is wearing the same clothes in the confessional that they were during the episode, so we know that the confessionals are probably filmed after the last scene of the episode/week.
I ask this because it would explain every woman's attitude towards the others. When the season started, the fights didn't start, yet the confessionals bring out the bitterness that can be better explained if they were filmed after the whole season.
Thoughts?
Forgive me for asking, but I've been wondering why Floor hasn't been back for this? Nightwish isn't touring, she's solo right now, did it not fit into her schedule?
Of course, Angel has been amazing, and it makes me wish for a new AF album with her. AF is one of my favourite bands, and even without Mark Jensen, I'd love more of their sound!
If Alicia is "unintelligent", and it's a big if, then she should not be in charge of the operational parts of the business, but that doesn't mean she shouldn't own a share. There are plenty of rich people in the world who are "unintelligent" and own businesses, they just outsource the running of the business to someone else.
Okay but the best Ashley I lores are all from BIP when she was madly in unrequited love with Jared when he was dating someone else. Sample: https://youtu.be/iVN9pltH26A?si=7FYdgKYTUjj8Y21G and https://youtu.be/wYA9eKrHjYY?si=wYf9jnpkjr98GYhm
Also, it's Alicia "Jane's Fonda" Carmody. She doesn't always use the perfect words. I've watched her on TV for 9 episodes and I know this. Liz has supposedly known her for so long, how can she not? This wasn't something to double down on, specially when it's something that makes Alicia sad. Team Alicia all the way!
I don't think Floor will leave Nightwish. A lot of vocalists have side stuff. Clemi from VOA has Exit Eden, Meek from VOA has Temperance. Diana from Delain has DYYA, Martin from Delain has that folk metal band with Johanna. So to me, having solo projects during a break doesn't indicate a member is leaving a band.
There are, however, no indications that Nightwish will come back any time soon. I feel like maybe they'd be back in 10 years? Until there's an official statement, we can only speculate. I hope for new music with their old lyrical themes some day, so fingers crossed.
I think TFP is not a great person. Having said that, I'm also not enjoying watching her unravel on social media. I think she should not be given a platform, given the terrible things that she has done. I also think she should not be given a platform because it's bad for her mental health as well. So on both points, I'm absolutely against this season airing.
As much as I love Charlotte, I love Diana too and I've come to appreciate the heavier turn Delain has taken during the Diana era instead of the "poppier" sound during the later Charlotte era. Just compare "The quest and the curse" with "Get the devil out of me". I'm not saying one is objectively better as a song that the other. I love them equally. But one does sound heavier than the other. And I love this era we're in.
When it comes to the fight between Rosie and Kelsey, Kelsey is coming at Rosie for no solid reason and I'm siding with Rosie. But Rosie in general has not been my favourite (trying to start a fight between Liz and Alicia/ between Liz and Ashley who is her friend supposedly) while Kelsey has in general been nicer to everyone else.
Adding the link to the interview where Clemi explains this (around 11:20) https://youtu.be/L7D8l6VED8s?si=dAIXcgV0_fSYBkDP
Please don't take my question the wrong way, but I'm new to the world of RH, this is the first season I'm watching, and I'm wondering why they're called "housewives" when some of them have such stable careers. Again, nothing but love for the show and the women (I'm obsessed), I'm just curious as a new viewer.
I don't like how she's actively defending her husband but I like her otherwise, specially when she offers advice to the other ladies (Example: To Alicia about her marriage/ prenup). I can relate, because I find it easier to offer sound advice to a third person when I'm not emotionally involved versus when I'm the one needing advice.
I speak only for myself, not others when I say this, but I kind of went into this expecting sort of a Nympathamind/ Lilith Immaculate kind of Cradle of Filth, Gothic metal sound. So when it sounded kind of neo-symphonic (I don't know the best word to describe it), I was very shocked. The "I don't like it" probably stemmed from my expectations not being met, not the song being actually bad. Now after 2-3 listens, I do like it a lot. I like both the originals and the single version, but I'm curious to see how the Tarja only version sounds!
I think they had issues and the divorce wasn't shocking. The "came out of nowhere" complaint stems, at least for me, from how the final season was spent entirely on the wedding only for them to be divorced RIGHT after. The events that occurred in the series, spanning over years from marriage to divorce, made sense, but the pacing of the episodes portraying them didn't.
I understand the break for Nightwish and I would respect it a bit more if Nightwish didn't tour with Floor during both her pregnancy and cancer. Now, Floor is a veteran, and it was her decision to continue, but as a fan, it frustrates me that they didn't take a break when their lead singer needed it but they're taking a break now. It's worse because previously, Jukka quit because he needed a break(physical exhaustion while touring due to chronic insomnia), Marko quit because he needed a break (mental health struggles, burnout), Anette was fired because she got sick and needed a break, and it just looks like Nightwish is the problem.
As much as I'm a Nightwish fan, I'm also an Epica fan, and I'd rank both The Holographic Principle (2016) and Omega (2021) higher than the last 3 Nightwish albums. (My favourite Nightwish albums are Once and Imaginaerum, by the way. I'm a huge Floor Jansen fan, I listen to her Live versions of Nightwish songs. So Floor isn't the problem for me at all, it's just the lyrical themes of the last albums.)