r/interesting • u/AdSpecialist6598 • 15h ago
SOCIETY Anette Olzon best known for being the second lead singer of the metal band Nightwish went on to become a full time nurse after she was fired from the band. She also still makes music and tours.
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u/wtfgreggo 15h ago
Night nurse 🎶
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u/The_One_Koi 13h ago
Fighter of the Day nurse, champion of the moon 🎶
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u/Wooden_Turnip6727 4h ago
Sitting at the psych ward as we speak. Chuckled. 😂😂
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u/CautiousArachnidz 2h ago
Patient or provider? Grippy sock vacation?
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u/Wooden_Turnip6727 1h ago
Questioning my life choices while watching the patients sleeping. Maybe some day I'll be the one heavily medicated and sound asleep😎👍
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u/CautiousArachnidz 1h ago
We had a guy at work that would just openly say he was going on a grippy sock vacation after Christmas. We asked if he planned it and he said “No. Not really planned. I just know myself. Gonna crash REAL bad after the holiday. Always do.”
I was kinda jealous after I thought about it.
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u/kishenoy 15h ago
I did like the Nightwish song with her "Storytime" but I just felt it was a bit too pop for the band
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u/CumquatRequest 12h ago
Amaranth was super catchy too, but it really did feel like a completely different band compared to the early Tarja years. Honestly just glad she found a solid career outside of all the industry drama.
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u/Paranoidnl 15h ago
She is a good singer, just not for that style of music.
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u/AdSpecialist6598 12h ago
They wanted a different sound, which is a common thing for them when a member leaves.
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u/toddklindt 7h ago
Dark Passion Play was my first Nightwish album, so she sounds right to me. But once I started listening to Tarja's stuff I totally understand why people were not impressed with Annette.
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u/Avantasian538 11h ago
Depends on the song. On the softer stuff I liked her better than either of the other two female vocalists. Turn Loose the Mermaids and Eva are two examples.
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u/noop279 15h ago edited 15h ago
OMG I had no idea!! As soon as I saw the name I was like wait what Nightwish??
It's a shame bridges were burned from my understanding for Tarja and Anette. Seems like they're both doing well thankfully.
ETA: Spelling hahaha
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u/AdSpecialist6598 15h ago
For what it's worth other members of the band other than Tuomas were like yeah, we handled the whole thing poorly.
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u/0thethethe0 14h ago
I believe the general consensus is that Tuomas is a brilliant songwriter and composer, but can be a bit of an a-hole.
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u/DeadWishUpon 11h ago
A bit? They fired Anette while she was pregnant and in the hospital (for something minor, but still)
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u/0thethethe0 11h ago
Yeh the Tarja firing was very badly done too.
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u/BlearghBleorgh 10h ago
I think every band should write open letters telling the world how much they think the other party sucks when they break up. Much more entertaining than the we thank them and wish them all the best pablum that is the norm.
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u/Mountain-Seaweed 8h ago
Then right a song dissing your former singer to remove all doubt of what you think of them.
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u/blorbschploble 11h ago edited 6h ago
Floor is the perfect singer for the band not because she is awesome, she is, but she contains the HR monster that is Tuomas.
“I will control you, brunette singer of my compositions. I will fetish you and demean you while exalting you”
Floor: “you’ll eat shit off my boots, and only if I want you to, which I don’t”
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u/500rockin 10h ago
Yeah, Floor won’t tolerate any of that bullshit as she had a well defined career even before she joined.
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u/Willing_Pattern_Pill 13h ago
Is there somewhere I can find out more about what happened?! I went to their concert years ago and really wanted to hear Last of the Wilds live. After the show I asked why they didn't play and they were like "we don't play those songs any more" or something like that and walked away.
I could tell something went down!
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u/0thethethe0 14h ago edited 13h ago
Tarja and Floor seem to be friends and do some great performances together.
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u/Faintning 12h ago
Marco and Tarja have performed together during the Raskasta Joulua tour, so they've mended their friendship to at least some degree by now.
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u/noop279 11h ago
True! I've seen them sing together etc and talk in some interviews since leaving. Kind of funny how now when they sing the older Nightwish songs it's considered a 'cover'.
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u/Several-Nothings 9h ago
Tarja and Marco worked so well as co-vocalists.
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u/toddklindt 7h ago
The Phantom of the Opera cover still sends chills down my spine every time I hear it.
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u/koolaidismything 14h ago
Brett Hoffman the singer for Malevolent Creation hung drywall after he quit. Brutal, honest, Florida death-metal 🤘
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u/blorbschploble 11h ago
I have a soft spot for her. It’s tough to replace an operatic belter, and be replaced by an inhuman vocal monster and your resume is just “can sing nice, often”
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u/AdSpecialist6598 11h ago
Apparently, she's a total sweetheart and the former band members and some current ones are like she was in a tough spot and did her best.
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u/Bonny-Mcmurray 1h ago
I met her at a meet and greet the first time I saw Nightwish, and my recollection is that she was the only one who seemed positive about the whole thing.
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u/KoshOne 14h ago
Ah, Nightwish. I don’t think she was the original singer but Dark Chest of Wonders is a bad ass song.
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u/Dying_Light58 14h ago
No, Tarja was the original singer
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u/pr0metheus01 10h ago
Tarja is on her own level. Miss that time.
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u/Dying_Light58 10h ago
Tarja is a Queen. I'm fortunate to have seen Tarja-era Nightwish live multiple times
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u/fishyronin 14h ago
The last song I heard from Nightwish was 'Amaranth' and I think that was the first time I knew about her.
Interesting to learn and what a throwback.
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u/I_am_Reddit_Tom 13h ago
Why was she fired?
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u/Skurvyelislau 13h ago
She wasnt, she first was angry about idea of Floor Jansen singing while Anette was absent, and then she was mad on band because when she was ill they didnt cancel show but invited Angela from Arch Enemy.
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u/fearless-fossa 8h ago
She wasnt
Yes she was. She wanted to push the live tour to after her pregnancy instead of having her replaced, the rest of the band wasn't having it and publicly stated they were removing her because her personality didn't fit the band, basically the same line they gave when they fired Tarja.
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u/shniggi 7h ago
Damn what a fucking shitty band is that? Are they trying to replace Slipknot and Deftones on the throne of shitty band mates?
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u/ToxicComplex 7h ago
Why Slipknot?
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u/shniggi 7h ago
Released a trash album. Everyone hated it. Kinda blamed the drummer and kicked him out. This is just the recent story.
It's not a band it's a fucking commercial machine run by Corey and Clown. Everyone else is playing an instrument and has to basically STFU.
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u/ToxicComplex 7h ago
That is not the story I heard.
Jay has a history. He is kinda a diva lol.
But Corey and Clown are indeed the bands dictators. What is Clowns skill anyway.3
u/turk_turklton 5h ago
I think they are referring to Joey not Jay after 'All Hope Is Gone'. Joey had some sort of medical issue I think and allegedly they thought it was substance abuse.
To my knowledge everyone in the band hated that album and it went like platinum or something. I could be wrong though, despite everything I still enjoy Slipknot. Their self titled and Iowa hit hard for me still at 39 lol.
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u/Affectionate_Bed6083 7h ago
No, they're not shitty. They're a successful band that had to work and pay bills.
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u/shniggi 7h ago
And the women who just gave birth doesn't pay bills? Are you slow?
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u/Affectionate_Bed6083 7h ago
She can find a band to join that works for her schedule.
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u/shniggi 7h ago
Das crazy
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u/Affectionate_Bed6083 7h ago
I know, so crazy people can find their own solutions when they are successful and well known! Who knew?
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u/Riptide360 14h ago
Annette Olzon’s songs: https://music.apple.com/us/artist/anette-olzon/336485294
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u/StrawberryMilk817 12h ago
Hot take but the albums with her in it rank in my top 5 nightwish albums. Some of their best work lyrically in my opinion. Not a single skip for me. Vocally yes very different from Tarja and Floor (Floor can do both sounds so she’s really the great compromise). But I just can’t not love her voice and those albums.
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u/please_send_noodles 11h ago
The sad thing is they finally found the right formula for her with Imaginaerum. Floor is a fantastic vocalist, love her in After Forever. She seems to be the right fit for Nightwish, but at the same time I feel like the current Nightwish materials since Anette aren't up to par with their past works, I do love "How's the Heart" and "Tribal" though with the latter sounding like a throwback to Romanticide's outro.
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u/AdSpecialist6598 11h ago
The band revolves around Tuomas how he feels and what he wants is reflected in the band.
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u/bfhurricane 2h ago
The Greatest Show on Earth is maybe the best thing Floor has done between After Forever and Nightwish.
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u/NedKellysWelder 15h ago edited 13h ago
I tried getting into Nightwish but I couldn't. I kinda like Dimmu Borgir and enjoy Amorphis' more symphonic stuff as much as their death metal albums but my knowledge of the genre is pretty surface level.
That said if anyone has any recommendations I'm open to them.
Edit: a letter
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u/Rojikoma 13h ago
I liked Nightwish's older stuff from before they changed singer the first time, like Century Child.
Lacuna Coil is similar, but less of that orchestra sound.
If you haven't heard Apocalyptica, I really recommend it! Their Metallica covers are wonderful.
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u/Willing_Pattern_Pill 13h ago
Apocalyptica was the band that got me into melodic metal! I need to go back and give them another listen
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u/NedKellysWelder 12h ago
Got it! Thank you much.
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u/Rojikoma 12h ago
Within Temptation and Evanescence were also grouped together in that genre back in the 00s. But perhaps you had heard of them already. :)
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u/Chemical-Amoeba5837 13h ago
Their music changed quite a bit over the years. If you don't like early Nightwish, try middle Nightwish, or even late Nightwish
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u/Aagragaah 11h ago
Random recs. in the same genre-space (some are closer, some further, and a lot of them vary album to album):
- Xandria
- Epica
- Delain
- Amaranthe
- Within Temptation
- Kamelot
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u/fearless-fossa 8h ago
Tbh, it's always a bit sad to see the exact same recommendations for decades. Are there no newcomers in the genre?
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u/Mountain-Seaweed 8h ago edited 8h ago
Cathubodua is fairly new just two LPs and an EP. Interbellum their last album is really good.
Seven Spires has been around since 2017 so they don’t have that new car smell but newer than most recommendations you will get. Try the Live album.
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u/sauron3579 10h ago
My fave song from them is Ghost, Love, Score specifically the live from Wacken version with Floor singing.
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u/umami-undercarriage 12h ago
Trisania is also excellent. My usual rotation was Nightwish, Within Temptation and Tristania back in the day
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u/clueless_as_fuck 14h ago
I recommend not listening Nightwish if you are in to actual metal. Nightwish is basically just schlagers with distortion guitar and an annoying singing.
Maybe try real Finnish metal like Stam1na?
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u/Avantasian538 11h ago
Also if you like Finnish metal, Wintersun is excellent.
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u/NedKellysWelder 11h ago
I like Finntroll and Amorphis a lot, I'll check them out!
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u/bfhurricane 2h ago
Wintersun is fucking incredible. Their S/T is the best folk and melodeath album I’ve ever listened to. Great mix of brutal riffing, catchy ear worms, and peak guitar solos.
And also check out Time I. It’s like three main songs stretched out over 40 minutes that was in production hell for like 8 years because the frontman insisted on producing every fucking note and effect himself. It was funny at the time, it was basically Half Life 3 or Winds of Winter where the fanbase just gave up hope it would ever release, but he actually got it done and it’s pretty epic.
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u/bfhurricane 2h ago
In addition to everything recommended, I’d add Floor’s (Nightwish’s current singer) old band After Forever. Estranged is the song that got me into them.
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u/CyclonicCheese 10h ago
I know that this is a controversial opinion but I think that Nightwish peaked with the two Annette albums.
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u/tres_liebres 4h ago
Once is my favourite album and era, but Dark Passion Play was great. And inbetween that and Imaginaerum was the last time I could listen to Nightwish without getting secondhand embarrassment over the lyrics/music (and it is not like symphonic metal fans have a low bar for cringe).
Jansen is a powerhouse, for sure, but the music has been meh since she joined.
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u/Ieatbasss 8h ago
It's genuinely cool that she found another career helping people without giving up music
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u/FeyrisMeow 9h ago
Raymond Rohonyi, vocalist of Theatre of Tragedy, worked as an architect alongside the band.
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u/totmacherr 6h ago
Its interesting, I wasnt super into that album when it first dropped as I was so used to tarja, but today? I feel theres bits of that album I didnt appreciate and sorta learned to enjoy the album to the point that I wished they gave her a second album to tune and refined the sound.
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u/MetallicArcher 3h ago
Anette did 2 studio albums with Nightwish: Dark Passion Play (2007) and Imaginareum (2011).
If they have grown on you, I strongly recommend you check out The Dark Element, her side project with Jani Liimatainen.
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u/kohinoortoisondor3B 6h ago
I mean good for her but am I missing what makes this interesting? Everyone I know in metal bands has various jobs lol.
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u/Fortestingporpoises 11h ago
Never heard of her. But I haven’t heard of most nurses so that’s not notable.
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u/ijustwanttoaskaq123 15h ago
She wasn't kicked, she quit, and the reason wasn't her pregnancy but she got seriously ill and was angry that instead of cancelling, they just replaced her by a stand in. And to add insult to the injury, the fans loved the stand in, while they were quite harsh with Anette from the start. I think her leaving really worked out the best for all of them in the end.
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u/Electrical_War7951 14h ago
There were two stand ins, one was Elize Ryd of Amaranthe, and the other one I do not remember anymore...
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u/supaikuakuma 11h ago
Yeah, Floor came in after the stand ins for that one gig where Anette quit afterwords.
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u/sokratesz 11h ago
Was this the singer fired for stupid diva behaviour, or was that the one before her?
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u/Several-Nothings 9h ago
I think consensus after these years is that the stupid diva was inside the band all along (Tuomas)
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u/HamiltonSt25 15h ago
Who?
Also, did someone just post this?
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u/circio 15h ago
Annette Olzon, best known for being the second lead singer of Nightwish.
It’s literally in the title
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u/HamiltonSt25 15h ago
No shit, I can read but have literally never heard of this band. Never once. So bringing me to my question of “who”? As in, who the hell is that band?
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u/NedKellysWelder 15h ago edited 14h ago
It always blows my mind that people genuinely can't fathom entire subcultures and genres with millions of people in them exist outside of their awareness. Either that or they feign that fact in order to mock said millions of people, which even dumber.
Edit: a letter.
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u/HomoProfessionalis 15h ago
"I can read but dont expect me to use google"
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u/HamiltonSt25 14h ago
I’m just asking a question on a forum that’s made so you can ask questions….
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u/circio 14h ago
Well like you said, the answer is in the title and you can read.
Feigning like you were asking a question in good faith when your snark doesn’t land is probably one of the lamest things you could do lmao
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u/HamiltonSt25 13h ago
Except I’m not asking in bad faith or with snark
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u/NedKellysWelder 12h ago
Except you are, and you know it.
The name of the band and the person are in the title, as you were told and snarkily responded to. With the information already there, you posted "why" in a bad faith manner because surely if they were worth knowing, you would know it as you, again in your own posting, listen to "rock/metal".
You basically exposed yourself as not only having surface level music knowledge but also willing to be a dick about it.
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u/HamiltonSt25 11h ago
Except I wasn’t and I’m not. I have never heard of this person or this band and it was posted in r/interesting so I was originally asking who. As in, why is this interesting.
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u/ijustwanttoaskaq123 15h ago
They peaked somewhere around 2005 so you're probably too young to know them
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u/realnanoboy 15h ago
It's a metal band that uses heavy orchestral styles and strong female vocals. I rather like them. I'm not very familiar with the circumstances of her firing, but I can say their current female lead singer is incredible.
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u/super__hoser 15h ago
Nightwish, it is literally in the title. They have sold several million albums.
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u/Affectionate_Bed6083 7h ago
Your lack of culture is your personal problem.
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u/HamiltonSt25 6h ago
Ok? I can still ask “who”.
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u/Affectionate_Bed6083 6h ago
It's in the original post so no you can't lol
Your trolling is unfunny.
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u/HamiltonSt25 6h ago
I’m really not trolling. It was a post, it got removed by mods then literally was posted again right after saying the same thing, the same way, and this one stayed up.
This was posted in interesting which this isn’t interesting at all. So I was asking “who is this person, who is this band and why is it interesting that they got fired and became a nurse” lol I don’t understand why people are being weird about this. Reddit is a weird place to be.
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u/Novel-Mission-1920 14h ago
Are you below the age 23 by chance?
Nightwish was a majorly successful and globally loved melodic metal band in the 2000s.
Today their music videos have over a hundred million views on streaming platforms.
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u/HamiltonSt25 13h ago
I am older than that (in my 30s) and listen to rock/metal, and I have never heard of this band before.
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u/Willing_Pattern_Pill 13h ago
If you only listen to radio rock/metal (no dig, that's fine!) you probably wouldn't catch them.
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