Storytime

2011

Story Time is a song by Finnish symphonic metal band Nightwish. It is the first single from her seventh studio album Imaginaerum, reaching number one on the Finnish single charts.

Construction and content

The song was written by Tuomas Holopainen. The inspiration for the song he picked up from the film The Snowman from the year 1982. The title song of the film Walking in the Air Nightwish had already gecovert on their album Oceanborn. Holopainen described the song as a midnight flight with a snowman. The lyrics of the song contains many references to children's books such as Peter Pan or Alice in Wonderland. In addition, Gaia is called, which is the earth personified in Greek mythology.

The music video corresponds to the radio version of the song and is about 1:30 minutes shorter than the album version. The musicians play the song, taking into account the costumes in which they appear in the film Imaginaerum. The cover of the single was designed by "Toxic Angel" ( bourgeois Janne Pitkänen ). The single was released on CD, download and vinyl in various versions.

Reception

Andreas Schulz of the online magazine Musikreviews.de described the song as a "typical Nightwish - hit, catchy, fast and with a chorus that one for weeks not get out of your skull ." Steffen M. from Austria Cartesian Online Magazine Stormbringer designated Storytime as catchy and praised the singer Anette Olzon, the "very good sets variable voice in the service of the band's sound in the scene and the song pushes open their own stamp " their.

Storytime debuted at number one on the Finnish singles chart and became the twelfth number -one hit of the band's history. In Spain and Hungary, the single reached the second place in the respective charts respectively. In the German single charts reached Storytime 39th place In Switzerland, number 31 and number 57 is in Austria.