Nightwish’s Floor Jansen announces “Fire” solo single

Nightwish‘s Floor Jansen has set “Fire” as the title of her new solo single, to be released on March 25.

Earlier this week (Wednesday, March 9), the 41-year-old Dutch-born singer, who made her live debut with Nightwish nearly a decade ago, tweeted out a pre-save link for the track on Spotify and Apple Music, and she wrote: “Like if you’re as excited as me!!”

Less than two months ago, Jansen stated about the musical direction of “Fire”: “It’s a pop song, so it’s not metal, it’s not rock, but it’s definitely me.” Jansen went on to explain that the track will not necessarily be representative of all the new solo music she has been working on in recent months. “I guess it’s more of a mash-up [of styles] actually,” she said, referring to her upcoming collection of solo material, “though it’s not so extreme as in genres, like all of a sudden it becomes… Here’s a metal song and here’s a rock song and this is more poppy… I mean, pop music — the word of it — [it’s short for] popular music, and it kind of describes a lot, and within that it falls. I can only say that it’s not metal and it’s not rock, but it will have its influences and it will have a part of the sound. It can’t even be so that the first song is how everything else will sound like because, yeah, if you know Nightwish and also for us, it’s always so hard to pick just one song that’s gonna be like the kick-off of an album but it can never really represent everything. And I guess it’s the same for this first song that comes on the 25th of March.”

Last summer, Floor said during an appearance on the Breaking Absolutes With Peter Orullian podcast that she had been working on a solo album since shortly before the beginning of the pandemic. “And it really kickstarted my own creativity that I haven’t really been able to use over the years,” she said. “It’s nice that it gets out. And I would like to do more of that and actually finish that album and make those steps and find a way to combine a solo career with Nightwish and my life at home, which I even more value after spending so much time here in this green heaven [in Sweden] where I live.”

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Like if you're as excited as me!! 😍 pic.twitter.com/O6gzbNPRlA— Floor Jansen (@FloorJansen_) March 9, 2022

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