The lyrics references several classical pieces of fiction concerning imagination, including the character of Peter Pan and Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll. "How would it feel to take a midnight flight with a snowman through the most wondrous landscapes, like in the classic animated Yuletide film? The meaning of our very existence is created though stories, tales and imagination. In a teaser text released prior to the release, Holopainen summarized the song: The idea for the music of "Storytime" was born when Holopainen wondered why no-one had made a remake of the film, and pondered on what his version of the score to the scene in which " Walking in the Air" plays would sound like.
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Musical and lyrical content Ĭomposer and lyricist of the song, Tuomas Holopainen has said that "Storytime" is inspired by the 1982 movie The Snowman, the theme of which was previously covered by Nightwish for their Oceanborn album.
On November 18, the lyrics to the song were released in a YouTube video and on the band's website. After a mere week, the band announced that the single was topping the Finnish single chart.
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The single was released as a CD, download and as a video through YouTube on November 9, and the day after, Holopainen featured in a YouTube video talking about the video and the background of the song. On October 26, the first content from the song and video was released in a 50-second teaser video on YouTube. A week later, the band released the Imaginaerum cover, track list and commentary on each song written by Holopainen, including the first clues concerning the song, hinting on references to yuletide and The Snowman. The song was revealed as the first single and music video on September 2, 2011, with the release date set to November 11. Ĭomposer and band leader Tuomas Holopainen has said of "Storytime" that it "is a single that pretty well represents the whole album", and that it give a better picture of the album than " Eva" and " Amaranth" did as the first two singles from the 2007 album Dark Passion Play.
The song premiered on Radio Rock, a Finnish radio station at 9.00 GMT +2 on November 7, 2011, two days before its commercial release. It was released on November 9, 2011, twenty days prior to the album, along with a music video. " Storytime" is the lead single from Finnish symphonic metal band Nightwish's seventh studio album, Imaginaerum.
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