Slow, Love, Slow

Album: Imaginaerum (2011)
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Songfacts®:

  • This song was inspired by American 1930's nightclub jazz music. Nightwish keyboardist and chief songwriter, Tuomas Holopainen, was stirred to pen it after watching David Lynch's Twin Peaks. He explained to Metal Hammer magazine: "You want to challenge yourself to do something that you have absolutely no idea about, and none of us know anything about jazz! Our drummer even had to take some lessons to learn how to use the brush! It all started when I started watching Twin Peaks again. I just loved the soundtrack and thought, 'Could we do something like that?' and this is the result."

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