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"Nemo" is a 2004 song by the symphonic metal group Nightwish. It is taken from the album Once. The Academy of St. Martin in the Fields participated on the single. Once topped the album charts in Finland, Germany, Norway, Greece, Slovenia and Hungary. Widely successful, the single was certified gold in Finland on the day of its release. In the UK it could only chart at #87 after a chart entry of #101 the week before, but spent over 20 weeks on the top 200 plus a few re-entries.
Keyboardist Tuomas Holopainen is a fan of Disney animation and loves Disneyworld in Florida, USA. Nightwish did some shows at the Blues Club there at the time when the Disney film "Finding Nemo" was in theaters, leading to the misconception that the song "Nemo" had something to do with the movie. The truth is that nemo is Latin for "nobody". It is also the name of the mysterious captain in Jules Verne's Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea (the probable origin for Disney's Nemo). At Nightwish live shows, fans have been known to throw Nemo fish character plush dolls on stage. Perhaps more significantly nemo also corresponds to the famous answer given by the Greek hero Odysseus to the the Cyclops Polyphemus. In the Odyssey, when Polyphemus asks for his name, Odysseus tells him "Oυτις" a name translated as "No-man" or "Nobody" which has been used allusively by later authors, such as Jules Verne. Other thematic elements from the Odyssey appears in other Nightwish songs such as "The Siren". A big-budget music video was created for the song, directed by Antti Jokinen. | |||||||||||||||
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