Metal singer Floor Jansen has finished her first solo album. ‘I always stand my ground’

‘My dream is now’, Floor Jansen sings in My Paragon, which, despite the possessive pronoun, you can call the title track of her solo debut. What does that dream look like in 2023? “The realization of what I envisioned in the past; an ideal image of myself. What I didn’t see in myself before, but what I kept hoping for. But sometimes you don’t realize where you actually stand. That a large part of your dreams and what you once aspired to in terms of both personal development and your career have already been fulfilled.”