Old Composer REACTS to "Runaway" by AURORA (Aurora Aksnes) 

As some have already noted, Aurora is best appreciated in her live performances which bring so much emotion to her creations - the 2015 Nobel Peace Prize performance of the Murder Song (5,4,3,2,1) and the December 2017 Nidarosdomen Cathedral performance of Through the Eyes of a Child or Lucky and The Current performance in 2019 of It Happened Quiet. Her recent videos of Exist for Love in 2020 and the recent Cure For Me are compelling.

Just a hint - with superlative artists like Aurora, always react to live performances. For this song, her performance at the Nobel Peace Prize concert stands out. And yes, she has the finest backing singers, particularly Silja Sol, who is an amazing soprano in her own right. And just one more thing - an eleven year old Aurora wrote this.

She wrote this song when she was 11 or 12 years old and this song was allso a huge Inspiration for Billie Eilish.

I can't listen to this song without tearing up. It brings out the most beautiful melancholy and a homesickness for a place I've never been, and a true home I've never had.

I liked your reaction. Aurora wrote this song when she was about 11! The producer who would later join Auroras band, Magnus Skylstad provided backup vocals along with Selma Stang. I find Aurora's use of harmonies absolutely breath taking. Aurora has stated that Leonard Cohen as an influence, hence she, like Cohen, likes the feeling the contrast between the male and female voice brings.

Aurora is best served live...with strings.

Aurora is pure gold. Everything she does is worth listening to, and she writes and composes her own music. Please see her live at Nidarosdomen doing Through the eyes of a Child.😁

Even if you don't do a reaction... check out her live performances... her voice is a once in a generation gift to us.

AURORA is possibly the best female singer/songwriter/performer out there today!

I would recommend that you watch Aurora sing this song at the 2015 Nobel Peace Prize concert! Live is even more amazing!

You mentioned Disney; she is the northern wind in Frozen 2. She has an absolutely beautiful toned down cover of Into the Unknown. Could you please react to it?

Aurora does not have a single bad song! My favorites are probably “i went too far” “the seed”, “the river” and “under the water”

She's the most fun artist to watch live since Tom Waits.

I'm so happy you found Aurora! Would you believe that she wrote this song when she was 11!? Please seek out some live performances from her, as her presence as she performs is absolutely magical. I'll second a recommendation that I already see here in the comments for Through the Eyes of a Child, from the Nidarosdomen concert.

Listening to Aurora is great, watching her perform is mindblowing though!

She is just amazing, all of her music is out of this world.

You need to watch her live performance of Churchyard - live at the current, just beautiful

Welcome to the Aurora rabbit hole. May your journey be long and beautifully strange.

quite uniquely Aurora's songs inspire people to dance. they're just perfectly made for it

I found AURORA (stylized in all caps) three days ago and haven’t stopped listening since. In Runaway, she sings lyrics “take me home, home where I belong”. I found a video on RU-vid where she talks about all the lyrics and she says she remembers being in her mother’s arms and that being a safe and comfortable place for her. What a wonderful young woman. She exudes hope for our future and makes me feel the same. Thank you for this unique reaction. It’s like none I’ve ever heard before and I so appreciate your depth of knowledge in understanding and breaking down this authentic angel sent to us.

this song is actually so good I'm glad i heard it here

Definitely give Winter Bird by AURORA a try. It's my favorite song made by her!!

Wonderful review....she's genius at composition and two exceptional examples are Soulless Creatures Live Bergen 2020 and Infections of a different Kind live Haik concert. But anything she does is an experience....enjoy the journey,

This is the song that inspired Billie Ellish to start performing. Another of Aurora's songs that you should listen to is Through The Eyes of a Child and the stripped down version on Vevo is the best in my opinion. There are no musical instruments on that one, just her and her backup choir.

More Aurora please! She is better live.

You have seen this wonderful artist before, in your "Wardruna and Aurora - Helvegen (live)" reaction on the "key of geebz" channel. My recommendation: Aurora - All Is Soft Inside (Live on KEXP) it's fantastic. PS. would love to see more Warduna reactions:)

I wish it were possible to go back and hear this song for the first time, again. Watching your reaction was the next best thing. Aurora is simply amazing. I believe she is destined to be one the greatest artists of her generation.

I very much enjoyed your perspective on this song. As others have mentioned, Aurora live is a whole other thing. I'd suggest her concert at Nidarosdomen cathedral. The acoustics are "chef's kiss". My personal favorites are Lucky and Through the Eyes of a Child.

Aurora is awesome, you should check out her live performances. She has such a stage presence. She learned piano by herself when she was 5 to 9 only by replicating songs she heard, basically songs by Bob Dylan and Leonard Cohen which her parents heard the most. Absolute pitch hearing is really magical. People will come here with a lot of reaction requests from her, so I will not even leave mine here. If you liked this one, you can basically pick most of her live stuff on youtube at random and you won't be desappointed. Especially if it's from the venues NIDAROSDOMEN , HAIK or KEXP

Nice, first time hearing Aurora. At times I heard hints of Mazzy Star. I will have to check out some of her other work.

Aurora songs make my soul openly weep.

Great reaction! I so hope you will check out her live preformances.... Her studio are fanstastic, but her live stuff are mindblowing.... A good starting point are Through the eyes of a child from Nidarosdomen consert.... My english is not good enough to describe it....

Lovely reaction sir. You getting it. I can promised if you listen to one more of her songs, you are going to be hooked for sure. Her music cataloge is so unpredictable, she never duck for anything and is a fresh wind in the music business. I am sucker for emotions and expressions and this soulhealer have tons of it. Her music videos is so great. Winterbird, The seed and more but it is her live performance that get my soul everytime. Hope you get some. You are not get disapointed i promise. Lucky in Nidarosdomen is my favourite perfomance ever Thanks man, that was great.

Well - this is why I love your content, man. Being able to articulate what you hear beyond "that was pretty" brings so much value to us, your followers. Aurora is not the biggest selling "young female singer-songwriter" out there. But I claim she is one of the absolutely most interesting (at least from the perspective of an older music-lover). I would highly recommend her live version of "Lucky" rearranged (almost) completely acoustically for string orchestra, harp, male choir and church organ for the "Nidarosdomen concert". It is not really a "stripped version" but the orchestration here really outlines her songwriting, harmonic and use of tension/release sensibilities. (In addition to showcasing that her vocals are truly NOT a studio magic creation). I know your brain would fiest on all the elements she puts in and she outlines so stunningly beautiful and clearly in this version as I have always claimed it can be used as a teaching piece of compositional ABC.

Thx for a so nice reaction. Love Aurora music, her voice, expressiveness (of course here is only a music) and also important but often enigmatic and a little poetic lyrics. BTW: she wrote this song at a age of 11. There is so much great songs from her but I recommend to listen more f.e. live: Lucky live from Nidarosdomen (she wrote the song at a age of 9) and All Is Soft inside from KEXP 2018, Murder Song live in Nobel Prize Concert. And much more to go :).

More Aurora please - recommend The Seed or Queendom. Yes her live performances are emotional & fantastic, but I love her studio cuts and how she layers her songs. She also did a great cover of David Bowie's Life on Mars

The Video of this song is excellent and also the live performances

I recommend "Under the water" you would like it, based off what you said in the video about how all these background sounds are working nicely i definitely would like to hear what you have to say about "Under the water"!

As a compiser I suspect you will enjoy her concert in Nidarosdomen with a symphony orchestra, church orgen, choir and her band. Wow just incredible. Perhaps the best live concert I have ever seen. Thank you for very interesting reactions!👏🙏🏼😊

I’ve recently discovered Aurora, looking forward to watching this now

oh my friend your aurora journey will be special, coming from a middle aged man that has also been in music...happy travels

Yayyy I'm so glad you finally did Aurora! All of her music is incredible tbh, but I'll recommend Exist for Love, The Seed, and It Happened Quiet (Live at the Current) - I know you prefer reacting to studio recordings for the mixing over live performance recordings, this is a live studio session (if I'm saying that right lol) For the channel name, you could just change it to worldwide music maybe?

You likely had other comments suggesting Aurora, but I made one yesterday and honestly I feel seen. I'm delighted you decided to check her out! Aurora has an incredible band who accompany her, one of the band members, Magnus, has helped her compose and write music since she started. Her background singer, Silja, is an incredible vocalist in her own right and their blend when they harmonise gives me so much gooseflesh. They're honestly incredible. I love this song for the spaces she allows to happen between phrases. The combination of the instrumental and the vocals is just so beautifully melded both when they combine and when those lifts happen to give it more impact. If you watch her KEXP performance you can see the band in action and get an idea of their general live set up if you're interested. Plus she's honestly just such a joy to watch perform. In addition to all her original music, she's got lots of live covers she's done where she's rearranged songs and really made them her own. Some of my favourite covers she's done include: Life on Mars (David Bowie), God is a woman (Ariana Grande - She had one hour to learn the song, rearrange it and perform it and absolutely killed it), Believer (Imagine Dragons), and Teardrop (Massive Attack). Overall, Aurora's music toys with genres in a way I really love. You'll hear synths, regular instruments, folk tones, operatic tones, and it all still manages to be quintessentially Aurora in nature. She's a real artist and has such a way when it comes to touching her audience. Side note: Aurora was the voice of the siren in Frozen 2, which is where she comes in with regard to Disney. Anyway, I'll shush now. Thanks so much for checking her out and I hope to see more soon!

Very cool reaction, love hearing from a musicians perspective as a "pure listener" lol. I would recommend anything from the 2019 KEXP performance as the live production there is something I think you'll really enjoy

Please do Aurora's cover of God is a Woman. According to a comment from another user in that video "What makes this even more impressive is that she didnt even know what song she was supposed to cover on this show. They gave her a song and 1 hour to prepare". I fell in love with her version before I heard Ariana Grande's and I love how she (and her band too) made something so different from the original and beautiful in just an hour.

She has a great band behind her. It shows best live.

Aurora has a great catalog. All soft inside (live on kexp)is is one off my favourites allong with murdersong live at the nobel peaceprise consert. Another Norwegian band I think you would like is Kalandra.The leadsinger sounds a lot like Aurora but the music is more guitar based and more alternativ. (Folkprog) Please analyse Slow motion (live at Gildehallen) I give you one more and that is Jarle Bernhoft (Fly Away) live at lydverket. He is THE master of live looping it Wold be very interesting to hear your analyse on that. Love your cannel. Wish you all the best.

Omg, you haven't yet. You are in for a ride, her voice will catch your attention. So I'll be seeing you

Aurora wrote this track when she was 11. She is a child of nature, grown up in the forest a lot of her songs are about nature. Realy recommend you checking out her new work, I know you like to see the studio version of songs but try checking out her cover of Life on Mars by David Bowie.

Havn't watched further, but I sure hope you are doing more Aurora. Hugs from Sweden.

Goosebumps every time. Love her.

As a composer I am sure you will appreciate the talent of Aurora, she wrote this at age 11, I know it's been said before but it bears repeating.

I adore her music and listened to her music for a solid three months straight in the late-summer/fall of 2019 right after her most recent album came out. She is so masterful in her live performances, as you might have gleaned from every other comment 😅, that in many instances certain live performances are warmer and more lush than the studio recording. She is mostly in the Electronic Pop domain so I'm not sure how complex or foreign her composition style would be. Immaculate Vocalist, though 🖤 Songs I recommend from her studio albums are 'It Happened Quiet,' 'All is Soft Inside,' or 'Infections of a Different Kind.'

I love how you react to music...like it's going through your whole body :)

This is such a pure reaction. This is how I felt when I first heard her as well. So much talent. Check out more she doesn't disappoint.

Great breakdown! Would love to see you do a LIVE version of anything of hers. #stillhere Aloha 🤙🏼

Amazing

more from her please, her live performances and covers

First time watching one of your music and song reactions. I listen to Aurora a lot after seeing the video that featured her voice in the Disney movie "frozen" in the song "into the unknown". I haven't come across a song of hers that i dislike. I'm an old geezer that has a music library of basically "classic rock". She sure has opened a new music window for me. Her live performances are great. Thank you for your reactions, i like how you get into the "technicalities" of the song, giving us your expertise in the production methods used. Thanks and i'm looking forward to hearing more Aurora from you. Oh btw. I understand that Aurora started writing songs at an early age...she may have written "Runaway" at age 11 or 14, not sure.

Amo a voz da Aurora 🇧🇷💖

She is the spirit voice in Frozen 2

with Aurora you should react to everything to be honest. She is really good live because she usually makes like a new version of her own songs but If you want to continue with the album version I can recoment you THE SEED, EXIST FOR LOVE, THE RIVER, I WENT TO FAR, CHURCHYARD, THROUGH THE EYES OF A CHILD AND NATURE BOY (COVER).

Wish you would have watched the official video. It is phenomenal !

Yes. If you relate to the imetation and emotial expession in music, you have to see her live preformance.

As you found, Aurora's performances are inspirational and very worthwhile to hear. But as everyone else says, with this particular performer and her team, enjoyment from the audio aspect here is only half of of her performances. Total appreciation and enjoyment requires her visual input to complete the stories she paints (rather than just tells) so well through her music in conjunction with her unique movement and gestures. It's kind of like a very special body language any actress would be proud of! Her live performances are even more enjoyable than her very impressive official video releases.

OMG you aint seen nuthin yet..LIVE is sooo good !

Could you do Aurora Murder song the live version? It’s just mesmerizing. She is such a beautifully genuine performer.

You can't go wrong with Aurora! Postmodern Jukebox just dropped a '60s version of Don't Speak (from No Doubt) that you might like.

Wonderful reaction! I was hoping you would discover her. Aurora is the total package - singer, songwriter, musician, dancer, producer/arranger, choreographer, and an absolutely lovely human being (and she’s just 25 years old!). She will often perform her songs quite differently - sometimes with her band, other times stripped down to just her and one instrument, a cappella, with full orchestra, etc. - so it is definitely worth listening to different versions of the same song. Also, her videos are mini-masterpieces as well. A short list of original songs: Runaway - Nobel Peace Prize concert and her music video Through the Eyes of a Child - Nidarosdomen concert, my recommendation Live Stripped - VIVO UK Lift: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-CFzExUN1N8I.html It Happened Quiet - Nidarosdomen concert, but I'd recommend the live at The Current version as well: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-9U-N6LqzdIM.html Churchyard - Live on KEXP Winter Bird - Nidarosdomen concert and her music video Murder Song 5,4,3,2,1 - Nobel Peace Prize Concert Lucky - Nidarosdomen concert Little Boy in the Grass - Nidarosdomen concert The Seed - Music Video, HAIK Concert The River - Music video, Live in Bergen 2020 Exist For Love - Music video, Daydreamer - Music video She also does some awesome covers: Life on Mars - David Bowie Believer - Imagine Dragons God is a Woman - Ariana Grande Across the Universe - John Lennon Teardrop - Massive Attack

You MUST react to Aurora live... her MVs are good too. But she is a live experience. She wrote this song when she was 11 BTW. She co-produces all her music with Magnus Skylstad mostly but also others. And also co-produces all her productions since she was a teenager. She is now 25. And she is an exceptional human being to boot... beautiful, kind, smart and funny. She is a whole package to be experienced. I hope you do. :)

This song was featured recently on the podcast Song Exploder, where artists talk through, deconstruct, decompose(!) a song of theirs. Each episode is only around 15 minutes long, I think you'll enjoy it!

Welcome to the wonderful world of "Warriors and Weirdos" (AURORA's fans, that is). This time line shows how talented she is: Age 6: Started to follow dance lessons Age 6: Started to compose melodies Age 9: Started writing lyrics in her second language English Age 14: Her family discovered that she wrote her own songs Age 16: Recorded one song (Puppet) as a gift to her parents Age 16: Performed a self written song (I Had A Dream) at a school assembly Age 16: Gave up dancing (and her dream of becoming a professional dancer) to focus on singing Age 17: Released her first song (Awakening) Age 18: Released her first EP (Running With The Wolves) Age 19: Released her first full album (All My Demons Greeting Me As A Friend) Age 19/20/21: Performed hundreds of live shows during her world tour Age 22: Released her second EP (Infections Of A Different Kind (step 1)) Age 22 (just before her 23rd birthday): Released her second full album (A Different Kind Of Human (step 2)) Age 24: Her song Runaway (released in 2015) has gone viral on TikTok, hence turning Runaway into a world wide hit with over 1 million streams daily on Spotify and RU-vid Age 25 (today): Working on her third full album, expecting to release it in 2022

2017 Nidarosdomen Cathedral performance by Aurora live is stunning, a masterpiece. And i'm a old metalhead. btw, if we are talking about something great, Nordic origin, I recommend you: Eivør - Falling Free (live), it should be like angels singing for your ears, i'm sure.

I love Aurora and especially this song! What a wonderful surprise to see this pop up 🤙🏽 The Song Exploder podcast did an episode on this song, if anybody wants to hear Aurora discuss it in depth... I highly recommend you to check it out! Daneliya Tuleshova also recently covered this and IMO did an amazing job. ALOHA!

Aloha brah! Right. What you said. Apart from all else, don’t you just love her? Was out there for a couple of years. You seem like a good guy.

thanks for your reactions! Twice just had an English comeback, 'The Feels'. are you able to add it to your schedule? it's pretty great. it actually has a more complicated harmony scheme I think than most of their songs that I'd like to hear your opinion on.

Enjoyed ur video. If you react to live performances, this is where AURORA blazes. Check out AURORA live at Nidarosdomen cathedral. 'Eyes of A Child' or 'Lucky'. Stunning.

She wrote this song when she was 11 years old.

Check out her song Animal Soul at the Verftet Online Music Festival.

You've gotta check out Diana Ankudinova's new performance of Can't Help Falling In Love.

Aurora is an amazingggg artist!! you should definitely check out more of her stuff! i’d recommend the songs The Seed, Running With the Wolves, Murder Song (not the acoustic version cause i prefer the original one hahah)

*Hey ! Waiting for your reaction to aroura's song called "Home"* *♥️ From India*

Please check out her songs River, Exist for love, and It happened quiet (live at the current).

Please do Through The Eyes Of A Child live at Nidarosdomen.

Please react to MARINA! I think you'll love her work.

funny you should say at 4:13 about the Cathedral :) Seriously you need to listen to anything she did from her concert at Nidarosdomen - which is the most Northern cathedral in the world

Great reaction as always my friend. I would absolutely Love to see your reaction to Pentatonix - Evolution of Michael Jackson! Just a 5-piece acapella group, one of which is a beatboxer. It’s truly incredible what they do with only 5 voices and their arrangements are 2nd to None! Would be super interesting to hear what your musical mind would get from it. Thanks Geebz!! 🙏

Aurora's live performances are much better than the studio recordings.

A neat thing to know about her is she doesn't use autotune. She is just too good

Please Reaction twice "the feels" the first full English

react to some live versions of Aurora. her live performances blow away her studio stuff: it happened quiet (live at the current), churchyard live at kexp, all is soft inside (live at haka), soulless creatures, the seed live world earth day 2021. it's s-tier special stuff.

I think you would really enjoy Nescafe Basement. A Pakistani music series from a few years ago that highlighted college and underground musicians. Some AMAZING performances. First up I would suggest Episode #4: Sweet Child O' Mine - NESCAFÉ Basement II and Bol Hu - Soch the Band ft. Hadiya Hashmi,. but there are a lot of great videos!

Please react to Twice - The Feels, ypur favorite kpop group. They made another bop in another genre. I promise youll love it

Have you heard her latest album yet? I‘m in love with it and would love to here you thoughts (Especially to Artemis)

Shepherd's Chapel Network !!!!!!! Pastor Murray is an Anointed Servant of GOD who teaches the Word of GOD with Authority!!!!!!!

Where is home for Aurora? Is heaven waiting impatiently for her? Is heaven where she belongs? Is heaven home?

Hey geebz just dropping by with some more recommendations, Alizée - J'en ai marre(french), Soul Makossa - Manu Dibango(african), Stromae - Papaoutai(belgian), Zingaat from Sairat(indian) and my personal favourite Blue Bird · Ikimonogakari(japanese) Hope you're doing well mate

Please, PLEASE check out Nightwish and their piece, Ghost Love Score. They are Norwegian.

So many puppets)). oh! aurora has a song, puppet. I advise.

Aurora 54321 murder song live at Nobel peace prize is a must reaction if you haven’t seen it