Happy 27th birthday to Aurora on Thursday, the 15th! If you thought this performance was emotional and captivating, wait until you see the Nobel Peace Prize version. It's one of the best performances I've ever seen. It's truly next level.

Aurora, singer, song writer, charismatic performer, actress, storyteller, dancer, all round artist par excellence. There is so much more for you to experience and it is not all dark and difficult songs. Aurora has written many achingly beautiful songs on a range of issues. There are some spectacular feel good songs ( such as "Daydreamer"), some love songs ("Exist For Love"), an anthem to the planet ("The Seed") an exquisite ode to human existence ("Dance On The Moon") and so much more. When you get to the HAIK concert (filmed in the forest where Aurora played in her childhood), you will see that Aurora really is a woodland creature at heart. However, you should also watch some of her interviews and Tik Tok posts to witness her amazing, multi faceted personality.

Once Aurora touches your heart, you are hers.

Auroras birthday is tomorrow, June 15th.

I know you will get to her performance of Lucky at this concert. It’s a song about surviving the thoughts of suicide. Yes, she writes most of her lyrics. All of them have very deep meaning

Aurora Aksnes singing The murder song 54321 at the Nobel peace prize 2015 concert in Norway is way more intimate with the acoustic guitar guy singing together with her is breathtaking. She doesn't spare her feelings on that stage. 👍 Best regards from Norway 🇳🇴

This concert is a masterpiece, pure and simple. Every time she sings a song it is different, this rendition so different from the earlier one at the Nobel Peace Prize Concert. That's why live is best.

Aurora not only has an excellent voice and a lot of personality, almost all the songs she sings are her compositions, what I admire the most is her intelligence and creativity to create so many original songs.

@Roy-mw5js

Жыл бұрын

She is an incredible artist. She extracts your emotions before you know what's going on❤

@panchiolarranaga1616

Жыл бұрын

Si Cesar, es cierto, Sweet Aurora is a wise lady and a voice of our times

Aurora - Runaway peace prize consert live. its one of her best performances and her most popular song by far!

This concert is a Masterpiece in my opinion, and will go down in history as one of the defining moments in music and performance. Brava Aurora, brava!!

Auroras birthday is tomorrow on june 15th =)

Amazing that you're coming back to Aurora so quickly 🙂 Gonna watch your reaction now. My favorite performance of this song was on the Nobel Peace Price concert in 2015, but this will do nicely. Be sure to check out the other one as well, you will love it. Much love from Norway

@branscombeR

10 ай бұрын

@poolhallshark: I agree the 2015 Nobel Peace Prize performance, a stripped-down duet with guitarist Odd Martin Skålnes, is the best way to hear Aurora Aksnes' 'Murder Song' for the first time. In addition, her lyrics have a special resonance because of the event and the audience. The same applies to Debbie's choice of "It Happened Quiet' from the same Nidaros Cathedral concert ... Aurora's version for 'The Current' partnered by the wonderful Silja Sol is better, IMHO. As you well know, although others may not, Angelina Jordan was born in Norway ten years after Aurora, but I have always argued that they have a common cultural and educational heritage which unites them in many ways. They have both been nurtured in a social milieu which encouraged and permitted their free spirited growth as girls. As young adults, they have followed a similar path into music careers with the same desire to use their public platform as a means of bringing about change by transmitting their beliefs directly to a world audience. R (Australia)

@poolhallshark

10 ай бұрын

@@branscombeR 🙂👍

Yes she occasionally does a cover. She writes her own songs, writes the music, and does her own productions. She read an article about (I believe a husband who killed his wife) someone in pain who wished to die. She is a poet, philosopher, singer, songwriter, and dancer. I love Angelina, but find it hard to separate Aurora. I will leave this world listening to both.

This version of the Murder song is good, but I believe the 2015 Peace Prize Concert is an even better version- just her excellent performance with an acoustic guitarist that harmonizes with her- check it out!

From what I have read, the backstory to the song is that she heard of a man who killed his wife who was suffering from terminal cancer. She didn't want to suffer any more, and he fulfilled her wish.,

That was another great reaction. Now that you've reacted to some of her sad songs, I would like to suggest reacting to her song "All Is Soft Inside (Live On KEXP)" next. It is an upbeat, highly energetic, song, and gives a new perspective on her perfect skills as a performer

This is an fantastic concert. She is beautiful and all of her songs are emotionally perfect. She vibrates differently and is the result of being allowed to express herself completely.

Quite the performer, isn't she? Yes, she writes all her own music and lyrics. A few of her early songs were written before she was 12 years old, although she wrote this song when she was 18. She considers it a tragic love story. Great reaction!

Wonderful reaction, thank you. Yes, she has so many songs and they are not generic mainstream crap, he or she loves me, he or she doesn't love me, cheated on me, you get the picture. Her songs, which she calls her children, have substance, she shines light on dark subjects, she isn't called a soul healer for nothing. She is my all time favorite multi talented artist. I call all of her performances art, she is magical.. see you on the next Aurora reaction.

Hello again from Germany ! I just came back home from work and saw your video... and I have to say it was one of the most emotional reactions I have seen to this, or any other Aurora song. I can totally understand your reactions and emotions to this masterpiece and it shows me, how much Aurora "sucks" you in and caprivates you already after three songs you've reacted to. About the song : Aurora wrote the lyrics all herself, and composed the music in collaboration with other composers. For this special event, the song was specially arranged by another musician / composer, whose name I forgot, but you can see it under the song name, when it occurs at the beginning. Aurora was inspired by a local newspaper article, in which a man couldn't stand to see his wife suffer from an incurable illness, and then killed her for mercy, to release her from all the pain she's been going through. And Aurora tells this story from the view of the victim, in the most impressive way possible. But you should also check out the other popular live performance of this song from the Nobel Peace Prize concert 2015... a stripped down version for two voices and a guitar only. Her facial expression is simply unbelievable ! If you want to continue the journey of the Nidarosdoman concert, do "Life on Mars ?" next... a hauntingly beautiful cover of that David Bowie classic from 1974. And YES, Aurora DID get back up again after being "murdered"... for the last song of this wonderful concert, which is... "Life on Mars ?" Best wishes from Germany : Gerry

Aurora writes her own music. Looking at your reaction videos so far they are all her own music. 🔮 Here she sings as a “ghost” looking back on her Murder, as I think she also does in “It Happened Quiet”, though it’s not made so explicit there.

Omg Aurora belts C#5 😮

Yes, she writes her own songs. And have a major part in everything else too, from A to Z :)

This is a slightly slowed down version of the song. Check out her studio version of this with the butterflies and of course the nobel peace prize performance. I further reccommend you react to Aurora being wonderfully manic in her performance of 'Churchyard' at the KEXP.

Man, oh man can she bring the emotion or what? She's an incredible storyteller...I love the way she uses her whole body to express herself too. A great artist. She also had another effect on me...she made me re-visit Björk's music...when I was young and only into metal, I didn't like her music. Now, because I discovered that she was an influence of Aurora's, I am really enjoying her music as well. Cheers!

Yes Deb, it's dark, and beautyful, and poetic. She trained dancing from age 6 to 16 and thougt she would become a pro dancer but then her singing/her songs got known and it took off. The way she moves and uses her body trough the songs is flavored by that dancing. Yes, writes the lyrics, composes, plays piano/keyboards, produces, directs her videoes (sometimes with good helpers). She also have done some fab covers, usually in her own way, and some 'on the fly' with very short time to rehearse.

Greetings from Scotland! O.K. I can see to type again now! This song always destroys me when she sings it! Aurora will be 27yo tomorrow 15th! For me, she is the only other absolutely unique female singer in this world right now! She was 18 years old when she wrote both the lyrics and the music. It's based on something she heard on the radio, and developed this song around it very quickly. She said it was a very sad, and bloody! It takes a very special mind with a very different view on this world to create something as profound as this! The emotion and the images it conjures up are incredibly vivid! One-of-a-kind, Aurora! A truly extraordinary young lady!

Hello, great reaction again. Thank you. Most of AURORA's songs are her own. There are some covers, but then she interpreted them in her own way (a recommendation see below). This is probably the saddest love song I've ever heard. A man shoots his wife to end her suffering. Can love be bigger and more painful at the same time than in this story? AURORA manages to make this pain palpable with her voice and her movements. You have seen AURORA's eyes. She wasn't on stage. She was somewhere else. You saw how deeply she was thinking about these two people, that she sometimes shook herself uncontrollably. I believe that she is not conscious of her movements. She's so into the story in her head that she's doing the moves in the story. I heard that AURORA was horrified by these movements when she saw the recording of the performance. That means for me that she did it unconsciously. Her empathy must be beyond measure. She spreads all her feelings that she has in this moment in front of us and lets us look into her heart and soul. There is no other way I can explain that almost everyone who saw this performance was affected by this story. AURORA is more than a storyteller, more than a singer. AURORA is a true artist. Here is a quite different version of the song - also live. Listen to them in a quiet minute. - Murder song (5,4,3,2,1) - The 2015 Nobel Peace Prize Concert - kzread.info/dash/bejne/qJxktbmNhtq-qNo.html This is from an interview with Aurora: "First of all, I have a really vivid imagination. You know that these things may be happening to someone right now. It's kind of a terrifying thought. I just had to get that thought out of my head - and that's why I wrote this song. But the two characters are actually just made up in my head. I've written many songs about them - maybe I'll make a book with them." And in another interview: It’s just fascinating that some people can have in them the desire to kill while some people cannot pick a flower without feeling bad. That's about this I wrote 'Murder Song'. How can a man kill someone he loves and it happens often in the world. But he doesn't really understand what he did, it's a very complicated story. Her, she didn't want to be in this world anymore, and she knew that this man would do anything for her. She asks him to kill her and he said: 'Ok, I love you, I would do anything for you.' After he killed her, he became sad because she didn't move anymore and he didn't understand where she went. He didn't understand why she left and he start crying. And it is sad, because for the rest of his life, he will not understand and he will be sad." ----------------------------- If you want to hear AURORA sing acapella - Nature Boy (acapella) - kzread.info/dash/bejne/Y2GA1qWbgLjVhLA.html - very special - concert Melkweg-Amsterdam-The Netherlands 2018-02-28 Here is a David Bowie cover by AURORA - Aurora - «Life on Mars» (David Bowie) - kzread.info/dash/bejne/nX5km5eMYLDTnqQ.html If you don't know the song, listen to the original first - kzread.info/dash/bejne/c45_xc5tXdfJpdI.html ----------------------------- There are also two very sad songs by AURORA. - Why did you have to go - kzread.info/dash/bejne/ZaJhxq-xkqzXeqQ.html She wrote it for a friend from school who died in a car accident when she was 18. She only sang the song at the funeral. But the sound was recorded and the girl's mother is said to have published it on KZread. They have chosen good pictures and films for the video. AURORA didn't actually want to release it. I'm sure you've rarely heard anything so sad. - Little boy in the grass - kzread.info/dash/bejne/Y5-duJlpZLHKj6w.html This is about the terrorist attack in Oslo and on the island of Utøya on July 22, 2011. An assassin killed 8 people in Oslo. Two hours later he shot 69 young people on the island. It was a Labor Party youth camp. It took 90 minutes. A friend of AURORA was among the victims. I assume that these early experiences characterised AURORA and contributed to the initially very sad songs. Have a nice day and Greetings from Germany

She’s just everything. Unapologetically artistic. I would make the biggest donation to see you learn more about her by reacting to. “HIAK” with AURORA. It’s a Norwegian television show where they take and surprise her through the day and ends with a performance from her in the woods. Surrounded by family and friends. Please please consider this. Thank you. We love you!!!

@lillm6874

Жыл бұрын

Yes please, I definitely second this 😍😍 The full HAIK documentary 👍

@bjornarsimonsen7592

Жыл бұрын

The new one with better subs :)

@HDThoreau_

Жыл бұрын

@@bjornarsimonsen7592 yasss!

Such a beautiful song and performance. She is so passionate and a wonderful human being. So glad you have discovered her. I would like to hear your thoughts on her song, Warrior (Haik Live). Really think you will enjoy it. Look forward to more reactions.

I enjoy this performance more and more every time I watch it. The version from the Nobel Peace Prize concert is great, also, and too the original music video. She does write her music, yes.

Aurora is at the pinnacle of beauty for me, her attention to detail is what draws you in, her voice wanders around in such a captivating and natural way, her lyrics are quite often minimal but extremely thoughtful, and she speaks them slowly so you actually listen, like a mother explaining something to a child. I enjoyed your Aurora reactions so far, I would suggest Lucky from the same concert, or the music video to The River, or The Seed, alternatively check out All Is Soft Inside at the KEXP, all were amazing, she has so many stunning songs and her live performances are better because you can watch how she expresses

The woman she sings about did die. This song always makes me cry. The song is based on a true story 😢

Aurora is unique, Aurora is Aurora

Love your reactions, I can see you love Aurora as much as I do. This was a heavy and beautiful song for sure. Her KEXP live in Iceland show is excellent. You see a lot of her personality emerge since it is such a small venue. Another artist you might enjoy is Eivor. She also writes her own music and has an amazing voice both in English and her native language from the Faroe Islands.

Your reaction is so beautiful

Great reaction. So emotional song and incredible beautiful too. She is natural talent and great Artist. And yes, she write her songs. She started to do music from 6 and English lyrics from 9 (all by herself even without knowledge of her parents up to 14). Music was her way of expressing emotions. On her first album there are song which se wrote when was 11 (f.e. Runaway) or when was 9 (Lucky). BTW: I recommend to check song "Lucky" from the same concert (whole concert is like 1h of pure magic). It is also mindblowing that so young person write song like Lucky about such topic. Ps. She has other amazing versions of Murder Song like acoustic version (both versions are also different from album version).

if you keep going with Aurora, I may have to sub. You have not seen anything yet. Even performances of the same song can be very different from each other. Take It happend quite, the one from Live at the Current is very different from what you have seen. Hope you keep going with this next level young lady.

So glad you got to this one 💞💞

Keep saying to yourself, ‘It’s only a movie, it’s only a movie!’ Yes, you are a bunny that has come across a magical meadow full of beautiful singers and songs. What is interesting is that different versions of this are all special and have amazing arrangements. On balance, I prefer the Nobel Peace Concert version of this song where she is supported by just guitar and harmony vocals.

All I could think of when I saw this one pop up from Aurora is Debbie, Debbie, Debbie, you are in for it now. This unbelievable performance of this very dark subject from Aurora is going to really hit you hard. Lot of theories about the meaning which is actually quite simple to figure out....Mercy Killing. Aurora has said in interviews that she has a very vivid imagination and this subject she decided to write about. She is quite brilliant so you certainly may interpret the way you see it. 🥰🥰🥰🥰 Holy Mother of Goat's Milk for this one Debbie.😁😁 Aurora is a very unique and very special artist. Norway rules!!! BTW, every single one of the performances from Nidarosdomen are mind blowing great.

@poolhallshark

Жыл бұрын

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@CarlD70

Жыл бұрын

@@poolhallshark Think Debbie has been overwhelmed by all the comments with Angelina and Aurora...not sure she will see any of these. I Patreon her and not sure she reads them either.

@poolhallshark

Жыл бұрын

@@CarlD70 👍👍

Watch noble peace prize concert version

@carolcarol3938

Жыл бұрын

Yes, I prefer that version too.

She hits you in the feels time and time again. It's called the Aurora effect 😉 No wonder I have Angelina and Aurora on 1st and 2nd, right ? I have heard that this song was inspired by something she read in the news about a man performing a mercy killing of his terminally ill wife. I can't confirm it though. Great reaction ! Love from Norway again ☺☺☺ And yes, she writes, arranges and choreographs all of her own music 👍

@sveinb.a.hammer1681

Жыл бұрын

Hi from Oslo You heard right. It's a true story. I've read about it myself.

@poolhallshark

Жыл бұрын

@@sveinb.a.hammer1681 Takker 🙂

@CarlD70

Жыл бұрын

PHS: Here is what she said in one interview: In an interview, Aurora was asked if the song was inspired by a personal experience, she said: "I just think it's fascinating how people can be the same people, how you and I need oxygen, can have children, need to be embraced, we need food, water, that we smile at us... we need the same things because we are people. And it's just fascinating that some people can have in them the desire to kill while some people cannot pick a flower without feeling bad. That's about this I wrote 'Murder Song'. How can a man kill someone he loves and it happens often in the world. But he doesn't really understand what he did, it's a very complicated story. Her, she didn't want to be in this world anymore, and she knew that this man would do anything for her. She asks him to kill her and he said : 'Ok, I love you, I would do anything for you.' After he killed her, he became sad because she didn't move anymore and he didn't understand where she went. He didn't understand why she left and he start crying. And it is sad, because for the rest of his life, he will not understand and he will be sad." In another interview she said this: "First of all, I have a really vivid imagination. You know that these things may be happening to someone right now. It's kind of a terrifying thought. I just had to get that thought out of my head - and that's why I wrote this song. But the two characters are actually just made up in my head. I've written many songs about them - maybe I'll make a book with them."[9] 🥰🥰

@poolhallshark

Жыл бұрын

@@CarlD70 Thanks a lot, Carl! I appreciate it❤️❤️

@CarlD70

Жыл бұрын

@@poolhallshark My Pleasure PHS

This is my favorite version of that song. The original cut on the album is the worst cut on that album, which shows how she keeps after a song until it becomes the best it can be. It also is why you should only listen to Aurora's live material. Lucky, from that same concert is my favorite of hers. In that song (Lucky), she captures you in the very first word, which is just "When", but it's like, "okay, here we go."

@norse-nilsbjasa

Жыл бұрын

If you only listen to her live you are missing out big time. Her music videos are not random stuff but planned and mostly directed by herself and are very artistic. I for one find them very pleasant.

I have a suggestion. A great song. "I WENT TO FAR". I prefer the official MV. 😊 But that's me. She's climbing on a ladder on a windy Iceland 🇮🇸 without no safety under her, in case she "happened" to fall down onto the big sharp rocks. Sounds scary, right? 🤔

A most appropriate reaction to Murder Song. TYSM!

Auroras birthday today ❤

Her version of this song at the Nobel Peace Price Concert is absolutely the best and I hope you will take the time to watch it.

👍😍😍😍 She has different versions of this song, and I love all of them 😍 This is the dramatic one, and I love the performance ❤️ But then every song from this concert is a must see👍 Could you please react to “Soft Universe” also live at Nidarosdomen 🙏😍

@lillm6874

Жыл бұрын

Or maybe you could start at the beginning of the concert and work your way through it 😍 She starts with the cover of “Nature boy” by Nat King Cole

@Oldperson-wt3ui

Жыл бұрын

Yes, I agree with @@lillm6874, the whole concert please

@lillm6874

Жыл бұрын

@@Oldperson-wt3ui 👍🥰🥰

I love how moved you are with the performance. I literally had goosebumps watching. Subbed ❤

You’ve been Gobsmacked! Me too! 🥰

She's brilliant. There's no one like her. You have so much more great stuff to watch from her. I would suggest "Winter Bird" and "Soft universe" from this Nidarosdomen concert. I knew when I suggested this young lady to you that you would love her and get addicted to her music. She is so captivating and brilliant at what she does. Yes, she writes her own songs

@lillm6874

Жыл бұрын

Second this😍

Everyone who has had to have an animal put down has a flavour of how the man with the gun would feel. Even if he killed the woman for wrong reasons it still broke his heart. She is dancing in the wind, he is holding her body with the world shattering around his soul.

I prefer the Nobel peace award ceremony version, probably cause that was the first version of Murder Song that I heard. But she’s an amazing singer/artist/performer without a doubt.

Great reaction…who’s cutting onions…?

Here's another link to her short clips before she is going to perform. 👍 kzread.infoCM4-6_4LaNw?feature=share

No words needed... perfect reaction

Yes she different and she come from Norway 🇳🇴 like Angelina jordan 😇😇😇😇

This song is the first part of, it happened quiet. In "murder song" one partner kills the other & in "it happened quiet" the dead partner comes back to haunt her abusive partner in his dreams slowly making him go crazy.

I suppose it would be silly to do her singing the same song again however, for your own edification, you really need to see her performance of this song at live at the Nobel concert. you wont regret it!

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U need to react this song but LIVE AT THE NOBEL PEACE PRIZE

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The Nobel Peace Price 2015 live version is actually alot better. ALOT more emotional, personal, delicate and disturbing, and she was younger also (I think). Prepare to sob. You should do a reaction to that too. Just saying. Cheers.

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Same concert "Through the eyes of a child" please😊 its my favorite

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Yeah this is an amazing song I had not heard of her before your reactions Norway certainly has some talent I guess Aurora is holding on to Europe while Angelina has came over here to conquer America.

@billweekley4077

Жыл бұрын

Aurora has impacted America. She has had various concerts in the USA.

@lillm6874

Жыл бұрын

Aurora has been touring the USA since 2016, and she’s getting more and more fans . She has also performed at several talk shows and radio stations 😊

@Oldperson-wt3ui

Жыл бұрын

@@lillm6874 That"s right, I saw her in San Diego California May 2022

@lillm6874

Жыл бұрын

@@Oldperson-wt3ui 👍🥰🥰

@MikeSmith-cl4ix

Жыл бұрын

Thanks I'm glad to hear that hopefully they both visit Florida where I live one day so I could see them live. I'm guessing her base is still in Norway though whereas if I understand it right Angelina and her family have moved to LA and I imagine they will probably get dual citizenship. It'd be great to see them do a tour together though maybe that's too much to ask.

Binge watched all your Aurora reactions and loved every one of them. The only thing I would suggest is to visit other live performances of her's. You definitely need to watch 5,4,3,2,1 - Murder song at the Nobel Prize Concert in 2015. I think it's her best verion of this song. and as for "it happened quiet" definitely watch the version "live at the current". Also the best one for this song IMHO. But for now I suggest you stick to live performances of songs you haven't heard at different venues (that's not to say this is not a great concert, but it only shows one of her many sides). There are probably plenty of song suggestions in the comments but I'll still add one to the collection with a positive song of a performance that shows her silly side: AURORA - "Queendom" | Indie88 Hidden Studio Sessions kzread.info/dash/bejne/pI6Yq8-KlpqYl5c.html

Please .....Susanne Sundfør When the lord

Great reaction as always! But, you have a tendency to pick the wrong versions of the songs😉, This song is a "must see" from the "Nobel Piece Price concert" version, and the song ( It Happened Qiuet) you should definitely done " The Current version". Both are soo much better. See them by your self at least, and I'm sure you will agree. Love from Norway🥰

@lillm6874

Жыл бұрын

Tendency to pick the wrong versions? I actually disagree, yes she has different versions, but they’re beautiful in their own way 😊 I think this version of Murder Song is very beautiful and dramatic, and the one from the Nobel peace prize concert is very intimate and beautiful 👍 I love all versions of this song, and every song from this concert is epic😍

Aurora is very much a live artist, don`t get me wrong her music videos are good, but her performance live is great, also her live shows are very different, this same song but at the 2015 nobel prize concert is VERY good, even better than this version imo.

u are watching like all the wrong versions of the songs...lol

@OYA-nk5bq

Жыл бұрын

Il n'y a pas de mauvaises versions.

Wrong video..