Tactile! If there were a proverbial nail around it would now sink itself into the nearest piece of wood for being hit so eloquently on its head. I have seen people using "naive maturity" before, but I like tactile more. Your comment about her "being an instrument" is interesting because she has commented on it herself (I am going to adlib now). She has said that she is happiest when writing and being in the studio. Then she is "god" with absolute control over "Creation" (something like this, we know how she likes to word herself). While in contrast - she feels like a "medium" or a "channel" on stage - pulling down something outside herself and vocalising it so it can be heard. I find this interesting. Because one would think that the typical singer/songwriter is pulling the music and words out from "somewhere" and "singing it out loud from inside herself" when performing. But somehow Aurora is switching it around. She is Goddess when making the song - and a medium when performing her own song. I also want to add - she is doing something very few female artists do in case you wish to break down more of her: She is a female singer that prefer a male choir as her backdrop. The entire Nidaros consert. The HAIK concert. Even in her studio recordings - she has this boomy male "hum" behind her and not the female trio. She is basically reversing the production-space of her childhood hero (Leonard Cohen) that is known for his boomy almost monotonous voice with some of the most talented female backing vocals known to man-kind to phrase out the composition. She does not stop there - on top of the beautiful "hum" of a male choir, she is harmonizing with another female voice (usually Silja Sol) so she is doubling up on the harmonics - the men booming harmonically - supporting two "sirens" harmonizing on top of it. When one becomes aware of it, one starts scratching own head while asking why do not more great female vocalists explore this "reverse Leonard Choen" soundscape (I guess one can explain it by being half-aware of the fact that being male backing vocals to a female star in 1950 maybe was upsetting some ideas of gender roles?) If people are really nerds - allow me to point to ABBA and their unique and astonishing qualities in both songwriting and performance. Agnetha and Anni-Frid did crazy harmonics taking care of the lead melody. But think about it - Björn and Benny can often be heard subtly in the background. Sometimes simply singing a deep D (what a lovely note) for the girls to vocally dance around in higher octaves. It is such a basic idea - rooting the amazing bird-elegance and technique "on top" not only by deep drums and bass - but also rooting it to deep booming vocal "instrumentation". And yet hardly anyone does it. It may work because Aurora has such a commanding voice. There is no male choir on the planet that can rip our ear-attention from her. One can produce the hell out of her backing without being afraid of her drowning in it. Her vocals are that interesting. And when it works - this reverse Choen is "otherworldly". Fearless, just like Choen was when letting the "backing girls" go amazing on top of his voice - trusting himself enough to know his words and presence would not sound like someone with a limited vocal range hiding something boring.

@TheVoiceLoveCo

3 жыл бұрын

Thank you for this in-depth look. What a fun rabbit hole you have taken us down. Love it!

I always say that she's a musical spirit hiding in our dimension, one day she'll return home and we'll be a little worse for her leaving... Such an ancient and pure voice. She breaks my 45 year old metalhead heart.

@chadperkins8406

Жыл бұрын

Same, at 50. I get tears from every listen, even if they don't fall.

I found Aurora five years ago, and I'm a 68 year old musician granpa.....I've seen quite a lot, both good and lots of not so good.....but she instantly caught me.....and she is a healer........she is different and I feel so grateful she came to my life......... Enjoyed your reflections very much txs for that...hope to see some more Aurora soon Stay safe

Aurora must be a Starchild. For those that do not know what that is: Star children are gifted human beings with unique abilities, and their mission on earth sets them apart from the rest. A star child's role is to actively take part in transitioning the world into a new existence.

Aurora has actually said, when she sings, it's like the music just goes in from through top of her head, and flows through her.

She is a divine being, visiting earth to upgrade us.....

I think this is the most beautiful description I’ve ever heard, “something is using her as an instrument” Aurora is not human! Her energy is healing, her voice is beautiful, her vocals, her harmonizing. Its palpable you can feel it

Disappointed not to see more Aurora such a talented young woman

An ethereal hauntingly stunning beautiful female singing voice not from earth.... bringing tears to a stoic unemotional Vietnam Vet... .. A Scandinavian 🇳🇴 ‘goddess’

Have you noticed how Aurora draws you into her world? A world that shows us how this world should be!? If you have, then you understand why I call her our Queen of the North.

Aurora's voice is "Music"

Aurora's entire Nisdaromen concert (in a cathedral and this is included which is so much more beautiful. Aurora is enchanting, angelic and like a mystical forest creature.... I wouldn't be surprised if she glows at night and flits around sprinkling gorgeousness - listen to her with Wardruna perform Helvegen at Bergenhus....

Her voice is like light, hovering, flickering and spreading with ether in all directions .

Her voice is the most beautiful instrument I've ever heard 🙌🏻

Gifted beyond words. Enormous gratitude .

She is a kinetic performer both in voice and body.

Fantastic analysis. Definitely the best I've seen. Your comments about her as an instrument being played and her childlike persona that carries so much gravitas and authority really nailed it. I'm a 46 year old guy that's been a musician playing shows regularly for the last 15 years. I've been in that flow state many times but Aurora seems to inhabit it like it's her natural environment. I've never seen anything like her. If there is actually magic in the world she embodies it.

This should blow your mind. It did mine. Utterly beautiful.

Aurora has redesigned the musical art world & created her own category.Luv from NYC

“She is being played” is a fantastic way to describe Aurora. You can see it in her eyes and sometimes at the end of her songs you can see her “return” to her body. Truly a gift to us all. P.S. the lockdown is doing wonders for you Christi, looking fantastic!

@NinjaTruls

Жыл бұрын

Yes just have to comment that, looking REALLY good. Natural beauty on it's best :)

Yes that makes sense, she touches you, she touches your humanity, she touches your heart....

I am reasonably sure that I will never be the same after hearing this. Hans

i listened to this song for the first time today. this time being the second. everytime i listen, i feel like im in heaven

Probably one of the most beautiful songs ever....

Aurora - Queendom Paste Studios - New York, NY THIS IS ONE OF THE BEST PERFORMANCE OF HER

Pls react to Auroras "murder song (5,4,3,2,1)" live from Nobel Peace Price Concert. One guitar, two voices, great great performance and a very sad love story about a man who kills his seriously ill wife to free her from pain. The song is based on an incident near Aurora's homeland. She read that in the paper and wrote this song. She sings from the perspective of the ghost of the woman who has just been killed. The song is heavy fare and wonderful. No sound could be heard from the audience. I've never experienced such a silence in a full house.

She is an extremely gifted and versatile artist ( pure voice, charismatic performance skills and brilliant song writing). Watch Aurora live, she is even even more mesmerizing. "Runaway" from the Nobel Peace Prize concert 2015 (a song she wrote when she was 11), "Lucky" from Nidarosdomen (Trondheim Cathedral) 2017, either "The River" or "Daydreamer" (smiling and dancing joyously) from the HAIK concert 2019 (filmed in the forest where Aurora played in her childhood) and "Conqueror" live from the Honda Stage to see her interact with her audience. Every performance is beyond outstanding. There is no "Divine" influence though all the talent and due credit belongs to Aurora, her supporting musicians and those her produce the clips.

There is a very small part of her, that reminds me of Enya. I guess its the softness of her voice. There are some things that both Enya and Aurora have, that makes them sound.... ethearical. Only Enya and Aurora have the ablity to evoke so strong emotions in me in such short amount of time.

She has a great voice, but she's also a great songwriter and composer

I wonder if there is a conductor, but she is almost her own conductor with her hand movements. The whole thing is so precise. Such a beautiful song even in the raw.

She is a very sensuous being. It is as if she needs to see, touch, move, feel in an extreme way.

I say you should treat yourself sometime to her full concert at Nidarosdomen (Nidaros cathedral) 2017. It's simply magical. The ambiance, the orchestra (including the church organ) and the choir backing her wonderful vocal performance...

I love Aurora so much 💓💗

The emotional presentation of this song and performance is so raw/pure, it is hard for me to not spring a leak every time I hear it. Great reaction to a great artist.

@jonathanwetherell3609

3 жыл бұрын

Why resist? Just let the tears flow.

I’ve heard her sing this before, but this is by far the most beautiful arrangement/performance. It is ethereal. It really is reminiscent of a prayer. Thank you for reacting to this performance.

I still put my button on the Nidarosdomen version. It doesn't really say much cos everytime this lady sings, its just wonderful. I just love this artist/performer/singer/poet/ human.

Our real life Luna Lovegood, she is just singular, incredible

What an amazing description... "Like she is being played". It is like she's an instrument for the universal consciousness in my mind. Lovely reaction and deconstruction. :)

Great reaction! This is one of my absolute favorite version of this song ever! Aurora said in a tv interview that the creativ process in making songs and having the control in the studio, to do what ever you want is liberating, but ones you perform the song live on stage it's out of your hands. You as an artist isn't important anymore. it's all about the song and she is just a tool, a vessel to the song. It comes to her from somewhere and goes through her out to us all. That's why she is so in the moment. Be safe Björn

@chessrockwelll

3 жыл бұрын

Exactly!

@badtux

2 жыл бұрын

She also said in an interview once that she sometimes didn't even remember her performances, especially in the early days when she was very nervous on stage and she'd just launch into the song and... be elsewhere for a while. In recordings of some of her early concerts you can see that, she finishes the last notes of the song, eyes closed, hands poised in the air, then there's that brief shake and eyes open and slight look of panic as she returns to this world before she resets herself and goes for the next song. I know the place she went. I have been there maybe three times in my entire life, where something flowed through me that was from beyond me and at the end I was as astonished as everybody around me. Aurora does it routinely.

Goosebumps. So beautiful.

I love this young singer! She's an instrument of God that sings trough her! What beautiful! and at the same time how powerful! She's singing with her whole body and her soul, as one! Bravo 😍 👏👏👏! She looks like a beautiful angel or an elfin! So angelic! Thanks Christi for your beautiful reaction 💖 Greetings, and be safe 👍❤

I believe she was 19 when they did this live version, April 2026, one of her best. Thanks for coming back to do our favorite human.

@brianpodolsky3949

3 жыл бұрын

2016

I'm so thankful you came back to Aurora. Lovely reaction. Would love to see you doing more from her amazing catalog, she is really something and one of a kind. The Seed - the video- is an epic song, among all her great songs and performances.

@chessrockwelll

3 жыл бұрын

We want more Aurora!

@noegarcia7491

2 жыл бұрын

More Aurora, please! It's been another six months, after all.

Especially in this song you hear her inhailing and her tone are so sensitive but strong and that makes it so haunting beautiful emotional. There are few performances i heard... "50 years of music hearing" who is comparable with this performance. I thank you so much for analyzing to my Aurora. I like this a lot. My favourite performance of her is lucky in Nidarosdomen. Everything in this concert is special and this song is otherworldy..... and she wrote it when she was nine years old. I hope you will analyze it someday. Great hugs from im Sweden.

Glennis Grace - Always (Official Live Video)

Lovely reaction and deconstruction of one of the most beautiful pieces of music I've ever heard. Thank you.

How touching this is! A wonderful lyric and a beautiful voice, with a minimun instrumentation. And how she connects the purity of her voice with the naïveté or innocence of the lyric! Double thanks, for bringing us here this wonder and for granting us the privilege to listen to this illuminating deconstruction.

If you haven't listened and you would like a different take on this song you should react to Aurora "Through the Eyes of a Child" live at Nidarosdomen. Absolutely the most beautiful song I have ever heard. I like the stripped version but the song sung in the cathedral is beyond belief.

♥️Love the lyrics... and mixed with Aurora's fairy tale gorgeous voice.... it gives me time to reflect about life. So much love your authentic emotional responses to your reactions! THANK YOU! 🤗

Aurora is delicate, deep, sweet, very expressive, emotional and performative and adorable. Despite the different style of music, her style reminds me of Kate Bush in her early career. In fact, the two approached the same theme and made two beautiful songs about "seeing the world through the eyes of a child". Kate Bush with: The man whit child in hisc eyes, and Aurora with: Throught eyes of a child. They are truly two wonderful divas.

Aurora - It Happened Quiet - HAIK Concert 2019

I see you stoped reacting to Aurora after 2 songs a year ago. Although you haven’t reacted … I hope you continued to explore her music after because she is a phenomenon I wouldn’t want you to miss enjoying as I have

That was amazing all the way to the Fiji Islands 🇫🇯

What is interesting to me is her use of vibrato to sound more fragile. Most of the time when you hear vibrato it's like "Hey, look at me! I have a powerful voice and I can do this vibrato thing to sound even more powerful!" For her, it's a way to bring a wavering uncertain sound to her voice in the more sensitive passages in order to make it sound even more fragile and heartbreaking. I am in awe of her total control of her instrument (her voice).

I love that all her band members are so talented. Both the ones at that time and the current lineup. I think that is an important part of why her live shows are so magical.

Ladies Of Soul 2017 | Run To You - Glennis Grace

my favorite is her teardrop cover on like a version. ♥

Celtic. Bagpipes. Primal. That's what I get from this performance.

Listened with you all in the morning but had to come back and listen again. This is fantastic, and I loved your reaction, too. Her voice and singing is etheral, evocative, Celtic-like, transportive, and very very old-soul. She's shaman material. No doubt in my mind.

Try Her cover of Teardrop by Massive Attack youll be amazed even more to her voice.. She also playing the piano 😊🔥🔥👌

Runaway live is beautiful , the Seed video ........so many jewels

I did not know that version. It's amazing, relay ... deep. Deep and light... it's juste incredible. Your reaction was great also :)

aurora - Lucky (Live at Nidarosdomen) - I think you'll like this

great pick for this song.

The version from the Nidarosdomen concert makes me cry everytime. The orchestra and the choir in that one is just unbelievable.

Thanks.

Aurora Aksnes, known under the artist name AURORA, is a Norwegian singer and songwriter.. She has a record deal with Decca Records, Glassnote Records and Petroleum Records - Born: 15 June 1996. Among artists and in the music industry the Norwegian singer AURORA is synonymous with quality, and she can fill a record with masterpieces time and time again. Many others are glad they manage one hit. Billie Eilish said in an interview that it was AURORA that made her become an artist and were inspired after listen to Aurora.

When you said its like shes an instument i was like. Well she is one haha. On a game called sky children of the light we were lucky to be given a full virtual concert for her. This song plays in it. And we have a instument in game of her different vocals called the voice of

You haven’t uploaded in 4 months … hope you are well and I am looking forward to new reactions

Great reaction! And interesting observations about the song and Aurora's music!

What a great reaction! Really enjoy how you break songs down Christi.

I've watched this multiple times, and it's my favorite reaction of yours, and my favorite reaction of this performance. #chefskiss

Thank you for doing this. Aurora is such a special girl, extremely talented, and she has so much character, I love what she wears......... basically I love everything about her. Only found her on You Tube in October, also a huge fan of our rising star Angelina Jordan, since June I seem to be having a Norway fest. They are so different but have both brought a huge amount of sunshine into my life, I listen to them each night. Thank you once again, I enjoyed your reaction 😄

She said during an interview I saw that she doesn’t watch herself anymore because she thinks she killed possessed! I other words, she literally is so caught up in her music, she completely lets go. What a beautiful sight to behold.

Please revisit Aurora - she has a new album out called "The Gods We Can Touch". But reactions to any of her work (even some of the wonderful covers she's done) would be lovely.

She has an angel in her head. Watch how her fingers work the ley lines when her music entrances her. There aren't adequate sounds in existence to form the words to describe how her music feels. At times it's so beautiful that the physical reaction to it is nearly unbearable. Then it takes your emotion and washes it over you like warm water. I've never experienced anything like it. I will remember it for my whole life.

Tactile! Eureka, that's it! Awesome.

Ladies of Soul 2019 | I'II Never Love Again / Ik wil niet zonder jou - Glennis Grace

tears...THAT beautiful ❤️

The audio quality in your video fantastic!

Exist for loveVideo or live , both beautiful

I am pleasantly surprised that "voice coach" doesnt means McDonaldsemployee as it usually does on KZread. Only a tonedeaf person would dare to critizise her singing,which is so beautiful and forcing its way into your soul.. Good reaction.. exstra points for sound and picture quality.. Thumb up..

Highasakite - HAIK Concert 1/5 - Lover, where do you live

You realy must do this song and the song Lucky in Nidarosdomen Live❤️

SHE WROTE THIS AT AGE 11 I WATCH HER 2 TO 4 HOURS A DAY. PLEASE WATCH HER PERFORM IN THE NIDAROSDOMEN CATHEDRAL VIDEO AND WATCH AURORA HAIK VIDEO TOO TO GIVE YOU BROADER SCOPE OF AURORA, HER GOALS, AND THE DEPTH OF THIS EXQUISITE HUMAN WHO IS A GIFT TO US ALL. I AM 78 DEEPLY INVOLVED IN ALL MUSIC FOR 70 YEARS.

😱😱😱 EXPLAIN the TECHNIQUEEEEEEESSSS!!!

Please react to more Aurora 🙏 🙏

Please React to Aurora Soulless Creatures Live in Bergen

Very, very nice.....thank you.

The Aurora fans are split on which version they like better. I love them both, but I do prefer the one at the Nidarostomen cathedral a bit more only because she sings it a bit different and the acoustics are just breathtaking. You should check that one out on your own if you do not want to react to the same song twice. She is so fabulous. I love this young lady

Ahh Christi you did the Acapella version, you never fail to impress when you critique someone i dearly love listening to, Aurora also redid the entire Frozen II theme and it is superior in my opinion to the original, it should not be missed, as always thank you.^^ If it strikes you do something she does in Norwegian at some point, her voice as beautiful as it is in English becomes the voice of a Siren of Valhalla when she sings in Norwegian.^^

wow.

oh my gosh are your eye colors real?! they look so prettyy !

Hi Christie. I just found your Chanel & I’m mightily impressed with your music knowledge & your reaction style, and as such I have immediately subscribed to your Chanel. I must admit, I’ve heard of Aurora, but haven’t heard her till now, & wow, what a performance. However, I have another absolute GEM for you in a young Soprano singer by the name of Amira Willighagen who won Holland’s Got Talent at the age of nine, without a single singing lesson. She taught herself by watching uTube videos featuring the likes of Pavarotti. Shortly after, she engaged a vocal coach & has since performed in 13 countries and sung in at least 5 languages, & her concert appearances were to a packed auditorium supported by a full orchestra and backup singers. This young Soprano is something special. Her range is superb & whatever register she’s in, she does so effortlessly & without straining, & has a powerful voice with a vibrato that many singers would envy. I have listed a few of Amira’s performances for your consideration. ...O Mio Babbino Caro at age 10. The world renown musician/conductor Andre Rieu invited Amira to perform at a Maastricht concert to an audience of 15,000 who rose as one to give her a standing ovation. ... Nella Fantasia at age 12. ( the concert performance) ... Gabriella’s Song at age 14. ( again the concert performance) ... Flower Duet with Corlea Botha. I have listened to world renown Soprano’s singing this but Amira’s is by far the best I have heard. There are many, many more, but this would be a good start, so I sincerely hope you check Amira out & look forward to a few reactions. Keep up the fantastic work, Cheers, Graeme.

Please review the Italian singers (trio) IL VOLO and the quartet and Il Divo - Unbreak My Heart (Regresa A Mi) they are fantastic, the best of the best.

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You should make a reaction to grégory lemarchal, he was a French singer who unfortunately died from a respiratory disease, he refused to have an operation to be able to continue singing

As we leave childhood and grows older, we also grow more pragmatic and numb, and more open to half cut deals in order to manage daily life. The childhood state is unfiltered and let us see the need of our earth and each other. It's not without reason religous texts tell us to find back to that childlike soul in order to enter heaven

Yay! I'm so glad that you're reacting to Aurora! Please do Murder Song (5, 4, 3, 2, 1) at the Nobel Peace Prize Concert next OR All is Soft Inside with KEXP, because that performance is absolutely spectacular. Actually, the entire KEXP concert is amazing, highly recommend.

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