Knowing the tragic circumstances of this song and seeing her obvious grief always breaks my heart. There is something in her vocal here that is just so poignant as she works her way through grief. It is such a personal intimate performance I almost feel guilty watching,
There is so much sadness and even grief in this performance. The song is about the mass shootings at Utöya in Norway 2011. She lost a friend, or a person she knew at least, there on that island. Thus the water and the boat I think.
Let me expand on this. She indeed lost someone very close to her in the Utøya attack in 2011. In an interview she was asked about this and the interviewer persisted and Aurora admitted that they could be considered girlfriend and boyfriend at the time. He was 17 and she was 15
"In a Facebook post in 2015, Aurora referred to the Utøya massacre in 2011 and to someone important to Aurora who passed away that day. She wrote: "Today is the day. 22nd of July. It's been 4 years since you left us. Since all of you left us. how time flies, we even find ourselves forgetting for a moment, nearly moving on.. Not because we forget you, but because we remember to live. But know that I will always remember you, and everyone that went down with you. I will think of love, and send love to those who needs it this today. I hope no one is crying alone. Rest in peace my friend. You are free now."
As always Aurora serving magic vocals, I feel like I'm levitating and going to other dimension when I hear her. Her face expression it's a gold on her performances.💛
I clicked fast when i saw your reaction as i love Auroras music and your reactions = perfect combo for me. She is my most listen artist for sure (even too much as i of course always listened and listen to many different artist and genres but of course time is limited :) ). And I love this particular performance. Of course there are also other great performances like full instrumental Nidarosdomen performance, but love this one even more this one. It is raw and emotional. You feel, hear and see emotions. There is even a moment when she take air like when you are crying. Also like it is on boat as it is about Utoya massacre where she lost friend (and many other young persons was killed). And Utoya is on a island and that is why it fits very well. Also like how it ending like cut down sound. Like someone life was suddenly ended (at last in remind me such meaning in my head). Ps. And this part about healing and sinking like a stone. So heartbreaking.
Great reaction to a very personal and sad song by AURORA. Is she my most listened to artist this year? 🤷♀ I'm just kidd'n, its not even a close race, by FAR my most listened to!!
That cry at 5:13 in this video so emotional, but I somehow like that sound, I don't know if I should feel bad about that. She should use that more often in other emotional songs. She also did a smaller "cry" in her Believer cover. The Nidarosdomen version of this song is a very different song almost, faster tempo with a beat and the orchestra behind it and she dances. This old version is so beautiful and very sad and the other is more upbeat and amazing, and in that one it sounds like she is almost "finally over it all". I wrote in the "It Happened Quiet" reaction the sad story behind this song with quotes, so you probably have seen that.
Great Nina! I know you have great taste!! 🙃 suprise suprise. This year i have listen to Auroras music for 3400 minutes and i have love every minute of it. This one is of the most emotional performances from her. Love it!!
What next? ... Or which order do you go through her repertoire 😉 Well, I've made many suggestions so far so here's another (which I may have already suggested, I forget) Something traditional with a gorgeous video, made for a Brazilian Soap Opera if I remember correctly:- AURORA - Scarborough Fair : th-cam.com/video/HEDs_3PFIMM/w-d-xo.html
I watched this performance again in 2021 on July 22nd the 10 year "remembrance" of Utøya and cried a bit...again, and then just a few hours later I got a call from my cousin telling me that her father, my uncle, had died that day 😢
Please listen to the Nidarosdomen concert version too - the orchestration elevates it a lot. I think of this as a companion piece to Nature Boy, musically
Always makes my day to see Aurora on your channel! I think that last bit is unresolved purposely, because of the subject matter. The pain never really goes away. I've been borderline obsessed with "Black Water Lilies" lately, so I think that should be your next Aurora reaction and analysis. Her vocals are crazy good on that song/performance! th-cam.com/video/otRKDDguvyg/w-d-xo.html
👍😍😍 This is such a sad song, and especially this version. I also love her performance of this song from Nidarosdomen, it’s more upbeat 💕 My most listen to artists on Spotify are: 1. Aurora 2. Billie Eilish 3. Muse 4. Ina Wroldsen 5. Pink
@@lillm6874 Sometimes Spotify makes me sit through a 25-30 second or longer ad before I can skip, which I understand, but a bit annoying after the 10th ad. Lol. TH-cam only makes at the most 20 seconds. As for the artists, you might like Spiritbox, it's metal-core. Armin is just dance music. Orgy is industrialish. Korn is nu-metal.
@@lillm6874 I'm really surprised you don't know of Korn! They've been around since the early 90's. The rest I understand, a bit more obscure unless you're into the genres. th-cam.com/video/51DEzX0lLY4/w-d-xo.html Orgy th-cam.com/video/EAiksF4bHpg/w-d-xo.html Spiritbox th-cam.com/video/tA0Tce1V4vM/w-d-xo.html Armin Van Buuren th-cam.com/video/nq9j1qkj2Vc/w-d-xo.html Korn
Some of most unconvincing statements of all time this "Finally I am over" - by purpose of course - and so he could not say it anymore at the end. Silence as definitely NOT!
Actually, the unresolved ending is very potent in the context of the songs theme. If you don't know, it is about the 69 dead children in the 2011 Utoye shooting in Norway. Just like their lives, the song doesn't resolve and the statement "Finally, I am over it all" is brought into question, because is she really?
This is the only song of Aurora that I wish reactors would do some research before they listen to it... It's about the Utøya mass shooting in 2011 in Norway. 69 teenagers was killed and 33 seriously injured. They were chased around the island for 70 minutes by a far-right terrorist with a machine gun. Aurora's boyfriend was shot and killed, so there's a lot of emotions she has to deal with when she sings this song...
@@kentsolgule5362 Yes, she did in 2019. In a interview with the Norwegian newspaper "Dagbladet" I don't know if it's translated to English anywhere, but if you google "Aurora - en fri fugl" you should find it. It's a long and very personal interview where she talk about a lot, including all the people she have lost in her life.
@@kentsolgule5362 I google translated the small part of the interview where she mention it. (idk if you understand Norwegian. lol) "When Aurora was in secondary school, her sister Viktoria lost her boyfriend. He was 18 years old and died in bed in the military from an undetected heart defect. In high school, Aurora's friend from the sign language class died in a traffic accident. - I sang at my friend's funeral. She was kind, it was hard. - There was also someone who committed suicide? - Yes, a friend of ours from Os. He was good, very good. And then I had someone I was very close to who died on Utøya. A boy I was in love with. He was delightful. - Were you his girlfriend? - I guess you can say that, even though I was very young then. I was 15 when he passed away. He was 17.
@@i_d_i_e_h Thanks for your effort to help and translate. I can read Norwegian but I'm not sure I understand every word correctly since I'm from Sweden and some words might differ in meaning. The text doesn't seem to be 100% correct in the Dagbladet interview. In word by word translation Dagbladed asked: "Were you his loved one?". Aurora answered that "We probably were, although I was very young at the time ...". Her answer doesn't seem to fit the question, but anyway it seems she confirmed they were in the beginning of something more than a friendship. Makes me sad. When reading Norwegian and Swedish news media it seems to me that this terror attack is still an open wound for many of the survivors, close ones and families of the victims. The terrorist still has a lot of supporters that send hateful messages to survivors. Political leaders that are far right don't admit that these terrorist supporters are members in their own political parties.
@@kentsolgule5362 It is correct, but Norwegian can be a little hard to translate sometimes I guess. I grew up and live only 10 min drive from the Island. I wasn't close friends with anyone who got killed, but I knew a couple of them. Yes it's still a open wound for most people in Norway, but it also brought us together and made us care more for each other. A girl who survived the attack said this in a interview with CNN. "Om én mann kan vise så mye hat, tenk hvor mye kjærlighet vi alle kan vise sammen." It became a quote to live by for us.
I think that it is one brilliant aspect of Aurora's mind and talent, that she can so often create such achingly resonant beauty from violent situations, such as this tribute to the Utoya victims. She has also done it with "It Happened Quiet" and "Murder Song". Nina, you have done quite a bit of Aurora but nothing from the magical HAIK concert. So, please take a look at this, even if it doesn't fit into your reaction list, as you will be utterly enchanted. The concert was filmed in the forest where Aurora played in her childhood. This is a smiling, dancing Aurora with "Daydreamer", the final song of the concert (th-cam.com/video/XH-Pd8hYSoA/w-d-xo.html). I hope you can find the time to watch and enjoy it.
Thank you for your in-depth reaction and analysis of Aurora singing 'Little Boy In The Grass'. Your insights reveal much more of the performance to me. I also love how you are enthralled by some of Aurora's ethereal techniques and magic. Thank you, Nina. Please have a listen to a couple of her own songs with just acoustic guitar and backing vocals ... excellently recorded/filmed. From 2018 'Forgotten Love' performed live at Jornal O Globo studio, Brazil - th-cam.com/video/OLJQrXitrro/w-d-xo.html 'Queendom' live at du SON dans mon SALON, France - th-cam.com/video/vve57LtqvF0/w-d-xo.html From 2022 the song 'Exhale Inhale' performed live in the VEVO studio - th-cam.com/video/hJcIVes-6r4/w-d-xo.html
Aurora tries to convince herself she is over the brutal murder of her friend and 68 other teenagers during 70 minutes of fascist evil - of course, she can not resolve the ending of this song because she knows she is lying to herself. Even Mozart would accept that explanation.
My spotify algorithm is completely destroyed by the fact that I listen to sleep playlists when I go to bed and have them running for hours on end when I sleep. Even so, a few artists rise above even that hurdle. In 2021 it was Aurora. But this year 2022 it is Kalandra. Actually, my top 5 is Kalandra, Euzen, Aurora, The Moon and the Nightspirit and Indila. You already know Aurora of cause, but I would suggest you to look into the others. Kalandra is norwegian like Aurora, and is mostly in the same genre. Euzen is very niche, it is an electronic side project from the people behind Heilung (Swedish, german and Danish). The Moon and the nightspirit is a Hungarian band playing modern folk; they are consistently good to a very impressive degree, meaning that across all their albums you might not find any 10's, but you won't find any 6's either. All their songs are a 7 or 8 for me in any context, so I can always listen to them and often do. Indila is french, and if you don't know her, you should; she is not very active and only have a couple albums, but she is a powerhouse when she does release something.
"... I am." That ending is very Zen. Maybe she figured out Zen herself because she has had a lot of suffering in her life and is used to be alone out in nature. Or she had already studied or heard about Zen. Anyway, Zen is one of the better ways to handle suffering. Be present and aware at a deeper level than conceptual thinking. Just be, accept what is and change what's in your power to change. The first step in every change or creative process is to be aware of your own thinking and transcend it, then get into the flow. Most people skip the awareness step and the flow just happens if they are lucky. Many get stuck in meaningless thinking until the suffering gets too much and they get pushed into flow after an unnecessary period of anger or depression.
My top 5 on spotify were 1. Nightwish 2. Doja Cat 3. Lil Nas X 4. Miley Cyrus 5. Nobuo Uematsu I'm honestly surprised Aurora didn't end up on my top five, I've been binging her music the past few months lmao
Knowing the tragic circumstances of this song and seeing her obvious grief always breaks my heart. There is something in her vocal here that is just so poignant as she works her way through grief. It is such a personal intimate performance I almost feel guilty watching,
There is so much sadness and even grief in this performance. The song is about the mass shootings at Utöya in Norway 2011. She lost a friend, or a person she knew at least, there on that island. Thus the water and the boat I think.
Let me expand on this. She indeed lost someone very close to her in the Utøya attack in 2011.
In an interview she was asked about this and the interviewer persisted and Aurora admitted that they could be considered girlfriend and boyfriend at the time.
He was 17 and she was 15
@@TheVirtualWatcher Thank you!
@@staffankarlsson1428 I posted these quotes in the "It Happened Quiet" reaction here on this channel.
"In a Facebook post in 2015, Aurora referred to the Utøya massacre in 2011 and to someone important to Aurora who passed away that day. She wrote:
"Today is the day. 22nd of July. It's been 4 years since you left us. Since all of you left us. how time flies, we even find ourselves forgetting for a moment, nearly moving on.. Not because we forget you, but because we remember to live. But know that I will always remember you, and everyone that went down with you. I will think of love, and send love to those who needs it this today. I hope no one is crying alone. Rest in peace my friend. You are free now."
She said in an interview she was to marry him eventually. So knew him a bit more than a little.
But that was her younger life goals.
Such an Emotional song and performance! Such Sadness in her voice and expressions ........
As always Aurora serving magic vocals, I feel like I'm levitating and going to other dimension when I hear her. Her face expression it's a gold on her performances.💛
So well put!
I clicked fast when i saw your reaction as i love Auroras music and your reactions = perfect combo for me. She is my most listen artist for sure (even too much as i of course always listened and listen to many different artist and genres but of course time is limited :) ). And I love this particular performance. Of course there are also other great performances like full instrumental Nidarosdomen performance, but love this one even more this one. It is raw and emotional. You feel, hear and see emotions. There is even a moment when she take air like when you are crying. Also like it is on boat as it is about Utoya massacre where she lost friend (and many other young persons was killed). And Utoya is on a island and that is why it fits very well. Also like how it ending like cut down sound. Like someone life was suddenly ended (at last in remind me such meaning in my head).
Ps. And this part about healing and sinking like a stone. So heartbreaking.
Great reaction to a very personal and sad song by AURORA. Is she my most listened to artist this year? 🤷♀ I'm just kidd'n, its not even a close race, by FAR my most listened to!!
Another nice reaction/analisys as always.
😊👍 Yes she was by far my most listened to artist.
That cry at 5:13 in this video so emotional, but I somehow like that sound, I don't know if I should feel bad about that.
She should use that more often in other emotional songs. She also did a smaller "cry" in her Believer cover.
The Nidarosdomen version of this song is a very different song almost, faster tempo with a beat and the orchestra behind it and she dances. This old version is so beautiful and very sad and the other is more upbeat and amazing, and in that one it sounds like she is almost "finally over it all".
I wrote in the "It Happened Quiet" reaction the sad story behind this song with quotes, so you probably have seen that.
Great Nina! I know you have great taste!! 🙃 suprise suprise. This year i have listen to Auroras music for 3400 minutes and i have love every minute of it. This one is of the most emotional performances from her. Love it!!
My Unwrapped says Aurora and no one else is close. Thank you Aurora for such amazing music.
I am so happy you watched this version! It's so beautiful and I always love your input!
What next? ... Or which order do you go through her repertoire 😉
Well, I've made many suggestions so far so here's another (which I may have already suggested, I forget)
Something traditional with a gorgeous video, made for a Brazilian Soap Opera if I remember correctly:-
AURORA - Scarborough Fair : th-cam.com/video/HEDs_3PFIMM/w-d-xo.html
How can you watch this without tears in your eyes?
I watched this performance again in 2021 on July 22nd the 10 year "remembrance" of Utøya and cried a bit...again, and then just a few hours later I got a call from my cousin telling me that her father, my uncle, had died that day 😢
I just love you reactions Nina...since u're a frozen fan...u should check Aurora's version of into the unknown..i's magical!!
Please listen to the Nidarosdomen concert version too - the orchestration elevates it a lot. I think of this as a companion piece to Nature Boy, musically
Always makes my day to see Aurora on your channel! I think that last bit is unresolved purposely, because of the subject matter. The pain never really goes away.
I've been borderline obsessed with "Black Water Lilies" lately, so I think that should be your next Aurora reaction and analysis. Her vocals are crazy good on that song/performance!
th-cam.com/video/otRKDDguvyg/w-d-xo.html
Yes i think you are right with the resolution thing - thank you for your suggestion!
👍😍😍
This is such a sad song, and especially this version.
I also love her performance of this song from Nidarosdomen, it’s more upbeat 💕
My most listen to artists on Spotify are:
1. Aurora
2. Billie Eilish
3. Muse
4. Ina Wroldsen
5. Pink
Overall. But I tend to listen to music on TH-cam because of the shorter skippable ads.
1. Aurora
2. Spiritbox
3. Armin Van Buuren
4. Orgy
5. Korn
@@FrostedVanity
Only heard of Aurora 😅🥰
Skipable adds on Spotify or TH-cam, I don’t understand
@@lillm6874 Sometimes Spotify makes me sit through a 25-30 second or longer ad before I can skip, which I understand, but a bit annoying after the 10th ad. Lol. TH-cam only makes at the most 20 seconds.
As for the artists, you might like Spiritbox, it's metal-core. Armin is just dance music. Orgy is industrialish. Korn is nu-metal.
@@lillm6874 I'm really surprised you don't know of Korn! They've been around since the early 90's. The rest I understand, a bit more obscure unless you're into the genres.
th-cam.com/video/51DEzX0lLY4/w-d-xo.html Orgy
th-cam.com/video/EAiksF4bHpg/w-d-xo.html Spiritbox
th-cam.com/video/tA0Tce1V4vM/w-d-xo.html Armin Van Buuren
th-cam.com/video/nq9j1qkj2Vc/w-d-xo.html Korn
@@FrostedVanity Ok, I can understand that, but there’s no adds on my Spotify 🤔
Maybe it’s an American thing?
Some of most unconvincing statements of all time this "Finally I am over" - by purpose of course - and so he could not say it anymore at the end. Silence as definitely NOT!
Actually, the unresolved ending is very potent in the context of the songs theme. If you don't know, it is about the 69 dead children in the 2011 Utoye shooting in Norway. Just like their lives, the song doesn't resolve and the statement "Finally, I am over it all" is brought into question, because is she really?
nina + Aurora 💗
AURORA was my second. My first was Ghostly Kisses
A lot of her songs have unresolved endings. It's one of the first things I noticed about her music. I'm used to it, now - lol!
My most listen music first is Aurora and second Sigrid
This is the only song of Aurora that I wish reactors would do some research before they listen to it... It's about the Utøya mass shooting in 2011 in Norway. 69 teenagers was killed and 33 seriously injured. They were chased around the island for 70 minutes by a far-right terrorist with a machine gun. Aurora's boyfriend was shot and killed, so there's a lot of emotions she has to deal with when she sings this song...
Has she ever said that he or she was more than a friend? I don't think so.
@@kentsolgule5362 Yes, she did in 2019. In a interview with the Norwegian newspaper "Dagbladet" I don't know if it's translated to English anywhere, but if you google "Aurora - en fri fugl" you should find it. It's a long and very personal interview where she talk about a lot, including all the people she have lost in her life.
@@kentsolgule5362 I google translated the small part of the interview where she mention it. (idk if you understand Norwegian. lol)
"When Aurora was in secondary school, her sister Viktoria lost her boyfriend. He was 18 years old and died in bed in
the military from an undetected heart defect. In high school, Aurora's friend from the sign language class died in a traffic accident.
- I sang at my friend's funeral. She was kind, it was hard.
- There was also someone who committed suicide?
- Yes, a friend of ours from Os. He was good, very good. And then I had someone I was very close to who died on Utøya. A boy I was in love with. He was delightful.
- Were you his girlfriend?
- I guess you can say that, even though I was very young then. I was 15 when he passed away. He was 17.
@@i_d_i_e_h Thanks for your effort to help and translate. I can read Norwegian but I'm not sure I understand every word correctly since I'm from Sweden and some words might differ in meaning. The text doesn't seem to be 100% correct in the Dagbladet interview. In word by word translation Dagbladed asked: "Were you his loved one?". Aurora answered that "We probably were, although I was very young at the time ...". Her answer doesn't seem to fit the question, but anyway it seems she confirmed they were in the beginning of something more than a friendship. Makes me sad.
When reading Norwegian and Swedish news media it seems to me that this terror attack is still an open wound for many of the survivors, close ones and families of the victims. The terrorist still has a lot of supporters that send hateful messages to survivors. Political leaders that are far right don't admit that these terrorist supporters are members in their own political parties.
@@kentsolgule5362 It is correct, but Norwegian can be a little hard to translate sometimes I guess.
I grew up and live only 10 min drive from the Island. I wasn't close friends with anyone who got killed, but I knew a couple of them.
Yes it's still a open wound for most people in Norway, but it also brought us together and made us care more for each other.
A girl who survived the attack said this in a interview with CNN. "Om én mann kan vise så mye hat, tenk hvor mye kjærlighet vi alle kan vise sammen."
It became a quote to live by for us.
Great stuff stay safe Nina xxxxx
Thank you! You too!
I think that it is one brilliant aspect of Aurora's mind and talent, that she can so often create such achingly resonant beauty from violent situations, such as this tribute to the Utoya victims. She has also done it with "It Happened Quiet" and "Murder Song". Nina, you have done quite a bit of Aurora but nothing from the magical HAIK concert. So, please take a look at this, even if it doesn't fit into your reaction list, as you will be utterly enchanted. The concert was filmed in the forest where Aurora played in her childhood. This is a smiling, dancing Aurora with "Daydreamer", the final song of the concert (th-cam.com/video/XH-Pd8hYSoA/w-d-xo.html). I hope you can find the time to watch and enjoy it.
She's definitely mother earth's daughter 🙌🏻
Love from Norway Nina.
Thank you for your in-depth reaction and analysis of Aurora singing 'Little Boy In The Grass'. Your insights reveal much more of the performance to me. I also love how you are enthralled by some of Aurora's ethereal techniques and magic. Thank you, Nina.
Please have a listen to a couple of her own songs with just acoustic guitar and backing vocals ... excellently recorded/filmed.
From 2018 'Forgotten Love' performed live at Jornal O Globo studio, Brazil - th-cam.com/video/OLJQrXitrro/w-d-xo.html
'Queendom' live at du SON dans mon SALON, France - th-cam.com/video/vve57LtqvF0/w-d-xo.html
From 2022 the song 'Exhale Inhale' performed live in the VEVO studio - th-cam.com/video/hJcIVes-6r4/w-d-xo.html
My most played artist is Dirk Maassen. But the most listened album is Auroras.
If only you would have known what this song is about...
Aurora tries to convince herself she is over the brutal murder of her friend and 68 other teenagers during 70 minutes of fascist evil - of course, she can not resolve the ending of this song because she knows she is lying to herself. Even Mozart would accept that explanation.
I have TH-cam music. And Aurora was third. Behind Highasakite and The Warning. Nightwish 4th.
Between Aurora and Angelina Jordan Norway has definitely given us magic....
My spotify algorithm is completely destroyed by the fact that I listen to sleep playlists when I go to bed and have them running for hours on end when I sleep. Even so, a few artists rise above even that hurdle. In 2021 it was Aurora. But this year 2022 it is Kalandra. Actually, my top 5 is Kalandra, Euzen, Aurora, The Moon and the Nightspirit and Indila. You already know Aurora of cause, but I would suggest you to look into the others. Kalandra is norwegian like Aurora, and is mostly in the same genre. Euzen is very niche, it is an electronic side project from the people behind Heilung (Swedish, german and Danish). The Moon and the nightspirit is a Hungarian band playing modern folk; they are consistently good to a very impressive degree, meaning that across all their albums you might not find any 10's, but you won't find any 6's either. All their songs are a 7 or 8 for me in any context, so I can always listen to them and often do. Indila is french, and if you don't know her, you should; she is not very active and only have a couple albums, but she is a powerhouse when she does release something.
"... I am." That ending is very Zen. Maybe she figured out Zen herself because she has had a lot of suffering in her life and is used to be alone out in nature. Or she had already studied or heard about Zen.
Anyway, Zen is one of the better ways to handle suffering. Be present and aware at a deeper level than conceptual thinking. Just be, accept what is and change what's in your power to change. The first step in every change or creative process is to be aware of your own thinking and transcend it, then get into the flow.
Most people skip the awareness step and the flow just happens if they are lucky. Many get stuck in meaningless thinking until the suffering gets too much and they get pushed into flow after an unnecessary period of anger or depression.
❤💯👍
It seems to be a thing she does sometimes. I've seen (or heard) her end songs unresolved in one or two other videos as well.
My top 5 on spotify were
1. Nightwish
2. Doja Cat
3. Lil Nas X
4. Miley Cyrus
5. Nobuo Uematsu
I'm honestly surprised Aurora didn't end up on my top five, I've been binging her music the past few months lmao
Please react to Arijit Singh's "DUA" live performance.
Mine is .... Aurora lol
Angelina jordan official norges o aurora is the best singer in word
React to Tori Kelly - O Holy Night (From A Tori Kelly Christmas) pls🤍🤍✨✨