@@Un4Given71 I think the problem here is the mixing and after effects. It’s almost a whisper and there a reverb that makes it not easy to understand at first. Once I knew it was French, I could understand it but I had to focus.
2:14 The Forbidden Fruits of Eden 3:06 Everything Matters 5:30 Giving in to the love 7:03 Cure For Me 10:20 You Keep Me Crawling 13:14 Exist for Love 16:03 Heathens 19:41 The Innocent 22:38 Exhale Inhale 24:38 A Temporary High 26:27 A Dangerous Thing 29:28 Artemis 31:38 Blood In The Wine 34:25 This Could Be A Dream 38:10 A Little Place Called The Moon
I feel like this whole album isn't meant to make you cry (ofc it's ok if you do), but it feels more like realising the power we carry in us and kind of rising out of the ordinary life to become who we truly are. This album on one side encourages you that it's ok to be who you are and on the other side kind of pushes you to get up and do your stuff and live your life. That's atleast how I feel about it
There are many descriptions of what a heathen is but the best i can find is... one who practices the pre-Christian religion of the ancient Germanic people. They worship the Germanic and Norse gods and goddess'.
Blood in Wine (which sounds so cinematic to me) and You have me Crawling are my favorites. I think her best work yet. Not one skip on the album. It is folky and primal (which is my favorite type of songs from her) with hints of rock/pop. The whole album feels so cinematic to me and is so cohesive in terms of theme compared to previous albums You are right this album is based off religious things and Also inspired by gods and goddesses
I’m from China and I’m not familiar with European singing techniques, but from what I know, Blood in the Wine actually gives me a feeling of Tibet. It’s both familiar and exotic for me. Love it.
Oh wow yes i can totally see it ! The wild vocals, some of those bells/gongs, the unusual harmony (for a western "pop" song at least)... I mean I'm French, so less familiar with Tibetan music, but i am a big fan of central Asian harmonics/throat singing so i have a bit of exposure :D It's fascinating because "both familiar and exotic" is precisely how I'd describe it for me too. It's crazy how she managed to pull off a song that would evoke this feeling across the world :)
Your positive reaction to Aurora's new album is so enlightening...deep,existential,makes us confront questions we dare not dissect..just like in the song about crawling....I love how honest you are in your analysis...
This is my favourite album of hers so far, she does such a good job at experimenting with different styles but her beautiful voice and lyrics bring the same feeling of being teleported
I knew you would embrace her experimental turns in this album❤️ I love that you are able to appreciate the quality of the album, even though it is missing those songs that move you to tears (which you were obviously waiting for)😅 but I think it's like you pointed out - her previous albums have kind of felt similar, whilst in this she is going in a different direction! I don't think her goal is to move us to tears, but rather to make us think and ponder. This album is food for thought, and possibly also an invitation to dance some more🎈
I agree with You, this one expects people (Aurora said her public is so clever and she loves that!) to go into their beliefs and separate the true nature from the norms imposed by religion and other cultural things that are ofthen taken as "natural". She said this one is more driven to social aspects instead of emotional.
Exactly. I really love this album BECAUSE the songs are different. There are already too many Aurora songs to make me cry, it's refreshing to hear her being so expansive, free, almost... tribal, primal, you know? It's so different but it's so, so her. It's magical.
The end part of Everything Matters is in French by Pomme. Her music is great-check it out! Here’s what Google translate has to say about the French segment: Somewhere before dawn When the light wants to see us Somewhere in the world A bird falls asleep without a sound You and me In the night we will find Somewhere to drop off The flowers we picked Leave before dawn When the light wants to see us Somewhere in the world A bird falls asleep without a sound Quelque part avant l'aube Quand la lumière veut nous voir Quelque part dans le monde Un oiseau s'endort sans bruit Toi et moi Dans la nuit on trouvera Quelque part où déposer Les fleurs qu'on a cueillies
I'm not that far into the video and you've already mentioned something that resonates so much!!! You mentioned how she's known for her big sounds she creates and how it's nice to hear her explore this closer more intimate sound, That fits sooo well with the title "The Gods We Can Touch" like her amazing big, grand sounds are the gods that she's brought closer to us with this more earthy and warm sound in this album, so cooool
my favorites were You Keep Me Crawling, A Temporary High, Blood in the Wine, and This Could Be A Dream. This was definitely my favorite album of hers sonically! I was discussing her music with a friend earlier and I said that the thing I appreciate about her most as an artist is that since her songwriting and vocals are always so consistently top tier, it givers her so much room to play around with production and she GOES FOR IT!
It’s a much more thinking album with so much conscious symbolism… rather than a feeling one with more abstract symbolism that is usual for her. Innocence has been corrupted perhaps. But the beauty is still there and there is a new maturity. Perhaps we can’t expect her to remain untouched by the world. Her lyrics are amazing in this album.
So, this genius woman choose to show her mind in english so more people can listen to it, and still all native english speakers on youtube seem uncapable of searching and traslating a bit of french. I loved you reaction!!! The instrument on Artemis is a Bandoneon, and the music is quite similar to Piazzolla's music (Argentinian tango)
Aurora explained to Australian radio station Triple J that the track (Heathens) is inspired by the classic tale from the Book of Genesis, she said: "A long, long time ago, Eve took a bite of a forbidden apple hanging from the tree of evil and good. [...] In her act of doing so, she granted humans free will; I just think that is very beautiful, and I wanted to honour her and women like her, who little by little granted us freedom in this world. A freedom to live as we please, to explore and taste. I think life should be lived in all of its colours, and that is why we live like heathens."
Humans had free will before eve are the forbidden fruit it's a gift God given to every intelligent concious creature otherwise eve wouldn't have been able to eat the fruit itself
@@carolinpurayidom4570 It makes sense Humns would have free will, like you say ... so Eve was first to use HER FREE WILL to defy, creating a cascading effect upon all daughters becoming defiant, even to this day?
@@carolinpurayidom4570 i'm not an expert AT ALL but i think god created adan and eve who lived in the garden of eden (a perfect "world" but had rules created by god that they both had to follow). One of those rules was that if they ate fruits from the tree/s (depending on version) they would have all the knowledge in the world but would die or have a punishment. so he basically gave them apples that would give them all the knowldege but "said" not to eat them. When eve ate it he sent her and adam to earth. Aurora thinks that the world with it's beauty and flaws, as ourselves (like in blood in the wine) "the beauty in your beast", is something wonderful that we should be grateful for, cause it's definitely better than being controlled by someone threatening us and making us want something he wouldn't give us, like why would he put the apples there? why would he threaten them with death or punishments if they eat it? cause then they might be more powerful than him and he wanted them to fear him? i'm sorry but i don't even believe this stories are real, it's just a way people found to control people, and yes, maybe it helps some but it really ruins the life of millions of people with all it's rules that take away all the pleasures, everything especial and exciting in life. there are better religions that are about the power inside and within you, your own power. maybe based on your connection with nature, and how that force she has keeping us alive can also make u feel protected, helped, heard. you can believe in whatever you like obviously, i'm just expressing my point of view and what i heard aurora say (or at leaast what i interpreted) i hope you understand what i wrote cause english isn't my main language and it's 3 am hahah, have a nice day!
So for anyone wanting Aurora's Greek Mythology inspirations for each song, I'll try to sum it up here! 1. Forbidden Fruits of Eden: Goddess Gaia, Mother Earth. 2. Everything Matters: Atlas, who carried the world on his shoulders. Inspired by the people who feel so much. 3. Giving into the Love: Prometheus, who created humans and stole fire from God's. The idea that we all have god like fire inside of us. 4. Cure for me: Hermaphrodite, half man and half woman. Inspired by the LGBT community. 5. Exist for Love: Aphrodite, the Goddess of love. Inspired by everything she stood for and learning to love unselfishly. 6. Heathens: The Queen of the underworld, Persephone. Mother to all the lost souls in the world. 7. The Innocent: Eros, God of sexual desire and wildness. 8. Exhale Inhale: Thanatos, personification of death. About offering help and accepting help when you need it. 9. A temporary high: Janus, God with two faces, past and future. The song is about living in between, in the present. 10. Artemis: Artemis, Goddess of the Hunt and Moon. ..about Strong, independent women like her. 11. Blood in the wine: Bacchus, God of wine. Inspired by the importance of having no shame and enjoying beautiful things. 12. Not sure what A Little Place Called the Moon is about, as she doesn't give an explanation for this one. Feel free to reply if you know this one ❤️
(this is so late I'm so sorry) I don't think every song in the album was about Greek mythology. I love learning the meaning behind songs so I tend to look it up, and for example heathens was about Eve, not Persephone. Keep me crawling is about the toxic relationship with a god (specifically I think she's referencing Christianity). I don't know if this is confirmed or not but Place called a moon was about us humans heading towards great things? I'm probably wrong on that one ngl.
I think the innocent has a latin vibe, theres a music genre called Cumbia which I think is from cuba, but in brazil theres a lot of genres influenced by that, like Axé, me and my friend joked about this track while we were listening li “Ok Ivete Sangalo” which is a very famous singer here for singing Axé music hahaha
You Keep Me Crawling and A Dangerous Thing both resonated so much for me as they both speak to a toxic relationship dynamic where one puts the other on a pedestal based on a projected illusion and a belief in what could be rather than what reality necessarily affirms - that there’s no love in the end concerning that kind of dynamic. Some people just like being wanted and will pull you towards them just to scorn you and do it all over again. Yowch Aurora, but you’re right! “Giving into love should never hurt for me. Giving into love should set me free.”
I have a nephew who is Gay. We could see it when he was 6 years old. He was born that way. When he came out, my sister called to tell us but was shocked when we said we already knew he was. She was the last one to find out. We are not here to Judge anyone but to love everyone to our best ability.
My album ratings :- 14 . The innocent 13 . A little place Called the moon 12 . Giving into the love 11 . Artemis 10 . Blood in the wine 9 . You keep me Crawling 8 . Everything Matters 7 . A Temporary High 6 . Heathens 5 . A dangerous Thing 4 . Exhale Inhale 3 . This Could Be a dream 2 . Cure for me 1 . Exist For love This is my ranking of this albums , in case of aurora it's too hard to rank songs in a list , I loved all the songs in the album . This album is magical and a masterpiece . ❤️
as a young adult, I've gone through mistreat, betray and all sort of stuff. But "exist for love" made my unconditional love come back to life. I always know I'm an emotional one and making people happy bring joy to me, but some of that part died along the road. Aurora's innocence just immediately cures my wound as she show me how beautiful love can be. It's like she says to me that no matter what happen, just believe in love.
This one is definitely her strongest album in terms of really keeping to the theme and having all the songs sound cohesive to each other. They all sound like they belong in the same world even thought they're so different.
I think all the songs on this album have multiple meanings. For « Dangerous thing »: yes it could be about a relationship with a lover, or a friend, but if we keep the religious theme in mind it could be about the relationship with God. How we feel abandoned, we keep trying to reach out for the sky and, like Icarus, get too close to the sun so we end up « loosing feathers » without getting the love and comfort we desperately long for. She said in a interview about this album that it was easy for her to do « another Aurora album » and that she wanted to expend her horizons. I think that some songs are more and more touching everytime we listen to them.
This album definitely seems very experimental, I personally love the primal kinda songs and her personalized Aurora-style pop songs, like the river and giving in to the love, so I hope to see more like that in the future (and maybe more like exist for love :) I can’t be the only one who thought of Mario Kart music listening to The Innocent, right? Just me? Yeah. Aurora also said that this album is closest to her acoustic murder song when comparing it to the closest previously released song, so that explains all the guitar
Couldn't wait to see this reaction. I love Aurora and her music. The new album is so good, though there wasn't a song thats been so emotional (like Daydreamer for me). So thank you for your thoughts about the new Album.😄 Ps: I heard a song from Addison Grace, it's called "I wanna be a boy", I thought it could be nice for a reaction.
Your reaction is one of the best song reaction vids I've ever seen. I love how you tried your best to dissect the meaning of the songs and wasn't afraid to discuss some deeper topics. Loved it! And never be ashamed to be gay or sensitive they are your superpowers. Allows you to view life in ways unique to the majority of people. 💖 Gonna go watch your other Aurora reactions now 😂
one thing that I really really love about this album is that it seems like almost every song was a little bit inspired by other countries' culture, like France, Tibet, etc... As someone who grew up in Brazil I can hear the influence of our music in "Cure For Me", that literally samples "Aquarela do Brasil", and "You Keep Me Crawling", that has a style of singing that reminds me of songs like "Você me vira a cabeça" by Alcione. They both feel so nostalgic but so new at the same time and I've seen people from other countries saying the same thing About "Exhale Inhale", I see it as if Aurora is this Goddess like entity who sees the world being destroyed while people ignore it, and it's like shes showing us the reality while trying to not cry, like when you're having an anxiety attack and needs to control your breathing by exhaling inhaling it's impossible for me to pick a favorite, I think this album made me cry almost as much as her other albums and I can't recall last time I've heard something that touched me as much as this album did, I literally avoided seeing others' reactions and thoughts about this album since it's release cause I felt like I needed to listen to it as alone as possible 😭😭 The video was really great as always!! I dont know how you're able take so much from every song in the first listen tbh but that's also what makes your reactions so interesting to watch!
I love your Aurora's new album reaction video over the others, you really give it some depth. Also your voice is so comforting just like Auraro's so it fits so well when you talk over her singings
Aurora said a while ago in an interview that this album is intentionally different and experimental and playful and less "serious". So on the next album she might be back to her "normal" sound from the previous albums: youtu . be / YytOgPVXqK0&t=3m24s "Sonically what can you tell us about kind of ehh, is this (Cure For Me) kind of representative of what you're exploring on the next record. Is it a sign of what's to come?" "Ehh No! It's very NOT how the album sounds, which is very exciting. But it has something in common with the album, that I am experimenting with new things and new sides, which I am enjoying. Because it is easy for me to make a really "Aurora" album you know, like that feels like nature and Mother Earth. It is very easy for me to do that because it comes so naturally for me, so I have been *really* enjoying just doing something new this time, doing something different. Because this is my third...and a half....album, and it's about time, you know, in my mind I needed to just play around and do something different, and for me music has always been extremely serious and no fun. It's been very like very serious, and I always write very serious things, and I can see myself like standing on stage every night for an hour and being like really sad all the time, because all my songs are so filled with so much sadness, you know. I just wanted to make an album for myself that had a bit more playfulness and cheekiness and wildness. It's very exciting, I'm very excited to share the album with you, and it will come out this year." Each song on this new album is "linked" with a Greek God or "idea" which was revealed in a quiz that was released you could take (the last 2 songs are on the "deluxe" vinyl album): The Forbidden Fruits of Eden Gaia (Gaea) (Goddess of all. Embodiment of the earth) Everything Matters Atlas (God of endurance) Giving Into The Love Prometheus (Titan god of fire) Cure For Me Panacea (Goddess of healing) You Keep Me Crawling Persephone (Queen of the underworld) Exist For Love Aphrodite (Goddess of love. Pleasure, passion and beauty) Heathens Persephone (Queen of the underworld. Queen of the damned) The Innocent Eros (God of sexual desire. Sexual freedom) Exhale, Inhale Oizys (Goddess of anxiety. Grief and depression) Temporary High Chaos (He is filled the nothingness between heaven and earth) A Dangerous Thing Peitho (The personification of seduction and persuasion) Artemis Artemis (Goddess of the hunt, the wilderness. The moon) The Blood In The Wine Dionysus (God of wine, madness, drunkenness and parties) This Could Be A Dream Morpheus (God of dreams) A Little Place Called The Moon Astraeus (God of the dusk, stars, planets and astrology) The Woman I Am Hera (Queen of the gods and the goddess of marriage, women, childbirth and family) The Devil is Human Hades (King of the underworld. God of the dead)
She is very mysterious with her lyrics, she does not want to reveal exactly what they mean to her, because she wants us to form our own opinions (which is a bit frustrating 🙂 ). For example "Heathens" she did say, that it is about "Eve" but it has a specific personal meaning to her, that she does not want to reveal. "A mother with no heart" "Her love is yours, But only if you give, Your heart to her", might be referring to Mother Earth, but the song is also linked to "Persephone", so I do not know for sure. From a TripleJ interview: "A long, long time ago, Eve took a bite of a forbidden apple hanging from the tree of evil and good. [...] In her act of doing so, she granted humans free will; I just think that is very beautiful, and I wanted to honour her and women like her, who little by little granted us freedom in this world. A freedom to live as we please, to explore and taste. I think life should be lived in all of its colours, and that is why we live like heathens." youtu . be / WO1QTzF1uUc&t=266 "I think 'Heathens ' is something people call you, when you don't follow...ehm...when you don't act like people expect you to behave, and I'm very inspired by, especially the women who have fought for women like us today. Cause I know if we lived 400 years ago, we would definitely have been burned on the fire. I'm happy that I'm living now. Though I feel like I might have been burned in a previous life...ehm...cause I...yeah it makes sense. But yeah I was just very inspired by all these people that aren't accepted by these small communities in the world, and by religion too, who try their best but they don't fit in, because they are more human than the world or a religon sometimes allows you to be, or like a strict household, it's very hard. So I just wanted to make this liberating song about the beauty in just being imperfect and human. To me the song has a very specific meaning, but I'm trying to not be too specific. I want all of you to find your own meaning, that is why I'm just saying like general things. But for me it has a really, a really clear meaning behind it. But I don't want to tell too much, cause I want you all to find your own meaning. But it's one of my favorite from this album or my favorite single, and it represents a lot I think, or it is very in tune with how the rest of the album sounds. More than "Cure For Me" or "Giving In To The Love"."
I would not be surprised if some of the "love songs" on the album actually means something completely different to her, for example if "A Dangerous Thing" is referring to humans from Mother Earth's point of view, like in "Soulless Creatures", and there are some of the other songs that easily could be interpreted in completely different ways. While it is good to be able to form own opinions, I would love to know her exact meaning in them, maybe she will reveal more in the future. Here are some more quotes from Aurora regarding the various songs, I'm sorry if it is too boring and too much then just ignore it. Source various interviews I read / saw and also the Aurora wiki: Exist For Love: "'Exist For Love' is the 1st love song I ever wrote. But as most of my songs, it has a much larger and deeper meaning than just love between 2 individuals. I believe that love is one of the strongest forces we have on this planet and in us people, and I believe that once we learn true, pure and unselfish love, we are reminded of why we exist, and I think we understand why we are here once we learn that, that kind of pure love exist, which is quite beautiful. And I love many things....and many people." Everything Matters: "It's a very strange story [...] a story I would like for people out there to figure out themselves. I contacted a French artist, Pomme, to write the ending for me. And it is beautiful. Sensual. And real. I do often feel like this world is trying to make me focus on all these great miracles. And somehow I feel like it makes me miss out on the small ones. And that is sad. Because the small miracles happen all the time. Sometimes several times a day. And I want to see all of them. Because everything matters." A Dangerous Thing: "There's a lot of beauty in this world. And there's a lot of ugly. I was surprised to learn how often the ugly is disguised as beauty. How often poison is disguised as wine. And life disguised as death.And when we learn that what we thought was good for us, is in fact bad for us - even then we tend to go return to it. Because at least it's familiar. And all we ever dream about is home. Seductive, yet destructive. A dangerous thing indeed." Giving In To The Love: "I was thinking about Prometheus [...], the myth [...] and how he supposedly created mankind in clay. And how he stole the fire from the gods to kinda make us alive and complete us I guess. And I was thinking about this clay and how much we obsess with the looks of this clay, that kind of means nothing. And how it seems to distract us from I guess the fire that we keep inside. And that's very sad. I think the world today makes a lot of people very unhappy because we obsess with these strange things, like how we look. [...] And I find this obsession with beauty both very fascinating and very scary at the same time, so it's kind of about that. “I love very big, powerful drums. To me, that's very native. It's something ancient. I love when music touches that place. I actually wrote that song at the last minute. I had already finished the album and mastered it, but then I wanted to have 'Giving In to the Love' on it. So it’s actually the demo; I never got the chance to completely mix it. It’s very unpolished.” A Temporary High “‘A Temporary High’ is inspired by a woman that is very fascinating. If she was your present, she would be confusing; if she was your past, you wouldn't be able to escape her. If she is your future, you won't be able to keep up with her.” This Could Be A Dream: “I wrote this very late, so it was completely dark the whole time. I was thinking about people's dark hours, and I wanted to make a song for those who never learn to dance and run because they're just managing to stand up. It takes so many muscles for a human body to even stand up, so I can understand why people can’t find the strength for it. It’s very hard to be a human, and I'm just saddened by the idea that some people never get to explore their own full potential because they constantly have to simply fight for the right to exist. That just breaks my heart. So I wanted to make a song for them.” You Keep Me Crawling: "I’d been trying to explain the soul of this album, and when I made You Keep Me Crawling it felt like the last word. After I had written it, I wasn't hungry for more. I felt like I was satisfied.”
For me personally it is hard to actually pick a favourite, because this album is so out there and different with its songs. Some of these are a little too much for me (e.g. this could be a dream), but most of them i just love (Everything matters, Giving into the love, Cure for me, The Innocent, A Temporary High, A Dangerous Thing and Blood and Wine holds a special place in my heart!) Also Blood and wine sounds more medieval / the witcher to me, but yeah :D
I have watched other reactions to Aurora in Your channel. Let me tell You that I felt so satisfied that you found references to the traditional idea of God in You keep me crawling. My ranking 1. Heathens 2. Cure for me 3. Inhale Exhale 4. A dangerous thing 5. Artemis 6. Everything matters
When I first heard the songs that she hadn't already released from this, I wasn't sure how I felt about them. I felt the same way as you. But after a few listens, they have all grown on me and I love them all!! She did say in an interview that she could stand on stage and sing nothing but sad songs or songs about/to Mother Nature, very Aurora songs bc those are very easy for her. But she wanted to try new things and be more playful. I like all the different sounds she used on this too! Thanks for your reaction!!
as an atheist, raise as catholic she hit a nerve in me that I couldn't put my finger in it my whole teen years, I started questioning God when I was 11 or 12 and I couldn't understand how being simply us as that figure created us was bad and we had to reach forgiveness for something out of our control, the way everything was set to keep us down, the hate that eve got for wanting free will?? I was surprise that an album focus on Gods didn't hit my religious trauma as other media did (cough cough midnight mass TV show) and help me put some perspective on the spirituality that I purposely let forgotten out of my mind she actually made every song perfectly with a clear and touching meaning
I feel like this is definitely her best album lyrically and melodically speaking. But I think the reason it's less moving (for me at least) is because it was less interesting production wise, I don't really know how to explain it but it was like a lot of them sounded like they were just demos or something and hadn't been fully fleshed out yet, or they felt less alive, so it didn't have the same kind of impact as her previous works. Really glad she's starting to branch out into other styles though, excited to see where she heads next
Good job Luscent 👍After two listens - here are my initial thoughts: This album seems to me to have originated from the following idea: Aurora wanted to make a play list discussing existential topics of the complexities of being human and being spiritual. Love and evil. Honesty and fakery. What sin is (and can sin be beautiful). Building and destroying. So she figured out that she had to write all the songs for her playlist. In a way that does not provoke the need to skip songs (this record is (to me) a stream of consciousness similar to Albums I grew up with in the 1970s - it is also conceptual - but different from say David Bowie/Ziggy Stardust or Pink Floyd of the time. It reminds me a bit about Prince in the 80's that released CDs without the option to skip (the CD had only one track). This album has an extremely high level of it's "quality floor" (the "not best songs" (initially) are still incredibly interesting - and they still are interesting in the context of the entire album - both musically and topically. It is also funny - we have gotten 6 singles(?) before the album. It is almost sensational to hear how well they form a complete arc with the 8 new ones (aka the play-list feeling - it feels like she is taking a look at the same existential question from light, darkness, questions, up-and downtempo). It is pretty obvious that this now 25-year-old lady is maturing (as is her voice). She is more direct (while being vague in her poetry when it comes to answers as always) - she is less "whimsical" in her questions. While she keeps that honest sincerity in herself that she always had. In a strange way - her songs are less "crying eyes out sad-emotional" as the questions goes deeper (At least in studio arrangement - I know what she does when going live - she can take angry and hard "the Seed" and perform it with so much sadness and loss that well. That she is receiving rave reviews from around the planet? Yeah of course. This album is like very very good. Clearly her best. And for the first time in some times she also has a couple of songs that beggs to get a radio-mix and even maybe club-mixes for some main-stream attention.
You put everything I was thinking into words. beautifully said. Listening to all the singles now as a whole with the rest of them; it all makes so much sense. It’s a very strong concept album; beautiful cohesive work!
Like ur reviews! Exist for Love is a love letter to her fans, not a personal love interest. See the video, she says the empty audience at the end is a clue. She said Heathens is about resisting trad religion that says you must suffer and not be human almost. She likes the gods of myth that exist on earth over trad religion that puts god above and far away.
i honestly cackled my way through this. i love how funny u are and how you reacts exactly the way i would. like i knew exactly what you were going through. i love auroras work so much, she’s so talented and amazing and ugh inspirational in so many ways. the witch in me loves her. and i also loved your spontaneity and cleverness in experiencing what the album is about. she can be so cryptically sometimes and you just seem to get it so easily. watching this video has been extremely delightful and i’m glad i did it ♥️🖤🔮✨🌩
Shes just getting better and better and shes the purest thing on this planet and we need to save her! Also great reaction and we dont need a cure for us and to be who we are and we have the right to be who we are and love who we want love
The song ‘Heathens’ is pretty much about how women will always be seen as heathens since the garden of eden no matter what they do so just embrace it and move forward.
I know my favorite is exist for love, even though we've had that one out for awhile. I don't know if I will be married in the future or not, but that one will definitely be my wedding song. ❤️🌹
Great reaction again Dan. Your interpretations of the songs and the album as a whole are always interesting to me. Keep it up dude! There's so much to say about this album. Like how the album leans heavily on ancient Greek mythology and each song has it's own 'patron god' from the Greek pantheon as its inspiration. I actually think it helps to know the mythology around each god when deciphering meaning from each song as she was thinking of them as she wrote them. I understand how everyone is talking about how this album is very much a change from her earlier work, but I honestly think that the change from 'Demons" to 'Infections' was a greater deviation than this. But it also reminds me of the change in The Smashing Pumpkins from 'Siamese Dream' to 'Mellon Collie.' Anyway, as you are a musician and producer like me, I just thought I'd tell you that the vocals on 'Exist for love' are actually the first-time recording Aurora did as a demo. She's that good that the final vocal of the song was her version of laying down a scratch track in one take!
I recommend you a Spanish singer her name is Diana Navarro I would like you to listen to a song of hers called "El perdón" she is a very versatile singer she sings different styles of music with incredible melismas and notes greetings from Spain
It's such a world-wide experience, travelling through time... I heard music from the US, France, South American Tango, tribal-like music, maybe central Asia... And the styles were from a modern age, to the 90's, 80's, and even older thatn that... Fitting for how this album seems to be about humanity. Our sin, our love, our pain, everything is included here... Aurora also made a coherent story and theme. I'm a bit of a Mithology nerd, and general fan of greek myths, so most gods referenced were easy to spot, but some COULD and probably do have other inspirations. Also, I like how her "relationship" songs and "religious" songs get so... mixed? She speaks not of religion, but of our relationship with it, best seen in You Keep Me Crawling. This album is 10/10, put in on a loop and go for a long ride with it on, getting disconected from our real world, and trapped in Aurora's carfully crafted story
I love this album because it’s so different. It’s one of the best albums since Radiohead ok Computer. I have a few more great albums that come to mind Guster- Lost and Gone Forever Nightwish- Imaginarium Pink Floyd- The Wall. Smashing Pumpkins- Ava Adore. There are a lot of great songs out there but to put together a great album is difficult. P.S. I’m the reason why Aurora Running with the Wolves was in the soundtrack as I have a good relationship with the director Tomm Moore and introduced him to her music.
found your channel thru this video while searching up reaction content for this specific album and basically been binging your YT content for the last 6 hours - I have loads of free time and no obligations apparently - and oh my god you are so genuine enthusiastic and articulated!! I love it! Aurora have been saying since the beginning that this album was going to be more experimental, that she would like to try different things and play around more and give crying a break, but I think that with a theme like religion she still put out some emotion and reflection into us, especially if you're lgbtq+, it's so special and it really proves how diverse and aware she can be, it makes me so happy and she matured so well - I also love how comforting the ending tracks are, 'a little place called the moon' is basically a small section of someone gently passing their fingers thru your hair as you fall asleep, definitely one of my favorites along with Blood in the wine, Heathens, Keep Me Crawling and Everything Matters. I don't know if you would accept a recomendations right now or if you already know this artist but I think you would LOVE Mitski. She is a Japanese-American singer/songwriter and will be realising her 5th and probably last album on the 14th (I think). Her songs have varied in terms of genre thru the years, from a simple piano backtrack, to a more diy orchestral-like-tracks, punk-rock, synth, acoustic etc etc, but lyrically it always has been beautiful and a bit raw: her upbringing, her vision of sex, depression, how is it like to be a woman in relation to man, just simple burning emotions being expressed in a usually calm, sweet melody and voice. I think her 3nd album is a good place to start, one of the song was in an episode of Adventure Time so you may have heard it - also a few of her songs pop here and there on Tiktok - or you could do Puberty 2, which comes right after the one mentioned above, many say is her best album but idk about that, or you could just listen to the singles she has been putting out for Laurel Hell!! Anyways, thanks for the content, keep up!!
Nice review I pretty much agree with what you said about the production of this album.. overall a stunning and beautiful album..that gave me a taste to see what her next album will be like....🥰
16:48 in Heathens she talks about Eve in the bible where her actions resulted to us learning good and bad and also lead us to freedom. By learning the concept of morality, we become heathens. And she also celebrates women who are like Eve who strives to give freedom to people.
The lending of ‘everything matters’ is sung in French and here is the translation: Somewhere before dawn When the light wants to see us Somewhere in the world A bird falls asleep without a sound You and me, in the night we will find Somewhere to lay the flowers we picked leave before dawn When the light wants to see us Somewhere in the world A bird falls asleep without a sound You and me, in the night we will find Somewhere to lay the flowers we picked leave before dawn When the light wants to see us Somewhere in the world A bird falls asleep without a sound You and me, in the night we will find Somewhere to lay the flowers
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Not you reinstigating the Brittish/French conflict by not recognizing the French language 💀❤
😂😂😂 🇬🇧
Tbh I’m a French speaker and I didn’t recognize the French soooo… yeah
@@Rachel-wg9co me too
@@Rachel-wg9co , strange thing that a french artist can't sing in french.
@@Un4Given71 I think the problem here is the mixing and after effects. It’s almost a whisper and there a reverb that makes it not easy to understand at first. Once I knew it was French, I could understand it but I had to focus.
2:14 The Forbidden Fruits of Eden
3:06 Everything Matters
5:30 Giving in to the love
7:03 Cure For Me
10:20 You Keep Me Crawling
13:14 Exist for Love
16:03 Heathens
19:41 The Innocent
22:38 Exhale Inhale
24:38 A Temporary High
26:27 A Dangerous Thing
29:28 Artemis
31:38 Blood In The Wine
34:25 This Could Be A Dream
38:10 A Little Place Called The Moon
Thank you
Thank you ❤🌹
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my fav is blood in the wine. it really captures her vibe.
Yaaay probably my fav too!!! 🥰
Same!
YESS
Same!!!!
Honestly same. The first time I heard it, it only took a few seconds to know that this song was THE song of the album.
i can't stop listening to 'blood in the wine', it's THE SONG for me
Saaaame it's so good
It gives me inspiration somehow
I love the flow of the lyrics. Also they are giving me nostalgia for some reason
I feel like this whole album isn't meant to make you cry (ofc it's ok if you do), but it feels more like realising the power we carry in us and kind of rising out of the ordinary life to become who we truly are. This album on one side encourages you that it's ok to be who you are and on the other side kind of pushes you to get up and do your stuff and live your life.
That's atleast how I feel about it
Aw yeah I like that interpretation!
AURORA said that Heathens is essentially about Eve giving us free will, which is a take on it I’ve never heard before now and I love it so much!
Cool! Yes love that
the epitome of all heathens (Satan in the form of the snake) inspired Eve to eat from the tree
There are many descriptions of what a heathen is but the best i can find is... one who practices the pre-Christian religion of the ancient Germanic people. They worship the Germanic and Norse gods and goddess'.
For Everything matter, the other language is French! ^^
Pomme is a French singer, so she sings in her native language
Blood in Wine (which sounds so cinematic to me) and You have me Crawling are my favorites. I think her best work yet. Not one skip on the album. It is folky and primal (which is my favorite type of songs from her) with hints of rock/pop. The whole album feels so cinematic to me and is so cohesive in terms of theme compared to previous albums
You are right this album is based off religious things and Also inspired by gods and goddesses
I’m from China and I’m not familiar with European singing techniques, but from what I know, Blood in the Wine actually gives me a feeling of Tibet. It’s both familiar and exotic for me. Love it.
Oh wow yes i can totally see it ! The wild vocals, some of those bells/gongs, the unusual harmony (for a western "pop" song at least)... I mean I'm French, so less familiar with Tibetan music, but i am a big fan of central Asian harmonics/throat singing so i have a bit of exposure :D
It's fascinating because "both familiar and exotic" is precisely how I'd describe it for me too. It's crazy how she managed to pull off a song that would evoke this feeling across the world :)
Your positive reaction to Aurora's new album is so enlightening...deep,existential,makes us confront questions we dare not dissect..just like in the song about crawling....I love how honest you are in your analysis...
Thank you! I'm glad you enjoyed the vid!
This is my favourite album of hers so far, she does such a good job at experimenting with different styles but her beautiful voice and lyrics bring the same feeling of being teleported
Yes definitely!
AURORA enviromental cycle. Agree?
Everything matter 》exhale inhale 》 Wisdom cries 》The seed 》apple tree 》
I knew you would embrace her experimental turns in this album❤️ I love that you are able to appreciate the quality of the album, even though it is missing those songs that move you to tears (which you were obviously waiting for)😅 but I think it's like you pointed out - her previous albums have kind of felt similar, whilst in this she is going in a different direction! I don't think her goal is to move us to tears, but rather to make us think and ponder. This album is food for thought, and possibly also an invitation to dance some more🎈
Love this perspective!
I agree with You, this one expects people (Aurora said her public is so clever and she loves that!) to go into their beliefs and separate the true nature from the norms imposed by religion and other cultural things that are ofthen taken as "natural". She said this one is more driven to social aspects instead of emotional.
Exactly. I really love this album BECAUSE the songs are different. There are already too many Aurora songs to make me cry, it's refreshing to hear her being so expansive, free, almost... tribal, primal, you know? It's so different but it's so, so her. It's magical.
The end part of Everything Matters is in French by Pomme. Her music is great-check it out!
Here’s what Google translate has to say about the French segment:
Somewhere before dawn
When the light wants to see us
Somewhere in the world
A bird falls asleep without a sound
You and me
In the night we will find
Somewhere to drop off
The flowers we picked
Leave before dawn
When the light wants to see us
Somewhere in the world
A bird falls asleep without a sound
Quelque part avant l'aube
Quand la lumière veut nous voir
Quelque part dans le monde
Un oiseau s'endort sans bruit
Toi et moi
Dans la nuit on trouvera
Quelque part où déposer
Les fleurs qu'on a cueillies
I love the fact that he thinks it's Norwegian or whatever language Aurora might've invented
Frenchie here, for once Google translate has it pretty much spot on :D
I'm not that far into the video and you've already mentioned something that resonates so much!!!
You mentioned how she's known for her big sounds she creates and how it's nice to hear her explore this closer more intimate sound,
That fits sooo well with the title "The Gods We Can Touch" like her amazing big, grand sounds are the gods that she's brought closer to us with this more earthy and warm sound in this album, so cooool
my favorites were You Keep Me Crawling, A Temporary High, Blood in the Wine, and This Could Be A Dream. This was definitely my favorite album of hers sonically! I was discussing her music with a friend earlier and I said that the thing I appreciate about her most as an artist is that since her songwriting and vocals are always so consistently top tier, it givers her so much room to play around with production and she GOES FOR IT!
It’s a much more thinking album with so much conscious symbolism… rather than a feeling one with more abstract symbolism that is usual for her. Innocence has been corrupted perhaps. But the beauty is still there and there is a new maturity. Perhaps we can’t expect her to remain untouched by the world. Her lyrics are amazing in this album.
This is such an interesting album! The lyricism is really very captivating and the production is so adventurous. So excited to let it grow on me.
The language on the second track is French as it’s featuring Pomme a great French artist
Btw the part of pomme in everything matters is actually french
I may be the only one but my favorite on the album is "This Could Be A Dream".The melody is just beautiful and of course the lyrics hit home.
It's my favourite too, it feels like a warm hug haha
I cry on: Exhale inhale. Everything matters. Giving in to the love (the na na part).
So, this genius woman choose to show her mind in english so more people can listen to it, and still all native english speakers on youtube seem uncapable of searching and traslating a bit of french. I loved you reaction!!! The instrument on Artemis is a Bandoneon, and the music is quite similar to Piazzolla's music (Argentinian tango)
« I’m gonna guess this is Norwegian, unless she’s making up a language again »
As a french, I feel both amused and shocked. Haha
😂😂😂😂😂
Lmao yes that was both jarring and hilarious x))
Aurora explained to Australian radio station Triple J that the track (Heathens) is inspired by the classic tale from the Book of Genesis, she said:
"A long, long time ago, Eve took a bite of a forbidden apple hanging from the tree of evil and good. [...] In her act of doing so, she granted humans free will; I just think that is very beautiful, and I wanted to honour her and women like her, who little by little granted us freedom in this world. A freedom to live as we please, to explore and taste. I think life should be lived in all of its colours, and that is why we live like heathens."
Humans had free will before eve are the forbidden fruit it's a gift God given to every intelligent concious creature otherwise eve wouldn't have been able to eat the fruit itself
@@carolinpurayidom4570 It makes sense Humns would have free will, like you say ... so Eve was first to use HER FREE WILL to defy, creating a cascading effect upon all daughters becoming defiant, even to this day?
@@carolinpurayidom4570 i'm not an expert AT ALL but i think god created adan and eve who lived in the garden of eden (a perfect "world" but had rules created by god that they both had to follow). One of those rules was that if they ate fruits from the tree/s (depending on version) they would have all the knowledge in the world but would die or have a punishment. so he basically gave them apples that would give them all the knowldege but "said" not to eat them.
When eve ate it he sent her and adam to earth.
Aurora thinks that the world with it's beauty and flaws, as ourselves (like in blood in the wine) "the beauty in your beast", is something wonderful that we should be grateful for, cause it's definitely better than being controlled by someone threatening us and making us want something he wouldn't give us, like why would he put the apples there? why would he threaten them with death or punishments if they eat it? cause then they might be more powerful than him and he wanted them to fear him?
i'm sorry but i don't even believe this stories are real, it's just a way people found to control people, and yes, maybe it helps some but it really ruins the life of millions of people with all it's rules that take away all the pleasures, everything especial and exciting in life.
there are better religions that are about the power inside and within you, your own power. maybe based on your connection with nature, and how that force she has keeping us alive can also make u feel protected, helped, heard.
you can believe in whatever you like obviously, i'm just expressing my point of view and what i heard aurora say (or at leaast what i interpreted)
i hope you understand what i wrote cause english isn't my main language and it's 3 am hahah, have a nice day!
@@mushiroomies 👏👏👏👏
So for anyone wanting Aurora's Greek Mythology inspirations for each song, I'll try to sum it up here!
1. Forbidden Fruits of Eden: Goddess Gaia, Mother Earth.
2. Everything Matters: Atlas, who carried the world on his shoulders. Inspired by the people who feel so much.
3. Giving into the Love: Prometheus, who created humans and stole fire from God's. The idea that we all have god like fire inside of us.
4. Cure for me: Hermaphrodite, half man and half woman. Inspired by the LGBT community.
5. Exist for Love: Aphrodite, the Goddess of love. Inspired by everything she stood for and learning to love unselfishly.
6. Heathens: The Queen of the underworld, Persephone. Mother to all the lost souls in the world.
7. The Innocent: Eros, God of sexual desire and wildness.
8. Exhale Inhale: Thanatos, personification of death. About offering help and accepting help when you need it.
9. A temporary high: Janus, God with two faces, past and future. The song is about living in between, in the present.
10. Artemis: Artemis, Goddess of the Hunt and Moon. ..about Strong, independent women like her.
11. Blood in the wine: Bacchus, God of wine. Inspired by the importance of having no shame and enjoying beautiful things.
12. Not sure what A Little Place Called the Moon is about, as she doesn't give an explanation for this one. Feel free to reply if you know this one ❤️
And I forgot You Keep Me Crawling...again, that one is a mystery 🤔🤔
(this is so late I'm so sorry) I don't think every song in the album was about Greek mythology. I love learning the meaning behind songs so I tend to look it up, and for example heathens was about Eve, not Persephone. Keep me crawling is about the toxic relationship with a god (specifically I think she's referencing Christianity). I don't know if this is confirmed or not but Place called a moon was about us humans heading towards great things? I'm probably wrong on that one ngl.
I think the innocent has a latin vibe, theres a music genre called Cumbia which I think is from cuba, but in brazil theres a lot of genres influenced by that, like Axé, me and my friend joked about this track while we were listening li “Ok Ivete Sangalo” which is a very famous singer here for singing Axé music hahaha
You really need to see the video "exist for love" Its just wonderful. She did most of the producing and coreography. Just wonderful.
On Giving into the Love, AURORA has said that it is only a demo, so that might be why it's not as big as her other big songs.
You Keep Me Crawling and A Dangerous Thing both resonated so much for me as they both speak to a toxic relationship dynamic where one puts the other on a pedestal based on a projected illusion and a belief in what could be rather than what reality necessarily affirms - that there’s no love in the end concerning that kind of dynamic. Some people just like being wanted and will pull you towards them just to scorn you and do it all over again. Yowch Aurora, but you’re right! “Giving into love should never hurt for me. Giving into love should set me free.”
You nailed it on "The Innocent". It's an Afro-Cuban beat. A Tango. I love it.
my favorite is definitely This Could Be a Dream. the only one that moved me.
The piano on The Innocent really gave a Nina Simone "Sinnerman" vibe.
Yea same reminded me of piano from some of my mum's fav jazz and blues songs.
I have a nephew who is Gay. We could see it when he was 6 years old. He was born that way. When he came out, my sister called to tell us but was shocked when we said we already knew he was. She was the last one to find out. We are not here to Judge anyone but to love everyone to our best ability.
My album ratings :-
14 . The innocent
13 . A little place Called the moon
12 . Giving into the love
11 . Artemis
10 . Blood in the wine
9 . You keep me Crawling
8 . Everything Matters
7 . A Temporary High
6 . Heathens
5 . A dangerous Thing
4 . Exhale Inhale
3 . This Could Be a dream
2 . Cure for me
1 . Exist For love
This is my ranking of this albums , in case of aurora it's too hard to rank songs in a list , I loved all the songs in the album .
This album is magical and a masterpiece .
❤️
This album is one that grows on you. Every time I hear it, it's better.
as a young adult, I've gone through mistreat, betray and all sort of stuff. But "exist for love" made my unconditional love come back to life. I always know I'm an emotional one and making people happy bring joy to me, but some of that part died along the road. Aurora's innocence just immediately cures my wound as she show me how beautiful love can be. It's like she says to me that no matter what happen, just believe in love.
I think this album production is the perfect mix of her first album and the last two. I love that! And love your reaction as always ❤️
This one is definitely her strongest album in terms of really keeping to the theme and having all the songs sound cohesive to each other. They all sound like they belong in the same world even thought they're so different.
The everything Matters have a french part lol and yes that's pomme part
I think all the songs on this album have multiple meanings. For « Dangerous thing »: yes it could be about a relationship with a lover, or a friend, but if we keep the religious theme in mind it could be about the relationship with God. How we feel abandoned, we keep trying to reach out for the sky and, like Icarus, get too close to the sun so we end up « loosing feathers » without getting the love and comfort we desperately long for. She said in a interview about this album that it was easy for her to do « another Aurora album » and that she wanted to expend her horizons. I think that some songs are more and more touching everytime we listen to them.
This album definitely seems very experimental, I personally love the primal kinda songs and her personalized Aurora-style pop songs, like the river and giving in to the love, so I hope to see more like that in the future (and maybe more like exist for love :) I can’t be the only one who thought of Mario Kart music listening to The Innocent, right? Just me? Yeah. Aurora also said that this album is closest to her acoustic murder song when comparing it to the closest previously released song, so that explains all the guitar
Couldn't wait to see this reaction.
I love Aurora and her music. The new album is so good, though there wasn't a song thats been so emotional (like Daydreamer for me).
So thank you for your thoughts about the new Album.😄
Ps: I heard a song from Addison Grace, it's called "I wanna be a boy", I thought it could be nice for a reaction.
I'll be back---got to get the album myself, not heard yet---to enjoy your reaction!
YAAAAAAAAAAS i am so excited for this!
Yeah I missed a real emotional song on this album. But a good album, it's good that she tries out different stuff :)
Your reaction is one of the best song reaction vids I've ever seen. I love how you tried your best to dissect the meaning of the songs and wasn't afraid to discuss some deeper topics. Loved it! And never be ashamed to be gay or sensitive they are your superpowers. Allows you to view life in ways unique to the majority of people. 💖 Gonna go watch your other Aurora reactions now 😂
My faves are Cure for me, You keep me crawling, Exist for love and Temporary High
Good choices!
one thing that I really really love about this album is that it seems like almost every song was a little bit inspired by other countries' culture, like France, Tibet, etc... As someone who grew up in Brazil I can hear the influence of our music in "Cure For Me", that literally samples "Aquarela do Brasil", and "You Keep Me Crawling", that has a style of singing that reminds me of songs like "Você me vira a cabeça" by Alcione. They both feel so nostalgic but so new at the same time and I've seen people from other countries saying the same thing
About "Exhale Inhale", I see it as if Aurora is this Goddess like entity who sees the world being destroyed while people ignore it, and it's like shes showing us the reality while trying to not cry, like when you're having an anxiety attack and needs to control your breathing by exhaling inhaling
it's impossible for me to pick a favorite, I think this album made me cry almost as much as her other albums and I can't recall last time I've heard something that touched me as much as this album did, I literally avoided seeing others' reactions and thoughts about this album since it's release cause I felt like I needed to listen to it as alone as possible 😭😭 The video was really great as always!! I dont know how you're able take so much from every song in the first listen tbh but that's also what makes your reactions so interesting to watch!
Blood in The Wine gives me "actual happy vampire" vibes xD
Love this album. Some of the best albums released last five years.
Seeing your reactions is so satisfying for some reason lol
I love your Aurora's new album reaction video over the others, you really give it some depth.
Also your voice is so comforting just like Auraro's so it fits so well when you talk over her singings
Really appreciated and enjoyed your commentary. Thank you for sharing your experience with us.
Aurora said a while ago in an interview that this album is intentionally different and experimental and playful and less "serious". So on the next album she might be back to her "normal" sound from the previous albums:
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"Sonically what can you tell us about kind of ehh, is this (Cure For Me) kind of representative of what you're exploring on the next record. Is it a sign of what's to come?"
"Ehh No! It's very NOT how the album sounds, which is very exciting. But it has something in common with the album, that I am experimenting with new things and new sides, which I am enjoying. Because it is easy for me to make a really "Aurora" album you know, like that feels like nature and Mother Earth. It is very easy for me to do that because it comes so naturally for me, so I have been *really* enjoying just doing something new this time, doing something different. Because this is my third...and a half....album, and it's about time, you know, in my mind I needed to just play around and do something different, and for me music has always been extremely serious and no fun. It's been very like very serious, and I always write very serious things, and I can see myself like standing on stage every night for an hour and being like really sad all the time, because all my songs are so filled with so much sadness, you know. I just wanted to make an album for myself that had a bit more playfulness and cheekiness and wildness. It's very exciting, I'm very excited to share the album with you, and it will come out this year."
Each song on this new album is "linked" with a Greek God or "idea" which was revealed in a quiz that was released you could take (the last 2 songs are on the "deluxe" vinyl album):
The Forbidden Fruits of Eden Gaia (Gaea) (Goddess of all. Embodiment of the earth)
Everything Matters Atlas (God of endurance)
Giving Into The Love Prometheus (Titan god of fire)
Cure For Me Panacea (Goddess of healing)
You Keep Me Crawling Persephone (Queen of the underworld)
Exist For Love Aphrodite (Goddess of love. Pleasure, passion and beauty)
Heathens Persephone (Queen of the underworld. Queen of the damned)
The Innocent Eros (God of sexual desire. Sexual freedom)
Exhale, Inhale Oizys (Goddess of anxiety. Grief and depression)
Temporary High Chaos (He is filled the nothingness between heaven and earth)
A Dangerous Thing Peitho (The personification of seduction and persuasion)
Artemis Artemis (Goddess of the hunt, the wilderness. The moon)
The Blood In The Wine Dionysus (God of wine, madness, drunkenness and parties)
This Could Be A Dream Morpheus (God of dreams)
A Little Place Called The Moon Astraeus (God of the dusk, stars, planets and astrology)
The Woman I Am Hera (Queen of the gods and the goddess of marriage, women, childbirth and family)
The Devil is Human Hades (King of the underworld. God of the dead)
She is very mysterious with her lyrics, she does not want to reveal exactly what they mean to her, because she wants us to form our own opinions (which is a bit frustrating 🙂 ).
For example "Heathens" she did say, that it is about "Eve" but it has a specific personal meaning to her, that she does not want to reveal. "A mother with no heart" "Her love is yours, But only if you give, Your heart to her", might be referring to Mother Earth, but the song is also linked to "Persephone", so I do not know for sure.
From a TripleJ interview:
"A long, long time ago, Eve took a bite of a forbidden apple hanging from the tree of evil and good. [...] In her act of doing so, she granted humans free will; I just think that is very beautiful, and I wanted to honour her and women like her, who little by little granted us freedom in this world. A freedom to live as we please, to explore and taste. I think life should be lived in all of its colours, and that is why we live like heathens."
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"I think 'Heathens ' is something people call you, when you don't follow...ehm...when you don't act like people expect you to behave, and I'm very inspired by, especially the women who have fought for women like us today. Cause I know if we lived 400 years ago, we would definitely have been burned on the fire. I'm happy that I'm living now. Though I feel like I might have been burned in a previous life...ehm...cause I...yeah it makes sense.
But yeah I was just very inspired by all these people that aren't accepted by these small communities in the world, and by religion too, who try their best but they don't fit in, because they are more human than the world or a religon sometimes allows you to be, or like a strict household, it's very hard. So I just wanted to make this liberating song about the beauty in just being imperfect and human.
To me the song has a very specific meaning, but I'm trying to not be too specific. I want all of you to find your own meaning, that is why I'm just saying like general things. But for me it has a really, a really clear meaning behind it. But I don't want to tell too much, cause I want you all to find your own meaning.
But it's one of my favorite from this album or my favorite single, and it represents a lot I think, or it is very in tune with how the rest of the album sounds. More than "Cure For Me" or "Giving In To The Love"."
I would not be surprised if some of the "love songs" on the album actually means something completely different to her, for example if "A Dangerous Thing" is referring to humans from Mother Earth's point of view, like in "Soulless Creatures", and there are some of the other songs that easily could be interpreted in completely different ways. While it is good to be able to form own opinions, I would love to know her exact meaning in them, maybe she will reveal more in the future.
Here are some more quotes from Aurora regarding the various songs, I'm sorry if it is too boring and too much then just ignore it. Source various interviews I read / saw and also the Aurora wiki:
Exist For Love:
"'Exist For Love' is the 1st love song I ever wrote. But as most of my songs, it has a much larger and deeper meaning than just love between 2 individuals.
I believe that love is one of the strongest forces we have on this planet and in us people, and I believe that once we learn true, pure and unselfish love, we are reminded of why we exist, and I think we understand why we are here once we learn that, that kind of pure love exist, which is quite beautiful. And I love many things....and many people."
Everything Matters:
"It's a very strange story [...] a story I would like for people out there to figure out themselves. I contacted a French artist, Pomme, to write the ending for me. And it is beautiful. Sensual. And real. I do often feel like this world is trying to make me focus on all these great miracles. And somehow I feel like it makes me miss out on the small ones. And that is sad. Because the small miracles happen all the time. Sometimes several times a day. And I want to see all of them. Because everything matters."
A Dangerous Thing:
"There's a lot of beauty in this world. And there's a lot of ugly. I was surprised to learn how often the ugly is disguised as beauty. How often poison is disguised as wine. And life disguised as death.And when we learn that what we thought was good for us, is in fact bad for us - even then we tend to go return to it. Because at least it's familiar. And all we ever dream about is home. Seductive, yet destructive. A dangerous thing indeed."
Giving In To The Love:
"I was thinking about Prometheus [...], the myth [...] and how he supposedly created mankind in clay. And how he stole the fire from the gods to kinda make us alive and complete us I guess. And I was thinking about this clay and how much we obsess with the looks of this clay, that kind of means nothing. And how it seems to distract us from I guess the fire that we keep inside. And that's very sad. I think the world today makes a lot of people very unhappy because we obsess with these strange things, like how we look. [...] And I find this obsession with beauty both very fascinating and very scary at the same time, so it's kind of about that.
“I love very big, powerful drums. To me, that's very native. It's something ancient. I love when music touches that place. I actually wrote that song at the last minute. I had already finished the album and mastered it, but then I wanted to have 'Giving In to the Love' on it. So it’s actually the demo; I never got the chance to completely mix it. It’s very unpolished.”
A Temporary High
“‘A Temporary High’ is inspired by a woman that is very fascinating. If she was your present, she would be confusing; if she was your past, you wouldn't be able to escape her. If she is your future, you won't be able to keep up with her.”
This Could Be A Dream:
“I wrote this very late, so it was completely dark the whole time. I was thinking about people's dark hours, and I wanted to make a song for those who never learn to dance and run because they're just managing to stand up. It takes so many muscles for a human body to even stand up, so I can understand why people can’t find the strength for it. It’s very hard to be a human, and I'm just saddened by the idea that some people never get to explore their own full potential because they constantly have to simply fight for the right to exist. That just breaks my heart. So I wanted to make a song for them.”
You Keep Me Crawling:
"I’d been trying to explain the soul of this album, and when I made You Keep Me Crawling it felt like the last word. After I had written it, I wasn't hungry for more. I felt like I was satisfied.”
For me personally it is hard to actually pick a favourite, because this album is so out there and different with its songs. Some of these are a little too much for me (e.g. this could be a dream), but most of them i just love (Everything matters, Giving into the love, Cure for me, The Innocent, A Temporary High, A Dangerous Thing and Blood and Wine holds a special place in my heart!)
Also Blood and wine sounds more medieval / the witcher to me, but yeah :D
Good choices and yeah you're right about B&W I hadn't thought of that!
i mean there is no correct answer but in my head it would have fitted the series perfectly haha
I have watched other reactions to Aurora in Your channel. Let me tell You that I felt so satisfied that you found references to the traditional idea of God in You keep me crawling.
My ranking
1. Heathens
2. Cure for me
3. Inhale Exhale
4. A dangerous thing
5. Artemis
6. Everything matters
When I listen to the album "The God we can touch", I felt like my soul have gone to the spiritual realm.
When I first heard the songs that she hadn't already released from this, I wasn't sure how I felt about them. I felt the same way as you. But after a few listens, they have all grown on me and I love them all!! She did say in an interview that she could stand on stage and sing nothing but sad songs or songs about/to Mother Nature, very Aurora songs bc those are very easy for her. But she wanted to try new things and be more playful. I like all the different sounds she used on this too! Thanks for your reaction!!
as an atheist, raise as catholic she hit a nerve in me that I couldn't put my finger in it my whole teen years, I started questioning God when I was 11 or 12 and I couldn't understand how being simply us as that figure created us was bad and we had to reach forgiveness for something out of our control, the way everything was set to keep us down, the hate that eve got for wanting free will??
I was surprise that an album focus on Gods didn't hit my religious trauma as other media did (cough cough midnight mass TV show) and help me put some perspective on the spirituality that I purposely let forgotten out of my mind
she actually made every song perfectly with a clear and touching meaning
Thank you for sharing! I often feel spirituality in music touches me as well despite being raised atheist it's interesting
I feel like this is definitely her best album lyrically and melodically speaking. But I think the reason it's less moving (for me at least) is because it was less interesting production wise, I don't really know how to explain it but it was like a lot of them sounded like they were just demos or something and hadn't been fully fleshed out yet, or they felt less alive, so it didn't have the same kind of impact as her previous works. Really glad she's starting to branch out into other styles though, excited to see where she heads next
Yeah I don't know about it being less interesting per se maybe less dynamic and dramatic?
Good job Luscent 👍After two listens - here are my initial thoughts: This album seems to me to have originated from the following idea: Aurora wanted to make a play list discussing existential topics of the complexities of being human and being spiritual. Love and evil. Honesty and fakery. What sin is (and can sin be beautiful). Building and destroying.
So she figured out that she had to write all the songs for her playlist. In a way that does not provoke the need to skip songs (this record is (to me) a stream of consciousness similar to Albums I grew up with in the 1970s - it is also conceptual - but different from say David Bowie/Ziggy Stardust or Pink Floyd of the time. It reminds me a bit about Prince in the 80's that released CDs without the option to skip (the CD had only one track).
This album has an extremely high level of it's "quality floor" (the "not best songs" (initially) are still incredibly interesting - and they still are interesting in the context of the entire album - both musically and topically.
It is also funny - we have gotten 6 singles(?) before the album. It is almost sensational to hear how well they form a complete arc with the 8 new ones (aka the play-list feeling - it feels like she is taking a look at the same existential question from light, darkness, questions, up-and downtempo).
It is pretty obvious that this now 25-year-old lady is maturing (as is her voice). She is more direct (while being vague in her poetry when it comes to answers as always) - she is less "whimsical" in her questions. While she keeps that honest sincerity in herself that she always had.
In a strange way - her songs are less "crying eyes out sad-emotional" as the questions goes deeper (At least in studio arrangement - I know what she does when going live - she can take angry and hard "the Seed" and perform it with so much sadness and loss that well.
That she is receiving rave reviews from around the planet? Yeah of course. This album is like very very good. Clearly her best. And for the first time in some times she also has a couple of songs that beggs to get a radio-mix and even maybe club-mixes for some main-stream attention.
You put everything I was thinking into words. beautifully said. Listening to all the singles now as a whole with the rest of them; it all makes so much sense. It’s a very strong concept album; beautiful cohesive work!
Like ur reviews! Exist for Love is a love letter to her fans, not a personal love interest. See the video, she says the empty audience at the end is a clue. She said Heathens is about resisting trad religion that says you must suffer and not be human almost. She likes the gods of myth that exist on earth over trad religion that puts god above and far away.
i honestly cackled my way through this. i love how funny u are and how you reacts exactly the way i would. like i knew exactly what you were going through. i love auroras work so much, she’s so talented and amazing and ugh inspirational in so many ways. the witch in me loves her. and i also loved your spontaneity and cleverness in experiencing what the album is about. she can be so cryptically sometimes and you just seem to get it so easily. watching this video has been extremely delightful and i’m glad i did it ♥️🖤🔮✨🌩
Listens to a song with feat.Pome in the name... hears French - "I'm gonna gues this is Norwegion"
I've never heard of Pomme before sooooooo
Exist for love will indeed be my wedding song
Shes just getting better and better and shes the purest thing on this planet and we need to save her! Also great reaction and we dont need a cure for us and to be who we are and we have the right to be who we are and love who we want love
At first I thought the second song had her made up language in it cuz it didn't sound like norwegian. But it actually was french.
Ikr I've been corrected many times in the comments 🤣
@@Luscent you cool. :-) no hostility here.
A little place called the moon is the most beautiful thing I've ever listened to, it's so soft, so intense, so.....
you remind me a lot of her when you talk, I feel that you express similar ✨
This album had me OBSESSED and I love ITTT 😍🛐!!
Cant wait
The song ‘Heathens’ is pretty much about how women will always be seen as heathens since the garden of eden no matter what they do so just embrace it and move forward.
You keep me Crawling and Exhale Inhale give me goosebumps and move me every time
I know my favorite is exist for love, even though we've had that one out for awhile. I don't know if I will be married in the future or not, but that one will definitely be my wedding song. ❤️🌹
Great reaction again Dan. Your interpretations of the songs and the album as a whole are always interesting to me. Keep it up dude!
There's so much to say about this album. Like how the album leans heavily on ancient Greek mythology and each song has it's own 'patron god' from the Greek pantheon as its inspiration. I actually think it helps to know the mythology around each god when deciphering meaning from each song as she was thinking of them as she wrote them.
I understand how everyone is talking about how this album is very much a change from her earlier work, but I honestly think that the change from 'Demons" to 'Infections' was a greater deviation than this. But it also reminds me of the change in The Smashing Pumpkins from 'Siamese Dream' to 'Mellon Collie.'
Anyway, as you are a musician and producer like me, I just thought I'd tell you that the vocals on 'Exist for love' are actually the first-time recording Aurora did as a demo.
She's that good that the final vocal of the song was her version of laying down a scratch track in one take!
Wow yeah I suppose she caught something special emotionally on that first take that they couldn't recreate! Glad you enjoyed the vid 😊
Hi Luscent! Hope u react to Hozier, he's got some very poetic songs. 💕
I recommend you a Spanish singer her name is Diana Navarro I would like you to listen to a song of hers called "El perdón" she is a very versatile singer she sings different styles of music with incredible melismas and notes greetings from Spain
It's such a world-wide experience, travelling through time... I heard music from the US, France, South American Tango, tribal-like music, maybe central Asia... And the styles were from a modern age, to the 90's, 80's, and even older thatn that... Fitting for how this album seems to be about humanity. Our sin, our love, our pain, everything is included here... Aurora also made a coherent story and theme. I'm a bit of a Mithology nerd, and general fan of greek myths, so most gods referenced were easy to spot, but some COULD and probably do have other inspirations. Also, I like how her "relationship" songs and "religious" songs get so... mixed? She speaks not of religion, but of our relationship with it, best seen in You Keep Me Crawling. This album is 10/10, put in on a loop and go for a long ride with it on, getting disconected from our real world, and trapped in Aurora's carfully crafted story
Nice video but I just want to let you know that the last part of Everything Matters is in French as it’s a feat with Pomme
Yeah a few people have hahhaa 😂
@@Luscent oh lol I didn't realise 😆
With her i think she refers to mother nature
You have the most relaxing voice
Today I heard someone say about Artemis oh its Italian, now you say its French and I'm like "bitch is TANGO" HAHAH
I love this album because it’s so different. It’s one of the best albums since Radiohead ok Computer. I have a few more great albums that come to mind
Guster- Lost and Gone Forever
Nightwish- Imaginarium
Pink Floyd- The Wall.
Smashing Pumpkins- Ava Adore.
There are a lot of great songs out there but to put together a great album is difficult.
P.S. I’m the reason why Aurora Running with the Wolves was in the soundtrack as I have a good relationship with the director Tomm Moore and introduced him to her music.
I like to call this album "an experience "
For her
For us
So different to both
"Long time viewers know that I'm gay..."
First time here and I knew after 12 seconds, lol. :D
Hahahaha the end of Everything Matters is actually french, Pomme (amazing french artist) is singing it
Everything Matters, Exhale Inhale and Blood In The Wine is my trinity 🍷
You were spot on with the Cuban rythm influence. I recommend Buena Vista Social Club, was mi abuelo's favorite band!
Also I love Aurora sm 💕
sparking a war between Wild West music and ancient Scandinavian music from all the times he's said that it sounds Wild West or country
Exist For Love is everything for me 🤍
The quote you said in the intro.
thank you for making this video
found your channel thru this video while searching up reaction content for this specific album and basically been binging your YT content for the last 6 hours - I have loads of free time and no obligations apparently - and oh my god you are so genuine enthusiastic and articulated!! I love it!
Aurora have been saying since the beginning that this album was going to be more experimental, that she would like to try different things and play around more and give crying a break, but I think that with a theme like religion she still put out some emotion and reflection into us, especially if you're lgbtq+, it's so special and it really proves how diverse and aware she can be, it makes me so happy and she matured so well - I also love how comforting the ending tracks are, 'a little place called the moon' is basically a small section of someone gently passing their fingers thru your hair as you fall asleep, definitely one of my favorites along with Blood in the wine, Heathens, Keep Me Crawling and Everything Matters.
I don't know if you would accept a recomendations right now or if you already know this artist but I think you would LOVE Mitski. She is a Japanese-American singer/songwriter and will be realising her 5th and probably last album on the 14th (I think). Her songs have varied in terms of genre thru the years, from a simple piano backtrack, to a more diy orchestral-like-tracks, punk-rock, synth, acoustic etc etc, but lyrically it always has been beautiful and a bit raw: her upbringing, her vision of sex, depression, how is it like to be a woman in relation to man, just simple burning emotions being expressed in a usually calm, sweet melody and voice.
I think her 3nd album is a good place to start, one of the song was in an episode of Adventure Time so you may have heard it - also a few of her songs pop here and there on Tiktok - or you could do Puberty 2, which comes right after the one mentioned above, many say is her best album but idk about that, or you could just listen to the singles she has been putting out for Laurel Hell!!
Anyways, thanks for the content, keep up!!
Pomme's part in Everything Matters is French actually!
so beautifully and reflectedly reacted!
Nice review I pretty much agree with what you said about the production of this album..
overall a stunning and beautiful album..that gave me a taste to see what her next album will be like....🥰
16:48 in Heathens she talks about Eve in the bible where her actions resulted to us learning good and bad and also lead us to freedom. By learning the concept of morality, we become heathens. And she also celebrates women who are like Eve who strives to give freedom to people.
The god she is inspire with is also Persephone, how she serves as a complex mother for the lost people(heathens).
The piano in The Innocent gave me serious Sinnerman vibes
The lending of ‘everything matters’ is sung in French and here is the translation: Somewhere before dawn
When the light wants to see us
Somewhere in the world
A bird falls asleep without a sound
You and me, in the night we will find
Somewhere to lay the flowers we picked
leave before dawn
When the light wants to see us
Somewhere in the world
A bird falls asleep without a sound
You and me, in the night we will find
Somewhere to lay the flowers we picked
leave before dawn
When the light wants to see us
Somewhere in the world
A bird falls asleep without a sound
You and me, in the night we will find
Somewhere to lay the flowers