Learn about the song’s lyrics on the latest episode of ‘Verified.’
AURORA’s 2015 track “Runaway” is having a huge resurgence this year, thanks to TikTok. Thus far, the song has been used in more than 1.8 million videos on the app. The TikTok trend has helped the song climb Billboard’s Global charts and has also fueled its renewed popularity on Spotify, where the song has racked up more than 234 million streams.
On the latest episode of Verified, AURORA discussed her track’s resurgence, broke down the meaning, and reflected on how its music video inspired 12-year-old Billie Eilish
Watch her go line-for-line on “Runaway” in the video above, and subscribe to the Genius YouTube page.
Why does this not turn up in search results if I search: includes all words - Genius Runaway Just a FYI edit: apparently it does not search the thread title by default, but only posts(?) Now that those words are in the posts it finds it.
This video has spawned a number of money-grabbing youtube accounts to post videos that compare Aurora singing Runaway lyrics here to her singing on the album track, with the title "autotune vs. no autotune". Many people have posted comments that Aurora never uses autotune (can't do that anymore since Cure For Me, she's breaking all the rules, hah! 🎵) - but most of them will ignore those comments. Those videos show only the parts where Aurora sings, removing any context about this video too.
The biggest one is here, with over 4M view now. But there have been at least 20 videos or so of it. I even saw an "Aurora without auto-tune" reaction video, lol. I wish Genius would slap some copyright takedowns on those cheapos.
AURORA "Runaway" Official Lyrics & Meaning | Verified
by Genius (posted 2021-05-18)
AURORA’s 2015 track “Runaway” is having a huge resurgence this year, thanks to TikTok. Thus far, the song has been used in more than 1.8 million videos on the app. The TikTok trend has helped the song climb Billboard’s Global charts and has also fueled the song’s renewed popularity on Spotify, where the song has racked up more than 234 million streams.
