Post by emil on Oct 9, 2016 14:27:51 GMT
Last few months you spent at various festivals and without any rest you start a club tour... don't you feel tired?
Festivals are certainly more tiring. You don't have a place, where you can escape or sit in silence. Everywhere, literally everywhere, even on backstage you hear music. It sounds strange, because I make music, but actually I was really tired that all the time was very loud around me. I am happy that I’m beginning the club season. All the amazing places, which I’ve visited, compensate me for the tiredness, which bothered me. I’ve seen so many beautiful places, I’ve met beautiful people. I can't complain.
You said that festivals are places, where people are coming to have fun. Your music is kind of meditative; a chance to stop. Do you miss that on festivals?
Probably not, because there were people, who were trying to stop and think what my music is about. I think that at festivals, there are two groups of people. Most of them are there to get rid of certain limits, have fun and lose yourself in freedom - they're all colorful, beautifully dressed, in a good mood, often drunk. There are also people, who knowingly participate in it. They're coming to listen to their favourite artists. I saw many of this people on my concerts. They were more prepared for sad songs.
You visited all of the biggest musical events. Collecting the experience within recent months, how will look the best version of festival created by you?
For sure, I would like it to be in a forest. Maybe even in my country, Norway, but there you can't really trust the weather. I think I would choose the summer, but I don't want it to be hot. It also can't rain. Music would be the most important, but not the music that everybody knows – I mean, that one, which nobody knows. Line-up would be a secret till the end. I want people to be there for music, not for the names.
In Poland, we have OFF Festival. Admittedly, everybody knows the line-up, but we hear a lot of artists for the first time.
I definitely prefer this form of festival. All of the festivals should be open for new ideas, for presenting new artists, for new music. Is there free water [at Polish festivals]? Because it's another stuff, which is the basis. Free water for everyone!
You're such a lovely person, you make the impression of a person with a big heart, who is hard to imagine as a bad person. Have you ever been annoyed?
I'm not mad at something that I have no impact on.I try not to pay attention to it, but if I feel and I know that someone isn't fair to me. I think I have a big temper and I can get angry, but I don't do it for no reason. And when I'm doing this, I'm actually angry just for a moment, I go off, but it quickly passes. I'm a little person, but in my body there are a lot of different emotions and it's not just love.
The music industry is not the easiest. We hear that you have to be a strong person and being kind isn't always good - how do you bring this together?
Everyone deserves to be treated nice. In the music industry, it happens that you have to treat someone nice all the time, even if that person is horrible compared to you.This is the hardest thingand I need to face it. This industry is generally dreadful and terrible, and actually has a lot of unpleasant and horrible people, but... it has extremely nice and lovely people as well.
Your idol, David Bovie, was known for uncovering not only the music, but also the world. You said that he helped you to accept yourself, because he was strange and used this as his advantage. Do you feel strange and different than everyone else?
Absolutely. I was strange since I remember.
What does “being strange” mean?
Being weird is when you are not the only one person, who thinks like that, but also other people notice that. I always knew I'm strange, because people always told me about that. It was never my goal. Since I was a child I heard: you're different, you're not like us. Especially when I was a child. I wasn't trying to change, I always appreciate my own company. I had other interests than kids in my age and I always wore strange, other than everybody, clothes. But I do not want it to be badly received, because I had, and have, friends. Being different doesn't mean that I'm worse.
Going back to David Bowie - he is my idol and phenomenon.I always wondered how wonderful it is that so many people can love human, who’s that strange. At the beginning of my career, it really helped me. Thanks to him, I realized that my fault isn't being different, it's not my problem. People who can't accept me, they have a problem.
Talent or hard work? Maybe destiny - what do you believe in the most?
I wouldn't be there if I didn't work very hard. I'm working all the time, I don't have free day. Me and my band are on tour since Christmas. Even if I don't play and I'm at home, I'm sitting in the studio and writing new songs or working on those that I already have. Moreover, we just travel a lot - it isn't always comfortable, it's also very hard work. Now, we played on a lot of summer festivals and at once we play concerts in clubs. Besides we have a lot of appearances on radio and TV. Many of these things are very exciting, but we must remember that the less exciting also happen. You can't resign to them, because you accept them as a part of your life. In life you can't only do what you love, it is associated with hard work, because you have to work on a talent all the time.At the same time, often accompanies me a feeling that there is a plan.I believe that our life is somehow programmed.The fact that I'm here with such a big project, that I can still travel with around the world. I have only 20 years and now, I'm the boss for many people. It's very strange, but I feel that it was meant to be. I feel that music, which I make, was from the beginning in order to share it. People can love it, they can hate it too, but sharing this is probably a destiny, which still comes down to hard work.
You want to show concert’s energy on your record. Aren't you scared that during the concert you will lose an element of suprise? Many artists specially make recordings, which sound quite different live.
I care about energy, but not altogether about sound. I’maware that my sound during the concert is different than on the album. Speaking of energy, I meant myself, my emotions and everything that occur in my body, in my head when I stand on the stage and sing for people. This is how they react, how they feel. I don't know how to do that in studio, maybe I should record vocals at the concerts.
It's hard to say what you feel, but can you describe, what do you see when you think about your music?
It's dark, but sometimes we can see a light. And I'm in a forest again. But this time it's a forest, where it's still raining.
Recently [The FADER] created a documentary about you, which you began with the words: Hello, I'm Aurora and I'm afraid I might not be here tomorrow. Is that your biggest fear?
I'm afraid of many things, but it depends on a day. It's changing all the time, once I'm afraid of my family. On the other day I'm thinking about my music or I'm scared about the closest people and I wonder, if I’m fair to them or if I’m working good and hard enough or maybe too much. These things scare me, when I'm not sure, if I'm doing something I should. I'm not afraid of dying. Probably more afraid of life, I mean, I'm worried about the task, which I have to do.
What would you say to people, when you had a power to contact with eachperson on the whole world?
To treat life like a cruise that will not happen again.To remember that on thecruise are other people and that he or she is a part of our humanity. Everything that is happening around us, comes from ourselves and should be accepted by the whole group - in this case, every human. If each of us is able to use the same emotions, then we should have some empathy. People need the same thing.If someone wants to fall in love with a girl or a boy, it should be a natural thing - because it comes from a person, so it’s a part of humanity and who we are.We should never deny or regard it as unnatural, if a person, the same human being as we, have that kind of desires. I mostly mean, mutual acceptance.
Interview in Polish
