Follows up on last year’s success with her second....
Jan 26, 2017 17:06:50 GMT
AURONRA, aurorafan, and 11 more like this
Post by onelittlewarrior on Jan 26, 2017 17:06:50 GMT
Follows up on last year’s success with her second Gaffa-Prize win
(Translated into English by onelittlewarrior )
AURORA’s All My Demons Greeting Me As A Friend is the best 2016 Norwegian album, according to our readers. But even if our readers love it, and with our reviewer giving it six out of six stars, Aurora herself is just starting to warm to her own debut record - or at least coming to terms with how it sounds.
- You finish your album and you’re not allowed to touch anything for six months before it gets released. And during that time a lot happens, she tells.
Work and creativity from when she was nine years old has found its way into Aurora’s debut album. She tells us that Lucky was written when she was nine, while the I Went Too Far chorus was written when she was ten.
Your album title is that all your demons greet you as a friend. What’s that supposed to mean?
- Listen up. I picture myself lying dying in a forest, in my death bed, on a bed with a glass ceiling. There I lie dying, and I picture that all the things and people that I’ve struggled with, that have been my demons, are surrounding me just as I die, saying «you’ve been good, Aurora, you’ve managed this just fine».
- «Just think about how much you’ve grown because of us», they tell me. «Because of us you’re strong».
Nature and the supernatural, death and demons, fog and mysticism, fantasy and brute reality; there’s an Aurora-esque, cute little story that lies behind the album title.
The supernatural constitutes for Aurora some of the best parts of life. But the best thing is the moth - adorning her album cover.
- I’ve never been very fond of butterflies. They know that they’re beautiful. That’s not very charming. The moth, however, doesn’t know it’s charming or beautiful. It just flies around in the dark, it appears at night, and always flies towards the lamp; towards the light. It’s as if it has chosen that life itself. It could’ve flown during the day, but it chooses to fly at night looking for light.
A moth is like a person seeking meaning in life. Like Aurora Aksnes when she creates music.
- For me all art is some kind of seeking after something, something that, at the end of the day, is impossible to find.
- But it’s nice that we keep trying.
- I think it’s because we all have a penchant for making music, because we are looking for a cure against grief, against fear, or anger or something that can give us an answer about our purpose.
Just like the moth looking for light, in a dizzingly large and dark world, AURORA is looking for the unachievable. But the moth always finds the light, in contrast to man. Maybe that’s why AURORA loves it?
The interview has strayed. Back to reality. Back to gossip.
When can we expect AURORA featuring….Kanye West?
Aurora, eating an olive off a small pick, is taken aback. Not because the question is stupid, embarrassing or revealing, but because she now has to keep still about something she’s just dying to tell us.
There’s something big in the works. I can tell you as much. She brims with enthusiasm.
- I would just love to tell you now. I received a very fun email yesterday.
She falls silent. Doesn’t want to tell. She won’t give in, just like the cockroach. The second best, after the moth.
- Did you know that cockroaches can survive an atomic bomb? I believe that when, when, we’ve destroyed this planet, the cockroaches will rule the world.
But luckily AURORA will keep on enthralling, convincing and entertaining millions of people before we’ve come that far, with her Aurora-esque music - hopefully until one day she is lying under the glass ceiling, in her bed, in the forrest, surrounded by her demons, as they greet her and say: «Aurora, you’ve been good!»
(Original article at gaffa.no/nyhet/113440/gjentar-fjorarets-suksess-med-sine-andre-topplassering-i-gaffa-prisen/ )
(Translated into English by onelittlewarrior )
AURORA’s All My Demons Greeting Me As A Friend is the best 2016 Norwegian album, according to our readers. But even if our readers love it, and with our reviewer giving it six out of six stars, Aurora herself is just starting to warm to her own debut record - or at least coming to terms with how it sounds.
- You finish your album and you’re not allowed to touch anything for six months before it gets released. And during that time a lot happens, she tells.
Work and creativity from when she was nine years old has found its way into Aurora’s debut album. She tells us that Lucky was written when she was nine, while the I Went Too Far chorus was written when she was ten.
Your album title is that all your demons greet you as a friend. What’s that supposed to mean?
- Listen up. I picture myself lying dying in a forest, in my death bed, on a bed with a glass ceiling. There I lie dying, and I picture that all the things and people that I’ve struggled with, that have been my demons, are surrounding me just as I die, saying «you’ve been good, Aurora, you’ve managed this just fine».
- «Just think about how much you’ve grown because of us», they tell me. «Because of us you’re strong».
Nature and the supernatural, death and demons, fog and mysticism, fantasy and brute reality; there’s an Aurora-esque, cute little story that lies behind the album title.
The supernatural constitutes for Aurora some of the best parts of life. But the best thing is the moth - adorning her album cover.
- I’ve never been very fond of butterflies. They know that they’re beautiful. That’s not very charming. The moth, however, doesn’t know it’s charming or beautiful. It just flies around in the dark, it appears at night, and always flies towards the lamp; towards the light. It’s as if it has chosen that life itself. It could’ve flown during the day, but it chooses to fly at night looking for light.
A moth is like a person seeking meaning in life. Like Aurora Aksnes when she creates music.
- For me all art is some kind of seeking after something, something that, at the end of the day, is impossible to find.
- But it’s nice that we keep trying.
- I think it’s because we all have a penchant for making music, because we are looking for a cure against grief, against fear, or anger or something that can give us an answer about our purpose.
Just like the moth looking for light, in a dizzingly large and dark world, AURORA is looking for the unachievable. But the moth always finds the light, in contrast to man. Maybe that’s why AURORA loves it?
The interview has strayed. Back to reality. Back to gossip.
When can we expect AURORA featuring….Kanye West?
Aurora, eating an olive off a small pick, is taken aback. Not because the question is stupid, embarrassing or revealing, but because she now has to keep still about something she’s just dying to tell us.
There’s something big in the works. I can tell you as much. She brims with enthusiasm.
- I would just love to tell you now. I received a very fun email yesterday.
She falls silent. Doesn’t want to tell. She won’t give in, just like the cockroach. The second best, after the moth.
- Did you know that cockroaches can survive an atomic bomb? I believe that when, when, we’ve destroyed this planet, the cockroaches will rule the world.
But luckily AURORA will keep on enthralling, convincing and entertaining millions of people before we’ve come that far, with her Aurora-esque music - hopefully until one day she is lying under the glass ceiling, in her bed, in the forrest, surrounded by her demons, as they greet her and say: «Aurora, you’ve been good!»
(Original article at gaffa.no/nyhet/113440/gjentar-fjorarets-suksess-med-sine-andre-topplassering-i-gaffa-prisen/ )
