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Thank you ! - nice to get your view on Auroras music - I love her present in the world ! Best from a old woman in Bergen ( Auroras hometown) . Ouer emotians are ouer tressures - if not we could not experience anything !

two headed mother is so underrated, def my favorite from inbred

just wanted to say that ever since i watched this video i can’t listen to nonsense without picturing sza singing it lmao

your reactions are just excellent

1. Casual 2. Pink Pony Club 3. Naked in Manhattan 4. Super Graphic Ultra Modern Girl 5. Guilty Pleasure

She wrote paved paradise after a trip to Hawaii. The natural beauty paved over.

It’s so nice to hear someone who gets her. So many, the lyrics and meanings go right over their heads. ❤

Yes, Joni gave her baby up for adoption. She hadn’t become famous at that point. They’ve since met again and her grand children.

I love how the album is new and you can see her growing and experimenting. It’s nothing she has done but still uniquely her. Also I hear Kate Bush influence in multiple songs which I always love.

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From the clues in the lyrics Matty was still struggling with his addictions, being an absolute arse in the stuff that he said, saw all the criticism of Taylor because of him and because she was so adamant that she wasn't leaving that he ghosted her, falling on his sword. But it's also toxic, he almost lovebombed her, promising all she wanted and then ~poof~ vanished. Matty was stopped by a reporter on release day and asked about the diss track and it was clear from his sad, wry smile that he left her or pushed her away on purpose as he finally realised that he could unintentionally destroy almost 2 decades of hard, painful work Taylor put into her career.

33:10 I think she's refering to her 17'yo bf that died brutaly. Thinking to what they could have been together, the essence of them together... It could also be about the sorrow of her community, pouring their needs and feeling into her.

To Be Alright is my new favourite, I can’t stop listening to it, and the whole album is just brilliant. She’s so special.

Absolutely LOVED your reaction to this! Some type of skin is definitely the top one for me as well, and btw you should check out the live version of that on Vevo- it’s amazing🥹 A top 5 is impossible at the moment, there’s too much going on, but generally Loving the experimental and dark direction she’s exploring⚔️

My phone service was shut off for 24 hrs til I was able to pay the bill and the only thing I had to listen to was this album. And I listened to it gladly, and would again. Obviously lol. Something about Ethel Cain makes it impossible for me to get burnt out on her songs.

Taylor and Aaron are indeed magic ❤

Honestly the album threw me off at first because it feels so different (and honestly i will always loved 'ethereal aurora'), but a lot of this feels so honest, understandable and well aswell on second listens. The dark, frustrated and existential tone feels really relatable (in this vein I also feel sorry for her... These mental struggles are no fun) ... But yeah My top 5: 1. To Be Alright 2. The Blade! / Some Type of Skin 3. Starvation / A Soul with no King 4. Do you feel? / Conflict of the Mind 5. Earthly Delights Honestly i couldn't decide on 5. And the others (not only singles but all songs) deserve so much credit. Not everything is for everyday, but it is once again (even though a lot is so different to what we are used to by her), so beautiful.

Because of her experimental nature, I think it's fair to consider AURORA "Prog." Does anyone else see it, or is it just me?

1. Do You Feel 2. Starvation 3. A Soul With No King 4. To Be Alright 5. Dreams

The narrative structure of this album is truly beautiful. She encapsulates the personal heartbreak of existing in a difficult world- from the subtle surface in the beginning, to the nuances and underbelly of the darker emotions, and the conflicting, frustrating, confusing and even paralyzing angst that weaves its way through the latter half of the album, right up to the note of softness and of this realistic optimism at the end. She’s so self-aware with how she’s introducing and reintroducing her stylistic choices, from the synth to the folky melodies and voice, to the lyrical themes of the body and mind as a functional yet fragile operation. It is clinical, foreboding, timid and blow-your-socks off bold as fuck. Aurora has a particular strength for introspection and it’s impacted me on a personal level and inspired me to move 5000 miles away to leave a stressful job and pursue a career in the arts. But on this album, she almost gives up on wisdom and dangles in this place that is neither rooted in the ground nor twinkling above us a better world, it is moving around, vulnerable, scared, lost and for me that makes it the most nuanced album she’s ever produced. I always love your insights Luscent. Thanks for the video!

Definitely her best album! Couldn't wait for you to share your pertinent thoughts and impressions with us. It opens new perspectives for me. English isn't my mother tongue and this helps me to understand her album with another dimension and in a deeper way. Thank you for sharing your sensitive and truthful approach. It's really hard to choose just 5 favorite tracks... it also changes from one listen to another... and I just love her whole masterpiece ^^ Let's try and say, for now: - Starvation - Do you feel? - My name (love that she feats with ane brun, another amazing norwegian artist) - A soul with no king - The conflict of the mind (special mention for Your blood, To be alright, Some type of skin, My body is not mine and well yes... hard time to choose ^^' - can you? :p )

Those 90s were absolutely great. 😊 very emotional work, good artist, can only speak for the older albums.

Fun fact, your blood released on my birthday. Best gift I could’ve asked for.

This album has been my entire existence since it came out. I had the privilege of seeing her set in Kingston and my god it was something else. My favourite (at the moment) is My Name, the beat and gorgeous vocals from Aurora and Ane just perfect

This album has so much AOTY potential

Been here since the first Aurora reaction 🙌 She truly sets a new bar with every album she releases, and I really like how much you can interpret just from your first listen! It feels like you do her albums justice Also i cant for the life of me choose a top 5, but my favorites are Starvation and My Body Is Not Mine purely because of how crazy it was to hear them for the first time 😭 Like, I was not prepared at allll

Too much stop/ start in the song and in your reaction...

If you want to really be moved listen to 'a case of you' from 'blue'

Always love your analysis. It really got me thinking of the story of the album and after a couple re-listens I think this might be her most heartbreaking one 😅, at least with the ending. Like you mention, in the Step 1 and Step 2 era she had this message of “I will be your guiding light, I will be the queen of our Queendom” and she had taken up this role of being a saviour. But now with this album she’s hurt at the state of the world and starts by trying to convince herself she can still be okay (To Be Alright) but keeps coming back to realizing the world is too hard and too difficult right now (Some Type of Skin) and then getting angry about it (Starvation, The Blade). And in the Blade she talks about protecting “soft hearts” by taking up the fight (“bloodstained hands”) to protect everyone else, and so you think maybe she’ll end it with becoming a warrior again. But instead she ends the album by admitting defeat: “I need you to stop needing me.” “I can’t fix all of your pain because I’m in pain too.” She hasn’t said it outright but I can’t help but interpret Invisible Wounds as her feeling the weight of this burden of being this bright light that people see her as, and realizing that she can’t be that anymore, not until she’s healed for herself.

26:36 What an incredible image you just placed in my head; Aurora, standing atop a glacial shelf, the mountains and blue sky behind and a verdant valley stretching away before her far below, belting out her soul just to be heard, and those hearing emerging from a distant tree line, emerging from all their various ways of life, looking up in unanimous appreciation of someone who can sing out those fundamental connections that bind us all, regardless of the myriad of ways by which we live our lives. That was a nice image to catch and hold on to for a bit. Thanks for that.

I noticed that reactors that listened the singles apart and skip them in the reaction or not listen for the first time the whole album struggled with it Im so glad that you wait and give every song the same amount of attention, auroras albums are thought as a whole in my opinion, you get more of each song in association with the songs before in the album

thanks for your reaction.

I somehow can’t choose favourites from this album. I’m obsessed will all of the songs. I love when the dark dresses lightly, starvation, dreams, invisibles wounds, my name.. Basically all of them.

Absolutely loved your reaction. Here are my top 5: 1. Starvation 2. Do you feel? 3. My Body Is Not Mine 4. Earthly Delights 5. A Soul With No King

My tops: 1) When The Dark Dresses Lightly 2) Dreams (when I listen to this I always wonder if I should it put even higher ;) ) 3) A Soul With No King (x3 versions) 4) The Conflict Of The Mind (actually not sure as this song I know from longer time and maybe I should put it a little lower) 5) Starvation (I wonder If not to put it higher, still did not decide ;) ) - funny think is that at first listen it was my lowest song, I can not explaint it now, why :)) maybe because it was techno end (which I love now how it progress after this more aggressive part and connected with lyrics - "we are decorated bones" is pretty strong :)) ) 6) Earthly Delights (Love it, maybe verses could be a little different to be even higher, but it is beautiful ang longer sounds it feels like something from church a little ) Did not decided other of other songs, but for sure maybe i will put 7) The Blade (she has many references in album to wars which happens currently). My Name is very interesting. To be honest all songs are very strong. Not sure but in my lower parts would be My Body Is Not Mine (BTW: she has many references to AI on album), was not fully convinces to the Essence on the start too. But still great songs.

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Thanks for another enjoyable reaction video! 👍Waited for it a week! Really good review analysis. So nice that you look at the lyrics for each song. Agree with so many of your interpretations!

I was so happy to see you here with this reaction. Love your profound analysis. I wish all critics would see this, they dont always understand the depth of the music. You Are so spot on with many things, and you Are able to express things in a way I cant, and you see things I didn’t see. So impressed with your insights. (In her last album, she ended on the moon, I think she starts there in her first song, same soundscape+In To Feel alright she/production actually sound like Madonna. You commented she sings in a different voice. So fun.) The way you describe the songs and the album, I Discover Even more than I originally did. This album is a Conflict of the mind… The songs Are interconnected in ways I look forward to exploring more after seing this. Also: I read that she received a letter that inspired this, from indigenous people(?) you can read about it, dont remember where. And she asks in the title: What happened to the heart (in our society), and then this album is exploring this. So beautiful: both the concept, the album, the songs, Aurora, you, your reaction. Top five: impossible, because it changes all the time, but: The Essence, Dreams, A soul with no King, Starvation, To feel Alright, The Blade Are all up there. Your reaction made me love more of the songs more than I originally did. She is engaged in the things you Are talking about, both environmental issues, mental health, pandemics, technology, of course LGBTQ+, Black lives matter, todays war situation (Ukraine, Gaza++). It’s a lot! So how has the world become like this? What happened to the heart? ..Hope you will see/react to her music videos and live stuff (vivo) as well. And how about an Aurora documentary: Once Aurora (beautiful, costs a bit of money, but worth it, copyright issues, though) or Haik (lovely, free). Anyway: Thank you for this, take care <3

AURORA speaks about A Soul With No King during her live concert in Kingston at Pryzm (11 June 2024): "I feel like our souls are lost, and I feel like our souls don't know what to do. We haven't given them any value, and we haven't given them any [hold/home]. And I feel like we really need to prove to our soul that we're its ruler - and we'd hear it and we will guide it by being just decent, [empathetic], good human beings. And I think about what's happening in Palestine a lot when I sing this song because I don't understand how in the modern time - in modern times like this - that we can disagree on whether something so heartbreaking is wrong or not. I don't understand." 1. To Be Alright 2. Some Type Of Skin 3. Echo Of My Shadow 4. Starvation 5. Invisible Wounds

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There is a dvd (on RUclips now) with the drummer explaining how this album was made and how great and new it was.

The Ninth Wave is my favorite. Jig of Life is amazing too. Waking the witch I play over and over. I relate to it. The Dreaming is the other favorite album of hers.

I f........... love you and your reactions, and I love you loving Aurora ❤

You tamed me with the mental health sponsor, and it worked. Thanks for spreading the feels, the mood. I wish I could’ve delivered this 10 years ago. I’m in.

Top 5: 1. Earthly Delights 2. To Be Alright 3. Starvation 4. The Essence 5. My Body Is Not Mine

Like you, I really love this album. It's so diverse and experimental, but still very much Aurora. Current top 5 favorites: The Conflict of the Mind Starvation The Essence A Soul with No King The Blade

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