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Following AURORA’s breakthrough “It’s quite sensual actually, and very
2016 debut ‘All My Demons Greeting much about the dark, the light and the
Me As A Friend’ and the two-part absurd combination of the two,” she
follow-up ‘Infections Of A Different said. “To me, music has always been
Kind (Step One)‘ and ‘A Different Kind very serious and no fun. I always write
Of Human (Step Two)‘, fans are now about really serious things, and I can
awaiting news of her new album. While see myself standing on stage every
remaining tight-lipped about the night for an hour and being really sad
details, AURORA did tell us that it all the time.
doesn’t sound too much like ‘Cure For
Me’. “I just wanted to make an album for
myself that had a bit more cheekiness
“[‘Cure For Me’] has something in and wildness. I’m very excited to share
common with the album in that I’m the album with you. It’ll come out this
experimenting with new things and year.”
new sides of me,” she said. “It’s easy
for me to make a really ‘AURORA’ This follows the recent re-emergence
album – that feels like nature and of her 2015 single ‘Runaway‘, which
mother earth. That comes really recently shot up the charts around the
naturally to me. So I’m really enjoying world and amassed hundreds of
doing something different. This is my millions of daily listens following its
third and a half album, and it’s about viral success on TikTok. However,
time in my mind to just play around AURORA said that she is unfazed by the
and do something different.” statistics, and is instead just happy to
see the track “living its best life, like a
She went on to explain how the record teenager, running around out there,
would not so much be dealing in touching people and being happy”.
“doom, gloom, COVID and horror” and
would be “more playful and fun” while
still “representing a lot of things that
bother me with society and our
history”.
