Actor and Filmmaker REACTION and ANALYSIS - AURORA "MURDER SONG (5, 4, 3, 2, 1)"
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- čas přidán 12. 08. 2021
- Actor and filmmaker Cedric Gegel reacts to AURORA's "Murder Song (5, 4, 3, 2, 1" Music Video!
A really unique visual approach that lets the viewer breathe in time to an incredible physical performance by Aurora.
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Aurora Aksnes (born 15 June 1996), known mononymously as Aurora (stylized in uppercase), is a Norwegian singer, songwriter, and record producer. Born in Stavanger, Aurora released her debut EP, Running with the Wolves, in 2015, through Decca Records. Later that year, she provided the backing track for the John Lewis Christmas advert, singing a cover of the Oasis song "Half the World Away". Aurora released her debut studio album, All My Demons Greeting Me as a Friend, in 2016. In 2018, she released her second extended play, Infections of a Different Kind (Step 1), followed by her second studio album, A Different Kind of Human (Step 2).
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The story behind the murder song.
Aurora wrote this song after reading about a "murder" in the newspaper near her homeland. A man killed his wife/girlfriend out of love. She was seriously ill and suffered more every day. He released her from suffering.
The song is sung from the perspective of the woman's ghost. Maybe he killed her with her consent (I hope so) or he made the decision on his own.
You will only find this explanation of this song in one interview with her (unfortunately I don't have a link to the interview and I can't find it anymore). It's not written anywhere else. And usually she doesn't explain her songs that specifically either, because she wants everyone to find their own story in them.
She usually only says to the song it is a true tragic love story that doesn't end well.
It should be said that this News was an inspiration for this song. That doesn't have to mean that the song itself is about it. But since it all fits together, I think so. Of course, it is written in such a way that many interpretations are possible. Just like Aurora actually always does.
To the countdown. Some people say the "killer" is counting down. On the contrary, the song is sung by the victim all the time. For me that means that she counts down herself and than her boyfriend pulls the trigger.
And she knows that he knows that he kills her for mercy. That means they both know. Sounds like an agreement.
The camera is removing because its soul is also removing. She is on her way to the hereafter.
in her live performances you will notice a lot where she gets lost in the performance and forgets she is there and at the moment the song is over its like her waking up and realizing.. amazing
Really enjoyed your reaction! AURORA is the first singer/songwriter to capture my attention in a long time -- she's so unique and versatile! And she comes up with such great lyrics! So far you've reacted to her earliest releases. Going forward, I highly recommend the music videos for THE SEED and WINTER BIRD, as well as some of her live performances. Just about anything from the Nidarosdomen concert (the entire concert is great: I personally especially like THROUGH THE EYES OF A CHILD, LUCKY, IT HAPPENED QUIET, LITTLE BOY IN THE GRASS, WALKING ON THE AIR, and her cover of LIFE ON MARS)! Then there are her high-energy performances of ALL IS SOFT INSIDE and CHURCHYARD from the 2018 KEXP concert! Also the HAIK concert she performed in a forest: INFECTIONS OF A DIFFERENT KIND, THE SEED, and DAYDREAMER! And the 2020 'Somewhere Else' concert: with the best ever rocked-up version of RUNNING WITH THE WOLVES!
I WENT TO FAR and UNDER THE WATER - and tall he covers -like Believer and La, la, la.
Also Home, Black Water Lillies, and Dancing on the Moon
Love your reaction 👍
Aurora is like no one else, it’s like she lives through her music.
The way she moves is actually what she does in her live performances too.
When she sings live, she goes into another mind, like a transe.
And when she’s finishing a song she usually shakes her head to get out of it
And after for example a concert, she almost can’t breathe, it’s like she’s having a panic attack 😔
Because it drains her so much because of the way she lives through every song ❤️
Love from Norway 🇳🇴
I've watched way too many reactions to this song, and your take is easily one of my favorites. Her live version of this at the Nobel Peace Prize Concert is stunning, even though it's not a produced video, I'd love to see your reaction and comparison to that.
I’ll be checking that out soon - I’d love to analyze her live vocals too. Thanks so much for watching!
@@CedricGegel1 I'd love to hear your reaction to her song queendom czcams.com/video/wULeXeQkqd0/video.html
Her live performance of Runaway early in her career at the 2015 Nobel Peace Prize concert is the stuff of legends. She never desired to be a recording artist. She wrote and sang music for years for herself to help her process things she experienced or saw others experience and her family didn't even know she was doing it. She is very private and did not like to be around people much. She has said she was somewhat terrified about performing at that concert and yet she rise above it and slayed all three songs! That says volumes about her commitment to her art! She has since developed a love of performing live because she see so much beauty in people in spite of their pain. She is healer of souls that sees the beauty in all human experience including the knarly stuff no none wants to deal with. Much respect!
@@jeffmalloy8200 I completely agree, that whole concert was just magical. The only thing that comes close to it, in my opinion, is her concert in the woods for HAIK.
She always gets lost in her music, but at the Nobel Peace Prize concert, I feel like she retreated into the music much further than normal to deal with how nervous she was. I'm still spellbound every time I watch it.
Since I'm a photographer, I love you analysis of her videos. In my mind, her videos are art in themselves, and it is incredibly interesting to hear that you give of your knowledge and experience in analyzing these.
Many say that her live performances are incredible, and I agree with that. But most people react to her live performances, many of them musicians, voice teachers and so on. But you are the only person who reacts more explicitly to her videos. So please, continue with that.
My favorites? difficult. Please react to all of them (I Went Too Far, Winter Bird, Animal, the River, The Seed, Queendom, Cure for mee, Daydreamer)
She is amazing, You'll love her!
I don't know why, but it makes me so happy that you realised they were moths and not butterflies.
You are only the second person I've seen notice that.
Aurora loves moths, they are usually not liked due to their perceived connection to darkness, death etc. My guess is she felt drawn to them as she has said multiple times she felt quite outcast as a child. Different, not normal.
Usually not amused by correcting people unnecessarily but feel forced here. This is definitely not a moth but a butterfly and most likely Small Tortoiseshell. Sorry!!
@@hakanandersson1276 Well i'm no expert on neither butterflies or moths. But i seem to remember her talking about the video in an interview, i could be misremembering ofc, watched ALOT of interviews over a very short time after first discovering Aurora :P
I was almost beside myself when I saw you were going to watch this. She's one of my favourite artists and this is my favourite song of hers. I think that her character has the mentality of someone who has been groomed to be a victim of a narcissistic psychopath. Literally brainwashed to see him as her saviour. Like a woman with battered wife syndrome. It's so powerful. She's a magnificent story teller.
This song always makes me cry
This song always reminds me of a movie, actually, The Lovely Bones. Gives me the same sad and poetic feeling.
Yes!! I loved that book
@@CedricGegel1 I haven't read the book (I'll put it on my list), just seen Peter Jackson's movie, Amazing film, visuals and cast.
Oh, I was thinking of that movie too. I found this song to be similarly haunting and unsettling - such a profound sense of injustice at the loss of such innocence and innocents.
I thought I recognized the song title even though I don't listen to the artist, and it turns out I was right because this song was used in an episode of Flash. I remember it fit really well with what was happening because a woman was killed by an parallel universe version of her husband while her husband was watching and couldn't save her. I cried. It was intense.
Had just subscribed to your channel dear Sir..I love your analysis of Aurora's artistry. God bless you more...
That's what's so great about songs like this, they can be interpreted to fit a lot of narratives depending on what we the listeners bring to the table.
Great reaction, mate👍
I like that you give though thoughout the video whitout pausing every 5 sec, and good thoughs too. Subcribed.
This was a great reaction. Thank you!
i always get the chill watching this. and tears in my eyes. it is very sad. i like also the da vinci effect like you point out.
I watched sooo many reactions already. But soooo interesting to hear about it from this perspective. Thanks ❤
You are in no way cringe. You have a beautiful smile and having a true reaction. And also I wish you a happy life.
Aaaaah, Just AAAAAAAAAh...! :D
Love it! Thank you so much for doing this. Looking forward to the next one of AURoRA!
I would love to see your reaction to I went too far by aurora
That was really interesting - to have you analyse (mostly) visually and on her "acting" or "embracing" the main character of her song. I really enjoyed this.
Regarding her use of vowels - this is a classical Norse/Scandinavian technique (when singers sing in our languages). Traditionally, we have massive freedom to artistically reshape the vowels for poetic/musical/emotional effects. And several Nordic singers brings that across also when singing English lyrics (Bjørk is a famous example). Remember, linguistically we Scandinavians love our vowels so much that we throw Æ, Ø and Å into the alphabet, with a lot more going on phonetically.
I am so used to this being used in Scandinavian singing (vowel transformation) that I can forget that it must sound "interesting" for native English speakers/people who obviously can not know when this is done with Scandinavian lyrics.
Oh - a good pick for you would be NRK production of her Nidarosdomen concert (live). Here is her opening act (Nature boy) where the NRK staff introduce the setting and the reality of the harp and the string orchestra and Aurora entering the stage of the largest cathedral in Northern Europe. czcams.com/video/-DNpFmwvtuw/video.html&ab_channel=Warriors%26Weirdos in relatively warm lighting. Later in the concert - as during lucky it is faded into moon-light blue on "Lucky" and bloody red during "Murder-song" (you would have a field day analysing this concert - (and I would have a field day listening to you). But as I think about it, you may hold back on that for a later time where after you have focused on her songs one by one - before an entire concert. Also because she re-arranged her songs for string orchestra, harp, male choir and church organ - so her songs are "reshaped". It makes it even more awesome when one know their "original intent" and production.
Please react to her music video "the river" 🙌🏻
"Exist for Love" would love to hear your thoughts on that Aurora song.
Please do "I went too far"
I want to see if I can get a tear or two 😢 .. think of it as a challenge. 🙂
The Avett Brothers - Ballad of Love and Hate (live)
Tool - Wings for Marie pt.1 & pt.2
Aurora - Murder Song 5,4,3,2,1 (live at the Nobel peace prize concert)
Band of Horses - No one’s gonna love you
Iron & Wine - The Trapeze Swinger
Chris Cornel - Nothing Compares to you
Bright Eyes - First Day of My Life
This Mortal Coil - Song to the Siren
Great reaction, as always! From a filmmakers perspective, i believe her song/music video "Queendom" would be most interesting. I would love to see you react to that one :-)
I really like your reactions to her videos and think that you would appreciate her video for “The Seed” it’s another really powerful music video.
Extraordinary voice, extraordinary performance skills, extraordinary thought processes in her perspectives and an extraordinary way with words in her writing. This petite powerhouse has it all. As well as this, Aurora's personality is unique, here are a couple of snippets that are less than a minute in total but say so much about her, "How To Attract Guys" from Tik Tok (put together with one of her fans) (czcams.com/video/_cEWy7MNchU/video.html) and also from her Tik Tok "The Tale Of The Blueberry Muffins" (czcams.com/video/ZreWrrY9L7A/video.html). Enjoy.
One detail I have not seen mentioned is that those are Death's Head Moths which according to folklore appear when someone is about to die.
😊
Butterflies and moths are symbols of rebirth in many cultures. Note the butterfly flies away after she is dead. The spirit off to the next life...
The Seed. MV
I don't think she was trying to "Justify" anything in the song. Coyote told you a bit about what sparked the song. And even though it can be interpreted many ways by different people, my mind always does go to a place of someone putting someone terminally ill out of their misery and the person wanting it to happen. I mean she says he is holding her in his arms and crying, which to me means it is painful for him to have done this, but he did it because she was suffering and wanted to be free from it. Also, I disagree about the vowel sounds. I do think it has much to do with her accent. She is always such a great performer and story teller. Aurora embodies the songs with her whole body, which is amazing to watch and experience. Hope you will continue to do more. Winter Bird and The Seed are good choices for videos. For a live you could try "Soulless creatures" live in Bergen 2020 or "Infections of a different kind" live at Haik (or "Warrior" live at Haik)
Agreed.
I've watched another reactor cryin to this remembering him having to put his dog down, so it depends on your own experiences how you interpret this tune :D
@@patrykstachowicz I think I know which one you're talking about and I also thought of that too. It really can be taken many different ways. But I can certainly see that being one of them. I think many of us have experienced that one.
in the same manner it could also be said that it was a really pure/innocent person and he didnt want her to see the world for what it is so he killed her out of love not wanting her to be broken or corrupted by the world
Well would you be willing to react to Star Álfur by the Icelandic post rock band Sigur Rós? Their music is in a lot of Hollywood movies,but they deserve a proper listening. I promise you the music it is beyond beautiful.
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One of the best songs of her Unfortunately one of the lamest. Take the Nobel peace prize that one is legendary.
Can you please react to 👉the lady of heaven trailer?❤️😉
God DAMN YOU!!! STOP STEPPING INTO THE MIDDLE OF PHRASES!!!
Dude this isn't a humorous song
Your smile on your thumbnail caused me to avoid clicking on the video to watch your reaction to a song called, murder song.
Just letting you know that.
Second thing you made a really big mistake not listening to the live version from the peace prize concert!
it's not acting