AURORA - MURDER SONG (5,4,3,2,1) - The 2015 Nobel Peace Prize Concert (REACTION!!!)

[@TomTomson81]

Aurora wrote this song after reading about a "murder" in the paper 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. She also makes it clear that she understands her husband. This is pure love. Maybe it was with the woman's consent (I hope so) or he made the decision on his own. No idea. But it was love. And this is her darkest Song. You will only find this explanation of this song in one interview with her. 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. This way songs stay interesting longer. That's why I also believe that this explanation was just an accident. It was also just a brief side note on a question asked, by the way. She usually only says to the song it is a true tragic love story that doesn't end well.

[@ChiliConCarnage]

This performance always makes me tear up. The vocals, lyrics and harmonies are such a beautiful and haunting blend.

[@Mick.Fitzmaurice]

Aurora - It Happened Quiet - Live Nidarosdomen. Amazing.

[@Mick.Fitzmaurice]

@John-Tore Gundersen One of her best in my opinion, but it is so hard to choose! Everything she does just takes you to another world. I have a really hard time recommending a single song!

[@jessica5497]

Yess, would be great

[@alanalvarado9325]

At the Current is best

[@Mick.Fitzmaurice]

@@alanalvarado9325 It's very good as well, but I prefer the passion of her Nidarosdomen performance better.

[@torbjrnlund903]

@@Mick.Fitzmaurice So do I.

[@Riac007]

Anyone else on an Aurora reaction video bender? I love seeing people discover her in real time. She makes me so happy, while I still love finding new artist at nearly 40yo I haven't had an artist I've been so enchanted by like this in forever

[@piachristel]

she is making us empathize with the fact nobody wants to be a murderer.. killing by command, soldiers in wars they can't explain, child soldiers recruited. Nobel Peace Prize. It's remarkably appropriate

[@redizdead666]

No it's just a very sick dog and his master

[@bug3954]

no. it all depends on our interpretation of what it means. aurora has said before her songs have different meanings to different people.

[@lillm6874]

This is actually a true story Aurora read about, and she just had to write about it. She thought it was such a sad story

[@openmusic3904]

That octave jump on the last '5, 4, 3, , 2, 1', is one of my favourite moments of the song. It is such a small musical detail on Aurora's part but it makes my spine tingle every time with how sparkling and effervescent it is. Just that one note sounds like someone who is trying to escape their fate, a last moment of panic and regret before it all ends. Her sensitivity and ear as a musician never ceases to amaze me.

[@Bhunivelze-]

Yes, this song, as many of her songs, is the allegory of the self. Every part of us, darkness and light

[@Deeraise]

I recommended this in your "Through the Eyes of a Child" video, and said I could do 20 more but didn't wanna leave a long comment, but since you did this one (and thank you for doing so!), here are a few more to consider... "The River," "The Seed" (great music video, no interpretation needed), "Queendom," "I Went Too Far," "Black Water Lilies," "Gentle Earthquakes," "Churchyard," "Winter Bird," "Warrior," "Running with the Wolves" -- shit imma gonna recommend every song on all three albums at this point lol. Aight I'm done; it's all excellent my dude. She's spectacular. And that's to say nothing of her covers. Everything she touches slaps. Also if you appreciate harmonies, check out the UK vevo version of "Through the Eyes of a Child" on your own time. They're incredible.

[@timuofi4360]

these notes no one was expecting 4:40

[@MrBjonte]

Norway used to be third world when it came to music.... and today we have Aurora and Angelina.... It’s maybe silly to be proud about accomplishments which is no my own, but I think I will make an exception in these cases.

[@bjrgjohannessen5184]

Dont forget Sigrid.!

[@timothyhaugen8569]

Add Wardruna to your list...

[@dia1605mant]

And we have the Stargate production team in Usa. There are alot of Norwegians that gives people what they want internationally. Not all norwegians in Norway know them. Matoma, Kygo, and all the Black metal bands ++++

[@lillm6874]

Ina Wroldsen 👍 and don’t forget A-HA😊

[@leod2408]

Aurora is not only a gtreat singer but also a story teller! While most songwriters nowadays write about superficial and banal themes Aurora writes about things that are painful in everyday life.This song is about a poor man who kills his wife because he did not want her to experience all the pain that might come in life. Recently here in Norway a refugee mother killed her 3 children and herself. No one knows why she did this but most people believe that this is about mercy killing

[@jollyo9276]

This song moves me to tears every time. I ask myself, could this be the ultimate love song? Like Aurora, it is a bit of a mystery, and the ending - no less. It is great lyrics that Aurora gives, and great music. And her voice do carry you away, into her songs. As I understand, her 4th album is on its way, I`ll line up for shure.

[@chrissymccauley8015]

Just breathtaking, the emotions just move you. She’s amazingly talented and wonderfully different. I hope she becomes more popular in America.

[@ranahooke1907]

Ok, here you go. Happy to provide links for them all if that will help :) Favourite Music Videos: Runaway The seed Queendom Running with the wolves Animal Askjell featuring Aurora - To be loved The river Favourite live performances: It happened Quiet (live at Nidarosdomen) Under the water (Vevo halloween) Wardruna and Aurora - Helvegen (first vid that comes up) Haik Concert (The full Haik documentary is worth watching, gives a lot of insight into Aurora as a human) Favourite covers: God is a woman (Ariana Grande cover) Teardrop (Massive Attack cover) Across the universe (Beatles Cover) Believer (Imagine Dragons Cover) Life on Mars (David Bowie Cover)

[@mammastenhjerte]

Great list! I would like to note that her covers on P3 Live is especially impressive because of the circumstances. P3 Live is a radio show and the artists do an interview and get to sing one of their own song and do a cover, but they do not know in advance what song they will be covering and only get to know that less than an hour before they go on live. In that time the artist has to make an arrangement, memories the lyric as much as possible and rehearse a couple of time, and then they go on live. Aurora has covered Wrecking Ball, Believer, God Is A Woman and Det Hev Ei Rose Sprunge (a German Christmas song form 1599 sung in Norwegian) on P3 Live, and you can see she has notes in front of her with the lyrics.

[@ranahooke1907]

MotherStoneHeart Yes! Believer and God is a Woman are simply stunning.

[@alanalvarado9325]

Aurora it happened quiet. Live at the current. Is crazy

[@enzodantoni5783]

Very beautyful song, very talent artist. Now in my heart

[@AnalogstoyOfficial]

Anything with Aurora is fine

[@hakanandersson1276]

Thanx for that reaction. This video is so emotion packed and very deep that you said. I love it.... And those eyes.. My god!

[@Wolfm4n10]

Thank you for doing another reaction to Aurora. She is an amazing artist and there are so much emotion in her songs and she has alot for you to react to.

[@ranahooke1907]

Yay! Thanks for more Aurora. I’ll comment shortly with my list of faves.

[@user-tf5qr7fy2i]

Man, I loved your reaction to this songs. Which in fact is a song that makes me cry each time. She's an amazing artist, like you said yourself. As a Norwegian, I can easily relate to any of her melodies and how it all sounds vocal wise as well. Sometimes less is more, and she's one of those that manage to impress in other ways than turning up the volume to show what she's capable of. Instead she seems to pay attention to the little details that others mightn't even have thought of in the first place. Which sounds just right, yet surprising, when it's put into action to create a certain atmosphere, - and I guess that's what makes her Aurora.

[@stillracer2514]

Another talented singer from Norway!

[@ДэнаунНовиньо]

The performance is amazing. But what caught my attention is that they selected this song to perform at a Nobel Peace Prize. This version don't capture the very ending, when people start to applause and she seems to return to reality, from whatever place the music transported her.

[@jessica5497]

You will be impressed with her vocals on her cover of teardrop - live like a version. Would be a great reaction

[@eivindludviksen6478]

For me the song is about someone having to put their beoved animal to death because it got hurt and had to be put out of its misery...

[@danika9411]

Never thought about that. It makes sense though. Thank you!

[@jrgenmosether8370]

exactly right, its about a married couple and the wife gets terminally ill and the husband mercy-kills her. this happened in real life and the husband had to spend time in prison for it.

[@frejaandersen3749]

I Really enjoyed this reaction, thank you so much for listening and interpreting it in your own way :)) I cry everytime I hear this version of the song. It's so dark, but beautiful

[@flakebust990]

I also can see the domestic motive. But the strongest image i get is from a story of "impossible" love. I imagen the strength needed to kill someone you love to actually spare them from an even worse fate. I have had so many different emotions about my violent nature and ability to love like that

[@fictionallove_2416]

Amazing reaction for something that was from 2020.. loved it.

[@garyrobb5341]

Good thoughts. I read the comments and didn’t see see this stuff but I’m telling everyone. Hope it helps understand her. Here’s the story. She was bullied sometimes as a little girl in Norway for being autistic and spent all her free time in the forest with the animals. Her two older sisters were her best friends and protectors. They’re still with her. She was making up songs as soon as she could talk and started writing them at age 7. Until her late teens, she was terrified of performing but wanted to help people. To calm down, she would whisper the value of Pi into several hundred decimal places.

[@kimacronym2521]

This is an amazing reaction to an amazing song and performance, very reflected - what a haunting song, don't think I ever heard a darker performance. Aurora is a true artist, one of a kind, incomparable to the superficial chart music we get every day (which can be nice once in a while...)

[@Lene-Lene]

Naughty?! Haha. This song is so good. She is pretty amazing, she created songs, lyrics, so different than others. You should check out some of her more uplifting song, energizing, she is so energetic. Queendom, the seed... god is a woman, cover of Ariana Grand... But as always, I will mention helvegen where she sings with wardruna. It feels like ancient magic. m.kzbin.info/www/bejne/fJ_Ohah-hZ6kadE

[@goeranm55]

I heard another interpretation of the lyrics.... The victim (the role she sings) is the nature, which we, the stupid and non considerate humans, kill with our climate changes and pollution . This fits much better into the Aurora I admire .

[@laluba3603]

Could the story be about an injured animal maybe a cat, hit by a car. And killed ... for mercy. Are you imagine yourself that the cat don't understand what is about to happen? I think I have heard somewhere That Aurora herself have said that it is based on a dream she had.. I have had that night mare too.

[@lillm6874]

I’m sorry, but this is wrong. This is a true story that Aurora read about, and she thought it was so sad. It was a man killing his wife for mercy, so he could take away her pain

[@lillm6874]

@@laluba3603 No, read my answer 😊

[@pkornbak]

Fantastic reaction, and you came very close to the story! This was a mercy killing!

[@ispbrotherwolf]

Queen of the north

[@McsDanhi]

Nice reaction!! Please react to her song "Through the eyes of a child" (Vevo lift UK) the harmony is perfect in This live version!!

[@padnesit]

And now a new treasure: Susanne Sundfør - Undercover (Live) kzbin.info/www/bejne/d17Yg6yFqpmMjJY Close your eyes and enjoy the ride, and have a nice day:)

[@stiannsset3869]

You need to react to Wardruna and Aurora - Helvegen Live

[@user-dv5tn9dm7l]

Her version of into the unknown is beautiful, she completely made the song her own. I really recommend it!

[@eg2759]

Love Aurora!

[@ispbrotherwolf]

She is my Queen of the north

[@stiannsset3869]

Wardruna and Aurora - Helvegen (Live) and aurora god is a woman

[@yourlordship1119]

The song is like, he hurt me because he thought he was helping me and he felt regret for what he was doing but in his mind, he was doing what thought was best. Everyone is a hero in their own story kype thing, the song reads like a really toxic relationship. I'll keep you locked in the basement forever because the world is a bad place but don't worry ill protect you, kind of way

[@tolveor]

considering the context of nobel peace concert i get broader themes of violence against women, honor killing, domestic abuse etc. very thoughtful you are, and earned a sub for that. excited to check out your other videos

[@katehardwick4283]

I’ve watched 8 reactions today. You’re the only one who didn’t cry. She wrote this at 9

[@rosemay75]

Please keep reacting to Aurora...😊🙏🏽

[@karenstark9235]

the seed is an amazing song - live and the video.

[@mugen012]

I look at this as there is a lot of murders that happen by someone's lover, and sometimes the person killed doesn't even see it coming, I feel some of these victims did love their killers right until tragedy strikes.

[@karidragni1509]

👍🕯🌸 i understand you, but she have a beatyful voice. Aurora sing the high fairy tone in «Frost II»🧚‍♂️

[@nobodi817]

You sir are a dead ringer for my son. Red hair, facial expressions totally tripped me out. Oh yeah, I think your are quite bright and well spoken. Aurora is a musical genius. (opinion)

[@TomTomson81]

When doctors refuse to euthanize and someone love so much that they stop letting his wife suffer and she wants to, then what was sung in the song happens. Greater suffering for another. That was happening at the time in Aurora's homeland near her. Then she wrote this song. The wife is seriously ill, every day greater suffering, including the treatment, and the husband finally kills her. The song is sung from the perspective of the ghost of this woman. The woman knows that her husband loves her and did it out of grace. She is not angry with him. The choice of title is also very well chosen and should therefore be questioned. Does this man really have to be called a murderer? He did not kill in cold blood for selfish motives. He has taken a great loss so that someone else doesn't have to suffer. He's taking prison and knowing that it was him. Can someone like that really be compared to someone who shoots people to get money or out of jealousy?

[@jessica5497]

Hey, thanks 💙

[@Wigglythegreat2]

It was a mercy killing. Ask yourself how far you would go if your loved one was suffering in a truly horrible way.

[@ChiliConCarnage]

You should hear "It happened quiet" and "Through the eyes of a child" from the Nidarosdomen concert. kzbin.info/www/bejne/eWfLomiZr858fsU kzbin.info/www/bejne/pJSqaq2Kr9icqac

[@j.k.1963]

So many explanations. Her inspiration to write this song was a true story with a very similar horrible situation as she describes. A man killed his wife who was suffering from a lethal illness. Out of his neverending love for her. Maybe Aurora was hit in her gut with this image and hád to use it, as it is such a strong image. Who knows what meaning this song has to her, but as the story tells us, in the end the two are forever separated by his actions. She is now dead to him. Out of his love for her he maybe had to confess and so could have dropped 'the bomb' that instantly destroyed the relationship? Who knows.

[@amaliefjogstad2606]

Her cover of David Bowie - Life on Mars is amazing. You should really watch that.

[@Jenysmusik]

She said it was her version of a love song

[@redizdead666]

just imagine this song from the perspective of a dog

[@anicapalini]

During a genocide, the men of a village which was going to be attacked, killed their wives and children to avoid them the slow death by torture and rape which would inflict them the soldiers who arrived. Murder song reminds me of this news item.

[@rocroc]

Mercy killing..taken from a real life situation.

[@christinchen0820]

Please reaction aurora" nature boy" (Live at Nidarosdomen)🙏

[@TomTomson81]

When I hear the song I automatically think of father and daughter. The father is depressed and only sees the bad and cruel in the world. He doesn't want his daughter to suffer the same as he does and thinks he is doing the right thing in stealing her life. He'll probably kill himself after that. This happens every day in the world.

[@mortnil24]

Norway calls You have to hear Aurora sing murder song 5,4,3,2,1 or the story I would call it. kzbin.info/www/bejne/oIXalXqIfdFog9k but you must hear this version.

[@johnlovenhill1]

A farther killed his kids (and himself and his wife) in the next street to me. The kids both had a debilitating sickness. One view is that he killed them ‘to save them from the awful things in life that come’. (The other interpretation is that he was a controlling guy and made a decision about their lives he should not have). I often think of them when I hear this song. That’s what it means to me.

[@ispbrotherwolf]

Internet, if I am wrong correct me, but I think he is her music teacher??

[@Sofia-cj9ss]

Is funny seeing all these people creating different theories for the story behind the song, just search in google why she wrote it!

[@kaedenepowell6069]

Do Grace VanderWaal next please. Her most recent music from her EP Letters Vol. 1

[@royhaukedal3264]

Why pluck it apart? Just go with it!!!

[@enndromeda]

React to FKA twigs Cellophane music video

[@Meine.Postma]

Child shot by her father?

[@krisnesvik]

1

[@cherbear5612]

It's a breakup song.

[@TomKnudsen]

Jeeeezes christ man, how much do you need to talk.. Listen to the music if you are to react to it.

[@arczisss.9976]

Another fake reaction.