“The world is going through a lot right now with COVID, and it’s clear that in some countries they needed a song like ‘Runaway’. It’s a very hard question for me to answer without seeming ungrateful, because I am very honoured that people have let ‘Runaway’ into their hearts. I don’t get a rush out them – I wish I did. “I don’t have the possibility to understand what they mean in terms of success. I don’t see the meaning in numbers,” she admitted. However, AURORA said that she is unfazed by the statistics, and is instead just happy to see the track “living its best life, like a teenager, running around out there, touching people and being happy”. This follows the recent re-emergence of her 2015 single ‘Runaway‘, which recently shot up the charts around the world and amassed hundreds of millions of daily listens following its viral success on TikTok. I’m very excited to share the album with you. “I just wanted to make an album for myself that had a bit more cheekiness and wildness. I always write about really serious things, and I can see myself standing on stage every night for an hour and being really sad all the time. “To me, music has always been very serious and no fun. “It’s quite sensual actually, and very much about the dark, the light and the absurd combination of the two,” she said. She went on to explain how the record would not so much be dealing in “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”. This is my third and a half album, and it’s about time in my mind to just play around and do something different.” So I’m really enjoying doing something different. “It’s easy for me to make a really ‘AURORA’ album – that feels like nature and mother earth. “ has something in common with the album in that I’m experimenting with new things and new sides of me,” she said. While remaining tight-lipped about the details, AURORA did tell us that it doesn’t sound too much like ‘Cure For Me’. It’s so sad that it doesn’t take much for us to really doubt ourselves.”įollowing AURORA’s breakthrough 2016 debut ‘All My Demons Greeting Me As A Friend’ and the two-part follow-up ‘Infections Of A Different Kind (Step One)‘ and ‘ A Different Kind Of Human (Step Two)‘, fans are now awaiting news of her new album. People tend to believe quite quickly that something is wrong with them if they’re not like the people they see in front of them. She continued: “Why is it so difficult for people to just let others be themselves? Then I thought that it could mean many other things.
The first idea was me saying, ‘I don’t need a cure for me – just let me live, man!’” The first seed of inspiration came from thinking about the countries where it’s still legal to do conversion therapy for gay people and lesbians. “Like always, I got inspired by a really huge, dark and horrible thing that happens in the world. I think some people may really like it and some people may not,” she said. Speaking to NME about the track, the Norwegian singer-songwriter described it as “a very fun little guy” – despite it coming from a much darker place. Having shared the title track to the soundtrack of The Secret Garden last year – following on from recent singles ‘Exist For Love‘ and ‘ Into The Unknown’ from Frozen 2 – ‘Cure For Me’ is the first taste of what’s to come from the follow-up to 2019’s ‘ A Different Kind Of Human’. Watch our video interview with AURORA above. As AURORA returns with new single ‘Cure For Me’, the Norwegian phenomenon has spoken to NME about the song’s empowering origins – as well as the viral success of her song ‘Runaway’ and her “playful and sensual” new material.