AURORA celebrates 10 years of ‘Runaway’ with new ‘Portrait Of A Track’ documentary

AURORA is celebrating the tenth anniversary of her breakthrough single ‘Runaway’ with a brand new documentary, Portrait Of A Track. 

The documentary finds her in Norway, the place the unique ‘Runaway’ video – that includes the then 18-year-old operating within the snow atop the mountains of Bergen – was filmed. With the identical director, Kenny McCracken, Aurora revisits the identical iconic areas, providing a glimpse into the locations that formed the artist’s music at a younger age.

She has additionally launched a brand new reworked orchestral model of the monitor to rejoice a decade of its existence.

Test it out under:

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“A music I wrote after I was 11 has grown legs and arms by itself, and now it’s operating round dancing with strangers,” she mentioned in a press launch. “Prefer it has discovered souls throughout the globe to assist hold it alive. Like most issues, it’s as much as us whether or not we let one thing die, or not. I now discover myself eager to do the identical, to be as courageous as my music, and dance with strangers as effectively.”

Taken from her acclaimed 2016 debut album ‘All My Demons Greeting Me As A Buddy’, the music catapulted the Norwegian singer-songwriter to international fame, racking up over 3billion streams throughout platforms. Billie Eilish even credited it as certainly one of her primary inspirations when she first received into music.

“After I was 12, I noticed Aurora’s ‘Runaway’ music video,” she as soon as instructed Vanity Fair. “One thing inside me clicked, like, that's what I need to do, regardless of whether or not it goes wherever or not.”

In 2019, as a part of NME‘s Track Tales collection, AURORA defined what first impressed the music.

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“I wrote ‘Runaway’ after I was 11-years-old,” she instructed NME. “It’s fairly humorous as a result of the older I received, the extra it made sense to me. It touched my coronary heart, and now it jogs my memory of issues that occurred after I wrote it. It was type of like a present to myself.

“It’s bizarre, as a result of my inspiration for the lyrics to ‘Runaway’ got here out of nowhere. A couple of years later, one thing occurred to me (effectively, the entire of Norway really), after which the lyrics made a lot sense to me. I sat in my home on the same old piano I all the time write on and it took like an hour, I believe.”

She continued: “I bear in mind it was fully quiet, it was gray exterior. Not gentle, not darkish, not dry, not moist, not chilly, not heat – it was type of a kind of misplaced type of days. It was type of like time was standing nonetheless.”

AURORA’s most up-to-date album was ‘What Occurred To The Coronary heart?’, which got here out final yr. Talking in regards to the philosophy behind the title, she instructed NME: “The world has grown so accustomed to being apathetic. The reality has by no means been simpler to share, however it’s additionally by no means been simpler to govern both. AI was created with out our consent; no one requested us the individuals if we have been able to have one thing that huge being thrown upon us. Now, so many issues are going to alter, which I don’t suppose we are able to but grasp.

“One other true type of energy is to govern individuals, to embarrass individuals, to lie; there’s a lot that you are able to do with it that’s harmful. Individuals are so used to turning into overflooded by misinformation and data, and sadly we’re seeking to our influencers and celebrities to inform us what we’re presupposed to learn about political issues as a substitute of studying about it or listening to true specialists on the matter.

“After all, I’m very vocal about issues so I do suppose it’s vital as a ‘individual with a voice’ or no matter to indicate individuals what you stand for, however to be the one arrow for individuals to indicate them what they imply – that’s harmful, as hell!”

AURORA is ready to move out on a UK and European tour, which incorporates an enormous present at London’s Wembley Area. Visit here for tickets and extra info.

AURORA’s 2025 UK and European tour dates are:

APRIL
28 – Stockholm, Fryhuset
29 – Copenhagen, KB Hallen

MAY
1 – Amsterdam, Ziggo Dome
3 – London, OVO Area, Wembley
5 – Paris, Le Zenith
7 – Madrid, Movistar Area
9 – Lisbon, Sagres Campo

She may also be acting at Wilderness Competition at Cornbury Park in Oxfordshire later this summer season.