Since it's Animal's birthday today, I decided to update its story with new information and send it to you. It was given to us the 24th of January, 2018. This was the first single released prior to Aurora’s splendid album “A Different Kind Of Human”.
In December 2018, Aurora posted an alien picture, and she wrote, using morse code, in her caption: "Something is coming in 2019". I have included the picture below (^50.1).
Then, in Christmas, the 24th of December 2018, Aurora announced the title of the first single to be "Animal", and a month later, the 24th of January, it was released (^50.2)
In an interview after its release, Aurora was was considering the question:
“What animal best suits your personality and character?”
"I think that any animal that looks very harmless, but could bite off your head if you weren't careful enough". Then she said she would like to be a poisonous frog, because she could eat spiders and then protect her sisters who's both afraid of them - she concluded with this though: "Maybe I would be a wolf because they are really loyal to the pack.” (50.3)
Aurora said that humans are always hunting for something, that we are animals hunting animals. As a person and an artist, Aurora says the thing she is hunting for is herself.(^50.3)
“I think what I'm hunting for the most is the absolute Aurora album, and I hope I won't find it,” she giggles, “before I'm very old, and when I find it I will stop because then my mission is done. I am also really hungry to make the perfect song… some design that I don't even know how I made it."
As she continues, she touches the theme of how music can contribute to make the world a better place:
“…Sometimes that happens, you know: you can make a song and not remember who you were when you made it, so I'm hunting for that feeling every day and I'm hunting for everything that I can do with the music. Music can really change the world, and I think now more than ever.”
Aurora told the online magazine "Backyard Opera" that the song Animal reflects on the strangeness of human nature, drawing parallels to animal behavior. She had noticed that humans was capable of both kindness and cruelty - even more cruelty than any animal - and wrote the song to highlight this.
Most of the song was written during her travels, and she completed it in a studio in LA where she wanted the the song to be wrapped in a blanket that reminded her of this strange city. She stated that one of her co-writers, (probably Toby Gad) was delayed by LA’s traffic, and did a small - but nice - contribution to its lyrics. (50.4)
"'It’s raw because we are raw, it’s sensual because nature is sensual. It’s wrong and strange because the world is wrong and strange. It’s free because we should be free. There is a lot of things I hate about us, (next to all the things I love) and part of me hate the industrial part of the music industry. And that is exactly why the song had to sound the way it did. Because it’s a way for me to make. A bit fun of it. Still Aurora, but with elements form that world. For me, It amplifies the irony in all of it. The world we all have mixed feelings about. Because it’s so easy to show people something horrible, something deep and we still choose what we want to see. And that is the must fun thing with it all." (^50.5)
Credits
Composer: Aurora, Toby Gad, David Dahlquist
Producers: Aurora, Magnus, Askjell, Kill Dave, MyRiot, Toby Gad
Vocals: Aurora
Synths: Aurora
Drums: Aurora
Bass: Askjell, Aurora, Tim Bran, Roy Kerr, Magnus
Guitars: Aurora, Magnus, Roy Kerr, Tim Bran
Programming/Engineer: Magnus
As I look at this picture, it is the earth with something coming from above (just outside the picture) sending a message to the earth. This must be the Mothership! You can see the 5 beams of signals, that is why the message is in morse. Listen to ADKOH & Mothership; it makes sense...
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