In December 2018, Aurora posted an alien picture, and she wrote a morse code in her caption saying: "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 asked what kind of animal she would like to be, and she said "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.
“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." (^50.3)
"'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." (^50.4)