Running With The Wolves
"I just imagined the moon turning all the people around the world into wild animals..."
21 April 2015
The song "Running with the wolves" (RWTW) was probably released as a teaser to build excitement towards the upcomming debut EP with the same title, which was released the 4th of May 2015.
The day the RWTS EP was released, BYAS.no announced that Aurora was to perform at the small Norwegian town Stavanger in October. There was placed 280 tickets for sale. Quite a small venue, when you consider her fame today (^9.1).
In an old interview, no longer available on 405.com, she said that this song was written during a blood moon (total eclipse) in 2014 (^9.2). There was two such eclipses that year; in april and in october. Now that we know that Aurora performed this song at the Øya Festival in Oslo in august 2014, we can pinpoint the day this song was written to 15th of April 2014 (^9.3)
"I just imagined the moon turning all the people around the world into wild animals, running away from all the rules, all the materialism and technology. Just being a part of nature again, running free" (^9.2)
An acoustic version of this song was set loose the 7th July 2015, and only three days after that (10th of July), Vevo dropped the music video on YouTube (^9.4).
"Music videos are so important to get the real point. It was fun to make... it was very cold and I ended up having to swim. But swimming is fine there, there were also ducks there.I have always liked ducks"
RWTS has undergone som shaping and moulding over the years. I have made a three stages videoclip (above) to show you some of the different ways she performs it.
Sources
9.1 - Running With The Wolves at FanDom
https://aurora-aksnes.fandom.com/wiki/Running_with_the_Wolves_
9.2 - Blood Moon
https://www.space.com/25498-total-lunar-eclipse-photos-wow-stargazers.html
9.3 - Wikipedia - Running with the wolves
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Running_with_the_Wolves
9.4 - 4th of May 2015 album release
https://www.byas.no/aktuelt/i/vQXK7j/aurora-aksnes-til-stavanger