Aurora was having a hard time after been traveling the world for so long. This was in 2018, and she started to wonder if she was going to hang on to being an artist. Luckily, she was invited to England by Rowlands (The Chemical Brothers). She stayed with an Indian family, and over the course of a week with isolation from the world, making music and strolling in beautiful landscape, she found her spark to continue her work (^57.1)
Not long after her visit to England, the "A Different Kind Of Human" -album was released. In an interview with Clash Music, she was asked which song was her favorite on the album:
" 'Soulless Creatures'. It means a lot to me and it’s written about giving too much. It’s Mother Earth writing to humankind about wanting to thrive again. Sometimes I don’t understand what a song means for a while. It sounds pretentious and stupid but it does happen" (^57.2).
I have been wondering... If this was her favorite track, why didn't she play it live until her live concert with Bergen Symphonic in 2020" during the pandemic? She then announced it to be a surprise (^57.3). My guess is that she feels attached to it somehow. Just check this out:
Aurora included it as the first track on her "For the Fellow Witches"-EP that she released on Spotify and with a livestream during spring 2021 (^57.4). Here she introduced it as a song that captures her own experiences on experiencing what's going on the world, and that it's an "underdog because not many have heard it... But it's an important song that means a lot to me".
I really have no clue to the circumstances behind writing this song. From the information I have written above I gather she wrote this as a reaction to what she learned during her tours around the globe, and that she wrote it as a way to process her her thoughts and emotions - just as she often say she does...
Go and give this song some love today