Former Therapist Lowers the Shield for IT HAPPENED QUIET by Aurora
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- Опубліковано 16 вер 2023
- Examining some of the complexities woven by Aurora in the performance It Happened Quiet.
Literary suggestions:
Van der Kolk, B. A. (2014). The body keeps the score: brain, mind, and body in the healing of trauma. New York, Viking.
Maté, G. (2003). When the body says no: understanding the stress-disease connection. Hoboken, N.J., J. Wiley.
It Happened Quiet by Aurora - ua-cam.com/video/9U-N6LqzdIM/v-deo.htmlsi=v9tinXT2eHeP3T88
Violet's Tale by Ren - ua-cam.com/video/a4R9Vk5_CbU/v-deo.htmlsi=co5e3q8GpWOi3lvj&t=115
This was different, and I like it👍
Aurora didn’t experience this herself, she has actually written very few songs about herself.
Yes, this song was inspired by domestic violence, she gets killed, and in the end she comes back to haunt him.
And it makes sense when she sings “don’t you speak over my voice, I will return from the shadows, and I’ll bleed in your bed turn it red like the ground outside your window”, because that’s when she returns as a ghost.
I’ve watched this performance so many times I can’t even count, and I almost can’t breathe when I watch it, it’s so hauntingly beautiful and sad❤️
Oh my, stumbling across this channel was probably the best thing that happened today
When she sings "Don't you speak over my voice" I get shivers down my spine when her voice flutters a bit singing the word "voice".
Aurora always manages to capture me wholly when singing about themes like this one here, "Churchyard" being similar. Because music, lyrics and her performance are so captivating.
full sensory experience
I’ve always interpreted this song, literally, as a story told from the perspective of a victim, most likely of a relationship turned deadly. The imagery of hollow eyes, feathers from the pillow floating in suspension as both sound and breath are smothered, a final “silent” call for help falling onto the bloody red meadow, clearly paints the picture of the moment right after the act is committed. The change of tone later in the song is the sound of defiance, of the victim haunting the killer with guilt until they break apart into a thousand pieces. Aurora wrote many of her “sad” songs as a youth, coping with the stories of atrocities committed by and against fellow human beings. But as an adult, her outlook has been entirely of hope and empowerment and her music reflects this.
I always felt that, the "silent call" was the call from the other side after she had passed.
Idk tho
Her voice is very spiritual and beautifully Angelic. I've been listening to Aurora to relax she's like a meditation to me ❤ glad I found this unique lady 😊 appreciate your reaction thank you 👍❤️
For me, I see this song a a sequel to Churchyard and Murder Song. The line 'feathers falling out of a pillow, as if time is standing still' could be an image of the bullet going through the pillow. This song is a haunting of the abuser from the first two songs.
As I have been listening to this song for the first time it instantly reminded me of my abuser and how I dissociated, as soon as it happened constantly. I think it could mean everything, but for me these lyrics are written for victims of childhood abuse to feel understood. I love Aurora and I am thankful for your authentic reaction.
Abuse and coming even? maybe? Aurora is a voice of our times, speaking to us and hitting, hard on our inner core and making us think..........we know what she's talking about, we've been there ourselves at some point........great reaction my dear sir...I've seen Ren and he's impresive as well, in his own way and right......gonna check your channel and see what lies in there txs for the invite!
And yes, you already know Aurora, and I guess and ,even more, I could dare to say we will be listening more of you giving us some more Aurora ........looking forward for that.
By the way, I'm 70, musician painter and proud granpa, got two beautiful grandaughters, and I've been raising one of them as my own child, which she is, in a way.....and a new opportunity to try to do better......you never know.....but you learn, and Life is about learning and I found Aurora back in 2016, or maybe she found me, dunno but she got me right off the bet, some things changed, she also reminded me of others that I new but laid forgotten in the back room......she is an amazing human and I believe she is a Healer, sharing all her Love Magic and Goodness........pleased to meet you
As a long-time Aurora fan ... your reaction video for 'It Happened Quiet' was very thought provoking. Thank you!
I have seen "every" video on youtube and other places about Aurora, and this one is one of the best.
I dont like to rank things, but it sure is very very high on my "list".
The level of thoroughness, experience on the subject, the level of respect and admiration, and how spot on you are (in my opinion) are just fantastic.
Aurora has said / hinted that this song is not about her, but she also has said that she is hyper sensitive, and things that happens with someone she know, or just something she hears about effects her DEEPLY.
I think the best one to say if there is something to talk about in her songs is you, but for me I would find it interesting to hear you analyze Lucky (the Nidarosdomen concert) or maybe Murder Song from the Nobel peace Prize concert.
I will say "tusen takk" ("a thousand thanks") for a very interesting 27 minutes.
Just one complaint: fix your lamp 😂
Wow...that's pretty high praise.
I too have seen/heard every interview, podcast, livestream, studio performance, and all the major concert recordings. Obviously I haven't seen every filmed live event...cuz I DO have a life, as hard as my previous sentence makes that to believe lol. So I'm quite curious to watch this now. Also, I agree...Lucky @ Nidarosdomen is very much a good choice to do a deep analysis on. Tho I feel like I've discovered something about that song I've never heard anyone else pick up on. Aurora mentioned a while back her favorite book of all time is "Veronika Decides to Die" by Paulo Coelho, saying she's read it 5 times over her life. So....being the Aurora mega fan I am, I found a copy and read it. And all throughout the novel I was like "woah...hold on, Lucky is clearly blatantly inspired by this."
I could give a long thorough breakdown of my reasoning, but I'll just say...I'm convinced Lucky is written from the POV of the main character in the book. And every lyric of the song directly relates to elements of the plot and her story arc. If I'm right about this, it actually makes Lucky a much sadder song...which is why in the Nidarosdomen version, I think she sang the last line in that very somber tone intentionally. I'm 99% certain I'm right about this...and if I ever meet Aurora, that'll be my one question lol. But I've never heard anyone else make that connection.
Oh yes, I would love his 'take' on Aurora 's performance of 'Lucky' at Nidarosdomen.
After many times viewing this and as many versions of it as well as her other performances, Churchyard KEXP, comes to mind. It means whatever you want it to, there is no wrong answer. This is her gift to us. Aurora gives us a safe place to heal.
I have always been thinking of her reaction/body launguage at 14:28 i think it is, when she seems to drift away both with her eyes and mind. She also do one of her shakes and starts to bounce softly. That part really had an impact on my first time seeing it, dont know why but i just felt she is really feeling whats she is singing about.
Great analyse ❤
Aurora is fantastic.
Other Norwegian artist's with Poetic lyric's is Susanne Sundfør and Kalandra.
Check out The Brothel ( Sundfør)
and Brave new world or Slow motion.(Kalandra)❤
Really love your interpretation, this song is indeed very complex. IMO the song leaning more towards about the topic of the trauma of a toxic relationship. You can notice in the first Pre-chorus the song uses subject 'I' (and i can't remember much more) as if it refers to the woman's POV of getting hurt, and in the second Pre-chorus it uses 'you' (and you can't remember that day) as if it in the man's POV of silent her. But still, i have no proper answer for what 'earth coloured red' could represent.
I've read other person's comment, this song could be a part of Aurora's song trilogy, including the song 'I Went Too Far' as the first part, 'It Happened Quite' as the second part, and 'Churchyard' as the third. The people written in all three songs lyrics could be the same man and woman, as all the songs topic revolving around toxic relationship.
Regardless, i really enjoy your video 👍
Aurora, and all of Norway, endured the trauma of the Utoya where 69 people, mostly teenagers, were murdered on July 22, 2011. Aurora was 15 and someone she loved deeply died that day. While "It Happened Quiet" has been written to ring true of abusive relationships and other traumas, the emotional journey she exposes us to is clearly personal. What amazes me is that she has made, of something so painfully ugly, art that is so transcendently beautiful. She has said multiple times in interviews that her mother encouraged her to share her music because people might find it healing. The desire to heal, personally and as a path for others, is what powers this incredible performance and work of art.
Found you through Aurora. I think UA-cam sends me everything with her name on❤ Really liked your point of view. The great thing with Auroras lyrics is that they have these layers where you can find your own interpretation of the song. The meaning is not written in stone. Thank you. Love from Norway.🥰
Thanks, I really enjoyed your thoughtful and heartfelt analysis of this beautiful performance.
Good choice to go with this particular performance, because the intimacy and stripped back nature of this version lends itself very much to your analysis.
Could you please continue of that concept?
This song is by the way a master piece of hers.
i now and then go back to see a reaction that meant something special to me. This reaction is one of those.
I am moved and grateful you find the video useful
i am a retired therapist myself, and the insight Aurora shows in this song is amazing. The pictures she draws in telling this story, .... i can see them before my eyes in stories i have been told in the therapyroom. amazing. Aurora is something else. Great reaction by the way.
Thank you. Yes, Aurora’s raw presence seems to activate full somatosensory engagement and connection in listeners. Certainly when we have our own stories and imagery the songs can prompt moments in renewed personal meaning.
Thank you for this beautiful video, I can tell it came from the heart-- your discussion about shields and memory feels like it connected some things for me that I've been working on in my own therapy. Appreciate it!
The July 22 massacre, Norway 2011. It explains the "searching for a soft place to fall" in runaway. Also the song Boy in the grass and murder song all have elements that evoke images of a mass murder carried out by a white nationalist who claimed he did it for the love of Norway. The massacre claimed the lives of 77 people many were teenagers. Aurora was a teen at the time and tho she didn't attend the youth conference where so many yong lives were ended. She lost a close friend there.
Yes, “Little boy in the grass” is about that awful day, but not “Murder Song”
“Murder Song” is about mercy killing, she asks him to kill her, so not a mass murderer
@@lillm6874 I believe Murder Song can be interpreted as about a deranged killer and his naive victim who loves him even as he kills her. I think the pathos that Aurora often sings in the second verse illustrates this. I also think that both Churchyard and It Happened Quiet are continuations of the story, because Aurora felt that blind love was not the end of the story. In any case @johngatewood4638, we hear Aurora sing these songs after Utoya, and the emotional journey that she has taken has certainly given her songs and performances great potency.
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You can interpret it however you’d like, but Aurora has said herself what the song is about😉
This was just...lovely. :) Especially after the day I had at work, this is a nice way to unwind.
I very much use Aurora's music as therapy. But not just her music...her overall humanity. Listening to every interview/livestream she's ever done, hoping some of her intrinsic inspired freedom and peace rubs off on me. So, to watch an actual therapist break down one of her most intimate and moving performances was pretty cool. Just subscribed...easy decision!
welcome to the community and thank you
Very good indeed.
I think this reaction and analysis puts even more weight behind Aurora's mission of bringing deeper understanding , empathy and compassion to the world.
Thank you 🙏💜
Very interesting. Especially because this performance sounds so heavenly gorgeous that it's easy to be grasped by this beauty, and to forget its heavy topic, what is sung directly or just suggested (and even more when your native language is not english...🙂). There are not so many different sentences/verses in her lyrics, but the meanings and their possible interpretations can be layered deeper and deeper. So that even when the song and her beauty are over, there are many rooms to cogitate, and hopefully evolve a bit I guess.
Thank you very much for sharing all these interesting and informative thoughts.🙂👍
I find it fascinating how the power of music and art transcends language and culture.
Excellent, thoughtful, emotional reaction
I have listened to this song and performance so many times and understood the underlying story within, but you opened it up for me in the tiniest detail. I always did recognise the vulnerability of the victim in the song, being overcome many years later to finally speak up and no longer experiencing fear regarding the perpetrator. But how detailed this was inbedded within the lyrics, composition, arrangement and performance blew my mind this time. When you mentioned the function of the protective shield we pull up, mostly subconsciously, and the negative impact anxiety can have (we silence up, hide within ourselves and actually deny what has been inflicted upon us), I connected to the content of the song and my eyes were opened to my own situation and for the first time I recognised that I have been keeping up my shield for all of my adult life. I am 60 now. I can see now when this shield was clearly visible at moments and I had no control over it. Worse, I did not even recognize the cause of it. With this new insight my eyes are now open to my past and the pieces fall into their place. This is quite heavy on me, but I know this new insight can be and will be a positive for how I will maintain myself from now on. You do important things here, sir. Thank you for that.
I have zero formal training in the field of psychology, but I have had plentiful experience working with trauma survivors and done plenty of self-taught research in psych and I have always thought almost the exact same analysis as you on this particular song--that I have never heard expressed or articulated in this way in the dozens of other reactions I've watched on IT HAPPENED QUIET. Thanks for this.
Thanks @Esco33 for sharing your compassion for connecting with others. I wonder often it is not so much the degree we have but just as importantly a compassionate 💜
Wenn es Engel wirklich gibt ist Aurora eine von ihnen. Moin aus Schleswig-Holstein
go for more aurora.
I would really be interested in your reaction to the song Masochist, by Ren. I think most of the reactors misunderstand it's meaning and symbolism. I wonder what your interpretation would be. 😊
The “stone broken into sand” I believe the victim is being threatened.
Great video. Watching this made me think that you would enjoy Adrianne Lenker's writing with Big Thief or her solo material. Real Love is an amazing song about spousal abuse from a child's perspective. In Mythological Beauty , Adrianne writes part of the song from her mother's perspective when Adrianne has a serious childhood accident.
Thanks for the nudge to a new artist for me. Intrigued.
Thank you ❤
Thanks
observation from haik concert:
three songs end in “wild.”
If you will do her song lucky from nedorosdomen, Think it as suicide prevention from trama.
She explains that the song is about two lovers who kill each other. One lover was thrown from a window (earth painted red). The other lover comes back to kill the other in the bed. Its not about childhood abuse.
Krigsgaldr - Heilung -Live -60 bpm
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It was a very different and interesting reaction. The only part l think would have been interesting to speak about was the part when she shivers and move her feets like she is trying to forget about what happened or to calm herself. I feel you missed that part. But otherwise a really nice reaction
Great observation. Maybe I'll discuss these kinds of body reactions by performers in a fiture video.
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about her changing of body language and facial expression towards the end, - also important here is that she is pointing her finger up, - a moralistic message, -not so much a threat in my view, more a moralistic message.