AURORA AND TOM ODELL Butterflies🦋🦋

10 years after British singer-songwriter Tom Odell gained success with his hit "Another Love," his song has reentered charts in Europe and the United Kingdom as a major protest song after regaining popularity via TikTok. It is currently Number 9 on the German charts and Number 12 in the UK's official charts.
A British singer/songwriter with a keen sense for both atmosphere and melody, Tom Odell's piano-led odes to heartache and pain are emotional, raw, and often hushed affairs that evoke names like Leonard Cohen and Jeff Buckley. His acclaimed 2012 debut EP earned him a BRITs Critics' Choice award, and his first full-length outing, 2013's Long Way Down, reached number one on the U.K. albums chart. Odell recorded his next two releases in New York and Los Angeles before returning home to London for 2018's intimate Jubilee Road and 2021's dark, electro-pop-leaning monsters. His stripped-down fifth album, The Best Day of My Life, appeared in 2022.

Ha, ah-ha-ha
Hmm-mmm
Hmm-mmm

When you touch me there I feel butterflies (Hmm-mmm)
I'm gonna love you till the day I die (Die)
When you cut me, you cut me like a knife (Cut me like a knife)
I wanna tell you, but I'm terrified

Oh, what a perfect day
Why do you have to go away?
Now the sky's so grey (Hmm-mmm)
I think I'm gonna be okay

Be okay (Ooh)
I'm gonna be okay (Ooh)
I'm gonna be okay (Ooh)
Am I gonna be okay? (Ooh)

When you touch me there I feel butterflies (I feel butterflies)
I'm gonna love you till the day I die ('Til the day I die)
When you cut me, you cut me like a knife
You don't know it, but you saved my life (Ahh-ahh, ahh-ahh)

I'm gonna be okay
I think I'm gonna be okay

To a lot of people in England, the name and voice of Aurora might feel like the sound of Christmas. Two years ago, the young Norwegian artist provided the music for the iconic John Lewis Christmas advert, with a cover version of Oasis’ Half the World Away. Scan Magazine caught up with the singer about her new album, music as communication, and becoming an artist.

Aurora Aksnes has been an established artist for years, learning the piano at six, and writing her earliest English-language music at the tender age of nine. “I was very determined on writing in English,” Aurora explains over the phone from a car heading to yet another town in yet another country. “It’s a language for the world, so I waited until I knew enough words and my English was good enough before I started adding words to my songs.”

But Aurora never dreamed of becoming an artist. She had no idea that music could be a real job, something she could do for a living. She wanted to be a scientist and an astronaut. “Though that was only after I realised that I couldn’t be a Jedi,” Aurora laughs. She held onto the dream of science and astronomy until she was 16, when her management discovered her.

AURORA TOM Odell Collaboration - Butterflies🦋🦋
Beautiful song Sweet Song🎵🥳✨

At a tenth-grade assembly, Aurora was one of the students performing. “I had so many things to say,” she says. “All these big words and dreams about our future and the changes we were going to make to save the world. It was a long song, and nobody really liked it!” But a video of her performance found its way to Per Mygland from Made Management, who saw great talent in the young girl. “He asked me if I wanted to be an artist, and I said no,” Aurora laughs. “I didn’t have the need to be on a stage, or to show my music to anyone. But I realised that writing music is my calling in life. That’s when I feel content and happy with my own existence. That’s what I was born to do. So far, I am happy with my choice of becoming an artist.”

Her debut album, All My Demons Greeting Me as a Friend, was released in 2016 and became a huge success in her native Norway – an album full of self-reflection, of grand soundscapes and of haunting rhythms. It entered the Norwegian charts at number one, made it as high as number 28 in the UK, and also made it into the top 30 in several other countries. 

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