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"Running With The Wolves" is a song by AURORA, released as the second single from her debut extended play, Running With The Wolves, and from her debut album, All My Demons Greeting Me As A Friend. Its music video was recorded late April-early May 2015 at Threshfield Quarry, near Skipton, UK and released on June 10. It was directed by Scratch (James Alexandrou). The song has an extended intro in the music video, this version was registered as "Running With The Wolves (Video Edit)".
The release was first teased on April 17 on Facebook.
A different version was recorded in 2020 and featured on the animated film, Wolfwalkers.
A remix by Pablo Nouvelle was released on deluxe versions of AURORA's debut album.
AURORA started writing the song at age 13 and has mentioned writing the song during a blood moon in 2014, presumably on April 14-15. She recorded various field recordings and used them in this song, such as sounds of a wooden stick on a fence, breathing and the sound of AURORA hugging a tree; "which had no sound, but it's on the album."
"Running With The Wolves" is about freedom and joining nature again, getting away from phones, radio and all we keep around us. In an interview with The 405, AURORA said: "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."
The promo text for the song states: "The song is about having the animal instinct inside you come to life. Running with them, joining them - the instinct taking over, giving you freedom and making you forget about your human self and all things we humans keep around us in the modern society. I think humans need to let go a bit more, shake their bodies more often, like the animals do.. It's a beautiful thing really. Sometimes when you look at the world, and you see what we've done to it, the way many of us hurt the world we live in, innocent animals, even our own kind! And that kind of makes you want to follow the wolves instead. At least for one night."
"Running with the Wolves" topped the iTunes chart in Norway upon its release and was listened more than 60,000 times on the first day on SoundCloud. It remained one of Aurora's most popular songs over the years.
The song peaked at #72 on the official German songs chart, where it charted for 13 weeks until its exit from the chart. It was performed at the P3 Gull (Norwegian Award), where AURORA was nominated for New Artist of the Year, and at the European Border Breakers Awards, where AURORA won and was nominated in the following categories: Norwegian Album of the Year and Public Choice Award, respectively. AURORA represented her homecountry Norway at the award.
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