Single Review: Aurora- Some Type of Skin

Aurora, is back with her new uplifting single ‘Some Type of Skin’ in the nail-biting lead-up to her album drop on June 7^th: What Happened to the Heart? The song made its debut at ‘an intimate show during Brits Week 2024 for War Child’ in London.

Many people will know the Norwegian singer-songwriter for her hit ‘Runaway’ from 2015 or as the voice of ‘The Voice’ in Frozen 2 that longingly calls out to Elsa, perfectly encompassing Aurora’s eerily enticing vocal talent. She has had an electric career with 3 hit studio albums, her fourth on the way along with a world tour, at only 27 years old.

It makes you want to jump up and dance away all your problems with its coming-of-age energy

‘Some Type of Skin’ has Aurora’s classic ethereal feel and echoing voices with an added layer of the pop genre. It makes you want to jump up and dance away all your problems with its coming-of-age energy. She has created the perfect song to put a pep in your step and replace your coffee as you walk to your 9 am lecture, fighting off the sleep deprivation of student life.

The song is about the intensity of life and our priorities within its storm. The title line – ‘I got to build some type of skin’ – describes how we have to become tougher to fight against the tiring realities of the world. Aurora’s vibrant vocals express how she tries to ‘love the things I know might disappear’ and ‘crawl where everybody runs’. Although the world forces us to live a certain way, we cannot take things for granted and have to appreciate the little things to feel fulfilled.

It represents the key notion of how intense and overwhelming life truly is…

The exclamations, ‘My God! It’s a lot!’, is repeated throughout the song, and feels like a line you could scream at the top of your lungs over a canyon as all your pent-up anxiety is released. It represents the key notion of how intense and overwhelming life truly is; as human beings, we have to build up a thick skin to deal with it all. Aurora has divulged that ‘This song screams the muchness of [the world]. And it’s delicious. Being human is really delicious, even though it’s more that any of us can handle’.

Through her enticing and empowering voice, the listener is taught that even in the mundanity of life’s hardships, we cannot forget to appreciate the things that are most important to us.