AURORA DEEP DIVE - Analysing Structure, Texture & Instrumentation, pt.1 (streamed 2025/15/5)

Brief error at 1:37:18 - I meant to say no INTRO, not no chorus.

TL;DW - AURORA uses a basic structure of
Intro-Verse-Chorus-Verse-Chorus-Bridge-Chorus
for most of her songs; most also have pre-choruses, and the second chorus is normally twice as long as the first chorus. Each section is normally made up of balanced AB/question&answer phrases.
Her most common approach for texture is to begin sparse and to build towards choruses, which each successive version of a section having a thicker texture than the previous one; the bridge is generally a suddenly thin texture after a thick chorus; often in the outro the texture will reduce before it ends. Sudden large textural changes between sections are common, but they stay mostly static during sections. AURORA also uses big long reverbs all the time.
The most common instrumentation choices are:
Solo Voice
Choir
Piano
Electric Bass
Drums (Electric or Acoustic)
Synths
Tuned Percussion

If you want to know how each song deviates from the norms, please watch the video :) I can no longer remember enough of the nuances to write them down here, and I'll be damned if I have to watch myself saying it again.

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00:00 Intro
05:18 Awakening
31:20 Under Stars
57:02 Runaway
1:36:45 Running With The Wolves
1:55:54 WHAT HAVE WE LEARNED?