AURORA: What Happened To The Earth? Part 1

Ahead of the release of her upcoming fourth studio album "What Happened To The Heart?" on 7th June, Norwegian alt-pop superstar AURORA has announced details of her 'What Happened To The Earth? Part 1' tour, which includes a night in The National Stadium, Dublin on 26th June 2024.

Tickets €39.90 including booking fees on sale Friday 10th May at 10AM.

In April 2022, AURORA read a letter that changed her life. It was co-written by indigenous activists, titled 'We Are the Earth', and called for a revolution: a collective response to global warming – to "heal the land". They described being connected to the land "through our hearts", and the earth as "the heart that pulsates within us."

The letter led AURORA to consider a question: what happened to the heart?

"Everything we do is about greed, about money, about mass consumption, about capitalism," she says, blue wide-eyed and flooded with feeling. "There's war everywhere, countries under water, flowers in Antarctica. We are ruining our land, mistreating our animals, our clothing, and each other. We have stopped leading from the heart."

The letter also resonated with AURORA on a more personal level. In 2022, she released her chart-topping last album, "The Gods We Can Touch", which saw her complete a sold out UK headline tour, including at BST Hyde Park alongside Adele. With over a million album sales and 2.6 billion streams, and her inaugural 'The Gods We Can Touch' book selling 14,000 copies (while signed copies sold out in less than an hour), AURORA was at her professional peak. Yet at the same time she experienced something painful that split her in two. She sensed a disconnect between her mind and heart. "It made me understand women in a way I hadn't before. It made me understand how evil hides behind the nicest of faces."

AURORA's fourth album, "What Happened To The Heart?", is a journey from weakness to strength, from self-destruction to self-healing. Of reuniting a fractured self. "It's actually the most personal and cathartic album I have ever written," she says quietly, as if the realisation had only just come to her.