Geronimo (Aura Dione song)

"Geronimo"
Single by Aura Dione
from the album Before the Dinosaurs
B-side"Call Messiah"
Released19 September 2011 (2011-09-19)
GenrePop
Length3:15
LabelIsland, Universal, Koolmusic
Songwriter(s)Aura Dione, David Jost, Joachim Persson, Ian O'Brien-Docker, Michael Lowdst, Andrei Georgescu, Thomas Troelsen.
Producer(s)David Jost, DamienDamien, Joachim Persson
Aura Dione singles chronology
"Something from Nothing"
(2010)
"Geronimo"
(2011)
"Friends"
(2012)

"Geronimo" is a song by Danish singer-songwriter Aura Dione from her second studio album, Before the Dinosaurs. The song was released as the album's lead single on 19 September 2011. "Geronimo" is a pop song with folk elements,[1] with critics comparing the song's arrangement to Shakira.[2] It was written by Aura Dione, David Jost, Joachim, Ian O'Brien-Docker, Michael Lowdst, Andrei Georgescu, and Thomas Troelsen, and it was produced by David Jost, DamienDamien and Joachim Persson. According to Aura, the song is about staying true to yourself and living out your dreams, and is one of her favourite songs on the album.

It became Dione's first number-one single in both Austria and her native Denmark, and her second in Germany. Dione is also the first Danish artist to debut at number one in Germany. The song charted at number seven in Switzerland, becoming Dione's highest-charting single since "I Will Love You Monday (365)" (2010).

  1. ^ Andreas Krogull: Aura Dione – Geronimo beatblogger, 21 October 2011, accessed 8 January 2012
  2. ^ Schollert, Peter (3 November 2011). "Aura Dione: Before The Dinosaurs". Jyllands-Posten (in Danish). Retrieved 12 February 2012.