Tornado

Album: Go (2010)
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Songfacts®:

  • Jónsi told The Fly how he penned this song: "'Tornado' is quite recent, and was written on piano. I'm quite bad at playing the piano. There's one chord I can play with both my hands, so it's the same, it's all played like that. It has a special mood. It's dramatic."
  • This was used on season 1 of Nikita in the episode "Kill Jill." It plays at the end of the episode as Nikita, a rogue spy, converses online with Alex, a double agent she placed inside her former agency. The song was also featured in the 2012 thriller Disconnect, starring Jason Bateman.

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  • Hannah from Charlottetown, PeI love this song. Whenever I feel blue or down, I listen to this song. It's so powerful and beautiful. It's the perfect song to listen to when you have any negative emotion because your emotions go through the song.
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