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[10] [8] "Jóga" is a love song; its lyrics were written by poet Sjón, Björk's friend and collaborator. [5] Björk explained her inability to write the song's lyrics in an interview with MuchMusic : "I tried to write that tune but, I mean, I just wanted mainly to write lyrics.
Björk in the jungle in the "Alarm Call" music video. The first music video for "Alarm Call" was directed by Paul White from Me Company, the design firm that produced the artwork of Homogenic, Debut and Post, and their respective singles, and it featured Björk in a similar dress to the one featured on the Homogenic album cover along with a dance scene in the Los Angeles subway system.
One was seemingly identical to the album version but featured an Inuit version of the children's song "Paddycake", whereas the other version was a dance remix by the Soft Pink Truth. This version is especially popular amongst fans and has been described as "spending a long winter at home ( Vespertine ) and then having a discoball drop out of ...
In 2010, the Royal Swedish Academy of Music awarded her with the prestigious Polar Music Prize, considered the equivalent of the "Nobel Prize of Music" in Sweden, praising "her deeply personal music and lyrics, her precise arrangements and her unique voice".
All the performances are of album tracks apart from "So Broken" which is a B-side to the Jóga single. The Video Album was re-released in 2012 as Later with Jools Holland 1995–2011, including the latter performances from Björk in 2007 and 2011, promoting Volta and Biophilia respectively. [1]
"Hunter" is a song recorded by Icelandic singer Björk for her third studio album Homogenic (1997). The lyrics explore the pressure Björk felt to write music after realising the workforce that depended on her, following the success she found as a solo artist with her previous studio albums.
Snippets of the lyrics from "All Neon Like" were first released in the form of a poem entitled Techno Prayer, which Björk published in the July, 1996 edition of Details magazine. [2] It featured thematic ideas that she would later explore in her 2001 studio album Vespertine , such as cocooning and thread-weaving.
"Isobel" is a song by Icelandic singer-songwriter Björk for her second studio album, Post (1995). Written by Sjón based on a story by Björk, the lyrics of "Isobel" tell the story of the title character, who is magically born in a forest and sends a message of instinct amongst the logical thinking of the people of the city.