The "they mentioned Björk!" thread

[judaschrist]

https://youtu.be/sEKz8lBzsFM?si=CqI2C8WyPcZbmkyp

1:35 - 1:40

[stupidfambaloo]

Baltin: Are there artists that you really admire for the work they did later in their career, and because they still have that passion?

Harvey: Probably the thing I admire most in other artists is their ability to keep pushing forward. You mentioned Bob Dylan, but I think Rough and Rowdy Ways, his last album, was lyrically one of the best he's ever done. It was just astonishing, the lyrics on that record. Nothing gives me more pleasure than to see an artist that far down the line in their career and in their wisdom, and they still come out with something new. I always admire Bjork for always pushing herself into new territory, you're never quite sure what's coming next. I love that about her as well.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/stevebalti ... ven-years/

[judaschrist]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s-vtxtVDjUE&t=1813s

[odduck]

Baltin: Are there artists that you really admire for the work they did later in their career, and because they still have that passion?

Harvey: Probably the thing I admire most in other artists is their ability to keep pushing forward. You mentioned Bob Dylan, but I think Rough and Rowdy Ways, his last album, was lyrically one of the best he's ever done. It was just astonishing, the lyrics on that record. Nothing gives me more pleasure than to see an artist that far down the line in their career and in their wisdom, and they still come out with something new. I always admire Bjork for always pushing herself into new territory, you're never quite sure what's coming next. I love that about her as well.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/stevebalti ... ven-years/

[stupidfambaloo]

a remix of the union chapel/brodsky version of play dead is the soundtrack to a new margiela fashion film :

https://www.youtube.com/live/wEf20esfPc ... ASz-ccXl5w

[odduck]

starts @ 59:00

[meisbaer]

The fashion exhibition 'Diva' is coming to the Kunsthal museum in Rotterdam. This is an exhibition curated by the Victoria and Albert musuem in London.

The kunsthal uses the cover of Fossora in her marketing about the exhibition
https://www.kunsthal.nl/en/plan-your-vi ... ions/diva/

[stupidfambaloo]

interview with bergur Þórisson :

https://www.visir.is/g/20242624812d/aev ... -juilliard

[odduck]

^ really cool read.

It takes some huge secondary reproductive organs to just say no to Julliard.

[u•ɹɥʇ•ɯ]

Kelly Lee Owens Breaks Down Four Perfectly Produced Albums:

I don’t know if my first album would have existed without Vespertine. Just Björk being a female producer, writer, performer, and all-encompassing, godly being. [laughs] That album consists of what she called “microbeats,” made from recording the noises of household items, and my first album has a lot of tiny beats and weird samples from my iPhone on it, because Björk made me feel like it was OK to use whatever means necessary.

The first time I met Björk was when I was working behind the counter at Rough Trade East. What I love about record stores is that they’re so neutral, because you’re all just music fans in there. No one’s on a pedestal. So I remember her coming in—it was around 2011, at the time of Biophilia, because she was wearing that orange wig—and she was like, “Excuse me, where is the techno section?” I didn’t listen to techno that much at the time; I didn’t really get it. The fuсking irony!

Then she came to play a Halloween DJ set in the shop with Arca. We had mutual friends in common, so we all went out afterwards. That was when I was mixing my first record, and I had read that alcohol affects your hearing, so I wasn’t going to drink that night. But then Björk handed me a tequila shot with a worm. [laughs] This is my musical mum—I wasn’t gonna say no. So I thought, This must be part of the plan, take these worms and see what happens. I don’t even really like tequila, but if Björk hands you tequila worms, you love them, and you just go for it.

When I was making the song “Anxi.,” from my first album, I remember thinking, What would Björk do? She would swirl things around. She would make it weirder. So I made it weirder. That album came out around the same time as her single “The Gate,” and I went to a launch event for it in London. I brought a copy of my record on vinyl, and I gave it to Björk as a gift—I feel embarrassed about doing that now, but I also love that about myself, that tenacity. A few months later, she did a mix of songs she had been listening to for Mixmag, and she put “Anxi.” on it. I was like, This can’t be real. And then she asked me to remix her song “Arisen My Senses.”

[eNarwhal]

Don't know if it's been mentioned or not (I aint scrolling thru and reading all this lol) but this episode of adventure time uses bjork as part of the zany language of the show
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kNC1MoeRKmw

[Anak]

Halsey impersonates Björk for her album The Great Impersonator, and who is also an influence for the album's title track:
"My first album with a title track. Influenced by the coolest, most ethereal being to ever exist."

[odduck]

Pterourus bjorkae
https://www.ruv.is/english/2024-10-24-b ... ork-425584

[meisbaer]

The fashion exhibition 'Diva' is coming to the Kunsthal museum in Rotterdam. This is an exhibition curated by the Victoria and Albert musuem in London.

The kunsthal uses the cover of Fossora in her marketing about the exhibition
https://www.kunsthal.nl/en/plan-your-vi ... ions/diva/

I was in Rotterdam for something else yesterday, and the exhibition was advertised with loads of posters with Björk on it

[Simontreal]

what a great version of play dead !

she should release it !

[Patrigan]

what a great version of play dead !

she should release it !

The whole show! I still can’t understand why it didn’t get a proper release! Im pretty happy with my bootleg, but damn! Id give a lot for a formal release

[stupidfambaloo]

what a great version of play dead !

she should release it !

The whole show! I still can’t understand why it didn’t get a proper release! Im pretty happy with my bootleg, but damn! Id give a lot for a formal release

what was posted? i can’t see anything

[Patrigan]

a remix of the union chapel/brodsky version of play dead is the soundtrack to a new margiela fashion film :

https://www.youtube.com/live/wEf20esfPc ... ASz-ccXl5w

You didn’t miss anything, I think it was about that

[meisbaer]

The fashion exhibition 'Diva' is coming to the Kunsthal museum in Rotterdam. This is an exhibition curated by the Victoria and Albert musuem in London.

The kunsthal uses the cover of Fossora in her marketing about the exhibition
https://www.kunsthal.nl/en/plan-your-vi ... ions/diva/

I was in Rotterdam for something else yesterday, and the exhibition was advertised with loads of posters with Björk on it

[meisbaer]

Something went wrong with my last post, I wanted to add this:

My work is having the Christmas party at the Kunsthal museum! We'll get after opening hours access to the exhibition, and the dress code is Diva! I'll see if I think of a nice Björk-ish outfit

My colleagues are very much into dressing up for parties, so suggestions are welcome

[judaschrist]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=35o2BqINs0k