General Dissatisfaction It's just an interpretation of it. The Sugarcubes themselves said it's about a loveless affair. Still, I agree child abuse is a viable reading of this. In any case, the most beautiful works of art about the tragic, the ugly and the painful.
I took the bus home from school today, the only one on it. Lonely, ugly, isolated, depressed, anxious, all these things I behold externally and internally. I played this song on repeat, and cried all the way home. Thankfully, it healed me, I was able to wallow in the sadness with a song that I feel understands the angst I live in, the pain, the struggle. I'll never forget what this song did for me, I'll forever appreciate Bjork and The Sugarcubes, what they have done for me as an individual. I will always be thankful. Thank you so much, The Sugarcubes, for this song, for your music, for everything you did that helps me feel human, like everything is okay, that everything is going to get better.
Except that she'd been releasing albums, either solo or with various bands, for a decade by the time this was recorded. I agree that it still sounds amazing, but it's definitely not the first the world heard.
maybe, if you don't mind trying to listen a japanese singer, i really recommend a singer called "Ado". just try the song called Unravel by ado live version
I love bjorks vocals...its not the typical attractive voice..its got its identity an uniqueness just like how Amy whinehouses voice is unique and distinct....she's got her own style....
exactly! When I first started to listen to Bjork, almost 5 years ago, I remember feeling like "oh my god I've already heard that" but at the same time I knew that I've never heard nothing like that in my whole life. She feels like nostalgia and a sort of archetype voice, incredible
Today is my birthday, but that is secondary to the fact it is also my twin brother's birthday. I dedicate this song to him and his indomitable spirit and energy. Thank you for 44 years of memories, kinship, brotherhood and adventure! I love you, bro! I still remember sitting with you, seeing this for the first time on SNL in 1988.
This made me cry, how beautiful. What a lovely read. Thank you so much for sharing your story friend, I send all my love, joy and respect to you. You're a wonderful human being, and so is your brother :)
Remember when I first heard that song. I immediately got a 'crush' for it. It's not just Björk's voice and style of intonation; also the guitars, bass, the drum rhythm, simply everything. Great, timeless music!
Bjork is the beautiful Wordsmith that tames frequencies and sequence in one glorious executed thought , that gifts us with a soundscape of her mind . Where would we be , without Bjork. It's good to be alive
As a young girl I was obsessed with this song, just waiting hours in front of the tv to watch it come by so I could videotape it. Love her, she is one of a kind.
It's one of my favourite songs, I loved the Sugarcubes when I was a kid (showing my age!) I wish I could sing like her, and I do try, when the neighbours are out :D
Showing your age? :-D I wasn't a kid when the Sugarcubes were doing their thing, though I was more into Cocteau Twins & Coil when this came out. Always thought she had an insanely beautiful voice though, second only to Liz Frazer.
Increíble, cuando no había música digital que nos tocaba grabar con.casetes de cinta de la radio yo piye esa canción, sabía que Bjork la cantaba su voz es inconfundible, eso fue como en 1997 y hace poco la escuche y la.recordé enseguida y supe.que era ella, tremenda sorpresa!
La manera de descubrir música ahora es totalmente diferente que hace 30 años. Toda ha cambiado y creo que que este cambio ha disminuido el talento de los artistas musicales en estos días.
La buena musica aún existe, solo hay que buscarla, lo que cambia es la moda, eso es algo diferente. Antes en los 80 y 90 pudieron ser los artistas de rock alternativo , indie, etc, hoy son otros generos (varios de muy dudosa calidad). Pero aun sigue saliendo buena musica
@@humberto3369 al contrario, hoy en día hay muchísimo talento, se produce mucha más música que antes, hay más diversidad. Sino mira en Rusia con el Postpunk que revivieron bandas como Motorama, Molchat Doma, Human Tetris y muchas más.
@@e7equiel76 eso es un revival del revival en fin no desdeño la musica actual que esta sobre producida mas aun en el caso del pop pero debe de haber buenos grupos eso si en todas las epocas...
Sabes que ya has envejecido cuando dices que ya no hay talento, yo me quedo con una frase de David Summers, cantante y compositor de la banda Hombre G, qué dice: “música mierda y buena música ha habido en todas las épocas”
I still remember to this day the first time I heard debut, I was on my own on the farm I worked, it was the first time I had wine I was 17, I heard the song come to me and I remember where all the furniture was in the dining room looking over rolling fields of Devon, massive inpact on my musical progression Bjork thanks love x 🙏
life is too good by Sugar Cubes is one essential album from the 80´s. and one of the greatest ever. that doesn´t get said as much as it should. just listen to Deus, Coldsweat, Mama, Motorcrash, Birthday...every track is amazing, is still current musically. and nothing can be said about Bjork´s voice that will get closer to how incredible it is.
I've been a fan since this track came out and saw her live for several solo tours, I've followed her career and have played various remixes in my DJ sets-- and she is totally weird. She doesn't shy from it, she embraces it, sings about it. She knows that she sees the world in an odd way, that every moment for her is an ecstatic release that most people have shut themselves off from. Normal is boring.
Saw these live in Liverpool rarely met such a humble and friendly group of people(band). We waited at the stage entrance and the whole band chatted to us for about 45 mins. And the gig was awesome.
I have heard many songs in my life, some of which are special. But I always find myself coming back to this one more than any other. The pure expression in this is delightful.
20 years ago I tried and failed to go to Iceland as my partner couldn't afford it. Finally made it there this year. I loved it. I've never felt more at home anywhere in the world. That it reconnected me with Bjork is just a great bonus.
And that's your birthday today, Björk. The only woman who inspires me and brings the feelings that are hard to describe with words. I think you're the only woman in this world that I feel a mutual connection with the complexity of the universe. Your music makes me happy and I thank you for that.
I heard this album for the first time sometime in 1990, and I couldn't stop listening to it over and over again. Sometimes I even cried at that vocal expression. It seemed to me then that you were an inexhaustible source of energy.
Dear Bjork, the first time I heard your song ‘Birthday’ I was 20 years old, it hit me hard… winded me. I feel it, both lyrically & vocally, visceral. To me it speaks of CSA. I am 56 now and I still find it haunting. Thank you for this extremely evoking song. xXx Deb.
I remember the song being released and the person who brought this under attention to me. Hope he's well and alive still, as we only got to know each other for about half a year. Loved the unique voice and song back then and still do today. ❤
That voice! I was blown away the first time I heard them do this on SNL back in the day, and I went out right away to buy the 'cassette tape'! My friends didn't get it, so it was a personal experience listening to it. It always carries me back to that time.
This song brings me to another dimension, like a lost era... a moment in time you wish could go back to... The white honda civic makes the moment so real like the dimension still exist... goosebumps all over
Just doesn't get old. Her total commitment to the song is what drives this classic track. Hearing this for the first time all those years ago I knew a rare talent had arrived. Through all the years since she has never dissapointed those early expectations.
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Hailing from Iceland and some fun facts - my dad did the filming in this video downtown and in the Blue Lagoon in the English video version (there is an Icelandic one as well but a well different and hard to understand but imo the better version) - it features the original Blue Lagoon - not the artificial one that tourists are paying a fortune to go to now and 10$ for a towel ... she has always been down to earth and supportive of even the smallest of artists - Iceland is small and last time we met was on coach flying from LDN to KEF ... no business class, she was making music just on the plane and I had the isle seat next to her and just ez and chatting - she/they has always supported "underground" music scenes and been very "punk" from the start - th-cam.com/video/BFQPNApwJGU/w-d-xo.html
She lives in this house over there, has her world outside it. Grapples with the earth with her fingers and her mouth, she's five years old. Thread worms on a string, keeps spiders in her pocket, collects fly-wings in A jar scrubs horse flies and pinches them on a line. she's got one friend He lives next door, they listen to the weather, he knows how many freckles she's got, She scratches his beard. she's painting huge books, glues them together, They saw a big raven; it glided down the sky, she touched it. Today's a birthday, they're smoking cigars, he got a chain of flowers, Sows a bird in her knickers, they're smoking cigars, lie in the bathtub, chain of flowers.
No. It's a song about a relationship between an old bearded man and a five year old girl. He knows how many freckles she has. The subtext is that he has seen her whole body. And it has naked girls in the video. As much as I think this is one of the greatest pop songs ever written and performed, it's disgusting.
"Disgusting" is a bit strong. The sense of childhood innocence with all the dark undertones - "Sinister" is a more appropriate word and that was most probably the intent. The Sugarcubes were notoriously mischievous.
2020 vibes... I should smoke a cigar in the bathtub today!! I need to see this fantastic woman live one day, she is truly unique and gifted. This is one of my all time faves! 💚💚💚
Her voice, her melodies somehow simultaneously evoke ecstatic joy and deep melancholy. I don’t know how she does it.
The human soul is still one of humankind’s biggest mysteries. ;)
It's sublime...to use no less a word
@ your username made me chuckle
its not immature. its perfect. utterly perfect. theres innocence and wonder and joy . utterly beautiful song.
Well put.
+10
General Dissatisfaction
It's just an interpretation of it. The Sugarcubes themselves said it's about a loveless affair. Still, I agree child abuse is a viable reading of this. In any case, the most beautiful works of art about the tragic, the ugly and the painful.
who said it was immature!?
I took the bus home from school today, the only one on it. Lonely, ugly, isolated, depressed, anxious, all these things I behold externally and internally. I played this song on repeat, and cried all the way home. Thankfully, it healed me, I was able to wallow in the sadness with a song that I feel understands the angst I live in, the pain, the struggle. I'll never forget what this song did for me, I'll forever appreciate Bjork and The Sugarcubes, what they have done for me as an individual. I will always be thankful.
Thank you so much, The Sugarcubes, for this song, for your music, for everything you did that helps me feel human, like everything is okay, that everything is going to get better.
The complete abandon of all inhibitions in her vocal expression make me tear up and smile at the same time...this is music.
man you put it in beautiful wordsyou put it in beautiful words
Well said.
❤️❤️❤️
me pasa excatamente lo mismo
Perfect comment!
This song filled me with wonder when I was sixteen. I'm forty eight next month and it still gives me goosebumps.
Blimey, you're old.
Same. I'm 52 today.
yo cumpli 23 y dejeme decirle. me siento como un cincuentañero sintiendose como veintiañero haha, que vida no
Grew up with this!!! Listening to this for over 30 years and the feelings are the same
Yep. Best times.
the first the world heard of the extraordinary voice of bjork gudmundsdottir. still sounds amazing all these years later.
Except that she'd been releasing albums, either solo or with various bands, for a decade by the time this was recorded. I agree that it still sounds amazing, but it's definitely not the first the world heard.
Even if you don’t like bjork’s voice there is no one else that sounds like her.
I always thought that Sinead must have influenced her how she goes from a sweetness to a growl
maybe, if you don't mind trying to listen a japanese singer, i really recommend a singer called "Ado". just try the song called Unravel by ado live version
@@hanktheblesseddeejay Far better than Sinead in my opinion.
Bjorks voice is utterly beautiful.
I never knew that she was in a band before. First time here. What an era of music.
Happy 59th birthday Björk.
I like the part where she says "Aaaaaaaaaooooh"
You mean the part she yells? Lol
Mee too
I love that part and her 😍
I love it! It is like her throat is being destroyed.
Yeahh. Me too. 😁😁😁👍👍👍
... and then attacks a reporter
I love bjorks vocals...its not the typical attractive voice..its got its identity an uniqueness just like how Amy whinehouses voice is unique and distinct....she's got her own style....
+lea rodriguez was :(
+none you have a horrible taste
Brilliant song and lyrics/voice, totally unique, absolutely brilliant
i suggest you go and check out amy winehouse when she was a kid, her voice was fucking unbeleivable for a 10 year old
lea rodriguez they owe a lot to the Cocteau Twins here.
That bass is absolutely cocteautwinesque
Treasure core
Woulnd it be magical if we could all express ourselves like that.
We can :)
Let's go for it :)
@@thousandhearts. i love this
* Wouldn't
Her voice does something to my heart, it makes me remember things, it hurts but I love the way it hurts.
exactly! When I first started to listen to Bjork, almost 5 years ago, I remember feeling like "oh my god I've already heard that" but at the same time I knew that I've never heard nothing like that in my whole life. She feels like nostalgia and a sort of archetype voice, incredible
@@rebeccabolleaI feel that too! It's so weird and hard to explain, but I love it even if it hurts lol
I love her voice! She is truly gifted.
JA STIMMT, GENAU GIFTED
Lol gifted indeed
Bjork is the greatest vocalist I've ever heard, her voice is simply stunning. I love it, and her. Such a multitude of talent.
That is just the cutest "dum dum dum" I have ever heard.
Yes !
My sweetie 😍
Would be great if there were a 20min version of this song. Hyptonic and the "aaaahhh aaaagghhh" is ah, chills.
Bjork's voice is so delightfully young and free. Just makes me feel nothing but happiness.
Bjork growling at us is more nostalgic than many who beleive they are amazing singers.. this lady captured us and made us fans.
After 28 years from its release, this is still one of the best pop video and song ever made on Planet Earth.
Benedetto Bruno I am coming from the stars, and I concur. Even more, there's nothing like this in the entire galaxy !!!
..on flat earth u mean.. ¿-)
da fuq you are talking about? the king of pop michael is the best
@@artmannify You might be flat but that doesn’t mean the Earth is
Those screams still hit my musical g-spot 24 years after I first heard this on John Peel's show, peace be upon him.
Where I heard this too. Still gives me chills and tears and smiles
I get the chills and the back of my eyes get teary when she cranks out the scream/chorus...
steve harris yes yes yes I've got the same everytime I hear this song
Luca Schaap great souls feel alike...
I tried to imitate that growling voice she does mid-note and failed so badly.
Ich is a good idea 💡 I am not sure if you are interested in this
If he train enough he can. I coudn't sing Ann Lee before singing lessons and hard training
This is one of those songs that no one else in the world can sing really
Today is my birthday, but that is secondary to the fact it is also my twin brother's birthday. I dedicate this song to him and his indomitable spirit and energy. Thank you for 44 years of memories, kinship, brotherhood and adventure! I love you, bro! I still remember sitting with you, seeing this for the first time on SNL in 1988.
This made me cry, how beautiful. What a lovely read. Thank you so much for sharing your story friend, I send all my love, joy and respect to you. You're a wonderful human being, and so is your brother :)
Yayyy ..
one of the most beautiful songs ive ever heard in my life, thank you Bjork. SO much emotion in her vocals
The drumming on this is sublime. Complemented beautifully by the vocal.
Ringo Starr esq to be honest. But i agree on that “complementing”part
One of the most amazing songs ever written. Absolutely sublime.
Radley stark got to agree hard to believe it’s half my life ago -I’m 60 now.
Björk has the most profound and beautiful vocals. An honorary mention to the band too though for the riffs, just wonderful!!
Remember when I first heard that song. I immediately got a 'crush' for it. It's not just Björk's voice and style of intonation; also the guitars, bass, the drum rhythm, simply everything. Great, timeless music!
Bjork is the beautiful Wordsmith that tames frequencies and sequence in one glorious executed thought , that gifts us with a soundscape of her mind .
Where would we be , without Bjork.
It's good to be alive
As a young girl I was obsessed with this song, just waiting hours in front of the tv to watch it come by so I could videotape it. Love her, she is one of a kind.
It's one of my favourite songs, I loved the Sugarcubes when I was a kid (showing my age!) I wish I could sing like her, and I do try, when the neighbours are out :D
Showing your age? :-D I wasn't a kid when the Sugarcubes were doing their thing, though I was more into Cocteau Twins & Coil when this came out. Always thought she had an insanely beautiful voice though, second only to Liz Frazer.
Estamos em 2020 e ainda amo ouvir essa música, como da primeira vez. Björk é perfeita demais, uma das vozes da minha vida.
Increíble, cuando no había música digital que nos tocaba grabar con.casetes de cinta de la radio yo piye esa canción, sabía que Bjork la cantaba su voz es inconfundible, eso fue como en 1997 y hace poco la escuche y la.recordé enseguida y supe.que era ella, tremenda sorpresa!
La manera de descubrir música ahora es totalmente diferente que hace 30 años. Toda ha cambiado y creo que que este cambio ha disminuido el talento de los artistas musicales en estos días.
La buena musica aún existe, solo hay que buscarla, lo que cambia es la moda, eso es algo diferente. Antes en los 80 y 90 pudieron ser los artistas de rock alternativo , indie, etc, hoy son otros generos (varios de muy dudosa calidad). Pero aun sigue saliendo buena musica
@@humberto3369 al contrario, hoy en día hay muchísimo talento, se produce mucha más música que antes, hay más diversidad. Sino mira en Rusia con el Postpunk que revivieron bandas como Motorama, Molchat Doma, Human Tetris y muchas más.
@@e7equiel76 eso es un revival del revival en fin no desdeño la musica actual que esta sobre producida mas aun en el caso del pop pero debe de haber buenos grupos eso si en todas las epocas...
Sabes que ya has envejecido cuando dices que ya no hay talento, yo me quedo con una frase de David Summers, cantante y compositor de la banda Hombre G, qué dice: “música mierda y buena música ha habido en todas las épocas”
Possibly one of the greatest vocal performances of all time on this song, utterly mesmorising!
I love it when she almost screams but yet its not a crackle but pure raw power that's just so appealing to my ears! What a voice!! Love it to bits!!
I can't describe what it does to me hearing this childish, sad, furious beautiness in Bjørks voice. She has thousand fragments in her soul.
Comprei esse vinil do sugarcubes só por essa música, tenho até hoje.
Man, is she ever so beautiful
She is, always!
I remember watching this one afternoon after school in Australia. I have NEVER fallen in love with a human as quickly as I did with Bjork.
I still remember to this day the first time I heard debut, I was on my own on the farm I worked, it was the first time I had wine I was 17, I heard the song come to me and I remember where all the furniture was in the dining room looking over rolling fields of Devon, massive inpact on my musical progression Bjork thanks love x 🙏
Still gives me goosebumps all these years later.
life is too good by Sugar Cubes is one essential album from the 80´s. and one of the greatest ever. that doesn´t get said as much as it should. just listen to Deus, Coldsweat, Mama, Motorcrash, Birthday...every track is amazing, is still current musically. and nothing can be said about Bjork´s voice that will get closer to how incredible it is.
Happy 51th birthday, Björk.
This song stays as one of the 1980's most memorable.
Woulnd it be magical if we could all express ourselves like that.
She will be 55 this year
I've been a fan since this track came out and saw her live for several solo tours, I've followed her career and have played various remixes in my DJ sets-- and she is totally weird. She doesn't shy from it, she embraces it, sings about it. She knows that she sees the world in an odd way, that every moment for her is an ecstatic release that most people have shut themselves off from. Normal is boring.
Unconventional beauty for the true connoisseur of the heart of humanity. "The love is for all". Be we all as wonderful as Bjork!
An absolute powerhouse in voice and presence!
You have never failed to mesmerise me Bjork !
❤️✌️
I was 19 going on 20 when I bought this and saw them live, today I'm turning 54 and still listening ...
This song is magic.
Ridiculously beautiful song and mesmerising vocals.
I loved the Sugarcubes.
The more I listen to this song the more it rips me apart. So tragic yet beautiful.
I was fifteen when they came out. 16 when I saw them live. Bjork threw a hissy fit and stormed off the stage. Mosh pit was crazy.
Why'd she storm out?
30+ years on, and this still sounds good enough to make me cry. And I say that as someone who generally prefers the "now" to looking back.
Imagine hearing this and thinking they couldn't better it. Then you get the album and hear Blue Eyed Pop. That's my 1987
Happy birthday! :-)
I love Björk so much
Watched 'Dancer in the Dark' yesterday, now I love her even more... 😅🤍
I bought this album when I was very young. Now I am 55. Before anyone knew who Bjork was..
ohmygoodness. she is adorable and her voice is so beautiful
First time ever listening to The Sugar cubes and it makes me bloody melancholic.
Saw these live in Liverpool rarely met such a humble and friendly group of people(band). We waited at the stage entrance and the whole band chatted to us for about 45 mins.
And the gig was awesome.
It's lovely to see a comment about Liverpool, I miss home.
I have heard many songs in my life, some of which are special. But I always find myself coming back to this one more than any other. The pure expression in this is delightful.
20 years ago I tried and failed to go to Iceland as my partner couldn't afford it. Finally made it there this year. I loved it. I've never felt more at home anywhere in the world. That it reconnected me with Bjork is just a great bonus.
she has been my all time fave for 30 something years...I got to see her live in 2013 and well.....my life is complete xxxx
still as fresh as ever
snl version was better
Easily up there with the most underrated songs, magnificent aural landscape under an amazing voice.
repeat, repeat, repeat..... I can't get enough of this song! She is a musical genius
Beautiful angel ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤
And that's your birthday today, Björk. The only woman who inspires me and brings the feelings that are hard to describe with words. I think you're the only woman in this world that I feel a mutual connection with the complexity of the universe. Your music makes me happy and I thank you for that.
Loved this when it came out....what an amazing time in music...Blessed! Still loving this In 2024...have 1 friend who gets it still 😊
I was 18 when this first came out in 1988. It was a great time to be around the late 80s and early 90s, a golden age for music.
Otherworldly, ethereal, absolutely beautiful, it has a slight Cocteau twins vibe but completely hers and the sugarcubes own, a masterpiece 11/10
до чего ж хороша!
I heard this album for the first time sometime in 1990, and I couldn't stop listening to it over and over again. Sometimes I even cried at that vocal expression. It seemed to me then that you were an inexhaustible source of energy.
I wish you an happy birthday my tender Bjork.Music is my only Love and you,you are the sweet beautiful queen of music for eternity!!!!
Thank you John Peel for introducing so many little jems, of which this is just one. Loved it from the first, those vocals....
it's one of the songs nobody should ever cover . that's björk's song, this refrain is unique and only possible with her voice...absolutly incredible.
I still love this song after all these years. It's so beautiful it makes me cry ❤
Such a catchy song. Brilliant.
Love Bjork’s work but this will always be my favourite- has a The Cure vibe
Этот трек меня стимулирует,провоцирует,заставляет,радует,возносит,ласкает ...... до слёз счастья
Dear Bjork, the first time I heard your song ‘Birthday’ I was 20 years old, it hit me hard… winded me.
I feel it, both lyrically & vocally, visceral.
To me it speaks of CSA.
I am 56 now and I still find it haunting.
Thank you for this extremely evoking song.
xXx Deb.
One of the most wild, happy, strange, expressive, unique and beautiful songs the 20th century ever made.
I remember the song being released and the person who brought this under attention to me. Hope he's well and alive still, as we only got to know each other for about half a year.
Loved the unique voice and song back then and still do today.
❤
I heart Björk
That voice! I was blown away the first time I heard them do this on SNL back in the day, and I went out right away to buy the 'cassette tape'! My friends didn't get it, so it was a personal experience listening to it. It always carries me back to that time.
this is one of the best song i've ever heard
its like the most beautiful song i've ever heard. im absolutely obsessed with bjork sugarcubes era
This song brings me to another dimension, like a lost era... a moment in time you wish could go back to... The white honda civic makes the moment so real like the dimension still exist... goosebumps all over
Artista sublime, eclettica.....canzone spaziale! In poche parole un capolavoro. Grazie Björk
I saw these guys at Red Rocks in Summer of 89 and when this song was played it was awesome.
Just doesn't get old. Her total commitment to the song is what drives this classic track. Hearing this for the first time all those years ago I knew a rare talent had arrived. Through all the years since she has never dissapointed those early expectations.
Hailing from Iceland and some fun facts - my dad did the filming in this video downtown and in the Blue Lagoon in the English video version (there is an Icelandic one as well but a well different and hard to understand but imo the better version) - it features the original Blue Lagoon - not the artificial one that tourists are paying a fortune to go to now and 10$ for a towel ... she has always been down to earth and supportive of even the smallest of artists - Iceland is small and last time we met was on coach flying from LDN to KEF ... no business class, she was making music just on the plane and I had the isle seat next to her and just ez and chatting - she/they has always supported "underground" music scenes and been very "punk" from the start - th-cam.com/video/BFQPNApwJGU/w-d-xo.html
Thats unbelievable ! I m big fan of Björk and i couldnt even imagine sitting next to her omg ❤️ great Story 😃
Oh Bjork! So special!
I will be listening to this song on my birthday in November! :)
I have the same birthday as Bjork! :)
Outstanding Bjork i love the post-punk darkwave sound. this is such an amazing song.
Björk's got to be some sort of fallen angel, so much innocence and sexuality combined in her voice, looks and demeanour...
Yes. I think she is probably Fae.
What a beautiful song.
She lives in this house over there, has her world outside it.
Grapples with the earth with her fingers and her mouth, she's five years old.
Thread worms on a string, keeps spiders in her pocket, collects fly-wings in
A jar scrubs horse flies and pinches them on a line. she's got one friend
He lives next door, they listen to the weather, he knows how many freckles
she's got,
She scratches his beard. she's painting huge books, glues them together,
They saw a big raven; it glided down the sky, she touched it.
Today's a birthday, they're smoking cigars, he got a chain of flowers,
Sows a bird in her knickers, they're smoking cigars, lie in the bathtub, chain of flowers.
Louise Marsh OMG!It's about pedophile?
i think is more of innocent love fantasies with adults.
No. It's a song about a relationship between an old bearded man and a five year old girl. He knows how many freckles she has. The subtext is that he has seen her whole body. And it has naked girls in the video. As much as I think this is one of the greatest pop songs ever written and performed, it's disgusting.
"Disgusting" is a bit strong. The sense of childhood innocence with all the dark undertones - "Sinister" is a more appropriate word and that was most probably the intent. The Sugarcubes were notoriously mischievous.
@@iwokeuplikethis118 LMAO
2020 vibes... I should smoke a cigar in the bathtub today!!
I need to see this fantastic woman live one day, she is truly unique and gifted. This is one of my all time faves! 💚💚💚
Aaaaah the memories, 2:30 was the exact moment I fell in love with Bjork
After so many years still an amazing song. Has lost nothing.
Thanks. Mx Grassi and SuperFruit.
"He knows how many freckles she's got" - single most romantic line ever.
And creepy at the same time, without one mood necessarily contradicting the other.
@@mbrady2329 - It's not creepy.
@@terrra_2024, "It's not cree-py (BECAUSE I SAY SO!!!)".
@@terrra_2024 the girl is 5 years old in the song
Not if you consider that the girl is 5 years old
Love her essence