Can I just say thank you for finally being honest about this ‘music’. The noise and the vocals are just bad. I think some of the haters are just boring people who want to feel superior. I am more enlightened then everyone because I can find art in Bjork. I can find art in “The Room” movie or Citizen Cain. At the end of the day the best art speaks to the most people and artists from the Techno/ Pop/ Metal/ and Rap genres are better. We also see this truth play out in the Rotten Tomato’s reviews of movies where these “professional critics” are so off base with the general audiences its laughable.
@@JohnJohn-zi1wl Judgement and Anger are different emotions, if you need more clarification on emotions may I suggest listening to Stonemilker by Bjork. A much better song as well as a coherent message.
They syllables and drawing out the lyrics is actually a very Icelandic way of musical composition, she really stressed that in homogenic and then continued that through her albums. And by now it’s a staple, kind of a branding for her music. I love it too, especially in more serious songs like this where you can sit with the lyrics and absorb then before the story continues.
Funny you mentioned that she should do more acapella stuff. Bjork actually has a all vocal album called Medulla in 2004. Not my favorite but definitely worth a listen
I won't attack you for disliking it. Your ears hear good music only in standard 4/4, and that's OK. I will attack you, however, for the stupid clickbait. You say you're not out to just hate on Bjork or fans, but the vomiting emoji states otherwise. You ask "why?" so many times, but to that, I say "why not?" What a dull world this would be had you been in charge of what we all thought was good music. You seem to seek to be disliked, and I find that puzzling, but whatever. Perhaps your obnoxious take is your thing. Just say "I don't understand this". You're allowed to dislike it, but you do come at it from a dullard's angle. I will not subscribe to your channel, because I don't respect your pov. #Sorry
Well that's interesting seeing how my ears actually prefer 6/8 but go ahead and assume you know my musical taste based on the few reactions I've done on my channel. Or that one of my favorite songs starts in 12/8 then 5/8 and switches to 7/8. And the more I think about it, the thumbnail isn't even clickbait. Clickbait would have been me liking the song and still posting the vomit emoji. The thumbnail matches exactly how I feel about the song. It's not good and I'm not trying to convince you it's not good. If you felt that my thumbnail or my opinions were attack on bjork fans or bjork then that's on you.
clickbait: dude is not analyzing the lyrics. he just says a bunch of unespecific adjectives and random thoughts with no background on relation to Björk’s prior work 🤦🏾♂️ not even citing Heirloom/Quicksand immediate references, nor even bothered analyzing Merry’s/Huang formal/visual proposals
Art has no limits. If you try to analyze Björk as standard music, it means that she is not a spoon for your mouth. It's very popular right now for everyone to give an unprepared opinion, but who cares. As always, Björk received positive reviews from professional music critics.
True. I've just been messing with formats, what's interesting is that people like the "First Time Listening" format when I say a song is good and the opposite is true if I say a song is bad. I think a lot of people looking up reviews/reactions are looking for that confirmation bias, they want to hear exactly what they think. As for the professional music critics, that doesn't make something good either because a few people say it's good. Ultimately people like what they like, people are trying to tell me I'm not educated or I don't understand and that's why I don't like it. But people can say that about any form of art. It's art, there's no right or wrong...right?
@@HeWentRogue I think this leads nowhere.....and you are wrong. You don't have any arguments, facts, you haven't studied the work of the artist, in the case of one of the most complex artists. It all boils down to ``my opinion'', ``according to me''. A judgment based on what, why and who.....and why does that matter? You can't look at this work so lightly in this case to the proven artist, songwriter, musician, producer Björk and saying that this is no good, vomit emoticons, etc. It's pretty basic and elementary. Maybe that's the kind of audience you're looking for, but it's still offensive. I advise people to do something creative, at least half as Bjork did, and then judge. Her music was never intended for mass consumption, and was not intended to satisfy the expectations of the mass consumer. You have to start with that first. There are other artists that would suit your taste. I don't understand heavy metal, country or hip-hop... and I'm not commenting, I'm just completely unfamiliar with this matter. She has a massive and strong fan base for several decades, an inspiration for many artists, designers, scientists, musicians. Absolutely innovative and talented, coming from a small country without a big music company, and becoming a world star thanks to her unique talent and creativity. If you want to know more about this video and song, visit her website, then the Fossorа.
@@HeWentRogue people are telling you that you're not educated because you're not simply saying that you dislike this music or that you don't understand it. You're saying "this is not music", even though in this last video you changed it into "this is bad music". "It's not music TO ME" doesn't work, either it's music or it's not, whether people like it or not. Nobody can attack you on your taste, but you're expressing yourself as if you put yourself on a pedestal. The way you're wording your thoughts is like someone who is saying "things should be done my own way and in the way I view it, and anyone who doesn't do things my way is bad or incompetent". A bit closed-minded, maybe? You're even contradicting your own thought from your Ovule reaction. In that video you said "if I were doing music class and a student showed me this song, I would say that this is incomplete". Now you're saying that there is no right or wrong. Then wouldn't your music class be completely useless in that case? Then again, maybe you are also expressing yourself that way on purpose to attract people under your videos, and it's certainly working. Congrats!
as a björk fan myself i'm not mad at you ... i don't agree with you either. it's your reaction and it's your opinion... but the thumbnail for this reaction video? it's too much and very, very disrespectful. anyways... you can listen to kate bush's songs from her album 'the dreaming' since you asked for 'björk-like artists'... actually kate was BEFORE björk... but anyways... they get compared sometimes.
I admit the thumbnail is purely clickbait to attract conflict. Kate Bush, I think I've only heard one song by her. The "Running up that hill" song, which I found through Meg Myers cover and then Stranger Things show blew that song up and it's playing on the radio everywhere now. but what is it about the 3 recent bjork songs that you like?
@@HeWentRogue i think björk's current songs are so great (in MY opinion) because i keep hearing new little beats and tones that i've haven't heard before in any other songs and it sound very melodic to me. it's very satisfying to me. i think that is the best way to explain.
Idk why people are surprised Bjork isn't rehashing her sound from the 90s over and over to stay popular. Bjork could give a fuck about what people expect and what to hear from her and thats what makes her so engaging. Also maybe if you actually listened to the music for more than 20 seconds at a time you could catch on to the pace of the track.
I'm coming in fresh without prior knowledge of her previous sounds so I'm not expecting anything really besides to like the music. It's a 7 minute song, I listened to plenty of larger chunks of it and also listening to it again. Same with her other 2 songs, it didn't change my opinion at all.
Ok, let's suppose your criticism is honest, therefore valid. That thumbnail is just a dishonest clickbait. And if your biggest thing on Björk is (once again) "that's weird"... well, there isn't much value in your reviews.
Now imagine those three songs without any dissonance, you would have the good old Bjork, you would have had shorter sentences, you would have lost every espressionist stance that this pieces have. Espressionism catches the spirit. It's an artistic movement that widely used the clarinets in their, mostly German, operas, that had atonal music just around the corner. Sprachenworte, similiar as Bjork is singing, denies to some degree the melodic mediation, it doesn't want to tell you just a story, it's a psychoanalytic question. And It IS a wake up call: for the listeners. Yesterday like today: widely hated at first, then celebrate and used everywhere. Without this dissonance Bjork would have been stuck there, in her surely great and widely celebrated modern but still classicist pieces. This is something new, not immediately catchy, wordy, overwhelming, repetitive, energic, chaotic yet precise. Those songs are the most interesting things I've heard in a long time.
Personally, I don't care whether she is weird or not, or how much different she is. Music is language to express something. What makes her music great is that she is able to translate real life experiences into music very effectively. I would compare her music to the "stream of consciousness" writing style. She also has a very good balance between accessibility and creativity. If you think she is too off-the-wall, you've heard nothing. Feelings rule over technicalities, of course. The fact that your head is used to listen to Pearl Jam or The Doors doesn't make her any weaker or bad.
Personally I love this album, this is all what I appreciate in music. I understand that it s very difficult to be embarked in the universe of the song and to appreciate it.
The thing about Björk's singing and odd rhythms is that she's fed up with the literal squareness of western popular music so even though she's done 4/4 it's been over 20 years since she has been exploring and stablishing her sound within odd numbered time signatures. She did a full on jazz album 30 years ago, she writes her own stuff... her tradition now is to accomodate the poetry beforehand.
I know you’re trying to irk björk fans with the thumbnail, but considering this particular song is about her mother’s death, it’s *really* in poor taste and you would have known that if you actually read a bit about the songs meaning (scratch that you did know about the meaning yet still uploaded it w that thumbnail) … idk man, that thumbnail for ANY other one of her songs lmao… but this one? 😬😬
I’m practically begging you to listen to her older stuff, it’s way more sonically cohesive and you’d probably enjoy it! Check out army of me, enjoy, bachelorette, venus as a boy, hyberballad, pagan poetry, literally ANY of those 😭😭😭 I promise you’ll enjoy at least one of ‘em
@@riggamorrischan it's interesting when getting subscribers is the youtubers' thing. Had he approached it in a way that spoke to being at all interested in delving, then perhaps I would respect his pov, even if he did not like it. All he essentially does is ask "why?", bait fans and yearns for the music to be radio-friendly or simpler. Being controversial just for the sake of it is off-putting.
what gets me is not whether someone likes or dislikes it, but that those who like it seem to like it *instantly* as if it's an easily digestible piece of pop music. the rapturous reactions to what are very slow, strange affairs sometimes strike me as a little false. It took me years to love Medulla, and Biophilia (one of her less well-recieved albums) is my absolute favourite now - after ignoring it for the longest time. they're both extremely nerdy and pretentious but I just adore what she was trying to do (there's a hell of a lot of background mechanical stuff on both of them which i think does help to know about.) I think a big problem with coming to Bjork as she is now, is that the experimental phase which has been building on itself layer after layer now dominates her career, and yet even now we're kind of selling her as the pop star she was in 1995. As if all it would take is another Underworld remix and the right producer and she'd be filling the clubs and taking up space on everyone's coffee table again, which we secretly (or openly, based on recommendations) want. Perhaps the fact that she so explicitly does not want to do anything like that is what has created the cult - if you're a Bjork fan and you don't commit fully to what she's doing right now, you just got left behind by Bjork herself. It's rather bruising to the ego.
Aren't you blanketing how your mind works over the whole? Since "Homogenic", I've been a Bjork fan. While a lot of her music does take a few listens, a great deal of it, FOR ME, took only a one-time listen to love it. While "Atopos" is just OK, it did engage me instantaneously. I also immediately LOVED "Ovule'' and "Ancestress". You shouldn't expect everyone's mind to work the same as yours. I think once you've become attuned to Bjork and artists of her ilk, getting into the music is less difficult than those whose ears are accustomed to radio music. There really is a sort of "getting it", which is why this sounds messy to many.
@@valentinomiller6251 In particular, React channels visibly do poorly whenever they post a reaction to a thing they don't like (the poor Kate Bush reactors had a lot of unexpected things to work through, and before the dislike bar was removed there were some real ratios happening to them.) I'm sure lots of people do like things instantly and I'm sorry if I implied that wasn't the case, I hadn't realised I'd excluded you to that extent. It does rather seem like you're saying that it took time and experience to like her body of work as it progresses though, which feels rather like what I was saying.
@@storageheater as I re-read your statement, I realise my comment is an amalgam of a response to yours and another's 😂. How I did that? Your guess is as good as mine 😂. However, for me, I liked and grew to love Bjork as soon as I'd first heard her music, her "Homogenic" era. I think perhaps I got offended by the word "pretentious" and ran with it. I think we agree that to EXPECT Bjork to be easy on the ears of the general-music listener is folly. For me, disliking a Bjork track or album is the same as disliking anyone other if my fave's music, in that it just doesn't resonate with me. Don't get me started on Tori Amos' ''Boy for Pele", an album which is mostly a collection of unimpressive, fast-forwardable forgetable-ness to me, but lauded by seemingly Tori's entire fandom, except me 😂, a great fan of hers. Go figure. i don't hate this reviewers dislike of the song, but his approach to it, which seems to want to irritate the Bjork fan.
Que pendejada. Mama Björk no es para todo el mundo. Osea, tú no decides escucharla, ella te elige a tí. Y claramente no estás preparada para entrar a su universo mi ciela.
I criticize her about some recent work too but saying that what she is doing is not music is weird. It's music even it sounds bad to you. Actually Björk repeats her own patterns for years. Her music is like a genre that unique to herself that a new listener may not get into easily. I think one of her recent work Atopos, is really really bad in every respect including the video. But this one is an amazing one IMO. Maybe it's just not for you. It's like a non heavy metal listener not finding music in a heavy metal song and perceiving the vocals as just screaming. Maybe you can try her more commonly appealing works like Hidden Place, Joga, All is full of Love, I've Seen it All, New World, Hyperballad, Human Behavior, Declare Independence, Pleasure is All Mine (acapella) to break the idea that her music is bad or just to understand why some people think the opposite.
Personally i view bjorks recent music as more spoken word poetry with a loose bead behind it, love it tho, i think when you quit looking at it through the traditional song structure you start to appreciate it more
this is an amazing dissection/reaction!! im a huge bjork fan and i have even been slightly “disappointed” by ovule and even ancestress unfortunately, even though its a subjectively better song than ovule in my opinion :) i think more than most artist alot of bjorks music takes context; from the atmosphere’s shes trying to create, and also the music that influenced the environment. alot of the music she was saying influenced her quarantine period was atonal-ish 20th century classical compositions and other world music that our westerner ears arent really accustomed to so that also may be playing a part in the inaccessible sound. i do respect the way you voice your opinions and more importantly the respectful manner in which you voice them! i would recommend you listen to some of arcas work! she is almost a protege of bjork but her most recent works have been slightly more grounded in pop/pop sensibilities. would love to see your reaction once the new album does come out just for the fun of it LOL
It's hard for me because I'm coming in fresh to Bjork. These 3 new songs are the ones I listened to first, and then theres a few older ones I listened to which I liked. The atonal stuff I can handle but only if it's in a different context, like for example video game music or musical scores. I really like horror movie music scores but without the movie attached to it then I'm not interested. I looked up Arca. I don't think I've ever heard a Venezuelan musician before, some of the instrumental stuff that she has sounds pretty good. I clicked on Cayo and listened for about 30 seconds and then stopped it because I might do a blind reaction to that...it looks insane!
Ok. You can't possibly understand what this song is about, because you are not Bjork. There are lyrics, ok. You say "it doesn't sound good", because you expect it to sound good. This is not music, as you expect it to be. The whole album is a mourning for her mother, who passed away on October 25th 2018. On this particular song you can hear tibetan bowls, which her mother used to play (there is an interview of her on youtube, you should check it out). Bjork is not singing musically on this album, she is just pouring her soul out, and I pray people do not ever understand this album so they can experience her pain firsthand. But, yeah, "bad music" indeed.
I'm a huge Björk fan but this current album cycle has been pretty rough in my honest opinion. A big problem I have with the full Fossora album is that she's done all of these musical ideas presented on this album before and executed them WAY better on those past records. There used to be some sort of connective tissue with the music that kept the weirdness (mostly) digestible. I can't really get mad at you for your feelings on these singles, these songs are not a good introduction to Björk.
Can I just say thank you for finally being honest about this ‘music’. The noise and the vocals are just bad. I think some of the haters are just boring people who want to feel superior. I am more enlightened then everyone because I can find art in Bjork. I can find art in “The Room” movie or Citizen Cain. At the end of the day the best art speaks to the most people and artists from the Techno/ Pop/ Metal/ and Rap genres are better. We also see this truth play out in the Rotten Tomato’s reviews of movies where these “professional critics” are so off base with the general audiences its laughable.
the fact that your comment is filled with anger against other opinions makes you look more 'boring to feel superior' than anyone else. LOL
@@JohnJohn-zi1wl Judgement and Anger are different emotions, if you need more clarification on emotions may I suggest listening to Stonemilker by Bjork. A much better song as well as a coherent message.
@@truthdart4753 touché! i said what i had to say about it. 😉
@@JohnJohn-zi1wl I think Lady Gaga expressed the message better though with "Born this way" as far as judgement
@@truthdart4753your opinion. not mine.
Disrespectful thumbnail for attention, this song its dedicated to her moms death
Yeah… knowing that it’s about her mom, it’s a bit off color
They syllables and drawing out the lyrics is actually a very Icelandic way of musical composition, she really stressed that in homogenic and then continued that through her albums. And by now it’s a staple, kind of a branding for her music. I love it too, especially in more serious songs like this where you can sit with the lyrics and absorb then before the story continues.
The vomit emoji next to a screenshot of her mother’s memorial video is…it’s gross.
Funny thing is that you can get the vomit face yourself if you watch any of his videos
Most fine art isn't appreciated by the masses. No big deal
Totally fine. Not trying to change anyones mind
Funny you mentioned that she should do more acapella stuff. Bjork actually has a all vocal album called Medulla in 2004. Not my favorite but definitely worth a listen
I won't attack you for disliking it. Your ears hear good music only in standard 4/4, and that's OK. I will attack you, however, for the stupid clickbait. You say you're not out to just hate on Bjork or fans, but the vomiting emoji states otherwise. You ask "why?" so many times, but to that, I say "why not?" What a dull world this would be had you been in charge of what we all thought was good music. You seem to seek to be disliked, and I find that puzzling, but whatever. Perhaps your obnoxious take is your thing. Just say "I don't understand this". You're allowed to dislike it, but you do come at it from a dullard's angle. I will not subscribe to your channel, because I don't respect your pov. #Sorry
Well that's interesting seeing how my ears actually prefer 6/8 but go ahead and assume you know my musical taste based on the few reactions I've done on my channel. Or that one of my favorite songs starts in 12/8 then 5/8 and switches to 7/8.
And the more I think about it, the thumbnail isn't even clickbait. Clickbait would have been me liking the song and still posting the vomit emoji. The thumbnail matches exactly how I feel about the song. It's not good and I'm not trying to convince you it's not good.
If you felt that my thumbnail or my opinions were attack on bjork fans or bjork then that's on you.
clickbait: dude is not analyzing the lyrics. he just says a bunch of unespecific adjectives and random thoughts with no background on relation to Björk’s prior work 🤦🏾♂️ not even citing Heirloom/Quicksand immediate references, nor even bothered analyzing Merry’s/Huang formal/visual proposals
A song should stand on it's own.
@@HeWentRogue not really
Art has no limits. If you try to analyze Björk as standard music, it means that she is not a spoon for your mouth. It's very popular right now for everyone to give an unprepared opinion, but who cares. As always, Björk received positive reviews from professional music critics.
True. I've just been messing with formats, what's interesting is that people like the "First Time Listening" format when I say a song is good and the opposite is true if I say a song is bad. I think a lot of people looking up reviews/reactions are looking for that confirmation bias, they want to hear exactly what they think.
As for the professional music critics, that doesn't make something good either because a few people say it's good. Ultimately people like what they like, people are trying to tell me I'm not educated or I don't understand and that's why I don't like it. But people can say that about any form of art. It's art, there's no right or wrong...right?
@@HeWentRogue I think this leads nowhere.....and you are wrong. You don't have any arguments, facts, you haven't studied the work of the artist, in the case of one of the most complex artists. It all boils down to ``my opinion'', ``according to me''. A judgment based on what, why and who.....and why does that matter? You can't look at this work so lightly in this case to the proven artist, songwriter, musician, producer Björk and saying that this is no good, vomit emoticons, etc. It's pretty basic and elementary. Maybe that's the kind of audience you're looking for, but it's still offensive.
I advise people to do something creative, at least half as Bjork did, and then judge. Her music was never intended for mass consumption, and was not intended to satisfy the expectations of the mass consumer. You have to start with that first. There are other artists that would suit your taste. I don't understand heavy metal, country or hip-hop... and I'm not commenting, I'm just completely unfamiliar with this matter.
She has a massive and strong fan base for several decades, an inspiration for many artists, designers, scientists, musicians. Absolutely innovative and talented, coming from a small country without a big music company, and becoming a world star thanks to her unique talent and creativity.
If you want to know more about this video and song, visit her website, then the Fossorа.
@@HeWentRogue people are telling you that you're not educated because you're not simply saying that you dislike this music or that you don't understand it. You're saying "this is not music", even though in this last video you changed it into "this is bad music". "It's not music TO ME" doesn't work, either it's music or it's not, whether people like it or not. Nobody can attack you on your taste, but you're expressing yourself as if you put yourself on a pedestal. The way you're wording your thoughts is like someone who is saying "things should be done my own way and in the way I view it, and anyone who doesn't do things my way is bad or incompetent". A bit closed-minded, maybe? You're even contradicting your own thought from your Ovule reaction. In that video you said "if I were doing music class and a student showed me this song, I would say that this is incomplete". Now you're saying that there is no right or wrong. Then wouldn't your music class be completely useless in that case? Then again, maybe you are also expressing yourself that way on purpose to attract people under your videos, and it's certainly working. Congrats!
Don't do that, it's a song about her mom (rip)...
and I stand by the lyrics being beautifully written.
@@HeWentRogue i dont stand by the disrespectful thumbnail, if youre gonna try doing youtube try learning some basic fucking courtesy
as a björk fan myself i'm not mad at you ... i don't agree with you either. it's your reaction and it's your opinion... but the thumbnail for this reaction video? it's too much and very, very disrespectful. anyways... you can listen to kate bush's songs from her album 'the dreaming' since you asked for 'björk-like artists'... actually kate was BEFORE björk... but anyways... they get compared sometimes.
I admit the thumbnail is purely clickbait to attract conflict. Kate Bush, I think I've only heard one song by her. The "Running up that hill" song, which I found through Meg Myers cover and then Stranger Things show blew that song up and it's playing on the radio everywhere now.
but what is it about the 3 recent bjork songs that you like?
@@HeWentRogue i think björk's current songs are so great (in MY opinion) because i keep hearing new little beats and tones that i've haven't heard before in any other songs and it sound very melodic to me. it's very satisfying to me. i think that is the best way to explain.
@@HeWentRogue gross.. maybe you could stay relevant with decent music takes instead of clickbait? Owning up to it doesn't make you less grody dude
@@pinkmidi6553 maybe he can’t and he knows it so he’s trying to do anything to catch people’s attention
Idk why people are surprised Bjork isn't rehashing her sound from the 90s over and over to stay popular. Bjork could give a fuck about what people expect and what to hear from her and thats what makes her so engaging. Also maybe if you actually listened to the music for more than 20 seconds at a time you could catch on to the pace of the track.
I'm coming in fresh without prior knowledge of her previous sounds so I'm not expecting anything really besides to like the music. It's a 7 minute song, I listened to plenty of larger chunks of it and also listening to it again. Same with her other 2 songs, it didn't change my opinion at all.
Ok, let's suppose your criticism is honest, therefore valid. That thumbnail is just a dishonest clickbait. And if your biggest thing on Björk is (once again) "that's weird"... well, there isn't much value in your reviews.
The issue isn't that it's weird. There's nothing wrong with weird. What I'm saying is the song sounds terrible.
Now imagine those three songs without any dissonance, you would have the good old Bjork, you would have had shorter sentences, you would have lost every espressionist stance that this pieces have. Espressionism catches the spirit. It's an artistic movement that widely used the clarinets in their, mostly German, operas, that had atonal music just around the corner. Sprachenworte, similiar as Bjork is singing, denies to some degree the melodic mediation, it doesn't want to tell you just a story, it's a psychoanalytic question. And It IS a wake up call: for the listeners. Yesterday like today: widely hated at first, then celebrate and used everywhere. Without this dissonance Bjork would have been stuck there, in her surely great and widely celebrated modern but still classicist pieces. This is something new, not immediately catchy, wordy, overwhelming, repetitive, energic, chaotic yet precise. Those songs are the most interesting things I've heard in a long time.
Personally, I don't care whether she is weird or not, or how much different she is. Music is language to express something. What makes her music great is that she is able to translate real life experiences into music very effectively. I would compare her music to the "stream of consciousness" writing style. She also has a very good balance between accessibility and creativity. If you think she is too off-the-wall, you've heard nothing.
Feelings rule over technicalities, of course. The fact that your head is used to listen to Pearl Jam or The Doors doesn't make her any weaker or bad.
Personally I love this album, this is all what I appreciate in music. I understand that it s very difficult to be embarked in the universe of the song and to appreciate it.
If it works for you then that's cool. I'm going to keep listening to see if one of her songs on the album grabs me.
@@HeWentRogue try hyperballad
The thing about Björk's singing and odd rhythms is that she's fed up with the literal squareness of western popular music so even though she's done 4/4 it's been over 20 years since she has been exploring and stablishing her sound within odd numbered time signatures. She did a full on jazz album 30 years ago, she writes her own stuff... her tradition now is to accomodate the poetry beforehand.
which absolutely makes sense because the poetry is the strongest aspect.
I know you’re trying to irk björk fans with the thumbnail, but considering this particular song is about her mother’s death, it’s *really* in poor taste and you would have known that if you actually read a bit about the songs meaning (scratch that you did know about the meaning yet still uploaded it w that thumbnail) … idk man, that thumbnail for ANY other one of her songs lmao… but this one? 😬😬
I’m practically begging you to listen to her older stuff, it’s way more sonically cohesive and you’d probably enjoy it! Check out army of me, enjoy, bachelorette, venus as a boy, hyberballad, pagan poetry, literally ANY of those 😭😭😭 I promise you’ll enjoy at least one of ‘em
Oh I do enjoy a few songs by her so far that others have recommended, just didn't release a video about it...yet
@@HeWentRogue well maybe you should idk why you’re hell bent on pissing off your audience lmao
@@riggamorrischan it's interesting when getting subscribers is the youtubers' thing. Had he approached it in a way that spoke to being at all interested in delving, then perhaps I would respect his pov, even if he did not like it. All he essentially does is ask "why?", bait fans and yearns for the music to be radio-friendly or simpler. Being controversial just for the sake of it is off-putting.
You paused the video so many times, it's impossible to understand a song giving so many pauses
I don't know about that. It's a 7 minute song, I listened to large chunks of it and again the next day. I still feel the same way about it, not a fan.
what gets me is not whether someone likes or dislikes it, but that those who like it seem to like it *instantly* as if it's an easily digestible piece of pop music. the rapturous reactions to what are very slow, strange affairs sometimes strike me as a little false. It took me years to love Medulla, and Biophilia (one of her less well-recieved albums) is my absolute favourite now - after ignoring it for the longest time. they're both extremely nerdy and pretentious but I just adore what she was trying to do (there's a hell of a lot of background mechanical stuff on both of them which i think does help to know about.) I think a big problem with coming to Bjork as she is now, is that the experimental phase which has been building on itself layer after layer now dominates her career, and yet even now we're kind of selling her as the pop star she was in 1995. As if all it would take is another Underworld remix and the right producer and she'd be filling the clubs and taking up space on everyone's coffee table again, which we secretly (or openly, based on recommendations) want. Perhaps the fact that she so explicitly does not want to do anything like that is what has created the cult - if you're a Bjork fan and you don't commit fully to what she's doing right now, you just got left behind by Bjork herself. It's rather bruising to the ego.
Aren't you blanketing how your mind works over the whole? Since "Homogenic", I've been a Bjork fan. While a lot of her music does take a few listens, a great deal of it, FOR ME, took only a one-time listen to love it. While "Atopos" is just OK, it did engage me instantaneously. I also immediately LOVED "Ovule'' and "Ancestress". You shouldn't expect everyone's mind to work the same as yours. I think once you've become attuned to Bjork and artists of her ilk, getting into the music is less difficult than those whose ears are accustomed to radio music. There really is a sort of "getting it", which is why this sounds messy to many.
@@valentinomiller6251 In particular, React channels visibly do poorly whenever they post a reaction to a thing they don't like (the poor Kate Bush reactors had a lot of unexpected things to work through, and before the dislike bar was removed there were some real ratios happening to them.) I'm sure lots of people do like things instantly and I'm sorry if I implied that wasn't the case, I hadn't realised I'd excluded you to that extent. It does rather seem like you're saying that it took time and experience to like her body of work as it progresses though, which feels rather like what I was saying.
@@storageheater as I re-read your statement, I realise my comment is an amalgam of a response to yours and another's 😂. How I did that? Your guess is as good as mine 😂. However, for me, I liked and grew to love Bjork as soon as I'd first heard her music, her "Homogenic" era. I think perhaps I got offended by the word "pretentious" and ran with it. I think we agree that to EXPECT Bjork to be easy on the ears of the general-music listener is folly. For me, disliking a Bjork track or album is the same as disliking anyone other if my fave's music, in that it just doesn't resonate with me. Don't get me started on Tori Amos' ''Boy for Pele", an album which is mostly a collection of unimpressive, fast-forwardable forgetable-ness to me, but lauded by seemingly Tori's entire fandom, except me 😂, a great fan of hers. Go figure. i don't hate this reviewers dislike of the song, but his approach to it, which seems to want to irritate the Bjork fan.
Que pendejada. Mama Björk no es para todo el mundo. Osea, tú no decides escucharla, ella te elige a tí. Y claramente no estás preparada para entrar a su universo mi ciela.
jajajaja estoy contento
I like Bjork but of course it's ok to not like somebody.
how you dare??
I criticize her about some recent work too but saying that what she is doing is not music is weird. It's music even it sounds bad to you. Actually Björk repeats her own patterns for years. Her music is like a genre that unique to herself that a new listener may not get into easily. I think one of her recent work Atopos, is really really bad in every respect including the video. But this one is an amazing one IMO. Maybe it's just not for you. It's like a non heavy metal listener not finding music in a heavy metal song and perceiving the vocals as just screaming. Maybe you can try her more commonly appealing works like Hidden Place, Joga, All is full of Love, I've Seen it All, New World, Hyperballad, Human Behavior, Declare Independence, Pleasure is All Mine (acapella) to break the idea that her music is bad or just to understand why some people think the opposite.
You have bad taste. 90% of the world does, which explains popular culture. We don’t need an explanation.
So you would be part of the 10% that deviates from what the world collectively thinks is better music. Yeah...that makes sense...
Personally i view bjorks recent music as more spoken word poetry with a loose bead behind it, love it tho, i think when you quit looking at it through the traditional song structure you start to appreciate it more
She's definitely exploring what music can do to accomodate uncertain feelings
I agree. The words are beautiful.
Idk if youve reacted to this song but PLEASE react to unravel by bjork, i think you will injoy it much more
I'll check it out. There's been a few bjork songs that I like so far, but again they are older so I didn't feel the need to rush to do a reaction
@@HeWentRogue i think you actually might enjoy one of her more recent songs, its called utopia (title track) its much more melodic
Maybe you should just quit doing the Björk videos. If you don't like it then you don't, no need to keep uploading these if you don't enjoy it.
Actually, I want him to do more. I just wish he'd be more honest, intelligent and mature about it. Good luck with that, I guess.
Well, ignorance is bold 🤷♂
As much as I don't agree with you I still love watching dissenting opinions on thing that I like! Thanks for your opinions!
this is an amazing dissection/reaction!! im a huge bjork fan and i have even been slightly “disappointed” by ovule and even ancestress unfortunately, even though its a subjectively better song than ovule in my opinion :) i think more than most artist alot of bjorks music takes context; from the atmosphere’s shes trying to create, and also the music that influenced the environment. alot of the music she was saying influenced her quarantine period was atonal-ish 20th century classical compositions and other world music that our westerner ears arent really accustomed to so that also may be playing a part in the inaccessible sound. i do respect the way you voice your opinions and more importantly the respectful manner in which you voice them! i would recommend you listen to some of arcas work! she is almost a protege of bjork but her most recent works have been slightly more grounded in pop/pop sensibilities. would love to see your reaction once the new album does come out just for the fun of it LOL
It's hard for me because I'm coming in fresh to Bjork. These 3 new songs are the ones I listened to first, and then theres a few older ones I listened to which I liked. The atonal stuff I can handle but only if it's in a different context, like for example video game music or musical scores. I really like horror movie music scores but without the movie attached to it then I'm not interested.
I looked up Arca. I don't think I've ever heard a Venezuelan musician before, some of the instrumental stuff that she has sounds pretty good. I clicked on Cayo and listened for about 30 seconds and then stopped it because I might do a blind reaction to that...it looks insane!
I don't think u are very good at this lol
Possibly but I'm gonna keep doing it.
@@HeWentRogue we’re glad u stopped
Ok. You can't possibly understand what this song is about, because you are not Bjork. There are lyrics, ok. You say "it doesn't sound good", because you expect it to sound good. This is not music, as you expect it to be. The whole album is a mourning for her mother, who passed away on October 25th 2018. On this particular song you can hear tibetan bowls, which her mother used to play (there is an interview of her on youtube, you should check it out). Bjork is not singing musically on this album, she is just pouring her soul out, and I pray people do not ever understand this album so they can experience her pain firsthand. But, yeah, "bad music" indeed.
Eh, okie. Lol björk is very not your taste! More for us I guess you know. Hehe I still can’t with that thumbnail lol.
I’m just here to see how mad her fans could be
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I'm a huge Björk fan but this current album cycle has been pretty rough in my honest opinion. A big problem I have with the full Fossora album is that she's done all of these musical ideas presented on this album before and executed them WAY better on those past records. There used to be some sort of connective tissue with the music that kept the weirdness (mostly) digestible.
I can't really get mad at you for your feelings on these singles, these songs are not a good introduction to Björk.
Then you’re not a huge fan lmao
@@dualipa4106 thank you dual lips