All these comments talking about how she "isn't human". I totally disagree! She represents the fullest form of human I've ever seen. So raw, emotional, and pure. Beautiful.
That's the thing, she is so pure, so beautiful, natural and human, that nobody else, it's so rare. She's so pure art that give me goosebumps and makes me so emotional.
when i say she isn't a human, it mean in an amazing good way because of her music and her genius art. also that she can show super deeply the human emotion more than the average human itself.
Think only people who've been in so much pain as that would understand... I have too been hurting inside so bad that in desperation started to hurt myself on the outside :/
During an interview for Grapevine.is Björk clarifies why 'Black Lake' is so long: "It’s like, when you’re trying to express something and you sort of start, but then nothing comes out. You can maybe utter five words and then you’re just stuck in the pain. And the chords in-between, they sort of represent that. We called them “the freezes,” these moments between the verses. They’re longer than the verses, actually. It’s just that one emotion when you’re stuck. It is hard, but it’s also the only way to escape the pain, just going back and having another go, trying to make another verse." - Bjork In the album booklet, the sub-title for this song is “2 months after”, signifying that this song was written 2 months after the breakup of the relationship between Björk and Matthew Barney.
BjorksMusic Thank you so much for the insight. I felt those "freezes" and I resonated very strongly. My post-heartbreak is about 1.5 yrs going, and there's still more healing to do.
Don't get me wrong, I love her. But I'm not.the kind of fan, which she said she hates herself, that be like uhhh a New Bjork song it's cool to love it so I'll just love it and be cool.. don't wanna sound cocky but ive been a musician for 25 years now, I'm 36, and hmmm I just think she's too far lost in trying not to repeat herself. It is a very brave statement Everytime but not admirable.
@@rafaelmch She hasn't changed her identity too much, but her recent albums are much less conventional and more experimental than her 90s work. I'm not saying it has worked every time (not quite as fond of Volta, Biophilia, and Utopia) but this song and album is beautiful. It isn't rushed or overworked, it's artistically rich, and very candidly expresses her feelings of pain and despair, and how she rose up from those toxic emotions to find self-confidence again. That's just my two cents though.
Her every song, video, is like a section of a chapter of a huge novel. This is one of my favourite videos of her, these icelandic locations, the melancholy, its perfect. Who ever is hurting, remember pain doesn’t last forever, it will go away, just like in the video, she is finally free and happy
This is the most beautiful visual representation of emotional suffering that I’ve ever seen. I felt the darkness of the cave, the rocks, the movements, the facial expression. The seclusion, the loneliness and helplessness. This reached the depth of my soul and touched some sensitive spots, now I’m in tears. This is an amazing work of art!!
BJÖRK Black Lake Lyrics Our love was my womb but our bond has broken My shield is gone, my protection is taken I am one wound, my pulsating body Suffering be My heart is enormous lake, black with potion I am blind, drowning in this ocean My soul torn apart, my spirit is broken Into the fabric of all he has woven You fear my limitless emotions I am bored of your apocalyptic obsessions Did I love you too much? Devotion bent me broken So I remained, destroyed the icon I did it for love, I honored my feelings You betrayed your own heart, corrupted that organ Family was always our sacred mutual mission Which you abandoned You have nothing to give, your heart is hollow I am drowned in sorrows No hope in sight, of ember Reckoning eternal pain and horrors I am a glowing shining rocket Returning home As I enter the atmosphere I burn off layer by layer ♥
Another drama queen attention hog chick. No wonder he left. All this high maintenance melodrama. You want to get over shit? Stop obsessing about yourself and go help others. Western relationship dramas mean fuck all in real life and death situations where people are murdered and enslaved for merely existing. A world of teen aged angst over and fckn over. Zzzzzzz
I just love the part where she says "I am bored, of your apocalyptic obsessions. It's like the point in the song where she starts to get fed up of this sadness and starts to get over all of the sad and become a strong person and figure the second phase of a breakup, which is anger. She also puts all of one different stages in this song. 1. Sadness and mourning 2. Self hatred 3. anger 4. the healing period
sorry to say, for me that line you've highlighted accentuates how I am bored of...Bjork's anfractuous obsessions. I do say this as a one-time avid Bjork fan from the days of the Sugarcubes on until, hmm...Vespertine (which I loved). Since then, I've only found the odd track slightly interesting; the rest just feels repetitive and washes over me. I really have tried: I return every now again, and always listen through every new album release. ---- Also, I find this video hideous, with Bjork displaying great limitations in her bodily expression too. If you want to, please feel free to enlighten me as to what it is I'm no longer getting.
This song has always meant a lot to me. It's the saddest song I have ever heard in my life and right now I see myself going through an immensely painful moment for losing a loved one to the pandemic. I knew I had to come back here and understand that sometimes we have to embrace, feel and suffer our pain instead of ignoring it. It is a necessary path to healing.
They say Vulnicura is Vespertine's dark twin. Where Vespertine is all about falling deeply and madly in love, Vulnicura is all about love's unraveling and undoing. I fell in love with my then partner at the time of Vespertine's release. I was 24 and just out of college. I believed I had found the love of my life. As we lay in our "hidden place" over that dismal winter I would like to think Vespertine playing continuously in the background contributed to that love blossoming. We had 9 years of genuine happiness then 3 years where that love slowly turned into an indifference towards one another and then finally betrayal and 13 years later the curtain was drawn closed. Funny how in 2013 Bjork and Mathew Barney's relationship also drew to a close. Maybe that is the curse of Vespertine but if I ever decide to enter another long-term relationship there is no doubt in my mind that Vespertine will be conducting its very birth once again. This song truly had me in tears like pretty much the whole of Vulnicura. Thank you, Bjork, for the wonderful memories and the heartbreak.
Vesper Lynd was the only woman James Bond ever truly loved. He named his martini after her, the "Vesper martini" (Verspertini). Anyway, interesting story, and parallel, Stefarooh. As well as interesting album titles and their timing, huh. I can only imagine what it would be like to date Bjork-- incredibly wonderful, I'm sure. She is a Scorpio-Snake (her Western & Eastern astrological signs). I dated a Scorpio-Snake for 3 years, and it was a torrid romantic affair of infinite emotions, both wonderful and immortal with feelings of invincibility, yet heart-wrenching and soul-sapping in the end as we betrayed each other. I'm a Scorpio-Dog. And two Scorpios together are either like a house on fire, or explosively devastating, or both. In our case, both. I never had a Bond flick move me so much as Eva Green and Daniel Craig in Casino Royale. He truly gave himself to her and wanted a life with her; but then tragedy, half- truths & betrayal struck, and he ended up turning into the shallow womanizer that we all know him for. She so reminded me of my love affair..who, incidentally, looked a lot like an Asian Catherine Zeta-Jones, or Famke Janssen from X-Men.. another romantic chemistry & tragedy from the silver screen that always gets me: Wolverine and Jean Grey. Love lives. And love dies. But don't worry. Love always lives again. And you will love again, and live again. Prior to that 3 year torrid romance of mine, I was in a relationship for 14 years.
This is I think the most personal and intimate song she had ever written about her personal wound. The first time listening to it my best friend and I cried. We could relate to how deep a wound can a person left you when your expectations didn't par well and how it would affect us as a person as we grow. The hundredth of times I listen to this I get goosebumps still. To me, no Bjork song fails to represent my innermost emotion and subconscious or state of mind about a personal event in my life. Every sound, every silence, every word, every beat and rhythm is there to convey sad, anger, happiness, curiosity, fear, anxiety, anticipation, ... just amazing...
Björk about "Black Lake". "I think I was mostly focused on emotion. This is the record’s hardest song for me. It was written three months after the divorce. (...) It’s like, when you’re trying to express something and you sort of start, but then nothing comes out. You can maybe utter five words and then you’re just stuck in the pain. And the chords in-between, they sort of represent that. Those minutes of stuttering silence. Then, you maybe manage a few more words, and then you’re stuck again. We called them “the freezes”, these moments between the verses. They’re longer than the verses, actually. It’s just that one emotion when you’re stuck. It is hard, but it’s also the only way to escape the pain, just going back and having another go, trying to make another verse. 'Black Lake' also employs a method that I used a long time ago, in a song off Post that’s called Possibly Maybe. In that song, each verse was named after a month, it was nine verses for nine months. Actually, some of those verses wound up being cut, and of course it’s not at all as dramatic, but it shares with 'Black Lake' a… a temporality ? As in, the song progresses through time. The first verse happens a month after… I can’t remember for sure, but the second verse is maybe a week later, and the next verse is a week after that. By the time we reach the last verse, something has changed, something is different."
I'm a Björk fan since I can remember... She always brighten my soul. Her relationship with Matthew has come to an end. And that broke her in to pieces... I've suffered with a broken heart in my past. The love of my life is long gone and maried to other person. And that's why, I can understand her pain. This song made me cry. The video is so moving amd deep in real feelings. When she beats her heart... I did that too while I cried for my lost love. My heart seemed to stop. I could not feel it.... Björk, thank you for sharing this with your fans. We are with you.
I cried too when she did that. It's such a universal intuitive gesture. And it just came to my mind why one does it. As if to make the heart start again when its broken and about to stop. Because it's true and scientificcally proven I read some time ago. People do die of a broken heart, and for purely physiological reasons at that ...
Very poignant man we all have been through losses... it’s hard to close a chapter sometimes.. we all who feel are together, it feels better to know that
I was surprised by the video’s lack of water because when I first listened to the song I pictured her literally sinking in a dark lake (of grief, heartbreak, hopelessness), but I think I get it. I feel like the beginning in the dark tunnel is her “rock bottom,” and throughout the video she climbs up through it and moves on to “greener pastures,” as seen in the final shot. Simple, beautiful, and effective.
One of the most significant and important pieces of work she has ever done. Bjork understands human emotion better than anyone else i've ever seen before.
I have enjoyed every aspect of her metamorphosis over the course of 27 years. Beginning with her punkish eye candy Sugarcubes image to the quirky but cute Debut & Post look, on through her sultry postmodern Homogenic & Vespertine style all the while transforming into her spacey avant-garde gorgeousness of the millennium until we reach this point in time... the glowingly older classic beauty that is almost too overwhelming to behold. I would throw myself at her feet if I could...
+neuta5 Anyone who spreads such hatrated towards strangers who's not doing any harm by expressing themselves is the one who should go and fuck himself. I hope you reconsider not being such a troll.
+Juan Madrigal you sir are a gentleman and I am thankful that you would defend a total stranger who is just trying to express how beautiful this woman is. Obviously our friend neuta5 doesn't get hyperbole and just a simple expression of flattery. Clearly, I was never going to fall at her feet... I was just trying to be poetic for this lovely creature. Some people don't have the sense to express themselves in a positive manner. For them it always comes out cheap, vulgar and ignorant. Have a great 2016 my friend and take care...
She is beating her own chest, as if she is trying to simulate a heartbeat, for there are times in life where the pain is so great that you feel like your heart might just stop beating, or it already has. It's a pain we will all be able to relate to at some point in our lives, and the way she portrayed it is beyond poetic.
I had a similar experience and it took me almost 3 years of recovery. For a long while I wasn’t even aware how much pain I was still carrying. I came upon this song and the whole album last winter and it poured everything out. Such a time it was... Now after almost one year, I am all healed. While Björk made the song for herself, she helped others like her just as much. I adore this power art bears.
Bjork is one of the most engaging musicians of this time. Possibly the most dynamic and emotionally enriching music of our generation. This is the depth that's lacking from the mainstream.
@7:20, when Björk starts beating against her chest with great urgency and passion, you can't help but feel her pain too. ;_; It's as if she's trying to exorcise her pain in order for her to transform into an incandescent, fluttering butterfly at the end.
Krystalle Teh It's art, i'm pretty sure Bjork would be very thankfull to know that her art sounds, touches and looks different to every human being who listens to it, I'm sure she's happy about you seeing that as a butterfly or whatever it is that touches your hearrrrrrt.
Bjork poured her heart out about the end of her relationship with "Matthew" with the lyrics of this song: 'You betrayed your own heart/Corrupted that organ/Family was always our sacred mutual mission/Which you abandoned.' In an interview, she stated that this breakup was 'the most painful thing she has ever experienced." - From UK News Feel bad for her... great album.
That is a good expression of what that feels like too. I think it's amazing that she was able to distill this kind of pain into art so articulately. Who else has put this into words? Has anyone before her?
See, Bjork's music doesn't DIRECTLY make me cry, it's just that it brings up a lot of bad stuff about my past and insecurities about my future. THEN I cry
I cried without thinking about anything. I do have issues but I wasn't thinking of them just feeling. The instruments and the way she sings gets me. Always loved her
Hand on my heart when I dare to say that, this song right here, is, all art forms considered, one of the biggest masterpieces of our time. Although it sounds corny, we truly are all so blessed to be alive at the same time as Björk.
I broke up after 11 years .. I'm heartbroken & this track represent everything I feel .. I feel I'm drowning .. I feel there is no life after life ... I feel lost , I feel this is my end . This tune is everything to me , that is all I have left . I lost it all ... My heart is a black lake . If you do love someone - cherish them dearly .
How on earth would you know it was deliberate. Just because we love Bjork it doesn't mean we know wtf happened. We only have her poetic version of her side.
@@AndrewIndoChannel sorry. You are right. She is a great artist and singer. Not going to xpand on what I wrote, as I think it does not serve any purpose, or enhance the conversation. Thanks
I have felt this PAIN...... of Loosing your soulmate. No one has ever articulated it quitelike my girl Bjork!!!! I love her always. ( Bjork that is!!)!
She definitely isn't receiving all the credit she is due!! One of the most brilliant artists of our time when I think of her work I imagine as if each album were a chapter in my own life yet she always ceases to amaze me
This is what heartbreak looks and sounds like....i 've been in that blake lake myself and when she pounds her heart desperatly i saw myself....this is beyond art this is a trancendal experience.....
Bjork is the only one that has truly helped with my bipolar episodes. Thank you. If I could ever meet her I would just wanna give her a hug to thank her for her emotional power.
Well, that just means you have to search more. There are four songs that are more than 8 minutes long of which I love every second - Touch (Daft Punk), Giorgio by Moroder (Daft Punk), Cygnet Committee (David Bowie), La Ritournelle (Sebastién Tellier)...okay, that last one is just below 8 mins, but you get the point ;D
Pay attention on how she credits everyone who made an effort to make this video and song possible. I think that's how everyone in the music industry should do it👍
I love the fact that she's not interested in chasing trends or looking young and sexy. Her music evolves as she does. I hope she makes music into her old age which continues to reflect her experiences.
This was my favorite song on the album already, but seeing this video just ruined my whole night. One of the most moving pieces I've ever seen from an artist before. I had chills from the crown of my head to the edge of my heals.
After hearing this track for the first time in Iceland, this for me was the one that stood out. I keep coming back to this track. I love how minimalist it is yet catchy. Its got that lovely olafur arnalds sound I love! I love the lyrics, that have a very amorous and poetic flow.
Björk is not only a musical legend and genius, she is a beautiful representation and art piece that has talents beyond what many non artistic humans can comprehend. She's most definitely not a part of our pop culture, she's beyond. Tell me the last time you heard a newer Björk song on the radio?... I can't wait to see and hear what she presents to us next.
Being part of Bjork Digital was one of the best moments of my life. When we didn't have a lot of public we could go to the experiences and I always locked on Black Lake room and listened trough like 80 speakers and two big screens. I always ended up crying. Also, on the VR rooms there was this Black Lake VR video that never came out to public, were you could watch the video on a cave.
i used to dream when i was young that one day i will continue her legacy of music... but i just keep singing for myself, making music from my heart, just like her
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Not exactly. That more-so happened gradually over the years as she used such abrasive vocal techniques throughout her career. My guess is that its also a little bit of her not pushing herself so hard vocally now as a means of taking better care of her voice. I think I read somewhere that she was working with a vocal coach in the earlier 2010's.
This video never stops impressing me with the level of raw emotion, the cold environment, the chest pounding, the body thrashing, the crumbling rock, the large instrumental spaces between the verses, it never ceases to go straight to my heart
Apparently from an interview with grapevine.is, Björk explaining why this song is so long: "It’s like, when you’re trying to express something and you sort of start, but then nothing comes out. You can maybe utter five words and then you’re just stuck in the pain. And the chords in-between, they sort of represent that. […] We called them “the freezes,” these moments between the verses. They’re longer than the verses, actually. It’s just that one emotion when you’re stuck. It is hard, but it’s also the only way to escape the pain, just going back and having another go, trying to make another verse."
I hope she knows how important is to me. I'm going through the same as her. But in a differnt way. My father passed away 2 days ago due to Covid 19. There are some moments in which I wanna scream and cry to release my chest from grief. On the other hand I just bottle up my feeling, cause I cannot find the words to describe how I feel. Everything was all of the sudden and really quick that I didn't have time to assimilate anything. THANK U BJORK. for being a channel for those who cannot express ourselves
Esta canción es muy importante para mí. Creo que la más importante de toda Vulnicura. Quizá no sea la mejor, ni la más feliz de su discografía, pero esta canción la estuve guardando como 'oro' para escucharla en vivo en el concierto que dio en Barcelona el pasado julio. Cada vez que la escucho me entra la vena sensible y muchas veces me sale alguna lágrima. La amo, me produce tantas sensaciones. Gracias Björk.
Thank you so much Bjork for always being so raw. This really speaks to many who have experienced or are going through heartbreak like myself. Through your love of art and music you've made things that are priceless, you've made a connection with people that truly helps them. You're the best music Artist out there!
Our love was my womb But our bond has broken My shield is gone My protection is taken I am one wound My pulsating body Suffering being My heart is enormous lake Black with potion I am blind Drowning in this ocean My soul torn apart My spirit is broken Into the fabric of all He is woven You fear my limitless emotions I am bored of your apocalyptic obsessions Did I love you too much Devotion bent me broken So I rebelled Destroyed the icon I did it for love, I honored my feelings You betrayed your own heart Corrupted that organ Family was always our sacred mutual mission Which you abandoned You have nothing to give Your heart is hollow I'm drowned in sorrows No hope in sight of ever recover Eternal pain and horrors I am a glowing shiny rocket Returning home As I enter the atmosphere I burn off layer by layer
I agree with the Mozart statement, Björk is a most fascinating artist. What a joyful privilege it is to watch her grow. I'm so happy she came along in my time.... Thank you princess. 💗
I felt the same, I think that emotion you feel at the end, is not sadness, the tears coming out it's the marvel of beauty, the emotion when art touch you....I think.
After sharing recent videos ranging from lackluster ("Stonemilker") to decent ("Lionsong") to astounding ("Family"), I'd have to say this one is pretty damn good. Rapid-cuts of her head violently shaking, the stark contrast of blue lava against jet-black landscapes and fluid camera movements highlighting her gestures and flashes of emotion all match the elements of the constantly-evolving song, the video shape-shifting as needed to externalize what the song - and by extension, Bjork - is moving towards. Very pleased with this, as well as the overall renewal in her exploration of modern sounds and the public's interest in her as an artistic figure. She's proof that anyone can redefine (or solidify) themselves at 50 years-old.
She’s the only one to me who can trulyyyyy sing what a deeply broken heart feels like. And I’m not talking about a first love breakup. I’m talking about earth shattering loss & heartache that time could never heal.
I don't have any poignant stories. Her albums don't remind me of any special or significant moments. My life is, and has been, empty and meaningless. Nevertheless, Bjork has remained a beacon of light in an otherwise pitch-darkness. In the only slightly discrepant timeline where Bjork never existed, I might well have been drowned in an ocean of banality and mediocrity, she was the piece of wood to cling onto when everyone else seemed entranced by vapidity. Although Bjork looks older, and I feel much older, as long as she is still around producing works of such awe and beauty, or I am sufficiently favored by chance to have ears functioning well enough to hear her, I will know that I am somehow connected to that distant person who was fortunate enough to hear her voice for the first time.
That's a beautiful comment but I hope things got better for you friend. I felt like this a lot in the past and it's not nice at all. All the best and good luck in your journey!
What can i add, this vocal video is such a superb visionary statement about love and no repeating answer, about the whole of hurting and love as a concept of hurting, and when the video shots portray her in a landscaping volcanic surroundings, only her, and nothing else, something happend to me. I really got into the music and landscape, into her movements, full grown, and loved it form beginning to the end. This time no critic at all, just imaging, listening, looking and enjoying Bjork is this full grown video lyric. In one word: beautiful!!
Vulnicura came out at a time when I was just after a bad breakup and mentally I was at a bad place. So I listened to this album a lot and when Björk says music has the power to heal, she is right. It helped me a lot with my emotions and to get myself back together.
This song gets me so depressed real fast. Man, I use to have a huge crush on Bjork in middle school and high school, then it faded. Now those feelings came back after years later haha.
My Husband of 17 years divorced me last year. This song is so beautiful and it touches me. I think we were going through the similar things at the same time. I still love this song and visual. Thanks, a lot, in other words, for all that you do.
I was heartbroken when this album / song came out . I remember listening to it while going to work ( crying behind my big sunglasses ). I’ve never dated again since that year. I think something got too broken inside me . I always feel too much when revisiting this album . I’m happy alone , but sometimes I wonder if I have created too many walls . But somehow , this album makes me feel good, because when I’m broken I am all and when I’m all I am broken- I get it
There's something very Marina Abramović about it. Especially the chest pounding and head shaking around the 7 minute mark. It's a very true mark of heartbreak, making you want to shake it out. Moments of freedom intertwined so deeply in sadness that you don't know which is which. I was pleased. It only got better as it went.
LYRICS: Our love was my womb But our bond has broken My shield is gone My protection is taken I am one wound My pulsating body Suffering being My heart is enormous lake Black with potion I am blind Drowning in this ocean My soul torn apart My spirit is broken Into the fabric of all He is woven You fear my limitless emotions I am bored of your apocalyptic obsessions Did I love you too much Devotion bent me broken So I rebelled Destroyed the icon I did it for love, I honored my feelings You betrayed your own heart Corrupted that organ Family was always our sacred mutual mission Which you abandoned You have nothing to give Your heart is hollow I'm drowned in sorrows No hope in sight of ever recover Eternal pain and horrors I am a glowing shiny rocket Returning home As I enter the atmosphere I burn off layer by layer
Bjork is so much different from other artists in the way she expresses her true emotions by simulating slightly wierd body gestures but the fact that she does that in ways that other artists never have is wut makes her very unique and very great and she has and amazingly beautiful voice and the fact that she's not afraid to go outside the norm is wut makes her outstanding and i have 100% respect for her because of that 👍👍👍👍💯💯💯
I listened to this album constantly after a painful breakup. When I wasn’t riding the metro to work listening to this song (specifically), I was falling asleep to it on my headphones with tears streaming down my face.
a beautiful expression of heartbreak... any man that would not fight to hold onto this beautiful soul is simply not worthy of her presence in his life ❤❤
björk was born with her ascendant, sun and moon all looking at the scorpip constellation (one that is traditionally associated with mars and rules over the deserts, bare lands, insects and is classified as a "fixed watery sign", sort of like a still pond in the middle of a deserted land... scorpions can cross the dessert because they accumulate water); both her mars (the ruler of scorpio) and her venus are in capricorn, the cardinal earthy sign that represents a goat-fish ('pan: where 'panic' comes from). both the lyrics and the scenery of the video are so astrologically symbolic that it makes me speechless. goats do not have lacrimal glands. she is there, inside of a cave (rocks being earth, capricorn's domain) as if she were inside of the emptiness of her solid and rocky heart after it was shattered by her lover, but it is a strong heart: so, she walks through the bare lands in despair but stronger and stronger, feeling her emotions as sharply as the rocks are and she eventually walks through the bare lands of anguish and heals! oh, ah, it can sound like a lot of rubbish, but it is nice to read things in different symbolic ways. love her
black lake' 10+emotional. by far one of the greatest heart felt, moveing videos ever done by her that ive ever seen too date. filmed in volcanic raw iceland...watching this is very emotional and moveing, the part when she's thumping her chest over and over again, as she 'jump starts' her shattered broken heart with the sound of 'flatline' is masterful. aged 49 in the 'black lake' video, she never fails and now she's 50 she still brings the emotion passion and raw power in her music. [björk is pure electricity!]
Bjork es tan necesaria para la humanidad como lo son los verdaderos genios. Muchos la amamos y muchos la odiaran. Pero nadie queda neutral. Bjork is so needed for humankind as all of the real genious. Many as me love her, and many will hate her. But you cant be neutral.
I definitely don't recommend listening to this album after a bad fight/breakup with a significant other. She does such a fcking amazing job capturing emotions with music, it gets me every time
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All these comments talking about how she "isn't human". I totally disagree! She represents the fullest form of human I've ever seen. So raw, emotional, and pure.
Beautiful.
Omar Hamadeh right? It’s because ppl can’t handle dark and emotional stuff. It’s why you won’t see that stuff in mainstream things.
Bjork is other worldly to me and I mean that as a big compliment. There is no one like her.
That's the thing, she is so pure, so beautiful, natural and human, that nobody else, it's so rare.
She's so pure art that give me goosebumps and makes me so emotional.
She's singing about ascension! Ascension from the human experience as you know it.
when i say she isn't a human, it mean in an amazing good way because of her music and her genius art. also that she can show super deeply the human emotion more than the average human itself.
When she hits her chest it's like you can really feel her pain. That's pure art right there.
I cried so hard 😭💔
Think only people who've been in so much pain as that would understand... I have too been hurting inside so bad that in desperation started to hurt myself on the outside :/
These lyrics are fucking hard. She's pouring her heart out.
@@BorgCoitus Yes, you are all right.
it is like she is trying to get her heart to start beating again 💔
During an interview for Grapevine.is Björk clarifies why 'Black Lake' is so long:
"It’s like, when you’re trying to express something and you sort of start, but then nothing comes out. You can maybe utter five words and then you’re just stuck in the pain. And the chords in-between, they sort of represent that. We called them “the freezes,” these moments between the verses. They’re longer than the verses, actually. It’s just that one emotion when you’re stuck. It is hard, but it’s also the only way to escape the pain, just going back and having another go, trying to make another verse." - Bjork
In the album booklet, the sub-title for this song is “2 months after”, signifying that this song was written 2 months after the breakup of the relationship between Björk and Matthew Barney.
¡Le admiro demasiado!
BjorksMusic Thank you so much for the insight.
I felt those "freezes" and I resonated very strongly. My post-heartbreak is about 1.5 yrs going, and there's still more healing to do.
Don't get me wrong, I love her. But I'm not.the kind of fan, which she said she hates herself, that be like uhhh a New Bjork song it's cool to love it so I'll just love it and be cool.. don't wanna sound cocky but ive been a musician for 25 years now, I'm 36, and hmmm I just think she's too far lost in trying not to repeat herself. It is a very brave statement Everytime but not admirable.
@@rafaelmch She hasn't changed her identity too much, but her recent albums are much less conventional and more experimental than her 90s work. I'm not saying it has worked every time (not quite as fond of Volta, Biophilia, and Utopia) but this song and album is beautiful. It isn't rushed or overworked, it's artistically rich, and very candidly expresses her feelings of pain and despair, and how she rose up from those toxic emotions to find self-confidence again. That's just my two cents though.
That's so relatable. She sounds like a psychologist but more down to earth.
Her every song, video, is like a section of a chapter of a huge novel. This is one of my favourite videos of her, these icelandic locations, the melancholy, its perfect. Who ever is hurting, remember pain doesn’t last forever, it will go away, just like in the video, she is finally free and happy
Fossora lo prueba
This is the most beautiful visual representation of emotional suffering that I’ve ever seen. I felt the darkness of the cave, the rocks, the movements, the facial expression. The seclusion, the loneliness and helplessness. This reached the depth of my soul and touched some sensitive spots, now I’m in tears. This is an amazing work of art!!
BJÖRK
Black Lake Lyrics
Our love was my womb but our bond has broken
My shield is gone, my protection is taken
I am one wound, my pulsating body
Suffering be
My heart is enormous lake, black with potion
I am blind, drowning in this ocean
My soul torn apart, my spirit is broken
Into the fabric of all he has woven
You fear my limitless emotions
I am bored of your apocalyptic obsessions
Did I love you too much? Devotion bent me broken
So I remained, destroyed the icon
I did it for love, I honored my feelings
You betrayed your own heart, corrupted that organ
Family was always our sacred mutual mission
Which you abandoned
You have nothing to give, your heart is hollow
I am drowned in sorrows
No hope in sight, of ember
Reckoning eternal pain and horrors
I am a glowing shining rocket
Returning home
As I enter the atmosphere
I burn off layer by layer
♥
That's heavy, emotional, raw poetry.
Another drama queen attention hog chick. No wonder he left. All this high maintenance melodrama. You want to get over shit? Stop obsessing about yourself and go help others. Western relationship dramas mean fuck all in real life and death situations where people are murdered and enslaved for merely existing. A world of teen aged angst over and fckn over. Zzzzzzz
Loves Lunatics
what a hypocrite, you call for empathy yet dismiss others' pain so easily.
@@10mimu everyone ignore the troll. Came here to a video of someone he "hates" to talk shit. *yawn*
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I just love the part where she says "I am bored, of your apocalyptic obsessions. It's like the point in the song where she starts to get fed up of this sadness and starts to get over all of the sad and become a strong person and figure the second phase of a breakup, which is anger. She also puts all of one different stages in this song.
1. Sadness and mourning
2. Self hatred
3. anger
4. the healing period
Yes i noticed the change in tone as the song progessed. Really clever!
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for 30 years now shes been delivering beautiful art. we are so blessed so attuned to be here among light bearer and standardbearers.
thank you for outlining that. I get lost in the music versus her visuals, music is a full experience.
sorry to say, for me that line you've highlighted accentuates how I am bored of...Bjork's anfractuous obsessions. I do say this as a one-time avid Bjork fan from the days of the Sugarcubes on until, hmm...Vespertine (which I loved). Since then, I've only found the odd track slightly interesting; the rest just feels repetitive and washes over me. I really have tried: I return every now again, and always listen through every new album release. ---- Also, I find this video hideous, with Bjork displaying great limitations in her bodily expression too. If you want to, please feel free to enlighten me as to what it is I'm no longer getting.
This song has always meant a lot to me. It's the saddest song I have ever heard in my life and right now I see myself going through an immensely painful moment for losing a loved one to the pandemic. I knew I had to come back here and understand that sometimes we have to embrace, feel and suffer our pain instead of ignoring it. It is a necessary path to healing.
It really is one of the saddest song.
They say Vulnicura is Vespertine's dark twin. Where Vespertine is all about falling deeply and madly in love, Vulnicura is all about love's unraveling and undoing.
I fell in love with my then partner at the time of Vespertine's release. I was 24 and just out of college. I believed I had found the love of my life. As we lay in our "hidden place" over that dismal winter I would like to think Vespertine playing continuously in the background contributed to that love blossoming. We had 9 years of genuine happiness then 3 years where that love slowly turned into an indifference towards one another and then finally betrayal and 13 years later the curtain was drawn closed.
Funny how in 2013 Bjork and Mathew Barney's relationship also drew to a close. Maybe that is the curse of Vespertine but if I ever decide to enter another long-term relationship there is no doubt in my mind that Vespertine will be conducting its very birth once again.
This song truly had me in tears like pretty much the whole of Vulnicura. Thank you, Bjork, for the wonderful memories and the heartbreak.
Stefarooh wow 💙
Elly Elly much love to you too :)
Vesper Lynd was the only woman James Bond ever truly loved. He named his martini after her, the "Vesper martini" (Verspertini). Anyway, interesting story, and parallel, Stefarooh. As well as interesting album titles and their timing, huh. I can only imagine what it would be like to date Bjork-- incredibly wonderful, I'm sure. She is a Scorpio-Snake (her Western & Eastern astrological signs). I dated a Scorpio-Snake for 3 years, and it was a torrid romantic affair of infinite emotions, both wonderful and immortal with feelings of invincibility, yet heart-wrenching and soul-sapping in the end as we betrayed each other. I'm a Scorpio-Dog. And two Scorpios together are either like a house on fire, or explosively devastating, or both. In our case, both. I never had a Bond flick move me so much as Eva Green and Daniel Craig in Casino Royale. He truly gave himself to her and wanted a life with her; but then tragedy, half- truths & betrayal struck, and he ended up turning into the shallow womanizer that we all know him for. She so reminded me of my love affair..who, incidentally, looked a lot like an Asian Catherine Zeta-Jones, or Famke Janssen from X-Men.. another romantic chemistry & tragedy from the silver screen that always gets me: Wolverine and Jean Grey. Love lives. And love dies. But don't worry. Love always lives again. And you will love again, and live again. Prior to that 3 year torrid romance of mine, I was in a relationship for 14 years.
All is full of Love
Mature Gamer Network I send you a big hug and thanks for share your story💜
This is I think the most personal and intimate song she had ever written about her personal wound. The first time listening to it my best friend and I cried. We could relate to how deep a wound can a person left you when your expectations didn't par well and how it would affect us as a person as we grow. The hundredth of times I listen to this I get goosebumps still. To me, no Bjork song fails to represent my innermost emotion and subconscious or state of mind about a personal event in my life. Every sound, every silence, every word, every beat and rhythm is there to convey sad, anger, happiness, curiosity, fear, anxiety, anticipation, ... just amazing...
'did I love you too much?'
Honestly. Full body chills. And the landscape is breathtaking. I can see why she spends most of her time there.
'Devotion bent me broken'
Björk about "Black Lake". "I think I was mostly focused on emotion. This is the record’s hardest song for me. It was written three months after the divorce. (...) It’s like, when you’re trying to express something and you sort of start, but then nothing comes out. You can maybe utter five words and then you’re just stuck in the pain. And the chords in-between, they sort of represent that. Those minutes of stuttering silence. Then, you maybe manage a few more words, and then you’re stuck again. We called them “the freezes”, these moments between the verses. They’re longer than the verses, actually. It’s just that one emotion when you’re stuck. It is hard, but it’s also the only way to escape the pain, just going back and having another go, trying to make another verse. 'Black Lake' also employs a method that I used a long time ago, in a song off Post that’s called Possibly Maybe. In that song, each verse was named after a month, it was nine verses for nine months. Actually, some of those verses wound up being cut, and of course it’s not at all as dramatic, but it shares with 'Black Lake' a… a temporality ? As in, the song progresses through time. The first verse happens a month after… I can’t remember for sure, but the second verse is maybe a week later, and the next verse is a week after that. By the time we reach the last verse, something has changed, something is different."
I'm a Björk fan since I can remember... She always brighten my soul. Her relationship with Matthew has come to an end. And that broke her in to pieces... I've suffered with a broken heart in my past. The love of my life is long gone and maried to other person. And that's why, I can understand her pain. This song made me cry. The video is so moving amd deep in real feelings. When she beats her heart... I did that too while I cried for my lost love. My heart seemed to stop. I could not feel it.... Björk, thank you for sharing this with your fans. We are with you.
I hope you are healed now:) Some people never love at all.
I cried too when she did that. It's such a universal intuitive gesture. And it just came to my mind why one does it. As if to make the heart start again when its broken and about to stop. Because it's true and scientificcally proven I read some time ago. People do die of a broken heart, and for purely physiological reasons at that ...
Very poignant man we all have been through losses... it’s hard to close a chapter sometimes.. we all who feel are together, it feels better to know that
I was surprised by the video’s lack of water because when I first listened to the song I pictured her literally sinking in a dark lake (of grief, heartbreak, hopelessness), but I think I get it.
I feel like the beginning in the dark tunnel is her “rock bottom,” and throughout the video she climbs up through it and moves on to “greener pastures,” as seen in the final shot. Simple, beautiful, and effective.
One of the most significant and important pieces of work she has ever done. Bjork understands human emotion better than anyone else i've ever seen before.
I have enjoyed every aspect of her metamorphosis over the course of 27 years. Beginning with her punkish eye candy Sugarcubes image to the quirky but cute Debut & Post look, on through her sultry postmodern Homogenic & Vespertine style all the while transforming into her spacey avant-garde gorgeousness of the millennium until we reach this point in time... the glowingly older classic beauty that is almost too overwhelming to behold. I would throw myself at her feet if I could...
+Luciano Gutierrez great words,love it
+Luciano Gutierrez jesus christ go fuck yourself weirdo
+neuta5 Jesus Christ was not a weirdo, maybe just a little anti-establishment.
+neuta5 Anyone who spreads such hatrated towards strangers who's not doing any harm by expressing themselves is the one who should go and fuck himself. I hope you reconsider not being such a troll.
+Juan Madrigal you sir are a gentleman and I am thankful that you would defend a total stranger who is just trying to express how beautiful this woman is. Obviously our friend neuta5 doesn't get hyperbole and just a simple expression of flattery. Clearly, I was never going to fall at her feet... I was just trying to be poetic for this lovely creature. Some people don't have the sense to express themselves in a positive manner. For them it always comes out cheap, vulgar and ignorant. Have a great 2016 my friend and take care...
now this is a break up song
paulo sérgio amazing it’s like art I love this song
@@MusicLover-ko1mq it is art
Sim!
One of the sadest songs that I've ever listened to.
It's really hard seing her torturing herself in the night.
She's fine. Stinking rich and still selling the bullshit angst
She is beating her own chest, as if she is trying to simulate a heartbeat, for there are times in life where the pain is so great that you feel like your heart might just stop beating, or it already has. It's a pain we will all be able to relate to at some point in our lives, and the way she portrayed it is beyond poetic.
good analysis. I came to the comment section looking for some analysis about the body language in this vid and yeah, she's trying to feel something.
I had a similar experience and it took me almost 3 years of recovery. For a long while I wasn’t even aware how much pain I was still carrying. I came upon this song and the whole album last winter and it poured everything out. Such a time it was... Now after almost one year, I am all healed.
While Björk made the song for herself, she helped others like her just as much. I adore this power art bears.
Bjork is one of the most engaging musicians of this time. Possibly the most dynamic and emotionally enriching music of our generation. This is the depth that's lacking from the mainstream.
@7:20, when Björk starts beating against her chest with great urgency and passion, you can't help but feel her pain too. ;_; It's as if she's trying to exorcise her pain in order for her to transform into an incandescent, fluttering butterfly at the end.
Krystalle Teh Totally, i love how reallistic she is.
I agree Krystalle. I love this lady.
Krystalle Teh That's no butterfly, that's a rocket. Burning up in the atmosphere like a lost cosmonaut abandoned by mission control.
datshitgray Haha yes, you're right! I should have known Bjork's version of a rocket would look different. ;)
Krystalle Teh It's art, i'm pretty sure Bjork would be very thankfull to know that her art sounds, touches and looks different to every human being who listens to it, I'm sure she's happy about you seeing that as a butterfly or whatever it is that touches your hearrrrrrt.
Bjork poured her heart out about the end of her relationship with "Matthew" with the lyrics of this song: 'You betrayed your own heart/Corrupted that organ/Family was always our sacred mutual mission/Which you abandoned.'
In an interview, she stated that this breakup was 'the most painful thing she has ever experienced." - From UK News
Feel bad for her... great album.
Did he cheat on her or something?
That is a good expression of what that feels like too. I think it's amazing that she was able to distill this kind of pain into art so articulately. Who else has put this into words? Has anyone before her?
I am amazed a simple mortal got a Goddess to marry him and then betray her. What a poor fool.
I feel for her pain, but honestly, she deserves better than that arrogant jerk. This is a brilliant song.
Boo fckn hoo
Not just a song, this is an experience. She’s always an experience....
She's so human. Believe me, it's a rarity.
She's an alien so she's kind of cheating
:) Yes she is.
she is human, but from another time
Klein
Really though
See, Bjork's music doesn't DIRECTLY make me cry, it's just that it brings up a lot of bad stuff about my past and insecurities about my future. THEN I cry
Exactly
im agree
bjork is bjork
Anthony Showalter Yeah I get what you mean...this was totally powerful and really got me feeling and thinking lots internally.
I cried without thinking about anything. I do have issues but I wasn't thinking of them just feeling. The instruments and the way she sings gets me. Always loved her
i'm crying like a child
Me and you both homie
Same my friend, I'm crying so much
yeah. im smilikg like child made to cry... but allowed to smile all again. love
yes, me too. So beautiful. So painful. Björk
I saw this vid and holy shit, I pictured a blood-soaked Bendy sitting in the dark and looking depressed.
Hand on my heart when I dare to say that, this song right here, is, all art forms considered, one of the biggest masterpieces of our time. Although it sounds corny, we truly are all so blessed to be alive at the same time as Björk.
I broke up after 11 years .. I'm heartbroken & this track represent everything I feel .. I feel I'm drowning .. I feel there is no life after life ... I feel lost , I feel this is my end . This tune is everything to me , that is all I have left . I lost it all ... My heart is a black lake . If you do love someone - cherish them dearly .
I feel you. This track helped me to get through alot
i´m heartbroken too. ánimo! todo vuelve a empezar.
A boy asked a wise man; Is there anything worse than losing a girlfriend? The old man replied; Yes... losing the courage to find another. " "
you have an entire world to explore! cheer up my friend
ferapple very sweet comment it means a lot - thank you ..I will try..:)
How could any man purposely break this wonderful woman's heart?
How on earth would you know it was deliberate. Just because we love Bjork it doesn't mean we know wtf happened. We only have her poetic version of her side.
@@chelseapoet3664it’s common knowledge that he cheated on her with some fourth rate painter.
@@luiscobos123now that was rude
@@AndrewIndoChannel sorry. You are right. She is a great artist and singer. Not going to xpand on what I wrote, as I think it does not serve any purpose, or enhance the conversation. Thanks
Because alas, he is a man.
Björk is a musical genious. There is no doubt about it.
Absolutely...from a young age!
She is antigays , la amó desde siempre 😊
i am so in love with this; the amount of pain she is able to translate through her music is terrifying, and exhilarating.
i don't think i've ever cried over a music video...until now, that is
I have felt this PAIN...... of Loosing your soulmate. No one has ever articulated it quitelike my girl Bjork!!!! I love her always. ( Bjork that is!!)!
*losing
She definitely isn't receiving all the credit she is due!! One of the most brilliant artists of our time when I think of her work I imagine as if each album were a chapter in my own life yet she always ceases to amaze me
One of the few True Artists left in the music industry. Bjork's new album is an under rated classic...
You are rigth, pocos artistas son así
Don't you just want to give her a big hug?
Yes
Yeah, I do. 😊💜
maybe
I'd be afraid of cutting myself on the bits of obsidian sewn to her costume...
Sarah, it'd be worth it
thank you for constantly reminding us of how all-encompassing true Art can be. you're mythological, my dear Björk.
This is what heartbreak looks and sounds like....i 've been in that blake lake myself and when she pounds her heart desperatly i saw myself....this is beyond art this is a trancendal experience.....
Bjork is the only one that has truly helped with my bipolar episodes. Thank you. If I could ever meet her I would just wanna give her a hug to thank her for her emotional power.
This is definitely the ONLY 10+ minute song that I absolutely adore without getting bored any minute.
Well, that just means you have to search more. There are four songs that are more than 8 minutes long of which I love every second - Touch (Daft Punk), Giorgio by Moroder (Daft Punk), Cygnet Committee (David Bowie), La Ritournelle (Sebastién Tellier)...okay, that last one is just below 8 mins, but you get the point ;D
You havent heard a lot of music then
I like misty by kate bush which is 13minutes long.
One of the new songs of Tool (Fear Inoculum) is great too
Watch “the doors- this is the end” (at the Hollywood bowl)
this is the most intense video i've seen... ever... when the videos started i thought "10 minutes?" but it was amazing... every second of it...
Pay attention on how she credits everyone who made an effort to make this video and song possible. I think that's how everyone in the music industry should do it👍
I love the fact that she's not interested in chasing trends or looking young and sexy. Her music evolves as she does. I hope she makes music into her old age which continues to reflect her experiences.
i always find myself here at the middle of night
I thought I was alone!
Hello
Batool So me until 2016, when Gaga rises from the ashes with Joanne
Me too 😊
This was my favorite song on the album already, but seeing this video just ruined my whole night. One of the most moving pieces I've ever seen from an artist before. I had chills from the crown of my head to the edge of my heals.
After hearing this track for the first time in Iceland, this for me was the one that stood out. I keep coming back to this track. I love how minimalist it is yet catchy. Its got that lovely olafur arnalds sound I love! I love the lyrics, that have a very amorous and poetic flow.
Rhythms, visuals, dancing, music , energy and flows from all the worlds together in one unique piece of art. Thank you Bjork.
Björk is not only a musical legend and genius, she is a beautiful representation and art piece that has talents beyond what many non artistic humans can comprehend. She's most definitely not a part of our pop culture, she's beyond. Tell me the last time you heard a newer Björk song on the radio?... I can't wait to see and hear what she presents to us next.
Being part of Bjork Digital was one of the best moments of my life. When we didn't have a lot of public we could go to the experiences and I always locked on Black Lake room and listened trough like 80 speakers and two big screens. I always ended up crying. Also, on the VR rooms there was this Black Lake VR video that never came out to public, were you could watch the video on a cave.
i used to dream when i was young that one day i will continue her legacy of music... but i just keep singing for myself, making music from my heart, just like her
Go for it!
+angelinlove Never do anything for the masses. Do it for your heart. Do it for the infinite cosmos.
Those are masses
After reading your comment, I thought I'd take a look at your channel. I've only managed to quickly skim through a few videos so far, but I liked what I heard. You have a new subscriber!
i'm glad you liked :D thank your very much! EarlOfMaladyCrescent
Björk's voice never change.
Oh my god, I was thinking the exact same thing. Her voice still sounds so young...like she's still 23.
Incredibly so, she had vocal surgery in 2011, I believe.
+Mario Toro Wow. I'm glad her voice wasn't damaged or anything during thr surgery.
actually her voice was damaged after the surgery, now she can sing high notes the way used to and has a more raspy voice.
Not exactly. That more-so happened gradually over the years as she used such abrasive vocal techniques throughout her career. My guess is that its also a little bit of her not pushing herself so hard vocally now as a means of taking better care of her voice. I think I read somewhere that she was working with a vocal coach in the earlier 2010's.
This video never stops impressing me with the level of raw emotion, the cold environment, the chest pounding, the body thrashing, the crumbling rock, the large instrumental spaces between the verses, it never ceases to go straight to my heart
Apparently from an interview with grapevine.is, Björk explaining why this song is so long:
"It’s like, when you’re trying to express something and you sort of start, but then nothing comes out. You can maybe utter five words and then you’re just stuck in the pain. And the chords in-between, they sort of represent that. […] We called them “the freezes,” these moments between the verses. They’re longer than the verses, actually. It’s just that one emotion when you’re stuck. It is hard, but it’s also the only way to escape the pain, just going back and having another go, trying to make another verse."
its like she's trying to explain her feelings as if she's talking..
I hope she knows how important is to me. I'm going through the same as her. But in a differnt way. My father passed away 2 days ago due to Covid 19. There are some moments in which I wanna scream and cry to release my chest from grief. On the other hand I just bottle up my feeling, cause I cannot find the words to describe how I feel. Everything was all of the sudden and really quick that I didn't have time to assimilate anything. THANK U BJORK. for being a channel for those who cannot express ourselves
Esta canción es muy importante para mí. Creo que la más importante de toda Vulnicura. Quizá no sea la mejor, ni la más feliz de su discografía, pero esta canción la estuve guardando como 'oro' para escucharla en vivo en el concierto que dio en Barcelona el pasado julio. Cada vez que la escucho me entra la vena sensible y muchas veces me sale alguna lágrima. La amo, me produce tantas sensaciones. Gracias Björk.
Thank you so much Bjork for always being so raw. This really speaks to many who have experienced or are going through heartbreak like myself. Through your love of art and music you've made things that are priceless, you've made a connection with people that truly helps them. You're the best music Artist out there!
Our love was my womb
But our bond has broken
My shield is gone
My protection is taken
I am one wound
My pulsating body
Suffering being
My heart is enormous lake
Black with potion
I am blind
Drowning in this ocean
My soul torn apart
My spirit is broken
Into the fabric of all
He is woven
You fear my limitless emotions
I am bored of your apocalyptic obsessions
Did I love you too much
Devotion bent me broken
So I rebelled
Destroyed the icon
I did it for love, I honored my feelings
You betrayed your own heart
Corrupted that organ
Family was always our sacred mutual mission
Which you abandoned
You have nothing to give
Your heart is hollow
I'm drowned in sorrows
No hope in sight of ever recover
Eternal pain and horrors
I am a glowing shiny rocket
Returning home
As I enter the atmosphere
I burn off layer by layer
I agree with the Mozart statement, Björk is a most fascinating artist.
What a joyful privilege it is to watch her grow.
I'm so happy she came along in my time....
Thank you princess.
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This song is so strong I wanna cry and the video clip.. Everything's just beautiful.
I felt the same, I think that emotion you feel at the end, is not sadness, the tears coming out it's the marvel of beauty, the emotion when art touch you....I think.
Exactly. I think the way she's telling us her (our) healing process is so deep that we can feel the (he)art's beauty.
Oh my gosh. This is so incredibly sad. My heart breaks for you.
9:07 this part and forwards ripped my soul recklessly into a thousand pieces and i love it
Yeees, for me it's like she's having peace for a while then suddenly remembers all she lived and her face change and back to reality... really sad :'(
After sharing recent videos ranging from lackluster ("Stonemilker") to decent ("Lionsong") to astounding ("Family"), I'd have to say this one is pretty damn good.
Rapid-cuts of her head violently shaking, the stark contrast of blue lava against jet-black landscapes and fluid camera movements highlighting her gestures and flashes of emotion all match the elements of the constantly-evolving song, the video shape-shifting as needed to externalize what the song - and by extension, Bjork - is moving towards.
Very pleased with this, as well as the overall renewal in her exploration of modern sounds and the public's interest in her as an artistic figure. She's proof that anyone can redefine (or solidify) themselves at 50 years-old.
She’s the only one to me who can trulyyyyy sing what a deeply broken heart feels like. And I’m not talking about a first love breakup. I’m talking about earth shattering loss & heartache that time could never heal.
How do you know?
You should listen to the band Daughter.
They've got some beautiful yet downright melancholic, insanely heart-breaking songs.
I don't have any poignant stories. Her albums don't remind me of any special or significant moments. My life is, and has been, empty and meaningless. Nevertheless, Bjork has remained a beacon of light in an otherwise pitch-darkness. In the only slightly discrepant timeline where Bjork never existed, I might well have been drowned in an ocean of banality and mediocrity, she was the piece of wood to cling onto when everyone else seemed entranced by vapidity. Although Bjork looks older, and I feel much older, as long as she is still around producing works of such awe and beauty, or I am sufficiently favored by chance to have ears functioning well enough to hear her, I will know that I am somehow connected to that distant person who was fortunate enough to hear her voice for the first time.
I enjoyed reading this thank you
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Not to be cliche or anything but I really enjoyed this comment! Seriously though good one 👌
You should listen to hyperballid on mother Oceania
That's a beautiful comment but I hope things got better for you friend. I felt like this a lot in the past and it's not nice at all. All the best and good luck in your journey!
If you're reading this, congratulations, you have good music taste.
Thank you 🥺
What can i add, this vocal video is such a superb visionary statement about love and no repeating answer, about the whole of hurting and love as a concept of hurting, and when the video shots portray her in a landscaping volcanic surroundings, only her, and nothing else, something happend to me. I really got into the music and landscape, into her movements, full grown, and loved it form beginning to the end. This time no critic at all, just imaging, listening, looking and enjoying Bjork is this full grown video lyric. In one word: beautiful!!
Saddest Björk song ever written...
No. 'Family' is.
This song hit me right straight in my soul, and those violins... hauntingly beautiful to say the least.
Vulnicura came out at a time when I was just after a bad breakup and mentally I was at a bad place. So I listened to this album a lot and when Björk says music has the power to heal, she is right. It helped me a lot with my emotions and to get myself back together.
This song gets me so depressed real fast. Man, I use to have a huge crush on Bjork in middle school and high school, then it faded. Now those feelings came back after years later haha.
This is the pain of heartbreak in melody in art." To love so deeply is to suffer.
My Husband of 17 years divorced me last year. This song is so beautiful and it touches me. I think we were going through the similar things at the same time. I still love this song and visual. Thanks, a lot, in other words, for all that you do.
i hope you’re doing better now :)
@@nobodyhome2670 I"m doing okay now, thanks.
"I am a glowing shiny rocket
Returning home
As I enter the atmosphere
I burn off layer by layer." 😥🧡
Es la canción mas poderosa y triste que ha escrito Björk en toda su carrera
Es una genio, una verdadera artista que logra transmitir todo lo que siente y logras empatía con ella. La admiro demasiado. Brillante.
Six months later and this song still leaves me breathless.
I saw this at NYC's MoMA last year and it was incredible. This is such a powerful song, so intense, so full of emotion, still makes me shiver.
I was heartbroken when this album / song came out . I remember listening to it while going to work ( crying behind my big sunglasses ). I’ve never dated again since that year. I think something got too broken inside me . I always feel too much when revisiting this album . I’m happy alone , but sometimes I wonder if I have created too many walls . But somehow , this album makes me feel good, because when I’m broken I am all and when I’m all I am broken- I get it
I have never felt this sad and relieved at the same time, it's like she punch me right in my chest then caress it and soothe the pain away.
There's something very Marina Abramović about it. Especially the chest pounding and head shaking around the 7 minute mark. It's a very true mark of heartbreak, making you want to shake it out. Moments of freedom intertwined so deeply in sadness that you don't know which is which. I was pleased. It only got better as it went.
***** yea u r right))))/
Vulnicura probably the best Bjork's album in 21st century.
Vespertine is better.
Surely. This album is a real masterpiece. I felt the homogenic sensations...
@@pinkpixels8806 Vespertine > Vulnicura > Medúlla > Utopia/Biophilia > Volta
charlie z yeah, although I’d argue Biophilia slightly tops Utopia
Your assessment and opinion are valid, despite commentors taking the opportunity to disagree.
LYRICS:
Our love was my womb
But our bond has broken
My shield is gone
My protection is taken
I am one wound
My pulsating body
Suffering being
My heart is enormous lake
Black with potion
I am blind
Drowning in this ocean
My soul torn apart
My spirit is broken
Into the fabric of all
He is woven
You fear my limitless emotions
I am bored of your apocalyptic obsessions
Did I love you too much
Devotion bent me broken
So I rebelled
Destroyed the icon
I did it for love, I honored my feelings
You betrayed your own heart
Corrupted that organ
Family was always our sacred mutual mission
Which you abandoned
You have nothing to give
Your heart is hollow
I'm drowned in sorrows
No hope in sight of ever recover
Eternal pain and horrors
I am a glowing shiny rocket
Returning home
As I enter the atmosphere
I burn off layer by layer
Björk é a música sentida em sua mais profunda essência, Björk é arte
Björk é uma cantora única. Nunca haverá ninguém que se compare com ela. 😍💜😍💜
Artista completa, incomparável, faz da arte sua verdadeira função.
Vdd!
Bjork is so much different from other artists in the way she expresses her true emotions by simulating slightly wierd body gestures but the fact that she does that in ways that other artists never have is wut makes her very unique and very great and she has and amazingly beautiful voice and the fact that she's not afraid to go outside the norm is wut makes her outstanding and i have 100% respect for her because of that 👍👍👍👍💯💯💯
I listened to this album constantly after a painful breakup. When I wasn’t riding the metro to work listening to this song (specifically), I was falling asleep to it on my headphones with tears streaming down my face.
Over 30 years of creative output and still cutting edge. Bjork is truly exceptional.
her compositional skills are so next-level....this album is so brilliantly intense
a beautiful expression of heartbreak... any man that would not fight to hold onto this beautiful soul is simply not worthy of her presence in his life ❤❤
Woah. This totally blew me away.
I can't recall the last time I was so amazed after listening to a song.
Björk is pure gold.
Thank god she is still making such majestic, soul grasping and beautiful music
björk was born with her ascendant, sun and moon all looking at the scorpip constellation (one that is traditionally associated with mars and rules over the deserts, bare lands, insects and is classified as a "fixed watery sign", sort of like a still pond in the middle of a deserted land... scorpions can cross the dessert because they accumulate water); both her mars (the ruler of scorpio) and her venus are in capricorn, the cardinal earthy sign that represents a goat-fish ('pan: where 'panic' comes from). both the lyrics and the scenery of the video are so astrologically symbolic that it makes me speechless. goats do not have lacrimal glands. she is there, inside of a cave (rocks being earth, capricorn's domain) as if she were inside of the emptiness of her solid and rocky heart after it was shattered by her lover, but it is a strong heart: so, she walks through the bare lands in despair but stronger and stronger, feeling her emotions as sharply as the rocks are and she eventually walks through the bare lands of anguish and heals! oh, ah, it can sound like a lot of rubbish, but it is nice to read things in different symbolic ways. love her
👍🏾- purely for the thought and effort and imagery and poetry
Cheers
Its great to have your emotions expressed on art...emotional damage
This song is so powerful, it's so dark but so beautiful and raw. You can see how much she's hurting, this is not acting.
black lake' 10+emotional. by far one of the greatest heart felt, moveing videos ever done by her that ive ever seen too date. filmed in volcanic raw iceland...watching this is very emotional and moveing, the part when she's thumping her chest over and over again, as she 'jump starts' her shattered broken heart with the sound of 'flatline' is masterful. aged 49 in the 'black lake' video, she never fails and now she's 50 she still brings the emotion passion and raw power in her music. [björk is pure electricity!]
this broke my heart on so many levels
Bjork es tan necesaria para la humanidad como lo son los verdaderos genios. Muchos la amamos y muchos la odiaran. Pero nadie queda neutral. Bjork is so needed for humankind as all of the real genious. Many as me love her, and many will hate her. But you cant be neutral.
I definitely don't recommend listening to this album after a bad fight/breakup with a significant other. She does such a fcking amazing job capturing emotions with music, it gets me every time
The intensity of her body language and dance belied the gentleness of her song. I kept expecting her to break out and cut loose, but she never does.
l love the transformation from grief to wholeness amazing 💫