Let's Discover BJÖRK ~ (Songwriter Reacts)
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if björk didn't exist, hyperpop would never be a thing
And not just that! But I totally agree of course x
fun fact: pagan poetry is jay z’a fav bjork song and when he found out she was in the audience at his concert he played it at the show
Ah cool!!
Timestamps!
2:47 - Army Of Me
6:04 - Venus As A Boy
11:26 - Unison
17:43 - Pagan Poetry
22:20 - Oceania
26:11 - Crystalline
29:57 - Blissing Me
34:44 - It's Oh So Quiet
Wow this is my first time listening to Unison and it sounds so beautiful!
@@arbsan8366 You should listen to it in context of the full Vespertine album - it's my fav album of hers
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@@ferrin6182 yasss vespertine is a MASTERPIECE
How could you forget Joga, Bachelorette, Hunter and Isobel:-)
Björk is a bi woman! So I have always read Venus as a Boy about finding that male lover who loves gently yet passionately like a Venus. His sensuality, even with a woman, takes of this more feminine energy as opposed to this more masculine domineering sexual energy.
Ooh I love that interpretation
Listening to Bjork’s entire discography chronologically is literally life changing. I can’t recommend it enough!! It’s also really cool to have the context behind her albums like Vespertine being entirely produced by her and including so many microbeats she created and biophollia being part album part educational app. Bjork is truly one of a kind 💖
"Oceania" makes more sense when you realise it was commissioned for the 2004 Athens Olympic Games & represents the transition from the previous event in Australia (aka Oceania) in 2000. Bjork performed this 'live' at the ceremony in an Iris van Herpen outfit inspired by water (a motif Iris still uses to this day). Standing at one end of the main oval, her outfit slowly flooding the entire arena, over the heads of all the athletes, in one of the largest swathes of undulating fabric i've ever witnessed on earth. I swear it was so huge you probably could have seen it from space ^^
Im loving it!! Still watching, but I really need to tell u to listen the albums Vulnicura and Utopia, both were written and produced by Bjork and Arca
And beware, there will be tears and feelings of hopelessness.
Vespertine as a whole is a must! Also the Gate and Body Memory from Utopia and Black Lake from Vulnicura!
I agree with all the comments suggesting Hyper-Ballad. But you need to react to something from the Homogenic album as well… it’s considered by most to be her masterpiece and is considered one of the best albums of the 90’s.
Also, shoutout to the guy who suggested Unison. That song is so under-rated.
Agreed, was bummed not to see a reaction of Bachelorette, 5 Years, Hunter, Joga, etc from Homogenic. Definitely my fav of hers, followed by Vespertine. I saw her live in February do her Orkestral set, and she did six of the songs from Homogenic and it was ethereal! I can't un-hear her live version with the full orchestra! I think this TH-camr would be blown away by Mutual Core as well.
marvellous song, indeed. another underrated song is pneumonia
Yeah, Homogenic is just incredible album. By the way, there was a poll about choosing the favorite song of Björk on one site recently and Unison ended as the 4th most favorite so I don't think it's underrated (and Jóga won if anyone's interested)
@@jaredgenova2228 i have seen the orchestral show in berlin. it was fantastic!
Her entire discography is major. My favorite Bjork tracks are Possibly Maybe, Joga, Unravel and Hunter. Impossible to just pick one.
i would die to see u react to vespertine (her best album imo) or homogenic a very close second
Post and Vulnicura better than Homogenic im my opinion but idk lol
@@vulnicuraaa post is not even close homogenic 😭
@@walkingwounded8675 to me it is lol, i love the vibe of post way more than the vibe of homogenic
@@walkingwounded8675 post is my third favorite of hers, vespertine first and Homogenic second
If you do happen to react to more of Björk I have some more recommendations! I would def recommend songs like “Human Behaviour,” “Hyperballad,” “Heirloom,” “Triumph of a Heart,” “Mutual Core,” “Beautiful Mother,” and “Black Lake”!! These are just a few that I really like but she has a bunch of other great ones you could choose from! (:
"Black Lake"... Oh god, the divorce album will kill him. And the fucking production on songs like "Notget"...
I'd add Play Dead to the list, such a wonderful display of her vocal power
Wanderlust hunter all is full of love hidden place too
I highly recommend Listening to her entire Discography, especially in Chronological order. Her Musical Evolution is Something to Marvel at.
On top of all that, Her MUSIC VIDEOS are perfect Visual Representations of the Music and Lyrics.
Other Songs to Listen:
- HYPERBALLAD
- HUMAN BEHAVIOR
- PLUTO(which leads into) ALL IS FULL OF LOVE.
- DULL FLAME OF DESIRE (Which is taken from a 19th or 18th century Russian poem)
- JOGA
- BLACK LAKE
- VIRUS
- LOSSSS
- ARISEN MY SENSES
Yes!
I love all of bjork but dull flame of desire is one of her more weaker tracks. It goes on for way too long without too much change to keep it interesting. I do love the percussive outro and a bjork anohni duet is always a blessing to the ears.
Unison hits SO MUCH harder in the context of Vespertine as a whole… he missed out by only listening to it on its own
@@Azett Yeah, Vespertine is as much a contextual album as Vulnicura. Vespertine is also my favourite Bjork album, so perfect...
Awesome thank you for your suggestions!! Defo gonna do a follow-up!!
Björk and Aurora should do something together one day!!! Aurora said that one of her inspirations is Björk, and Björk attended to an Aurora's show in Iceland, they have unique and amazing voices, music and minds and working together would be magnificent!!! Watching them live you can see how similar they are!
when did she say her inspiration is bjork???
@@anujjain1682 in an interview many years ago!
@@PonchoSaGo Send me the link if you have
@@anujjain1682 let me see if I find it!
I dont knlw why it is not letting me post the link here!
Thanks for taking my suggestion! I’m a sucker for songs that build until they explode at the end, so Unison completely blew me away the first time I listened to it
No problem glad you enjoyed it!
To this day I am astonished that Unison was not released as a single. It is a veritable masterpiece, I feel like I fall in love it with every time I listen to it
To me that is her best song 🎵 UNISON is legendary
Yes, I feel the same
As a ollld obsessed Björk’s music fan, Watching your reaction made me emotional… like I’m remembering the ways she touched me and how her art helped me.. thanks for this 💗☺️
Yeah me too, I was remembering hearing Venus as a Boy for the first time in 1993 when i was 13, and it was like my brain CLICKED - This is the music you need.
Aww I'm glad you enjoyed it!!
Biophilia is my favorite album. It’s her most ambitious. First album to have a fully interactive app on the iPad. She made a song with Tesla coils as an instrument (Thunderbolt) created her own instrument (a cross between a gamelan and a celesta) on Moon. That album for me, as someone interested in sound design is everything.
Love me some science teacher Björk 👩🏫
another cool instrument on biophilia is the gravity harp
Homogenic, Vespertine and Vulnicura are insane. Please do a full album reaction to those 3 :((((
Black Lake will destroy you it's the emotionally heaviest song I have ever heard
THIS - you have got to a good start, but you are missing HUGE swaths of her career. You definitely need to do some album reactions. I think Homogenic is a good place to start.
For me, family was the heaviest but black lake is also devastating
do you know "when the lord" by susanne sundfor? maybe you change your mind after hearing it. watching it.
@@soleywolfgangsdottir i just heard it, it's not the most outright devastating song, simple piano instrumentation, nothing too out of the box but for some reason I can't stop listening to it....... It's simply beautiful.
@@icystorm9968 have you just listened to it or did you also watch the video? the video is a must because it's as important as the music itself. if not more important. anyway, susanne sundfør is one of the best singer, songwriter and composer of our time. there are so many beautiful songs. the brothel, turkish delight, when, undercover, silencer, the list is endless
Bjork's discography is wild. Enjoy! Vespertine, Homogenic, Post, Debut and Vulnicura are all some of my favourite albums ever.
As a songwriter, I know you will love the album Vulnicura (from 2015, half produced by arca), is a very sad album about her breaking up with her ex husband and how he took the custody of her daughter. The booklet of the album explain that song 1 "stone milker" is about 9 months before the break up, the song 2 "liongsong" is about 5 months before break heart... Etc, you will love it
Ooh wow sounds amazing!
Inside the CD notes, in Unison, the instrumental part is called "the celestial agreement"
I love, love, love Bjork and Joni Mitchell both. If you end up doing Joni, check out her song "The Jungle Line." Bjork says she was inspired by this song, and you can really tell. - Also, you're missing one of the BEST Bjork songs, "Hyperballad" - talk about LAYERS.
Omg ide kill for a Joni deep dive, Song For Sharon has got to be one of my favorite songs ever
I really wanna do Joni!
@@Luscent My favourite album of all time is BLUE - lyrically, it's just immaculate. When it hit its 50 year anniversary recently, there were a bunch of musicians who gave an oral history to the New York Times about how much she and that album mean to them. But what's beautiful about her career is that this "classic" style of hers - really straight-forward folk - gave way to the most insane experimental and jazz style. Her entire trajectory was unpredictable.
Björk is an "album" type of artist, she takes you on a journey listening to one song here and there feels wrong. Or if you do that at least watch the videos with it, to get the full intention :)
Before you even said it in the video, I was thinking about how your musical tastes have expanded since I started watching your channel. Loved this reaction and how Björk challenges her listeners. I feel like as an artist, she's one of the people who inspires across mediums (I'm a writer myself). So cool to see how these different discoveries might come into your own music! AND I hope you revisit Fiona Apple!! Now that you've done Björk and Aurora, there's no way you'll find Fiona Apple as weird anymore lol 😆
Also you MUST listen to Joni Mitchell at some point. Iconic. And maybe Joan Baez? I wouldn't call either "experiential" really, but they definitely inspired a lot of these more modern experimental singer-songwriters.
And just on your own, you might like to check out the other version of Blissing Me with serpentwithfeet. I think I like that version even more than the one on the album haha
Omg. Björk is just everything. She embodies all of us. Fully.
Ame la reacción! Y cada análisis! Björk es una de las más grandes artistas que jamás dejo de sorprender, no sólo con su originalidad sino también con cada elementos nuevos que aportaba a su propio arte, tecnología, vestimenta, visuales. Espero reacciones a Vespertine, para mi su mejor trabajo! Y a toda su discografía, que sin dudas te trasportará a un mundo diferente❄
Exactamente!!
Venus as a boy is one of my all time favourite songs, I also love the music video! About the lyrics, Venus is a planet of romance and beauty (but also feminine energy as you mentioned) so I think the song is about her being in love with a boy who has a lot of the qualities of venus, romantic, soft, pretty etc. and with the ability to make her feel sweept away and in love.
So, Bjork is my favorite artist EVER! And you are my favorite reaction channel! I love watching new people discover this creative genius. When you got chills, I did as well. It was like listening for the first time all over again. Bjork is a journey, and you went on it. Keep listening, her catalogue is so diverse and unique. Keep on being you, I love your energy! Most definitely gonna keep watching!
OH! My favorite songs are, I Miss You (Post) and Virus (Biophillia) and Where is the line (Medulla)
Aw thank you I'm glad you liked the vid!!
Since a lot of people already recommended her other iconic works, I recommend looking into Lars Von Trier's Dancer in the Dark which is the movie she starred in, and its OST.. it hits different when you discover both the film and the music of the film at the same time!
Ooh interesting thanks!
that movie kills me everytime i watch it. the scene of her death is so terrifying
@soleywolfgangsdottir5927 I could only watch it the one time. But I listen to the soundtrack all the time! I know it isn't for everyone, but was shocked it was so hard to find someone else recommend it. 💙
There are soooo many to list so I suggest you listen to all of them and decide for yourself because it really is life changing listening to Bjork. When I got into her music I couldn't just stop at the ones that are well known, I had to go deeper and next thing you know her music had me in a stronghold and even made me cry many times. Theres really no one like Björk. Shes an icon. Im going to be extremely sad when she leaves this world.
Yeah she's so unique I'm looking forward to hearing more from her
MORE BJÖRK!!! :D I felt u were very perceptive and receptive to her music for a first time listener! Would love to see you react to her more, hole albums even. AND some of her music videos are iiiicoooniiiiic!
someone suggested listening to Bjork in order and I can't agree more, it's a WILD ride, I promise it's so worth it. Bjork is one of my all time favorite artists, her discography is so expansive and ingenious. She pushes boundaries and innovates in a way that is completely unique to her.
Human Behavior is my favorite song. Incredible lyrics and her voice in that song makes me wish if I could sing like anyone it would be her.
OMG!! I crave for a "Vespertine Live at the Royal Opera House" full reaction so bad 🤩
Bjork is my favorite musician; I finally got to see her in concert in January. I do hope you do a follow-up video, and if you do, I would love to hear your reaction to my favorite song - Hyperballad.
I'm planning on it!
Oh king, you NEED to listen to her 9 studio albums one by one. Your life will change!
Please do more Arca! Another full album review would be amazing. They are all so unique and cinematic. ❤️
Yeah I'm planning on it soon!!
Watching you listen to Unison made me cry 😭😭 excellent video, I loved watching you discover these songs - A great gift on top of her already magnificent art
I love how you approach dissecting each song in a first listen. It seems like you’re just really giving in to the songs and approaching them as if it’s songs you’ve heard a hundred times before.
In army of me, you're right. She's talking about her brother not going to work and quitting his job, only to put the responsibility on others in the family.
SOOOOO glad the youngins are learning about The incomparable BJORK She is awesome I have seen her live thrice & it twas amazing everytime!
Absolutely love when young people discover my fave artists. So much talent on display with Björk! I’d love to see you react to a sampling of PRINCE. 💜
You finally reacted to my absolute favorite artist of all time!!! This makes me so happy! You skipped over Homogenic (my favorite album of all time), but I think you would love Joga and Unravel on that album. On Vespertine, please listen to Undo!! It may be one of the most beautiful songs ever made.
I'm planning on doing a follow up definitely!! So yeah I'll defo do some stuff from homogenic then
Luscent, you need to do a mini dive into The Sugarcubes. Tracks to listen to: "Birthday," "Hit," "Leash Called Love," and "Planet"
"your sweat is salty, I am why" shes the ocean bff. shes the ocean and she mother of everyone. mother oceania
Like so many, Bjork changed my life. Her movie, "Dancer in the Dark" is heartbreaking, and the soundtrack "Selmasongs" is fantastic, she even was nominated for an Oscar! That's when she wore the famous swan dress - like, rocked the beak and all. She's one of a kind for sure. 💙
Hey bro i really love how u feel the music and just your reactions are so genuine i love it, you also come off as a very genuine person with a super cool personality mate. me subscribe NAOW
Oceania is from the album Medulla which was made exclusively with human voices, noises, singing, and beatboxing. The rollercoaster vocals are meant to immitate string arrangements. There was a documentary that I found fascinating at the time. I'm sure it's all on YT. Mike Patton was one of the collaborators on this album, since his voice can do some incredible things.
"Arisen My Senses " by Bjork -- from her album "Utopia" is one of my favorite songs by her ever!! You oughta give it a listen!! ; Especially during spring, as she states that, the album "Utopia" is regarded as her spring album.
Bjork the super talented artist that doesn't fit in a box , can't be labeled !
it's really interesting to hear how there are distinct musical threads stitched throughout all these randomly selected songs that were written & produced over such an expansive period of time…those commonalities of style & sound are not as obvious from album to album as they are in this context
That's cool!!
@@Luscent yeah it gave me a new perspective of her work...so thank you !
Bjork is absolutely phenomenal!! I hope to see you react to more of her work :))
I will!!
You need to react to her whole discography especially Homogenic, Vespertine, Post and Vulnicura PLEASEE and her songs like Pluto, Bachelorette, Blake Lake, Declare Independence, Losss or Mutual Core and All is Full of Love
Really wonderful, I'm so happy you discover her. Most interesting songwriter
Ok....I've beem commenting throughout the actual reaction. You are my favorite reactor right now; because you're an engaged critic. Thank you. You're the back end of the artist's push outward....
Two pop Italian artists worth checking out: Gaia and Joan Thiele. Joan has a 3 EP project, each with 2 songs which are amazing. And Gaia became known after playing a song in Brazilian Portuguese (her mother is Brazilian) called Chega which is just beautiful!
Cool thanks for the recommendations!
Fuck yes FINALLY BJÖRK pls don't stop this journey
SHE'S MY FAVOURITE ARTIST OMG
I'd love if you did a reaction to her albums, i don't think you'd regret it ;)
Love it as much as I've always loved her...breaking through the ordinary and becoming undeniably artistic and rediculously relevant and under-celebrated in the overall artistry. Wish everyone would take a moment to "get it", you know?
An artist that i appreciated late in my life but fell in love in the end!! Some other songs that deserve a listen are Human behaviour, stonemilker, i miss you, hyperballad, black lake, arisen my senses, joga
I love stonemilker!! And Wanderlust is great too!
Bjork may be my favorite artist of all time. I feel like you really feel and understand her quite well...most don't so much. There have been many times in my life that I didn't feel I could continue and her music was my lifeline. She's profound. ✨My Alien Goddess Helper ✨ Really enjoyed your reaction, thank you. (And I can imagine she's a goldmine for you in terms of song creating inspiration!) Also, if you like jazz one of her earliest albums she did with her father called Gling Glo...mostly in Icelandic, but so fun!
So glad Unison made the list! Well done!
Björk is such an amazing artist! There's so much of her work to dig into that's it's hard to recommend singular songs to check out. She's a master of creating beautiful sound scapes. I agree with a lot of people recommending Hyper-Balad, it's one of my favourites. Possibly Maybe, Headphones (which is meant to be listened to in high quality headphones like yours), Ancestors (which features Tanya Tagaq an amazing Inuit throat singer). There's just too many to list.
I was lucky and got to experience her exhibit at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, and in the exhibit there was a theatre with 64 speakers placed throughout and two screens on opposite sides of the room and it played one of her songs and she would travel from screen to screen and you could hear her and the instruments moving around the room, and you could go up to different speakers to hear individual elements of the music too.
I'm going to watch her live for the first time in october and I cried a little during a few of your reactions, her music is very special to me. You should react to a few of her live performances, it's a journey. Now i wait for Fiona Apple 😁😁😁
Check out the band she was in before her solo music, the Sugarcubes, from 1986 to 1992.
Omg please do more bjork songs!!
Planning on it!
Queen of music, periodt.
The video for Pagan poetry is next level. I loved the song but as soon as I saw the video it became my favorite Bjork song
love this video!! my björk recs are jòga (my favorite song of all time!), black lake, mutual core, and wanderlust!
Thank youuuu
@@Luscent ur welcome!!
“Unravel” is a BEAUTIFUL song from her
the songs off medulla, oceania, were all done with voice, beatboxing, choir, throat singing etc. theres nothing like it. in Oceania she is like playing the role of the ocean, as something that is so ancient and playing with the idea humans evolved from the seas. And if you like the glitchy vespertine stuff she worked with the avant garde duo matmos for that. Her live concerts are also incredible because she recomposes all of her songs. A lot of the instruments from Biophilla she designed or programmed herself, definitely can go into a deep dive with all these pieces.
~also this and the other video doesnt have anything from Volta which is a fun album, a bit poppy since she worked with Timberland of all people!
You'd enjoy Bjork's episode of MTV Unplugged. She understood the assignment and took it to an extreme. She had a stage full of multiple separate bands with no duplicate instruments and no instruments that needed amplification beyond a simple mic
you have to react to her full studio albums!!! specially Homogenic, Vespertine and Vulnicura
90's Björk is magic.
1 Song from each album other than the ones in the video I love & recommend:
Debut: Human Behaviour
Post: Hyperballad
Homogenic: All is Full Of Love (Original Mix)
Vespertine: The Whole Album! but maybe Hidden Place
Medúlla: Triumph Of A Heart
Volta: Wanderlust
Biophilia: Mutual Core
Vulnicura: Stonemilker
Utopia: Sue Me
Thanks!!
Medulla album was so great! All made with the human voice no instruments ❤
Bjork in my opinion is a blessing to my ears, always helps me get through things. I would never understand wen people doesn't like her music or any of her work and lyrics. Im confused lol
Been watching your reacts for awhile I enjoyed the Hyperpop, Rosalia and this video, not sure if you have already but you should react to Grimes, her albums Halfaxa and Visions are honestly iconic, especially when she wrote and produced everything herself in both albums. She’s a true pioneer in experimental electronic music. Keep up the good content 😁
React to all her work! Very astonishing. 😍😍😍😍
Pagen poetry is one of my all time favorite songs, love it. You should listen to GFOTY bucks next! 😊definitely under heard
omggg the experimental godest ✨
"Black lake" 10min song...Bjork masterpiece
being a living legend, she put a whole country onto the world map of music. she is synonymous for being icelandic. has anyone else ever achieved this? no.
there are some other really good artists out there, for example susanne sundfor, anna von hausswolff
The myth says Unison is actually written for Lars Von Trier. It's was Bjork's break from hating on him (after filming Dancer in the Dark, that is).
Bjork released another version of the track "Oceania" as a kind of duet with Kelis and changed some of the lyrics too,it's a really stunning reimaginng of this track from "Medulla"
Check out her early work in The Sugarcubes... Birthday, Motorcrash, F-ing in Rhythm & Sorrow are some great songs
Such strange choices as introductory Bjork really! My Bjork recomendations would be; aurora, joga, headphones, big time sensuality, all is full of love, Isobel, I miss you, hidden place, play dead. But i love your reaction vids. brilliant!
That thumbnail "blowing my mind" you know who else...
This is great! If you're not already familiar with Tori Amos, I think you'd love her as well. Silent All These Years, Winter, Cornflake Girl, Professional Widow, Caught a Lite Sneeze, Spark, A Sorta Fairytale, Speaking with Trees...
You should DEFINETELY reaction do some joanna newsom... she's a marvelous songwriter, like no other really. Ys is probably her most interesting album on a lyric level, it has only 5 songs, but they are quite long but it would be SO NICE if you could react to it!!
Super agreeeeee!!
If you do an album, go for vespertine(aka her magnum opus) its also more accessible than her newer stuff
Oceania is her singing as the ocean, how every living thing came from her..."Your sweat is salty, I am why..." bcs her salty ocean water!!! Medulla is one of my fave, the whole album used only human vocal sounds; a cappella, beatboxing, choirs!
WOOOO BJÖRK! if ur planning to do more, vulnicura’s a good album to listen to for new björk fans, along w vespertine (in my opinion). my faves from her are “lionsong” and “stonemilker”, both of which are from the vulnicura album ^^
25:32 literally me when I heard Björk for the first time and couldn't stop
I don't remember if you've listened to Kate Bush yet but I'd definitely recommend it, a lot of Björk fans are also fans of Kate!
No song from Homogenic! LOL which is the most iconic album by her. It’d be nice to react to the entire albums of Homogenic and Vespertine.
29:22 You’re half right! Biophilia (The album which Crystalline is from) is all about the natural world!
Ah cool!
Since you loved Bjork's avant-garde and experimental take on music you'd most definitely love the following artists: eartheater, fka twigs, sega bodega, and Arca.