History Music / Bjork

[[caption-width-right:324:Björk wearing her [[MemeticOutfit infamous swan dress]] at the Oscars]]

* SignatureSong - "It's Oh So Quiet", "Hyperballad", "Army of Me", and "All Is Full of Love".

* LittleBoyBlueNote - Her first album was released when she was ''twelve.''

* BannedInChina - After shouting "Tibet! Tibet!" during a performance of "Declare Independance" in China, she was deported and banned from re-entering the country.

* GenreRoulette - ''Debut'' and ''Post'' jump between dance-pop, trip-hop, jazz and other stuff. She's the only primarily electronic artist who's most famous song is a big-band cover.

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Björk Guðmundsdóttir (born 21 November 1965) is a woman from UsefulNotes/{{Iceland}} who's famous for several things: her voice, her weird (but awesome) music, her strange outfits, her unique music videos, her acting in the TearJerker ''[[DancerInTheDark Dancer in the Dark]]'', her cool accent, and her habit of beating up paparazzi. From 1986 to 1992, she was in the alternative rock band called The Sugarcubes, who were the first Icelandic musical act to ''ever'' gain ''any'' sort of success outside of Iceland (mostly in the UK and American alternative radio), mostly from the endorsement of beloved Radio 1 DJ/indie tastemaker John Peel. After they broke up, Björk went on to have a more successful, arguably better solo career.

* ''Selmasongs'' (2000, the soundtrack to ''[[DancerInTheDark Dancer in the Dark]]'')

* AnimatedMusicVideo - "I Miss You"

* BiTheWay:

* BigScrewedUpFamily: If she's the [[OnlySaneMan Only Sane Member]]...

* CanonDiscontinuity[=/=]OldShame - She doesn't acknowledge her 1977 album. Not to mention that she named her 1993 album, ''Debut''!

* DidYouJustFlipOffCthulhu[=/=]CrowningMomentOfAwesome: While in China for a tour, she performed "Declare Independence," and screamed, "Tibet! Tibet!" multiple times... Naturally, [[BannedInChina she's not welcome back into the country.]]

** Björk + MikePatton = Noises and beatboxing on several tracks from "Medúlla".

* FadingIntoTheNextSong: "Frosti" → "Aurora", on ''Vespertine''.
* GenreRoulette - ''Debut'' and ''Post'' jump between Dance-pop, Trip-hop, Jazz and other stuff. She's the only primarily electronic artist who's most famous song is a big-band cover.

* ItIsPronouncedTroPAY: Her name is supposed to rhyme with "jerk" when the umlaut is taken into account.
* LittleBoyBlueNote: Her first album was released when she was ''twelve.''

* LyricalDissonance - "Hyperballad" is about the singer imagining herself jumping off a cliff.

* MadnessMantra - ''I love him, I love him, I love him, I love him''...and later on: ''She loves him, she loves him, She loves him, she loves him''
* MoodDissonance - Virus, which [[{{Yandere}} with a distinctly stalkerish vibe]] details a parasitic relationship just about to kill the host, to the sounds of cutesy plinks and twinkles...
* MusicBoxIntervals - "Frosti" - actually much of ''Vespertine''.

* OneWomanSong - "Isobel"
* [[OnlySaneMan Only Sane Family Member]]: If what she says is true, her family is even weirder than her.
* PrecisionFStrike - Despite not being a fucking buddhist, she can recognize enlightenment.
* SerialEscalation: Björk's gonna top everything she has done with a series of concerts that'll promote ''Biophilia''.

* WhatDoYouMeanItWasntMadeOnDrugs?

* YouGotMurder: Averted. An acid mailbomb sent by a mad stalker was intercepted by the post. The tape detailing it, however...

* ManicPixieDreamGirl - That's certainly her favourite stage persona, anyway.

* {{Music/Instrumentals}} - "Frosti" and "Batabid."

* MadnessMantra - ''I love him, I love hi, I love him, I love him''...and later on: ''She loves him, she loves him, She loves him, she loves him''

* DidYouJustFlipOffCthulhu[=/=]CrowningMomentOfAwesome: While in China for a tour, she performed "Declare Independence," and screamed, "Tibet! Tibet!" multiple times. ...Naturally, [[BannedInChina she's not welcome back into the country.]]

** ''Biophilia'' is her becoming more abstract with her lyrics and focusing on certain musical elements and using more electronics opposed to natural instruments. Recorded on a iPad.

!! Her work proveds examples of:

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[[caption-width:324:Björk wearing her [[MemeticOutfit infamous swan dress]] at the Oscars]]

Björk Guðmundsdóttir (born 21 November 1965) is a woman from Iceland who's famous for several things: her voice, her weird (but awesome) music, her strange outfits, her unique music videos, her acting in the TearJerker ''[[DancerInTheDark Dancer in the Dark]]'', her cool accent, and her habit of beating up paparazzi. From 1986 to 1992, she was in the alternative rock band called The Sugarcubes, who were the first Icelandic musical act to ''ever'' gain ''any'' sort of success outside of Iceland (mostly in the UK and American alternative radio), mostly from the endorsement of beloved Radio 1 DJ/indie tastemaker John Peel. After they broke up, Björk went on to have a more successful, arguably better solo career.

!!Provides examples of:

* MagnumOpus - ''Homogenic'' and/or ''Vespertine''. Both are her most critically acclaimed albums.

Björk Guðmundsdóttir is a woman from Iceland who's famous for several things: her voice, her weird (but awesome) music, her strange outfits, her unique music videos, her acting in the TearJerker ''[[DancerInTheDark Dancer in the Dark]]'', her cool accent, and her habit of beating up paparazzi. From 1986 to 1992, she was in the alternative rock band called The Sugarcubes, who were the first Icelandic musical act to ''ever'' gain ''any'' sort of success outside of Iceland (mostly in the UK and American alternative radio), mostly from the endorsement of beloved Radio 1 DJ/indie tastemaker John Peel. After they broke up, Björk went on to have a more successful, arguably better solo career.

* CarefulWithThatAxe - "It's Oh So Quiet".

* BeyondTheImpossible: Björk's gonna top everything she has done with a series of concerts that'll promote ''Biophilia''.
--> [[http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/bjoerk-to-debut-new-biophilia-songs-at-residency-in-england-20110317 "These performances are a meditation on the relationship between music, nature and technology and will feature live music as well as multimedia elements including installations, performance art and apps for mobile devices. Special instruments [have been] conceived and constructed specifically for these concerts, including custom-built digitally controlled pipe organs, a gamelan-celeste hybrid and a]] ''[[http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/bjoerk-to-debut-new-biophilia-songs-at-residency-in-england-20110317 30-foot pendulum that harnesses the planet's gravitational pull to create musical patterns.]]''"

* TheTropeSong - "The Anchor Song" and "The Comet Song".

* MagnumOpus - ''Homogenic'' or ''Vespertine''. Both are her most critically acclaimed albums.

* CatchPhrase - Something that sounds like/is a variation of "al se man cher." Listeners of Björk will catch on that she sings this phrase a lot.
** It's probably "alt sem hann sér", which means "everything he sees" in Icelandic.