History Music / Bjork

* DreamTeam:
** Björk tends to collaborate with really awesome musicians.
** Björk + [[Music/{{Radiohead}} Thom Yorke]] = "I've Seen It All" and "Náttúra."
** Björk + Music/AntonyHegarty = "My Juvenile" and "Dull Flame of Desire."
** Björk + Music/PJHarvey = A crazy cover of "[[Music/TheRollingStonesBand Satisfaction]]".
** Björk + Music/{{Matmos}} = ''Vespertine''.
** Björk + Music/MikePatton = Noises and beatboxing on several tracks from ''Medúlla''.
** Björk + '''''Music/DeathGrips''''' = Vocal samples on disc one of ''The Powers That B''.
** Björk + Music/{{Arca}} = ''Vulnicura'' and ''Utopia''.

** Björk + Music/PJHarvey = A crazy cover of "[[Music/TheRollingStones Satisfaction]]".

** Almost all of Björk's albums have this, with rare exceptions being her pre-''Debut'' releases, as well as some non-studio live albums, remix albums, box sets, and ''Music/{{Medulla}}''.

!!Studio albums and soundtracks Björk has released:

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Her music cannot be [[NeoclassicalPunkZydecoRockabilly shoehorned into one category]]. She's not just an [[ElectronicMusic electronic]] artist; she has dabbled in many genres, including: {{a cappella}}, {{jazz}}, pop, {{alternative rock}}, [[ClassicalMusic classical]], orchestral, folk, and [[AvantGardeMusic avant-garde]].

* NeoclassicalPunkZydecoRockabilly: ''Vespertine'' effectively marries classical music with IDM/glitch and ''Medúlla'' is essentially a capella electronica. Its most notable track is "Triumph of a Heart", an a capella ''dance song''. And [[SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic it is awesome.]]

* ''Björk'' (1977; an Icelandic-exclusive album released when she was 12; has since been long out of print, and is now obscenely rare.)
* ''Gling-Gló'' (1990, with Trio Guðmundur Ingólfsson)

* ''Telegram'' (1996; {{remix album}})

* ''Selmasongs'' (2000, the soundtrack to ''Film/DancerInTheDark'')

* ''Drawing Restraint 9'' (2005, the soundtrack to the movie of the same name)

* ''Bastards'' (2012; remix album)

* BaldWomen: She wears a bald cap in the video for "Hunter".

* ItIsPronouncedTroPAY: Her name is supposed to rhyme with "jerk" (as opposed to "York", as most English speakers say) when the umlaut is taken into account, and Icelandic speakers don't voice the "B" as loudly as English speakers do. Therefore, a more "accurate" way of pronunciation would be something like "Pyerk".

** Brought UpToEleven when she sang "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Canm7glYFgg Oceania]]" at the opening ceremony of the 2004 Olympic Games in Athens. She wore a voluminous light blue dress that slowly unfurled, in order to become an enormous sheet that covered all athletes standing in the middle of the stadium.

* ConceptVideo / NotableMusicVideos / SurrealMusicVideo: Virtually all of her music videos fall under this trope. When she's not a lesbian robot, she's turning an audience into plants, leaving her cat husband to go out partying and then coming back hung over, secreting red thread out of her nipples, travelling on a buffalo in a river with a backpack demon, dressing up as a pinecone and then being attacked by blob thingies, blowing up a museum, or squirting mucus out of her nose and eating it. Specifically for ''Vulnicura'', she also made a VR music video ("Stonemilker"), and another one that brought us ''inside her mouth'' ("Mouth Mantra").

Björk Guðmundsdóttir (born 21 November 1965) is a woman from UsefulNotes/{{Iceland}} who's famous for several things: her distinct voice, her experimental (but [[CrazyAwesome awesome]]) music, her unique fashion taste, her {{surreal music video}}s, her acting in the film ''Film/DancerInTheDark'', her accent, and [[BreadEggsMilkSquick that one time she beat up paparazzi]].

* OlderThanTheyLook: It took her decades to stop looking like a teenager, and she still looks pretty youthful for someone pushing 50.

* BewareTheSillyOnes: Despite her sweet and innocent {{Cloudcuckoolander}} reputation, Björk has attacked 2 journalists, one in 1996 and one in 2008.

* BewareTheNiceOnes: Although she seems sweet and innocent, Björk has attacked 2 journalists, one in 1996 and one in 2008.

* OneWomanSong: "Isobel".

* OrwellianEditor: She named her sophomore album and first primetime album ''Debut'' presumably because of a want to invoke SequelDisplacement for her actual first album which she is presumably [[OldShame not very proud of]].

* ''Björk'' (1977; an Icelandic-exclusive album released when she was 12; has since been considered long out of print, and is now obscenely rare.)

* BiTheWay: Like a lot of musicians. It seems that Björk prefers men, though.
-->"I think [[EveryoneIsBi everyone's bisexual]] to some degree or another; it's just a question of whether or not you choose to recognize it and embrace it. Personally, I think choosing between men and women is like choosing between cake and ice cream. You'd be daft not to try both when there are so many different flavours."

* IntergenerationalFriendship: Since ''Vulnicura'', she has struck one with Music/{{Arca}}, 24 years her junior. It paved the way for both ''Utopia'' and his self-titled third album.

** ''Volta'' features brass sounds and loud percussive beats. It may be her most aggressive album overall (it certainly is her most in the '00s).

Björk is what happens when you dress a cat in Alexander [=Mc=]Queen, teach it how to type, and use the results for lyrics. OK, not really. But kinda. She is also wonderful.

Björk Guðmundsdóttir (born 21 November 1965) is a woman from UsefulNotes/{{Iceland}} who's famous for several things: her voice, her weird (but [[CrazyAwesome awesome]]) music, her strange outfits, her unique music videos, her acting in the TearJerker film ''Film/DancerInTheDark'', her cool accent, and [[BreadEggsMilkSquick that one time she beat 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 [[UsefulNotes/{{Britain}} UK]] and [[UsefulNotes/TheUnitedStates American]] alternative radio), mostly from the endorsement of beloved Radio 1 DJ/indie tastemaker Creator/JohnPeel. After they broke up, Björk went on to have a more successful and arguably better solo career.

* TrrrillingRrrs: She notably uses it as a default when talking and singing, [[TropesAreNotBad not that there's anything wrong with that]].

* DerangedAnimation: The video for "I Miss You." But that's what you get when you hire the ''[[WesternAnimation/TheRenAndStimpyShow]]'' [[Creator/JohnKricfalusi guy]] to make a music video for you.

* DerangedAnimation: The video for "I Miss You."

** "I Miss You."

* BreakupBreakout: Honestly, has anyone else from The Sugarcubes achieved as much success as Björk?

** Most of her albums fall under this trope.
** ''Vespertine'' takes it a little further than that, because the spine of the album, which would normally have the artist name and album title on it, is textless and pure white. There's a sticker on the back with that information plus a list of the songs and copyright info, but if you chose to remove that, the back cover would similarly be blank and white.

* NeoclassicalPunkZydecoRockabilly: ''Vespertine'' effectively marries classical music with IDM/glitch and ''Medúlla'' is essentially a capella electronica. Its most notable track is "Triumph of a Heart", an a capella ''dance song''. And [[CrowningMusicOfAwesome it is awesome.]]