Homogenic

I haven't listened to Vespertine or what was her other one? It was self-titled.

Homogenic? Homogenic.

Homogenic, yeah.

Like those ones I've heard is better, but I started with Post because there was a song on it.

It's Oh So Quiet.

So I just want to play this for you.

I just want you to, like, absorb it and think about it on this beautiful... tuesday afternoon okay and uh this is the song bachelorette by one of my favorite artists in the world bjork and it's off the album i do believe you pronounce it homogenic although i hear a lot of people say homogenic but i'm pretty sure it's nick

of all bjork uh that's my favorite album so this is great i'm excited it

might it might be my favorite as well

i think it hit me it hit me at the right time you know whenever that came out it was like 2000 99 2000 uh 97 97

oh yeah i

may have heard it a little late then maybe 98 99 yeah i love this album really great

was that from your friend

Addressing the intense distress caused by the incident, Björk later said, "I was very upset that somebody had passed away.

I couldn't sleep for a week after, and I'd be lying if I said it didn't scare the F out of me, that I could get hurt, and most of all, that my son could have gotten hurt." Björk processed the trauma of the stalker's crisis by channeling her emotions into her 1997 studio album, Homogenic.

The record featured an emotionally intense sound that won critical acclaim, and it really showed her capacity to transform personal pain into landmark art.

Great album.

So not good

... it's not as high as Homogenic.

Not good enough.

Stop, I hate that you always insist on saying that.

Oh, yeah.

Fine.

Um, yeah, I'm fine with giving this below Homogenic.

I think I'll give it a s- I think I'll give it a six.

We mentioned this potentially briefly last week, but as we know, in order to get through a very difficult period of her life and record homogenic, Björk envisions herself as another person.

In that case, it was the protagonist in a dramatic soap opera.

It's interesting to me that she seems eager to continue that process of embodying somebody who is not her, right? It's almost like she's been playing a character since she started recording Homogenic.

Since the attempted murder, essentially.

She's slipped into extensive character work that Alex Turner would be jealous of, you know? Sure.

Of course.

It's produced by Björk and Mark Bell.

Mark Bell we know because he's the main producer, quote unquote, on Homogenic.

And then I – yeah, and Vespertine was like a very, very out there album.

I guess not as much as Homogenic but still like I got into Vespertine.

It was just a really good album, really different.

And then from there I sort of backtracked and listened to everything else.

Or even like hip-hop beats as well.

There were a few ones.

Yeah, for me, when I go back to listen to Björk, I'm going back to, yeah, like Homogenic and that sort of thing.

Definitely Vespertine.

Go ahead.

She released Homogenic, I suppose, in response to an increasingly invasive press and also nearly being murdered.

She heads to Spain to record her third album and she releases Homogenic in September 1997 and she tours it all over the world.

Wrapping it up in Reykjavik in January 1999.

We're nearly at the millennium.

I think she's talking like Björk.

And actually there's a decent argument.

And I think Peter Stormare, who is also excellent, Peter Stormare and Catherine Deneuve have both said that it didn't really feel like Björk was acting it felt like she was feeling like it was a purely emotional task for her as though her and Selma were inseparable which I think is really interesting because Björk is playing somebody who over the course of the movie is like psychologically and physically abused and And that's kind of the space that Björk had been in going into Homogenic.