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I wish I liked

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Björk. Or, rather, I wish I liked Björk’s music. The excellent Vulnicura thread confirmed it. I think she’s fascinating, visually stunning – a true artist. I just can’t get along with her music. Nothing about it holds my attention. I’d love to have all her cds lined up on a shelf ‘cos I think she deserves fame and success for her pioneering spirit, originality and risk taking. But I just haven’t been hooked by any post- Sugarcubes stuff. I’m happy watching videos on Youtube, but with the sound down. I’ll read interviews with her, read about her, listen to her speak and hang on every cockney/Icelandic word. I think she’s brilliant, a genius … but a track comes on and I (mentally) turn off.

I don’t think this is an ‘I don’t get …’ or a ‘sell me on …’ post.

Does anyone else feel like this about anyone, not just Björk, from any sphere of the arts?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BeAZ9DQZFz8

Bjork’s Vulnicura – now with added strings (or rather less digital beats)

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Am currently putting my socks back on after having them knocked off by ‘Vulnicura Strings’ a “stripped back” version of her album from earlier this year. The same vocal takes, made more intimate and raw by their isolation but with added string arrangements and something called a Viola Organista that Di Vinci designed.

I have noticed the absence of the original album from the usual tedious “best of year” lists, maybe it’s release at the start of the year made reviewers who probably got copies early forget about Bjork (as Eminem once sang). I think it’s her most personal and nakedly emotional album to date and if you’re of a similar mind then I’d check this “acoustic” album out