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On 9/8/2022 at 5:20 AM, Bounty said:

I like tbh! Been a fan since Medulla so I take everything she does gratefully. It’s definitely on the weird pop side of her discography, very Biophilia and Volta…

I’m excited to hear the rest!

Now for people who are asking how to get into her music, this has helped me get some friends into her work:


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omfg that flow chart :giveup: I think I'd swap Medulla and Utopia because I feel like Utopia is her least accessible. I might be biased though because Medulla was my first exposure

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Ladle Ghoulash
On 9/7/2022 at 5:43 AM, alsemanche said:

Yeah you're right, she's been serving vocals for literally 40+ years but yeah she's not vocally skilled and has to hide it all with those visuals she does :/ I guess people are going to her Orchestral concerts where it's just her and an orchestra with 0 visuals or spectacle because they wanna listen to the music and ignore her horrid vocals :/

Björk's roots come from punk and jazz bands and her vocals are heavily influenced by that. Her growls and screams are insane, but she can also do gorgeous vocals and high notes and vocal manipulations live on stage (e.g. the stuff she used to do with It's Oh So Quiet and Anchor Song, I've literally never heard a single vocalist do that ever). She's 30 years into her solo career, and has another decade in the bag of band career, yet her voice is still strong and she can hit high notes easily when she wants live (as she has shown during her orchestral and cornucopia tour where she sang many of her older songs). Her voice isn't 'conventionally' beautiful, but it's stunning once you get out of that conventional box of what sounds good and what doesn't. The way she uses her voice isn't the way a regular vocalist would use it. She's been saying that for ages. She views the human voice as yet another musical instrument that she intergrates within her songs. 

She still sounds great now, especially for someone who's been singing their entire life and is almost 60 AND almost lost their voice at some point because of nodules and surgery. 

The below is a tiny example of her vocal prowess (and it doesn't even include anything from her post-Biophilia eras). 

Notable parts: 1:45, 2:49, 3:25, 4:30, 4:57, 5:10, 6:30, 6:51, 

 

 

From a technical perspective, Björk is actually a very skilled vocalist 

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On 9/8/2022 at 5:20 AM, Bounty said:

I like tbh! Been a fan since Medulla so I take everything she does gratefully. It’s definitely on the weird pop side of her discography, very Biophilia and Volta…

I’m excited to hear the rest!

Now for people who are asking how to get into her music, this has helped me get some friends into her work:


pbFUnXCUlIW_OkWlrE5XQ-D5EyurA9-pL3XNffE5

Funny enough, Vespertine was the first album that hooked me. Then Homogenic, VulnuricaPost, and then Debut. Taking my time and picking off each album track by track (For example, I stumbled across Desired Constellation off Medulla and Arisen My Senses off Utopia and found those tracks to be absolutely beautiful).

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Wow its like the volta version of pluto

clarinets being finally represented in “pop music” is incredible.

but what i really loved was this New make up/gestures/persona. Just wow, i was mesmerized. Its really her right?

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