Born and raised in Reykjavík, Björk began her music career at the age of 11 and gained international recognition as the lead singer of the alternative rock band the Sugarcubes, by the age of 21. After the Sugarcubes disbanded in 1992, Björk began a solo career. She came to prominence with albums such as Debut (1993), Post (1995), and Homogenic (1997), collaborating with a range of artists and exploring a variety of multimedia projects. Her other albums include Vespertine (2001), Medúlla (2004), Volta (2007), Biophilia (2011), Vulnicura (2015), Utopia (2017) and Fossora (2022).
Several of Björk's albums have reached the top 20 on the US Billboard 200 chart. As of 2015, she had sold more than 20 million records worldwide. Thirty-one of her singles have reached the top 40 on pop charts around the world, with 22 top-40 hits in the UK, including the top-10 singles "It's Oh So Quiet", "Army of Me", and "Hyperballad" and the top-20 singles "Play Dead", "Big Time Sensuality", and "Violently Happy". Her accolades and awards include the Order of the Falcon, five BRIT Awards, and 16 Grammy nominations. In 2015, Time named her one of the 100 most influential people in the world. Rolling Stone named her the 60th greatest singer and the 81st greatest songwriter.
Björk starred in the 2000 Lars von Trier film Dancer in the Dark, for which she won the Best Actress Award at the 2000 Cannes Film Festival, and was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Original Song for "I've Seen It All". Biophilia was marketed as an interactive app album with its own education program. Björk has also been an advocate for environmental causes in Iceland. A retrospective exhibition dedicated to Björk was held at the New York Museum of Modern Art in 2015.
Full Wikipedia article: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Björk
Studio albums
Debut (1993)
Post (1995)
Homogenic (1997)
Vespertine (2001)
Medúlla (2004)
Volta (2007)
Biophilia (2011)
Vulnicura (2015)
Utopia (2017)
Fossora (2022)
Pagan Poetry -
Björk Lyrics
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The dark currents
I find
An accurate copy
A blueprint
Of the pleasure
In me
A secret code carved
Swirling black lilies totally ripe
A secret code carved
He offers
A handshake
Crooked
Five fingers
They form a pattern
Yet to be matched
On the surface simplicity
But the darkest pit in me
It's pagan poetry
Pagan poetry
Morsecoding signals (signals)
They pulsate (wake me up) and wake me up
(pulsate) from my hibernating
On the surface simplicity
Swirling black lilies totally ripe
But the darkest pit in me
It's pagan poetry
Swirling black lilies totally ripe
Pagan poetry
Swirling black lilies totally ripe
I love him, I love him
I love him, I love him
I love him, I love him
I love him, I love him
She loves him, she loves him
This time
She loves him, she loves him
I'm gonna keep it to myself
She loves him, she loves him
She loves him, she loves him
This time
I'm gonna keep me all to myself
She loves him, she loves him
And he makes me want to hurt myself again
She loves him, she loves him
She loves him, she loves him
And he makes me want to hurt myself again
In "Pagan Poetry," Bjork sings about the intense and complicated emotions of love. The first verse describes the singer's personal pleasure and how they see it as a blueprint. The second verse introduces an unnamed male character who offers a crooked handshake with his five fingers, which form a pattern yet to be matched. The surface simplicity of the interaction contrasts with the darkness within the singer, as exemplified by the use of the term "pagan poetry." In the bridge, the lyrics refer to "morse coding signals" pulsating and waking the singer up. The final chorus echoes the earlier imagery of "swirling black lilies totally ripe" and the love triangle, with the singer deciding to keep their feelings to themselves but also acknowledging how this love makes them want to hurt themselves again.
Overall, "Pagan Poetry" is about the complexity and darkness of love and how it can elicit extreme emotions from the singer.
Line by Line Meaning
Pedaling through
Moving through something, likely an emotional or mental experience
The dark currents
A difficult and trying situation or emotion
I find
Discovering something after struggling or searching for it
An accurate copy
An exact match to something else, possibly describing a feeling or experience she has had before
A blueprint
A plan or guide for something that can be replicated
Of the pleasure
A feeling of happiness or enjoyment
In me
Referring to herself and her emotions
Swirling black lilies totally ripe
A metaphor for something dark and dangerous that is fully matured and ready to act
A secret code carved
A hidden message or meaning
He offers
A person in her life presents something to her
A handshake
A friendly gesture or agreement
Crooked
Dishonest or underhanded
Five fingers
Referring to the human hand and its ability to manipulate or control things
They form a pattern
A repeated behavior or cycle
Yet to be matched
Not fully understood or replicated
On the surface simplicity
Something that appears simple or easy to understand
But the darkest pit in me
A feeling or emotion that is difficult to bear or acknowledge
It's pagan poetry
Referring to something spiritual or mystical
Morsecoding signals (signals)
Referring to a method of communication, possibly implying hidden or secretive messaging
They pulsate (wake me up) and wake me up
A sudden shock or awakening, possibly from a personal revelation or realization
(pulsate) from my hibernating
Being awakened from a state of stagnation or inactivity
Swirling black lilies totally ripe
A continued metaphor for something dangerous and ready to act
Pagan poetry
Referring to something mystical or spiritual
I love him, I love him
Repeating a feeling of love and affection
She loves him, she loves him
Referring to another person's feelings of love and affection
This time
Possibly implying a repeated pattern of behavior or emotion
I'm gonna keep it to myself
Keeping emotions or feelings hidden or private
And he makes me want to hurt myself again
Referring to a destructive pattern or cycle of behavior
Lyrics © Kobalt Music Publishing Ltd., Universal Music Publishing Group
Written by: BJORK GUDMUNDSDOTTIR
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@scarlethpenafiel8167
Pedalling through
The dark currents
I find an accurate copy
A blueprint of the pleasure in me (Swirling black lilies totally ripe)
A secret code carved
A secret code carved (Swirling black lilies totally ripe)
He offers a handshake
Crooked five fingers
They form a pattern
Yet to be matched
On the surface simplicity (Swirling black lilies totally ripe)
But the darkest pit in me
Is pagan poetry (Swirling black lilies totally ripe)
Pagan poetry
Morse coding signals (signals)
They pulsate (They wake me up)
They wake me up (Pulsate)
From my hibernating
On the surface simplicity (Swirling black lilies totally ripe)
But the darkest pit in me
And it's pagan poetry (Swirling black lilies totally ripe)
Pagan poetry (Swirling black lilies totally ripe)
I love him, I love him
I love him, I love him
I love him, I love him
I love him, I love him, I
She loves him, she loves him (This time)
She loves him, she loves him (I'm gonna keep it to myself)
She loves him, she loves him (This time)
She loves him, she loves him
She loves him, she loves him (I'm gonna keep me all to myself)
She loves him, she loves him
She loves him, she loves him (But he makes me want to hand myself over)
She loves him, she loves him
She loves him, she loves him
She loves him, she loves him (But he makes me want to hand myself over)
She loves him, she loves him
She loves him, she loves him
@leserpentbleu8011
Pedaling through
The dark currents
I find
An accurate copy
A blueprint
Of the pleasure
In me
A secret code carved, a secret code carved
He offers
A handshake
Crooked
Five fingers
They form a pattern
Yet to be matched
On the surface simplicity
But the darkest pit in me
It's pagan poetry
Pagan poetry
Morsecoding signals
They pulsate and wake me up
From my hibernating
On the surface simplicity
But the darkest pit in me
It's pagan poetry
Pagan poetry
I love him, I love him
I love…
@CaptnShred
Honestly this doesn't feel like it was released almost 20 years ago. Still ahead today.
@user-ie1so5rn5k
Was it??
@nik8099
@@user-ie1so5rn5k Yeah this was in 2001
@tres.m
Nah! It was ahead of their times but now we are use to see this kind of art
@MinamuTV
Björk is one of popular music’s true geniuses. Moments like the strings-filled ending of “5 Years” and the beginning of the last section of “Harm of Will” (after the angelic voices) are, when listening to the albums in chronological order, pinnacles of western music — some of history’s most moving testaments to the power of love, and more generally to the persistence of the emotional realm of the self. And she, very much like the Beatles, seems to touch on this and related aspects of human life, like the impossibility of ever building a world governed simply by reason, with optimism (note the “All is Full of Love” music video) rather than with deep concern — which is justified because, after all, a society in which all people are loved appropriately means one in which there aren’t enough furious people for the society to be at real risk of descent into chaos. Sometimes people more competitive in nature find a number of great minds of the humanities naively idealistic. They often find art that criticizes the status quo to lack significance because the world can never be fair. But what should be stressed is that the luminaries of these fields are not the ones to blame for their failures to immediately change the human race with their prescient approaches — their styles, their ways of seeing the world. Their works remain an important contribution to culture, even if the humans exposed to such works often lack the insight to change in accordance with the ideals that high art expresses. While Picasso’s Guernica or the albums of the Beatles may have failed to prevent atrocities like the Holocaust or the Rwandan genocide, this does not make the works themselves unimportant; rather, this means they are on a higher plane. And we may dismiss it as wishful thinking, as something that cannot ever be the way of actual reality — but it is not their fault if one does so. Björk’s albums offer us an idealism. And we should try, amidst the impending climate catastrophe, to listen...and then be changed for the better...and then interpret reality with a framework including love of all living beings...and then act, in the hope that our reality at least gets closer and closer to what is in the minds of those like her...
@etercloud
Capt'n Shred Exactly!
@hausvonarda
queen of uploading her uncensored music video on youtube years later
@RodrigoRangel
I screamed hahahsjjahahs
@corn3lius458
Jajajajajajaaaa🤭 oh nouuu
@kimdracvla
her talent jumped out