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I didn't know if to post this to music or TV but seeing it is on TV.,..


t seems like an unlikely pairing, but quirky singer-songwriter Björk is teaming up with David Attenborough, the famous English broadcaster and naturalist. Together, the two are working on a documentary about the intersection of art, music, the environment, and technology.

Called Attenborough and Björk: The Nature of Music, the doc will "tell the story of how and why music has evolved, our unique relationship with it, and how technology might transform the way we engage with it in the future."
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I can't wait! I was going to go out on Saturday but I think I may stay in and watch this :oops:



http://io9.com/bjork-and-david-attenborough-team-up-for-science-909893109

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/entertainment/news/article.cfm?c_id=1501119&objectid=10855256
 
maya said:
It could be great or it could be awful, I hope she'll get back to form one day, like in the old days... I used to love her so much.

(BTW, what's your opinion on this, then: Musicians you idolised as a teen who turned out to be dickheads - ? :confused: [disregard the thread title, the opinion is in the post quoted])
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ive posted this before and quite recently, but i think Medula (album 4? 5?) was the best thing she's ever done and a bit of a masterpiece on top. i liked sugarcubes from a distance but never really liked the early solo stuff as the beats didnt do it for me. She'll never be (or probably ever was) what you idiolised her as being, she's grown up and gone on her own trip. All idolisations are doomed arent they? Its starting from an unrealistic point and can only ever go down hill.

Shes definitely an artist (and last i heard married to artist Matthew Barney) and i cant imagine her standing still or looking backwards - fully expect more weirdness from her in the future.
 
ska invita said:
ive posted this before and quite recently, but i think Medula (album 4? 5?) was the best thing she's ever done and a bit of a masterpiece on top. i liked sugarcubes from a distance but never really liked the early solo stuff as the beats didnt do it for me. She'll never be what you idiolised her as being, she's grown up and gone on her own trip. All idolisations are doomed arent they? Its starting from an unrealistic point and can only ever go down hill.

Shes definitely an artist (and last i heard married to artist Matthew Barney) and i cant imagine her standing still or looking backwards - fully expect more weirdness from her in the future.
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Yep, I know what you mean... TBH it was more the musical aspect than the persona I was talking about- At least to me she started sounding like she was trying too hard to be oh so 'arty' and ultra avantgarde just for the sake of it, at the sacrifice of making good songs... I realise stuff like this is subjective opinion anyway, but I just thought she lost direction a bit and if she could get back to balancing being experimental with actual good songwriting like she used to do, it would get more interesting again... I'm sure she'll hit the 'soft spot' again occasionally many times, and probably have in between already- it's just that I'd wish she'd hit that spot ALL of the time, if you get me... But, of course she's only human- And whatever she does, I'll always respect her greatly regardless... Just waiting for that album where she gets it all right.

(sorry for derailing the thread- This program idea actually sound interesting ! )
 
it very much is subjective and i think she's one of the few musicians out there in pop who are being true to themselves whilst pushing hard on their own boundaries. I dont think she's try hard (not that there isnt work and effort there), i think its very genuine and earnest, but the nature of this kind of stuff is that its a tightrope walk: squint and its pretentious. I dont think shes lost direction, in fact she seems to have a pretty clear direction, but shes going where she wants to go, not where much of her fan base wants too.
Good on her - i think the stuff she does now makes her old stuff look..old. Sorry Maya, I really dont think she'll hit your soft spots ever again!

Also if you manage to make one song that people really love and admire youve done great. If she clocked up a couple of albums with you then thats a lot of blessings to count.
 
ska invita said:
it very much is subjective and i think she's one of the few musicians out there in pop who are being true to themselves whilst pushing hard on their own boundaries. I dont think she's try hard (not that there isnt work and effort there), i think its very genuine and earnest, but the nature of this kind of stuff is that its a tightrope walk: squint and its pretentious. I dont think shes lost direction, in fact she seems to have a pretty clear direction, but shes going where she wants to go, not where much of her fan base wants too.
Good on her - i think the stuff she does now makes her old stuff look..old. Sorry Maya, I really dont think she'll hit your soft spots ever again!

Also if you manage to make one song that people really love and admire youve done great. If she clocked up a couple of albums with you then thats a lot of blessings to count.
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I don't at all want her to sound like in the old days, nor write just traditional songs or anything- What I tried to say (but probably lost in translation, 2nd language/vocabulary problem) is that I thought she just started to make some directionless songs (not all), and that many of the 'experimental' bits just seemed forced, sometimes unlistenable noodly screechy stuff or stuff which could've been worked in a bit better- I agree with your other points, though.

(I actually want her to be MORE experimental, but i want the experimentalism to 'work' a bit better than I think she managed it to... But, IMHO of course.)
 
i see what you're saying...here's hoping for you :) (i do rate Medula though <well worth another good listen if you got put off it early)
In the meantime there's this likely silly show to enjoy/throw the remote at!
 
ska invita said:
i see what you're saying...here's hoping for you :) (i do rate Medula though <well worth another good listen if you got put off it early)
In the meantime there's this likely silly show to enjoy/throw the remote at!
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I'll give Medulla a go tomorrow, promise... :) *cleans ears*
 
i seem to remember hearing she was in one of Matthew Barney's films. Unfair to judge without watching it but the snippet i think i saw looked a little bit..... not that good. DId anyone see it?
 
maya said:
I'll give Medulla a go tomorrow, promise... :) *cleans ears*
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it needs being in a certain mood though - a sunny friday night might not be it! But you never know... Sunday morning maybe...Tuesday evening...that kind of time :D I heard its going to me stormy next week - maybe wait for a good thunderstorm ;)
 
ska invita said:
i seem to remember hearing she was in one of Matthew Barney's films. Unfair to judge without watching it but the snippet i think i saw looked a little bit..... not that good. DId anyone see it?
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I've seen some clips of a film he made which features her (not sure it's the exact one you mean- but IIRC some sort of japanese imagery and... water?) But for all it's worth I think Barney may be a bit cryptic in all his convoluted symbolism- lots of hints to masonic imagery, neoliberal/capitalist business symbols vs. magick, and so on... I'm too dim and uneducated to understand stuff like that, but I'm sure some knowledgeable urbanite will be along to explain it more in detail shortly... :D Also I think there's a lot of references to his dick? :confused: (<-or perhaps the person who told me that was just taking the piss.) IMO, I'm sure it'll be 'interesting', but probably just as baffling as, say, David Lynch's famously impenetrable Inland Empire... (no comparision)
 
I thought this was going to be a celebrity death-match thread. Glad it's not cos clearly she'd kick the shit out of him and I'd rather she didn't.
 
i watched the first twenty minutes but she was too irritating. lucckily i found an episode of the secret life of plants on one of the freeview channels, and davey-boy calmed me right down.
 
I haven't watched this yet, but I always found Bjork really interesting in interviews when she talks about music and art. She really knows her stuff, has a genuinely interesting point of view and she comes across as quite level headed. There isn't really anything 'quirky" about her as such, she just has a peculiar accent.
 
Just halfway through watching now - its a big ad for Biophillia, which i promised myself id go and see no matter how much it cost (having never seen Bjork live) - just checked now and its on in London for the first (and likely last time) this Sept 3rd, but tickets are 70quid and i cant afford that atm :mad: its really put a dampner on the show for me. i might stop watching in fact as its just winding me up.
 
Having jumped to Bjork's defence, I also have to admit that I've lost interest in her music a while ago. Vespertine was the last album of hers I truly enjoyed, the rest I listened dutifully a few times, then I gave up. She once managed to combine her experimentation with a knack for good pop songs, but now she's really more of a sound artist.
 
Arggh! This looks amazing, i really want to go. This is her at the peak of her powers I reckon, so much work has gone into this, and this kind of hippy/acid/nature/technology stuff is exactly the kind of thing that moves me
 
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