'To some people, we are also extremists.” rebismusic connects with longtime friend and mutual admirer bjork to talk soul music, apocalyptic climate change, and Kate Bush 🦋
when they got together earlier this month. As the pair traded theories about climate apocalypse and the “starvation of femaleness,” it became apparent why the collaborators-turned-friends share a cult following. Last week, less than a year after Bjork descended from utopia to sink her feet into the earth with, her fifth studio album to date,and first in six years.
BJÖRK: I can really hear it, somehow. My favorite song on the album is “There Wasn’t Enough,” where you’re singing from the point of view of the earth, surprised about the ingratitude of humans and why you weren’t enough for them. I can’t stop crying when I listen to that song. The angle is so original and the falsetto voice is mind-blowingly effective. There’s also a comic ‘70s tone in “My Fault.
BJÖRK: It’s important for a singer-songwriter to work out how they can be a different character for each album and your character for this new album so beautifully owns the fact that we are all complicit in polluting the earth and then joining in the cure. This binary black and white thinking isn’t possible any more. I felt that way after #MeToo, you have to both see the point of the oppressor and the oppressed, and allow yourself to be more ambiguous.
ANOHNI: As things got hotter in America after the Obama administration, it seemed to me that I would be better off encouraging a tone of self-forgiveness or mercy in one’s exploration of one’s own complicity. To fall into despair or blame or denial isn’t productive. That’s been the development for me.
BJÖRK: You’re describing my feelings very well. Coming from Iceland, I think somehow we managed to avoid a lot of that. We haven’t had a war for 800 years. We don’t have an army, and our spirituality is more connected to nature than religion. I’m not washing our hands of violence or anything, but it’s hard to even understand the psychology in the States, with two mass murders a day.
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