27 January, 2005

Björk's new video

Again, Björk surprises us. From last year's groundbreaking album, Medúlla, Triumph of a Heart will be released as a single. Along with the single release, she has created its music video, which is supercool.

In the video, Björk lives with her partner, but he is a cat. And one day, they had an argument or boredom. Don't know exactly what happened from the video. Then Björk leaves home and goes to a small bar in a town. After making a racket there, she get's too drunk to walk and falls down, then gets a scrape on her forehead. This scene, really, is similar to what I was doing in Cardiff and her dynamic slip reminds me of myself...

This video is produced by Spike Jonze, who has also done Björk's It's Oh So Quiet. The video of It's Oh So Quiet is one of the best ones and is also said that it motivates Björk to undertake a heroine of Dancer in the Dark, Cannes' Palme d'Or winning film.

But I saw something strange at the end of the video. After Björk comes back home from last night's party, she kisses the cat and makes up. Then suddenly the cat becomes as big as her, and then starts to dance together. This scene looks as cheap as 80's SF movies. There should have been CG technology to make it look better. Don't know. Spike Jonze might have done so on purpose. But that cat-dancing scene was enough shocking to wipe my memory from the first half of the video. What do you think? See and judge.

» Björk | The Premiere of Triumph of a Heart

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Posted by: sjork at January 27, 2005 03:01 AM