Björk has launched a fantastical animated music video for her new single, ‘Victimhood’.
The clip, directed by Gabríela Friðriksdóttir & Pierre-Alain Giraud, premiered in the course of the Icelandic singer’s ‘Cornucopia’ tour cease in Lisbon on Friday (September 1).
Talking in regards to the video, Friðriksdóttir mentioned: “I used to be completely fascinated by the tune. I couldn’t neglect it, I had some goals about it too. It was a deep connection from the primary time I heard it. The tune offers with issues that I usually take into consideration, it’s about self-pity and the way ridiculous you have been or how humorous you have been in a scenario, or in a wierd place the place you had laborious instances, and then you definately see your self.
“As a substitute of pointing at someone else on a regular basis, it’s so good to rediscover your self. To interrupt by means of the concrete masks of a sure feeling at a sure time. I feel within the lyrics themselves, there’s this poetry a couple of human scenario that’s actually welcoming for everybody, I feel everybody can perceive it”.
In the meantime, Björk added: “I type of have this phantasm concept of myself as being this sort of optimist. However you need to be truthful. It’s trickier to catch the tail of the self-pity for an optimist. Typically it turns into the function of the ladies, in troublesome conditions to tackle the catharsis and emotional work, and if there’s some darkish shadows or forces in a scenario, we’ll convert it into type of good vitality, for different members of the family, so that they don’t must, we are going to deal with it.
“That’s a wierd form of sufferer hat too, you select to try this, no one requested you to. That’s perhaps the place the humour is available in. It’s very fascinating. I simply love this portray a lot. These characters are so magical, they only have such deep, deep which means for me.”
Final month, it was introduced that Björk has received the award for Greatest Reside Performer on the 2023 Affiliation of Impartial Music Awards (AIM). She is going to obtain the award at a ceremony happening later this month.
The award additionally is available in gentle of her tenth and newest studio album, ‘Fossora’, which arrived final September.
