Danish TV-2 1996-06-28 By ??? "Bjork interview from Roskilde" Subject: Bjork interview Roskilde Date: Wed, 3 Jul 1996 02:48:39 +0200 From: "Stig B. Nielsen" To: Multiple recipients of list BLUE-EYED-POP Hi bep'ers: Unfortunately I couldn't be at Roskilde to see Bjork last Friday, but I've heard it was absolutely great, she's got terrific reviews in Danish newspapers. But luckily I caught a small interview on TV the other day. Here it is: -------------------- Bjork interview, Danish TV-2 from Roskilde, June 28 1996. (Because of the many cuts, this interview seems somewhat disjointed. It was obviously put together from much longer interview.) Bjork: I'm doing what I'm doing because I love to do it, and I've been doing it since I was eleven-twelve, and I will continue doing it for another fifty years, you know. And if people like it that's a great bonus, but it won't really change the way I do things. [clip] ...you head for innocence and you end for corruptioness, there's no way controlling these things you know. [clip] I was brought up in a small country with a lot of attention, brought up with a feeling that everybody know who I am when I walk into a shop. [clip] ..basically, Sugarcubes, we were friends since we were children and we will always be friends. And we are like this, you know, we will always stick together 'till we die. [clip] It's like... let's put it this way, when you were in school, say you were 12 years old, and you were obsessed with, say insects... In three days you would know which kid in the school was obsessed with insects, you would just know, and you would go up to the person and say hello, we should compare our insect collection [clip] Interviewer: Do you see your show when you're on stage as some kind of entertainment or as music primarily? Bjork: I see it as communication. I don't want to analyse it because it would make it very boring for me. [clip] Somebody told me that they did a survey and I have all sorts of different fans. I have young people, old people, gay people, straight people, jazz-fans, musos, punks, club-people, whatever, and I'm very proud of that. Somebody told me that and I'm very, very proud of that, that shows me at least something I'm doing is right. [clip] Interviewer: ..But a lot of people see you as a sex-symbol? Bjork: It comes with my job. I think, say for example 100 years ago, if I would be a singer then - pop singer - it was being, it was bottom of the society, it was trashy. It just happens to be that these days if you are female and you have a microphone and it's your job, you automatically become a sex-monster (laughs). Interviewer: Was it a surprise for you to make it so much abroad especially in Europe? Bjork: Yeah! I mean, I still don't understand it, 'cause I definitely didn't compromise in any way, you know. But ...(????).....where I just don't know. I can't see myself from the outside, it's impossible for me. I'm mostly educated by my instinct, and at the end of the day that is the best teacher - 'cause no two people have the same voices and no two people need the same teaching you see, so I'm quite... I've been singing for.. professionally for almost twenty years now. -------------------- Stig B. Nielsen http://www.pip.dknet.dk/~pip971/bjork.html