Biophilia leaked

[dottiehinkle]

And I don't like it at all. The lyrics sound like she literally sat down and was like this songs going to be about crystals and this ones going to be about tectonic plates. Its like shes using a bunch of metaphors that don't mean anything. I would be more forgiving but even the production sounds like crap, and I hate how there isn't much song

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[sukikins]

oh noes!

[aprivateflag]

Judging from the songs I have heard this sounds just about right. :/ I wasn't too impressed with the lyrics on Volta either and I feel bad when I think this is the direction she's going in. Sometimes it sounds like she's covering her own songs, production-wise, but in the most dilatory way possible.

[misskelleen]

I agree.
I'm SO BUMMED too, because Bjork is hands-down my favorite artist and has been for 16 years.

But... lyrically something is lacking these days.
I remember back in the Medulla doc, she was saying that the theme and sound came first and the lyrics were filled in almost as an afterthought or something... that the lyrics had the least time spent on them. Which kind of worked for Medulla because it was so tribal and only about the group and the sound they make together... but now it seems like that's HOW SHE WORKS all the time or something? I would like to see a shift back to giving lyrics more thought...

That said, pretty much the only song on Volta I like is "Wanderlust."

And now with Biophilia, it's like she's abandoned the melody and the beauty in the music and gone for THEME THEME THEME. I get that this song is about crystals, but can we make it... well, more of a SONG? Can it flow and move and have a beat? The songs I've heard so far sound like she's sitting in a children's music class, banging around on

[aprivateflag]

Yes! I've been as fan for as long as you have and I guess some people would find this harsh, but it's how I feel too: "like she's sitting in a children's music class, banging around on xylophones and improvising songs about rocks". For me, this was under control on Medúlla, but it's just too much now. I remember being fan in the Post era and how people used to bash her and saying she couldn't make proper songs, and it's so weird when I find myself having similar thoughts. I also remember her saying that first and foremost she's a pop musician. Everyone is aloud to change and change their minds, I just feel sad that I can't relate to her work the way I used to.

[misskelleen]

I've been thinking of that quote too - "Number one, two, three and all the way up to 75: I'm a pop musician. And I make music for the every-day person."

I've always felt she was this eccentric, genius, bizarre little music-mind who was striving to make her songs work for the masses... and the result is something that nearly anyone can love: beats, swooping melodies and strings, passionate vocals. Her songs were still genius and different but they were sort of translated or given a sort of lovely sweet-coating that brought people to love her music... Not that it ever became MAINSTREAM, but it just had more appeal. People could have fun with this really sort of high-brow compositions

[notesandchords]

I'd wait to hear how the CD release version may differ, but also realize that this isn't a direction she's going, but rather one she's been on the whole time

[gully_moe]

"but also realize that this isn't a direction she's going, but rather one she's been on the whole time."

This.

[mangusu]

Poetry is great and I've always respected that out of her.
But I want music. I want to hear a pattern of rhythms that bring enjoyment to my ears.

Its disappointing for being such a huge fan for so long.

Each album had less and less songs I liked, and this one, I couldn't get into any of them.

[gully_moe]

I don't know, isn't that always the case with Bjork? Her last two albums grew on me. I was like, "Meh" to some of the songs, but now I love them. The new songs I heard so far are fine to me. And isn't some of her past work a little bit random too?

[misskelleen]

Yes her past work is a bit random. But there's a difference between random or a little strange and totally unlisten-able.

:/

I don't see as much beauty in the new stuff...

[gully_moe]

*shrugs* Different strokes I guess? I'm listening to it leaked now. I think it is absolutely lovely.

[misskelleen]

I hope you're right!