Posted October 17, 20231 yr 20 years ago Bjork wrote this song called "Oral", a supposedly very pop song and her label had the song archived somewhere but Bjork forgot the name of the song so for the past 20 years they were all trying to find it but couldn't until earlier this year when suddenly Bjork recalled the title then she approached Rosalia to work her magic to modernise the song and it's coming out soon as a single for an Icelandic charity related to whales I believe Colour me excited!!!!
October 17, 20231 yr Author Björk details the way "Oral" came back to her: "I've been working with the same guy and record company since I was a kid and the company always keeps original copies of every song written. I was always asking him to try to find the song, but they couldn't find a song despite digging in the back of the vault because I couldn't tell them its name." For about 20 years, Björk couldn't remember its name, but it eventually came to her in a very unexpected way. "It was disgustingly funny. I was in Australia now in March and I turned on CNN, which I usually never turn on. Then there was some scandal in America that some aristocratic had met a prostitute or something like that, and the headline that rolled was somehow like, "Was it just oral, or was it all the way?" Then all of a sudden it started with me, yes the song is called Oral! It took me twenty years," Björk says with a laugh. "I sent it straight to the manager, who then found the song and I was so happy. Then I came home and saw that all that sea docking had gone up in flames. I've been following this over the years, but then in the spring it felt like it was going up another level when all these reports started coming out and the problem became even clearer. So I decided I would give the song to the fight." and about Rosalia: Björk gives us details about her to-be-released collaboration with Rosalia in an interview with The Guardian “Dancehall is the grandmother of reggaeton. When I heard it, I thought: Rosalía had a lot of reggaeton on her album. I know she really cares and wants to act. I think she was excited about it because she wants to do something about the environment.”
October 27, 20231 yr So this didn't come out today in the end? What an exciting combination of artists anyway, looking forward to hearing it *.*
October 27, 20231 yr It's out tomorrow (if I'm understanding this Instagram post correctly) View this post on Instagram
October 28, 20231 yr Author song officially out Nov 9 hope they play it tonight at the DJ set and someone tapes it :)
November 9, 20231 yr Out today!!! Can’t wait for this. Two of my absolute favourites collaborating on a lost song from around the time of my favourite ever album (Vespertine). I have high hopes 🥹
November 9, 20231 yr Author Same, cannot wait, I've read conflicted reports about what era the song is from, Bjork seems to mention a different timeframe everytime she mentions the song, I've heard Homogenic, Vespertine and also Medulla so not really sure :D
November 14, 20231 yr Author While we are impatiently waiting: #Björk on Rosalía: "I heard Rosalía first album, where she was singing flamenco, maybe five years ago. I loved it. I was obsessed with it and listened to it nonstop. And I contacted her through Pablo [Díaz-Reixa], he’s called El Guincho, and he works with her. So the next time I came to Barcelona, I met with them and Arca. So we were hanging out, the four of us; that was quite cute. I think we talked about recording something, but it has to be the right time and the right song."
November 21, 20231 yr I had high expectations but this actually exceeded them! Loooove it so much, beautiful song and their voices fit together so well :heart: Gorgeous.
November 21, 20231 yr AMAZING (although that was to be expected considering the track originates way back to the late 90s) Edited November 21, 20231 yr by Sour Candy
November 22, 20231 yr I’m about to say one of the most shocking things of the year — I can’t get the melody of the new Björk single out of my head.
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