Bjork slams Beyonce for doing countless TV commercials

'Icelandic' singer Bjork has lashed out at pop star Beyonce Knowles for selling her soul to the devil and signing dozens of TV commercials.

Bjork said that she is a huge fan of Beyonce's music, but is very disappointed that she has appeared in countless ads, ranging from Pepsi to Tommy Hilgiger's latest perfume 'True Star'.

"I love her voice, but maybe not what she stands for. I'm really p**sed off she's doing all of those commercials. I can't believe she did Pepsi," rate the music quoted Bjork as saying.

"Doing that is like selling your soul to the devil. Maybe it's different in America, and I'm judging too hard," she added.

Source: www.glazed.info

Raijuan said:

B-Jork dissing Boufantce? Madonna did Pepsi YEARS AGO. And if that commercial and it's contents isn't selling your soul to the devil, I don't know what is.

Artists dissing other artists is SO last week.
[Edited 10/27/04 19:29pm]

You know I can't hate on a sista trying to make a little money.

Well, sheeeeit, Dylan appeared in a Victoria Secret commercial. Why expect more of this generation?

This SO doesn't sound like something she'd say.

superspaceboy said:

Exactly.

that's what pop stars do. they always have. i love bjork but, really, who cares who is doing ads? does it change the music they make?

Since when does Bjork's opinion count? She looks like she smells like fish all the time.

4HisGlory said:

True. There is no rhyme and reason in acknowledging an individual who wears oversize swan outfits to an award show.

Supernova said:

Good point, actually!

Hotlegs said:

and looks like a Oompa Loompa on crack

TheRealFiness said:

That was wrong!
Funny as hell, but wrong!

Raijuan said:

man.tell me that seven steps to heaven aint tha cut man... good lord.

CandaceS said:

Actually, Dylan paid to be in that commercial. (Maybe Medicare later reimbursed him as part of his ex-religious nut treatment program.)

I didn't think this was a diss at all. She sounds like a big fan of Beyonce', but just annoyed at the commercials. It's no different than orgers who are big fans of Prince but complain about every other little thing he does.

jackflash said:

That makes a difference?

I see where she's coming from though. The pic of Destiny's Child with Ronald McDonald in Rolling Stone was just too much (that, and the fact they sat and plugged Mickey D's so much during the interview). It was like Ronald McDonald had put microchips in their skulls that made them mention McDonald's products whenever they opened their mouths.

I'm just waiting to hear that they've changed their name to McDestiny, and their new album will be titled Super-Size My Love

JediMaster said:

I don't think you're ready/For this jelly....

JediMaster said:

Is this the same Bjork who attends fashion shows looking like a martian pixie dog? Thought so.

Joni Mitchell did Gap.

Anyways. Bjork just views the world through a somewhat more artful set of sunglasses than Beyonce. And she takes the pun out of her own words by saying it might be a cultural thing.

This is the perfect example how ONE remark gets butchered by placing it out of context of the entire interview.

And us lot obsessing about it. And for so many people just another reason to diss one of those ladies or both.

Pathetic.

So what! B is getting paid,I dont blame her
Pepsi sponsors her concerts and McDonalds will too
Hell, who doesnt want their own fragrance?
Yes Im tired of looking at Beyonce but I change the channel

ThreadCula said:

Isn´t Tommy Hilgiger the one that says that is clothes R only 4 White, caucasian people????

miguelbulcao said:

http://www.tommy.com/help...prah.jhtml
"So I want to just set the record straight once and for all. The rumor claims that clothing designer Tommy Hilfiger came on this show and made racist remarks, and that I then kicked him out. I just want to say that is not true because it just never happened.

Tommy Hilfiger has never appeared on this show. READ MY LIPS, TOMMY HILFIGER HAS NEVER APPEARED ON THIS SHOW. And all of [the] people who claim that they saw it, they heard it -- it never happened. I've never even met Tommy Hilfiger."


Taped live on "The Oprah Winfrey Show"
January 11, 1999

GooeyTheHamster said:

agreed. in this forum people diss ANYONE who stands out. hell, that pretty much goes for the whole org these days.




Bjork is a living legend, who I'm sure smells very sweet and not at all like fish! So stupid. She will be revered a lot higher than Beyonce in the long run as a true artist.

VoicesCarry said:

I love Martina Pixie Dogs then.

She DARES.

GooeyTheHamster said:

break it down!!! bjork dares wear what will soon be watered down and worn by madonna.....

and even within the conversation bjork is admitting she is probably being too harsh...

you all are

hell, even on joan's oscar fashion show the *experts* gave joan and her daughter crap for saying bjork's outfit sucked...it was cute, it was fun and she didnt take herself serious at all.....

you all call yourself prince fans? what would you all be saying now if prince showed up in some of his old stuff?

you all getting old!!

sosgemini said:

That wasn't my point. My point was that she's just as image-conscious as Beyonce, but she dresses it up with high art and pretension. Now, Beyonce gets paid millions for appealing to the lowest common denominator, but much of the money Bjork's made is a direct result of the Icelandic muse image she's worked so very hard to cultivate.
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VoicesCarry said:

you know, you sound so jaded. the "image" of bjork is not pre-fabricated plastic like beyonce's....it stems from the real life she lived in iceland. it's REAL, not manufactured, which is what I think Bjork is so against with the Pepsi thing. it seems some people just can't accept someone like Bjork who's so unique in every way. it's not pretentious...she GREW UP going to an actual music school where what you call pretentious and what I call a musical education (I also went to a music school) has highly influenced her music and her art. If you think she's pretentious, you may as well call all of 20th century classical music and its musicians pretentious.

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[Edited 10/28/04 11:57am]