Just ran across this interview in the new issue of Spin and it may be the first time I have ever heard her mention Prince. There's also a hilarious response from her regarding the swan dress.

love. her.

OH, how i would have LOVED to be a fly on the wall for that conversation about why giraffes aren't blue!

Hurrah For Bjork!

I love Bjork as a person.

She's great and funny! I like the fact that she mentions the egg thing, which was excellent and people didn't seem to notice. Brilliant!

good one!

Bjork said:

Where the hell did she carry those six eggs?
Under the "swan's skirt"???

+ that pic is hilarious!!!

Those stupid Hollywooders!
I've always thought that Swan Dress was the most amazing outfit Björk has ever worn!!!

Bjork said:

She could have shit on my church floor any fucking time she wants!!!

Björk edit
[Edited 6/3/07 13:40pm]

Anxiety said:

She would probably strike you down with her laptop like this:

http://www.youtube.com/wa...d5rpT1oe-c

Check the rankings!

Medúlla ***
Vesperine ****
Post ****
Debut ***

Cheek said:

I never thought Debut and Medulla were equal.....different strokes.

Cheek said:

it looked like she had an egg-shaped clutch purse kinda thing, and i bet the "eggs" she dropped were like nesting dolls, so they'd be easy to carry and drop.

why did i even spend time speculating a theory on this?

Anxiety said:

I would loved to have been a fly under her skirt as she was dropping those eggs!!!

MoonSongs said:

Perv!

MoonSongs said:

you'd get smooshed!

I got much love and reespect for Bjork,
but she aint in the same league as prince.
You take a computer away from Bjork, you have nothing but a singer.
You take a computer away from princce, you just Prince with acoustic acompanaiment. Which is always betteer in my book

EmbattledWarrior said:

actually, bjork is classically trained in composition and can write/perform songs on organ.

i don't think she has the virtuosity for musical instruments that prince has, but i don't think prince can handle the same level of complexity that bjork can as a composer. it's a trade-off, really.

Anxiety said:

Ya can't be serious? As far as rock-pop composing is concerned Prince ranks up there with Brian Wilson, Frank Zappa and Stevie Wonder. I have listened to Bjork's material through and through and it's brilliant on the most part but no where does it reach the composing majesty of "The Ballad Of Dorothy Parker" and so on. This is the guy who is often compared to Mozart or Duke Ellington, would do you think that is?

Don't get me wrong, Bjork is one of the most talented artists ever but to say Prince can't handle the complexity of her compositions is bonkers.

Funkmeimfamous said:

prince can't handle the complexity of bjork's compositions. maybe she couldn't handle the soulfulness of his.

and everyone knows i'm bonkers, so i guess i can say what i like.

Anxiety said:

Here's to self depreciation!

A 50/50 (and I stress, 50/50!) collabo between Prince and Bjork would be sweeeet.

Funkmeimfamous said:

i think they'd end up trying to kill each other, but if they could be restrained, it would be very sweet indeed.

Anxiety said:

Bjork seems like a no BS type so she'll probably stuff him her swan dress and release him in waters of lake minnetonka.

Funkmeimfamous said:

prince in the swan dress

Anxiety said:

I can't see Prince making something like Vespretine, but then again, I can't see Bjork making something like Lovesexy. They handle music differently.

Anxiety said:

For some reason I think that if they appoached a collabo from their common ground in jazz and classical, they would come up with something much more mind-blowing and satisfying than if they tried to outdo each other with the technology and beatmaster status.

Something midway between "Power Fantastic" and "Aeroplane" would be really delicious.

GangstaFam said:

i see prince as a master of happy accidents and bjork as being very deliberate about every random squeak that ends up in one of her songs...you're right, they do handle music differently, and i guess it's not so much how they get there as much as the quality of the end product. i feel like prince has gotten impatient with adding a lot of detail and texture to his studio recordings anymore, whereas bjork keeps getting more and more out-there with all the stuff she crams into her work.

I fear a collaboaration between the two would sound like a big headache, but I could be wrong.

Moonbeam said:

i feel like bjork did to timbaland what prince did to all his collaborators on RAVE...mixed that sucker WAY down and sprayed it with her own scent.

which, you know, is fine...it's HER album...but yeah, i think there'd be a little bit of disagreement in the studio between her and prince.

Anxiety said:

Yeah from what I've read, Post and Volta are the most improvisational she's ever been in her collaborations and with studio equipment.

Because Prince used to be a mad scientist up at all hours of the day, I feel like he used to just rock a drum machine beat, fuck it up, go out for coffee, come back, see what it sounded like and hit record. There's a lot of freedom as a one man band and having your own studio. It shows in most of his old work.

Anxiety said:

Anxiety said:

At least she didn't end up with "Undisputed".

If they ever worked together, that's why I'd rather they did something very minimalist or acoustic like "Sweet Sweet Intuition" or "God" or something.