Tone-deaf Asperger’s performer, designed by Hayao Miyazaki on his LSD adventures?
Icelandic sex dwarf (come on chaps you would wouldn’t you - just to find out) with a peckham accent (how did that happen?).
She looks perpetually four years old & sounds just a bit older.
I don’t speak Icelandic, but I pronounce it closer to ‘byerk’. Since there’s an unlaut over the o, it’s not a long o. When I pronounce a word with an umlaut, I shape my mouth for the vowel and pronounce an e. Worked well enough to get me 'A’s in my German classes.
I can take Björk’s music in small doses. I like it for a change. But I don’t think I could listen to a whole album. The local college station seemed to play Björk songs whenever I tuned it around lunch time. Same song, every day. Got on my nerves.
Nice one, Jurph! 
owlstretchingtime: Of course I would. Hell, I’d do a snake if someone would hold it out straight for me. (But I’d prefer Björk, by far.)
When I read the OP I thought the question was impossible to answer. Then 1st post picker answered it perfectly.
Most people would describe her as cute…not bjeautiful. (that joke just never gets old).
That’s what I figured. I took German for seven years (although I’m very rusty right now), so I know what umlauts do in German; I just didn’t know if the rule was different for Icelandic or other Scandinavian languages.
Really? I think that she is incredibly beautiful. In her defence I also think that she doesn’t play up to the camera in that “I’m going to the supermarket in my designer clothes” type way. She kind of just is, and leaves you to interpret her beauty however you want.
Also, unbelievably sexy…evers since I found out she is a little nymphomaniac I was won over forever… http://unit.bjork.com/specials/pics/bw/B&W%20naked%20in%20forrest%20covered%20by%20leafs.jpg
I’d describe her as an original who follows her own musical path, often with some astonishing results. Some of her music is almost unbearably lush and erotic to me, particularly the album Vespertine. She writes many of her own lyrics. Her music is definitely not always accessible but may grow on the listener. She is apparently a good collaborator and attracts other exciting artists to work with her or remix her music. I find her very beautiful, with a definite hint of mischief and mayhem.
Impish.
Disclaimer: I think Homogenic and Vespertine are two of the best albums made in the last ten years. I think she is interesting looking – she looks like herself. Not particularly beautiful, but unique. I love watching her sing – you can tell she is just totally putting her all into it, and she is an incredible live performer.
Her music has ranged. The early stuff is pretty easy to peg as pop or electronic pop, as a direct extension of her work in The Sugarcubes. Beginning in her second album (but definitely by the third) it started with a big ambient/experimental feel. I’d hesitate to call her trip-hop – I usually associate that as much darker, dependent on song samples and taking things like scratching from hip-hop. She doesn’t do that mostly. She works with environmental noises, synthesizers, and experimental groups like Matmos. So she falls somewhere between Sigur Ros and club music. Closer to Sigur Ros.
I would describe her as one of those people who is creative to a level which is orders of magnitude beyond most others. Therefore, she is often (usually) difficult to comprehend and makes divisive, unique, inaccessible music. Love it or hate it; it just kind of is a visceral thing. She knows what she is doing, I don’t. I just sit back and hope that some of her genius rubs off in the listening.
From the same planet as Michael Jackson, except she arrived looking like that.
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I had a problem with Björk for some time when she first came on the scene solo. I loved The Sugarcubes, then Björk, not so much. My husband is completely infatuated with her. Over the years, I’ve grown to appreciate her music more, thanks to him.
My wedding gift to him was a pair of tickets to see her in SF a couple of years ago. She put on a great show, I’d definitley go see her live again.
She’s small and she’s odd, like a lepton or quark.
Also, do check out Hal Briston’s link.
Idonno. I just wanted a word that started with “bj…”.
In amazing coincidence, my husband just walked in with his latest Netflix DVD. Björk Unplugged, which he is now lounging on the couch watching (loudly, and my PC is in the living room) while wondering out loud if Björk will marry him. :smack:
Her looks I describe as elfin and unique, pretty much the same as everyone has said. Her music, OTOH, is magical stuff. Gorgeous.
Bjork fans – find a bootleg of her performing the Rolling Stones “Satisfaction” with PJ Harvey. Nnngh. Nnnnnnnnnnngh. Also, she does an incredibly beautiful cover of “Leavin’ on a Jet Plane.”
A Bjork once bit my sister…
Actually, it appears that she has pjorked out a bit, judging from a picture in one of those gossip rags I read in a doctors’ office (US Weekly, I think). They had a picture from the Live 8 performance, and she was wearing a butterfly caftan with her hands on her hips, and looked surprisingly wide. Face was a bit puffy, too. Sorry, I can’t find it online, but someone with better Google skills might be better at finding it than me.