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Björk is what happens when you dress a cat in Alexander McQueen and teach it how to use a laptop for music purposes. OK, not really. But kinda. She is wonderful.
 
Björk Guðmundsdóttir (born 21 November 1965) is a woman from [[Useful Notes/Iceland|Iceland]] who's famous for several things: her voice, her weird (but awesome) music, her strange outfits, her unique music videos, her acting in the [[Tear Jerker]] ''[[Dancer in The Dark|Dancer in the Dark]]'', her cool accent, and her habit of beating up paparazzi. From 1986 to 1992, she was in the alternative rock band called The Sugarcubes, who were the first Icelandic musical act to ''ever'' gain ''any'' sort of success outside of Iceland (mostly in the UK and American alternative radio), mostly from the endorsement of beloved Radio 1 DJ/indie tastemaker John Peel. After they broke up, Björk went on to have a more successful, arguably better solo career.
 
Her music cannot be [[Neoclassical Punk Zydeco Rockabilly|shoehorned into one category.]] She's not just an electronic artist; she has dabbled in many genres, including a capella, jazz, pop, [[Alternative Rock|alternative rock]], classical/orchestral, folk, and avant-garde.
 
[http://www.ethanhein.com/wp/2009/bjork This report by Ethan Hein] shows how unique she is. "Björk seems to be one of the only high-profile white musicians who understands that rock and roll is over. There's almost no guitar in any of her work. There's a sample of distorted electric guitar on "Human Behavior," nylon-string guitar on "So Broken," pedal steel on live versions of "Possibly Maybe" - I think that's about it. Her stringed instrument accompaniment of choice is the harp." That's just one of the things that makes her one-of-a-kind.
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* ''Telegram'' (1996)
* ''Homogenic'' (1997)
* ''Selmasongs'' (2000, the soundtrack to ''[[Dancer in The Dark|Dancer in the Dark]]'')
* ''Vespertine'' (2001)
* ''Medúlla'' (2004)
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=== Her work provides examples of: ===
* [[Animated Music Video]] - "I Miss You"
* [[Base Onon Wheels]] - The music video for "Army of Me" features a tractor trailer so large that the wheels themselves are taller than most people.
* [[Beam Me Up, Scotty]] - Björk never said "I am '''a''' grateful grapefruit!". The real quote is above.
* [[Bi the Way]]:
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* [[Canon Dis Continuity]]/[[Old Shame]] - She doesn't acknowledge her 1977 album. Not to mention that she named her 1993 album, ''Debut''!
* [[Catch Phrase]] - "Alt sem hann sér" (and variations thereof), which means "everything he sees" in Icelandic.
* [[Careful Withwith That Axe]] - "It's Oh So Quiet", and some versions of "Army Of Me".
* [[Cloudcuckoolander]]
* [[Concept Video]]/[[Notable Music Videos]]/[[Surreal Music Video]] - Virtually all of her music videos fall under this trope. When she's not a lesbian robot, she's turning an audience into plants, leaving her cat husband to go out partying and then coming back hung over, secreting red thread out of her nipples, travelling on a buffalo in a river with a backpack demon, dressing up as a pinecone and then being attacked by blob thingies, blowing up a museum, or squirting mucus out of her nose and eating it.
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* [[Genre Roulette]] - ''Debut'' and ''Post'' jump between Dance-pop, Trip-hop, Jazz and other stuff. She's the only primarily electronic artist who's most famous song is a big-band cover.
* [[Hidden Depths]] - [http://grapevine.is/Author/ReadArticle/Letter-From-Bjork-About-Magma-Energy She has dived] [http://grapevine.is/Author/ReadArticle/Bjork-Responds-To-Ross-Beaty-Again into Icelandic politics.]
** [[U 2U2|Bono]] finds her intellect scary. This is a man that can intimidate world leaders with his extensive knowledge of facts and figures, and Björk ''puts him in awe''.
* [[Hot Mom]]
* [[Instrumentals]] - "Frosti" and "Batabid."
* [[It Is Pronounced "Tro -PAY"]]: Her name is supposed to rhyme with "jerk" when the umlaut is taken into account.
* [[Little Boy Blue Note]]: Her first album was released when she was ''twelve.''
* [[Long Title]] - "Who Is It (Carry My Joy on the Left, Carry My Pain on the Right)." Also, the remix compilation ''The Best Mixes from the Album Debut For All the People Who Don't Buy White Labels''.
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* [[Textless Album Cover]] - Most of her albums fall under this trope.
* [[Widget Series|Weird Icelandic Thing]] - Hell, she's probably the first thing that comes to mind when Iceland is mentioned...
* [[What Do You Mean It Wasn't Made Onon Drugs?]]?
* [[Word Salad Lyrics]] - "Pagan Poetry".
* [[X Meets Y]] - Björk meets the creator of [[The Ren and Stimpy Show]]? [[What Do You Mean It Wasn't Made Onon Drugs?|Duu]][http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NvMZx2mf46E uuude]...
* [[You Got Murder]]: Averted. An acid mailbomb sent by a mad stalker was intercepted by the post. The tape detailing it, however...
 
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