Bjork It’s Oh So Quiet

I told you I love this one! So unless you forgot about it, you saw it coming! Bjork, lovelies, Bjork with It’s Oh So Quiet!

Great week this one, so here’s for a joyful, restless (or restful, whatever makes your skirt fly) weekend! I’ll be dancing and jumping, making faces and laughing, running and sleeping, eating and well.. you know, enjoying the weather, the sun, the love. Life. And I hope you do too! Come, let’s make some noise!

Part of her “Post” album, did you know that is Bjork’s biggest hit ever? Though I’m no stranger to Bjork and her music, it would appear that this song brought her the longest and the highest top charts participation (back in 1995). Wait, there’s more! Did you know that this isn’t even Bjork’s song? Yep, it isn’t! It’s a song originally composed by Hans Lang and Erich Meder and performed by Horst Winter (1948) and initially called “Und jetzt ist es still” (appx And now it’s quiet) which was also covered by Betty Hutton and renamed into “Blow a Fuse” in 1951. Pretty impressive, eh? (you can listen to Betty’s rendering here and Horst Winter’s original here)

How about Bjork’s video? So Broadway musical? Did you know it was directed by Spike Jonze? Like Bjork herself noted in her website:

It was sort of a joke really. It was a song Guy Sigsworth used to play on the bus when we were touring. Ever since, I almost regret doing it because I wanted to put so much importance on making new music. So many people are doing old music and you’ve even got new bands doing old music. If I put something out in this world, it would be the courage to go ahead and invent things, so it’s ironic ‘It’s Oh So Quiet’ became my biggest song. The best bit was the video.