“Isobel decides to return to the city and to take a train, like in the 30′s, in South America somewhere. She decides to confront love with love and confronts the cowards that don’t have the guts to fall in love with love. So you see – it’s like Isobel has returned. “

Bachelorette is the sequel in this epic tale written by Björk with lyrics by Sjón. Released on her third album “Homogenic”, it was also chosen as one of the first singles. A tall adventure. Produced by Björk. The video to the song was realised by – once again – Michel Gondry, who now had done 6 videos for Björk.

En nog een quote van Björk, ze wilde dat het een erg mooi verhaal werd, daarom vroeg ze haar vriend Sjón (dichter) om te helpen..

Because I wanted the lyrics to be so epic, I got my friend Sjón – who’s a poet in Iceland – to write them. We sat together at the kitchen table and drank a lot of red wine and I told him the whole story for hours and days and he wrote the words from that story.

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“I guess that song’s about when you have a lot of people that work for you and you sort-of have to write songs or people get unemployed, you know? In most cases, it’s inspiring but in that particular song I was pissed off with it. I was ready for a break but it didn’t seem fair on the people I worked with at the time.”