1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:14,560 Hi, welcome to Sonic Serial. I'm Jesse and I'm Mark. And in this podcast, we take a deep 2 00:00:14,560 --> 00:00:19,280 dive into albums from some of our favorite artists track by track. And today we're going 3 00:00:19,280 --> 00:00:26,360 to be continuing with Bjerg's 1993 debut, which was recorded in London. And today we're 4 00:00:26,360 --> 00:00:34,160 talking about Trax 10 and 11, Violently Happy. And Anchor Song. Yes. Okay, let's talk about 5 00:00:34,160 --> 00:00:43,640 some background on Violently Happy. Violently Happy. So this was produced by Nelly Hooper. And 6 00:00:43,640 --> 00:00:51,680 in a 1996 interview with ID Magazine, she said, it's about when you're a junkie on exchanging 7 00:00:51,680 --> 00:01:04,040 emotion, not at one, but at level, not at level one, but at level 200. But when the other person 8 00:01:04,040 --> 00:01:09,940 is gone, you get restless and into trouble by doing things like running on rooftops and 9 00:01:09,940 --> 00:01:17,160 blizzards and drinking 97 tequila. So it's like she's having abandonment issues, like 10 00:01:17,160 --> 00:01:24,920 she's a destructive pet or something. And she also said that it was brave to put this song 11 00:01:24,920 --> 00:01:30,120 out as it was about her personal experience of being away from her lover while living 12 00:01:30,120 --> 00:01:37,800 in Reykjavik. Who was that lover? I believe it was at the time she was dating Dominik 13 00:01:37,800 --> 00:01:47,400 Thrup or Dauntee. Maybe he was in London after the talk. Okay, before we get into production, 14 00:01:47,400 --> 00:01:55,680 since this was released as a single, it has a cover. And we like to talk about the album art 15 00:01:55,680 --> 00:02:06,240 and the videos. This, so it's, it's kind of a pink sepia. And it looks like she's like they took 16 00:02:06,240 --> 00:02:15,360 it from the same shoot as her debut album cover. Yeah, shopped by Sean Pacti's Mondino. But it has 17 00:02:15,360 --> 00:02:22,240 the kind of a pink sepia instead of a yellowy greeny one. Yeah. And it shows her, the other 18 00:02:22,240 --> 00:02:26,920 one's just kind of from the shoulders up, but this one shows her whole body. And it honestly 19 00:02:26,920 --> 00:02:33,640 looks like like she's coming out of the TV on the ring movie. And it's kind of scary, but maybe 20 00:02:33,640 --> 00:02:37,880 it's fitting to the song because the thing's kind of, I mean, the song is about like being 21 00:02:37,880 --> 00:02:45,000 manic and stuff. So, but anyway, she's sitting kind of on her haunches, on her legs, what do you call 22 00:02:45,000 --> 00:02:51,880 that? When you're like sitting on the legs? Yeah, and you have your feet kind of behind you. Yeah. 23 00:02:51,880 --> 00:02:57,880 But maybe it's just her outfit in her shoes, but it just looks, it just looks like she's like 24 00:02:57,880 --> 00:03:08,600 contorted. Okay. So let's talk about the video for Violin. Happy this is one of her better 25 00:03:08,600 --> 00:03:19,000 known videos. Yeah, it was shot by Jean Pacti's Mondino, who also did the album cover artwork 26 00:03:19,000 --> 00:03:26,360 for, or he shot the photo for the album cover debut. And the video was shot in Los Angeles, 27 00:03:26,360 --> 00:03:35,320 January 1994. But the video was postponed by a day because of the Northridge earthquake that happened 28 00:03:35,320 --> 00:03:46,600 in London. Which happened in Los Angeles. And she said that she found the earthquake exciting, as 29 00:03:46,600 --> 00:03:51,400 opposed to frightening. Yeah. Which would make sense. I think I found I think my first earthquake in 30 00:03:51,400 --> 00:03:57,560 in Southern California, I found exciting. Yeah, I mean, I don't feel like I've experienced a big 31 00:03:57,560 --> 00:04:06,120 one, just a little one. But yeah, they're okay. So the video takes place in a padded room, kind of 32 00:04:06,120 --> 00:04:16,440 like an asylum. Right. And there's a camcorder recording, Björk and other people who are patients, 33 00:04:16,440 --> 00:04:21,640 and they're just dancing, jumping around, playing with dolls and cutting their hair off. 34 00:04:23,080 --> 00:04:28,440 And all the dolls that they're holding look like them. Oh, I didn't notice that. Yeah. 35 00:04:29,960 --> 00:04:35,880 Yeah. And then Björk has a pair of scissors that she uses to cut off her hair and rip a teddy bear 36 00:04:35,880 --> 00:04:45,080 apart. And we were talking about this earlier, how the kind of the bear. Oh, yeah. visuals have 37 00:04:45,080 --> 00:04:52,920 have sort of been part of this album. Yeah. A lot of the videos like simple as I don't know. 38 00:04:53,880 --> 00:04:59,640 But she's she's certainly doing a number on the bear in this video. Yeah. Oh, it's like revenge, 39 00:04:59,640 --> 00:05:08,680 because the bear ate her in the other video. And her eggs. No, not that one. Oh, there. Yeah. 40 00:05:08,680 --> 00:05:18,360 That's right. So the video plays off this manic state by putting Björk and others in this kind 41 00:05:18,360 --> 00:05:24,360 of padded room. And they're they're looking kind of happy, though, they're like just really getting 42 00:05:24,360 --> 00:05:34,360 down. Yeah, it's like freedom. Yeah, they're dancing and have any good time. And I'm side note. 43 00:05:34,360 --> 00:05:40,840 The Walking Dead actor Norman Reedus is one of the many actors in the video. 44 00:05:41,400 --> 00:05:47,160 I couldn't pick them out. I'm gonna have to look again. He has like kind of a birdie hair. 45 00:05:49,000 --> 00:05:58,600 Okay, we'll all look for it. But I was wondering like, how this video would go down today because 46 00:05:58,600 --> 00:06:06,760 I think like many of the I think like life back then today, it would be questionable. Yeah. 47 00:06:07,640 --> 00:06:16,920 Just from a mental health rights perspective. Yeah. But I don't know, these are like movies 48 00:06:16,920 --> 00:06:22,920 where people are in St. Asylum, etc. So but yeah, I think it's definitely more of a 49 00:06:22,920 --> 00:06:32,200 sensitive, sensitively, sensitively covered issue. Yeah. Okay, so I'll talk about the lyrics. 50 00:06:35,000 --> 00:06:39,800 It is the final single of the album. And it has kind of the darkest 51 00:06:39,800 --> 00:06:52,360 vibe of all of the songs. And it builds and builds kind of in this frenzied way. 52 00:06:54,360 --> 00:07:04,200 And while she's being frenzied, chopping her hair off, dancing in a pad of room, she's saying, 53 00:07:04,200 --> 00:07:08,600 I'm violently happy because I love you. 54 00:07:13,240 --> 00:07:14,840 I am violently happy. 55 00:07:18,280 --> 00:07:22,040 But you're not here. Violently happy. Come calm me down. 56 00:07:23,320 --> 00:07:24,920 Before you get into trouble. 57 00:07:24,920 --> 00:07:32,600 So yeah, it's about being reckless. 58 00:07:33,960 --> 00:07:38,280 How did you get that? How did you get being reckless from it? 59 00:07:39,560 --> 00:07:45,560 Well, in the verses, she talks about like how she's driving her car really fast and jumping 60 00:07:45,560 --> 00:07:53,560 off the roofs. And it just sounds very dangerous. She's so static that she's just like being careless. 61 00:07:53,560 --> 00:07:56,440 Yeah, I guess. Yeah, that's what it's about. It's careless. 62 00:07:58,040 --> 00:08:04,040 You know, when you're happy and you're in love and all of those things, you kind of like feel like 63 00:08:06,280 --> 00:08:15,240 you know, nothing can bring you down. And you get careless. Yeah. Okay. You play with scissors. 64 00:08:15,240 --> 00:08:24,520 Okay, let's talk about the production for violently happy. So the song starts off with her. 65 00:08:30,680 --> 00:08:38,360 All right, let's talk about production for violently happy. So the song starts off 66 00:08:38,360 --> 00:08:53,320 with her. I need to get through this. Okay. So the way wait, wait, Jesse just cut everything out 67 00:08:53,880 --> 00:08:59,080 up to right now. We're going to start again with production. No, I'm just giving you a note. Thank 68 00:08:59,080 --> 00:09:05,480 you. Okay, let's talk about production for violently happy. The song starts off like 69 00:09:05,480 --> 00:09:14,760 she's singing. I was just going to take the first line to give you a way to kind of 70 00:09:14,760 --> 00:09:17,640 say going in. All right, now we're going to do it take four. 71 00:09:21,160 --> 00:09:28,440 Let's talk about production for violently happy. The song starts off with a bit of apaca. 72 00:09:28,440 --> 00:09:30,440 Okay. 73 00:09:41,800 --> 00:09:42,440 Okay. 74 00:09:42,440 --> 00:09:44,440 Okay. 75 00:09:57,000 --> 00:10:04,680 All right, let's talk about production for violently happy. The song starts off with a bit of 76 00:10:04,680 --> 00:10:11,880 acapella before a dance beat comes in. Yes. And then as the song progresses, there's a lot of 77 00:10:11,880 --> 00:10:18,600 percussion in the song. And at one point her voice is sampled and repeated after she sings 78 00:10:18,600 --> 00:10:19,000 baby. 79 00:10:30,280 --> 00:10:33,400 Okay, let's talk about how the context of violently happy. 80 00:10:33,400 --> 00:10:43,960 So yeah, what are you doing? The way it follows the the chill. 81 00:10:48,040 --> 00:10:53,720 Okay, let's talk about the album context. You have in your notes here that evens out the mixture 82 00:10:53,720 --> 00:10:59,640 of dance and chill songs. What do you mean by that? Just the way it follows the like chill dreamy 83 00:10:59,640 --> 00:11:05,320 down tempo vibe of come to me and it comes like right before the calm, 84 00:11:06,840 --> 00:11:10,680 anchor song, which is acoustic. And so it's kind of like the last 85 00:11:11,480 --> 00:11:15,800 storm before the calm. Wait, I thought this was the last song on the album. 86 00:11:16,920 --> 00:11:22,280 This is the next to last. Oh, I got that wrong. Okay. So I said that previously. 87 00:11:22,280 --> 00:11:29,720 Okay. And what about live performances? 88 00:11:31,320 --> 00:11:38,520 She performed this on her first three tours debut post in homogenic. And with her unplugged 89 00:11:38,520 --> 00:11:57,400 show, she included a glass harmonica and a bowed waterphone. Okay, we talked about glass 90 00:11:57,400 --> 00:12:05,480 harmonica. What's what's a bowed water? So it's like this metal plate with pipes metal pipes on it. 91 00:12:05,480 --> 00:12:15,160 And they just like put a like a violin bow. Yeah, it's been used in a lot of horror films. 92 00:12:15,160 --> 00:12:17,320 And so it's kind of a trippy sound. 93 00:12:24,680 --> 00:12:30,680 And what about covers and remixes? It's been remixed by Fluke, 94 00:12:30,680 --> 00:12:36,360 Graham Massey and Masters at Work. And I'm currently working on a cover myself. 95 00:12:37,960 --> 00:12:45,560 What's the vibe? I like Dev Tones is Sigaro's ish like rock. 96 00:12:45,560 --> 00:13:06,360 It's actually like I was trying to get more serious, not as dancing, like to match the lyrics more. 97 00:13:06,360 --> 00:13:19,160 Yeah. My favorite is the Masters at Work. 98 00:13:20,440 --> 00:13:27,320 Just because I was a big fan of theirs at the time. But actually, I would say it's weird that 99 00:13:27,320 --> 00:13:34,840 there was a point where this song and bedtime stories were both like songs that I listened to. 100 00:13:34,840 --> 00:13:38,920 Yeah, like they were on my walk men thing. 101 00:13:45,560 --> 00:13:50,440 I remember thinking back then how like they had so many similarities when I like the beat and 102 00:13:50,440 --> 00:13:52,920 you know, that stuff. Yeah, they were kind of dreamy and 103 00:13:52,920 --> 00:14:04,600 yeah. So covers and remixes. What about any trivia for this song? 104 00:14:07,960 --> 00:14:13,080 From the website, Misfurred Lyrics. Oh, yeah, there's a website called Misfurred Lyrics, 105 00:14:13,080 --> 00:14:26,360 which is one of them funny is love and be happy instead of only happy. And you can do the next 106 00:14:26,360 --> 00:14:32,440 one because I'm trying to figure out where in the song this is. Oh, oh, you'll get into trouble real 107 00:14:32,440 --> 00:14:39,400 soon if you don't catch your baby. And it's originally I'll get into trouble real soon if 108 00:14:39,400 --> 00:14:46,280 you don't get your baby. Catch your baby. They should put the original lyric first and then 109 00:14:46,280 --> 00:14:57,560 Misfurred Lyrics. Yeah. Okay, that was a journey through finally happy. Yeah. 110 00:14:59,480 --> 00:15:08,680 Okay, our next song is anchor song. It's the last track on the album track 11. And let's start off 111 00:15:08,680 --> 00:15:16,280 with a little bit of background as we do. The song was written in the summer of 1999, 1990, 112 00:15:16,920 --> 00:15:25,400 when Bjork left her boy, Sindri, with a childmind or I guess like a babysitter. Yeah. For a while 113 00:15:25,400 --> 00:15:31,480 and she just stood across Iceland on a freedom thing. Is that in quotes because she's she called 114 00:15:31,480 --> 00:15:39,320 it that probably like she's talked about I guess it would be the equivalent of like soul searching. 115 00:15:39,320 --> 00:15:48,440 No, I get that but here it says in the notes it says that she said across Iceland on a freedom 116 00:15:48,440 --> 00:15:54,200 thing in quotes. I'm wondering if that's like her words. Oh, yeah. Okay. 117 00:15:54,200 --> 00:16:05,640 Yeah. So she wrote her bicycle around and she had the purpose of just around like her street. 118 00:16:09,720 --> 00:16:11,640 No, around the island. Okay. 119 00:16:14,280 --> 00:16:18,200 There's a big difference there. Why'd you just say that? 120 00:16:18,200 --> 00:16:27,880 Because I just picture a little cold asack. Like riding a bicycle in a circle. And you know, 121 00:16:27,880 --> 00:16:31,080 that's like you don't live with a babysitter to do that. 122 00:16:34,200 --> 00:16:42,600 Oh, God. Okay, so she yeah, she was riding it around the island and she was trying to 123 00:16:42,600 --> 00:16:51,880 visit all these churches that she heard about and she brought her little walkman with her and 124 00:16:52,440 --> 00:16:58,360 she asked the farmer if she could play as Oregon and when she expected no, they all said yes. And 125 00:16:59,800 --> 00:17:06,920 so she would just sit in a church for two hours and then just visit the next one. And 126 00:17:06,920 --> 00:17:13,160 and so when she was playing the organ at these churches, that's when she wrote 127 00:17:14,280 --> 00:17:17,080 some of the songs from debut, one of them is Anchor Song. 128 00:17:18,040 --> 00:17:23,240 There was a, we ran across somebody's dissertation about Bjork online. Oh, yeah. 129 00:17:23,240 --> 00:17:32,280 It's 200 pages long. It's a PhD dissertation and it's it's kind of brilliant. Yeah. We obviously 130 00:17:32,280 --> 00:17:38,520 read it all. But in it, they talk about how Bjork has always talked about being an atheist. Oh, 131 00:17:38,520 --> 00:17:47,880 yeah. But that over time, she's realized that if the if like she does have a religion, it's music. 132 00:17:49,720 --> 00:17:54,040 And so it's interesting that she's going on with these churches, but what she's doing in them is 133 00:17:54,040 --> 00:18:06,120 like playing organs. Yeah. So yeah. Because it seemed like they had to keep the fact that they were 134 00:18:06,120 --> 00:18:17,800 Christians under wraps or like, no, they like brought. Where is this? They brought during the 135 00:18:17,800 --> 00:18:26,920 Spanish Inquisition. No, they brought in it was the Vikings that I see. Okay. They said, yeah, 136 00:18:26,920 --> 00:18:33,800 we'll respect all this Christian stuff as long as like you can let us still do our pagan 137 00:18:33,800 --> 00:18:56,200 yeah, andism stuff. So she wrote this deal. Paganism. Okay. So she wrote this song when she 138 00:18:56,200 --> 00:19:05,800 moved into a house by the harbor. So I'm assuming the point she's yeah, yeah, she goes into the ocean. 139 00:19:05,800 --> 00:19:14,200 And she said it was based on her grandmother's paintings. It's touching. 140 00:19:17,960 --> 00:19:22,280 Wait, it was based on her dream and her grandmother's paintings. So she must have dreamed 141 00:19:22,280 --> 00:19:28,200 or she must have dreamt about her grandmother's paintings. Yeah, it's just yeah, yeah, probably. 142 00:19:30,760 --> 00:19:36,840 So while Bjork was wrapping up on the sugar cubes last album, their producer Paul Fox was 143 00:19:36,840 --> 00:19:43,000 planning on having Bjork record the jazz standard life is just a bowl of cherries. And we talked 144 00:19:43,000 --> 00:19:51,000 about this in the last episode, but we're just here to clear it up. So he thought of her doing 145 00:19:51,000 --> 00:19:58,200 it with saxophonist Oliver Lake for the film Curly Sue. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah, we said in the 146 00:19:58,200 --> 00:20:03,960 last episode that the song was used, life is just a bowl of cherries, it was used in Curly Sue, but 147 00:20:03,960 --> 00:20:10,920 but unfortunately, John Hughes shut down the idea. He wasn't too fond of it. And but 148 00:20:11,880 --> 00:20:16,360 and on the bright side, it led to a collaboration between Bjork and Lake. 149 00:20:16,360 --> 00:20:27,000 Yeah. And in a recent podcast about recording debut, Bjork cites Roland Kirk. Bjork cites 150 00:20:27,800 --> 00:20:33,960 Roland Kirk's The Inflated Tier has an inspiration for incorporating jazz and for us on the album. 151 00:20:33,960 --> 00:20:47,160 I what is the inflated tier? It's a jazz song by Roland Kirk. Okay. 152 00:20:51,000 --> 00:20:57,640 Bjork says of the anchor song, when I brought my demos of Icelandic brass players during the 153 00:20:57,640 --> 00:21:03,560 anchor song to my record company, the boss said it was only going to sell a third of the sugar 154 00:21:03,560 --> 00:21:10,760 cubes. It sounds naff to say these things, but it's just a happy accident that people liked it. 155 00:21:11,480 --> 00:21:19,640 Yeah. Yeah. So I'm sure right and left people are telling her that she was just too like 156 00:21:20,760 --> 00:21:26,760 different. Yeah. And that she should probably be more mainstream. Yeah. And it sounds like it was 157 00:21:26,760 --> 00:21:33,480 one of those instances. So good on you, Bjork, for to be more poppy and for standing in your grounds. 158 00:21:35,240 --> 00:21:45,480 That's why we love you. All right, lyrics. Yeah. So it's just a little poem about living by the ocean 159 00:21:45,480 --> 00:21:53,160 and settling or putting down your roots. It's also it also shows Bjork's affinity for nature in the 160 00:21:53,160 --> 00:21:59,880 ocean. So Iceland is home. Well, let's not talk about the lyrics, but you just gave us a good 161 00:21:59,880 --> 00:22:09,480 overview. I can say the whole song in two seconds. Okay. I live by the ocean. And during the night, 162 00:22:09,480 --> 00:22:17,320 I dive into it and I drop my anchor. This is where I'm staying. This is my home. Okay, there's not a 163 00:22:17,320 --> 00:22:24,760 produced video official video. There's not an official video. But there is a video out there, 164 00:22:24,760 --> 00:22:32,680 which is part of the documentary we talked about earlier. And it's, I guess it's not really official 165 00:22:32,680 --> 00:22:42,200 or because it's an Icelandic and video. And I guess it kind of gives you an image of like how Bjork 166 00:22:42,200 --> 00:23:00,680 conceived the song. I like that she looks like Rachel from Blade Runner in the video. 167 00:23:00,680 --> 00:23:12,760 I wonder if I can do my hair like that. You probably could. Production. Yeah. So it's a minimal song 168 00:23:12,760 --> 00:23:23,160 about well, it's similar to like someone in love. It's just Bjork's voice and saxophone. So pretty 169 00:23:23,160 --> 00:23:35,400 acoustic. And the lyrics and music. Yeah, the music and the lyrics. So it's kind of like a 170 00:23:36,920 --> 00:23:43,080 call and response. And it's been said to be replicating the avant-garde of the ocean. 171 00:23:43,080 --> 00:23:56,040 Hmm. Her songs are so multi layered. You know, like there's just these little subtle things, 172 00:23:56,600 --> 00:24:03,960 like Easter eggs in the song. Yeah. The fact that and like, yeah, how the music and the lyrics 173 00:24:03,960 --> 00:24:10,120 are connected. Yeah. And even just the little like techniques she uses, like, you know, the ocean 174 00:24:10,120 --> 00:24:17,480 and along with like the conversation. Yeah. Yeah. All right. 175 00:24:20,440 --> 00:24:27,640 Covers and remixes. This was sampled by four artists. The first being 176 00:24:27,640 --> 00:24:47,000 Naked by the Jet Age of Tomorrow in 2013. The next one is Dive into it by Mr. Lies in 2012. 177 00:24:57,640 --> 00:25:08,840 And then there's Virtual Cuts, side A by Scalpel with S-K-A-L-P-E-L in 2000. And 178 00:25:08,840 --> 00:25:34,520 there's a Black Anchors by a Des version. Cool. I checked those out. Yeah. And what about remixes? 179 00:25:34,520 --> 00:25:43,640 The only remix for this song is by the Black Dog. It's quite ambient with repetitive loops of 180 00:25:44,600 --> 00:25:48,600 the brass, like, and it sounds like a Steve Wright piece. 181 00:25:49,240 --> 00:25:56,360 It's Steve Wright. He's like a classical composer who had a lot of repeating patterns. 182 00:25:56,360 --> 00:26:04,040 Okay. So it kind of sounds like the CD skipping, but I don't know. 183 00:26:10,760 --> 00:26:15,560 Okay. She remixed one of Tribe Calls called Quest songs for them, right? 184 00:26:16,760 --> 00:26:20,600 So Tribe Called Quest has a song called Thressed Out. Oh, yeah. And then they had, 185 00:26:20,600 --> 00:26:25,960 they wanted you to remix it for them. Yeah. She remixed it and in that remix, 186 00:26:25,960 --> 00:26:32,040 it incorporates similar jazz brass sounds. So it kind of sounds like something similar to 187 00:26:32,040 --> 00:26:44,600 anchor songs. So that's just interesting. And album context, how does this fit into the rest 188 00:26:44,600 --> 00:26:57,000 of the album? It's a lot to say. So I, like I previously mentioned, I feel like it complements 189 00:26:57,000 --> 00:27:02,600 the previous track, but I'm happy because they kind of contrast and moods in a way, 190 00:27:03,880 --> 00:27:12,600 like Dr. Jekyll, Mr. Hyde. And it makes me feel like she's had a hangover all day from the previous 191 00:27:12,600 --> 00:27:20,200 night of going crazy. And she's finally calmed down by immersing herself in the ocean and letting 192 00:27:20,200 --> 00:27:28,760 nature soothe her and take care of her. I think finally happy is about going manic over wanting 193 00:27:28,760 --> 00:27:33,880 to be with someone who is away while anchoring someone. It feels like just contentment and 194 00:27:33,880 --> 00:27:39,080 realizing that all the love you need is at home in front of you. Wait, wait, wait. 195 00:27:39,080 --> 00:27:44,280 This is like contentment and realizing all the love you need is at home in front of you. 196 00:27:45,560 --> 00:27:49,480 What's in front of you? That's what I was trying asking is in the mirror. Is it? 197 00:27:50,840 --> 00:27:56,280 Like, it's a home in front of you. It's not behind you. I don't know. It could be. 198 00:27:57,880 --> 00:28:02,200 Oh, like in time in front of you. I should have said in front of you. 199 00:28:02,200 --> 00:28:11,240 Dot dot dot. Oh, behind you. That still wouldn't have made me. Okay, it says 200 00:28:15,000 --> 00:28:19,480 it's about contentment and realizing all the love you need is at home in front of you. 201 00:28:22,040 --> 00:28:28,120 You mean like in the future? It's at home in the future. I see. Yeah. I thought it was like 202 00:28:28,120 --> 00:28:34,600 she walks in and there's like, you know, like the Babadook in there and she's like, 203 00:28:34,600 --> 00:28:37,400 he's like in front of her and she's like, this is all I need. 204 00:28:40,920 --> 00:28:45,000 That's what I thought is a mirror because it's like I only need myself. I don't need these other people. 205 00:28:47,960 --> 00:28:51,720 Because if it would have said all you all you need to be happy is at home in you, 206 00:28:53,160 --> 00:28:57,800 right, then you'd be like, oh, that's saying that like you're all you need to be happy. You don't 207 00:28:57,800 --> 00:29:07,800 need other people. I didn't write that from an interview. No, we were just trying to figure it out. 208 00:29:19,000 --> 00:29:22,840 Okay, let's talk about live performances of the anchor song. 209 00:29:22,840 --> 00:29:30,200 Yeah, she's performed this song on almost every tour with different instruments in a solo or a 210 00:29:30,200 --> 00:29:35,640 group format. It is usually one of the concluding tracks of the show and she performs it in both 211 00:29:35,640 --> 00:29:49,880 Icelandic and English. She's performed this with saxophones, necordian strings, organ, aquire, trumpets, 212 00:29:49,880 --> 00:30:13,720 and flutes. Just to name a few. And from the trivia tree, as far as misheard lyrics, 213 00:30:13,720 --> 00:30:22,280 the original lyric is, oh, I cut it off here. What's the original lyric? Oh, I dive into it and 214 00:30:23,160 --> 00:30:30,920 drop my anchor. Oh, and the most misheard, popular misheard lyric is I dive into it and broke my 215 00:30:30,920 --> 00:30:40,840 ankle. That can happen. That could happen. So, you know, it's why would she be happy about it? Yeah. 216 00:30:40,840 --> 00:30:51,960 And I broke my ankle. His dropping anchor is such a symbolic, I'm home, I'm dropping 217 00:30:51,960 --> 00:31:10,520 anchor, I'm here. And breaking your ankle is like. She's like really sad about it. Well, that was 218 00:31:11,240 --> 00:31:21,560 quite the episode. We made it. We made it. And you made it too. Congratulations on sticking with us 219 00:31:21,560 --> 00:31:37,480 through Bjork's debut, her first album and the topic of our first podcast.