Amen to that.
I remember when I praised Björk as a musician on this list when she
released the Homogenic album and I got responses like:
"Maybe your bitch Bjork can use some of her gazillion dollars and buy
herself some testes, maybe then she'll do it herself:)"
/franz
At 10:59 2000-09-26 -0400, Chris Fahey wrote:
quoted 10 lines Again, the concept that Bjork might actually be a interesting musician in>Again, the concept that Bjork might actually be a interesting musician in
>her own right seems to escape some people, as if there must be some reason
>to work with her besides the fact that she's a great artist (I still think
>it's unconscious sexism). Regardless of who she works with, her music has a
>distinct and unique sound (when she writes songs for other singers you can
>hear it immediately - how many musicians can you identify simply by the
>sound of a melody? Prince comes to mind ...) that clearly is her own and not
>her collaborators'. In many cases her collaborators have done their very
>best work with her, with most of their non-Bjork work not quite measuring up
>(IMHO).
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