Eclectic singer-songwriter Björk premiered her strange music video for "Lionsong" today, March 12. This is the first music video from the Icelandic musician since 2012 and is as out-of-the-box as ever. "Lionsong" opens with a heart pulsating behind spider-like, black latex material. Her heart is literally exposed to the elements in the video. For just shy of seven minutes, Björk dances around in an elaborate costume that makes her look half-spider and half-dandelion.
"Björk's character for 'Lionsong' had to be smooth like a spider waiting in her web and seductive like a Balinese dancer cast in bronze," video directors Inez and Vinoodh told Noisey. "She is seen as if under a microscope, baring her heart while luring us inside the bloody galaxy of her own wound."
"Lionsong" is off Björk's ninth studio album Vulnicura, which is supposedly about her breakup with artist Matthew Barney.
"I couldn't speak for three weeks," Björk told Rolling Stone about her throat surgery, "My daughter and I made notes for each other -- it became like a game. But the album was a new beginning. The chorus in 'Lionsong' -- I was in this forest outside Reykjavík, warming up, opening my throat like a bird. It was cathartic -- you realize the tension that built up, because you were protecting that part of you."
But Björk, just one week after announcing Vulnicura on a handwritten note, was forced to release the album two months early. The entire album was leaked online in January. Björk was supposed to release it in March, which would have coincided with the opening of her exhibit at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City. The retrospective has gotten mixed reviews from critics, but it chronicles all of Björk's work.
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