Björk was ART&APPpop before Gaga was even Born This Way
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Björk's Been ARTPOP Since Before Gaga Was Born This Way
Pop culture has been overrun with '90s nostalgia over the past few years, especially as we keep hitting the 20-year mark of so many classic alt-era albums that came out between 1991 and 1994.
This month marks the 20th anniversary of Björk's aptly-titled first adult album, "Debut," a record which turned her into an instant international star thanks to its alternative dance hit "Human Behaviour." (Her actual first solo album came out when she was 11 in 1977 and she began singing with the Sugarcubes in 1986.)
That it and follow-ups like "Human Sensuality" ( cough "Big Time Sensuality") and "Violently Happy" were hits at all says a lot about the open-mindedness of the era, especially of the early-90s radio and video establishments that (briefly) welcomed in all matter of weird music.
But when Björk took to the waterfront stage of Toronto's Echo Beach on July 16, this wasn't a nostalgia show, or even a comeback. Over the past two decades Björk has not only never gone away, she's never seemed less than current because she's never seemed less than timeless.
As the diminutive singer emerged in sparkly blue dress and sprawling orange fright-wig, looking every bit as if Diana Ross had grown up in Lord of the Rings' Middle-Earth -- probably a rebellious royal from Lothlórien's forest-elf kingdom -- what became clear (again) is that Björk has found the perfect alchemy of art and pop.
So perfect, in fact, that she exists in a musical bubble that nobody else has ever managed to permeate, certainly not Lady Gaga despite her best efforts.
Fairly sure Gaga herself has publicly acknowledged in the past that Bjork did the app thing first and partly inspired it. This thread is nothing but flamebait.
Fairly sure Gaga herself has publicly acknowledged in the past that Bjork did the app thing first and partly inspired it. This thread is nothing but flamebait.
She did and Gaga does not want to be the next Björk, it's not even copying, it's just a logical next step after all the technological developments and how society has developed, if any other artist had done this it wouldn't have been a problem, it's hypocritical....
No one used the word "COPYING" but you Monsters. #staypressed
it is written nowhere "copying" it's not flamebait, it was an article on the Internet who praised Björk and did not even drag Gaga, they said she wasn't the first. You mad?
No one used the word "COPYING" but you Monsters. #staypressed
it is written nowhere "copying" it's not flamebait, it was an article on the Internet who praised Björk and did not even drag Gaga, they said she wasn't the first. You mad?
I read the article days ago and yes, it's a shady article with a lot of false information, so grow up
The fumes for ARTPOP have already started and we have three months left before the album drops.
Everyone in the stan universe (in fact, even Gaga herself) is aware that Bjork did an album app.
That won't stop Gaga from being the first MAJOR female pop artist to do an app.
EDIT: Also, are we surprised this was made by a Madonna stan? A bit mad that Madonna never did an app for her albums? We'll be waiting to see what Madonna song you try to accuse Gaga of stealing once her new single drops.
cough "Big Time Sensuality") and "Violently Happy" were hits at all says a lot about the open-mindedness of the era, especially of the early-90s radio and video establishments that (briefly) welcomed in all matter of weird music.
and to deny the delusion that someone else did it all before, as they like to get across.
