So, who's up for the newest batch of girls/women to compete against each other? This lineup is a little more diverse.
And left of center - there were twenty-nine top ten hits in last rate's race; now there are only ten!
50 Ft Queenie
A Perfect Day Elise
All Around The World
All is Full of Love
All Woman
Army of Me
Big Time Sensuality
Body and Soul
Bring His Love to Me
Caught a Lite Sneeze
C'mon and Get My Love
Colors of the Wind
Cornflake Girl
Crazy Cool
Down by The Water
Dress
Finally
God
Happiness
Human Behavior
Hungah
Hyperballad
I Apologize
I'm Not Over You
Inside That I Cried
It's Oh So Quiet
Joga
Just Another Dream
Keep on Walkin'
Little Bird
Love Is
Love Song for a Vampire
Man-Size
Me and a Gun
My Love is For Real
Never Said
Next Lifetime
No More I Love You's
On & On
Polyester Bride
Professional Widow
Promise of a New Day
Romantic
Running Back to You
Rush, Rush
Save The Best for Last
Sheela-Na-Gig
Silent All These Years
Someday (I'm Coming Back)
Spark
Supernova
Talk to Me
The Comfort Zone
The Sweetest Days
The Way You Feel About Me
This is The Right Time
Too Many Walls
Touch Me (All Night Long)
Tyrone
Vibeology
Walking on Broken Glass
We Got a Love Thang
Why
You Can't Deny It
You Lied to Me
Listen to every song. Rate on a scale from 0-10; you can, however, give one song a 11, and one song a 10.5.
I missed the reveal for the top 20 in the other rate (busy weekend visiting friends in the Florida Keys)
It may have been for the best, as I missed my 11 ("My Favorite Mistake") being kicked out in such an unceremonious manner.
I am however excited about the fact that Björk will be a part of the second batch And this time I intend to be ruthless with any basic pop girls. The ones and zeros will be flying out.
I missed the reveal for the top 20 in the other rate (busy weekend visiting friends in the Florida Keys)
It may have been for the best, as I missed my 11 ("My Favorite Mistake") being kicked out in such an unceremonious manner.
I am however excited about the fact that Björk will be a part of the second batch And this time I intend to be ruthless with any basic pop girls. The ones and zeros will be flying out.
Bjork. Bjork Guðmundsdóttir, if you're nasty. Born fifty (!!!) years ago in Iceland. At six, she sang a disco hit at a school recital; it was recorded and sent to Iceland's only (!!!) radio station. She got a record deal out of it, and, at age eleven, released her true debut album - obviously we won't be covering that.
She discovered punk soon after, and started her own all-girl band. In 1980, she formed a jazz fusion group - and graduated from music school. In 1982, she and a friend started a duo, Tappi Tikarass, and released an EP. This got them featured in a documentary, and they became a part of Iceland's music scene. Another group, this time a goth-rock one, found her inventing her signature vocal - we all know what that sounds like. She published a children's book, became pregnant, and in 1986, gave birth to her first child. (Me?!??!?!)
She got to together with friends and formed a group to make money. That group? The Sugarcubes. They sort of exploded, and, two years later, were on Saturday Night Live! But Bjork became interested in other forms of music - namely house music. She wanted to go solo, and in 1992, she did.
Her single? Human Behavior.
The video marked the start of her collaboration with Michel Gondry, btw. it was a huge "hit", and NME named the album - Debut - the album of the year. She went platinum in the States, and was nominated for a buttload of VMAs for the clip; in a fierce battle, she lost the big ones to another statement piece - Janet Jackson's If. (Seriously, how do you choose between those two?!?!?!)
A later single, Big Time Sensuality, also proved to be iconic; Bjork, in all her otherness, surrounding Times Square with her charms. You may not have been able to remember the melody, but any 90s kids with cable knows the video like the back of their hand.
Bjork picked up two Brits, and the first of many Grammy nominations, for Debut. Additionally, a song she co-wrote, "Bedtime Story," ended up on Madonna's Bedtime Stories. Bjork was big business.
Perhaps, though, she was already fed up with the manic pixie dream girl image she had been assigned to.
Or perhaps she was done with her deadbeat younger brother being a deadbeat.
Either way, to kick off Post, we got Army of Me.
One of Post's tracks was a cover of an old Betty Huston tune; due to its groundbreaking take on a 50s musical, the video for It's Oh So Quiet became Bjork's first and only UK top ten hit. She again lost Female Video to a bigger song, though - Alanis' "Ironic." (Boo hiss.)
Fans, however, preferred the haunting electro-ballad Hyperballad.
