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...good, we're escaping," cries Bjork, grabbing a bag of hot microwaved popcorn and heading out the door of the windowless corporate meeting room. The Icelandic singer-songwriter (her name is pronounced Bee-yerk) has been cooped up in the Beverly Hills offices of her record company most of the day. Bjork likes her freedom. One hearing of her new album, Post, provides admirable demonstration of that: it's a twirling, uninhibited mix of songs-for example, the delightfully raving orchestral number It's Oh So Quiet or the pulsating clubland dance songs like Enjoy and the moody ballads like...
...half an hour later, as she glides into the Polo Lounge of the Beverly Hills Hotel. She says she's never been to a place so "posh" before, and the palpable glamour of the room, buzzing with dealmakers, seems to amuse her. A pianist is playing Gershwin songs as Bjork takes a seat at a table and divulges to a reporter her secret way of getting quicker service at snobby restaurants. Recently, when she was eating out, Bjork explains, "I had an apple in my bag, and so I picked it up and started eating it. There was a waiter...
...Bjork is fizzing with gently off-center stories and observations. At one point she says she believes in fairies. At another she says her green wrinkly dress, which is fastened at the shoulder with a safety pin, is made of something called "Belgian envelope paper." She is a delightfully luminous presence. Maybe it's her accent. Her voice has a musical lilt, and her statements often end with an upward lift, as if she were asking a question. Then again, maybe her otherworldliness has something to do with Iceland. Her ex-husband is named Thor (her current boyfriend, a British...
...Stories, though, she successfully pulls herself out of the time warp by surrounding herself with au courant '90s performers such as Babyface (who co-wrote two tracks on Bedtime Stories and also sings on them), critical darling Me'Shell NdegeOcello (who plays bass and raps) and Icelandic alternative diva Bjork (who co-wrote a tune). One of the songs on the new CD, Inside of Me, even shamelessly samples from Back and Forth, a pop hit by the hot teenage singer Aaliyah that is still on the Billboard charts (Madonna does list Aaliyah in the credits). Aaliyah and Babyface specialize...
...BJORK-SHILEY HEART-VALVE...