Bachelorette

Bachelorette
There’s a lot of story-telling going on, a lot of brutal, in-your-face stories. One of them is this kind of Wuthering Heights epic. She puts one hand melodramatically over her heart. The first song in this epic was "Human Behaviour". The second one is "Isobel". I guess this one is the sequel.

Musician, december 1997

Bachelorette
bachelorette for me is part three , of 3 songs 1 : "human behaviour" is the childhood 2 : "isobel" a story of a girl that leaves nature for the big city she is run by impulse so she gets misunderstood amongst urban logic it is instinct versus logic. she gets burned so she retreats to rural to heal and isolates herself but trains moths to go back to the city and fly infront of the faces of people who are stuck in making too much sense and say "na na na na" until they snap out of it 3 : "bachelorette" is then about following the moths, returning again to the city but with strength wounded and wiser confronting coldness with love therefore i wanted the arrangements to be romantic as epic as possible, the grandiousestest drama ever but still with love

Björk - Octobre 2021

Björk à propos du titre Bachelorette
So Isobel decides to return to the city and to take a train, like in the 30’s, in South America somewhere. She decides to confront love with love and confronts the cowards that don’t have the guts to fall in love with love. So you see - it’s like Isobel has returned.

Paper, September 1997

Björk à propos du titre Bachelorette
Because I wanted the lyrics to be so epic, I got my friend Sjón - who’s a poet in Iceland - to write them. We sat together at the kitchen table and drank a lot of red wine and I told him the whole story for hours and days and he wrote the words from that story.

Record Collector, August 2002, August 2002

Björk à propos du titre Bachelorette
bachelorette for me is part three, of 3 songs 1 : "human behaviour" is the childhood 2 : "isobel" a story of a girl that leaves nature for the big city she is run by impulse so she gets misunderstood amongst urban logic it is instinct versus logic. she gets burned so she retreats to rural to heal and isolates herself but trains moths to go back to the city and fly infront of the faces of people who are stuck in making too much sense and say "na na na na" until they snap out of it. 3 : "bachelorette" is then about following the moths returning again to the city but with strength wounded and wiser confronting coldness with love therefore i wanted the arrangements to be romantic, as epic as possible, the grandiousestest drama ever but still with love

Björk - Octobre 2021

working with RZA from Wu-Tang Clan
I thought, ’OK, Icelandic music would be very phat techno beats that are unfinished and distorted, like eruptions.’ I listen to a lot of Icelandic string music, so i wanted that. I thought, ’Who can I work with...?’ I started off with an engineer and we did a lot of beats that were just, Pchh-pkk-up-chhhu ! And then I thought that RZA’s beats were just gorgeous because they’re really simple and really raw. I can’t remember if RZA contacted me first, but it seemed to be a very mutual sort of thing. He said he wanted to come to Spain, but the Wu-Tang album took longer than they thought. Then I met them in New York. What were they like ? Oh, they’re gorgeous, like big teddy bears. They fall asleep in piles, do you know that ? They’re just like [snores]. Derek fell asleep on the studio...

Mixmag, september 1997