Human Behaviour

Human Behaviour
’Human Behaviour’ is an animal’s point of view on humans. And the animals are definitely supposed to win in the end. So why, one might ask, is the conquering bear presented as a man-made toy ? I don’t know. I guess I just didn’t think it would be fair to force an animal to act in a video. I mean, that would be an extension of what I’m against. ... I told him (Michel gondry), ’I want a bear and textures like handmade wood and leaves and earth, and I want it to seem like animation.’ Then I backed out.

Rolling Stone, september 1993

Human Behaviour
After the Sugarcubes, I guess I had a mixture of liberation and fear. It had been obvious for a while in the band that I had different tastes than the rest. That’s fair enough - there’s no such thing as correct taste. I wrote the melody for ’Human Behaviour’ as a kid. A lot of the melodies on Debut I wrote as a teenager and put aside because I was in punk bands and they weren’t punk. The lyric is almost like a child’s point of view and the video that I did with Michel Gondry was based on childhood memories. Have I worked out human behaviour ? I guess not.

Record Collector, August 2002, August 2002

Human behaviour
the melody of this song i wrote while i was in the sugarcubes it was called ’"marsinn minn" and never kinda got completed i saved that melody though, and when i wrote the lyrics few years later, i felt the melody had found a match the words are about humans from a child’ s point of view grownups mostly this is why i asked michel gondry to make a video from the point of view of the animals all wet and furry

Björk - Octobre 2021