Hyperballad

Björk à propos du titre Hyperballad
It was inspired by a situation I saw a lot of my friends get in to. I really like reading magazines about science, you see, and when people fall in love, they make this kind of drug in their bodies so they become addicted to each other physically. _ Nature makes things so that the drug lasts for three years, so if they’re together they’re just on a natural high. Nature makes sure that people get three years to sort out if they want to be together for life or not ; that three years is a try out time. Then they wake up and it’s a ’Whoops, what am I doing here ?’ kind of thing ? Then they are forced to sort out if they love the person, like real love, or if it was just a trick. _I just read this article and I looked at all my friends since I was a kid, and I saw that it always happened...

Feedback, february 1996

Eumir Deodato à propos du titre Hyperballad
I was in Japan and she called me from a studio in Bahamas", recalls Eumir. They met couple of days later in London and the results can be heard in tracks Hyper-Ballad, You’ve Been Flirting Again and Isobel. — Björk : I attempted to make string arrangements, with a lot of help from Eumir. He’s been like a big daddy, letting me experiment with notes but still being there for me when I need him, and sometimes just completely doing it for me. — "She has developed a style and a music that I’ve never heard anything like in my life," says Deodato, who is responsible for some of those string arrangements. "When I heard her material, I freaked out, and I said, ’What are you doing ? This is crazy, this is so difficult, to propose this kind of style to the people.’ But she does, and she’s...

MIM UDOVITCH

Hyperballad
I guess that song is about when you’re in a relationship and it’s going really well and you’re really happy and maybe you have given up parts of yourself. To fall in love and be in a relationship for a long time is like giving a lot of parts of you away, because the relationship becomes more important than you as individuals. It’s a bit of a tricky balance. I think everyone in a relationship needs to know not to forget themselves... Obviously, it’s imaginary and didn’t actually happen : she wakes up before him and sneaks out and throws stuff off a cliff so she can climb back into bed and go ’Good morning honey’. There’s maybe a side of you that you can’t fit into a relationship.

Record Collector, August 2002, August 2002

Hyperballad
What inspired the song "Hyperballad" ? The critical time in a relationship, which usually happens after 3 years, and I can see all around me with all my friends. It’s got to do that when you fall in love it is so precious to you, you never know this might be the last time, so your behaviour towards the loved one becomes very sweet and you go somewhere else to be aggressive. Because I believe that all people have got both sides. So you end up having to unload your aggressions at a bar or by throwing cuttlery off cliffs. So you can come back to your loved one, kiss him sweet on his cheek, and say happily, ’Hi honey.’

AOL 1995-11-17

Hyperballad
I think it was a dream I dreamt...

The Stereogum Interview, March 2008

Hyperballad
hyperballad was a lyric idea that i had in my diary for a while and i remember standing in nellee’s studio and it fitting like a glove to this new melody. i recently read jungian books about the shadow and it seems to fit this idea pretty well. i definitely was not aware of these theories when i wrote it. i guess it is about how in a relationship you isolate the shadow and deal with it on your own, without your partner. or do you let it in ? or do you harness it in an innocent routine like proposed in the lyric. ... ? i guess it is an attempt to create a boundary and therefore you can truly come back and be generous ...

Björk - Octobre 2021