Possibly Maybe

Björk à propos du titre Possibly Maybe
I wanted each verse to be each month. The first month is February, and the next verse is March. There’s maybe 30 seconds between each verse, so you’re listenning to the song and 30 seconds later is another month. It’s a calendar thing. I wanted to have ...possibly maybe...(dingdong, dingdong)...probably love...(dingdong, dingdong), then boiiing ! the first verse. Just to show how you feel different each month when you’re going through a relationship. That’s why I decided to have all choruses the same, but it’s a different melody every verse.

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Possibly Maybe
You feel ashamed about it. The first unhappy song I wrote was ’Possibly Maybe.’ That was very hard for me. Usually I write all the time, but that was like nothing happened for months. Then the song came out. I was ashamed writing a song that was not giving hope.

Raygun, September 1997

Possibly Maybe
’Possibly Maybe’ is a song that I can really do rollercoaster rides on and just go for it vocally. It’s one of the first songs that I wrote but didn’t hold my voice back. For me, and this is why I play it live almost every time, as a singer I can really use my voice as an instrument. Actually, it was supposed to be a country song - an ambient country song - and when I first wrote it, we got a slide guitarist in. I’m not sure it ended up as one but that’s where it started. We were thinking about that song by Chris Isaak.

Record Collector, August 2002, August 2002

Possibly Maybe
Opposed to the content solitude of "Isobel" there’s "Possibly Maybe." Who’d you have in mind when you wrote "mon petit vulcan" ? An impossible Frenchman. I guess I was taking the piss out of myself after breaking up with a boyfriend — how your mouth misses kissing. The last lines — "I’ll suck my tongue / as a remembrance of you" — create a strong image. Do you remember how you came up with it ? I just thought it was kinda comical to walk around sucking ones tongue.

The Stereogum Interview, March 2008

the video for Possibly Maybe
The video to ’Possibly Maybe’ was done… I don’t know what to say, it’s quite personal, I’m not sure if it should be here . I guess ’Possibly Maybe’ is about Stéphane. ’Possibly Maybe’ is about the end of our relationship, and not very “up“. It was great to do it with Stéphane, it was like a very healing process. Stéphane was definitely alert, and with me the whole time. I think Stéphane has that great talent to bring a lot of physicality to the people that he works with, he kinda injects you a lot of energy. Stéphane is very emotionally dynamic, very strong and he has that effect on people that is great, sort of like a tidalwave. What it does is that it exaggerates the person, and then he documents it. It’s a great talent to have.

Stéphane Sednaoui DVD, 2005

the video for Possibly Maybe
I think we were very brave. We showed a lot of things that were very, very personal. I think all the things in that video are actually my things... that are in my house.

Stephane Sednaoui documentary "Life Through A Lens"