Björk - Sweet Sweet Intuition

[AZULFENEK]

énorme



[Jossmyself]

This song makes you dream... I love it.

[Zeitgeist7E]

a sense of enhanced life in love!!!

[hyacinthnights]

I'm loving the conversation below lol

[pdul526]

Does anyone have this songs but without her singing? =]

[RussMoxham]

@pianoman74 Great as she is, 'down to earth' is not a description that immediately leaps to my mind when I think of Björk and many Icelanders see her as they've seen her since the '80s: as a liability, a loose cannon and/or a sacred monster at least as much as down to earth. Few Icelanders had any time for her until The Sugarcubes had success overseas. As for scandals--how about knocking ten shades of shit out of that reporter at the airport a good few years ago?

[pianoman74]

She should consider it a God's gift to be Icelandic. Because she's like most Icelanders, so INCREDIBLY down to earth, and that after all that success! Still feels like the girl next door, which lets her appear so nice to me. Björk involved in some scandals like Janet, Rihanna & Co.? Never witnessed any.

[Gaeilgeoir]

Very nice collage! ^_^

[flippert0]

Even more hypnotic than the original version (Sweet Intuition, b-side on Isobel single)!

[phialen]

she's a truly germanic woman 

[jovialduke]

@phialen not really, icelandic is as celtic as it is germanic, and she looks almost half inuit.

[phialen]

@jovialduke oh you're totally not getting the point sigh

did you listen to the song?

[Gaeilgeoir]

@jovialduke Icelandic is most certainly not Celtic. It's Scandinavian/Norse. The Celts had a minor impact of early Icelandic life, as Irish monks were originally there, but that's all.

[munich64]

@Gaeilgeoir Actually, many of the women first brought to Iceland were Celtic. Norse warriors took slaves from the Irish and Scottish coasts.

[Gaeilgeoir]

@munich64 That may be, but the Irish monks were the first Europeans to set foot on Iceland.

[RussMoxham]

@Gaeilgeoir No, munich64 is right on this one. DNA evidence indicates that around 40% of Icelandic women are descended from Celtic (British/Irish) women. (Around 70% of the men descend from Scandinavian men.) It's conceivable that the Icelandic saga tradition drew a lot of inspiration from Ireland, because there was a parallel to it there but not really that much in mainland Scandinavia.

[RussMoxham]

@Gaeilgeoir Actually there are plenty of names like Melkorka and Kormákur that have been in Iceland for centuries and derive from Old Irish because of the Celtic contingent during the Age of Settlement. But you're quite right that Icelandic is not a Celtic language. There are a few words that may have Celtic origins but Icelandic is overwhelmingly Germanic.

[Gaeilgeoir]

@RussMoxham Thanks for the interesting insights! I didn't know those placenames specifically :-D

[RussMoxham]

@Gaeilgeoir Actually they're personal names (Kormákur = Cormac; not sure how to render 'Melkorka' in Old or Modern Irish--Meall-? Mil-?) but hey :)

[Gaeilgeoir]

@RussMoxham lol, I'm not familiar with a personal name starting with either...though "mil" means "sweet" ;-)) Do you speak Icelandic?

[RussMoxham]

@Gaeilgeoir I lived in Iceland and have a degree in Icelandic. I have a copy somewhere of 'Gaelic influence in Iceland: Historical and Literary Contacts: a Survey of Research (Studia islandica)' by a guy called Gísli Sigurðsson. I don't remember what name Melkorka is a version of or whether there's a current version of it in Irish (probably not) but I do remember it's an Irish/Gaelic name. Such names stick out because almost all established Icelandic names are clearly, intelligibly Norse.

[Gaeilgeoir]

@RussMoxham Fascinating! I'll have to look those books up :-D Takk fyrir/Go raibh míle maith agat ;-))

[RussMoxham]

@Gaeilgeoir Ekkert að þakka/Níl a bhuíochas ort :)

[Gaeilgeoir]

@RussMoxham lol, that looks like a Google translation :) ...unless you *meant* to say "his thanks aren't on you", haha...How about Fadhb ar bith/no problem ? ;P

[RussMoxham]

@jovialduke No, it's a Germanic language. Old Icelandic is pretty similar to Old English, without all the loanwords that Old English absorbed from Latin and Greek because of Christianity. And Old Icelandic is really just a tiny stone's throw away from Old Norse, the ancestor of all the mainland Scandinavian languages. Doubtless there is a Celtic influence in Icelandic history, but the language remained overwhelmingly Germanic.

[RussMoxham]

@phialen I doubt she'd like that description. Hers was a hippy background that drew from cultures around the world, she was drawing musical inspiration from around the world (or the West at least) before she ever came to Britain to pursue her career, and I suspect she would see herself very much as a woman of the world: probably an Icelander first, but then a woman of the world. I don't think being Germanic comes into it, especially since too many people throw that word around for bad reasons.

[bernardrichards]

@phialen

PHIALEN KING OF THE MORONS!

UNTERMENSCH!

[theatregeek84]

must...have...this...song!

[UlisesAyres]

Close your eyes

listen closely

all that you've learnt

try to forget it

Fuck logic, fuck logic

bravo to instinct

and sweet intuition

[RussMoxham]

@UlisesAyres Hmmm--I for one have always heard it as 'bow to instinct' ;)

[liltre1321]

;b ;D

[brianmccormick]

i love this song.... had a dream Sade sung it with her last night :)

[Zendrig]

Beautiful song. I suggest to follow the link in the sidebar to the PS22 Chorus. These kids delivered a very different but equally beautiful version of this song.

[mjharden0223]

They are the original lyrics before Madonna recorded it.

[vivablank]

I didn't know that photos^^they're beautiful , the song too

[109740ewh]

Some of the lyrics are borrowed from Madonna's hit song "Bedtime Story", which Björk wrote...

[rakapuntadewa]

and inside we're all still wet

longing and yearning...