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  • Someday, I hope a girl will feel this way about me and I cannot wait for that. Until then, this is the best song on my powder day playlist.

  • Nothing to say about those 12 people...

  • Sublime.

  • Her voice is truly hypnotic, this is my favourite Bjork song.

  • What she has best is talent mixed with simplicity...the perfect mariage.

  • magnificent

  • Untouchable.

  • Lovely and amazing creature this Bjork girl. The song is the most beautiful in the world and it touches you deep within. This lady deserves the best for she heals the world and humanity with her songs. I beg of you, live a good life.

  • This is recording quality. Exceptionally talented. Deserves more recognition and attention from the contemporary music industry.

  • My favourite part is from 0:00 to 4:39

  • I have been looking for the perfect cover of this song, but is impossible. No one can beat this. Her voice is angelical

  • perfectly beautiful.

  • it can get severely overused and make a lyrically and musically good song go to shit. but it's also made songs into what they are. it's allowed for singers to do something different and strange to their voice and to the music. some singers don't feel the need to do that. in my view, bjork has such an organic voice, she doesn't need anything to go on top of it. but if you have a vision and it requires doing something that requires using modern technology, go for it. not everyone's perfect. :)

  • everyone has their off days. i've seen videos of bjork where she's struggling to hit her notes in Human Behaviour. we all have our off days and not everyone can be as talented as bjork. and i don't think bjork would ever want to be THAT famous. like britney spears mainstream-status. she probably would kill someone. no joke... autotune is meant for multiple uses, not just for covering up someone's voice. it CAN be used for that tho. i think it's just meant to add something to the music.

  • Anyone know what year this is?

  • @Narutothebestshow '97 eye believe.

  • i love how she uses her arm to conduct her self.

  • She's so adorable and vulnerable when she nervously sticks her tongue out at the end. Then that grin breaks out when she realises the audience loved it. Spellbinding...

  • Sublime, and my all-time favourite song by Björk: state of emergency = full of emotions (as opposed to being pushed up to a state of apathy = emotionless). Cheers!

  • Flawless vocal performance, a true rarity

  • it's SUPER-BJORK!

  • her smile is so genuine. she is the definition of beauty, not those fake models on ads.

  • i really hope every person in this crowd realizes how amazing what they just saw was.

  • she smiled at the end because she knew this was perfect.

  • You don't see many singers using their entire body as an instrument. Awesome how she moves to tighten or expand her chest to change resonance and stuff..

    For haters among us:

    She's not spastic, she actually just does more on stage than look pretty.

    Watch her arm and listen carefully from 0:26 to like 0;41. Perfect control.

  • @Ligermorph so i like her sining live every time but she did not manage to repeat her own notes right, she has repeated 2 strophes in the same way, i wonder how i noticed it, i can sing this song with her, using her right notes as well, but anyway she is so natural and good that i cannot help but listening to her more and more. She is an amazing singer.

  • Beautiful. Real artist.

  • Her and Emiliana Torrini should do a duet!!! 

  • she makes me so happy

  • Every song of hers makes me want to hug her...

  • ...someone needs the toilet

  • Bjork is a work of art that stretches beyond any elaboration of words that would attempt to describe.

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  • I defy anyone to find a more perfect live recording of a song than this.

    Bjork is a goddess...

  • True artist ... From recording to live no change with no fear if you like it or don't. Unfortunately you cant say that for many main stream artists now days .Some times i love a song than i see them preform live and they are horrible and sounds awful with out the recording mixer and the digital dub.... Pure talent here.... Keep the music flowing bjork you rock .

  • Disliking this is gladly admitting to not owning a heart.

  • @TheMrShadowplay Twelve people were either born without a heart or lost is at some point.

  • Dam man. Going through a divorce right now and this shit here got a nigga chokin for real. Some beautiful shit right here for real.

  • one of the most beautiful things ever produced by humanity.

  • 11 retards in the world.

  • incredibly emotional!

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  • Love this world!

  • I love this song. It sounds better with only the vocals and strings and without Mark Bell clattering over it , in my opinion. Can't wait for Biophillia

  • me encantaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa­a

  • I got tingles up my spine.

  • I have always known about her but this performance wow dunno how to describe the feeling I am experiencing at the moment.

  • Wow....

  • My grangmother doesn't like this singing, she has not idea of the beauty of what the world can be.

  • how much do you wanna bet that the 10 people who disliked this would say "cher lloyd's music is really good" i bet a tenner.

  • i love the way she says "to be" at 2:28 its really vulnerable and nice

  • The expression... Wow! This is one of the best performances I've ever seen. So much feeling physically and vocally, and neither is melodramatic or pretentious. It's very real and very raw. I don't like EVERY Bjork song. Most but not all, but even with the ones that I personally don't think are that great, they are still mind blowing and mind boggling. Bjork is innovative, creative and deeply- very deeply- talented. She's a legend and it's a shame she's not given enough credit or attention.

  • omg its amazing how she can match the recorded version note for note live

  • I'll admit, I'm not a huge fan of hers but this song accompanied with the video gets to me.

  • She just pushed me into a state of emergency.

  • I love how her face looks each time she sings "emergency"

  • omg 10 gaga fans dislike this =S

  • I don't always like jumping on the bandwagon, but she is a truly special human.

  • This is the best from Homogenic. Best ever, really.

  • Sorry guys I clicked the Dislike button 10 times by mistake .. what do you say ? it's not possible ? 10 people disliking this is impossible too .. so You choose !

  • @thesumo24 Made my day! Thanks buddy!

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  • 10 people love listening Lady Gaga.

  • how can anybody dislike this? whats wrong is music no good without auto tune?

  • i swear..it stops my breathing at 2:43 every single time...

    this is the most ..perfect.. performance, i've ever had the pleasure to see.

  • I would very much like to know how anyone couldn't appreciate this talent. every note that woman sang was bang on, and this is live. autotune sucks, you have no talent if you need it, and unfortunately it is used on every song pumped into the commercial music industry these days. Obviously no one sings perfectly in tune all the time, but i enjoy those indescrepancies, they make the singer sound real and organic, unlike the robots that the creators of shitty autotune have created. all hail Bjork!

  • how can these 10 pple dislike this!!

  • Press play couch, tea, feet up pillow behind head. Mr.Scott beam me up!!!!

  • Deeply moving, always brings me to tears. She's channeling such deep, profound and sincere emotion. Very courageous to be this vulnerable in public. I've felt this way around certain people romantically. This is what real artists do. I get why she takes her shoes off, she's getting down to something real and has to to feel it . It's the opposite of all the pop schlock fodder out there

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  • She sings almost like it was 1997 and the record have seen light in a Recordstore

  • @LadyBlackmyth because when you are on a stage it's just more comfortable.. :) I do it when i sing :D

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  • I never get tired of this song, specially live, i love how her voice portrays a chilling feeling.

    The strings are another great add to the song, melancholic and everything. I wanted to hear the synth bass line from the studio version but i guess they don't play it live.

  • watch?v=ZzdMUZiSJn8

  • i don't listen to music, i listen to Bjork

  • 10 people got wrecked by bjork's emotional landscapes.

  • 10 dislikes , that's 10 people with zero taste or appreciation for amazing music ..

  • @Danisolation Yes, Her music is like landscae on Island

  • This singer is unusual, marks the difference compared to other artists, I think that makes music for intellectuals.

  • She looks like Buttercup from the Power Puff Girls

  • incredible.  absolutely incredible...

  • can someone shrink her. I want to put her in my pocket.

  • @BabyGirlGoddess you wouldn't have to shrink her much more! :)

  • im not a big bjork fan but this song is incredible

  • Next album title: "Björk's Voice Makes Grown Men Cry."

  • The people disliking this video have never felt that state of emergency.

    Every note is perfect, every crescendo just picks you up and carries you.

    I have been a fan of live music since I was a child and approaching 30 I have seen my fair share of performances, this is one of the most incredible.

    You can keep your Auto-Tune, true talent is easy to spot and Bjork has it in spades.

  • @QuasiMolko couldn't agree with you anymore.

  • @QuasiMolko Come on, do you really think you know what is she talking about? Those experiencies are not suceptible of translation. At the most, you can have some notion of it, but what she felt can´t be measured by you or anyone. That being said, I totally agree with the rest of the comment. Cheers.

  • @ReiDaBel

    Your comment leads me to believe that it is ~you~ who doesn't understand what she is saying.

    Anybody who has experienced the immense euphoria of being with somebody who completes you, who seems to be a part of every cell in your body will understand ~exactly~ what she is talking about and realise how mind-blowingly well she expresses it.

    For people who hear it, this is a pretty song.

    For those of us who feel it, it's perfection.

  • @QuasiMolko Whatever, we can keep at it forever. I love the song, I keep listening over and over from the moment the girl I love showed it to me, and we discused it a thousand times (now you´re goning to say we are not truly in love, I guess). You are being too narrow minded. You didn´t get what I tried to say. You are confusing the realm of words and the realm of feelings, and ignoring the abyss bertween them. But I guess that is a constant nowadays, in this time of complete segregation. Pity.

  • @ReiDaBel

    Why the hostility?

    Why the belief that I would attack your feelings?

    Why the attack against me?

    I find both of your comments toward me to be offensive and dripping with "misunderstood, tortured-soul" ego, good day.

  • @QuasiMolko

    People are allowed to dislike things y'know. I think 12 dislikes vs. over a thousand likes is pretty darn good.

    What...you think everyone should like this? Please. grow up. It makes me laugh when people get defensive over the old "dislike" button on youtube. Its as relevant as the like button...coz we are all human remember.

  • @dillinjaesc

    Do tell me where I said people were not allowed to have their own personal taste..

    Re-read my comment and notice it is stating simply that they do not connect with it.

    Now, please "Grow up" and try not to misrepresent people and destroy strawmen.. It makes me laugh.

  • @QuasiMolko

    As I said, the dislike button is as relevant as the like button and people [like yourself] get so defensive when it gets used on a video they like.

    Oh wait, to dislike means you don't "connect" with it. Ahhh, I see. That's not arrogant at all.

  • @dillinjaesc

    I fail to see how using the term "Connect with" shows arrogance.

    I use it merely as a synonym.

    I, myself, have "Disliked" many videos that I have failed to "Connect with" on an emotional, intellectual or aesthetic level, however; I wouldn't get so pissy about a flippant, cliched, for-the-masses opening remark that makes up a measly fifth of the full comment.

    People certainly are confrontational on these newfangled interwebs aren't they?

    By the way, how's that hypocrisy going?

  • @QuasiMolko I think some people like dillinjaesc tend to take things a little too seriously online. I think it's obvious that you weren't being insulting. After all, Bjork's music is very emotional. So saying those who disliked it probably couldn't emotionally "connect" with it is accurate - they may have never had an experience like what she's describing in the song and can't relate.

  • this song is unlike ANYTHING ever heard...

  • she is sooo amazing yet half the people in the world have never heard of her i love you bjork keep singing

  • no mezclen marihuana con bjork... podrias salir volando por tu ventana hasta la verdadera felicidad ...y tu mente de rebaño podria no soportarlo !!! ♥

  • Bjork has all human emotions available at any moment, a brilliance for expression and musical creation, and a view into a world of reality and imagination that often just passes me like a big asteroid vibrating across the street. I'd love to talk to her, until I lose my way.

  • OH MY GOD!!!!! :O.....This has to be the best performance ever...

  • @obscuredphoenix6 hmm... Have you seen Björk live in Royal Opera House? :wink: :wink: :wink: :)

  • @izoptera unfortunately not

  • this is the best live version of this i've found! she is amazing!

  • homogenic was not only one of the best albums of hers, but also one of the best albums of all time.

  • holy shit.... that was AWESOME!!!!

  • This and Hyperballad made me cry when she perfomed live in my country. In Hyperballad she let us sing with her and enjoyed it, it was amazing.

  • 10 Bieber's fans deserve to die

  • @Jumosk All Justin Bieber fans deserve to die ;)

    I don't think even they could hate this song though.

    I think 10 people should have played this with the sound on.

  • @Kohrote Even without the sound, her performance skills are enough to hit the like button.

  • @HailToTheMail Well put ;)

  • her voice sounds beautiful, this whole performance is just simply amazing.

  • shes so cool

  • shes a bit child like. adorable, yet her voice is so powerful. bjork is one of a kind.

  • I can't stand how damn cute she is!!!!!!!!! I can't take it, I'm addicted to her!

  • she is stunning in every way !!!

    wow!!! she puts me in a state of emergency :)

  • it sounds like she's doing playback, but she isn't. Just to show how amazing her voice is. This is perfection.

  • Bjork: a tiny pixie that lets her soul roar through her powerful voice.

  • @08Zeitgeist80 well said.

  • I wasn't aware I liked Bjork until watching this, what a voice!

  • This is beautiful on many levels!

  • when is this?

    Man I'm glad there's people like björk that bring color to the world.

  • Bjork,She is the real artist for me !!

  • q sexi!!

  • ...she takes her shoes, before singing a note, she does it often, i would love to hear from her lips why does she do that, she's very enigmatic, even though she explains a lot of her stuff, an interesting soul.

  • this things must win grammys, not that bullshit that is out there.

  • speechless

  • Gotta love Icelanders and their purity of inner vision...

  • I love the raw emotion in her voice

  • flawless, powerful, mesmerizing... 

  • I like to hear this song. So soothing.

  • GENIUS! what else can I say. What a voice, what a concentration on performance. She is GREAT. And song is one of the best I've heard. 

  • I want to meet the 10 people who disliked this video and put them in a state of emergency-room.

  • hermoso canta la princesa cisne

  • Bjork is just marvelous!!  Period.

  • Her delivery is PERFECT........ everytime

  • Amazing performance! She looks and sings georgeously here. Love that green dress.

  • This must be what surrender feels like!

  • BOOM!!!...Damn, my head just exploded from an ear-gazzum

  • Fuck I think I'm gonna cry!!!, pure perfection, breathtaking ...

  • I couldn't stop a tear crawl down my cheek...

  • this masterpiece make me think there's something more than my problems and me. Thanks Bjork

  • Potent little lady

  • and she comes from... what planet?

  • breathtaking, so alarmingly beautifull ..

  • i love you bjork..i don't say much of these words but i'll give them now...:)

  • i love you bjork....i don't say much of these words, i'll give it now :)

  • so beautiful!

  • living artist......

  • Björk is more than beautiful in every way.

  • love how she licks her lips at end....childlike....but sexyin a strange way,,,,

  • ok question....if u watch all the bbc peformances.....her weight seems to fluxuate a lot?? Any ideas why? I know shes got thee kids.......

  • Magic. ~_^

  • i liek the way she cheekily smiles as she realises everyone's mind blown xD if bjork ever reads this BE MY WIFE!!!

  • Long Live Icelandic Indigo!!!!

  • fucking goosebumps!!!

    

  • Look at her at the end. She has no idea she just changed thousands of peoples lives.

  • @glassgraves best comment ever.

  • @glassgraves Somehow I think she does know - I'm ready to declare that "she's the most interesting woman in the world" - in rock history as well!! a GENIUS..

  • @glassgraves Best Comment ever. So full of truth.

  • She must be the most amazing artist ever!!!!!

  • An example to all wannabee singers out there. It can be seen in every gesture and facial expression that delivering a performance is much more than just singing the lyrics. She is so immersed in the song and seems oblivious to all that surrounds her, at the end its almost as though she's emerged from a different place.

    A totally awe-inspiring natural performance, all X factor aspirants take note!!!!!

  • @bowiefan51 Correct sir. For 4 and a half minutes she was in a place most of us will never go.

  • talented. No question.

    But what the hell is she doing with her hand?

    It's like she's swatting at a fly

  • @captross07 its a tick she has when she sings

  • This is gorgeous. Joga will be always so heart-touching! 

  • LOVE THIS GIRL

  • 4:21 xD

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  • She is a little crazy, but in a good way - she is all talent! My favourite female singer. I would love to see a dou with my favourite male singer - James Maynard Keenan)