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  • What are they talking about???

  • Hhm, my other account was blocked (personally) by the uploader of this video from commenting. Now you make me feel I have said.done something wrong, but I disagree.

  • shes so cute

  • icelandic translator please

  • I Find the prize perverted

  • what is with the popcorn?just wondering...

  • She looks like SHE'S checking HIM out. Licking her lips at him at 1:13...

  • @WeCaredALot and again at 1:35!

  • She makes me turn in to Jingle Dale from Wild at Heart.

  • popcorn snake...lol

  • Her face is soooo cute :)

  • 1:28

  • 1:08 OMG SOOOOOOO CUTE

  • everyone can tell that the hot blond guy is totally turned on by Björk xD

  • @ILuvBritLouTayTay Is it possible that she has some viking blood in her veins? The vikings were direct Chinese descents.

  • Bjork I think is the most beautiful and creative women I have seen since Stevie Nicks. Bjork's eyes & smile are extremely captivating even on a digital effects video like this she looks amazing.

  • @Metalogicc. There is Natalja with Expert Village on YouTube teaching Icelandic basic. Enjoy.

  • It's Björks birthday! And I discover this birthday song now on her birthday. How great!

  • I love this song. Björk is so strange and so beautiful(good combo).

  • shes like 20 there!

  • she has cute green eyes ^^

  • She has got a sexy voice........

  • Love how she stares him @ 1:31. She's adorable.

  • Det er faktisk en okay goð sang. :P

    ððððððÐ!!!! :D .. Det er sgu sådan vi burde have det danske bløðe d til at se uð! HAHA :P

  • She looks weird. o-o

  • i think she's part eskimo...

  • I love how rebellious she looked back then

  • wow, she was kinda cute when she was young

  • this bitch doesnt age!!!! ♥

  • Yeah seriously, she looks almost the same today!

  • I'm Swedish and it wouldn't make any difference to me if she spoke Chinese. I couldn't understand any of it. But it's clear that it has a distinct Nordic sound to it.

  • i dont understand a word of it... but its a great song

  • Beautiful couple

  • subtle sexual symbolism in there;))

  • Thanks idja69 .

  • He did look oh so cool with that popcorn noodle as he oggled Bjork. Seemed to work for her too.

  • Icelandic language isn't  more close Norwegian ...?

  • u can tell the dude wants to bang bjork really bad

  • @sam0xin

    The Icelandic language is old Norwegian so..

  • Well , see while 5 days I had a 2 different responds...from you ImIwilliam & from idja69...he/she says more close to Danish...Thanks anyway.

  • @sam0xin

    Well, trust me, Icelandic is very old Norse language, i think back then danish and norwegians spoke that language, correct me if I'm wrong, but i am shure it is old Norwegian.

  • More close Vikings...( Origin of Norwegians...) Thanks.

  • @sam0xin

    No problem!

  • well icelandic has a though is not very strong some celtic influence as well tho not very strong as I said but its mainly old norse tho

  • @ImIwilliamImI - It's correct that icelandic is the language that is closest to the oldest form of the scandinavian languages, and that it was spoken in Norway, hm. - But through the years, Norway has been under danish king, and it was more formal to speak danish, (and it was optional) so the language changed a lot, and became different from icelandic. - And the way icelandic is closer to danish is only the soft ''d'' or ð, which is pronounced pretty much the same way in danish as in icelandic.

  • It would have been much more easy if Sweden, Norway, Greenland and Danmark all spoke Icelandic...that would have been awesome.

  • Icelandic is way harder than the other Germanic languages because it has a case system and is highly inflected. Just like English and the Scandinavian languages were 1000 years ago. It's a cool language just because it's like a living linguistic time capsule.

  • @idja69 yeah yeah. Well jú is another word for yes. It is used the similar way as the french say si instead of oui its used when someone asks question and uses isn´t it or wasn´t in it. and instead of say já which means yes you say jú.

  • LMAO she must be so proud! she won a 15 feet long bag of popcorn!

  • was she holding a very long bag of popcorn?  haha

  • Anyone from Scandinavia (exc. Finland) will have less difficulties in learning Icelandic than people from elsewhere and it helps a bit if you know German because of the morphology, but in comparison to learing other languages you need extra time in memorising verb and noun paradigms.

  • 'erfið' means 'difficult'

    Icelandic is quite different from the Scandinavian languages from the mainland, because the mainland languages have droppped a lot of morphology which Icelandic and Faroese have retained.

  • I know that jú means 'yes' when you're answering a negative question.

    I only know that because my best friend is Icelandic and she teaches me the basics. :)

  • 1:32 cute cute cute or no?

  • @EDANDX Endlessly CUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUTE!!­!!!!!!!!!!

  • ahhh! I dont know much about the culture or anything....i ust like the sound of it! but my favorite languages are japanese and Korean...Japanese was like "My first love" i startes studying it when i was 12.

  • ahh..the romance languages like french and italian too?

    I gues they are OK!..i don't like french just because....italian is pretty....i dont like spanish because i've been exsposed to it my whole life. When i was little i wanted my mom to teach me but she never did...and then i lost interest.

  • THATS A..........JEJEJEJEJE

  • cute *o*

  • this is such a pretty song! what is it called?

  • Birthday.

  • ahhh! thankyou! I love this song!

  • did she have work done one her nose?

  • Why would anyone want to change that cute little button!

  • Icelandic sounds like German, but softer.

  • you are totally right!

    I don't know why people don't like how German sounds and like how French does, both languages have almost the same sounds, by example Franch and German R is the same, or German ö and French eu.

  • Yes, it doesn't make sense to me...I guess I must be one of those weird people, because I like german and like french less. I like russian too...icelandic....japanese and korean! What about you? Do you like language?

  • Yes,I love languages too!! I like Russian, German, Romanian, Greek, Icelandic, Japanese and Nahuatl, and my mother language is Spanish.

  • spanish...I really should know spanish, because i am part hispanic....but i've just never wanted to learn...i bet greek is nice!

  • The sounds may be the same but the way it rolls off the tongue (or in the back of the throat) is what makes both french and german different to the ear, not to mention that french is romantic and german is germanic, generally people find the romantic languages more "pretty" than germanic languages.

  • It sounds a lot more Scandinavian then any of the West Germanic languages (such as German, Dutch, Frisian and English) - I hear huge differences between this and German....

  • I hope she'll start singing in Icelandic again.

  • I live in a city with 10 million inhabitants, in a country with a 190 million inhabitants. Maybe for this reason I always get so curious about how things get organised in Icelandic society, considering that the whole country's population is only about 320 thousand inhabitants and they are geographically isolated from other continental lands. I know Iceland is a modern well educated society living with European standards (besides the current economical crisis) and that makes me still more curious

  • For instance, when you write a book in Icelandic, how many books can be sold? and how many books must be sold to pay the costs of printing?; when you speak to the radio, how many people can be listening to you?; when you record a CD, how many people can get interested in it? Off course my curiosity is based in economic grounds, since all of this things have a cost and somebody has to finance it. Do the TVs have enough advertising to finance their broadcasting? (probably they are state owned).

  • I would like to visit this country someday and understand how they can organise such a sophisticated society in such a small scale population. The current economic crisis makes me still more curious about what is going on in Iceland.

  • i m gettin hard everytime i see her

  • nobody here cares about the flaccidity or otherwise of your penis

  • do you know it?

  • The popcorn bag is a prize for having their video chosen the second best in Iceland that year. Björk starts by saying than the video that was chosen the thrid best is absolute bad taste which the host disagrees with. Then he asks her about her band (The Sugarcubes) and projects they might have.

    The interview is so awkward, which is sooo very Icelandic :)

  • Thanks for the translation. And now I wish I spoke Icelandic....I love uncomfortable interviews...:) Cheers! :)

  • smekkleysa ( bad taste ) is/was their record label, she doesn't say that the third one has bad taste.

  • She did not say that. She was saying that she was happy that "Smekkleysa" or "Bad Taste records" are finally receiving some notoriety on the Icelandic music scene and therefore calling the video for Ammæli or Birthday a bad taste. The interviewer disagrees and thinks the whole video is wonderful and in very good taste. He does not ask her about the band as such nor does he ask her about projects they might have but he asks who is going to eat the popcorn with her and she mentions the band membe

  • I prefer to not know what that long bag of popcorn is for. That and the fact that I don't understand anything that is being said makes this clip far more bizarre. :) Bjork is so goddamn cute I can hardly stand it.

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  • I love this song!

  • It's impossible to state for a fact that a language is difficult if it's the first time you hear it.

  • I've actually never heard Icelandic until now. It's a very difficult language (I think). It's a north Germanic language but it's quite removed from Danish/Swedish/Norwegian.

  • True, but this is the original Nordic language, with a few spelling/pronunciation differences

  • Icelandic is difficult to learn but it all depends on the person right. some people it is difficult and lets just take scandinavian people. Danish people I know find it more difficult to learn Icelandic than Swedish and Norwegians. I don´t know maybe due to the fact that their dialect. I know also a lot of spanish speaking people that have picked up Icelandic very quickly and slavik people too. But I should not be generalizing. Also to those who think Icelandic is similar to finish. Bullshit.

  • English is my first language, i found that there are enough similarities that it's not difficult to pick up on Icelandic. Though, I understand spanish very well. And by proxy am able to understand some french and portuguese.

  • yeah, Finnish is a Uralic language it's more related to Estonian and Hungarian

  • It sounds like Dutch

  • The popcorn bag is an award for the second best music video of the year. The guy asks her what she thinks about the award and she says: it is good to hear that tastelessness finally won the respect it deserves. The guy is surprised and asks: do you mean that the video is tasteless? She says yes :) :)

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  • Tha fack? Lol, I understood nothing, and they were holding a large bag of popcorn, very interesting.

  • i see some faces that shows a very fliiiirty bjork jajaja she's so cuuuteeee

  • an icelandic version of Birthday! this is amazing, i will look it up right now.

    i love icelandic, i wish someone would teach me

  • yeah its beautiful :)

    I wish i had a beautiful language!!

  • Cuantos años tenia entonces ahi??

  • tenia 21 =)

  • at 0:11-0:22 they say something like "smaecklöse" and that sounds similar to swedish "smaklös", which basically means tasteless - they're probably referring to this weird plastic tube of popcorn :P everything else sounds very scandinavian, but i don't understand squat

  • that was the only word i reconized and im danish :D.. the word is kind similar to the danish word "smagsløs" :D

  • it's similar in German- "schmecklos". I understood that word, at least.

  • well we are all part of the same German language group :)

  • ermm.. i'm swedish and i don't understand anything. i have a friend who's from iceland and even when he tries to teach me icelandic he tells me i can't even pronounce it right, repeating phrases after him. but icelandic is said to be quite similar to old norse, the language all nordic countries (expect finland. finnish is a finno-ugric language, hailing from east europe and north asia) used to speak more than a thousand years ago. now, all the nordic languages are different.

  • it's "smekklaust" and means "tasteless"

  • Icelandic isnt that hard.. but wheni am in iceland i hear a few people speak finish it sounds kinda like norwegian but thats just my oponion.... Icelandic souds ALOT like swedish so if you know swedish you'll proabbaly be able to speak icelandic

  • Hmmm... the bullshit meter's going off the charts here dude - Icelandic is well known to one of if not the hardest language to learn.

  • Icelandic may sound alot like swedish, but oh no. I don't get a word of it =D

  • Cute =D

    I just want to add, has anyone noticed? Fashion today is completly retro, just look at Björk's hair bangs and the interviewer's scarf, converse shoes & slim jeans.

  • I don't understand Icelandic but I love the way it sounds, especially in Bjork's voice!

  • such a rare voice

  • Öestland chule ni vran Björk iëïhr

  • Björk was totally checking him out!! dirty girl!!

  • Dont listen to what other people say i am from iceland and icelandic is REALLY easy to learn!!!

  • your english is fine! thanks for the help.

  • I actually prefer the icelandic version of Birthday, although, I can't sing to it. Haha..

  • So, what is the song about? I guess there's a english version. Anyway, very interesting to see her at such a young age. 1

  • I'm icelandic and it is a reaaaaally hard language! The grammar is like five times more than all the other languages!

    I love this song! Absolutly the best from Sykurmolonum(the Sugarcubes).

    And I just looooove her looks when she is younger. Here she is about 21 I think. She is sooo beautiful!

  • Actually its Sykurmolarnir?.......

  • haha and "isobelBjork" says she's icelandic LOL...

  • I´d love it if you watch the trustmusical. It´s icelandic with english subtitles and I have been wondering what people think of this musical.

    On the other hand, I love Björk and I love the 80´s

  • Bjork is the most adorable thing ever to grace the earth.

  • Japanese is one of the easier languages, My beft friend is Icelandic, it is the hardest language to lear,but it is a mixture of some danish,finnish,german,and more...

  • no,japanese is extremely difficult to someone from europe.Icelandic is hard to,but not as hard as japanese.

  • hm, im not sure. Japanese is actually a VERY easy language. That's why so many people speak it. Icelandic has difficult grammer i'd say.

  • not really,its a VERY tough language.That's why there are veeeeeery few people who speak it outside japan.If icelanders were 125.000.000,(like the japs)then icelandic would be spoken by many ppl too.Since there are only 300.000 though why bother learn it?Where are you going to use it?That's why so few ppl speak it.(Japanese grammar is unbelievably hard,trust me.-and the accent??god!icelandic accent is extremely easy)

  • i guess, maybe.

    but ive had an easy time learning japanese. and i didnt grow up with it. i still want to learn icelandic tho. even tho not many people speak it.

  • its up to the person...i want to learn icelandic too,but not many other ppl do.Anywayz,its a lovely language!

  • but isn't the syntax kind of hard to learn, though?

  • syntax?

    haha, whats that?

  • word order :P

  • oh, yeah its weird. but u get used to it.

  • ZOMGitsXyndeeGEE: Actually Icelandic has NOTHING to do with Finnish language. I'm Finnish myself and Finnish is part of Finno-Ugric language family along with Hungarian, Estonian and small languages such as Kven, Komi and Veps. Swedish, Norwegian, Danish and Icelandic languages belong to German language group so there are lots of similarities in these languages. For example, I have studied Swedish so I undestand some Norwegian. But a Swedish person does not understand Finnish at all.

  • I agree with you.

    Some people on here are saying Icelandic sounds like Swedish but I don't hear any similarities at all.

    Icelandic is most closely related to Old Norse, or Old English. Even some of their words sound like modern English like their "þ" which is "th". And book = bok ect ect

  • Yah alot of words are alike, but the grammar, and pronuciation are hard.

  • icelandic is the weirdest language...and i heard its the hardest to learn

  • welsh is harder.

  • this was actually the version I heard first

    I seriously had no idea there was an english version

    but I like this one more, even if I can't understand it:)

  • Giftnee and aridaemus, I agree with u both. She really looks like today, but much more innocent and shy!

  • Astonishing.... she has the voice of angels

  • WOW THIS SONG IS REALY COOL

  • wow, very cute.

  • dude... she looks just about the same today.

  • She's such a little angel, so shy, and awkward. She looks up at him like a child does to an adult.

    I want one!

  • popcorn? WHY?

  • Its an award, they won second place for the best music videos in Iceland in 1986

  • Not that 7-foot bag of popcorn joke again.

    (I wondered if their was a dick hiding in there but he's clearly standing next to Bjork).

  • um, wat was the joke? and why did they have a bag of popcorn?

  • CUTE!!!

    BELLISIMA!!!

  • nvrmind. tried finding it. didnt work.

  • damn, i think i like the icelandic version better. fantastic.

  • i like how her face all round and baby like here hehe

  • Haha, that interview is so awkward and the guy has no idea what he´s supposed to be doing. Also funny how she has to introduce herself and the guy who made the video, who is now the most famous director in iceland.

  • Could you tell me What the guy asked and bjork answered (then the guy said something)from 1:23 till 1:33.

  • He asked; "Well, uhmm, what´s it like being in all of this, isn´t it fun, or..?"

    And she says; ,,Sure, yeah...but it can also be demanding from time to time" To which he replies; "Ummmhmm...tough...yeah..mhmmm­."

    And then he goes and and says that now we can watch the video ("Ammæli") that got the award for second-best music video of 1986, she says she´ll watch it with him, and he laughs.

  • Takk fyrir.

  • What's with the bag of popcorn?

  • Wow!

    Me encanta esta mujer, dios!

    Se nota que le gusta mucho el muchacho que la entrevista, hay unas tomas del rostro donde dice todo...

    Es tan hermosa...

  • Porque hablas español?:P

    Ella es bastante penosa, no esque le gusta el muchacho, solo actúa raro en ciertas situaciones cuando le da pena o algo.

    Pero hermosa si es^^

  • Hablo español porque soy Argentino =)

    Tenes razón en que ella es penosa ( timida, vergonzosa ) pero acá 1:12 y acá 1:31 yo leo otra cosa en su expresion ( en el último más todavía ), no? Y me encanta!!

    Shonaripa, yo me pregunto por que hablas español!? :P

    Greetz

  • Ah ok;P. Soy colombiano ^^. Jaja si ya mirando otravez veo mas o menos que hay algo ahí:P. Y pues me encanta tambien :P, mas que todo en 1:30

  • cierto!

  • I love Björk. everything she does comes from within. Beautiful. Cute.

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