“I Miss You” by Björk

song info

    “I Miss You” by Björk (official video) is an alternative dance song.

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    Summary quotation from Wikipedia:

    “I Miss You” is a song by Björk, the sixth and final single release from her 1995 album Post. It is amongst her least-well performing singles in the UK, but it hit #1 on the U.S. Billboard Hot Dance Club Play.

    The B-side “Karvel” was recorded in one of the first sessions of Björk with Graham Massey in 1991; on which other two tracks were also recorded: “Army of Me” and “The Modern Things”.

Background

    The lyrics describe Björk already knowing who her perfect lover will be, even though she hasn’t yet met him. The remastered version as appears on the 2006 release Surrounded features a newly-recorded vocal take.

Music video

    The music video for “I Miss You” was animated and directed by John Kricfalusi of Spümcø, best known for the Ren & Stimpy cartoons, which Björk admired. The video has a surreal and humorous quality with some sexual imagery. Björk has ginger hair in both the animated and live parts of the video. One of Kricfalusi’s characters, Jimmy the Idiot Boy (in which he was naked in some scenes and his private parts were removed), joins her during various parts of the video. Another Kricfalusi character, George Liquor, makes a cameo in one scene. Also, Fred Flintstone makes a cameo in the scene of the bathroom. An edit was made of the video that covered Björk’s breasts. The scene at the end of the music video showing Björk tearing an animated chicken in half was cut during showings on MTV.

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