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  • Опубліковано 21 вер 2022
  • ‘ancestress’ by björk
    taken from new album ‘fossora’ out now
    stream / buy the album : bjork.lnk.to/fossora
    learn more at fossora.com, powered by Squarespace
    DIRECTOR: Andrew Thomas Huang
    CO - CREATIVE DIRECTORS: Björk & James Merry
    PRODUCTION COMPANY: Object & Animal
    EP: Dom Thomas
    PRODUCER: Alex Chamberlain
    PRODUCTION COMPANY ICELAND: Go to Sheep
    PRODUCER ICELAND: Sara Nassim
    PRODUCER ICELAND: Hrönn Kristinsdóttir
    DOP: Andrew Yuyi Truong
    PRODUCTION DESIGNERS: Heimir Sverrisson & Dóra Hrund Gísladóttir
    WARDROBE BY: Valentino, Pierpaolo Piccioli
    MASKS & CEREMONIAL SPOON: James Merry
    STYLIST: Edda Guðmundsdóttir
    BJÖRK MAKE UP: Johannes Jaruaak (Hungry)
    CHOREOGRAPHER: Erna Ómarsdóttir
    EDITOR: Mengyao Mia Zhang
    VFX: Wolf & Crow
    VFX Producer: Kevin Shapiro
    COLOUR: Dante Pasquinelli @ Ethos Studio
    Cast and Crew:
    Performers
    SPIRIT DANCER: Shota Inoue
    DANCER: Saga Sig
    DANCER: Charmene Pang
    DANCER: Emilía Gísladóttir
    DANCER: S. Andrean Sigurgeirsson
    VIOLINIST: Una Sveinbjarnardóttir
    VIOLINIST: Geirþrúður Ása Guðjónsdóttir
    VIOLINIST: Helga Þóra Björgvinsdóttir
    VIOLINIST: Laura Liu
    VIOLINIST: Ingrid Karlsdóttir
    VIOLIST: Þórunn Ósk Marinósdóttir
    VIOLIST: Lucja Koczot
    CELLIST: Sigurður Bjarki Gunnarsson
    CELLIST: Júlía Mogensen
    CONTRABASS PLAYER: Xun Yang
    PERCUSSIONIST: Soraya Nayyar
    Production and FX
    PRODUCTION MANAGER: Gagga Jónsdóttir
    PRODUCTION COORDINATOR: Anna Björk Hilmarsdóttir
    KEY PA: Ólöf Birna Bjarnadóttir
    PA: Búi Fannar Ívarsson
    LOCATION PA: Birkir Kristinsson
    SET ASSISTANT: Daníel Bóasson
    ARTIST ASSISTANT: Hilma Kristín Sveinsdóttir
    ARTIST ASSISTANT: Rosemary Llagostera
    1st ASSISTANT DIRECTOR: Sigurður Kjartan Kristinsson
    2nd ASSISTANT DIRECTOR: Arngunnur Hinriksdottir
    3rd ASSISTANT DIRECTOR: Anný Björk Árnadóttir
    LOCATION MANAGER: Birkir Grétarsson
    B CAM OPERATOR: Baltasar Breki Samper
    1st AC: Goði Már Guðbjörnsson
    2nd AC: Almar Blær Bjarnason
    2nd AC: Bjartur Ragnarsson
    1st AC B CAM: Eva Rut Hjaltadóttir
    2nd AC B CAM: Svava Lovísa Aðalsteinsdóttir
    STEADICAM OPERATOR: Þór Elísson
    CAMERA TRAINEE: Sigurjón Þór Guðmundsson
    VTR: Rútur Skæringur Sigurjónsson
    DIT: Arnór Einarsson
    GAFFER: Arnaldur Kári Valdemarsson
    ELECTRICIAN: Steingrímur Ingi Stefánsson
    SWINGER: Helgi Jóhannsson
    KEY GRIP: Viktor Davíð Jóhannsson
    BEST BOY: Tómas Freyr Jóhannsson
    PLAYBACK: Bergur Þórisson
    ART DIRECTOR: Sunna Svavarsdóttir
    PROPS MASTER: Sigrún Perla Gísladóttir
    PROPS MASTER: Melkorka Embla Hjartardóttir
    STANDBY PROPS: Kolbeinn H. Bambus Einarsson
    SFX SUPERVISOR: Haukur Karlsson
    SFX ASSISTANT 1: Frosti Jón Runólfsson
    SFX ASSISTANT 2: Gunnar Gunnarsson
    CERAMIC JUG: Jón Einar Björnsson
    3D PRINTING: Halldór Snorrason
    Costuming
    BJÖRK HAIR: Hildur Ösp Gunnarsdóttir
    WARDROBE ASSISTANT 1: Diana Ros Hanh Breckmann
    WARDROBE ASSISTANT 2: Anthony Hoang Day Nguyen
    WARDROBE ASSISTANT 3: Ásdís Lúðvíksdóttir
    FROM VALENTINO:
    TAILOR: SABRINA PAOLETTA
    TAILOR: LINA IRENE
    TAILOR: CATERINA BAGORDA
    TAILOR: ANGELA MACCHIAVELLI
    DESIGN TEAM: SABATO DE SARNO
    DESIGN TEAM: GABRIELE CUSIMANO
    DESIGN TEAM: AMINA TARDELLA
    VIP RELATIONS: Paola Cabano
    VIP RELATIONS: CHIARA FERRARESE
    VIP RELATIONS: Katie Goodwin
    CROWD MAKE UP & HAIR: Sunna Björk Erlingsdóttir
    CROWD HMU ASSISTANT: Sigrún Jörgensen
    CROWD HMU ASSISTANT: Kolbrún Anna Vignisdóttir
    CROWD HMU ASSISTANT: Linda Kjartansdóttir
    TALENT DRIVER: Helgi Guðmundsson
    HMU TRUCK DRIVER: Snorri Þórsson
    CHEF: Atli Ottesen
    CHEF: Númi Thomasson
    CHEF’s ASSISTANT: Úlfur Stígsson
    MEDIC: Hulda
    COLOUR PRODUCER: Nat Tereschenko
    VFX COMPOSITORS: Travis Button, Andrew Nishida
    BTS FILMING: Edda Kristín Óttarsdóttir
    BTS EDIT & POST: Ali Gill
    SPECIAL THANKS: Gabríela Friðriksdóttir

КОМЕНТАРІ • 2,4 тис.

  • @Toddles1978
    @Toddles1978 Рік тому +2892

    I’m so sorry about your mothers death Bjork. Sing for her. She hears you. Always. Much warmth.

    • @abdulkadirdursun6308
      @abdulkadirdursun6308 Рік тому +18

      She doesn't

    • @theodour8617
      @theodour8617 Рік тому

      @Thank me later 🅥 Oh, wow. That is so important!

    • @eltondesa4152
      @eltondesa4152 Рік тому +50

      @@abdulkadirdursun6308 she sure does

    • @sirbirbalot199
      @sirbirbalot199 Рік тому

      @Thank me later 🅥 😂

    • @yans.3908
      @yans.3908 Рік тому +21

      @@abdulkadirdursun6308 you've got a lot to learn about life... Good Luck to you!

  • @michaelshumway4825
    @michaelshumway4825 9 місяців тому +88

    love the callback to "heirloom" from vespertine
    "My mother and son pour into me
    Warm glowing oil
    Into my wide open throat"
    depicted in the final scene of this music video

    • @gabormolnar2208
      @gabormolnar2208 8 місяців тому +4

      ok, i didnt even notice this connection!!!! 🤯

  • @magicolmos
    @magicolmos Рік тому +94

    "you see with your own eyes, but hear with your mother's" such a profound and beautiful lyric. So much insight and depth in one short sentence. Bjork is just the best.

  • @colinbrash
    @colinbrash Рік тому +941

    I’m blown away that Bjork is still creating songs as powerful as she used to 30 years ago or more.

    • @darkcnotion
      @darkcnotion Рік тому +25

      She's for real

    • @webgpu
      @webgpu Рік тому +12

      world's evolved, ourselves evolved, bjo is in the past. shes forever in the "experimental" past. lets movon. nothing "new" here.

    • @sebasg37
      @sebasg37 Рік тому +1

      what did you think she was doing

    • @acjazz01
      @acjazz01 Рік тому +22

      It's a completely different style, she has changed a lot.
      I used to be a fan and consume everything that came from her. I think the last Bjork album I liked was Vespertine in 2001.
      After that, she changed her style and her music became hermetic and a little tiring.

    • @dwpwdlgovasitsb4id13orlife2
      @dwpwdlgovasitsb4id13orlife2 Рік тому

      @@webgpu interesting perspective, though I disagree. She seems to always be in the present. Our species has not made it past experimentation, it's just reached a higher level of deception.

  • @mr.boogerbutt6667
    @mr.boogerbutt6667 Рік тому +53

    At 5:25. You get this imagery she sang about in "Heirloom" from Vespertine.
    "While I'm asleep
    My mother and son pour into me
    Warm glowing oil
    Into my wide open throat"
    Now, Bjork is the one pouring glowing oil into her mother's spirit. Very beautiful.

    • @magicolmos
      @magicolmos Рік тому +10

      And her son is singing back up vocals on this song! Really awesome! I too thought of Heirloom immediately

  • @iakdrawllim4127
    @iakdrawllim4127 Рік тому +2489

    such a beautiful track ❤ RIP Hildur Rúna Hauksdóttir (Björk’s mother), you gave us one of the best things on earth and had a valued life. What an incredible woman you were, not just for giving us Björk, but for your own achievements in life

    • @bergspot
      @bergspot Рік тому +37

      Yeah, saw some while ago an interview with her. Such a great soul.

    • @bille77
      @bille77 Рік тому +15

      What you talking about?

    • @lunamonetmonroe
      @lunamonetmonroe Рік тому +132

      @@bille77 They are talking about giving respect and reverence to Björk’s mother who is no longer with us in the physical realm.

    • @gamer1X12
      @gamer1X12 Рік тому

      @@bille77 Bjork's mother is dead. Put two and two together.

    • @sym3428
      @sym3428 Рік тому +28

      Oh this is how I am finding out 🥺 RIP Hildur

  • @pablogarciavega1827
    @pablogarciavega1827 Рік тому +130

    I love the "nature wrote this psalm" lyric. The feeling of grieve towards the lost of a loved one, like a mother, is almost an instinct, written in our nature, catalyzed by our evolution as humans. Then, she sings, in this really fatal but beatiful tone: "it expands this realm", cause even if it's an instinct feeling, almost out of control to our will, it means we're connected by nature to the lost one, an inextricable bound that even death can't break.That's why the song's name is ancestress: it's all about this primal string that connects us to everyone we love, timeless and unbreakable.

    • @staceymoable
      @staceymoable Рік тому +5

      I love this concept..I think Bjork was trying to relay this

    • @hargitsingh4971
      @hargitsingh4971 Рік тому +6

      I was mesmerised by the song and its rhythm but only came to know of Bjork's mother's death when I came to the comments. Song communicates raw emotion.

    • @cheaptshirt
      @cheaptshirt Рік тому +6

      Thank you for this comment. Im sobbing.

    • @maylondealmeida6
      @maylondealmeida6 9 місяців тому +1

      Lindo!

  • @nicolascandeias2524
    @nicolascandeias2524 5 місяців тому +17

    “When you die you bring with you what you’ve given” made me cry like a baby

  • @hexel6718
    @hexel6718 Рік тому +293

    Hearing her son singing with her on the verses is so touching. Such a beautiful song and letter to her mother ❤

  • @luisvirgen7740
    @luisvirgen7740 Рік тому +270

    “Nature wrote this psalm”. Such a powerful and humbling thing to say. This whole song is a beautiful demonstration of love and respect and such a heartwarming goodbye.

  • @CMANIS69
    @CMANIS69 Рік тому +672

    Oh gosh, this is so beautiful and personal. My Mom is dying of stage 4 cancer. It's so hard I don't want to let her go but it is not up to me. I don't want to be selfish. Thank you Bjork!

    • @b_a_k_i_s
      @b_a_k_i_s Рік тому +26

      I’m very sorry

    • @djelbert23
      @djelbert23 Рік тому +6

      Love you my friend! Always here for you. 💚

    • @EvolvedParasite
      @EvolvedParasite Рік тому +10

      I am going through the exact same thing. I know exactly how you feel.

    • @amnesiac5361
      @amnesiac5361 Рік тому +5

      🥺❤️❤️❤️❤️

    • @francisb8224
      @francisb8224 Рік тому

      🤎🤎🤎

  • @austinsideburns
    @austinsideburns Рік тому +141

    What an artist she is. That dyslexia line took me by supprise and hit me hard.

  • @interstellarbeatteller9306
    @interstellarbeatteller9306 Рік тому +143

    "When I was a girl She sang for for me in falsetto lullabies with sincerity. I thank Her for her integrity"
    ♥♥

    • @tomadycomedtodosdeel
      @tomadycomedtodosdeel Рік тому +4

      Omg it's so sweet and pain relieving, takes sorrow away, calms down. When I listen to this phrase I can feel an embrace from my mother

    • @interstellarbeatteller9306
      @interstellarbeatteller9306 Рік тому +2

      @@tomadycomedtodosdeel Nice comment 💞
      This is much more than a song. This is poetry of the highest form. These are vocals that jolt your soul. This is music arranged to stimulate your brain. This is a simple message to say we all have one true God; Our Mother.

    • @tomadycomedtodosdeel
      @tomadycomedtodosdeel Рік тому

      @@interstellarbeatteller9306 yes, you're completely right. We're lucky to have born in Björk's era.

  • @tesselate8nowait262
    @tesselate8nowait262 Рік тому +213

    What an achingly gorgeous lament and eulogy for a mother. Being a nurse, I’ve held the hands of people who passed, and comforted families who have complicated feelings of grief and relief. Bjork has evoked such a feeling in me…this was so sad yet beautiful. I’m thankful for Bjork, and for these emotions. I always feel that if I were to lose my compassion, I would leave nursing altogether. It’s an integral part of my role to connect with the grief-stricken in a way that allows them to feel seen and held. I still cry in the coat room, and keep it together on the floor, and I’m grateful.

    • @tthomas184
      @tthomas184 Рік тому +8

      As someone who lately spends more time in a hospital than I ever wanted to, I've really come to appreciate what wonderful human beings nurses are, who have sickness and death all around. I don't know how you do it. Thank you.

    • @LilDroidBlue
      @LilDroidBlue Рік тому +5

      Thank you for being a nurse, for being there for families in their time of loss.

    • @makeperceive
      @makeperceive Рік тому +3

      Thank you for what you do

    • @user-po1rw3dj4d
      @user-po1rw3dj4d Рік тому +3

      God bless you for your devotion, long live your loved ones

    • @skinnysnorlax1876
      @skinnysnorlax1876 Рік тому +3

      Complicated feelings of gried and relief ...hit it right on the head.
      Not too long ago, my Grandma, who practically raised me, passed away. Yes, obviously it was sad to see her go. But... with her heart condition, her blood was so thin and poorly oxygenated. When she was aware and awake, it... wasn't even really the same person. I will never forget the last thing she said, in what became a rare moment of clarity. She looked at me, and as if the fate of the world rested on her words, said "I love you." I will never forget that

  • @joshuahoward6845
    @joshuahoward6845 Рік тому +279

    Bjork keeps true to the concept of this album being a happy and/or celebratory one. She managed to celebrate her mother’s life and not her passing here in this song. It is such a rare occurrence in artist expression to be able to do this through pop culture/music. It’s celebratory and yet allows you to mourn your lost loved one in a healing way. I think a few fans were expecting this to be a sad depressing album, so it is quite refreshing imo.
    Unravel has always been the one that gets me most. This is probably in my top 5 faves of hers lyrically and in mood.

    • @Jimmy1982Playlists
      @Jimmy1982Playlists Рік тому

      🎯💯🙏🏼 Very well said!

    • @avery1349
      @avery1349 Рік тому +10

      I mean, I wouldn't call this not sad, I'm sobbing hearing it, but it is celebratory, simply in the most painful way we can experience in life.

    • @allenrpn
      @allenrpn 6 місяців тому

      For me is UNISON . That has it all.

  • @hilmir
    @hilmir Рік тому +58

    one part that makes me sad is how she mentions she does not have her mother's story in her mouth. the reality is that Bjork is such a unique individual because she was raised by her mother - idiosyncratic, freeforming, words, sounds. these are the best parts of you, Bjork. she has lived and lives on in you. she is alive.

  • @jeremiasdiaz6846
    @jeremiasdiaz6846 Рік тому +161

    this is hands down one of her most beautiful songs.
    she never fails to surprise me and catch me off guard

    • @jeremiasdiaz6846
      @jeremiasdiaz6846 Рік тому +1

      @Thank me later 🅥 Wow..... I'm at a loss for words. After watching that video, my life has changed. I remain in utter shock, ever since I watched that video 5 seconds ago I violently started metamorphosing into an elf lady mushroom, just like my mothership, Björk...
      Thank you.

    • @jeremiasdiaz6846
      @jeremiasdiaz6846 Рік тому +1

      @@Kinyelaa Okay I did not establish this was a promotion space

    • @bergspot
      @bergspot Рік тому +5

      Agree with you. And the photography, setting and all the rest of it!

    • @jeremiasdiaz6846
      @jeremiasdiaz6846 Рік тому +4

      @@bergspot Absolutely! This is also one of her most cinematic looking music videos. I would def watch a movie like this

  • @barmo_bm
    @barmo_bm Рік тому +362

    björk has been making what the wanted for years, she doesnt work for the mainstream, she work for the feelings and true integrity. An icon

    • @jackneighbors4374
      @jackneighbors4374 10 місяців тому +6

      Agreed. She is truly untouchable. She does not share a category with anyone.

    • @dopecat4012
      @dopecat4012 8 місяців тому

      She truly is the worst thing that happened to music, ever.

  • @Markus-xm4zv
    @Markus-xm4zv 11 місяців тому +103

    My mother died 2022 with the age of 60 only. Thank you Björk for your lyrics. A beautiful testemony

    • @Nympholita
      @Nympholita 10 місяців тому +10

      Mine too and she was only 63. I send you warmth and hugs! 🥺

    • @Markus-xm4zv
      @Markus-xm4zv 10 місяців тому +5

      @@Nympholita thank you. Hugs to you too

    • @BenMJay
      @BenMJay 9 місяців тому +2

      If I think about not having my Mom around I cry.

    • @andiwrath2293
      @andiwrath2293 7 місяців тому

      Mine too. She was 69.

    • @Markus-xm4zv
      @Markus-xm4zv 7 місяців тому

      @@andiwrath2293 im sorry for your loss. God bless

  • @yodoleheehoo90
    @yodoleheehoo90 Рік тому +49

    I have a frayed relationship with my mother for years and I really don't know who she really is anymore or how to approach her anymore. Yet this song still made me cry how at powerful Bjork's bond with her own mother was that she wrote a song to commemorate and celebrate her achievements, while I have no words to say to my mother that would appeal to her and make her see me and not just a different version of her Other daughter. I hope that day comes where I can hug her again, but I don't know...

  • @Trub8le
    @Trub8le Рік тому +343

    Every day I am glad to be alive at a time to listen to Björk's music

  • @dejoreljackson1787
    @dejoreljackson1787 Рік тому +402

    It’s a beautiful tribute. As someone who recently lost a parent and also writes I get it’s sometimes hard to linearly word the feelings. I love how this really encapsulates that feeling. The non standard time signature really expresses just how all over the place you feel after losing someone who knew you before you knew yourself ❤

  • @candioree8456
    @candioree8456 Рік тому +110

    What a deeply personal and movingly beautiful tribute to her beloved mother. I don't think I've ever experienced a more vulnerable piece of music from Björk...which is saying a lot since all of her music is visceral and soul bearing. My condolences to her. I'm sure her mother looks down fondly at how her daughter has honored & is honoring her life and memory.

  • @Deedee-ee1sg
    @Deedee-ee1sg Рік тому +66

    Only Bjork could sing about her skull being a cathedral. She is so unique and original. No one else in music sings or sounds like her. Great new track.

  • @manuel616_8
    @manuel616_8 Рік тому +386

    This resonates deep in my heart, i had to say goodbye to my brother and my father recently, as they left this world. There's a place Inhabited by my family, in the Colombian Andes mountains, i would walk with my father throughout the lands where he would taught me about plants like frailejon and how those mountains were a water factory, or more like a sponge absorbing water of the clouds that would came down to the land in their mist form, there were rocks covered with patches of moss, sometimes i would be exploring places with my brother, then some years later, on my own i would run and walk in the herb and the forest, inside the dew that was caressing those giant and thin palm trees, currents of cold wind where i would sing and scream and be loud, i would feel how a tiny part i am in the ecosystem, my soul would elevate and resonate with the surroundings. This piece kind of takes me there. I have yet to return over there, i need to do it.

    • @ArboleSola
      @ArboleSola Рік тому +1

      🤍🤍🤍

    • @brixtonia
      @brixtonia Рік тому +7

      Qué lindo describiste nuestra parte del mundo y que bonita manera de recordar a tu papá. Un abrazo!

    • @mravawishes
      @mravawishes Рік тому +3

      thank you for sharing this

    • @baa6
      @baa6 Рік тому +4

      so beautiful. thank you for your sharing.

    • @MoBootz
      @MoBootz Рік тому +4

      So beautiful! I appreciate your self expression and wish you get there again. Sooner than later ! Be blessed 💯

  • @WicCaesar
    @WicCaesar Рік тому +49

    Our mothers and sons pour into us warm glowing oil into our wide open throats.

  • @tabootarotreader
    @tabootarotreader Рік тому +88

    upon re-watching and digesting this fantastic piece of art, there is a lot of Egyptian embalming ritual symbolism. I can truly sense a deep energy being channeled from the Ancestress via Bjork as she processed her Mother's passing. It is interesting that Fossora was her "Mushroom album", as Fungi are the masters of Death & Transformation. Bjork no jokes is on another level creatively! Healing to all beings processing the loss of a loved one💗🍄🩸

    • @RyanVoorhies
      @RyanVoorhies 10 місяців тому +7

      she managed to communicate A LOT in this track and there are so many winks to what is going on in the present world. It’s truly an incredible way to honor her mom and a channeling of her voice.

  • @garbanzostomaco6521
    @garbanzostomaco6521 Рік тому +44

    意味が完全にはわからなくても、聴くとどうしても泣いてしまう
    胸がいっぱいになる

  • @Nympholita
    @Nympholita Рік тому +38

    This hits my heart. I have lost my lovely Mother in February. My soulmate, a bestest friend, my peacekeeper, my shining light in the dark, guiding hand. Nothing and no one can replace a Mother!
    Mama, we love you forever and keep your essence alive! 🥺

  • @hilmir
    @hilmir Рік тому +171

    in Heirloom (Vespertine) she sings of warm life-giving glowing oil that heals when it is swallowed. the oil was dreamt to be baked by her mother and son. we now see the same elixir, given from this generation to the next.

    • @David-gv9bs
      @David-gv9bs Рік тому +1

      Omg your right that makes this video make so much more sense thank you

    • @jakub8860
      @jakub8860 Рік тому

      Blessing and honor and glory and power Be to Him who sits on the throne, And to the Lamb, forever and ever!
      (Apokalypsis - Chapter 5:13)

  • @bigguspeepus
    @bigguspeepus Рік тому +38

    This is such a perfect tribute to her mother, including gongs, singing bowls and tubular bells, things Hildur loved

  • @eeyumpeeyum
    @eeyumpeeyum Рік тому +167

    Sometimes the tune reminds me of Unison. But my word what a magical video. To have a funeral procession in the stark landscape of Iceland (I think) is so visceral. The way she shifts from story telling as mundane as doctors and pacemakers to abstract and spiritual thoughts on death and mother-daughter relationship is so relatable ❤️ Bravo Bjork!

    • @V1DE0DR0ME
      @V1DE0DR0ME Рік тому +6

      I was pretty sure i wasn't the only one who detected Unison, and ctrl-F found your comment as sure as day. And what a fantastic follow up description there. Bjork has blessed us, yet again.

    • @Somberdance
      @Somberdance Рік тому +2

      @@V1DE0DR0ME yes yes same progression than unison... it is like a mushup or somehting... but its bjorl.. all is perfect in her

    • @rovingfortune395
      @rovingfortune395 Рік тому +6

      It's pretty much a direct quote - and when you think about it, Unison is all about reconciliation - very fitting. Nearly brought me to tears when I realized where I had heard that refrain before.

  • @vilami710
    @vilami710 Рік тому +103

    7 minutes felt like 2 minutes I could be listening to this song for hours while on the road or just lying down somewhere remembering places and people. Living and leaving life is a journey. Thank you Björk for this beautiful song. Love

    • @VeganSemihCyprus33
      @VeganSemihCyprus33 Рік тому

      The Connections (2021) [short documentary] 🌳🌳🌳

    • @shanmarwein6288
      @shanmarwein6288 Рік тому

      I thought that it was 3 minutes.🤦‍♀️ holy shite 7 minutes?? Didn't feel like it.

    • @shanmarwein6288
      @shanmarwein6288 Рік тому

      I thought that it was 3 minutes.🤦‍♀️ holy shite 7 minutes?? Didn't feel like it.

  • @eboy-
    @eboy- Рік тому +135

    I absolutely adore Björk, and this song is no exception. "Ancestress" is a beautiful and moving tribute to her late mother, and her voice is just stunning. This is definitely one of my favourite songs by her.

  • @totty666
    @totty666 Рік тому +143

    ive always hated my mother so I thought id never be able to understand something like this but I can feel the raw emotion in this song, such a perfect tribute. I feel like I can understand completely bjork's mother's impact from this alone. So powerful

    • @nannaogashawarma5553
      @nannaogashawarma5553 Рік тому +16

      Same. I have mixed feelings about my mother (homophobic for the sake of religion) but I still feel for Björk through this song

    • @eerielconstantine5051
      @eerielconstantine5051 Рік тому +15

      My mother traded her relationship with my sisters and I for money. A house. A man. We always came second to her and her desires. Never once did she ever help us grow, she always wanted us stunted like she stayed. Those feelings still do not take away from the raw emotion, connection, and love this song carries, and one day I hope to be a kind and loving ancestress for someone else someday ❤

    • @ann-charlotteaddo1910
      @ann-charlotteaddo1910 Рік тому

      @@eerielconstantine5051❤

    • @wasabi.2839
      @wasabi.2839 Рік тому +8

      Feeling empathy for somebody else's experience with something you didn't have a good one it's actually a unvaluable trait, protected it with your life forever.

  • @Twilightlilith
    @Twilightlilith Рік тому +40

    Björk, perhaps you'll never read this, but I just cried with this song. It's so beautiful the way you celebrate your mother with music, with your lyrics and keeping her so close, in you, your memories and how you celebrate her life more than mourn her death.
    It Made me think so much about my grandmother, she died 1 year ago... And about my mother too, She is still with me but sometimes I am so self-centered as to celebrate that she is still with me and everything she has done for me.Really thank you for all the music you've given us over the years and for this beautiful song!

    • @michaeltaylor8537
      @michaeltaylor8537 Рік тому

      It got me too. I've been a fan for a long time. It's hard watching your parents get old and go.

  • @MartinRockstrom
    @MartinRockstrom Рік тому +179

    The fact that Björk’s son has backing vocals here already makes this incredible track 10x better, and the music video just speaks for itself.
    So glad we’re all able to be here and experience this!

    • @Kinyelaa
      @Kinyelaa Рік тому

      Here You go 👉🏾 ua-cam.com/video/CkJPacsWsg0/v-deo.html

    • @pabloplato
      @pabloplato Рік тому +15

      @Thank me later 🅥 quit spamming your irrelevant pingu reboot here.

    • @AnnaMaria-zm8cv
      @AnnaMaria-zm8cv Рік тому +8

      @Thank me later 🅥 yes you are a pain in the ass thriving on others success. Stop with your crap sharing.

    • @WicCaesar
      @WicCaesar Рік тому +4

      @@pabloplato Report it as spam so it UA-cam remove it all at once.

    • @pianoplayingfishkeeper2094
      @pianoplayingfishkeeper2094 Рік тому +1

      @@pabloplato Where does the link even take you?

  • @Paulo-pr8jt
    @Paulo-pr8jt Рік тому +7

    You're never fully prepared for Björk's genius, even when you've been a fan for years.

  • @RAYZIGLER
    @RAYZIGLER Рік тому +134

    “Ancestress”
    [Lyrics]
    My skull is my cathedral
    Where this matrimort takes place
    When I was a girl she sang for me
    In falsetto lullabies with sincerity
    I thank her for her integrity
    My ancestress' clock is ticking
    Her once vibrant rebellion is fading
    I am her hopekeeper
    I assure hope is there
    At all times
    My ancestress has left all manners
    Her pulsating skin rebelling
    The doctors she despised
    Placed a pacemaker inside her
    When you're out of time
    How you look back changes
    Did you punish us for leaving?
    Are you sure we hurt you?
    Was it just not "living"?
    She had idiosyncratic sense of rhythm
    Dyslexia, the ultimate freeform
    She invents words and adds syllables
    Hand-writing, language all her own
    I don't have that story in my mouth
    When you die, you bring with you what you've given
    The machine of her breathed all night
    While she rested
    Revealed her resilience
    And then it didn't
    You see with your own eyes
    But hear with your mother's
    There's fear of being absorbed
    By the other
    By now, we share the same flesh
    As much as I tried to escape it
    This is no mediocre debris
    My ancestress this is
    The odour of our final parting
    Those have been
    The perfume of separation for centuries
    The perfume of separation for centuries
    Ancestress
    Nature wrote this psalm
    It expands this realm
    Translucent skin let go of
    A cold palm embalmed

  • @DimaZinkiv
    @DimaZinkiv Рік тому +96

    Kæra Björk! Vinsamlegast samþykkja samúð mína við andlát móður þinnar. Sannfærð um að hún heyrir þig

  • @tvl2868
    @tvl2868 Рік тому +144

    i cannot ever predict what her next song will sound like haha

    • @alsimanche
      @alsimanche Рік тому +8

      Lol same 😂😂 i don't think anyone can

    • @Askiayende
      @Askiayende Рік тому +15

      I want her to do a a metal album

    • @volpemarroneveloce5928
      @volpemarroneveloce5928 Рік тому +9

      I can. Just another rambunctious song with her singing all over the top without even being on tempo 😅

    • @mayatara1980
      @mayatara1980 Рік тому +9

      Honestly, ans I say this with all my respect for the woman that was the love of my life for more than a decade, since her album Biophilia, all her musics sound exactly the same 😥😐

    • @themcroooked
      @themcroooked Рік тому +18

      @@mayatara1980 I don’t think you’ve been listening close enough then, cause every album is almost always something new.

  • @anthonytwhitfield5850
    @anthonytwhitfield5850 Рік тому +46

    When my mother died, twenty years ago, "Unravel" carried my heart/spirit through a dark/transformative time. Bjork, you are one of the few human SIRENS in the world. Your sound IS emotion... Again, you have me vibrating with tears.🖤❤️🖤

  • @nenariver1
    @nenariver1 Рік тому +12

    'when you die you bring with you what you've given', how beautifully said...

  • @cecilsproject6796
    @cecilsproject6796 Рік тому +27

    You see with your own eyes
    But hear with your mother's
    Someone feels this line?
    Great work on the rythm of the heart of the song.

  • @LilyBean82
    @LilyBean82 Рік тому +47

    Bjork's music has made me cry before but never like this. The last line gripped me. A cold palm embalmed. The way the song ends is very much like death. You don't really know when the end will be but you know it's coming, and when it arrives, it's like there's nothing after. No clear cadence, just ever-present absence. My heart goes out to Bjork and her family for the loss of Hildur. May she rest in peace.

  • @nikolademitri731
    @nikolademitri731 Рік тому +298

    I feel like I needed this. My father died a little over a year ago, my mother almost ten years exactly before him, both too young. This kind of art helps the process of processing, the grieving sure, but deeper reflections too. This tribute to your mother is perfection, I feel it, and feel it may be your tribute to your mother, but within it are things universal. Thank you. ♾

    • @thailakhampo
      @thailakhampo Рік тому +8

      Well said. I've just lost my sister and couldn't find the words to reason my pain and how to accept it. This song hit me where I can make sense of my grieving. It's beautiful.

    • @nikolademitri731
      @nikolademitri731 Рік тому +3

      @@thailakhampo exactly! Solidarity! ✊♾

    • @josephprovencher6345
      @josephprovencher6345 Рік тому +1

      @@nikolademitri731 so sorry for your losses, I can't even imagine losing my mother

    • @nikolademitri731
      @nikolademitri731 Рік тому +1

      @@josephprovencher6345 I made peace with it many years ago, to some degree I had made peace with it before her last breath, bc one must. But I thank you. 🙏✌️

    • @josephprovencher6345
      @josephprovencher6345 Рік тому +1

      @@nikolademitri731 I'm glad that you were able to and I pray I'll have your strength, and np at all.

  • @calliespltn
    @calliespltn Рік тому +24

    man this is amazing . i had a parent pass away in the last year and the lyrics really spoke to me . “a cold hand embalmed” just .... man. thank you bjork.

  • @icystorm9968
    @icystorm9968 Рік тому +30

    I can't quite explain how this makes me feel. It's something that can't be put to words because it's not heard, it's felt. A feeling of something ancient and precious being passed down from one generation to the other. Björk never ceases to amaze me. She'll make you feel feelings you didn't know you could feel! ❤️

  • @schlageschlage
    @schlageschlage Рік тому +316

    A tribute done more beautiful than I ever could have ever expected. Thank you 🧧🌋🔮🩸📯❤️‍🔥🕯

  • @Slayerpirit
    @Slayerpirit Рік тому +65

    I havent cried for a decade, but Im crying now. This is the most beautiful tribute and description of parting with loved ones I've ever seen. In this nostalgic melody I can feel the shimmering ray of hope that comforts me. Thank you for this experiance.

  • @Anonymous-xm8ir
    @Anonymous-xm8ir Рік тому +36

    The amazing thing about Bjork is she could sing about the list of stuff she needs to buy in the supermarket “I will weight 5 apples, 6 bananas, and a grapefruit” and it’s still gold 😂

    • @jsmorales
      @jsmorales Рік тому +7

      gRRRapefruit. Yeah, I'd listen to that.

  • @robertvory
    @robertvory Рік тому +195

    It is a pinnacle of Bjork's art: visually, sonically and conceptually. I feel like this what she was striving for and finally achieved. She's the only art today.

    • @mxxmi
      @mxxmi Рік тому +1

      Nope! I used to be a huge fan but she's on certain albums literally stealing other contributors artistic ideas, visuals, basically their whole vibes and energy to make her her own and doing so let the listeners think its all hers. For the music she collabs yeah but prickly picks again in the partner music so listeners may not be blown away by a real partnership collaboration and continue to think she's a genius and maybe she is still but humble and generous in the collab not really. To me it remains unbalanced and unfair, even if they got exposure.

    • @mxxmi
      @mxxmi Рік тому

      @@ivan.adriel oh don't mind me I leave you two on your tiny bubble of art anyway.

    • @YoSoySafeAsMilk
      @YoSoySafeAsMilk Рік тому +12

      @@mxxmi What foil did you use for your tin hat, lad?

    • @mxxmi
      @mxxmi Рік тому

      @@YoSoySafeAsMilk the one they use in my icelandic bitcoin farm its quite efficient 😂 why ?

    • @kelsonl6084
      @kelsonl6084 Рік тому +6

      @@mxxmi can't tell if you're being ironic or if you genuinely think that's impressive

  • @gustavotozetti
    @gustavotozetti Рік тому +547

    Bjork a maior amiga dos trabalhadores lançando música 7 da manhã ❤️

  • @bongledrot7760
    @bongledrot7760 Рік тому +12

    I like how each of the new videos have the lyrics. RIP Bjork's mum

    • @WicCaesar
      @WicCaesar Рік тому +1

      Good to know someone likes it. I don't. T__T

    • @LiaKapp
      @LiaKapp Рік тому

      I like it too

  • @crestfallenraven
    @crestfallenraven Рік тому +6

    Outstanding. The Art of true EMPATHY.

  • @lonestarlouie
    @lonestarlouie Рік тому +12

    Same beautiful Artist as when I saw her live 25+ years ago front stage and she sang to me as I didn't even notice, as i danced to the spirit. She is a Goddess

  • @eduardoleite6144
    @eduardoleite6144 Рік тому +55

    She's always true to herself and this time is no exception. She kept digging deeper and deeper. And the visual? Looks like a play in a theather... Next level art🥰

  • @hisnameisisa
    @hisnameisisa Рік тому +98

    ENDLESS LOVE FOR THIS WOMAN

  • @gustavomotapitta6232
    @gustavomotapitta6232 10 місяців тому +5

    I cry everytime I hear this song. It's so beautiful. My mother is the most important person of my life. Listening to this I always imagine the day I'll have to say goodbye to the most precious thing I have in my life. It's so much pain.

  • @StripeyTigerCat
    @StripeyTigerCat Рік тому +20

    This is the most heartbreakingly beautiful music video I've ever seen. It definitely resonates with loss. How beautiful to honor her with something so absolutely GORGEOUS.

  • @10-OSwords
    @10-OSwords Рік тому +122

    It's official: 'pulsating' is Bjork's favorite word.

  • @geraldoferreira1945
    @geraldoferreira1945 Рік тому +47

    Last month, I've also lost my Ancestress...
    I was waiting so hard to experience it...
    Thank you, Björk. Thanks to all of your collaborators as well

  • @DominoManPaul
    @DominoManPaul Рік тому +12

    Holy shit. She does this transformative heart play every damn time. She's a genius. Give us more and more, Bjork.

  • @wincup
    @wincup 9 місяців тому +12

    90년대부터 팬이었습니다. 항상 변치않고 좋은 음악 선사해주셔서 고맙습니다 비요크.

  • @JAY-cv1jn
    @JAY-cv1jn Рік тому +32

    I’m always in for a surprise when she drops her videos, she’s really a work of art.

  • @rosenthal1466
    @rosenthal1466 Рік тому +69

    Love the balinese traditional instrument gamelan & gong integrated in this song, björk really did all the Indonesian fans justice. Thank you for showing the world our culture ❤❤❤ (ps: thanks to kasimyn as well 💕)

    • @alsimanche
      @alsimanche Рік тому +1

      Oo jadi beneran emang ada nuansa indo nya, tadinya juga mikir gitu tapi takut dikira sotoy .haha

    • @SuperVoltaic
      @SuperVoltaic Рік тому +1

      @@alsimanche Awalnya gak kepikiran sih itu gamelan, malahan yg kerasa ada gamelannya yg di album Biophilia

    • @alsimanche
      @alsimanche Рік тому

      @@SuperVoltaic ya di biophillia emang lebih menonjol instrumen gamelannya, ya awalny aku juga gitu sih, karna gong juga kan gak cuma ada di indo, tapi karena dia kolaborasi sama musis indo juga, makanya mungkin emang ada instrumen gamelannya jg

    • @VeganSemihCyprus33
      @VeganSemihCyprus33 Рік тому

      The Connections (2021) [short documentary] 🌳🌳🌳

    • @alsimanche
      @alsimanche Рік тому

      Ehh tapi keknya bukan deh... Kasimyn cuma nyumbang di beberapa lagu doang, aku liat di credit lagu ini dia gak ada

  • @kipkipPatrick
    @kipkipPatrick Рік тому +6

    Imagine not being familiar with Bjork and you're a tourist taking pictures of the fin in the background and you see her filming this music video or maybe not really noticing the cameras and you're like wtf.
    Keep on keepin on lil faerie no one compares to you.

  • @crazy-88s
    @crazy-88s Рік тому +15

    Once you jump on the flow, it's poetry...

  • @voces.dibujadas
    @voces.dibujadas Рік тому +10

    Björk. You are the true definition of pure art. Art trascends and wakes feelings up inside. I always feel it when I watch your videos and listen to your music. You are the big deal. Thanks for sharing your gift with the world 🥰

  • @melissamissingchriscornell2513
    @melissamissingchriscornell2513 Рік тому +117

    Björk's beautiful, angelic, distinctly unique voice, along with her avant garde eccentricity, has not changed since I discovered her in High School close to 3O yrs ago, which is why so many of us are still tuning in. I still listen to Post, Homogenic, & Vespertine, my 3 favs, quite often, & absolutely loving Fossora. Björk is a RARE gem & I get not for everyone, but when it comes to authenticity in music & art, there's no one who can compare. I find it interesting how you hardly ever hear artists referencing her as an inspiration, when she very obviously is & often(tries to be) imitated. Yup... I'm talking to you Gaga. Björk was making electronic, funky music BEFORE techno/house & now EDM EVER became mainstream, & her ballads are beautiful in a way that cannot be described in words. In a nutshell I am & will always be a huge fan, plus loud & proud to absolutely adore this woman & so grateful she is still creating art decades later. I hope more & more of the Millennials & Z's tune in because her music/art is truly a gift

    • @cloudcastle338
      @cloudcastle338 Рік тому +5

      Björk is the most beautiful creation in existence and it’s unbelievable to me how little appreciation she seems to get she’s phenomenal and so is her music

    • @icooper82
      @icooper82 Рік тому +2

      Actually gaga has referenced Björk and boy George as part of her influence. Also miss Elliot has referenced Björk as a big inspiration .

    • @icooper82
      @icooper82 Рік тому

      oh and madonna

    • @cloudcastle338
      @cloudcastle338 Рік тому

      @@icooper82 lol I have one boy George song in my playlist I found it on the show “The Goldbergs”

    • @melissamissingchriscornell2513
      @melissamissingchriscornell2513 Рік тому +2

      @@icooper82 I was referring to imitating when I mentioned Gaga.

  • @bigskib
    @bigskib Рік тому +16

    my mother was just diagnosed with Alzheimer's 10 days ago, thank you for sharing your art, it brings catharsis to others as I'm sure it does to you as well

  • @Drakewind777
    @Drakewind777 Рік тому +6

    The self-referential musical quotation in this is breathtaking. The video and lyrics reference Heirloom, the meter and rhythm and theme of ocean as mother reference Oceania and Ancestors. And I know I'm hearing more little nods that I'd have to relisten to her entire discography to catch - as a superfan this is a such a tearjerking delight of a piece of music. So much there.

  • @purpleteardropss
    @purpleteardropss Рік тому +19

    this new album gives me strong biophilia and vulnicura vibes and i am here for it

  • @sanfordcurtis8242
    @sanfordcurtis8242 Рік тому +5

    She’s really going all in for this new record

  • @isagothmoth
    @isagothmoth Рік тому +6

    wow I'm almost crying at the end of the video, I didnt really understand much of the song because I was paying attention to the music and to the video not to the lyrics but really, it just expresses the grief so well

  • @panos3322
    @panos3322 Рік тому +65

    As many other people here, I also lost my mother almost 3 years ago. She was young and it still hurts. I am so sorry for your loss mama B, but thank you for this masterpiece 🙏 You've honoured your mother many times in ways we all hope to honour ours and this beautiful lament to her is no exception. Thank you for this, it really resonates with us all 💕

  • @witherton8340
    @witherton8340 Рік тому +6

    I'm making a five-paragraph essay about volcanoes but this is more important

    • @itookallthenames
      @itookallthenames Рік тому

      It will be better for hearing this

    • @witherton8340
      @witherton8340 Рік тому

      @@itookallthenames Björk went to my house and wrote the essay for me, thank you Björk!

  • @valeriecomplex9685
    @valeriecomplex9685 Рік тому +9

    Almost made me cry. A funeral procession for her mom and the words about the slow deterioration of her heath it's a her most personal song

  • @ratiod2289
    @ratiod2289 Рік тому +5

    This is as good as bachelorette and joga. Brava

  • @foxemerald9437
    @foxemerald9437 Рік тому +11

    This is one of the Björk's songs with the most understandable lyrics I heard and that's beautiful.

  • @chrizznist
    @chrizznist Рік тому +21

    The symbolism and ritual entwined with the off kilter beats of the music was so powerful it made me tear up. There is such strength in Björks music we are blessed with her presence. ❤️

  • @MedJayParis
    @MedJayParis Рік тому +139

    Masterfully beautiful, Musically & Visually, ladies and gentlemen, this is Björk 💜

  • @RyanVoorhies
    @RyanVoorhies Рік тому +15

    not thinking in terms of this being better or worse than the other singles- this is just a very beautiful work of art that needs to just be taken in and absorbed. Such a beautiful meditation.

  • @marc8h726
    @marc8h726 Рік тому +9

    Omg this hit days later. You see the strength in someone and watch disease diminish and take to a point of fragility. I lost my mom and she was very major in my life.

  • @alastor919
    @alastor919 Рік тому +182

    Emocionante, me deja sin palabras, que lindo tributo a su madre 🥲

    • @nita_rojita4089
      @nita_rojita4089 Рік тому +1

      que diceees

    • @mgsgamer8340
      @mgsgamer8340 Рік тому

      @Thank me later 🅥 sorry your ancestress was a rotten shinji kinnie who passed her curse to a fatherless little dream stan

  • @yuguinh0
    @yuguinh0 Рік тому +29

    what a lovely, delicate yet intense eulogy 😭 🖤

    • @gracie99999
      @gracie99999 Рік тому

      idk eulogy makes sense to describe itself
      they should chain it

  • @paradise8876
    @paradise8876 Рік тому +7

    .... I've always loved the fact bjork has dared to be different, the woman is genius to me.

  • @Pure77
    @Pure77 Рік тому +7

    Reflective and introspective. Frightening, yet magical.

  • @ricardolucasid
    @ricardolucasid Рік тому +32

    What a masterpiece. Once again, Bjork giving us the best of herself, she is more and more brilliant. I was very impressed with this music video, you could see the uniqueness of each instrument, the movements, the celebration, the ancestral rites, the magnificent letters, the beautiful tribute. Thank you Bjork for all this. 🫀🌹

  • @jowse
    @jowse Рік тому +14

    This is sort of a visual album and I love it. I'm so sorry for your loss, angel. Her soul will live through this beautiful song

  • @vannjunkin8041
    @vannjunkin8041 Рік тому +27

    She never let's up. Like PJ Harvey .. the real deal in the aesthetics of music... deep and dark as the North Atlantic in 1912. Takes me back to Debut initially. Such a creative Lady. I don't blame you for going home.. love from the States M'Lady 🖤

    • @charlescomer2692
      @charlescomer2692 Рік тому +1

      Agreed. If Bjork and PJ Harvey or Bjork and Erykah Badu made music together we would have world peace for at least a month 😆

  • @gabbyparker1869
    @gabbyparker1869 Рік тому +10

    The depth in these words is moving me beyond words. You really gave your mother the most beautiful farewell. She is with you. I can feel her spirit through your words and that is a beautiful thing. Thank you for doing the things that you do Björk, it’s beyond inspiring.

  • @Asad-fi1tr
    @Asad-fi1tr Рік тому +9

    Such a beautiful tribute to her mom…

  • @laurarosario7750
    @laurarosario7750 Рік тому +12

    Wondress words for her ancentress.
    A Magical and ethereally beautIful tribute to her mumma.
    Love and letting go🇬🇧

  • @VhoxThanatos
    @VhoxThanatos Рік тому +12

    I felt the pain. I read the journey. I am so, so sorry, deeply, from the bottom of my heart. Sing for her, sing for the ancestress, sing for nature, for life, for dead. Warmth.

  • @zafnatpaneaj4992
    @zafnatpaneaj4992 Рік тому +16

    What a beautiful piece of art...!!! Our ancestress always guiding and protecting us...!!! Thank you Björk for this masterpiece...!!! Blessings from Buenos Aires. All my respect to your mother...

  • @andreeduardo8564
    @andreeduardo8564 Рік тому +128

    Meu coração ficou comovido, também perdi minha Mãe e esta é, definitivamente, a maior dor que já pude experimentar nesta existência. Honrar a minha Mãe é o meu ato de amor contínuo, é o que me dá forças para viver. Viva o sagrado feminino que habita em mim!

    • @angelaatwood46
      @angelaatwood46 Рік тому +8

      What a beautiful brave thing to say, long live the feminine that is inside you. You are a real man❤️🌹💕💖🌠

  • @hannahater4132
    @hannahater4132 Рік тому +271

    Obrigado Björk por ter nascido com o poder de transformar as coisas tristes em luz.

  • @gerardogomez1061
    @gerardogomez1061 Рік тому +17

    Can’t believe Björk invented funerals

  • @IlluminusQ
    @IlluminusQ Рік тому +4

    this hit so different. im crying