Play Dead Directed by Danny Cannon. Written by Björk/David Arnold/Jah Wobble. Published by Universal Music Publishing Ltd/ Warner Chappell Music Ltd/copyright control. ® 1993 Island Records Ltd.
She's a Classically trained musician that went against the grain. Using electronic drum loops, synthesisers, while composing classical elements for her songs. Has an amazing soprano vocal range. Lyrical concepts of her songs are completely out there. She's a complete truest purest form of artist! There will never be anyone else like her. An absolute genius
hell yeah, I was just writing that then looked down. 1080p. it's one of her best videos, with Harvey Keitel and the lady from candyman lol. Maybe my favorite song she has done.
If I ever feel suicidal I go listen to this song and express it. I let myself cry. I don’t care what others think, I’m not going to hide it anymore! I’m going to express my feelings, not pretend they don’t exist, not pretend I’m fine! I feel so much better after a good cry. Thank you Björk for your beautiful masterpieces and helping me through thoughts like these.
One of the most powerful song on earth, I just get to heaven each time I hear the beginning when she screams out of her mind, it's mind blowing! I've been trying for more than ten years to sing it in my car and at home and I keep hope that one day my scream will sound as beautiful as hers! 😍😝🌸✨
I was lucky enough to see her perform this live just before it was released. The place was quiet almost shocked. Her voiced soared. She is a truly remarkable vocalist. X
This is the first song I ever heard by Bjork, playing as the creates rolled after a movie ended. I looked her up and I've been a fan of her ever since.
This video needs more Björk and less other people. It would be more powerful with just her singing, filmed in this film noir style. For movie cut scenes, you need a context to relate to, however, for Björk, as soon as she starts to sing, no other emotional context is required. This is such an amazing song I always come back to.
No one can be in my age group and not have heard of Human Behavior at some point, but tell me how this amazing song escaped me? I heard a few moments of it and added it to my modern easy listening playlist, and kept circling back to it falling more and more in like with it. Ward Rutherford (see comment below) was absolutely correct, this would be the ultimate Bond song, I love her eclectic vocal pattern, the throbbing sensual beat and then the lush orchestra to tame it all back into submission...well done, Bjork! I searched much of her library and found nothing similar, which smacks of Kate Bush, quite similar in many ways, and both far ahead of their time...both artists for artists.
Darling, stop confusing me With your wishful thinking Hopeful embraces Don't you understand? I have to go through this I belong to here Where no one cares And no one loves No light, no air to live in A place called hate The city of fear I play dead It stops the hurting I play dead And the hurting stops It's sometimes just like sleeping Curling up inside my private tortures I nestle into pain Hug suffering Caress every ache I play dead It stops the hurting
The first time when I listen (actually) in 1993 this track, I fallen in love on her "solo" music (Debut's album), so different of Sugar Cubes' songs... Everything from I'm in love of her voice and creative sounds. That's all folks
This song was out last year wasn't it? It feels like last year. Was it last year? Oh, my mistake it was nearly 30 years ago when I was 20!!! Who knew there were 4 'r's in "torrrrture". What a song this is and takes me back to my days in Salford university before I got kicked out.... twice.
" "Play Dead" is a song by Icelandic singer Björk, released as the only single from the soundtrack of the 1993 crime drama The Young Americans. It was not included in the first edition of Debut but was later included as a bonus track, and the album was re-issued in November 1993. "Play Dead", inspired by the main character of the film, was released on 11 October 1993 and charted within the top 20 in Denmark, Iceland, Ireland, the Netherlands, Norway, Sweden, and the United Kingdom. An accompanying music video was released, featuring images from the film. "Play Dead" was included in Björk's 2002 greatest hits album Greatest Hits." -Wikipedia
Björk - The Icelandic Queen of Alternative Pop Björk Guðmundsdóttir (born 21 November 1965) is an Icelandic singer, songwriter, composer, record producer and actress. Over her four-decade career, she has developed an eclectic musical style that draws on influences and genres including electronic, pop, jazz, experimental, trip hop, alternative, classical, and avant-garde music. Born and raised in Reykjavík, Björk began her music career at the age of 11 and gained international recognition as the lead singer of the alternative rock band the Sugarcubes. After the band's breakup in 1992, Björk embarked on a solo career, coming to prominence with albums such as Debut (1993), Post (1995), and Homogenic (1997), while collaborating with a range of artists and exploring a variety of multimedia projects. Her other albums include Vespertine (2001), Medúlla (2004), Volta (2007), Biophilia (2011), Vulnicura (2015) and Utopia (2017). Several of Björk's albums have reached the top 20 on the US Billboard 200 chart. As of 2015, she had sold between 20 and 40 million records worldwide. 31 of her singles have reached the top 40 on pop charts around the world, with 22 top-40 hits in the UK, including the top-10 singles "It's Oh So Quiet", "Army of Me", and "Hyperballad" and the top-20 singles "Play Dead", "Big Time Sensuality", and "Violently Happy". Her accolades and awards include the Order of the Falcon, five BRIT Awards, and 15 Grammy nominations. In 2015, Time named her one of the 100 most influential people in the world. Rolling Stone named her the 60th greatest singer and the 81st greatest songwriter. Björk starred in the 2000 Lars von Trier film Dancer in the Dark, for which she won the Best Actress Award at the 2000 Cannes Film Festival,[9] and was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Original Song for "I've Seen It All". Biophilia was marketed as an interactive app album with its own education program. Björk has also been an advocate for environmental causes in Iceland. A retrospective exhibition dedicated to Björk was held at the New York Museum of Modern Art in 2015. As a big fan of this wonderful and unique Icelandic singer, I am honored to have in my discography the first four albums in CD format: (Debut [1993] three units), Post [1995] three units, too), (Homogenic [1997] also three units on CD), (Vespertine [2001], two units, also in CD format), (Greatest Hits [2002], also two copies in CD format) and, finally, I have the unmistakable album, also in format CD, Biophilia (2011), also two copies in CD format. Altogether there are fifteen albums. I had more Björk studio albums but I offered. I love Bjork. I consider myself one of Björk's big fans, and I wish her to stay in the music business for many more years! ❤️💯‼️
"Play Dead" [Intro] Oh, oh [Verse 1] Darling, stop confusing me With your wishful thinking Hopeful embraces Don't you understand? I have to go through this I belong to here where No one cares, and no one loves No light no air to live in A place called hate The city of fear [Chorus] I play dead It stops the hurting I play dead And the hurt stops [Verse 2] It's sometimes just like sleeping Curling up inside my private tortures I nestle into pain Hug suffering Caress every ache [Chorus] I play dead It stops the hurting I play dead It stops the hurting I play dead It stops the hurting I play dead It stops the hurting I play dead It stops the hurting Writer(s): Björk, John Wardle, Arnold, Guðmundsdóttir album: "Debut" (1993)
I was born in 94' and i was too young to have experienced the 90s yet i feel a great affinity with that era... Everything went completely wrong post-2012 anyway. But 90s were the last breath... All this technology let me access the pieces of this era and yet this technology ruined my life and many more...
I was born in '94 and I feel the same way, even though I kept on listening strictly to pre and very early 2000s music (personally, it's in 2005 that I felt the break point). In 2021 I'm trying to add also more recent stuff to my collection and I must say there's still hope for music
Oh Björk how you accurately understand my venus in 12th 💔 even without trying to your moon in 12th has completely conveyed my heart breaking and under 💧 ♥️ you are the only one who truly gets me emotionally, for me it is tough to have a voice that can shout loud about all that I go though, I am a Taurus so I am more silent vespertine like. Your songs “crying” & “violently happy” show as well how deep hurt can go, and “come to me” is the purest part of my venus 12th in where that is the love that I am seeking from another and that I do give in return. - I do often think you are my twin flame because the feelings I feel are so raw as the way you portray, you say everything I wish I had the courage to say and i feel truly understood listening to you calms my heart
I don’t think anyone would complain if this was reused as a new Bond movie theme.
God, i hope so. They had so many terrible songs since ages.
Good choice for a bond theme i must say but i reckon glad it's all over by captain sensible is up there with the best aswell. July 2021🙄🙄😎👍😎👍
it's too good for them !
Written by David Arnold who now writes all the Bond music
You now that she is a one ov a kind
She's a Classically trained musician that went against the grain. Using electronic drum loops, synthesisers, while composing classical elements for her songs. Has an amazing soprano vocal range. Lyrical concepts of her songs are completely out there. She's a complete truest purest form of artist! There will never be anyone else like her. An absolute genius
Hear hear. Only in my later years do I appreciate her original music and vocals.
Amen my brother 👌🏻😎
This is one of the best descriptions that I’ve heard. She’s not easy to do justice to using words of any language. Thank you for this.
Doesn't come close to Kate Bush. Tuneless really!
@@blissfields8192 good joke
This desperately needs reuploading in HD
Crazy considering this terrible version is blocked from being played via WhatsApp & the likes. It's like watching it through a used teabag.
Agreed
hell yeah, I was just writing that then looked down. 1080p. it's one of her best videos, with Harvey Keitel and the lady from candyman lol. Maybe my favorite song she has done.
Maybe if I buy an NFT pf this, I can watch it properly. If only I could work out what an NFT is.
Exactly. terrible af. And this coming from their official channel
Here I am in 2021 and still enjoying her music videos. This song is underrated
I'm still listening to Bjork Debut!!!! what a fucking record!!!
terrible quality since 1993
Without offense intended...that has to be the understatement of the decade. I'm thrilled to have stumbled across it.
She is the best in my book what a girl
@@t4lovers688 yes she is my favorite artist EVER!
If I ever feel suicidal I go listen to this song and express it. I let myself cry. I don’t care what others think, I’m not going to hide it anymore! I’m going to express my feelings, not pretend they don’t exist, not pretend I’m fine! I feel so much better after a good cry. Thank you Björk for your beautiful masterpieces and helping me through thoughts like these.
I love you ❤️
Same ❤
They shoulda let Bjork make her own damn video. Those are always the best.
Imagine being able to craft songs like this, and it's not even your mother-tongue.
Huge respect and much love for her unique individuality.
They speak english in Iceland but yeah I get what you meant
Shut up
One of the most powerful song on earth, I just get to heaven each time I hear the beginning when she screams out of her mind, it's mind blowing! I've been trying for more than ten years to sing it in my car and at home and I keep hope that one day my scream will sound as beautiful as hers! 😍😝🌸✨
Und nach 31 Jahren bekomme ich immer noch Gänsehaut. Was für ein Song! ❤
Jah Wobbles bass is amazing
Here I am in 2022, Björk... her music is timeless! I'm glad I discovered Björk in 1999 as a 13 yr old!
I was lucky enough to see her perform this live just before it was released. The place was quiet almost shocked. Her voiced soared. She is a truly remarkable vocalist. X
Nobody cares
One of the best bass lines ever!
I agree. I love Jah Wobble
i remember when i wait 5 hour in front on my tv with my videorecorder VHS to recorder this wonderful video and after see it for every days
So funny I did the same with her birthday song when she was part of the sugarcubes
@@dunjav6927 great i love your comment
Brilliant
Goosebumps straight from the first note. I had forgotten that song. Glad I’m having a Bjork evening.
My favourite Bjork song :)
It is so good and I heard it on the radio. It had to have been a request because this one isn’t as popular.
No genre. Björk is Björk.
i agree with that.
She's the Alternative Queen
In the future BJÖRK will be taught in music academics.
@@allenrpn wow ! What a statement but you are of course correct . If not - we may as well close the music schools .....👍
@@michaelbartle7354 she is just so unique, in fact right now I’m listening “Medulla”
Im still loving her!!
Anch'io
Me too 😍 In love with her accent!! ❤️
This is my favorite Björk song
This is defanitly my favorite song by Bjork. The lyrics are so eerie and sad.
2020 can't stop back to this song it's masterpiece
There is no other word for it. Up there with 'Cowboys and Angels'
This is the first song I ever heard by Bjork, playing as the creates rolled after a movie ended. I looked her up and I've been a fan of her ever since.
Where do you watched the movie? I could't watch it... 😭
@@emiliocubillos1389 I know it was a rental because I watched it in my room. It was around 96' or 97' I think 🤔
this song always give me chills, its simply awesome.
Simply perfect beautiful song that every time I listen to it makes my skin crawl, you feel the pain in her voice and
Her best song imo. By far, what a bloody voice!
Damn right ! My favorite Bjork song to!
THIS IS UNBELIEVABLY BEAUTIFUL
This video needs more Björk and less other people. It would be more powerful with just her singing, filmed in this film noir style. For movie cut scenes, you need a context to relate to, however, for Björk, as soon as she starts to sing, no other emotional context is required. This is such an amazing song I always come back to.
For me the video is perfect except need more quality
The cut scenes were from The Young American of which this tune was the main theme, i remembering buying the cd single when it came out in ‘93.
Man, just shut up and enjoy the video!
She is magnific!! I love her way of singing,,,
One of my All Time favorite Bjork songs!
Bjork....Forever!
The bass in this song coupled with Bjork makes this amazing.
The song that introduced me to a music queen
Thank you Bjork
The stuff that followed is immense
Pagen Poetry
Joga
Lots of them
So much emotion - how can she sing and cry and scream , all at the same time . Wow .
I go nuts when she screams. I assume we are many
No one can be in my age group and not have heard of Human Behavior at some point, but tell me how this amazing song escaped me? I heard a few moments of it and added it to my modern easy listening playlist, and kept circling back to it falling more and more in like with it. Ward Rutherford (see comment below) was absolutely correct, this would be the ultimate Bond song, I love her eclectic vocal pattern, the throbbing sensual beat and then the lush orchestra to tame it all back into submission...well done, Bjork! I searched much of her library and found nothing similar, which smacks of Kate Bush, quite similar in many ways, and both far ahead of their time...both artists for artists.
Extraordinaire artiste , inclassable, je l'adore depuis c'est" début" Une voix déchirante d'émotion...💕
I absolutely love the movie “Young Americans”! I was so stoked to hear Bjork on the soundtrack! Amazing movie, brilliant song!
cheers! took me this long to figure out
Darling, stop confusing me
With your wishful thinking
Hopeful embraces
Don't you understand?
I have to go through this
I belong to here
Where no one cares
And no one loves
No light, no air to live in
A place called hate
The city of fear
I play dead
It stops the hurting
I play dead
And the hurting stops
It's sometimes just like sleeping
Curling up inside my private tortures
I nestle into pain
Hug suffering
Caress every ache
I play dead
It stops the hurting
Höre dieses Lied seit über 20Jahren und dieser Song wird immer ein Teil von mir sein!!
Ich "spiele auch mit dem Tod"!!
The first time when I listen (actually) in 1993 this track, I fallen in love on her "solo" music (Debut's album), so different of Sugar Cubes' songs... Everything from I'm in love of her voice and creative sounds. That's all folks
from the Soundtrack of "The Young Americans" film. no one mentioned that
Есть песни, которые проникают куда-то очень глубоко, цепляют какую-то струну в душе, эта такая)
"Притворяюсь мертвой"...
Я есть, но меня нет...
❤️❤️❤️
Alright mate calm down yeh
Peace and love folks, only peace and love.
Back...
Haunting…….stunning…..perfect
Oh my! This is…….so gorgeous….
Wow..
Thank you, that was a highlight of my night
I know this was a movie soundtrack but I believe it's one of the best bjork tracks outside of the cubes
Tony would you mind telling me the movie?
@@fourtyfourdoubleD The Young Americans ..1993 starring Harvey Keitel
@@Tony-iu7sw Thank you 😊
björk solo is way better than the sugarcubes??? only songs that can compete with good solo songs are hit and birthday
Love the Song and Love Bjork's voice singing it! :)...The video would be great if they just kept all the Bjork scene's and edited everything else out!
I completely agreee I truly wonder how that would have looked 💔
Curling up with my private tortures sums up my last 10 years. Amazing lyrics.
What a voice
Pure talent
all her music videos remind me of the 5th Element and bladerunner
❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤😂🎉😢😮😅😊..Bjork....GOD BLESS U SWAN..143. DORINDA KATZ..LOVES YOU WITH HER 100% HEART. TY FOR ICELAND. LVT...BEST DIRECTOR
Absolute favorite from her, hands down!!👏
My phone won’t go loud enough!!!!!
This song was out last year wasn't it? It feels like last year. Was it last year? Oh, my mistake it was nearly 30 years ago when I was 20!!! Who knew there were 4 'r's in "torrrrture". What a song this is and takes me back to my days in Salford university before I got kicked out.... twice.
" "Play Dead" is a song by Icelandic singer Björk, released as the only single from the soundtrack of the 1993 crime drama The Young Americans. It was not included in the first edition of Debut but was later included as a bonus track, and the album was re-issued in November 1993.
"Play Dead", inspired by the main character of the film, was released on 11 October 1993 and charted within the top 20 in Denmark, Iceland, Ireland, the Netherlands, Norway, Sweden, and the United Kingdom. An accompanying music video was released, featuring images from the film. "Play Dead" was included in Björk's 2002 greatest hits album Greatest Hits."
-Wikipedia
magnificent song! great 90's memmories....
Everytime i hear this track i think of you my brother ! Rest in peace ! Love you and miss you every day . X
I loved this song when I first heard it on a CD called Ambient Moods in 2008 and still love it.
1:37 I love the way she suddenly sings about random household furniture
Nice one... Took me a while to get it. Lol
CHAAAAAIIIIIIRRRR!!!!!!!!!!! 😂
Back to the 90s, and Vauxhall Vectra ads!
Designed for the next millennium. But only lasted a decade really. The cavalier no that's was better much better
This song began to play in my mind after many years yesterday, now with personal and timely relevance
After I listened to this song 10 times in a row, I was randomly impelled to walk through a cemetery
*:-) / i'm nÓt laughing At you knów that! x Ric*
2023 y esta cancion sigue erizandome la piel corren lagrimas sin que yo quiera de mis ojos y acelerando mi respiracion.
Monumental song!...
My favourite song I think. She's so amazing ❤
same
My favorite, the lyrics cut my heart like a knife. So damn painful... I love it! Lol 🖤👍
one of the best songs ever
The Queen
I love this 💕😍 Thank you 🥰❤️ x you understand why!? A Mother's love ❤️ x Fight for this love ❤️ x
there’s something so heavy about playing dead but it sounds so free
уникальная девочка. в школе слушал и поражался её экспериментами
This artist is timeless!
this might just be my favorite song of all time ngl
BJÖRK´s BEST SONG!
Bjorks voice is up there with Beth Gibbons and Kirsty hawkshaw for me. Bright blinding darkness
She absolutely nailed it here ♥️
SUPERB!!!🥰🥰🥰🥰
Fuck me bjork is just a sublime gem. This is timeless. Je t'aime bjork.
Björk - The Icelandic Queen of Alternative Pop
Björk Guðmundsdóttir (born 21 November 1965) is an Icelandic singer, songwriter, composer, record producer and actress. Over her four-decade career, she has developed an eclectic musical style that draws on influences and genres including electronic, pop, jazz, experimental, trip hop, alternative, classical, and avant-garde music. Born and raised in Reykjavík, Björk began her music career at the age of 11 and gained international recognition as the lead singer of the alternative rock band the Sugarcubes. After the band's breakup in 1992, Björk embarked on a solo career, coming to prominence with albums such as Debut (1993), Post (1995), and Homogenic (1997), while collaborating with a range of artists and exploring a variety of multimedia projects. Her other albums include Vespertine (2001), Medúlla (2004), Volta (2007), Biophilia (2011), Vulnicura (2015) and Utopia (2017). Several of Björk's albums have reached the top 20 on the US Billboard 200 chart. As of 2015, she had sold between 20 and 40 million records worldwide. 31 of her singles have reached the top 40 on pop charts around the world, with 22 top-40 hits in the UK, including the top-10 singles "It's Oh So Quiet", "Army of Me", and "Hyperballad" and the top-20 singles "Play Dead", "Big Time Sensuality", and "Violently Happy". Her accolades and awards include the Order of the Falcon, five BRIT Awards, and 15 Grammy nominations. In 2015, Time named her one of the 100 most influential people in the world. Rolling Stone named her the 60th greatest singer and the 81st greatest songwriter. Björk starred in the 2000 Lars von Trier film Dancer in the Dark, for which she won the Best Actress Award at the 2000 Cannes Film Festival,[9] and was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Original Song for "I've Seen It All". Biophilia was marketed as an interactive app album with its own education program. Björk has also been an advocate for environmental causes in Iceland. A retrospective exhibition dedicated to Björk was held at the New York Museum of Modern Art in 2015. As a big fan of this wonderful and unique Icelandic singer, I am honored to have in my discography the first four albums in CD format: (Debut [1993] three units), Post [1995] three units, too), (Homogenic [1997] also three units on CD), (Vespertine [2001], two units, also in CD format), (Greatest Hits [2002], also two copies in CD format) and, finally, I have the unmistakable album, also in format CD, Biophilia (2011), also two copies in CD format. Altogether there are fifteen albums. I had more Björk studio albums but I offered. I love Bjork. I consider myself one of Björk's big fans, and I wish her to stay in the music business for many more years! ❤️💯‼️
"Play Dead"
[Intro]
Oh, oh
[Verse 1]
Darling, stop confusing me
With your wishful thinking
Hopeful embraces
Don't you understand?
I have to go through this
I belong to here where
No one cares, and no one loves
No light no air to live in
A place called hate
The city of fear
[Chorus]
I play dead
It stops the hurting
I play dead
And the hurt stops
[Verse 2]
It's sometimes just like sleeping
Curling up inside my private tortures
I nestle into pain
Hug suffering
Caress every ache
[Chorus]
I play dead
It stops the hurting
I play dead
It stops the hurting
I play dead
It stops the hurting
I play dead
It stops the hurting
I play dead
It stops the hurting
Writer(s): Björk, John Wardle, Arnold, Guðmundsdóttir
album: "Debut" (1993)
Perfection.
Todos debemos atravesar por la.noche oscura del alma,quisiera que se oyera tu voz por todo el barrio justo ahora Bjork
im the same i cant stop loving this song its so epic i love itim sorry i ever doubted you bjork!
Absolutely perfect.
I was born in 94' and i was too young to have experienced the 90s yet i feel a great affinity with that era... Everything went completely wrong post-2012 anyway. But 90s were the last breath...
All this technology let me access the pieces of this era and yet this technology ruined my life and many more...
I was born in '94 and I feel the same way, even though I kept on listening strictly to pre and very early 2000s music (personally, it's in 2005 that I felt the break point). In 2021 I'm trying to add also more recent stuff to my collection and I must say there's still hope for music
@@intergalacticdial4967 i like that thinking i know some good modern music if you wanna know more
95 :( I know whatcha mean lmao
@awefilledcreep ha. yeah it's like " hey dude, what kinda music do you like? " " eh, pretty much anything. classic rock, metal, blues, Bjork. "
Perfeita como sempre bjork linda d mais
What a great song, it has everything in it
Oh Björk how you accurately understand my venus in 12th 💔 even without trying to your moon in 12th has completely conveyed my heart breaking and under 💧 ♥️ you are the only one who truly gets me emotionally, for me it is tough to have a voice that can shout loud about all that I go though, I am a Taurus so I am more silent vespertine like. Your songs “crying” & “violently happy” show as well how deep hurt can go, and “come to me” is the purest part of my venus 12th in where that is the love that I am seeking from another and that I do give in return. - I do often think you are my twin flame because the feelings I feel are so raw as the way you portray, you say everything I wish I had the courage to say and i feel truly understood listening to you calms my heart
i am in love with her voice, music, and lyrics! :DD
Wen you think no one ever feel the way and then there is Björk and you let let go and you're free...
“Hug suffering, caress every ache”. 🙌🏼❤️✨
Bjork,you are amazing,enough said.xxx
i want to listen to this song for the first time again
Bjork is a beautiful woman and a great artist.
One of my favorites
❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️Björk is wonderful🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤
Splendid production, orchestral accompliment is superb!
Still love this song!
this is just amazing
Hystériquement respectueux et instinctif.
what a voice you have my goodness my Goddess!!!