Björk talking about her television is both oddly soothing and simply odd

Icelandic singer, Björk, is known for her original and quirky approach to – well, everything! Her music, fashion sense and how she conducts interviews are all unique, but this clip of her talking about her television is pretty strange – even by her standards.

It’s like a cross between a really bad educational video about Iceland or Christmas or the workings of a TV set and a piece of performance art inspired by Yoko Ono and Monty Python.

Her explanation of why she was once afraid of television is quite something.

“I remember being very scared to [sic] it because an Icelandic poet told me that, not like in cinemas, where the thing that throws the picture from it just sends lights on the screen, but this is different.

This is millions and millions of little screens who send a light on some sort of electrical light – I’m not really sure – but because there’s so many of them and in fact you’re watching very very many frames when you’re watching the TV your head is very busy all the time trying to calculate and put it all together into one picture.

And then, because you’re so busy doing that, you don’t watch very carefully what the programme you’re watching is really about so you become hypnotised, so all that’s on TV it just goes directly into your brain and you stop judging if it’s right or not.

I became so scared to [sic] television that I always got headaches when I watched it but then, later on, when I got my Danish book on television I stopped being afraid because I read the truth and that’s the scientifical truth, which is much better.

You shouldn’t let poets lie to you.”

The video has had almost two million views and there are nearly three thousand comments, including these.

This comment sums up what we just saw.

Source: YouTube