12/26/2023 0 Comments Matthew barney artiste![]() ![]() Most are hovering somewhere between 25 and 40, although Lee Ranaldo from NY grandees Sonic Youth is probably slightly older. She takes the stage - or rather, her bit of floor - surrounded by a crowd of about 30 people. When Bjork premieres a handful of songs from her new album on the first afternoon of our stay, yet another side of the city rears its head. And the ever-hapless Sid Vicious ended up in Riker’s Island, dejectedly wondering exactly how he’d managed to murder his own girlfriend. The Beatles were billeted to the Plaza hotel and made secret midnight forays to the Playboy Club. Bob Dylan glued himself to Greenwich Village and invented ’60s bohemia. Thus, The Clash did an 18-night residency at a scuzzy Times Square nightclub and hung out with Robert De Niro. It’s some token of the city’s endless sea of possibilities that, whenever pop stars visit the place, they go to places and meet people that provide the perfect reflection of who they are. And such is Bjork’s new social milieu, as Q discovers when we are invited to a teatime ’do’ at a gorgeous apartment in the Chelsea area of New York. ’Painter’ is pronounced ’Peen-der’, a la the kind of people who gather in Manhattan lofts to plot the future artistic direction of the industrial world. One word, meanwhile, betrays the latest chapter of her ongoing wander around the earth. All told, it’s un-mimickable (Q has tried, but it came out like a white South African, which isn’t right at all). What makes it most curious is the fact that the words are surrounded by others that come with Nordic vowels and consonants. ’Distorted’ is pronounced ’Dis-taw-id’, with a glottal stop located somewhere between Bethnal Green and the Eastern end of the Central Line. When Bjork says ’house’, it comes out as ’airse’. What you hear most of all, however, is random cockney. ![]() A lot of people from Bristol too, so there’s a lot of that too." "I know a lot of Scottish people, so you can hear that. "My accent’s pretty fucked," says Bjork, plunging her teaspoon into a foot-long glass of Chinese iced tea. ![]()
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