Sortie Décembre 2007 3ème Single Volta
Musique
Ecriture | Production : Mark Bell & Björk
Programmation, Edition & Ingénieur du son : Damian Taylor, Mark Bell & Björk
Cuivres : Sample de Drawing Restraint 9
Graphisme
Photo : Inez+Vinoodth
Design : m/m paris
Björk, à propos du titre
Declare Independence is very confrontational... For me, every time its starts I just burst laughing. I’m finding a lot of people don’t take it that way, which is okay. I seem to have a warped sense of humor that me and my three friends can understand, it’s very local. This one dress, for example... But I guess it’s sort of taking the piss of being myself, feeling that confrontational. I wanted the lyric to be a mix of like if you’re saying to your friend, who happens to be going out with a terrible boyfriend, and you say to the girl, "Declare independence ! Don’t let them do that to you !" [laughs] I just thought it’s so extreme, and so ridiculous to say. You know, "Make your own stamp ! Start your own currency !"
And on the other hand, you can take that concept completely different. There’s this big thing you hear in the papers always in Iceland, that we were a Danish colony for like 600 years, and we got independence only half a century ago. And there’s still two Danish colonies, which is Farore Islands and Greenland. They’re still trying to get independent, and it’s just not happening. Greenland almost got independent, but then the Danish found oil there, so... It’s not gonna happen. [laughs] It’s sort of maybe a little bit of an anthem written to Greenland. »
source : interview XFM, 05/04/2007
Volta était avant tout combatif, « sur les indépendances, la volonté, la revendication. » En Chine, le tube Declare independance, chanté pour le Tibet, avait fortement déplu aux autorités. Elle rit. « A la fin de la tournée, je n’en pouvais plus de jouer Declare independance tous les soirs ! J’avais envie de trouver des solutions. lire la suite....
Yours have always seemed to be the politics of the human spirit—that the world can be changed by not being afraid to be an individual. But Declare Independence seems to be railing with a bit more of a punk sense of defiance. Can you describe your emotional zeitgeist ?
« Maybe I felt that up to here things would be okay and the ’good’ would win in the end if only it persists. But things are not looking so good right now. It is time to go up on a mountain with a flag and a trumpet and insist on justice. »
source : Army of She : Planting Flags with Bjork, 24/04/2007
HARP : What made you come up with “Damn colonists/Ignore their patronizing/Tear off their blindfolds/Open their eyes ?”
« The oppressors did. All oppressors ; men and women and countries. Emotionally it is about justice, the subject matter. It’s not so far away from Aretha’s “R.E.S.P.E.C.T.” »
source : harp magazine, 01/11/2007
« ’Declare Independence’ could just as well be written to a girl in a bad relationship. It is not about party politics. » Björk Under The Radar Magazine, 2008
Vidéo
Réalisation : Michel Gondry
Remix
| Declare Independence (Black Pus Remix) | 8:47 | Brian Chippendale |
| Declare Independence (Ghostigital in deep end dance 12" remix) | 2:52 | Ghostigital |
| Declare Independence (Mark Stent instrumental) | 4:14 | Mark ’Spike’ Stent |
| Declare Independence (Mark Stent mix - non album mix) | 4:16 | Mark ’Spike’ Stent |
| Declare Independence (Matthew Herbert 12" mix) | 5:24 | Matthew Herbert |
