Musique
Interprété par : Björk et Antony Hegarty
Ecriture, production et programmation : Björk
Ingénieurs du son : Michael Pärt
Clavichord : Jonas Sen
Infos
En duo avec Antony Hegarty qui interprète le rôle de la « la conscience. »
Thème de la chanson : La Maternité
Björk évoque ici son fils Sindri
A propos du titre
She also sings to her two children : her daughter and her son, Sindri, who is 20. In My Juvenile, a ballad accompanied by sparse clusters on a clavichord, she chides herself for the way she treated Sindri - « Perhaps I set you too free too fast too young » - while Antony sings « The intentions were pure » by way of reassurance. « You sort of let go too much when they’re 14 », Björk said. « And then suddenly when they’re 16, you behave again like they’re 8. And then when they’re 18, you think they can fly across the world on their own. And then when they’re 20, you tell them off because they’re wearing a dirty jacket. It’s clumsy. »
« At Home Again in the Unknown », NY Times, 29/04/2007
She asked Hegarty to sing on two tracks, the cinematic sweep of Dull Flame of Desire, and My Juvenile, « a song about my teenage son and the conversation you have in your head. I haven’t met a parent who doesn’t carry guilt. » She had already performed two sets of vocals, one as the parent, the other as « the conscience » before asking Hegarty to perform the latter role. « So the backing vocals were sort of like Jiminy Cricket and the main voice was sort of a Pinocchio », she explains blithely. « Jiminy Cricket is going, ’You know you did your best, don’t worry about it,’ and being soothing. And Antony’s naturally like that, he’s really soothing. »
I had a little bit of cabin fever », The Guardian, 27.04.2007
