Venus As A Boy

Venus As A Boy
I ask her about the video Venus as a Boy, in which she suggestively fondles an egg while singing explicitly about copulation. In the video the egg is eventually fried. This touches off a slightly sore spot for Björk. She gave Sophie Muller, the video director, a copy of Story of the Eye a couple of days before they filmed the but didn’t insist that she read it. Muller didn’t have the time. She kept going on about it being fried, sighs Björk with exasperation. I was saying, `No way is that book about a fried egg ! I’m sorry. Poached ? Okay. Boiled ? Okay. Raw ? Okay. But not fried. And a fried egg is unsuitable because......? Because it’s too hard. It’s rough and it’s greasy, It should be about being sort of liquidy and wet and soft and open..... After the video was finished, Sophie...

Details, july 1994

Venus As A Boy
Does her kitchen look like the colorful little room featured in the "Venus As A Boy" video ? Yes, she says, and adds that many of her household items are in that video.

NYLON magazine, #14 june/july 2001

Venus As A Boy
I think I wrote it in my living room in Iceland and sang it into my dictaphone. Later, by accident, we were going through sounds and I found this broken bottle sound. It wasn’t intentional but it sounded great. It was one of the last songs recorded for Debut - the album was ready to go. Sometimes the more unpredictable side of me does several headstands and flicks-flacks once the album has been delivered and the best song come out. It is about a specific person but I’ve always been very protective. I’ve never told the press who a song is about and I always make sure I tell the person themselves. I’ve shown people lyrics and asked them to live with them for a week, to make sure they would feel...

Record Collector, August 2002, August 2002