Is bjork gay

But through Bjork's music and her interviews and just the way she presents herself to the world, I started seeing it as a whole. It's basic sociology or sexology for that matter.

 

Savannah: Still, she's been vague when she refers to her own sexuality. In a Reddit AMA in 2016, Bjork talked about her love for RuPaul’s Drag Race. 

 

She said, “I was looking for something to watch with my daughter, and over the last few months we watched all eight series...

Her transcendence of binary norms sends a powerful message of acceptance and validation to young queer people on their journeys of self-discovery. But the opposite is also true. No one talks about that song, but beautiful. It's good to be emotionally raw, to be honest, to be emotionally expressive rather than just performing.

 

So yeah, Vespertine is a major reference point.

Or gave you confidence to be yourself?

 

Ahmed: Yeah, that's a tough one to answer, right? How can she not be an icon?

 

She's not like the Lady Gaga or the Cher, but she's this huge gay icon… and no one seems to know why or talk about it?

 

Savannah: I mean, we do talk about it.

One of crystal meth, one of a Swiss cheese plant, one of cocaine, and the last one is the cover of Debut.

 

The thing is: we don’t really know why so many LGBTQ+ people love her music. Dazzles 10 @ Coachella 2007 by Redfishingboat (Mick O) at Flickr. "So it made sense that Vespertine came up a lot in these conversations that I had and that you brought it up too.

 

There were some other songs that were different or were unique to some of the conversations I had.

She's a chameleon. I have to look that up. That's something that another listener brought up is how her music was probably played in these gay clubs, and that could be how her music got popular with the LGBTQ+ community.

 

But I also think you're on the right track when you are continually bringing up these female superstars.

It's incredible.

 

Savannah: That's hilarious I love that.

 

As I was looking into what makes a queer icon, I found an article from “Untitled Magazine” last year, and they actually broke them down into a few different categories. 

 

Number one: the woman who suffers for her art.

It makes sense why non-binary listeners would identify with that.

 

Mace also brought up something that I hadn't heard of before, but it definitely relates to Bjork's lyrics. She's done all four archetypes. Because I watched a lot of her interviews and she was always very unapologetically who she is.

 

Ahmed: I can totally relate to that.

If you look at the Guide to Iceland tourism site, it says: “Being queer in Iceland is not something that is tolerated; it is something that is celebrated.

I love it.

 

Savannah: That's interesting that you brought up those two periods of Bjork's work because I think a lot of Homogenic songs and a lot of Vespertine songs were the main ones that I heard when I asked people this question. That sounds incredible.

 

Savannah:  So she's familiar with some of the things happening in gay culture.

I dare you to show me your palms." So "Five Years" was the ultimate breakup song before Vulnicura. For me, Björk personifies this quandary. It's beautiful.

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Savannah: Yeah, I love that you brought that up. Image cropped with a Creative Commons licence