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235. Bjrk Joga (1997)
from the album Homogenic

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oFV4QCq9SEU

Key lyrics:
This state of emergency
How beautiful to be

Bjrk is capable of creating incomparable sonic landscapes, and Joga is among her most unique. Hard, trip hop-styled beats are paired against classically-influenced strings. The song pulls more one way than the other at key moments, starting with the strings but at one point falling into an extended electronic breakdown. The result is something somber yet profound, an absolute flurry of emotions; the lyrics are just dense enough to not cast a clear light. Joga sounds like the backing track for an earth-shattering romance, the emotional climax that cannot be expressed through words alone.

Bjrk falls hard into the art pop category, which is a term largely used to categorize what can otherwise not be categorized. Like Kate Bush before her, Bjrk made the music industry bow to her singular vision. Few pop artists dare to make something as dense as Joga. At the same time, this is unquestionably pop music, simply pushed to an extreme few would risk following. Tying everything together is Bjrks powerful vocals, the shining hope that redirects the tense instrumentation into a positive direction. Im not certain what she means by the beauty of a state of emergency, but I have to believe every word with the conviction of this delivery.

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