Apparently people were mad that they couldn't see her during her DJ set at a festival in Texas, and this is what she had to say:
"i am aware of that it is less of a year since i started djing publicly so this is something people are still getting used to and my fans have been incredibly welcoming to me sharing my musical journey and letting me be me . its been so fun and the nerd in me editing together pieces of others peoples songs for weeks , gets to share the different coordinates i feel between some of the most sublime music i know . but some media could not get their head around that i was not "performing" and "hiding" behind desks . and my male counterparts not . and i think this is sexism . which at the end of this tumultuous year is something im not going to let slide : because we all deserve maximum changes in this revolutionary energy we are currently in the midst of its gotta be worth it anyways women in music are allowed to be singer songwriters singing about their boyfriends . if they change the subject matter to atoms , galaxies , activism , nerdy math beat editing or anything else than being performers singing about their loved ones they get criticized : journalists feel there is just something missing ... as if our only lingo is emo ... i made volta and biophilia conscious of the fact that these were not subjects females usually write about . i felt i had earned it . on the activist volta i sang about pregnant suicide bombers and for the independence of faroe islands and greenland . on the pedagogic biophilia i sang about galaxies and atoms but it wasnt until vulnicura where i shared a heartbreak i got full acceptance from the media . men are allowed to go from subject to subject , do sci fi , period pieces , be slapstick and humorous , be music nerds getting lost in sculpting soundscapes but not women . if we dont cut our chest open and bleed about the men and children in our lives we are cheating our audience ."
I saw her set. it wasn't good.... Anyway shes right about the sexism for female djs but her set like i said was pretty boring
Camden Reed
>male counterparts
Any of them as famous as regular artists as she is?
Robert Sanders
literally what the FUCK is she ever talking about
Brandon Parker
Surely this is down to the fact that Bjork is seen as a singer-songwriter in the eyes of the public and people expected a Bjork performance.
Hunter Young
Most audiences prefer music about love and relationships over abstract subjects. I really don't think this is a male or female thing.
Levi Morgan
yeah true and shes also forgetting that because of her name of singer-songwriter stuff that she was able to headline. because her djing is pretty average
Cooper Hughes
>on the activist volta i sang about pregnant suicide bombers and for the independence of faroe islands and greenland . on the pedagogic biophilia i sang about galaxies and atoms
I really like her and everything, but really, how full of herself is she? Also her song about "pregnant suicide bombers" is downright embarrassing.
Brayden Clark
who cares she likes to fuck animals
Luke Richardson
Kinda weird that she even cares
Carter Johnson
>volta and biophilia >citing your two worst albums as evidence of how creative you are
Carson Powell
would still bang
Eli Bailey
im just going to ignore this stupid thing she said
Henry Ramirez
This is is probably the most common problem people had. I went to this festival with my dad, who has been a fan of hers since the 90's, and he was very excited to see her sing. He isn't too much a fan for DJ sets and left Bjorks set disappointed.
Jordan James
The key is to not care what the critics say as by nature they are always a little bit behind the artists
Wyatt Thompson
>women in music are allowed to be singer songwriters singing about their boyfriends . if they change the subject matter to atoms , galaxies , activism , nerdy math beat editing or anything else than being performers singing about their loved ones they get criticized
???
Christopher Garcia
Pretty true though isn't it
Elijah Stewart
if you're not baiting i'm very confused
Camden Gonzalez
I loved Biophilia before she released Vulnicura so...
Wyatt Johnson
this is fucking ridiculous
i was there and she wore a mask. so did squarepusher. aphex twin hid behind a wall.
some people complained about all three of them. other people didn't give a fuck and enjoyed the music
then she says that men are "allowed" to be music nerds
that's fucking bullshit. all of her music is gimmicky as fuck. her only good records are when Matmos did all the work for her. She's an image-based musician, and she should probably start taking music more seriously instead of thinking "what image do i want for my next record?"
and no one EVER says those things about Joanna Newsom or Laurie Anderson or Julia Holter or Angel Olsen or Zola Jesus or Neko Case or K.D. Lang or Liz Harris because those are female musicians who are actually trying to make innovative high-quality music that represents themselves, not whoring themselves out in a big fucking "look at me i'm so interesting" parade, I swear to fucking god
I didn't have a problem with Bjork until I saw her mediocre DJ set and then read about her blaming men for this gay shit. Like what a fucking bitch, you get so much attention for being a qt grill xD and then you whine that people don't take you seriously, well then DONT BE A FUCKING POP STAR, of course people would complain if lady gaga hid behind a wall at a concert because her music is shit and people like her for her image. Learn from this you dumb cunt.
Andrew Bell
>The general public is more open to consuming generic, easily-relateable shit over songs about goddamn atoms and suicide bombing pregnant women Wow, really? I had no idea.
Jackson Howard
Why can't women use their brains more, like for example men do, then they wouldn't yap so much shit like Bjorn just did.
William Cruz
When Matmos did all the work for her? ALL of it? Lmao how dense can you be.
Easton Perez
thanks for proving her point kek
Nathaniel Torres
m8 i was at her set. it wasn't good did you see it?
Isaac Carter
To be fair, they were advertised as DJ sets, and she's been doing them for some time now.
Michael Torres
Matmos just added some beats on Vespertine when it was 99% complete. Don't know how much they did on Medulla. And she takes her music pretty seriously.
Austin Rivera
Well she's right. She was clearly performing a DJ set, not a Bjork concert. However I'm not sure if it's sexist.. the same thing might happen if some male musician who normally does traditional shows were to put on a DJ set
She's definitely right about women being more accepted when they perform songs about love and getting with guys. Right around the time she started being more experimental in the '90s, the media started shunning her. However one thing she doesn't mention is that all of her recent albums are critically acclaimed by people who actually care about music
Camden Barnes
Bjork is one of those artists that tons of people, even if they aren't a fan of hers, still want to to perch on their mantles and say "Oh, I've seen Bjork perform" at parties and stuff. I can imagine Houston hipsters going to her appearance just for this reason and got disappoined when she was just djing behind a desk
Owen Smith
>I'm not sure if it's sexist It's not. It's a go to card for a lot of female artists nowadays, especially ones who are bleeding popularity. Since when were men 'allowed' to suck?
Nathan Thomas
>if we dont cut our chest open and bleed about the men and children in our lives we are cheating our audience This is beyond self centred and delusional. We this, we that...I can't stand when people try to divine what some collective is collectively thinking.
Parker Hall
nigga u are straight up down syndrome sorry to say
Asher Wright
Even the Beatles got a lot less popular when they did more political/artsy stuff.
Sebastian Parker
I feel like shit other people get to see her not me. Fug.
Noah Reed
She's too old
Mason Long
...
Tyler Long
while you're write about Bjork putting heavy emphasis on her image it's in tandem with the amount of effort she puts into her music, even when it's not that great (which is how I feel about her last three albums).
the Matmos dude added a few touches to Vespertine. Mark Bell from LFO was the one she collaborated with heavily during the 90s, the key word being COLLABORATED. every artist back then worked with producers, either for added help or just because they really liked one particular person's music (which is why she works with Arca now).
I can't deny that there are some female musicians who care more about their physical appearance and image than actual music (and men as well, Father John Misty is a perfect example of this), but Bjork just doesn't fall into that category. if anyone attended that festival and actually expected a live performance, then they didn't read the fine print, Bjork always advertises her DJ sets as nothing more than a DJ set
Jace Robinson
you're the most dense trip i've ever seen why would you put yourself through the embarassment of people recognizing the shit you write? filtered
Alexander King
She's right
Justin Edwards
wrong on many levels
the discussion is not if her set was good or not you faggot
Cooper Murphy
How does she explain her own success singing about all kinds of random nonsense then?
Lucas Nelson
wrong They do everything they can to say "DJ SET" and this is not a bjork show but a DJ performance, I don't think anyone could reasonably expect anything other than a DJ performance
Gabriel Gonzalez
Wasn't a trip, dumbass.
Juan Cox
people still care about Bjork? Wow, I had no idea...
Isn't she like 70 now?
Joshua Nguyen
weak bait
William Baker
Bjork being an ugly non-woman making trash music has been an extremely common punchline in comedy for decades, she's been successful but obviously not in every sense of the word. Then you look at successful musicians in general and see how rare her marginal social success has been, almost everyone else either sings someone else's pop songs or has a penis.
Jordan Gray
It's almost like not being a typical commercial artist limits mainstream success or something.
It should be noted that many do not seem to like her voice, several of my female friends do not like her for that reason.
Levi Perry
m8 i was at the event. i paid good money for a show not amateur night at the dj booth
William Rogers
When you come to Los Angeles you can suck my cock.
Jacob Murphy
>>Sup Forums
Bentley Gutierrez
She's right you know.
Jayden Roberts
>makes uninteresting "experimental xDDD" popshit >looks like a failed abortion >has a conceited attitude about it Does this bitch have any positive qualities?
Grayson Parker
This is like some sort of collective mental disorder people are going through. These are just generally shitty times to live in. I feel like the world I'm living in is completely neurotic and insane, and it always seems like there are undertones of seething hatred at the center of people taking offense to everything.
Daniel Ward
I don't really like Bjork's music because it's not very good but sure I think that's possibly a valid criticism...I'm not sure how valid it is because it's hard to find women who do sing about whatever...but men always sing about women too...sooo...it would be easier to have a discussion if examples were provided that weren't her music
Grayson Watson
Well then it sounds like the real problem is that journalists don't know how DJ sets work.
Jaxon Perry
Does she not understand that people would ask the same questions of Justin Timberlake or whoever the kids listen to these days? She's a performer, she's most known for performing; of course her deciding to not perform would come as a shock.
Nathaniel Thomas
The festival said she was Djing not doing her usual show. Get over yoself
Levi Campbell
well she delivered an inferior product and received a poor reception, that's how it works...you can't keep blaming failures on some ism
Jacob Long
So tickets should cost less for her dj sets? Anyone who didn't get the memo would only have themselves to blame.
Gavin Green
this falls in the same category as a black person calling a negative critic racism.
there is sexism in the music industry but let's not blame everything on it. if tom yorke decided to put up dj sets in festivals instead ppl would probably criticize him for not singing or doing some sort of live performance instead
Austin Hughes
as if we need another female celebrity has been to jump on the sexism bandwagon, shit is getting old
Jeremiah Mitchell
Literally who in 2016 is saying that women cannot perform, besides Sup Forums? This is such a fucking stupid argument
Nolan Johnson
Not really a good comparison, Thom has done DJ sets and hasn't gotten flack from it as far as I can see (tho I might be wrong), but I get what you're saying. I agree with Bjork on the problems of sexism in the industry but I do wonder how much of the backlash was her doing a DJ set as opposed to singing.
Dominic Walker
Honestly disappoints me that someone like bjork has succumbed to this SJW way of thinking. I thought she was more intelligent than that.
Julian Green
>sexism in the industry you ever get bent over the tank and get called Fuel Tank Frank?
Levi King
i know that and the set still sucked she had better shit up on soundcloud ffs
Hunter Robinson
>Tom Yorke
Brody Lee
um no shes always been like that? got btfo by lars and whined when she didn't win
Daniel Nguyen
i don't know. i can't think of single sci fi, period piece, slapstick, etc male artist that is popular in a mainstream sense. i think journalist don't care about that shit no matter if they're male or female
Daniel Clark
Funny, I do like her music and yet I think she is full of shit.
Jackson Rodriguez
It's just cringe inducing seeing her try to be 'intellectual'...she's always been sentimental and irrational as fuck; that's the whole appeal of her style and music.
>go to see an artist live >expect artist to be centerpiece of set >can barley even see artist >get called a sexist for critisizing the set What is even going on in this world
Jaxon Lopez
>nerdy math beats god fucking damnit
sounds about like something someone with an ego would say
Zachary Gutierrez
Who loves lyrics about relationships and heartbreak and why? I hate that shit but it's true it's popular. Except I assumed the prevalence was due to a lack of creativity.
Lincoln Williams
>man says something stupid >"wow that was stupid" >woman says something stupid >"wow women are stupid"
Jose Ward
lets see since bjork is a woman. shes probably is referring to some guy she knows calling her a hack
don't worry Sup Forums she isn't talking about u white males
Ryder Gutierrez
Somewhat off-topic but I just wanted to point out how perfectly this post demonstrates the stupidity of using "SJW" as an insult. This is literally a SJW way of thinking, as in "sexism in industry X is undesirable and we should work to fix it" is actually how people fight for social justice, which is a good thing. You can't refer to a thing as exactly what it is and have that still work as an insult, it just doesn't hit right. "That novel is such a book." "Burgers are food!" See how stupid it is?
By all means feel free to disagree with what groups of people say and insult them accordingly, just take the time to come up with an insult that actually makes the slightest bit of sense.
Alexander Bailey
and yet no one is talking about them anymore and we're still talking about bjork.
Logan Young
Literally the same thing happens with men. Drop the straw statements.
Parker Clark
>180m views on youtube show me a bjork video with 180m views
Owen Green
>Literally the same thing happens with men literally not true
Kayden Price
>u white males we're not in a period where can be anything other than 'systematic' to people who use the term sexism or misogynist. Individuality is dead.
Joshua Hill
Fine why has bjork succumbed to straight white male way of thinking
Camden Williams
Literally true. The idea that men are dumber than women is an old ass trope.
Alexander Lewis
What a unique and special statement you have brought to the table, truly you are a shining beacon of individuality.
Aaron King
oh I'm sorry I forgot commercials and shitty sitcoms were representative of real life
Daniel Watson
tell that to the SJWs.
Dylan Barnes
I'm not even sure what you're talking about here
Colton Miller
Sarcasm can't substitute truth.
Adrian Scott
Were there no females at this concert? Was it only males saying they couldn't see her? I haven't been to many DJ sets, but I always like it more when i can see the DJ'er DJ'ing out, what exactly was she doing that sparked this?
Liam Ramirez
women are better than men old news bro
she hid in the back we couldn't see her. aphex twin did the same shit and we hated it. his set was meh also
Angel Turner
the originally assertion you made is the same kind of trope and just as irrelevant
Bentley Turner
He is saying that the media (I.e. what bjork is talking about here) is what SJWs use to represent the real world. For example, i recently read an article that advocated that rape culture was very much alive, because the lead female on New Girl said "it's not sexy if a man asks permission to kiss you." Therefore, according to this article, commercials and shitty sitcoms are representative of real life
Juan Price
Men who sleep around are called chauvinist pigs while women who sleep around are "empowered". Men are dumb idiots on tv while women are rational and calm. Men are the victims of 40% of domestic abuse but male domestic abuse is treated like a joke
Christopher Brooks
baka men are the worst
Kevin James
And the truth is that individuality has never been a significant part of human civilization. Your parents lied to you. The present day in America literally provides some of the greatest individual freedom we've literally ever seen and everyone still turns out as a cookie cutter member of a few select groups, the truth is that people want to be like other people who they like and end up becoming nobody special or noteworthy in the process. Individuality isn't "dying," it's been given its only real chance to date and it decided suicide was the best option.
Camden Bennett
volta is great fuck off
Luke Jenkins
Okay dude, now you're just being autistic. Women who sleep around are all labelled as sluts. Women are all labelled as crazy and bitches. I disagree with the other guy as well, men are are also blanket generalised as well, especially when its concerned with rape, and not being emotional or taking things seriously or shit. But, when it's applicable i think it's fair, if a woman is complaining about something petty, it goes pretty hand in hand with the SJW image, and some might make a blanket statement. Either way, you're both right and wrong
Kayden Morgan
Well thats shit then, I'm still completely confused as to why she labelled this as sexism though?