when real originality made us uncomfortable…
I remember how HORRIBLE everyone was about this moment. How MERCILESSLY Bjork was mocked for wearing this swan dress.
I’m not saying I understood it at the time, but even so, I didn’t understand why she was the source of so much unrelenting ridicule. I guess in March of ‘01 we were still smuglies from the ‘90’s?
““It’s just a dress…I don’t really know why I’m obsessed with swans but as I said, everything about my new album is about winter and they’re a white, sort of winter bird. Obviously very romantic, being monogamous. It’s one of those things that maybe I’m too much in the middle of to describe. When you’re obsessed with something, you can explain it five years later, but in the moment, you don’t know exactly why. Right now, swans seem to sort of stand for a lot of things.” Bjork
I guess we can’t expect too much of ourselves if that same year we were rewarding THIS as the height of acting:
