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‘I like to break the rules’: Björk on comedy, darkness and the most flamboyant tour of her career

The musician describes herself as many things: artist, introvert, activist, Scorpio, matriarch, punk, joker, optimist… We step inside the multiverse of the incomparable Björk

‘I told my manager I’m going to do digital theatre and it’s going to be the most over-the-top, flamboyant thing I will ever do.’ Photograph: Vidar Logi Cornucopia, her recent tour, had a cave, a small chamber on stage designed to reproduce the acoustics of singing alone on a rural walk. Her parents divorced when she was a small child and her late mother, Hildur Rúna Hauksdóttir, a feminist and an environmental activist herself, took her to live in a shared, commune-like house. Maybe it’s just being an introvert Scorpio, that to be that narcissistic seemed like a bad idea to me.” The jokiness appears in some of her most famous and dramatic songs; both Isobel and Bachelorette “are kind of strange piss-takes on a drama queen, who is basically a celeb”.

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