History Trivia / Bjork

** She recorded seven tracks with Music/{{Timbaland}} for ''Volta'' with only three making it to the album. Timbaland did consider using one of the four scrapped tracks to his solo album ''Shock Value'', which was collaboration-heavy, but decided against it.

** She was originally approached to perform "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zkXbzffVl44 Gollum's Song]]" for Film/TheLordOfTheRings, but declined, citing her pregnancy. Fellow Icelander Emilíana Torrini performed it instead.

* TroubledProduction: The famous video for "All is Full of Love", [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QReuUcQ_c9U as recounted here]], was this for director Chris Cunningham. Because of all the complicated effects required in post-production, the initial footage was essentially still shots of the set and props, and Björk in a blue costume and white facepaint, with Cunningham having a full-blown panic attack over how cheap and ramshackle it looked. Björk trusted him enough that she first saw the video when it was finished, an act of faith that ultimately paid off as it's widely regarded as one of her best.

* ContentLeak: The album 'Vulnicura' was leaked 2 months before it's original release date. This caused the album to get released earlier than what was initially planned.

* OneOfUs: ''Music/{{Homogenic}}'', ''Music/{{Vespertine}}'', ''Music/{{Medulla}}'', and ''Biophilia'' are all named after scientific terms and phenomena.

* BreakupBreakout: After the Sugarcubes disbanded in 1992,

* CreatorBacklash: In an interview with Pitchfork, she claims that she has these feelings towards "Black Lake", which was effectively her giving her ex-lover Matthew Barney a lengthy ReasonYouSuckSpeech (which led to some summarizing the song as her version of a diss track).

* DyeHard: Her natural hair color is dark brown, not black.

** After the TroubledProduction of ''Film/DancerInTheDark'', she stated that she''hated'' working with Creator/LarsVonTrier so much that she vowed to never act ever again. However in 2005--where she got cast as the lead in her then-husband's [[LeFilmArtistique arthouse film]] ''Drawing Restraint 9''--she stated that she would act again, but ''not'' with Lars von Trier.

** After the TroubledProduction of ''Film/DancerInTheDark'', she stated that''hated'' working with Creator/LarsVonTrier so much that she vowed to never act ever again. However in 2005--where she got cast as the lead in her then-husband's [[LeFilmArtistique arthouse film]] ''Drawing Restraint 9''--she stated that she would act again, but ''not'' with Lars von Trier.

* BeamMeUpScotty: Björk never said "I am '''a''' grateful grapefruit!".
* BlackSheepHit - "It's Oh So Quiet" from ''Music/{{Post}}'', a jazz/big band song from an electronic/alternative artist.
* CreatorBacklash - Her most popular and most successful song is the aforementioned "It's Oh So Quiet". Björk got angry that her most popular song is a cover, and now she rarely performs it.
* CreatorBreakdown - "So Broken" was written after an incident in which an insane stalker tried to send her a mail bomb, documenting the whole process on tape before recording his own suicide.

* BeamMeUpScotty: Björk never said "I am '''a''' grateful grapefruit!". The real quote is above.

* DyeHard - Her natural hair color is dark brown, not black.
* HeyItsThatGuy
** ''Music/{{Medulla}}'' features the big name beatboxers Rahzel, Shlomo and Dokaka (it was essentially his big break). MikePatton appeared on a few songs, most recognizably singing the baritone backing vocals in "Where Is The Line".
** The atmospheric haze in the background of "Náttúra" is [[Music/{{Radiohead}} Thom Yorke]].

* WhatCouldHaveBeen: She was originally approached to perform "[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zkXbzffVl44 Gollum's Song]]" for Film/TheLordOfTheRings, but declined, citing her pregnancy. Fellow Icelander Emilíana Torrini performed it instead.

** [[spoiler: "Vulnicura" is a word made up from "Vulnus", Latin for "Wound", and "Cura", Latin for "Care". This "complete heartbreak album" is the way she cope with her broken relationship with Matthew Barney.]]
* CreatorCouple: With artist Matthew Barney.

* BlackSheepHit - "It's Oh So Quiet", a jazz/big band song from an electronic/alternative artist.

** ''Medúlla'' features the big name beatboxers Rahzel, Shlomo and Dokaka (it was essentially his big break). MikePatton appeared on a few songs, most recognizably singing the baritone backing vocals in "Where Is The Line".

* OneOfUs: ''Homogenic'', ''Vespertine'', ''Medúlla'', and ''Biophilia'' are all named after scientific terms and phenomena.

** ''Medúlla'' features the big name beatboxers Rahzel, Shlomo and Dokaka (it was essentially his big break). MikePatton appeared on a few songs, most recognizably singing the baritone backing vocals in "Where Is The Line".

* WhatCouldHaveBeen: She was originally approached to perform "[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zkXbzffVl44 Gollum's Song]]" for Film/TheLordOfTheRings, but declined, citing her pregnancy. Fellow icelander Emilíana Torrini performed it instead.

* HeyItsThatGuy: ''Medúlla'' features the big name beatboxers Rahzel, Shlomo and Dokaka (it was essentially his big break). MikePatton appeared on a few songs, most recognizably singing the baritone backing vocals in "Where Is The Line".

* WhatCouldHaveBeen: Was originally approached to perform [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zkXbzffVl44 Gollum's Song]] for Film/TheLordOfTheRings, but declined, citing her pregnancy. Fellow icelander Emiliana Torrini performed it instead.