Bjork Just Isn’t U.S.A Cool
By Beth in Uncategorized, SNL, Music, Amaldo.Com, Bjork on May 14 2007
We already mentioned on Amaldo our early critical disappointment of Bjork’s unoriginal new album Volta weeks ago when she performed on SNL so this quote is like icing on the cake, or a nail on a coffin, as the case may be.
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Björk is a lot of things - a freak, a genius, a singer with the kind of presence otherwise reserved for academy trainees - but she isn’t funky. When she breaks from swooning to scat over rhythms pushed to the fore, her phrasing tends toward the upright and the staccato, landing hard on syllables and clipping words with a mind for punch. But she doesn’t linger suggestively, as good funk singers do. She’s a hammer typewriter slamming on the page rather than a roller ball dripping between tics.
