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“I’d always wanted to work with music boxes but it was waiting for the right occasion. I’d been collecting them and stuff. The main thing was that I wanted to write my own songs in music boxes.

In the beginning, the music box company weren’t very excited. They’d made wooden boxes for eons and I wanted see-through plexiglass. They couldn’t get their head round it - they were like ‘Why?’

They wanted to make the plonky sound softer with wood but I wanted it as hard as possible, like it was frozen. In the end, they said it was the best thing they’d ever done.”

“It’s about wanting to communicate, for sure. It’s less cocoon-ish than the rest of the songs . It’s definitely wanting to tell someone something.”

“We discussed how to do something with the moving image that was a mirror of what was happening musically. . . . It had to have a different look from the video footage and from the digitally altered video footage. I knew it had to look as luscious as possible,” Chaudoir says. “It’s stripping away the artifice and the digital effects, into the raw image of Björk.”

Pagan Poetry is written and produced by Björk. It is the second song to be taken off her fourth studio album “Vespertine” as a single. The video to the track is done by Nick Knight who previously photographed Björk for the Homogenic cover image. Production: Gainsbury & Whiting. Director of Photography: Simon Chaudoir.
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  • NathosSherinian

    I love her, I love her, I love her, I love her...

    yesterday afternoon

  • BrenoLeonardo

    Ai ló fim,aí ló fim,ai ló fim,ai ló fim..

    Sunday afternoon

  • abbi98

    She loves him... she loves him

    last week

  • aquitius

    This song is beautiful. The video is amazing. OH MY GOD I JUST LOVE PAGAN POETRY!!!

    16 days ago

  • Tallyra

    A bit of colour here...

    last month

  • p-each

    so good when youre high

    last month

  • matt_white

    I LUF HIM

    last month

  • tiki22

    agonizing-hypnotic

    last month

  • muddypuddles

    eek, can everyone please get some color in their avatars... looks just a little dark and dreary... oh yeah, AWESOME SONG!! :D

    last month

  • vaccinationist

    I will come here time after time to say that i love this song !! [2] me too. this song gives me shivers and chills, and goosebumps, and pins, and needles, and tickles, and everything, everytime I hear it like the very first time

    last month

  • otaviozera

    There's no other song like this. And probably never will be. [8]

    March 2012

  • Nicky_Sixx

    Masterpiece ! <3

    March 2012

  • emiliankasemi

    I will come here time after time to say that i love this song !!

    March 2012

  • booksiren

    amazing

    March 2012

  • emiliankasemi

    Too much love for this song !!!

    March 2012

  • starfloka

    impressive

    March 2012

  • lmtsuki

    There's no other song like this. And probably never will be. [7]

    March 2012

  • Hello1994

    gorgeous video

    March 2012

  • theteachesof

    oh shit I've just deleted all of my executions of this beautiful song

    March 2012

  • Damita_Stev

    Pagan Poetry just has this ethereal beauty to it. Her voice is piercingly gorgeous.

    March 2012
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