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To Feel the Same Again With You Hyperballad

1996 song by Björk

1996 single by Björk

"Hyperballad"
Björk - Hyperballad.png
Single past Björk
from the anthology Post
B-side
  • "Isobel"
  • "Comprehend Me"
  • "Savour"
Released 12 Feb 1996 (1996-02-12) [1]
Studio Compass Bespeak (Nassau, Bahamas)
Genre
  • Folktronica
  • acrid house
  • synth-pop
Length
  • 5:21 (album version)
  • iii:58 (radio and video edit)
Characterization One Little Indian
Songwriter(s) Björk
Producer(s)
  • Björk
  • Nellee Hooper
Björk singles chronology
"It'southward Oh So Placidity"
(1995) 		"Hyperballad"
(1996) 		"Possibly Maybe"
(1996)
Music video
"Hyperballad" on YouTube

"Hyperballad" (sometimes written as "Hyper-Ballad") is the quaternary single from Post, a studio album past Icelandic musician and recording artist Björk. The song was written past Björk and co-produced by long fourth dimension collaborator Nellee Hooper. "Hyperballad" infuses folktronica, acid house and synth-pop.

The lyrical content discusses a dream that Björk experienced, in which she wakes early before her lover and throws small objects off a cliff, watching them boom. She imagines her body in their place, which makes her experience better virtually returning to her safe home and the arms of her lover.

"Hyperballad" was heavily lauded past contemporary music critics, who stated that it was the all-time song of Björk's career. The vocal's lyrical content, vocal performance and experimentation in its production and composition were also highly praised.

The song was moderately successful in the countries it charted in, including Finland, Australia, United States, Sweden and the Great britain (where it was the terminal of three top ten hits, after "Army of Me" and "It'southward Oh So Tranquillity"). A music video was released for the single, featuring a digitalized Björk running and falling from a cliff.

Björk performed the vocal at the 1997 Tibetan Freedom Concert in New York, which was recorded by Sylvia Massy for Capitol Records. This live version was subsequently included on the 2nd disc of the Tibetan Freedom Concert album released later on that year.

Composition [edit]

Production and musical influence [edit]

"Hyperballad" was written by Björk and co-produced by her and Nellee Hooper, who had contributed to other Björk albums. The chords and lyrics in the verses move in iii bar phrases; the choruses are in iv bar phrases. It combines a house shell with a string department conducted by Brazilian musician Eumir Deodato.[two] Heather Phares from AllMusic compared the song to the work of Aphex Twin.[3]

Lorraine Ali from Rolling Rock said that Björk "turns fantasy into morbid but honest wonderment for 'Hyperballad.' Hither's what she sings over a sweeping, panoramic vista: 'I imagine what my body would sound like slamming against the rocks, and when it lands, will my eyes exist airtight or open up?'"[iv]

Lyrical content [edit]

In the lyrics, Björk describes living at the top of a mountain and going to a cliff at sunrise. She throws objects off while pondering her own suicide. The ritual allows her to exorcise darker thoughts and return to her partner.[2] Björk stated that "I feel that words can accept a mysticism or a hidden meaning. On Hyperballad, the thought that I'm throwing machine parts from a cliff is about getting out my frustrations."[5]

Björk explains: "I approximate that vocal is about when you lot're in a relationship and it'south going really well and you're really happy and maybe you have given upward parts of yourself. To fall in honey and be in a relationship for a long fourth dimension is like giving a lot of parts of you lot away considering the relationship becomes more important than you as individuals. It's a flake of a catchy balance. I call up anybody in a human relationship needs to know not to forget themselves..." (from an interview by David Hemingway)[6]

She also explained how the vocal relates to the hiding of an ambitious part of oneself from a lover.

Basically, 'Hyper-ballad' is about having this kind of bag going on and three years have passed and you're not high anymore. You take to make an endeavor consciously and nature's not helping you anymore. So y'all wake up early on in the morning and you sneak outside and you practice something horrible and destructive, interruption whatever you can find, scout a horrible moving picture, read a scrap of William Burroughs, something really gross and come home and exist like, 'Hi beloved, how are you?'[7]

Disquisitional reception [edit]

"Hyperballad" was heavily acclaimed from music critics. Glenn Swan from AllMusic gave it a separate review, and awarded it four stars out of five, making it Björk's highest viewed single on the website.[viii] Mike Diver from BBC Music said "Hyper-Carol – single four of half dozen taken from this xi-tracker – is similarly striking, and remains amid the very finest songs in Björk'south canon [...] perfectly is an indelibly splendid example of music meeting fine art. It's a benchmark of successful audio-visual synergy."[9] James Hyman from Music Week's RM Dance Update rated it 5 stars out of 5, adding, "From day one, Bjork embraced dance culture, realising its importance in running parallel to the commercial release. 'Hyperballad' is icing on that cake".[10] Some other editor, James Hamilton noted its "winsome caterwauling quirkiness".[11] As well Eric Henderson from Slant Magazine was favorable, saying, "Without missing a beat, Björk puts herself into the role of frail suicidist on "Hyper-Ballad," as she throws tchotchkes over a cliff to approximate the nature of her own plunge. A phenomenal journeying, the track begins with lightly shuffling drum n' bass before expanding into an immense house groove."[12]

Drowned In Sound listed it at number #8 on their top x Björk singles.[13] XFM Radio listed it at number 686 on their The XFM Top 1,000 Songs Of All Time.[fourteen] NME listed the song equally the 69th best vocal of the 1990s, stating that "'Hyperballad' was an earnest effort to try and make old dear live once more. She said it was about the fine art of "non forgetting about yourself" in a relationship and this was reflected in the music which altered from gentle folktronica to drum and bass-tinted acid business firm."[15] Diffuser.fm described the song every bit "lush, sweeping cinematic synth-pop."[16]

"Hyperballad" was the song receiving most votes from Björk fans on the overall survey for her Greatest Hits album's vocal list. In September 2010, Pitchfork included the song at number #11 on their "Top 200 Tracks of the 90s".[17]

Music video [edit]

During this scene, a three-dimensional shot of Björk lying amid a mountainous landscape and she sings in a live video.

The video was directed by Michel Gondry. Information technology features Björk every bit a video game grapheme who runs through an obscure, two-dimensional landscape of pylons before throwing herself off a cliff. This sequence, forth with several others (including blinking lights and some of herself performing the song), are projected onto a 3-dimensional shot of Björk lying among a mountainous mural.

The video was filmed at Telecine Prison cell in London, using a motion command system. The entire video and all the effects were shot on a unmarried 400 ft curlicue of moving picture, by multiple exposure and frame-accurate backwinding of the film strip. The graphics were shot as a series of secondary exposures using a television monitor, and the flashing lights were created with an LED strip board, also exposed on the same piece of film. At Gondry'southward insistence, no edits were made after the pic was exposed; the just post processing consisted of colour correction during transfer of the piece to videotape.

Björk sings live in the video. This new vocal accept was afterwards featured in the CD2 of the Hyperballad single, and in the 5.1 edition of Surrounded. Mike Diver from BBC Music gave it a positive review, saying "its accompanying video is a masterstroke of suggestive simplicity, evocative elegance; that it suits its skittering beats and contorting song [...]"[9]

Reception [edit]

Music writer Carol Vernallis felt Gondry developed texture with an artful that does not go "likewise coy or sickly sweet" by incorporating "a whiff of death"; pointing out that in the video, "Björk's head resembles a death mask".[eighteen] A reviewer, D File, wrote: "Due partially to my personal puzzlement in agreement this video and the construction of its imagery, I've concluded that 'Hyperballad' is, if nothing else, one of the most advanced pieces of music video in the tardily 20th century. At one glance, the composites completely coagulate with the elements of the song. Yet the imagery is so transcendent of whatsoever other pop promo. Upside, inside out."[xix]

Henry Keazor and Thorsten Wübbena considered that the clip "[has] taught us that electronic bodies are rather intangible, dematerialized, purer in a certain way."[20] The music video, with its play on the boundaries between real and virtual, has been absorbed by guild culture, every bit a representative of the scene's visual forms of expression.[21]

Track listing [edit]

These are the formats and track listings of major single releases of "Hyperballad".

Official versions [edit]

  • Album version
  • Brodsky Quartet version
  • David Morales Boss Dub mix
  • David Morales Classic mix
  • David Morales radio edit
  • Disco Sync mix
  • Fluke mix
  • Girls Blouse mix
  • LFO 3.A.Thousand mix
  • Over the Edge mix
  • Radio edit (edit of anthology version)
  • Radio edit (video version)
  • Robin Hood Riding Through the Glen mix
  • Subtle Abuse mix
  • Tee's Freeze mix
  • The Stomp mix
  • Tom Apella remix
  • Towa Tei remix/Towa Tei Selection mix
  • Notation: United kingdom of great britain and northern ireland CD 1 and 2 both include a mix labelled "radio edit," however the mix on CD 1 is an edit of the album version, while CD ii features newly recorded vocals taken from the video.

Covers [edit]

The song has been covered past many artists. Yeah Yes Yeahs, The Ladybird Sideshow, and Glen Phillips covered information technology during their live shows. Peruvian band Ni Voz Ni Voto covered it for their Unplugged Anthology Acustico 2002, Greg Dulli and his ring The Twilight Singers covered it in their album of 2004, She Loves You.

John Nolan covered this vocal at Kevin Devine'south Record Release Party in 2005. Big Heavy Stuff covers this song on Like a Version, a compilation anthology past the Australian radio station Triple J. Tori Amos covered parts of this song as an intro or bridge to Butterfly. She also covered a full version on her "Summer of Sin" bout.

Brodsky Quartet contributed their talents to a remix of the song, which first appeared on Björk's Post album, and later Telegram. The song is mistitled "Hyperballad (Brodski Quartet Version)" on all pressings of the limited two CD edition Australian of Mail service.[22]

Indonesian band Mocca covered this song on their album of 2007, Colours. The same year also saw an Australian collaboration album named No Man's Woman, featured male vocalists covering some of the nearly famous songs performed by women. Folk singer Whitley delivered an arrangement of Hyperballad for this project. In 2008, the Spanish group Celtas Cortos fabricated a cover of it in their anthology 40 de abril, under the title of "Abismo" (meaning "Cliff"). Muddy Projectors likewise covered the song on Enjoyed: A Tribute to Björk'south Post.

Japanese singer-songwriter UA covered Hyperballad on her 2010 anthology KABA.

In 2010, Robyn performed a cover of the song at the Polar Music Prize ceremony, when Björk and Ennio Morricone were awarded the prize.[23] In jazz, the song has been covered past Marcin Wasilewski, Slawomir Kurkiewicz, and Michal Miskiewicz on their anthology of 2004, Trio, and by the Verneri Pohjola Quartet on the album of 2012 Ancient History.

British singer Matt Fishel recorded a choral a cappella comprehend of the vocal. Later receiving numerous requests from his fans to release it officially after he originally uploaded it to his MySpace page in the mid 2000s,[24] Fishel'southward cover was eventually released on his 2014 covers EP Embrace Male child.[25] [26] In July 2014, Tori Amos covered the vocal on her Unrepentant Geraldines Tour.[27]

Charts [edit]

Chart (1996) Peak
position
Australia (ARIA)[28] 31
Europe (Eurochart Hot 100)[29] 71
Finland (Suomen virallinen lista)[30] 18
Iceland (Íslenski Listinn Topp 40)[31] xiii
Netherlands (Dutch Top xl Tipparade)[32] 18
Netherlands (Dutch Unmarried Tip)[33] 14
Scotland (OCC)[34] 15
Sweden (Sverigetopplistan)[35] 34
Uk Singles (OCC)[36] 8
U.s.a. Billboard Trip the light fantastic toe/Electronic Singles Sales eleven
United states Dance Guild Songs (Billboard)[37] ane

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External links [edit]

  • Hyperballad webpage
  • Official Björk discography

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Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyperballad