Björk - Interview 1986 (Icelandic)

Interview with Björk from The Sugarcubes on Icelandic TV 1986 (Icelandic) + Ammæli (music video, Icelandic).

[@sindripindri1246]

What everyone thinks is "flirting," is actually him telling her that she could make "popcorn soup with all that popcorn." This is the most awkward thing in Icelandic history.

[@Tony-iu7sw]

Flirting is usually with body language, facial expressions and vocal tones. Not necessarily dialogue.

[@sindripindri1246]

Tony Idk if you know Icelandic, but that is definitely not flirting

[@Tony-iu7sw]

@@sindripindri1246 lol. Idk if you know about flirting, but yes, that was flirting.

[@sindripindri1246]

Tony my best friend, also Icelandic, disagrees with you

[@Tony-iu7sw]

@@sindripindri1246 that's his opinion 😄👌 maybe y'all don't know much about women. Lol

[@Ashy2000]

Notice that Bjork plays with the popcorn tube while she speaks and stops when he speaks to her. Textures seem to aid her creative communication. She seems so fascinated with how it feels, sounds and looks. I get the same impression when I listen to her music.

[@richardmullins1883]

I think she was mostly interested in him.

[@IsobelBjork]

I'm icelandic and it is a reaaaaally hard language! The grammar is like five times more than all the other languages! I love this song! Absolutly the best from Sykurmolonum(the Sugarcubes). And I just looooove her looks when she is younger. Here she is about 21 I think. She is sooo beautiful!

[@516norman]

Björk is so so beautiful,i love her!

[@amacuro]

Astonishing.... she has the voice of angels

[@oidualclaudi0]

Yes,I love languages too!! I like Russian, German, Romanian, Greek, Icelandic, Japanese and Nahuatl, and my mother language is Spanish.

[@mariaalexis1529]

You can speak nahuatl??!! Omg really i am salvadoran are you from El Salvador

[@Anechka1987]

such a rare voice

[@RecycledTrashHole]

Bjork I think is the most beautiful and creative women I have seen since Stevie Nicks. Bjork's eyes & smile are extremely captivating even on a digital effects video like this she looks amazing.

[@Aug9nblick]

Her face is soooo cute :)

[@Hyperuniverse1]

I love Björk. everything she does comes from within. Beautiful. Cute.

[@kourttsmason8187]

Love Bjork, she's so cute and sweet.

[@redacted-oo7ne]

until we remember she used to say the n word with the hard r

[@fohnjucker6900]

@@redacted-oo7ne Does she even know it is a bad word? Im my language, Portuguese, "negro" is a neutral word. I thought it was the case about the n word in English.

[@olafurhh03]

I love this song. Björk is so strange and so beautiful(good combo).

[@sage0x]

I hope she'll start singing in Icelandic again.

[@savertonjr1299]

Bjork was so weird, that she looked normal in 1986.

[@rayixon7890]

The look @ approx 1:30, i think she has a crush on the interviewer.

[@bunnytko]

I love this song!

[@sofiaromerogarcia5241]

Icelandic the best language in the world💜

[@tangerine1490]

damn, i think i like the icelandic version better. fantastic.

[@DCMCNYY]

your english is fine! thanks for the help.

[@liljabp]

Its an award, they won second place for the best music videos in Iceland in 1986

[@Valicore]

Icelandic is way harder than the other Germanic languages because it has a case system and is highly inflected. Just like English and the Scandinavian languages were 1000 years ago. It's a cool language just because it's like a living linguistic time capsule.

[@ZeroNineOverride]

Tha fack? Lol, I understood nothing, and they were holding a large bag of popcorn, very interesting.

[@almiramerico]

I would like to visit this country someday and understand how they can organise such a sophisticated society in such a small scale population. The current economic crisis makes me still more curious about what is going on in Iceland.

[@stupida19]

i see some faces that shows a very fliiiirty bjork jajaja she's so cuuuteeee

[@oesien]

He asked; "Well, uhmm, what´s it like being in all of this, isn´t it fun, or..?" And she says; ,,Sure, yeah...but it can also be demanding from time to time" To which he replies; "Ummmhmm...tough...yeah..mhmmm." And then he goes and and says that now we can watch the video ("Ammæli") that got the award for second-best music video of 1986, she says she´ll watch it with him, and he laughs.

[@Artpreciator]

Wow! Me encanta esta mujer, dios! Se nota que le gusta mucho el muchacho que la entrevista, hay unas tomas del rostro donde dice todo... Es tan hermosa...

[@oidualclaudi0]

you are totally right! I don't know why people don't like how German sounds and like how French does, both languages have almost the same sounds, by example Franch and German R is the same, or German ö and French eu.

[@ericsebastiancarlos6379]

Everyman in the world fancies a dollbaby sexy face like hers..her gentility, intelligence, mystery, discretion, her reciprication when love is felt for her by the fans....her bad ass bossness..her natural imagination to wound you, break you or take you into a gorgeous place with fantastical notes and instruments...its voodoo... one of few best singers in the world...no one sings like bjork.

[@bokenyisicario5515]

1:33 - 1:36

[@JuanManuel-qz8qi]

She wanted the D

[@mayorgadiaz]

me gusta la voz de Bjork cantando y hablando.

[@danielalmeida7126]

as my professor put it, and not to sound offensive: Iceland is a volcanic rock with 300,000 people in the mid Atlantic. There's only so much exposure you can get singing in Icelandic.

[@RetroPlus]

I cannot begin to understand why there is a tube of popcorn

[@Rico_Suave_]

cierto!

[@silanthaler]

its up to the person...i want to learn icelandic too,but not many other ppl do.Anywayz,its a lovely language!

[@clokwize]

I love how rebellious she looked back then

[@thundermorphine]

I'm Swedish and it wouldn't make any difference to me if she spoke Chinese. I couldn't understand any of it. But it's clear that it has a distinct Nordic sound to it.

[@SG31792]

yeah, Finnish is a Uralic language it's more related to Estonian and Hungarian

[@RecycledTrashHole]

@Metalogicc. There is Natalja with Expert Village on KZbin teaching Icelandic basic. Enjoy.

[@sam0xin]

Thanks idja69 .

[@edwardgiovani]

They're both attractive and apparently flirting.

[@ThorgeousThor]

Actually so far away from flirting haha

[@sindripindri1246]

+Trausti Þór Þetta er vandræðalegasta shit sem ég hef séð

[@user-ic1qb9xf3u]

@@sindripindri1246 hehe björk hlo sma en liklegast var að velta fyrir ser ´vo hvað er hann að tala um ´´

[@hasanharoon]

i dont understand a word of it... but its a great song

[@almiramerico]

For instance, when you write a book in Icelandic, how many books can be sold? and how many books must be sold to pay the costs of printing?; when you speak to the radio, how many people can be listening to you?; when you record a CD, how many people can get interested in it? Off course my curiosity is based in economic grounds, since all of this things have a cost and somebody has to finance it. Do the TVs have enough advertising to finance their broadcasting? (probably they are state owned).

[@federicobar]

what tv program is this from? airdate? does anyone know? i wish i had it on dvd :)

[@Hyperuniverse1]

Ah ok;P. Soy colombiano ^^. Jaja si ya mirando otravez veo mas o menos que hay algo ahí:P. Y pues me encanta tambien :P, mas que todo en 1:30

[@getchoneckbrokeyo56]

i like how her face all round and baby like here hehe

[@almiramerico]

I live in a city with 10 million inhabitants, in a country with a 190 million inhabitants. Maybe for this reason I always get so curious about how things get organised in Icelandic society, considering that the whole country's population is only about 320 thousand inhabitants and they are geographically isolated from other continental lands. I know Iceland is a modern well educated society living with European standards (besides the current economical crisis) and that makes me still more curious

[@Wasserkaktus]

It sounds a lot more Scandinavian then any of the West Germanic languages (such as German, Dutch, Frisian and English) - I hear huge differences between this and German....

[@DavidHaTzadik]

It's impossible to state for a fact that a language is difficult if it's the first time you hear it.

[@DirtyLoveJoy]

So, what is the song about? I guess there's a english version. Anyway, very interesting to see her at such a young age. 1

[@IminlovewithJakub]

Watching this in 2018

[@mikurino3936]

Nobody cares.

[@Tony-iu7sw]

👀 well, call me jacob

[@WeCaredALot]

She looks like SHE'S checking HIM out. Licking her lips at him at 1:13...

[@bokenyisicario5515]

Sure! And look at her from 1:33 to 1:36!!!

[@chowfun1976]

Why's he standing in a pseudo ballet pose?

[@narkotikniklas6368]

he actually used to be a ballet dancer before he started his tv career

[@muhammadfariz2839]

@@narkotikniklas6368 Then, who is He?

[@blerkh]

LOL! 1:30-1:35

[@Veggiehead21]

this bitch doesnt age!!!! ♥

[@animebeautie15]

nvrmind. tried finding it. didnt work.

[@TheDownhunteRlitghT]

icelandic translator please

[@Antiwasserstoff]

It sounds like Dutch

[@Artpreciator]

Hablo español porque soy Argentino =) Tenes razón en que ella es penosa ( timida, vergonzosa ) pero acá 1:12 y acá 1:31 yo leo otra cosa en su expresion ( en el último más todavía ), no? Y me encanta!! Shonaripa, yo me pregunto por que hablas español!? :P Greetz

[@Fudolux]

wow, she was kinda cute when she was young

[@Watchyourmouth2]

@WeCaredALot and again at 1:35!

[@SG31792]

True, but this is the original Nordic language, with a few spelling/pronunciation differences

[@judekato2511]

before y2k 🤑

[@56BUICKRiviera]

Bjork or Bobcat?

[@Rico_Suave_]

wtf popcorn as an award? :/

[@ListenToProphetSix]

popcorn snake...lol

[@tohoumonai]

THATS A..........JEJEJEJEJE

[@Watchyourmouth2]

What are they talking about???

[@Endzeitstille]

Watchyourmouth2 first sugarcubes single birthday and popcornsoup :-p

[@EvelHanks]

Cuantos años tenia entonces ahi??

[@hugo_PaNK]

Tenia 21 anos

[@oesien]

Haha, that interview is so awkward and the guy has no idea what he´s supposed to be doing. Also funny how she has to introduce herself and the guy who made the video, who is now the most famous director in iceland.

[@Alfadrottning86]

Ég fæddist ūađ ár. =)

[@Tony-iu7sw]

Egg? 🤔

[@rak126]

it's "smekklaust" and means "tasteless"

[@Tony-iu7sw]

And a shmeckle is a coin

[@MATTBOBVV]

what is with the popcorn?just wondering...

[@Endzeitstille]

MATTBOBVV traditional gift in iceland, everyone gets a popcorn snake

[@Starkardur]

It's an award for the best videos of the year 1986. This is a music video show called Pop Corn so the prize is a giant bag of Pop Corn.

[@sam0xin]

More close Vikings...( Origin of Norwegians...) Thanks.

[@sam0xin]

Icelandic language isn't more close Norwegian ...?

[@stefanijoanneangelinagerma3862]

Va! það er svo mikið popp! 😂

[@richardmullins1883]

1:08 I thought she was gonna jump on him and start eating him lol

[@silanthaler]

no,japanese is extremely difficult to someone from europe.Icelandic is hard to,but not as hard as japanese.

[@Izaak247]

@Uglemugle if the meaning of weird is the cutest thing ever, than yes, sues looks incredibly weird.

[@LightofBeauty]

The sounds may be the same but the way it rolls off the tongue (or in the back of the throat) is what makes both french and german different to the ear, not to mention that french is romantic and german is germanic, generally people find the romantic languages more "pretty" than germanic languages.

[@thomyss]

subtle sexual symbolism in there;))

[@sam0xin]

Well , see while 5 days I had a 2 different responds...from you ImIwilliam & from idja69...he/she says more close to Danish...Thanks anyway.

[@Hyperuniverse1]

Porque hablas español?:P Ella es bastante penosa, no esque le gusta el muchacho, solo actúa raro en ciertas situaciones cuando le da pena o algo. Pero hermosa si es^^

[@thekingofmoney2000]

Very few people outside of Japan speak Japanese because it's not a useful language outside of Japan. English, French, Spanish etc. are widely taught because there are many countries that speak those languages. It has nothing to do with how difficult or easy the language is. Also, I never found Japanese hard to pronounce and one you get the hang of the grammar it's not too difficult to learn. Chinese on the other hand was much more difficult because of the tones. To each their own though. What one person finds difficult another person may find easy. I think Icelandic sounds nicer than Japanese...but that's just my opinion. :)

[@redacted-oo7ne]

no you dont

[@JuanManuel-qz8qi]

Some icelandic hero that translates this video please 🇦🇽🇦🇽🇦🇽🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸

[@maskuk]

i dont understand a fucking word english translation!!!

[@oidualclaudi0]

Icelandic sounds like German, but softer.

[@GermanMaidYT]

Claudio Cast Not really, I'm German.