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Bjork Mistakes Antony Hegarty For a "Black Woman"

Ah, Bjork. The Icelandic quirkstress that says what she means and means what she says even if nobody knows what the hell she's talking about. Recently, Ms. Gudmundsdottir name-checked Bob Dylan -- whom she's set to share the stage with for the first time at the Austin City Limits festival in September -- and had the cojones to call his music "literature music," expounding the thought with, "boring three-chord structures serve as a bed for words."

Antony Hegarty of Antony and the Johnsons, however, got off a little easier.Bjork -- who duets with Hegarty on two songs from her latest album, 'Volta' -- recalled the first time she heard his voice. "I was in my kitchen in New York," she told Dummy magazine. "Someone brought me his then unreleased album. I thought it was a black woman."

Note to self: Never ask Bjork, "Does this make me look fat?"

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anne

I think Bob Dylan is boring too, and Antony Hegarty does have a whiff of Nina Simone.

December 06 2007 at 5:48 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Christopher

To YC:

No need to take offense to Bjork's statement. I agree with what she said and there's really no need to twist her comment into a racist one. I mistook Antony Hegarty for a woman as well, and the style he sings in sometimes is very soulful- and can be likened to that of traditional/folk black vocals. I think Antony kind of sounds like Maya Angelou =)

I also mistook Nina Simone's voice to me male the first time I heard one of her songs.

October 11 2007 at 4:10 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
YC

So Antony's voice is an example of how black women sing. I'd like to know what she thinks a black woman sounds like.

September 30 2007 at 8:59 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Mark

Oh, a lot of people think that. She's just stupid enough to say it to a reporter.

June 20 2007 at 2:02 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply