Björk’s “Blissing Me” is the second song released in advance of her tenth album, Utopia. Much like “Headphones” (released twenty-one years earlier), the track is a subdued electronic ballad about “two music nerds” falling in love via swapping music.
A day after the song’s debut, a music video was r...
[Verse 1]
All of my mouth was kissing him
Now, into the air, I am missing him
Is this excess texting a blessing?
Two music nerds obsessing
[Verse 2]
He reminds me of the love in me
I'm celebrating on a vibrancy
Sending each other MP3s
Falling in love to a song
[Verse 3]
This handsomest of wickermen
He asked if I could wait for him
Now, how many lightyears this interim
While I fall in love with his songs?
[Verse 4]
His hands are good in protecting me
Touching and caressing me
But would it be trespassing
Wanting him to be blissing me
Robbing him of his youth?
[Verse 5]
Cliffhanger like suspension
My longing has formed its own skeleton
Bridging the gap between singletons
Sending each others these songs
[Verse 6]
The interior of these melodies
Is perhaps where we are meant to be
Our physical union a fantasy
I just fell in love with a song
[Verse 7]
So, I reserve my own intimacies
I bundle them up in packages
My rawward longing far too visceral
Did I just fall in love with love?
Blissing Me was written by Björk.
Björk released Blissing Me on Wed Nov 15 2017.
Björk discussed how “Blissing Me” came about in an interview with Pitchfork:
There was definitely a moment making this album where how much I was texting went up. It was with several people; it wasn’t just one person. It was really curious. I was almost like an explorer going to new territory, seei...