There are tons of mashup videos on YouTube that blend artists you couldn't possibly imagine existing in the same space. Look at Neil Cicierega and his Mouth series of albums. (Being able to take Elton John's "Crocodile Rock", and System of a Down's "Chop Suey", and turning it into a palatable song is no easy task.)
But there are also artists who just seem to blend well together and should be mashed up. It looks like - at least in this case - Björk agrees.
The artist posted three different mashups featuring herself and SZA to X (formerly known as Twitter). Each of these videos were posted by different smaller creators who seemed to have posted the mashups just for fun.
The mashups include the following:
"Hunter", off of Björk's Homogenic / "Seek & Destroy", from SZA's SOS
"Pagan Poetry" from Björk's Vespertine / "Drew Barrymore" from SZA's Control
"All Is Full of Love" from Björk's Homogenic / "Saturn" from SZA's upcoming album Lana.
It should be no surprise that the legendary Icelandic artist would be into these mashups of her work as she, herself, is a DJ. Björk has done many DJ sets around the world. She's done sets in Iceland, New York, and even had a set with longtime friend and collaborator Arca in Paris.
Björk's "Hidden Place" had also been sampled on "Forgiveless", a track off of SZA's latest album SOS. You can listen to SZA and Ol' Dirty Bastard perform over the sample below.
It appears that Björk enjoys seeing how people take her music and do their own thing with it. She had also shared a video back in February of Japanese dance group Tempura Kidz dancing to "Crystalline", off of her album Biophilia.
Popular Björk fan account @bjorkspears posted on X that this isn't even the first time the artist has shared a mashup involving her own music.
Could these tweets be a hint at a future collaboration between the two artists? Will Björk appear on the upcoming SZA record? Or is Björk just lounging on the couch and watching YouTube like everyone else? Whether or not these posts actually mean anything is up in the air, but it's nice to see that Björk is giving the remixes the attention they deserve.
What do you think?
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