{"id":287466,"date":"2011-10-10T20:00:00","date_gmt":"2011-10-10T20:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wdev.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent-dev\/2011\/10\/10\/sugarcubes-birthday-icelandic-music\/"},"modified":"2018-04-16T16:16:56","modified_gmt":"2018-04-16T16:16:56","slug":"sugarcubes-birthday-icelandic-music","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/2011\/10\/10\/sugarcubes-birthday-icelandic-music\/","title":{"rendered":"Sugarcubes, &#34;Birthday&#34; [Icelandic Music]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This one&#8217;s a given. Bjork + Bragi Olafsson. (We&#8217;ll be featuring Bragi&#8217;s literary work later this week.) Man, does this take me back . . . Originally released in 1988, <em>Life&#8217;s Too Good<\/em> is still pretty awesome. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Birthday&#8221; was what really put The Sugarcubes on the map, and evokes a very particular period of time (for me at least). It&#8217;s charming song, one that Bjork referred to as a &#8220;tasteless pop song.&#8221; In her own words:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s a story about a love affair between a five year old girl, a secret and a man who lives next door. The song&#8217;s called Birthday because it&#8217;s his fiftieth birthday, but not many people can figure that out of the lyrics &#8216;cos it&#8217;s more about the atmosphere around it and how they touch. It&#8217;s a tasteless pop song&#8212;not even that. A pop song&#8212;very unusual&#8221; <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;I was always changing my mind about what the lyrics should be about. I had the atmosphere right from the start but not the facts. It finally ended up concentrating on this experience I remembered having as a little girl, among many other little girls&#8217; experiences. It&#8217;s like huge men, about fifty or so, affect little girls very erotically but nothing happens . . . nothing is done, just this very strong feeling. I picked on this subject to show that anything can affect you erotically; material, a tree, anything.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Yep. More Icelandic music and books tomorrow! <\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"380\" height=\"285\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/BFQPNApwJGU\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This one&#8217;s a given. Bjork + Bragi Olafsson. (We&#8217;ll be featuring Bragi&#8217;s literary work later this week.) Man, does this take me back . . . Originally released in 1988, Life&#8217;s Too Good is still pretty awesome. &#8220;Birthday&#8221; was what really put The Sugarcubes on the map, and evokes a very particular period of time [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":292,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[67486],"tags":[43176,43166,12996,43086,42996,43186,43156],"class_list":["post-287466","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","tag-birthday","tag-bjork","tag-bragi-olafsson","tag-icelandic-music","tag-icelandic-week","tag-lifes-too-good","tag-the-sugarcubes"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287466","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/292"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=287466"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287466\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":342776,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287466\/revisions\/342776"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=287466"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=287466"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=287466"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}