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}} "Isobel" is a song by Icelandic musician Björk from her third studio album, ''Post'' (1995). Written by Sjón based on a story by Björk, the lyrics of "Isobel" tell the story of the title character, who is magically born in a forest and sends a message of instinct amongst the logic thinking of the people of the city. The story of Isobel has been explored in "Human Behaviour" and "Bachelorette", forming a trilogy. The track was released as the second single for the album as two different CD releases in August 1995. Featuring additional songwriting by Nellee Hooper and Marius de Vries, string arrangements by Eumir Deodato and production by Hooper and Björk, "Isobel" combines a lush orchestral sound with electronic breakbeats. Most commentators were enticed by "Isobel", which they declared one of the highlights of the ''Post'' album. The single peaked at number eighteen on the Finnish Singles Charts, twenty-three on the UK Singles Charts and forty-seven on the New Zealand Singles Chart. The song was included in the compilation album ''Greatest Hits'' (2002), whose tracks were selected by fans through a survey. The accompanying music video of "Isobel" was directed by frequent collaborator Michel Gondry and represents the story the lyrics convey. The surreal video resembles an early film and garnered acclaim from critics, although it received no support from MTV. Björk has performed "Isobel" on various television shows and in five of her tours, the most recent being the Biophilia Tour. ==Background and conception== "Isobel" had an origin among the most complicated in the tracks contained in ''Post'' and perhaps in all of Björk's work. The song's lyrics were written in collaboration with Icelandic poet Sjón, his very first songlyric in fact. Together with Þór Eldon, Björk's ex-husband and member of The Sugarcubes, they had been part of a circle of anarchist poets in Reykjavik called ''Medusa'' and had met the singer while she was a member of KUKL.〔 Sjón would become a frequent collaborator throughout Björk's career. Björk came with the melody for "Isobel" during a Christmas visit to her native Iceland. She worked it out on a portable Casio keyboard and took it to Nellee Hooper —producer of her previous studio album, ''Debut'' (1993)— who added a snare and sound effects, and then she tacked on Eumir Deodato's string arrangements.〔 Deodato explained his work: "In some of the songs I followed her secondary vocal lines; there was very little harmony and very few chords. I was doing that on 'Isobel' too, where I wrote a natural C in a line that was in B minor. Much later on I learned that Björk is the type of singer who will sing the A sharp in A minor, but I wasn't yet aware that she did that when I did that first song."〔 The lyrics were the final addition to the song.〔 The original idea for the lyrics dates back to late 1994, when a moth stayed on the collar of Björk's shirt until evening. Interpreting the incident as a kind of omen, she tried to create a story and a character about it, writing 900 pages of a diary.〔 She recalls: "I'd been fighting like a lunatic, and going completely bonkers. I knew that if I waited for three months, threw away the book, preferably burning it, then I'd wake up one morning with the lyric. But I badly wanted this song on the album. I didn’t know what to do."〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Isobel )〕 Thus she decided to contact Sjón, explaining the story of the title character to him.〔 Available at (bjork.fr )〕 The song forms a trilogy with "Human Behaviour" of ''Debut'' (1993) and "Bachelorette" of ''Homogenic'' (1997). Björk explained: "In 'Human Behaviour', she's a little girl. In 'Isobel', she moves to the big city and big lights. () In 'Bachelorette' she takes over and trees grow over the city."〔 Their respective music videos, directed by Michel Gondry, represent this story. In a 2008 interview with Stereogum, she also included "Oceania" of ''Medúlla'' (2004) and "Wanderlust" of ''Volta'' (2007) in this narrative cycle. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Isobel (song)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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