Holy Fuck! Bjork at the Olympics

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Nelly Furtado at Euro 2004 - some bird singing.

Bjork at the Olympics - thousands of athletes shaking out her dress WHICH IS THE SIZE OF THE ENTIRE STADIUM.

Therefore Bjork/Greece pwns Nelly/Portugal.

― aldo_cowpat (aldo_cowpat), Friday, 13 August 2004 19:10 (twenty-one years ago)

@#!?@#

― Red Panda Sanskrit (ex machina), Friday, 13 August 2004 19:13 (twenty-one years ago)

What event is she competing in again?

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Friday, 13 August 2004 19:13 (twenty-one years ago)

10,000 metres SHOUTING YOUR FUCKING HEAD OFF.

― aldo_cowpat (aldo_cowpat), Friday, 13 August 2004 19:14 (twenty-one years ago)

self-absorption

― amateur!!!st, Friday, 13 August 2004 19:15 (twenty-one years ago)

xpost

― amateur!!!st, Friday, 13 August 2004 19:15 (twenty-one years ago)

hah ha

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Friday, 13 August 2004 19:15 (twenty-one years ago)

amwayiteurist i kiss you

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Friday, 13 August 2004 19:15 (twenty-one years ago)

this should be wackier than that Albertville winter olympics where they sent a little french girl to the moon with lightbulbs on her head.

― CeCe Peniston (Anthony Miccio), Friday, 13 August 2004 19:16 (twenty-one years ago)

(x-post)

Squeaking.

― Michael Daddino (epicharmus), Friday, 13 August 2004 19:17 (twenty-one years ago)

Photo?

― David Allen (David Allen), Friday, 13 August 2004 19:18 (twenty-one years ago)

Did this already happen?

(my tv only gets in 1/2 of a station)

― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 13 August 2004 19:19 (twenty-one years ago)

I read the article on reuters and they didnt mention any bjork..

― bill stevens (bscrubbins), Friday, 13 August 2004 19:22 (twenty-one years ago)

Just a huge Godzilla-size dress and some moaning and squeeking.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Friday, 13 August 2004 19:26 (twenty-one years ago)

the silence from the audience after she sang was hilarious

― zappi (joni), Friday, 13 August 2004 19:27 (twenty-one years ago)

i love bjork

― kephm, Friday, 13 August 2004 19:45 (twenty-one years ago)

I love Bjork too, but it was 100,000 people going wtf.

― Billy Dods (Billy Dods), Friday, 13 August 2004 20:00 (twenty-one years ago)

annoying elf

― Joseph Pot (STINKOR™), Friday, 13 August 2004 20:06 (twenty-one years ago)

she was supposed to be teh ocean. hence teh wtf.

http://www.filter-mag.com/news/interior.1627.html

― La Monte (La Monte), Friday, 13 August 2004 20:13 (twenty-one years ago)

Arrrgh. I've never cared for the olymp-openings. And thus I now missed the Björktravaganza, bah!

― t\'\'t (t\'\'t), Friday, 13 August 2004 20:15 (twenty-one years ago)

100,000 people going "what the fuck," as we all know, isn't exactly an indicator that a performance lacked something.

― maria b (maria b), Friday, 13 August 2004 22:36 (twenty-one years ago)

i hate Nelly Furtado with a vengeance.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Friday, 13 August 2004 23:12 (twenty-one years ago)

I've never met her.

― peepee (peepee), Friday, 13 August 2004 23:13 (twenty-one years ago)

That's not Nelly Furtado aka Nelly?

― peepee (peepee), Friday, 13 August 2004 23:13 (twenty-one years ago)

"YOUR SWEAT IS SALTY BECAUSE OF MEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!!!!"

― La Monte (La Monte), Friday, 13 August 2004 23:15 (twenty-one years ago)

did they cut this on NBC? the pretentious stuff ended and now we're getting the parade of nations.

― kyle (akmonday), Saturday, 14 August 2004 02:34 (twenty-one years ago)

Nah, they showed it. It was kinda cool, actually....in a suitably goofy way.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Saturday, 14 August 2004 02:59 (twenty-one years ago)

I saw it. I would have liked it more if Bob Costas had shut up.

― kyle (akmonday), Saturday, 14 August 2004 05:37 (twenty-one years ago)

Yep i saw her, she was there.

DJ Tiesto was there too.

So don't they sort of cancel each other out somehow?

― Andrzej B. (Andrzej B.), Saturday, 14 August 2004 05:59 (twenty-one years ago)

I really wanted to see what she was gonna do (was hoping she'd enlist boyfriend Barney's help w/costuming), but fell asleep during the parade of nations. Fuck.

― pdf (Phil Freeman), Saturday, 14 August 2004 13:33 (twenty-one years ago)

they talked over the whole thing so it was hard to appreciate. basically she was attached to a dress that rolled out and covered the whole stadium and had a map of the world printed on it. they cut this though so you only got a glimpse. it was much more impressive than the cirque de soleiel-esque opening

― kyle (akmonday), Saturday, 14 August 2004 13:40 (twenty-one years ago)

Dude, the entire thing was the greatest Olympic opening I've seen to date. It was like Cirque du Soleil only good.

― VengaDan Perry (Dan Perry), Saturday, 14 August 2004 13:52 (twenty-one years ago)

http://enjoyment.independent.co.uk/music/interviews/story.jsp?story=550767

― cutty (mcutt), Saturday, 14 August 2004 14:16 (twenty-one years ago)

didn't they have TIESTO performing as well?

― Pashmina (Pashmina), Saturday, 14 August 2004 14:21 (twenty-one years ago)

yeah. i missed bjork, but holy crap was that opening overblown.

― tricky disco, Saturday, 14 August 2004 14:30 (twenty-one years ago)

oh my god that's never happened before!

― ryan (ryan), Saturday, 14 August 2004 14:32 (twenty-one years ago)

Does anyone have a videocap of this up, on Soulseek or Edonkey or something? I had to go to an art show at 8.30 and i was glued to the TV before i left...

― Adam Bruneau, Saturday, 14 August 2004 14:42 (twenty-one years ago)

http://homepage.mac.com/emiel/bjork/bjork_olympics_bbc.mpg

― mark_p, Saturday, 14 August 2004 18:44 (twenty-one years ago)

Yes it was DJ Tiesto..

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Saturday, 14 August 2004 20:24 (twenty-one years ago)

Mark -

Please leave that mpeg up until Monday, so I can download it at my office. I'm on dialup at home. Thanks.

― pdf (Phil Freeman), Saturday, 14 August 2004 20:54 (twenty-one years ago)

mark_p, thou art my eternal savior.

― Adam Bruneau, Sunday, 15 August 2004 01:03 (twenty-one years ago)

this is the best thing ever to happen in the olympics that probably didn't involve steroids

― kyle (akmonday), Sunday, 15 August 2004 01:28 (twenty-one years ago)

Yeah, thanks for that, Mark.

― sundar subramanian (sundar), Sunday, 15 August 2004 01:51 (twenty-one years ago)

sweet christ that was literally awesome. thanks mark_p!

― retort pouch (retort pouch), Sunday, 15 August 2004 03:17 (twenty-one years ago)

two weeks pass...

Was she even singing live? I didn't see a microphone anywhere...

― JoB (JoB), Sunday, 29 August 2004 16:19 (twenty-one years ago)

Many thanks for the link Mark.

Pretty incredible stuff. But if the song's called Oceania...isn't she 4 years too late?

― bert (bert), Monday, 30 August 2004 09:49 (twenty-one years ago)

Almost all of those types of events are lip-synched, JoB.

― VengaDan Perry (Dan Perry), Monday, 30 August 2004 10:52 (twenty-one years ago)

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