Dispatches by Adrian Conoza

To inform you, whoever who reads this, as well as listens to the video above, this is the 100th post of The Teenage Dispatch, ever since 2011. I'm glad this blog reached as far as this. Post #100 eventually landed on the 6th song for Songs of 4th Year (S4Y), and so I feature another Bjork track, first song of her album Post . You might as well know that this was featured on the movie Sucker Punch . The song can be simply stated as a darkened mix of electronic bass, slow beats, and meaningful lyrics. It's a sort of "wake-up call", knowing that it was inspired by her brother's damaging situation at that time.

Last summer, I did a series of songs that were in the playlist of my third year high school . Now, I bring the series back, featuring the songs that made its way while I went through my final year of high school. As regularly as possible, I'll share these songs from different genres and different times. I'll make a different approach as well: one song per post, and no counting down. I'll shorten the long title as well in the next posts— S4Y . And so we'll start with this song from Bjork in 1995. "It's Oh So Quiet" is originally a 1948 German song, so this is a cover of an English cover . I heard and saw this music video on cable, and I finally found out who Bjork is (she's also pretty there). Let me give my own interpretation. The music starts calm, like a ballet, until it breaks into a "big band" sound. Suddenly, the cute and still vocals of Bjork shifts to screams of excitement—"of falling in love." It goes on like a sine curve—ca...