Today, Björk has unveiled the video for her second single off her upcoming album Utopia. “Blissing Me” tells the story of a budding romance, of “falling in love with love.” (Björk has called Utopia her Tinder album, as it’s the lighter follow-up to her 2015 break-up album Vulnicura, though she did recently clarify to The Guardian, “I would never be able to be on Tinder.”) “Is this excess texting a blessing? / Two music nerds obsessing,” sings Björk on her new bond, and then: “Sending each other MP3s.”
But the accompanying gesture she makes in the song’s minimal video, which also finds her crawling, spinning, and flailing like a baby who’s learning all the things her young body can do, is perplexing. Björk makes a texting motion but most smart phones are configured to make such file sharing impossible—you need a computer in order to transfer songs and place them into a player like iTunes in order to be able to listen to them. Maybe she’s being figurative, maybe her phone is somehow cracked to make this kind of transfer possible, maybe Björk has a Björkphone that’s like the Batphone but for music and with way more buttons/capability.