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It takes a lot to be vulnerable in music. Given the nature of the job, most artists seek to protect themselves from the dangers outside, ensuring their hearts remain locked in cages to keep them safe from any potential hazard. Sometimes, this approach crosses over into the music, and playing it safe becomes a survival tactic to ensure ambiguity does not stand in the way of reality. Bj\u00f6rk<\/a> has always ventured in the opposite direction.<\/p>\n It\u2019s likely that anybody could pinpoint any moment in Bj\u00f6rk\u2019s discography and unravel layers upon layers of intimate confessions. In Bj\u00f6rk\u2019s world, there\u2019s no such thing as maintaining distance between the artist and the listener, making most of her songs feel like delicate whispers from the pages of the singer\u2019s diary. From heartache and loss to instinctual desire and nature, Bj\u00f6rk knows what it means to be vulnerable. <\/p>\n Still, one of the more notable moments, which saw Bj\u00f6rk channelling what she described as \u201ccomplete heartbreak\u201d, was Vulnicura. Written during an intense period of healing after a breakup, the record celebrated the art of a heart in flux, no matter how messy or flawed it may seem. In this particular world, therefore, existing as a human, pure, simple, and imperfect, was the main source of beauty, which is also incidentally an approach Bj\u00f6rk understands better than anybody.<\/p>\n After all, many of Bj\u00f6rk\u2019s peers are perfectionists \u2013 understandably so \u2013 most assuming that putting out fully-formed music means it\u2019s guaranteed to be liked. With this record, however, Bj\u00f6rk pushes the idea that to be flawed is to be real. As the album\u2019s producer, Arca, put it: \u201cThe way she exists as a human is a big influence on the way I exist as a human.\u201d Thus, Vulnicura wasn\u2019t just about what someone goes through during a breakup.<\/p>\n It was also an ode to the \u201cdialogues we may have in our heads and in our hearts\u201d, as Bj\u00f6rk recalled, when nothing else makes sense. Incidentally, this is also the truest definition of heartbreak: not knowing who we are or supposed to be when we need clarity the most. Many of the songs trace these lines of fracture, including \u2018Stonemilker\u2019, which Bj\u00f6rk used to channel the frustrations she felt trying to gauge someone else\u2019s emotions.<\/p>\n