It's Oh So Quiet

[2][3] A French title, "Tout est tranquille", was performed in 1949 by Ginette Garcin and the Jacques Hélian Orchestra.

[2][3] A French title, "Tout est tranquille", was performed in 1949 by Ginette Garcin and the Jacques Hélian Orchestra.

Fueled by the Spike Jonze-directed music video, the single also shot Björk into the spotlight in Australia, where it reached number six.

"[9] Alan Jones from Music Week wrote, "Alternating soft and gentle passages with noisy outbursts on which Bjork squawks and is reinforced by an old-fashioned big band section, this is very much a novelty, but one that works and well.

All is normal in Björkland in terms of mischievous whisperings and wandering noises for the first, ooooh, minute... and then, with nary a mumbled warning, out pours a 20-piece orchestral shriek, the huge scarlet drapes part insolently, and there She is centrestage, gallivanting down the crystallised staircase, shimmying with the choreographed puffins, bellowing through a jazz-tastic wartime standard originally recorded by a Hollywood bombshell of the blonde variety, Betty Hutton, and She is hollering "You fall in love, ZING BOOM!

It is a homage to Hollywood's Technicolor musicals that drew inspiration from Busby Berkeley and Jacques Demy's The Umbrellas of Cherbourg, as well as Taiwanese director Tsai Ming-liang.

Björk continues to walk along the street, dancing with several elderly women and their umbrellas before settling to rest her arms on top of a mailbox for the final verse.

Björk then runs down the street and into the road, where the rest of the town has decided to join her for one large dance number.

The music video for Björk's "It's Oh So Quiet" is the work of American director Spike Jonze , and an homage to Hollywood musicals . Time Out wrote, "none of [it] would have worked without that final crane shot " (depicted above). [ 13 ]