Ithinksthisnthat, Gwepoi amd particularly Mangusu got close to the true meaning of the song, in my opinion.
I watched an interview in which she talked about this song almost as a conversation between Pinocchio and the Talking Cricket. The Talking Cricket is that conscience in you which tells you to behave yourself, Pinocchio is the very human part of you which makes you live making a lot of mistakes. So "who is it?" is as if she were asking "how am I gonna get this right?". I think the answer is "carry my joy on the left, carry my pain on the right", as Mangusu said, yin-yang.
P.S.: guys, inform yourself before saying this is about god... Björk has claimed herself atheist and pagan (religious towards Nature).
@Undefined90 it can still be about God in their interpretations. It very much comes across as a conversation with a God (irrelevant of the musician's beliefs it could still be a conversation that they had that shaped their beliefs ... or taken from the point of view of someone else, i.e. artists like to interpret and think about subjects from other's perspectives).
@Undefined90 it can still be about God in their interpretations. It very much comes across as a conversation with a God (irrelevant of the musician's beliefs it could still be a conversation that they had that shaped their beliefs ... or taken from the point of view of someone else, i.e. artists like to interpret and think about subjects from other's perspectives).
Ithinksthisnthat, Gwepoi amd particularly Mangusu got close to the true meaning of the song, in my opinion. I watched an interview in which she talked about this song almost as a conversation between Pinocchio and the Talking Cricket. The Talking Cricket is that conscience in you which tells you to behave yourself, Pinocchio is the very human part of you which makes you live making a lot of mistakes. So "who is it?" is as if she were asking "how am I gonna get this right?". I think the answer is "carry my joy on the left, carry my pain on the right", as Mangusu said, yin-yang.
P.S.: guys, inform yourself before saying this is about god... Björk has claimed herself atheist and pagan (religious towards Nature).
@Undefined90 it can still be about God in their interpretations. It very much comes across as a conversation with a God (irrelevant of the musician's beliefs it could still be a conversation that they had that shaped their beliefs ... or taken from the point of view of someone else, i.e. artists like to interpret and think about subjects from other's perspectives).
@Undefined90 it can still be about God in their interpretations. It very much comes across as a conversation with a God (irrelevant of the musician's beliefs it could still be a conversation that they had that shaped their beliefs ... or taken from the point of view of someone else, i.e. artists like to interpret and think about subjects from other's perspectives).