Thread 127424860

Now the dust has settled, Was Bjork an Industry plant

>>127424860 (OP)
Is there anything in her music that suggests she was? If so, I don't hear it.

>>127424860 (OP)
Not at all, she's someone with a long and varied musical career from an entirely unremarkable family in a peripheral country.

>>127424909
>>127424915
She was very famous in the 90s MTV and felt like she was being pushed a lot and had the paparazzi following her.. Her music is contemporary but still that fame unnatural for such contemporary music

>Raised by a single mother who was an activist
>Enrolled in a dedicated music school at age 6
>Actually does a ton of DIY stuff in Iceland's local scene growing up
>Got married and had a kid before getting divorced at only 21 and moving to London

In my opinion this is where it gets suspicious, I'd say the moment she met Goldie is when the lines blur as to whether she's a real genuine artiste or just a cocksleeve for alternative types.

>>127424860 (OP)
Wait til you find out she's not even Icelandic

>>127424860 (OP)
She released a good album when she was 10, certified non-plant

never ever would even be one since she's a genuine artist and if she was a plant, then there wouldn't be the weird experimental pop touches she does with her shit; post album/your picrel is a great example, very little if none that could reach mainstream attention sounded like that. she would've stopped music years ago but is still doing it too

>tee hee I'm le quirky indie girl chungus
>burns more coal than the titanic
Love her music though

She was in a succesful Icelandic indie band or nobody would have fucking heard of her. Two frontman band as well. They toured across the whole of Europe.
t. passing oldfag who saw The Sugercubes in a place absolutely jammed full of people who had paid to see them

Now that the dust has settled, is OP a total faggot?

>>127425387
that one is awful, one of her worst ones by far

>>127424860 (OP)
she was teh weird girl with actual talent that everyone barely tolerated because she was such a normie filter. way ahead of her time artistically and aesthetically.

>>127424860 (OP)
oh look another "let's whine about industry plants" thread

If you like the music, or don't like the music, why do you give a fuck about "industry plant" "CIA plant" "nepo baby" "trust-fund"?

How insecure do you have to be to fixate on that shit?

>>127425225
What the fuck are you even talking about.

https://youtu.be/aGYHi344cxk?si=2Pz1a_6VLX1mEhTF

>>127425225
>Wait til you find out she's not even Icelandic

stop being so dumb bro

>>127424860 (OP)
Every generation has the rich girl roastie who critics and the glitterati feel obligated to put on a pedestal. Her shit was okay, but unfocused and the songs never went anywhere.

>>127424860 (OP)
She is literally the only non-industry plant female artist in modern times. This woman came from nowhere and from a family with zero music connections.

>>127426221
What about Ichiko Aoba and Julia Holter?

I don't like the way she sings. It's like she's retarded or something

>>127424860 (OP)
Bjork isn't an industry plant, the industry is a Bjork plant

>>127425750
/thread

>>127424860 (OP)
If at any point someone had a record deal, yes, they’re an industry plant.

>>127425387
How many ten year olds have the opportunity to make an album

>>127425434
>>127426221
>>127428194
Proved industry plant

industry plants like sabrina carpenter and bjork are the best artists

Claims of artists being industry plants have been described as conspiracy theories by critics. In 2023, Complex's Trace William Cowen called industry plant accusations "among the dumbest quasi-theories some listeners like to throw around whenever a new artist breaks through". Hazel Cills stated for NPR that industry plants "don't really exist" and that the term "keeps getting thrown around by younger audiences" because of changes in the music industry and "a kind of skepticism when a young person sees an artist and they're not already inundated with their body of work".
The term "industry plant" has also been criticized as meaningless or vague. Josh Terry of Vice wrote that the term had "no adequate definition" and that there was "no consensus at all on what an 'industry plant' actually is". For Clash, Robin Murray wrote that the term was "hopelessly vague, and more a criticism of ... a general, undefinable sense of inauthenticity, than any actual intersection with the music". For Jezebel, Cills wrote that "the term often means nearly whatever the critic in question wants it to mean".
Critics have described the pejorative as being used more commonly against young women than other artists. Kyann-Sian Williams of NME stated that it was "often assigned to non-white, non-male success stories", while Far Out's Elle Palmer wrote that it "seems to be disproportionately thrown at successful young women starting out in the industry, and often with very little research to back up the damaging label" and was "an easy way to dismiss the talent of young women". Under the Radar's Andy Von Pip also wrote that the term was "a crass and often deeply misogynistic attempt to undermine [the] credibility and creativity" of female artists.
Cills wrote that the term "emphasiz[ed] a narrative that suggests popular artists are either authentic or totally fake, working without any outside help or label puppets, when in reality the lines are depressingly blurrier".

didnt read

Why would the industry need industry plants when they just flat out manfucature boy/girl bands and don't hide it?

>>127426521
I can't stand her voice either. Her or Joanna Newsom.

Stina Nordanstam sounds like Bjork if she was good
Noe Venable sounds like Newsom if she was good

>>127424860 (OP)
Yes. Not in the sense that she has to churn out hits, but she's clearly a prestige project for/by the otherwise insignificant nation of Iceland.