Oceania - Bjork @ Athens 2004 Opening Ceremony 

The Games were boycotted by America and other Western nations so no

Different footage from when we saw it on the night.

Finally!! Trying to liberate some of Athens 2004 sport vídeos on blu Ray. Thanks!!

Please, for additional records from different sports from different Olympics. Great thank you for everything.

Thank you for posting the music of all the previous Summer and Winter Olympics ceremonies, I have always admired the ceremonies the most. I have a suggestion can you upload Hand in Hand by Koreana who performed at the Opening Ceremony of the Seoul 1988 Games.

is it true or u just kidding ?

@@juliocesar2433 what do u mean I'm kidding??

@@juliocesar2433 you need to go back to history class

@@yoursnatchedweave641its a joke dumbass

It's a joke, folks 🙄

She IS the ocean

Björk invented Australia

She invested life the arts and everything else

she is a goddess

@Ash Witherton she invented Uranus? whoa...

A bold move indeed!

Lena Platonos would have been awesome.

Local artist is much better option tbh, showing the world a Greek performer would've been fitting

@@sirsnakespeare Weirdly enough not long after this performance Bjork took a couple of days off in Greece and heard some Orthodox musicians playing with bells and it inspired her so much she made an entire album using just vocals and bells lol. Nothing wrong with "Local musicians"

@@moonsugar1 That was only for the bell version of Who Is It. The album was already done by that point, and she made it in Iceland.

I was 13 years old and the same thing happened to me, from that moment my life changed, I see this video and I feel the same that I felt that day. Same feeling from Mexico.

I just turned 13 years old when I discovered Bjork and I’ll never forget the moment I first heard her voice. We’re the lucky ones. Life changing for sure.

I was 10 and actually attended the last reherasal before the official ceremony, where she didn't perform. So I didn't pay attention to the main event the next day til Björk graced the stage. That was that, I was a changed boy.

Exact same story. About to turn 12. Watching with my family. Took my breath away. My jaw hung open from the first line and I only noticed after the song was over that my mouth was open the whole time I was so stunned. I remember then thinking to myself: " *This* is art." Got Medúlla for my birthday the next month, and never looked back since :) (Though as I later found out, I've been unconciously a fan of hers from even before that as I didn't know in the beginning that she was the same artist who sang All is Full of Love and It's Oh So Quiet which I loved at an even earlier age.)

Norah Nightingale Absolutely agreed on this. It's the day I became a fan of hers and still am admiring everything she does.

bjork has sold less then 100 mil copies world wide. for context gangnam style sold more then that, so the general population of the world doesn't like her. 100 mil out of 7 billion is less then 1%. For some reason though they keep giving her awards, what can we assume. She is just another one of the music people they like to give awards to so they don't have to give them to people in genres they don't like. aka not white music. and side note, millions of women sing better then her, and her musical approach isn't original if she's been going the same thing since the 80's

Yeah, I know and I agree! But I said that one of the most beautiful because of all context, not just about the singer. PS: Bjork is not even in my top 100 of the best singers, but this opening was very good and I have to admit it.

you seem to spend a lot of your time promoting bjork degradation, although your biased arguments shows inconsistency. originality cannot be measured, and vocal prowess doesnt stands for quality. the number of sold copies cannot determine the artistic value of one singer. "she has the most unique voice i've ever hear'd, a lot of critics says. and so millions critics says that about beyonce and et cetera. the weirdest thing is that you came out of the blue saying things that has nothing to do with one's opinion about an olympic games opening.

i'm sorry but you're wrong. She sold over 10 million copies through her solo career. And selling billions doesn't mean being good. You really don't know her work to affirm she is the same since 80's. Such a pitty.

UnBjörkxing she sold over 40 milions copies worlwide.

and the ocean means life for the whole mankind...

The lyrics were written by a friend of her, an icelandic poet called Sjón.

Bjork said every country has its national anthem and she said this song was the oceans anthem

More like a love letter from the ocean Your sweat is salty and it’s because of me it runs down you face and stings your eye

PLSSSSS

They didn’t let her sing live so she refused to have any microphone near her because she wasn’t going to pretend she was singing, she wanted to make it very obvious that it was just a performance

cut her some slack we alr know she can sing

BYYYYYYY 💀😭

😅

10.000 sq feet, around 900 sq m

It was supposed to unravel and project a picture of the world onto the fabric but it didn’t work exactly as planned is what I heard

@@caitybelle16 I remember seeing the world map projection live on TV (it was like an Oval world). NBC's broadcast.

​@@caitybelle16it was supposed to unravel like her heart in a ball of yarn

​@caitybelle16 like a ball of yarn?

Omg that would be so beautiful with that much of fabric. So sad

So devastated that it didn't happen!

And the dress was supposed to cover the entire assembled athletes.

@@azeeminator It did cover the assembled athletes, just took longer than the duration of the song

I wonder if there are any films of the rehearsal where you can see how it was supposed to look. That would have been incredibly awesome.

Loved Paris’ ceremony…

38... she was born in November. ;-) But yeah she is a timless beauty!

Bellinzona1000 THAT WOULD BE SO SICK!

Bellinzona1000 taht will never hapend

Bellinzona1000 YES YES YES YES

I love Switzerland!

@@rickhardTercero I know only mainstream but it would awesome if they took a chance

Wow, must have been mesmerizing!

Michela Cordisco she’s amazing.. enlightenment in the form of music from a fierce Icelandic woman. Doesn’t really get better than that!

Same , I cry with this song and performance

Scoot over. Same. 😭

Honestly.

me too. She's so awesome.

Jose Diaz same

Yea ♥

FrancesBaconandEggs It was playback

Augusto yes it was, one of the very few times she did it, although can you hear those notes? She never uses autotune or that stuff a lot of singers use, so. It was more about the performance, create an ocean in the middle of the Stadium, kudos to her.

I think this performance was a victim of circumstances; her original plan was to perform it live, but wasn't there like some disc they didn't bring so they basically kind of screwed her over? The performance is awesome though, but I hope there are multiple dimensions so at least someone among them could have seen a live version.

her performance and dress was designed by Greeks

To bad that dress could not cover all the athletes.

Ahahaha I love it. It is by far the best Olympic performance ever (maybe one of the best performances of all time)

that is one of the nicest comment i ever read about her kudos matey!

And Neptune is near to her sun. 🤝

And she is capricorn mars that's why she had extravagant artistry

Pensaba lo mismo! seguro es playback... Pero que performance!

At such events everything is playback. No one takes the risk to go something wrong live all over the planet.

@@embarrassment6697 Wouldn't need to. There are all kinds of mics. You don't bring one of the best if not the best pop singer in the world to lip sync. It's just poor taste. It's very obvious to me, very non-Bjork and it's pretty obvious she's not used to lip-syncing. People should take the risk of letting the artist perform, which is his/her job...

@@dirtyharry1881 they lost the negative in the last minute so they decided to do playback..who cares ..everybody knows shes the best live..

she is. it is taped to her left ear. you can’t see it because the camera angle is only showing her right side.

Planet Mateo she admitted in an interview she didnt wear the mic cause they asked her to lip sync. Most likely what you're seeing is her earpiece so she can still mouth to the right part of the song.

Marianna Rocha oh. well good to know! i guess that makes sense because they wouldn’t want to have any technical difficulties.

wow I never knew that!

@@MateoFrancisco but how did she do the beginning so in time? it was flawless i think we would have spotted it

Um..... girl how about the thousands of years of Greek history??

@@πανταπεριμενω nah bro this is better

And the only part I ever watched

Same!!

Haha I see you everywhere

Ahh I wish I remembered :( but I was five plus we were on holiday so I’m pretty sure I haven’t seen it. Or maybe I have and this is why Björk’s music is so strangely familiar

empty sky I saw this when I was 5 in a grocery store and I made my parents let me watch it and it literally changed my life everything about who I became as a person. Like watching this was one of my earliest memories of sheer shivering bliss

ok

she gagged the world

its not a concert brother, its a ceremony