It’s an unexpected collaboration. Icelandic star Björk has decided to release a song with Spanish singer Rosalía in order to denounce aquaculture and intensive salmon farming in her native country, she announced on October 5.
In the extract published at the beginning of the month, we hear the singers repeating in chorus “Is that the right thing to do?” » (Is this the right thing to do?), before responding “Oh, I just don’t know”. A full version of the title is due to be released by the end of October, although the title has not been officially revealed, the video being simply titled “Help fight aquaculture in Iceland”.
Icelandic salmon under threat
“I offer a song that we performed with Rosalía. The profits will be donated to the fight against aquaculture in Iceland,” explained Björk. The 57-year-old Icelandic singer wanted to join the cause of the residents of the town of Seyðisfjörður, who do not want an increase in this practice, which endangers local populations of wild salmon when farmed specimens escape from aquatic farms, underlines The Guardian. “Since many of them escaped, they have started to alter the DNA of Icelandic salmon and could eventually lead to its extinction,” Björk insisted.
“We do not understand how people could have done this for ten years almost without regulations to guide them. This has already had devastating effects on flora and fauna, and farmed fish suffer from appalling living conditions,” she added in her text published alongside the song. “Iceland has the largest area of untouched nature in Europe and even today, sheep roam freely in the mountains in summer, fish swim freely in our lakes, rivers and fjords,” he said. she remembered again.
A song from 20 years ago
This title, however, is not entirely a creation for the occasion: the Icelandic singer explained to Guardian having rediscovered this song, recorded about 20 years ago when she was in her thirties. “I thought wow, the beat was very primitive, but I guess I was inspired by Jamaican dancehall,” she added.
She asked Rosalía to help “update” the song for today’s audiences, with Irish-Scottish producer Sega Bodega. According to Björk, this was the best way to breathe new life into the title in 2023 “for an environmental purpose”, Rosalía being a singer who “represents her era”. And for the Icelander, the star from Barcelona was the right person: “She has a lot of reggaeton on her album. I know she cares about the environment and wants to act,” she summarized to the Guardian.
2023-10-19 07:41:52
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