"I think I wrote it in my living room in Iceland and sang it into my dictaphone. Later, by accident, we were going through sounds and I found this broken bottle sound. It wasn't intentional but it sounded great."

'Venus As A Boy' was written by Björk and produced by her long-time collaborator Nellee Hooper. When it became time to turn it into a single & music video, she approached Sophie Muller, a british video director that has done music videos for several big names such as Eurythmics, No Doubt and Blur since the early 80's.

→ Sophie Muller videography
→ Sophie Muller biography
→ Nellee Hooper profile at allmusic.com

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I think I wrote it in my living room in Iceland and sang it into my dictaphone. Later, by accident, we were going through sounds and I found this broken bottle sound. It wasn't intentional but it sounded great. It was one of the last songs recorded for Debut - the album was ready to go. Sometimes the more unpredictable side of me does several headstands and flicks-flacks once the album has been delivered and the best song come out.

It is about a specific person but I've always been very protective. I've never told the press who a song is about and I always make sure I tell the person themselves. I've shown people lyrics and asked them to live with them for a week, to make sure they would feel comfortable.

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I ask her about the video Venus as a Boy, in which she suggestively fondles an egg while singing explicitly about copulation. In the video the egg is eventually fried. This touches off a slightly sore spot for Björk. She gave Sophie Muller, the video director, a copy of Story of the Eye a couple of days before they filmed the but didn't insist that she read it. Muller didn't have the time.

She kept going on about it being fried, sighs Björk with exasperation. I was saying, `No way is that book about a fried egg! I'm sorry. Poached? Okay. Boiled? Okay. Raw? Okay. But not fried. And a fried egg is unsuitable because......? Because it's too hard. It's rough and it's greasy, It should be about being sort of liquidy and wet and soft and open..... After the video was finished, Sophie called Björk. She had read the book. Now she agreed with Björk: Fried was the wrong egg.