Bjork is no stranger to animated music videos. Over the course of her career she has collaborated with animators on numerous projects, but it's her 1995 collaboration with John Kricfalusi that is of particular note. Kricfalusi's trademark aesthetic is on full display here. One of the defining principles of Kricfalusi's work has been his restraint in remaining on model in his animation, very much subscribing to the dogma of squash and stretch, but taking it to new extremes where the characters change shape and volume drastically.
The video makes use of live action also, compositing Bjork into an animated world. This provides a nice contrast to the exaggerated proportions, overlapping action and appealing designs of Kricfalusi's animation, highlighting the ways in which it breaks conventional laws of motion to create a surreal and almost dreamlike aesthetic.
Kricfalusi clearly has a passion for animation, and this is evident in the way his work basks in the glory of the 12 fundamental principles. If you were to go through the video frame by frame you could pick out at least one example of each of Ollie Johnson and Frank Thomas's fundamental principles of animation. Seemingly, not a single frame is the same, which gives the characters an air of life which is rare in today's climate of digital 2D animation, an aesthetic closer to the classics of Disney than more contemporary animated shows, particularly in the comedy genre.
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