Yes, we're back at it again. Win FREE VIP tickets to see Björk live in Shanghai!
Win Free VIP tickets to see Björk!
Just like you, we can't freaking wait to see Björk live in concert on March 2nd in Shanghai. To celebrate, we're giving a lucky winner in Beijing two FREE VIP or floor-seat tickets. We'll select a winner in BJ and SH. So there are two shots at winning, if you catch our drift. That is, try exploiting the "Change City" function in the upper left hand corner of your screen. One CW user in Beijing and Shanghai will each receive a pair of sweet tickets to this amazing show.
How to win? We're making it super easy this time. All you have to do is fill in the blank in the comment section below. The user who writes the most creative or fun response wins. We'll favor those who complete their CW profile with a photo or description. Feel free to embellish your response or share other cool links about Björk. For example, check out this.
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.... she needs more white string for her musical factory, and it's cheaper here.
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I tried Guangzhou and found it MIGHTY FINE. You should open up some more cities so our friends in Kunming, Hangzhou and Xi'an can start enjoying that gooey CW goodness. :-)
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Bjork' has descended into a death-to-disco industrial inferno and in doing so, clearly reigns supreme as the most innovative artist to be featured on City Update's web site. This video soundscape is layered with not only emotional melodies full of complex structures but also the exuberant orchestration that carries tragic sounds attached to a lethargic beat pulling the listener in to confront her beautifully passionate, intense, powerful and heartbreakingly violent voice. As usual, she sounds like herself.
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the real reason bjork is coming to china is... so she can drink ju hua cha with her sugarcubes.
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She's assisting designer Marjan Pejowski in researching the inspiration for her next several formal gowns--a fish, a swallow, a panda, an antelope, and the Olympic torch.
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To borrow from poet extraordinaire LL Cool J, the real reason Bjork is coming to China is... "I'm gonna knock you out -Mama said knock you out"! Either way, she will undeniably make an impact at her performance but surely her fans will stay far far away especially at the Shanghai Pudong International Airport.
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... to learn Shaolin Kung Fu, so the next time the paparazzi get too close they won't even know what hit them.
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...because she is collaborating with Tony Leung for the Opening Ceremony of the Olympics. They have to practice their timing for the grand finale when Tony plucks Bjork's swan feathers causing a brief wardrobe malfunction, the likes of which have never been seen this side of the Taiwan strait, before the TV cameras cut to state programming.
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...that, not content with past unusual musical collaborations, she is working with top Chinese recording artists on a new, all-Chinglish album: 'Change Another.'
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she seeks sound in concrete forests; little trickle down revolutions
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to get in touch with her inner-Chinese self.
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a secret meeting with Stephen Chow to discuss her idea for his next film. She plays an international diva who finds a cute alien creature that beats up photographers for her and settles the score with those who mock her dress sense...
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Chinese people may be the last race of people on the planet who have a chance of understanding her. Have you ever watched an interview with her?
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(the real reason is)...she's scouting hosts for her man's new art-movie-epic, which takes place on the Tibetan Plateau, in the lower digestive track of a Yak, where, miraculously, there exists: the smoldering remains of Willy Wonka's Chocolate Factory; two dozen cloned Zhou Enlai's dancing in Miao headdresses; and the donut hole to fit the CCTV building.
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Don't we all get blown away by her unique style or even eccentric yet appealing sense of art.
Diva? Don't insult her with names normally given to bubble gum singers like Celine Dion.
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that she's the illegitimate love child of mao zedong and suzie wong and wants her overdue child support payments.
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...she clearly wants to meet me. Who do u think that "I miss you" is referred to?? ; )
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Who is Björk! really
Is she falling in love with a Chinese guy? so she comes?
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bjork is coming because she wants to find herself some spiritual clensing in possibly the most polluted country in the world. with one breath of air, she hopes to inhale and encompass all the glory, history and suffering of this country and regurgitate it all in a cathartic trance like mindstate through modern audio technology and create a sonic time capsule that will go beyond the cosmos and into the next lifetime. dj premier, teddy riley, quincey jones, jimmi hendrix, ol' dirty bastard, ringo starr and oprah will all be contributing as guest producers on the album and the cover will feature some immaculate photos taken by the world famous portrait photographer Edison Chen. No need to censor the sleeve because those black rectangles are not sensor marks... they are bjork's body. the dream team (allah, buddha and jesus) has blessed her with the miraculous ability to have genital regions completly void of light. the rectangles are so perfect that scientists often use the corners to calibrate their right angled t-squares.
if she does not come to china this album will never be made. and the cosmos will start spinning out of control and pool safety rules will be completely thrown out he windows.
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oh... i almost forgot:
akon will also be singing all the hooks with ya boy soulja boy choreographing the entire tour.
yoooooooooouuu!
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She's coming to China because she is tired of dancing in the dark, definitely.
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... to establish closer ties between Iceland and Shanghai so that when the ice melts due to global warming they can all move into an apartment building in Shanghai, "Little Iceland", or in this case "Entire Iceland".
... to find the missing Sugarcube, reported last seen hazardously balancing the banks of Pujiang.
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Whoa! Congratulations to mhatch! His quirky, tongue-in-cheek comment inspired CW and charmed Emma to pick him as the winner. He's getting a pair of free floor-seats to see Bjork live in concert this Sunday, March 2nd down in Shanghai. Soon Emma will contact mhatch and share the wealth. City Weekend is always excited to offer exclusive tickets to Emma's concerts. And we've got many more on the way. For those of you still hungry for free stuff, we're giving away a pair to see Harry Connick Jr. and Major League Baseball's Padres vs. Dodgers Exhibition Game in the near future. We hold this competitions to reward our biggest fans, you. Yeah, that's cheesy, but hey it's true. Hope you'll help CW fight the good fight. Spread the word! "It's your site, use it often".
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What the...? Look at the terms of your own contest [ie "We'll announce the winners on February 29th (Leap Year!)"] and then tell me what day I am submitting this to you on， from within China -- at the last hour, yes, but where exactly in the terms of your contest was the incentive for early submission? Fucking amateur hour around here; I don't often say it, but (tongue-only-ever-so-slightly-in-cheek): 气死我了!
Please find my submission below.
"Sure, Bjork's fans are excited to see her upcoming Shanghai concert, but we all know the real reason she's coming to China is to press forward in her bid to be adopted as mascot of the summer games at Reykjavik, 2020. Having caught a strain of of "Olympic Fever" during her time in the world spotlight at Athens, 2004 (as the key performer during the opening ceremonies -- your dad may have told you about it if you missed it yourself), the singer seems intent on pushing her personal boundaries -- as well as, it might be said, those of the Olympic Committee, who have never before adopted a pre-existing celebrity as the mascot for The Games. Her 2005 trip to Italy (then in preparations to host The Winter Olympics a few months later) having failed to light a fire under her campaign, Bjork identified the problem as stemming from her not having told anyone she would be in Italy, nor anything of her motives in going there. This concert (aka Shanghai, 2008) reflects radical new changes in the approach Bjork is taking as she gets serious about making her own personal "Olympic dream" come true. It also heralds the beginning of a campaign that will take her, at regular two-year intervals, to various Olympic-host countries around the world, each to be a site of a concert or other media event "shadowing" the Olympics.
Icelandic tabloids -- which have had a field day riffing on Bjork's conspicuous inability to come to terms with the imminent Armageddon of 2012 -- have been awash with speculation as to the nature of her relationship with current Olympic mascots 晶晶 ("Jingjing") and “欢欢” ("Huanhuan"), members of "福娃", aka "Fuwa", aka "the mascots formerly known as 'The Friendlies.' Significant cash rewards have been offered for anyone able to provide photographic proof of the artist engaged in improper activity with any of the Fuwa, but so far this has resulted only in a wave of patently- photoshopped submissions (and a few fan fiction websites, but that is neither here nor there), with no payouts to date.
It is known that the Fuwa and Bjork do maintain a professional relationship, with Bjork also in China this week to voice what might become a recurring part in the Fuwa cartoon series, as "herself" -- though Bjork has spoken in interviews of her intent to treat the role as a sort of homage to the "self" that Don Knotts created for the Scooby Doo cartoons (which found worldwide syndication as early as 1975). In a quid-pro-quo move generally thought to have paved the way for Bjork's taking part in the Fuwa series, it has been announced that visual artist Matthew Barney -- known better to some as the father of Bjork's child -- will add another installment to his previously-announced-as-concluded film series "The Cremaster Cycle", and that star billing would be given to all of the Fuwa except the notoriously difficult-to-work-with "Beibei" (under the pretext that she'd had a prior commitment).
Still, no matter what the motives involved, the upshot for the aesthetically-refined consumer in China is that there is a heck of a good concert going down this weekend, and here's hoping to see you all there!"
Anyway, I will still be going to the concert, but I will never forget how you have once again fucked up my plans! If it is not a blatant editorial error or printing complete misinformation, it is shit like this... I am now off to have a good time and consider my legal options, class-action or otherwise!
Sincerely pissed-off -- a former reader, 11:25pm aka 23:25 Beijing time aka GMT+8 imapped@gmail.com
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to act as Reykjavik's secret emissary for high-level meetings with Shanghai government officials in order to secure a central, prime location for Iceland's pavilion (preferably with its own Maglev station) during the 2010 Expo.
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Oh crap, this is the BJ page. Gimme a sec and I will come up with something mildly amusing.
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Crap again. Bjork isn't going to BJ. But if she did it would be because of something silly related to her being Icelandic and the Olympics and......I have nothing. I'll get my coat....
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Sure, Bjork's fans are excited to see her upcoming Shanghai concert but we all know the real reason she's coming to China is...............
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