It's Oh So Quiet

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"It's Oh So Quiet"

Single by Björk
from the album Post
Released	November 1995
Format	CD
Genre	Pop
Length	3:41
Label	One Little Indian
Producer(s)	Björk Nellee Hooper
Chart positions
#4 (UK)
Björk singles chronology
"Isobel" (1995)	"It's Oh So Quiet" (1995)	"Hyper-Ballad" (1996)

"It's Oh So Quiet" performed by Björk is a renamed cover of the Betty Hutton song "Blow a Fuse". It remains her biggest hit, reaching #4 in the UK and spending 15 weeks on the UK singles chart, generating plenty of mainstream airplay. Fuelled by the Spike Jonze-directed music video clip, the single also shot Björk into the spotlight in the United States. In the United Kingdom the single has been certified as Gold, having sold upwards of 400 000 copies. [1]

Björk resents that her most popular song is a cover^{[citation needed]}, and perhaps for this reason it was not included on the 2002 release Greatest Hits. The song is also featured as the ending song for each episode of the Dutch dramedy Evelien.

1 The video
2 Single track listing
- 2.1 CD1
- 2.2 CD2
3 External links

[edit] The video

Screenshot from "It's Oh So Quiet"

The music video, directed by Spike Jonze, features Björk emerging from an extremely dirty washroom in an auto shop. She strolls down the main street of an American town and she is joined in song and dance, musical-style, by the local residents she meets along the way, including a group of elderly women, a dancing mailbox, and people dressed as Roman columns. Björk herself performs some tap-dancing.

The pace of the video corresponds with the song's tempo—during the slow portions of the song, the video runs in slow-motion but returns to regular speed for the uptempo parts of the song. The video ends with her floating up into the air in front of the camera while the entire town dances behind her.