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Virus (Björk song)

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I'd been fighting this candida issue in my throat and I had to really change my diet and use different medication and it sort of seems to pop up and its kinda hilarious. It’s like I have this new neighbour that I have to sort of learn to live with. And obviously you know this fungus is inside all of
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The "Virus" app is a video game where a virus attempts to infect healthy cells; the user can control the cells and flick nuclei into the healthy cells, or watch the infection occur in "Video" mode. The user can also try to stop the infection, but if the virus is defeated, the song stops playing. If
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The lyrics to "Virus" talk about "dangerous relationships", symbiotic relationships in which one organism is parasite for the other and takes a benefit, even changing the other's behaviour. This fact is used as a metaphor between 'love' and 'parasiting'. Björk took inspitation from a
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and a cell, as Björk explained in an interview: "It's a kind of a love story between a virus and a cell. And of course the virus loves the cell so much that it destroys it."
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the virus is prevented the song will stop playing. By tapping on the cells, the user can also make his or her own music.
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us and it’s never about eliminating it. You have to kind of just live with it.
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educative video about mind-controlling parasites and from
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that can be controlled by midi and that was also used in "
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Index


Single
Björk
Biophilia
Genre
Art pop
baroque pop
experimental pop
Label
One Little Indian
Songwriter(s)
Sjón
Producer(s)
Björk
Cosmogony
Moon
Björk
Biophilia
virus
celesta
gamelan
Crystalline
Manu Delago
hang drum
time signature
McGraw-Hill
candidiasis

Hudson Mohawke
Matthew Herbert

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