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171:, who a year later replied with a little idea for it. She wanted to make an arrangement like the one for "Brennið þið Vitar", an Icelandic choir piece. After she did it, the song "started to scream for a vocal only version. We tried very hard very long and when finally Rahzel came and sang a beat that we had programmed, gave us some noises we edited into it, it finally fell into place in end of April I think it was and I was so happy when I heard the first playthrough of the only vocal version that I silently cried. It felt great, hard tough work but really really worth it". In an interview with 246:, then edited to fit "Where Is The Line". It shows Björk wearing a dress made of sandbags and standing in a barn full of hay. She gives birth to a convulsing person (dancer Erna Ómarsdóttir) covered in a white stickiness who, after a wild dance, withdraws back inside the host. After a series of explosions, a number of creatures made of hay emerge from the hay stacks. They surround her and cover her with their bodies on the ground until she is no longer visible. The video was included on the DVD 189:. She also thought that "they have the same epic playfulness. I don't know if other people will detect the humour, but I think they're both really funny songs. There's something impressive and ridiculous about them". "Where Is the Line" is a dark song in which Björk attacks her younger brother for being greedy and unreliable. In its lyrics, the singer displays some irritation: "I'm elastic for you, but enough is enough". 202:
website was positive towards "Where Is the Line", and said that "it was no coincidence" that one of "the most exciting tracks" on the album contained more percussion and instrumentation than the others. Theon Weber from
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soundtrack, in order to focus all promotional efforts on the film and soundtrack instead. Some promotional white labels vinyls were released around 2005. A
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commented that the track was one of Björk's "tough, no-nonsense songs", and "Rahzel's hard-hitting beats make it starker than anything on
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and shot at a stable in Iceland, in November 2004. It was premiered during Friðriksdóttir's exposition at the
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on 28 May 2013, in San Francisco. The song was also added to the setlist of some shows of the
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in 2007 and 2008. Additionally, "Where Is the Line" was performed along with musician
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in her head when I was editing "Where Is the Line" and "Vökuró", another track on
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magazine said the song "assault the listener with a hail of vocal gunfire".
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in 2005. Originally being one of three films from the artist's
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for "Where Is the Line" was directed by Icelandic artist
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Index

Billy Talent II
Promotional single
Björk
Medúlla
Label
One Little Indian
Songwriter(s)
Producer(s)
Mark Bell
Björk
Medúlla
Mark Bell
Drawing Restraint 9
music video
Gabríela Friðriksdóttir
Rahzel
e-mailed
Mark Bell
Uncut
Bohemian Rhapsody
Queen
Today
Spin
AllMusic
Homogenic
music video
Gabríela Friðriksdóttir
Venice Biennale
The Medúlla Videos
Greatest Hits tour

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