Bjork is awesome. Wacky, but awesome.

Her show in Shanghai must have been an interesting time though, to say the least — especially if the buzz I’m hearing is accurate:

With backing from a live Icelandic brass section (the ingeniously named Wonderbrass), songs such as the horn heavy ‘Wanderlust’ demonstrated Björk’s gift for spectacle and her incredible delivery, before she closed out the set with the anthemic ‘Declare Independence’, chanting the name of a huge piece of real estate west of Sichuan and Yunnan amongst a hail of streamers. Source

Update from Danwei:

At the end of the song, just before walking off stage, Bjork left the crowd with two words: “Tibet…..Tibet”……fully audible, in English.

“Declare Independence” was originally written with the Faroe Islands and Greenland in mind, not Tibet.

Your correspondent hasn’t been able to find a reliable video clip of this yet; however, I can attest to it happening because I was there.

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