Released 17 February 1997 Recorded 1993–95 Length 4:00 | Format CD
cassette Genre Jazz
worldbeat | |
B-side "Karvel"
"Headphones"
"Hyperballad" | ||
"I Miss You" is a song by Björk, the sixth and final single release from her 1995 album Post. It is amongst her least-well performing singles in the UK, but it hit #1 on the U.S. Billboard Hot Dance Club Play.
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The B-side "Karvel", was recorded in one of Björk's first sessions with Graham Massey in 1991; on which two other tracks were also recorded: "Army of Me" and "The Modern Things".
Background
The lyrics describe Björk already knowing who her perfect lover will be, even though she hasn't yet met him. The remastered version as appears on the 2006 release Surrounded features a newly recorded vocal take.
Music video
The music video for "I Miss You" was animated and directed by John Kricfalusi of Spümcø, best known for the Ren & Stimpy cartoons, which Björk admired. The video has a surreal and humorous quality with some sexual imagery. Björk has red hair in both the animated and live parts of the video. One of Kricfalusi's characters, Jimmy the Idiot Boy (in which he was naked in some scenes and his private parts were removed), joins her during various parts of the video. At one point Bjork puts on slippers that resemble Kricfalusi's Ren and Stimpy. Another Kricfalusi character, George Liquor, makes a cameo in one scene. Also, Fred Flintstone makes a cameo in the scene of the bathroom. An edit was made of the video that covered Björk's breasts. The scene at the end of the music video showing Björk tearing an animated chicken in half was cut during showings on MTV. When Björk saw the storyboards, she said that Kricfalusi had "made [her] very cute" and was so pleased that she reportedly exclaimed, "It's like Christmas!"
Live performances
The track was performed during the Post Tour. In support of the release of Post the song was performed on UK TV show The White Room in 1995, and on the Spanish TV show Zona Franca in 1996 to promote the later single release. It was also notably performed on TFI Friday on 19 April 1996, with Howie Bernstein and the TFI Friday House Brass. This performance was later featured on the Post Live album. Having not been performed live in over a decade, the song would later be performed during the Volta Tour with the Icelandic "Wonderbrass" brass section, sometimes also with fellow Sugarcubes vocalist Einar Örn on trumpet.
CD1
- "I Miss You" – 4:00
- "I Miss You" (Dobie Rub Part Two – It's a Hip-Hop Thing) featuring Rodney P – 5:38
- "I Miss You" (Darren Emerson Underwater Mix) – 9:29
- "Karvel" – 4:28
CD2
- "I Miss You" (Dobie's Rub Part One – Sunshine Mix) featuring Rodney P – 5:34
- "Hyperballad" (LFO 3am mix) – 4:16
- "Violently Happy" (Live at Wembley Arena) – 6:17
- "Headphones" (The Mëtri Mix) – 6:16