All Is Full of Love
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"All Is Full of Love" is a song by Björk
, released as the fifth and final single from her album Homogenic
. The version of the song used in the video
is actually the original version of the song, while the version on Homogenic is a remix
by Howie B. The original version of the song is used in the 1999 film Stigmata
.
The music for "All Is Full of Love" features sounds inspired by machines, and is accompanied by orchestral instruments
and clavichord
performed by Guy Sigsworth
. It was first released as a dance single by Funkstörung
with their remixes in late 1998, but later received a full single and video release in the 1999 summer.
The single was an alternative rock
hit as well as a dance
hit in America
. It peaked at #8 on the dance charts. Meanwhile, in the UK
, the single peaked at #23. It is the first track on Björk's Greatest Hits album.
This single was one of the first to ever be issued on the then-new DVD single
format, to maximise exposure of the video.
was directed by Chris Cunningham
and featured two intimate robot
s.
The video won multiple awards, including two MTV Video Music Awards for Breakthrough Video
and Best Special Effects
. It was also nominated for a Grammy for Best Short Form Music Video
(it lost to Korn
's "Freak on a Leash
"). It is on permanent exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art
in New York
. The video also placed in "MTV2
's 100 Best Videos Ever" coming in at number 1.
The video starts with a robotic Björk lying on a white platform in the centre of a sterile room being assembled or repaired by mechanical arms in what appears to be a clinic for robots. Even before finishing the assembly, the first Björk robot meets another Björk robot, who joins in the song with her. They start to kiss passionately as machines work on assembling electronics in their backs.
According to the website of Glassworks, the company which did the special effects for Cunningham, SOFTIMAGE
and Flame software were used for 3D elements and 2D compositing
, respectively.
Contrary to appearances, the two robots in the film were non-working models. When the film I, Robot
screened in 2004, some people found the robot design in that movie to be similar to the design of the robots in the video directed by Cunningham — he has not commented.
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released a cover version
of the song on The Photo Album
.
Pau Vallvé made a cover version of this song on their last album 2010.
Björk
Björk Guðmundsdóttir , known as Björk , is an Icelandic singer-songwriter. Her eclectic musical style has achieved popular acknowledgement and popularity within many musical genres, such as rock, jazz, electronic dance music, classical and folk...
, released as the fifth and final single from her album Homogenic
Homogenic
Homogenic is the fourth studio album by Icelandic musician Björk, released in September 1997. Produced by Björk, Mark Bell, Guy Sigsworth, Howie B and Markus Dravs, it was released on One Little Indian Records...
. The version of the song used in the video
Music video
A music video or song video is a short film integrating a song and imagery, produced for promotional or artistic purposes. Modern music videos are primarily made and used as a marketing device intended to promote the sale of music recordings...
is actually the original version of the song, while the version on Homogenic is a remix
Remix
A remix is an alternative version of a recorded song, made from an original version. This term is also used for any alterations of media other than song ....
by Howie B. The original version of the song is used in the 1999 film Stigmata
Stigmata (film)
Stigmata is a 1999 supernatural horror film directed by Rupert Wainwright and starring Patricia Arquette as a hairdresser from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, who is afflicted with the stigmata after acquiring a rosary formerly owned by a deceased Italian priest who himself suffered from the phenomena...
.
The music for "All Is Full of Love" features sounds inspired by machines, and is accompanied by orchestral instruments
Orchestra
An orchestra is a sizable instrumental ensemble that contains sections of string, brass, woodwind, and percussion instruments. The term orchestra derives from the Greek ορχήστρα, the name for the area in front of an ancient Greek stage reserved for the Greek chorus...
and clavichord
Clavichord
The clavichord is a European stringed keyboard instrument known from the late Medieval, through the Renaissance, Baroque and Classical eras. Historically, it was widely used as a practice instrument and as an aid to composition, not being loud enough for larger performances. The clavichord produces...
performed by Guy Sigsworth
Guy Sigsworth
Guy Sigsworth is a U.K. based composer, producer and songwriter. In his career to date he has worked with many famous artists, including Seal, Björk, Goldie, Madonna, Britney Spears, Kate Havnevik, Bebel Gilberto, Mozez, David Sylvian and Alanis Morissette...
. It was first released as a dance single by Funkstörung
Funkstörung
Funkstörung is Christian de Luca and Michael Fakesch , a duo of IDM musicians hailing from Rosenheim, Germany...
with their remixes in late 1998, but later received a full single and video release in the 1999 summer.
The single was an alternative rock
Alternative rock
Alternative rock is a genre of rock music and a term used to describe a diverse musical movement that emerged from the independent music underground of the 1980s and became widely popular by the 1990s...
hit as well as a dance
Dance music
Dance music is music composed specifically to facilitate or accompany dancing. It can be either a whole musical piece or part of a larger musical arrangement...
hit in America
United States
The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...
. It peaked at #8 on the dance charts. Meanwhile, in the UK
United Kingdom
The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern IrelandIn the United Kingdom and Dependencies, other languages have been officially recognised as legitimate autochthonous languages under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages...
, the single peaked at #23. It is the first track on Björk's Greatest Hits album.
This single was one of the first to ever be issued on the then-new DVD single
DVD single
A DVD single is a music single in the form of a DVD. The format was introduced in the late 1990s/early 2000s as a replacement for the VHS single...
format, to maximise exposure of the video.
Music video
The music videoMusic video
A music video or song video is a short film integrating a song and imagery, produced for promotional or artistic purposes. Modern music videos are primarily made and used as a marketing device intended to promote the sale of music recordings...
was directed by Chris Cunningham
Chris Cunningham
Chris Cunningham is an English music video film director and video artist. He was born in Reading, Berkshire in 1970 and grew up in Lakenheath, Suffolk....
and featured two intimate robot
Robot
A robot is a mechanical or virtual intelligent agent that can perform tasks automatically or with guidance, typically by remote control. In practice a robot is usually an electro-mechanical machine that is guided by computer and electronic programming. Robots can be autonomous, semi-autonomous or...
s.
The video won multiple awards, including two MTV Video Music Awards for Breakthrough Video
MTV Video Music Award - Breakthrough Video
The MTV Video Music Award for Breakthrough Video was first awarded in 1988, replacing the award for Most Experimental Video. Along with Best Direction in a Video, this award was considered to be one of the most important professional categories at the VMAs, as every once in a while it was even...
and Best Special Effects
MTV Video Music Award for Best Special Effects
The following is a list of MTV Video Music Awards winners for Best Special Effects in a Video....
. It was also nominated for a Grammy for Best Short Form Music Video
Grammy Award for Best Short Form Music Video
The Grammy Award for Best Short Form Music Video is an honor presented at the Grammy Awards, a ceremony that was established in 1958 and originally called the Gramophone Awards, to performers, directors, and producers of quality short form music videos...
(it lost to Korn
Korn
Korn is an American nu metal band from Bakersfield, California, formed in 1993. The current band line up includes four members: Jonathan Davis, James "Munky" Shaffer, Reginald "Fieldy" Arvizu, and Ray Luzier. The band was formed as an expansion of L.A.P.D.The band released their first demo album,...
's "Freak on a Leash
Freak on a Leash
"Freak on a Leash" is a song by the American nu metal band Korn, featured on the group's 1998 studio album Follow the Leader. Prior to the album's release, Korn had an instrumental section of the song, described as a "noisy guitar break." The section was taken out of the song after their fans...
"). It is on permanent exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art
Museum of Modern Art
The Museum of Modern Art is an art museum in Midtown Manhattan in New York City, on 53rd Street, between Fifth and Sixth Avenues. It has been important in developing and collecting modernist art, and is often identified as the most influential museum of modern art in the world...
in New York
New York City
New York is the most populous city in the United States and the center of the New York Metropolitan Area, one of the most populous metropolitan areas in the world. New York exerts a significant impact upon global commerce, finance, media, art, fashion, research, technology, education, and...
. The video also placed in "MTV2
MTV2
MTV2 is a cable network that is widely available in the United States on digital cable and satellite television, and is progressively being added to analogue cable lineups across the nation...
's 100 Best Videos Ever" coming in at number 1.
The video starts with a robotic Björk lying on a white platform in the centre of a sterile room being assembled or repaired by mechanical arms in what appears to be a clinic for robots. Even before finishing the assembly, the first Björk robot meets another Björk robot, who joins in the song with her. They start to kiss passionately as machines work on assembling electronics in their backs.
According to the website of Glassworks, the company which did the special effects for Cunningham, SOFTIMAGE
Softimage
Softimage, Co. was a company located in Montreal, Quebec, Canada that produced 3D animation software. Their flagship products, Softimage 3D and Softimage XSI, are used in the creation of computer animation for films, television advertisement, and video games...
and Flame software were used for 3D elements and 2D compositing
Compositing
Compositing is the combining of visual elements from separate sources into single images, often to create the illusion that all those elements are parts of the same scene. Live-action shooting for compositing is variously called "chroma key", "blue screen", "green screen" and other names. Today,...
, respectively.
Contrary to appearances, the two robots in the film were non-working models. When the film I, Robot
I, Robot (film)
I, Robot is a 2004 science-fiction action film directed by Alex Proyas. The screenplay was written by Jeff Vintar, Akiva Goldsman and Hillary Seitz, and is very loosely based on Isaac Asimov's short-story collection of the same name. Will Smith stars in the lead role of the film as Detective Del...
screened in 2004, some people found the robot design in that movie to be similar to the design of the robots in the video directed by Cunningham — he has not commented.
EU CD
- "All Is Full of Love" (Radio mix) – 4:50
- "All Is Full of Love" (Radio Strings Mix) – 4:46
- "All Is Full of Love" (Guy Sigsworth mix) – 4:22
- "All Is Full of Love" (Funkstörung Exclusive mix) – 4:36
- "All Is Full of Love" (Plaid mix) – 4:15
US CD
- "All Is Full of Love" (video version) – 4:50
- "All Is Full of Love" (Funkstörung Exclusive mix) – 4:36
- "All Is Full of Love" (Strings) – 4:46
- "All Is Full of Love" (album version) – 4:32
- "All Is Full of Love" (Plaid mix) – 4:15
- "All Is Full of Love" (Guy Sigsworth mix) – 4:22
UK CD1
- "All Is Full of Love" – 4:50
- "All Is Full of Love" (Funkstörung Exclusive mix) – 4:36
- "All Is Full of Love" (Strings) – 4:46
UK CD2
- "All Is Full of Love" (Album version) – 4:32
- "All Is Full of Love" (Plaid mix) – 4:15
- "All Is Full of Love" (Guy Sigsworth mix) – 4:22
UK DVD
- "All Is Full of Love" (Video) – 4:50
- "All Is Full of Love" (Funkstörung Exclusive mix) (audio) – 4:36
- "All Is Full of Love" (Strings) (audio) – 4:46
12" vinyl record 1
- "All Is Full of Love" (μ-ziq 7 minute mix) – 3:51
- "All Is Full of Love" (μ-ziq 1 minute mix) – 1:05
- "All Is Full of Love" (Funkstörung Exclusive mix) – 4:36
12" vinyl record 2
- "All Is Full of Love" (Plaid remix) – 4:15
- "All Is Full of Love" (Guy Sigsworth mix) – 4:22
Funkstörung 1998 limited CD release
- "All Is Full of Love" (In Love With Funkstörung Mix) – 5:29
- "This Shit" (Performed by Funkstörung) – 5:01
- "All Is Full of Love" (Secondotted by Funkstörung) – 4:37
Funkstörung 1998 12" vinyl record
- "All Is Full of Love" (In Love With Funkstörung Mix) – 5:29
- "This Shit" (Performed by Funkstörung) – 5:01
Remixes
- All Is Full of Lies mix
- Choice mix
- FunkstörungFunkstörungFunkstörung is Christian de Luca and Michael Fakesch , a duo of IDM musicians hailing from Rosenheim, Germany...
Exclusive mix - Guy Sigsworth mix
- Hip-Hop Love Songs Medley (Kid Koala)
- In Love with Funkstörung
- µ-ziqMike ParadinasMichael Paradinas , who works primarily under the name μ-Ziq in addition to a large number of aliases, is a British musician in the field of electronic music.-History:...
1 minute mix - µ-ziq 7 minute mix
- PlaidPlaid (band)Plaid is a London-based British electronic music duo comprising Andy Turner and Ed Handley. They are former members of The Black Dog and used many other names, such as Atypic and Balil , before settling on Plaid...
mix - Secondotted by Funkstörung
- Strings/Mark StentMark StentMark 'Spike' Stent is a British record producer, and audio engineer who has worked with The KLF, Björk, Keane, Depeche Mode, Muse, Erasure, Hard-Fi, Massive Attack, Janet Jackson, Madonna, Christina Aguilera, Marilyn Manson, Pet Shop Boys, Dave Matthews, No Doubt/Gwen Stefani, CSS, Beth Orton,...
& Marius Defries with added strings - Video version/Mark Stent & Marius Defries radio mix
- Chris.Su Drum & Bass Remix
Charts
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Cover versions
The indie band Death Cab for CutieDeath Cab for Cutie
Death Cab for Cutie is an American alternative rock band formed in Bellingham, Washington in 1997. The band consists of Ben Gibbard , Chris Walla , Nick Harmer and Jason McGerr ....
released a cover version
Cover version
In popular music, a cover version or cover song, or simply cover, is a new performance or recording of a contemporary or previously recorded, commercially released song or popular song...
of the song on The Photo Album
The Photo Album
The Photo Album is the third studio album by indie rock band Death Cab for Cutie, released on October 9, 2001.-Track listing:All songs written by Ben Gibbard except where noted.#"Steadier Footing" – 1:47#"A Movie Script Ending" – 4:19...
.
Pau Vallvé made a cover version of this song on their last album 2010.