Two European music superstars, Björk and Rosalía, have announced their collaboration. The singers will work together on a song aimed at raising awareness about industrial fish farms. This collaboration is intended to generate funds to support the local efforts of Icelanders who are fighting against large fish farms.
We’ll have to wait for the full song, but a short teaser of the track has already been released, allowing fans of both singers to get a glimpse of what’s to come. As of now, the song’s title is not yet available, and the teaser video on YouTube is simply titled “Help Fight Fish Farming In Iceland“. According to the announcement, the full version of the song will be released later this month.
Only the lyrics “Is this the right thing to do. Oh, I just don’t know. I just don’t know” can be heard in the teaser, without background music.
“I am offering a song me and Rosalía sang together. The profits will to help the fight against fish farming in Iceland…
People at the fjord Seyðisfjörður have stood up and protested against fish farming starting there. We would like to donate sales of the song to help with their legal fees, and, hopefully, it can be an exemplary case for others.
Iceland has the biggest untouched nature in Europe, and still today it has its sheep roaming free in the mountains in the summers, its fish has swum free in our lakes, rivers and fjords, so when Icelandic and Norwegian business men started buying fish farms in the majority of our fjords, it was a big shock and rose up as the main topic this summer,” she continued. “We don’t understand how they had been able to do this for a decade with almost no regulations stopping them. This has already had devastating effect on wildlife and the farmed fish are suffering in horrid health conditions and since a lot of them have escaped, they have started changing the DNA in the Icelandic salmon to the worse and could eventually lead to its extinction.
There is still a chance to safe the last wild salmon of the North. Our group would like to dare these business men to retract their farms! We would also like to help invent and set strict regulations into Iceland’s legal system to guard nature,” Björk concluded in the press release. “The majority of the nation already agrees with us, so this protest is about putting the will of the people into our rule-systems,“ said Bjork in a statement reported by Billboard.
Second Song for Björk in 2023
Last year, Björk released her new album “Fossora” after a six-year break. Prior to that, in 2017, the Icelandic artist released the album “Utopia.” The collaboration with Rosalía will be Björk’s second music release this year. In the first half of 2023, the singer teamed up with Shygirl on the new version of the song “Woe,” which was released in March. Björk has released 10 studio albums to date and is arguably the most renowned musical artist from Iceland.
Rosalía Vila Tobella, better known as Rosalía, is a Spanish singer, musician, composer, producer, and actress from Barcelona. Similar to Björk, she is an unconventional pop artist who blends various genres and sounds in her music.
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