"I Miss You" | ||||
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from the album Post | ||||
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Released | 17 February 1997 | |||
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Recorded | 1993–95 | |||
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Length | 4:00 | |||
Label | One Little Indian | |||
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"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.
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".
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.
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!"