Ugh, this is going to look weird as a first post, but I found this thread searching Google and I felt obligated to make my own response.
I also beg and plead that no one kick my head in for resurrecting this; I did check the date and I'm aware of the offense. Hopefully I won't disappoint with the actual content.
First off, I'm a long-standing Björk...well, I wouldn't say 'fan,' since that would imply fanaticism, which I just don't do. I've respected her music and style since the tender age of 14, when my mom bought Post for us at Christmas, since we both liked it. I didn't actually purchase another album by her until my 20s. So there's my history with that.
About seven years ago a friend got to meet her briefly as well, which I heard all about after the fact. That's what little personal insight I had previously, though I wasn't incredibly interested at the time. Now I wish I had been.
About five years back I started to notice that songs by her really struck a chord with me, not just musically (she and I do have similar tastes, though) but lyrically. Never before had I related to an artist through lyrics. In fact I usually stray from lyrical music and focus especially on instrumental elements. Some of my favourites being Autechre, Plaid, Amon Tobin, etc. I could go on but I'll spare everyone.
Point is, that got my interest, so I started listening to more. Whether I actually liked the music or style on first listen, it was often startling, like hearing someone sing poetically about things that had happened to me, or existed in my mind that I never shared. Sure, sure, I know many people will find meaning in lyrics, but this was different to the point where many who knew me well at all noticed it right off.
I still ignored it until recently, when a discussion with a friend worked me up and got my curiosity piqued. I decided to dig a bit deeper, looking at interviews, re-watching Dancer in the Dark (which I loved to death on the first watching but can only do once every five or so years), and listened to even more of her stuff. I was blown away.
Oh, there are obvious differences between her and I, but I could almost point them out. Mostly it's the fact that she and I had fairly drastically different upbringings, and she's gotten some pretty damn lucky breaks. However, in light of that I'm actually astounded by our similarities.
I don't go around proudly proclaiming that she and I are similar, by the way, because she exhibits one aspect that I actually try to hide about myself: childishness. It seems to be some shameless thing she does that I don't do, but when I see her in interviews it really does look like part of her external 'act,' and something she's learned, rather than a part of her deeper personality. If that makes sense. Even still, it actually creeps me out a bit to see much of myself in someone like that -- like her.
One quirk about her that is pretty much me, and at least a few others I know with my type, to the core is what many of you already brought up -- the incident in Bangkok. I've been there. And when I say I've been there, I don't mean Bankok. If anyone dares mess with my family, that's how I react. Anything mild or girly, sweet and warm about me gets thrown right out the window. Even her fighting technique (she DOES use the microphone, doesn't she?) is a good representation of all the moves I'd make in the exact situation. But what really cinched it for me was her struggling to get back at the reporter. HELL YEAH. I'm sort of shocked she didn't have a go at the bodyguards.
I have only fairly recently found out what my personality type is. At first I didn't take a test, I just knew because I met someone else like me, was stunned, and found out their type. After reading about it and comparing it to the other 15, there was no doubt. I took the test -- several online, too, just to check consistency -- and it comes up the same every time, and very strongly, so I feel confident in knowing myself.
So, personal research on Björk, knowing myself very well, pitting both of us against others with my personality type, and she just seems very classically _what her type is_ to me.
Firstly, she's definitely introverted. But like me, she's pretty good at acting extraverted. For instance, I can be pretty loud, outspoken, and fearless socially, and I love to perform. I'd bet my left hand that she's strongly introverted, however. She's definitely also intuitive -- very. I know that sounds like a brash claim, but everything I see points toward that. Feeling, yeah; I don't think we need to go over that.
So we've gotten to INF, which almost everyone guessed (except the possibility of her being ISF). But, her and I really seem to share the same sort of analytical mind in at least some ways; hers being a bit more 'outward' than 'inward,' seemingly leaving her mind more an almost purposefully cluttered place, whereas I like to keep tabs on all the goings-on in mine. But her no-bullsh*t independent and organized attitude are really, really similar to me.
So what am I?
Hardcore, 100% concentrate, certified and certifiable....
....wait for it....
INFJ.
Make of it what you will and take it with a grain of salt, of course. That's what I say she is. You know, for what it's worth (entertainment value!). I think that may be a 'soft' J, something I also go through now and again (I suspect due to learned behaviours sitting atop my 'basal self') but still a J.
Great discussion, though. It was really interesting to read.
P.S. The 'love sneaking up on you' thing...oh my god, yes. I never wanted a relationship, then...whoops, too late. Maybe it's an introvert thing.