Jóga

The song was recorded at El Cortijo in Málaga. Björk wrote it while walking, as she had since childhood, and described an overall picture to the engineer Markus Dravs, whose rhythm she felt was too abstract. Mark Bell, who produced the track, then took most of what Dravs had done and added noises, and she wrote the string arrangements, which were played late in the sessions by the Icelandic String Octet. It is named for her best friend Jóga Gnarr Jóhannsdóttir and doubles as a dedication to Iceland. Sjón helped write the lyrics. She told MuchMusic she could not put the feeling into words at first and called it the fiercest love song she had written. Philip Sherburne's Pitchfork review quotes its line about wanting to be in a state of emergency as an example of the album's wish for a life lived to the fullest.

It was released on 15 September 1997 and went to number one in Iceland. In the UK it could not chart because it came out as a three-CD and VHS set that exceeded the chart's three-format limit. Michel Gondry's mostly computer-animated video shows Icelandic landscapes, with Björk appearing only at the start and the end. Slant ranked it number 35 on its list of the best singles of the 1990s.

Live

She sang it on TFI Friday on 19 September 1997, on Top of the Pops on 3 October, and on Later... with Jools Holland on 29 November alongside Hunter. Setlist.fm logs it in 233 of her sets, third most of any song.