Venus as a Boy

"Venus as a Boy"
Single by Björk
from the album Debut
B-side	"Stígðu Mig" "I Remember You" "There's More to Life Than This" "Anchor Song" "Violently Happy"
Released	23 August 1993 (1993-08-23)[1]
Studio	Olympic (London) Beats (Mumbai)
Genre	Ambient chill-out electronica[2]
Length	4:42 (album and video version) 4:07 (edited LP version)
Label	One Little Indian
Songwriter(s)	Björk
Producer(s)	Nellee Hooper
Björk singles chronology
"Human Behaviour" (1993) "Venus as a Boy" (1993) "Play Dead" (1993)
Music video
"Venus as a Boy" on YouTube

"Venus as a Boy" is a song by Icelandic musician Björk, released as the second single from her 1993 album, Debut. The song was written by Björk and was produced by Nellee Hooper, who produced the majority of her debut album. The single was released in August 1993 by One Little Indian, a month after the release of the album. The song was inspired by a boy who saw everything from a "beauty point of view".^[3]

"Venus as a Boy" is an ambient and chill-out song that features a musical ensemble made up of Indian instruments like tablas. The song received mixed reviews from critics, who discussed Björk's musical shift. Despite becoming a chart-topping hit in Björk's native Iceland, the song did not chart well internationally apart from entering the UK Singles Chart top 30.

The accompanying music video was directed by the British music video director Sophie Muller. The clip shows Björk in a kitchen cooking eggs, and was inspired by the singer's favorite book Story of the Eye. Björk performed the song on different TV appearances, including Top of the Pops, and sang it during the course of her Debut tour.

The song was later chosen by fans to be included in her greatest hits album, Greatest Hits, and also appeared in her Family Tree Box Set which contained a "greatest hits" disc on which the songs were chosen by Björk. In 2003, Q Magazine ranked "Venus as a Boy" at number 610 in their list of the "1001 Best Songs Ever".^[4]