"I'm a fountain of blood. In the shape of a girl"
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The phrasing does a lot of work. “I’m” is blunt identity, not metaphor-at-a-distance. “Fountain” implies pressure and overflow - not a neat wound but a system that won’t stay discreet. Then the kicker: “In the shape of a girl.” Shape is what the world sees; content is what the world demands you deny. Bjork’s subtext is that femininity is often treated as a silhouette - a legible outline to project onto - while the internal reality is messy, cyclical, and historically policed.
Context matters because Bjork’s persona has always weaponized innocence: childlike timbre, bright visuals, then lyrics that drag you into the viscera. It’s a refusal of the pop expectation that women’s bodies be either glamorous or abstract. She’s saying the body is not a branding problem to solve; it’s a force. In one image, she collapses puberty, menstruation, birth, injury, desire, and shame into a single gush - turning “girlhood” from a marketing category into a physical event.
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"I'm a fountain of blood. In the shape of a girl." FixQuotes, 17 Jan. 2026, https://fixquotes.com/quotes/im-a-fountain-of-blood-in-the-shape-of-a-girl-41220/. Accessed 6 Feb. 2026.








