Composition
Björk described the composition of the song in an interview with David Hemingway:
"I think I wrote it in my living room in Iceland and sang it into my dictaphone. Later, by accident, we were going through sounds and I found this broken bottle sound. It wasn't intentional but it sounded great. It was one of the last songs recorded for Debut - the album was ready to go. Sometimes the more unpredictable side of me does several headstands and flicks-flacks once the album has been delivered and the best song come out."
The song is influenced by different genres, like chillout, avant-garde and electronica. Since Björk wanted the album to sound like an Indian soundtrack, many tracks including "One Day", "Come to Me" and the same "Venus as a Boy" features Indian instruments. The strings were accorded by Talvin Singh and recorded in Bombay. The track heavily uses Vibraphone.
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