Hyperballad

"Hyperballad"
Single by Björk
from the album Post
B-side	"Isobel" "Cover Me" "Enjoy"
Released	12 February 1996 (1996-02-12)
Studio	Compass Point (Nassau, Bahamas)
Genre	Folktronica acid house synth-pop
Length	5:21 (album version) 3:58 (radio and video edit)
Label	One Little Indian
Songwriter(s)	Björk
Producer(s)	Björk Nellee Hooper
Björk singles chronology
"It's Oh So Quiet" (1995) "Hyperballad" (1996) "Possibly Maybe" (1996)
Music video
"Hyperballad" on YouTube

"Hyperballad" (sometimes written as "Hyper-Ballad") is a song by the Icelandic musician Björk, released as the fourth single from her second solo album, Post (1995). It was written by Björk and co-produced by her long time collaborator Nellee Hooper.

"Hyperballad" incorporates folktronica, acid house and synth-pop. The lyrics describe a dream in which Björk wakes before her lover and throws objects off a cliff, watching them smash, before returning to their bed. She said this symbolised the parts of oneself that people give up to make relationships work.^[1]

"Hyperballad" was lauded by music critics, who considered it the best song of Björk's career at the time. It entered the charts in Finland, Australia, United States, Sweden and the United Kingdom (where it was the last of three top ten hits from Post, after "Army of Me" and "It's Oh So Quiet"). The music video features a digitised Björk running and falling from a cliff.

Björk performed the song at the 1997 Tibetan Freedom Concert in New York, which was recorded by Sylvia Massy for Capitol Records. It was included on Tibetan Freedom Concert released later that year.