Bjork, despite her blooming music career in the US, left the country and moved back to Iceland.
After a long wait, Bjork is finally releasing the follow-up album to her LP, "Utopia," which she released in 2017. The Icelandic singer had been expanding her career outside her native country, but she decided to leave her blooming career in the US for a worrying reason.
In an interview with Pitchfork before her album release, Bjork talked about spending decades living in New York and Iceland. However, she decided to go back to her home country since, aside from the COVID-19 pandemic, the worsening violence in the US is getting out of control.
"The violence in the USA is on a scale I can't even fathom. And having a daughter that's half-American in school [in New York], 40 minutes away from Sandy Hook (referring to the school shooting in Connecticut in 2012)," she said. "In the States, just being a simple islander, all the violence was just too much for me."
She added that Iceland, unlike the US, offers safer living to its citizens.
Ozzy Osbourne Did the Same
Bjork is not the only one who left the US despite their career's success.
Ozzy Osbourne also left the US and went back to England due to the non-stop mass shootings in the country. He told The Observer that the country became ridiculous enough that he got fed up with how people get killed every day.
"God knows how many people have been shot in school shootings. And there was that mass shooting in Vegas at that concert... It's f-ing crazy," he said, per Billboard.
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Osbourne explained his decision further by recalling what happened in the Route 91 Harvest shooting in 2017, the incident that claimed 60 people's lives and left 500 injured.
The former Black Sabbath member particularly expressed how afraid he is to die in the US and be buried in Forest Lawn. With that, he started planning to come home again.
Even his wife, Sharon, shared a similar sentiment and said the US changed drastically in the past years and that it is no longer the United States at all.
It would be the best decision for Osbourne, as well, as he is still recuperating after his recent life-altering surgery.
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