Bjork, the Icelandic musician and producer has given the most honest, kick arse interview ever. She basically drops a massive truth bomb to Pitchfork magazine about what it’s like being a woman in the music industry.

The news is: it’s tough, yo. You get no credit for your work, men just sail in over the top of you, and sometimes you gotta play dumb and let them think all the good ideas were theirs.

The longform profile will have you punching the air saying, “Bjork. You wonderful, crazy duckling. I don’t know how to pronouce your name. But let’s be friends.”

The New York based singer, famous on our shores for her song “It’s Oh So Quiet”, is currently promoting her latest album with an honesty rarely seen in promotional interviews. Like when she says she struggles to get credit for her musical ideas:

And how her album, has some songs on it that are so emotionally charged that she actually doesn’t know how she will perform them. Talking about the song “Black Lake”, she says, “I was really embarrassed about that song. I can still hardly listen to it.”

How, pray tell, will she perform it then? She doesn’t know.

The journo, Jessica Hopper, in an expertly insightful way, prods her on it, saying, “That’s how we figure things out, isn’t it? That the only way out is through, that having things be easier is not helpful in the long run.”

And Bjork? Truth bomb. She’s pretending to be all that, but she’s not:

She says the album stretched her to show how “over-reaching” she was being as a woman:

And the kicker. The thing she didn’t want to talk about for ten years: that whichever man was in the room with her got credit for her genius.

She goes on to detail the double standards for women in the industry, citing an example of how Kanye West manages to sail through production. That, despite him not making any beats in his music, no one questions his authorship. Ever.

She says now her focus is on developing and supporting other female artists.

The innovative musician, who was ranked 29th in VH1’s “The Greatest Women in Music” has been championed for her body of work, and now, we champion her for the most refreshingly candid thing we’ve read in AGES.