Bjork: The Package, the Fan, and a Deadly Obsession (REWIND)
DISGRACELAND
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🗓️ 3 May 2026
⏱️ 36 minutes
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Summary
A deranged fan. A deadly package. And one of the most innovative musicians on the planet. This is the true story of obsession, art, and attempted murder. This is Björk in Disgraceland.
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This episode was originally published on June 10, 2025
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| 0:00.0 | This is exactly right. |
| 0:10.3 | Double Elvis. |
| 0:13.9 | Discos, welcome back for another trip into the disgrace land archive, this time to pay a visit to the Icelandic Princess Bjork and one of the most |
| 0:22.5 | harrowing true crime stories and near misses from music history. This was one of those stories that I |
| 0:29.3 | completely missed when it happened. And I don't know how. This story, the story of Ricardo |
| 0:34.0 | Lopez's deadly obsession with a pop star who was seemingly everywhere at the time back in |
| 0:39.5 | 1996. This story must have been hard to miss, but somehow I did, probably because I was rolling |
| 0:44.4 | around America in a crappy van with a bunch of smelly bandmates and preoccupied. Anyway, once I finally |
| 0:50.8 | did hear about this story, years later, I couldn't believe how weird and eerie it was. |
| 0:57.0 | And of course, once I launched disgrace land, |
| 0:59.0 | I knew I'd one day tell this story in audio format. |
| 1:02.0 | So here it is. |
| 1:04.0 | This story has been depicted all over YouTube and in some pretty sensational ways. |
| 1:08.0 | I tried to do a better job than that. |
| 1:10.0 | I try to lean into the thriller aspect of this story. I tried to do a better job than that. I try to lean into the |
| 1:11.5 | thriller aspect of this story. I tried to really show who Bjork was as an artist and how she |
| 1:17.0 | used her home terrain literally, the land and the elements from Iceland, to form her singing style. |
| 1:24.5 | And I also tried to dramatize the fact and focus on the fact that there was a |
| 1:28.9 | ticking time bomb in this story that was about to go off, one that was set to kill one of the biggest |
| 1:34.9 | pop stars in the world at that moment. That seemed, those things at least seemed as interesting to me |
| 1:42.1 | as the weirdness of Ricardo Lopez's grease paint and shirtless body that you're going to find on YouTube. |
| 1:48.0 | Anyway, we released this one not too long ago back on June 6, 2025, but seeing that we've got a lot of new listeners coming into the feed at the moment, I thought it would be cool to pull one of my favorites out, if for no other reason, and then to make sure that this Bjork episode doesn't get overlooked in our massive archive. |
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