The melody-line of Human behavior was originally called "Murder for two" and written by Björk for the Sugarcubes' final album "Stick around for joy". But The 'Cubes didn't know what music to play to the melody-line, so Björk used it for her "Debut"-album and transformed the song into a minimalistic, exotic dance-track instead-. The percussion intro is a mix between African and Asian rhythms and contains a sample from "Go down dying" by Brazilian artist Antonio Carlos Jobim.
 

I suppose you all know "Human behaviour" was the first single from the "Debut"-album. It was released as a cassette-single in June 1993, with the chilled out reggae-track "Atlantic" on th B-side. It was quickly followed by a CD EP and 12 inch vinyl-single, containing remixes by Underworld, Speedy J, The Bassheads and Björk's then-boyfriend Dom T. The lyrics are about Björk's very complex family. "My son has eight grandmothers and eight grandfathers and it's about the love and the complications of that", Björk explained in The Sunday Times. Michel Goundry created a really bizarre video for this song, where Björk is running around in a forest, being chased by a bear. Björk tries to escape by start flying but she crashes on a road and gets run over by a car driven by the bear....