Make a Man

"Make a Man" received critical acclaim for its intense criticism of female objectification and toxic masculinity. Källström described it as ""the story of a heterosexual female’s battle between desiring a man, whilst simultaneously finding herself having little respect for his self-important ego and misogynistic attitude towards women. She retaliates by objectifying him herself"

Yeah, i liked this song for the desperate expression of female sexuality you rarely hear in mainstream music. If there's politics in it, they've covered it well. I think maybe people want to see the whole stupid men vs. women thing, but it's not there. No artist would be dumb enough to break every living person down into a convenient soulless political pawn.

What I see is a repressed woman, brought up in polite circles/local culture, finally breaking through some of the taboos she's been taught. She goes from being ambiguous "I wanna take you out all night" to simply " I wanna fuck you and fuck you" which is her admitting an aspect of herself her culture doesn't allow. The man she chooses isn't some low class out of work ratbag. She's both infatuated with his well-to-do ness, status and money, (a reflection of her family culture) and simultaneously believes herself to be a "lower class".

So to a point it's "aspirational rock" in the same way that Oasis "Cigarettes and Alcohol" and "Some might Say" is aspirational rock - they all want to be middle class and above, even if they are already.