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.
...the conundrum she finds herself in is that fucking her way to the fulfilled happiness she needs doesn't work. She tries "one time two times..." but she "...can't even feel it". It doesn't work. The emotional vacuum of the family that sent her out looking for a man with status to give her meaning can't be solved with sex. Later on the album in "Lilac" she tells girls to watch out for that. And its just like Oasis finding out that blotting out a shit life with cigarettes, alcohol and apathy, or even slogans of hope, ...
...the conundrum she finds herself in is that fucking her way to the fulfilled happiness she needs doesn't work. She tries "one time two times..." but she "...can't even feel it". It doesn't work. The emotional vacuum of the family that sent her out looking for a man with status to give her meaning can't be solved with sex. Later on the album in "Lilac" she tells girls to watch out for that. And its just like Oasis finding out that blotting out a shit life with cigarettes, alcohol and apathy, or even slogans of hope, doesn't work. All things are fine temporarily, but they don't solve the underlying issue.
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.
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...the conundrum she finds herself in is that fucking her way to the fulfilled happiness she needs doesn't work. She tries "one time two times..." but she "...can't even feel it". It doesn't work. The emotional vacuum of the family that sent her out looking for a man with status to give her meaning can't be solved with sex. Later on the album in "Lilac" she tells girls to watch out for that. And its just like Oasis finding out that blotting out a shit life with cigarettes, alcohol and apathy, or even slogans of hope, ...
...the conundrum she finds herself in is that fucking her way to the fulfilled happiness she needs doesn't work. She tries "one time two times..." but she "...can't even feel it". It doesn't work. The emotional vacuum of the family that sent her out looking for a man with status to give her meaning can't be solved with sex. Later on the album in "Lilac" she tells girls to watch out for that. And its just like Oasis finding out that blotting out a shit life with cigarettes, alcohol and apathy, or even slogans of hope, doesn't work. All things are fine temporarily, but they don't solve the underlying issue.