
The Subversive Power of Fever Ray and Yves Tumor
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Karen's Love Is Not About You, It's About You
Karen is an enigmatic figure, but at this point we do know a few things about them. They've clearly been through a lot and I think they bring this wisdom to this album in a way that I'm not sure if I've ever felt in their music before. But there's a real sense of like unease even in the songs about sex and desire,. Like in shiver, which to me seems like one of the most kind of like overtly sexual songs. It's got a lyrics like killer skies, thick thighs. Some girls will make you blush, some girls will making you shiver...Some girls you want to thrust, someGirls you want to see shiver.
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