Maisie Cousins
Anna Calvi has posted the brand new track As A Man with her Hunter album due tomorrow.
This video is joined by one for the previous single and title-track, both of which were directed by Matt Lambert. Head to Apple Music to watch the newest cut. “If a woman wants to be powerful she’s expected to exhibit ‘male’ traits,” she contends.
“The woman in the song is trying to understand a man by imagining becoming him, but as it progresses she asks the man to become more like her instead. There’s been a lot of encouragement for women to become more like men if they want to get their voices heard, or be powerful. But there hasn’t been enough effort to get men to become more like women. Men are brought up believing that to be feminine is to be weak.”
“If there is to be equality, both sexes need to be able to move to the middle of the spectrum. This song is about finding freedom in the non-binary world.”
“Strip back rock and roll and you’ll find lust and sex – its name comes from it, after all”, Live4ever’s album review reads. “The Hunter is about all the other stuff we complicate it with and Anna Calvi has used it to come out from everything, including her own body.”
