Anna Calvi has two new videos to share for fans of the singer — film for her current single “Hunter,” and a performance video for a new track, “As A Man” — both are from her upcoming album Hunter, releasing August 31st, 2018. The videos were directed by the Berlin-based filmmaker and photographer Matt Lambert, much of whose work explores queer love and intimacy.
Therefore, it seems appropriate that in the track “Hunter”, Calvi celebrates the different aspects of pleasure and finding community and home in queer spaces. According to Calvi, it is about “exploring a more subversive sexuality, which goes further than what is expected of a woman in our patriarchal heteronormative society.” Lambert said of the music video for the song, “The ritual of self-love and body-exploration for many queer individuals is the first step toward feeling confident intimate moments with others.”
Calvi had this to say about the themes expressed in “As A Man”: “If a woman wants to be powerful she’s expected to exhibit ‘male’ traits. 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.”
Hunter is available for pre-order here.
Watch the “Hunter” music video below. “As A Man” can be viewed through Apple Music here.
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