Rub 'til It Bleeds, PJ Harvey

So, you've probably realized by now how much i love PJ. Each album she shifts into entirely different territory. Rid of Me is her most ferocious album, all the instruments explode so boldly, it's heavy and subversive, the productions so raw and plays with dynamics so successfully, and it's accompanied by some really angry (and quite scary) post-feminist lyrics.

Listening to the opening of this song is absolutely beautiful: soft and quiet as the listener just waits for the song to explode. She coughs, she's sick... I'd say fucking mad. As when the song takes off, it's just chilling. The drums are turned up to the max, as is her vocal to create this really aggressive attitude as she calls the man weak. "And I'll make it better/I'll rub it 'til it bleeds..." Make of it what you will, for me it's like something off the most exploitative horror film, something I couldn't sit through on the internet. An absolutely gruesome image of Polly giving a ferocious handjob, until she makes the man bleed - subverting all the gender roles out there. Which is reflected in the heaviness of this song - for people who never listen to female singers because they're too gentle, this is for you. I'd love to go more into the sexual undertones of the song, but won't for fear of sounding like a dick... Anyway, I hope I've introduced more people to the many sides of PJ Harvey throughout my blog so far, I think there's something for everyone in her discography.