Why does a pop album about female power sound so much like witchcraft?

Guys, we gotta talk about Florence and the Machine's latest album.

Everybody Scream.

Now, I know liking Florence and Machine, I've been told it's kind of like Gen Y or millennial,

but just Google her, look her up on Apple Music.

I'm sure you've seen her music in movies and on the radio,

if you still listen to the radio. But this is the deal. Why does this album about female empowerment

come up so flat? Because what I think when you listen to it, it will show you that feminism's

real promises about how we can control our own

bodies and how bodily timing and empowerment are the pinnacle of success and how we find

happiness, it's all lies. The album was inspired or maybe compelled by Florence's decision to step back from Constitoring to pursue a family in her late 30s.

But that longing ended in the loss of her child in a terrifying near-death experience with an ectopic pregnancy.

When we look at the album's lyrics, we find a very specific spiritual worldview.

There are songs on this album with names like Sympathy Magic, Witch Dance, The Old Religion, and my personal favorite,

You Can Have It All, which is a huge lie.

Florence reveals a spirituality that's rooted in ritual and self-definition and the songs are

actually revealing a woman desperate for peace but the spirituality that she turns to

is chaotic at one point she talks about reaching to the ancestral plane and the

witches that she's communing with say, how should we know?

As if they don't have any wisdom for her. It doesn't rely on the natural transcendence or the

objective moral order of any kind. In an interview with Rolling Stone, Florence shared that

she was looking for meaning regarding the loss of her child.

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