I'm pretty sure this song is about strippers, more literally, but it demonstrates how this is a form of prostitution as the woman has to dance for angry and fancy men, and money that burns her hands. In a sense, she is being prostituted, as "woman-as-object".
I also think that one can take this prostitution concept and transpose it to artists: "I'm singing for that burns in my hand". How the artist or musician must prostitute themselves and their art for money and to the taste of the public.
I don't think that is too far of a stretch, considering The Knife's relationship with the media and their feelings about 'selling-out' their music and art.
I'm pretty sure this song is about strippers, more literally, but it demonstrates how this is a form of prostitution as the woman has to dance for angry and fancy men, and money that burns her hands. In a sense, she is being prostituted, as "woman-as-object".
I also think that one can take this prostitution concept and transpose it to artists: "I'm singing for that burns in my hand". How the artist or musician must prostitute themselves and their art for money and to the taste of the public.
I don't think that is too far of a stretch, considering The Knife's relationship with the media and their feelings about 'selling-out' their music and art.