She expanded on that a bit in another interview with Stereogum's Scott Lapatine in 2008, noting that the song was directed at her baby brother, who apparently was acting like a self-destructive jerk back in the mid-90s."The lyric is about people who feel sorry for themselves all the time and don't get their shit together. You come to a point with people like that where you've done everything you can do for them, and the only thing that's going to sort them out is themselves. It's time to get things done."
"It's sort of a big sister telling a little brother off song."
Björk's pixie-with-a-flame-thrower delivery and that unstoppable, grinding groove make "Army of Me" one of her more immediate, most accessible tunes. And few songs make me want to get off my butt and get moving quite like this track.
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