lust

The young couple fall into lust, then love, over beers in a Latin American cowboy bar, Uyghur street food and then in a shabby basement apartment.

In the album’s focus track, “Montón,” an upbeat reggaeton track, the artist surrenders herself to the natural motions of love and lust.

Yet his behavior and policies — which are rooted in political sadism and a lust for unchecked power — tell a different story.

Such a decision would be catastrophic, serving only a madman’s lust for power and revenge — and causing America’s democracy to cease to exist.

Just as outside corporations extracted coal until the land and communities were depleted, outside political forces extracted votes with grand promises, acting in their lust for power, until the reservoir of trust was drained.