Cheery Songs About Unintended Pregnancies #3: Ace of Base--"All That She Wants"

While I can only speak from my limited experience in this case, when someone mentions "unintended pregnancies" I think of them as typically being unintended by both partners. However, as Heart's "All I Wanna Do (Is Make Love to You)" has clearly shown, it is possible for the pregnancy to be intended by one half but not the other (although the roadside hunk in Heart's song is hardly blameless here since he clearly didn't use any protection that night--so many times, so easily, no less). We have a similar case with Ace of Base's "All That She Wants," although the motivation here is quite a bit different than in Heart's case:

In "All That She Wants" the song is quite literally about a woman who goes out and has sex with guys in order to get pregnant. Now, some have claimed that when the chorus goes "All that she wants is another baby," it only means that she wants is another lover (someone to call "baby") since the opening does say that "She leads a lonely life," but I don't think that meaning holds up as well as the unintended pregnancy one. She is clearly dedicated to one-night stands, as the lines "She's gone tomorrow boy" and "It's a night of passion / But the morning means goodbye," make clear. However, the whole predatory angle that the song goes for--"She's going to get you" and "She's a hunter you're the fox"--suggests something more "sinister" is going on here.
 
The explanation that she wants to get pregnant works with the one-night stand angle, her loneliness, and the whole "She's going to get you" aspect of the song. Not only would having children (in her mind at least) help with her loneliness, but the song suggests a financial motive as well. At the beginning of the song she has woken up "late in the morning" and her first thought is "Oh what a morning, / It's not a day for work / It's a day for catching tan." These are not the signs of someone especially committed to working for a living (and I've seen the sign, and it opened up my mind), so we can assume that another baby will provide her with material as well as emotional comfort.

While I can't say that sounds like her life is going to get any less lonely any time soon (especially since if its another baby then she already has at least one), I guess she's in pretty good spirits on this particular sunny morning, so more power to the cheeriness of this song about unintended pregnancies!

Just watch out, she going to get you...either that or the sheer catchiness of Ace of Base will.