Bat For Lashes affixes a female gaze onto a Springsteen standard

In Hear This, A.V. Club writers sing the praises of songs they know well. This week, we’re talking about songs that were originally created by men but were better covered by women.
Bat For Lashes, “I’m On Fire” (2006)
The way Bruce Springsteen sings it, “I’m On Fire” is the sound of the big bad wolf serenading his prey. With a combination of bad-boy edge and earnest vulnerability, Springsteen evokes the thrilling, terrifying feeling of standing on the precipice of experience, much like Joyce Carol Oates did in her famous short story “Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been”:
‘My sweet little blue-eyed girl,’ he said in a half-sung sigh that had nothing to do with her brown eyes but was taken up just the same by the vast sunlit reaches of the land behind him and on all sides of him—so much land that Connie had never seen before and did not recognize except to know that she was going to it.