Was auf den ersten Blick wirkt wie eine persönliche Sehnsucht, entwickelt sich eher zu einem viel weiter gefassten Aufruf nach Fortschritt, wenn der Song seine kreative Verwirklichung in der Verabschiedung des diskriminierenden Transgender-Gesetzes von North Carolina findet.

EVIAN selbst sagt zu „I Need A Man":
„Serge Gainsbourg fans will recognize the reference from Histoire de Melody Nelson. I was listening to that album incessantly last February when the HB2 law passed in North Carolina, my home state. Amidst the routine chaos of global tragedy, things at home were crumbling. My home state was falling back into the dark ages, sexual abuse was (and is) everywhere... the music industry, my NYC community, everywhere. And the police were getting away with murdering young black men across the country - on video. So with all of that going on and "Melody Nelson" in my head, I latched onto Gainsbourg the provocateur and made my voice a twisted version of his story. I imagined part of me was Melody, the naive teenager in Serge's strange story of love and innocence lost. 'I need a man I can trust.' It's more of a conversation starter... is there such a thing? My hope is that people in my community and abroad will start to look out for each other more, and take more action in preventing abuse and violence.

We recorded most of the song at Figure 8 in Brooklyn, and then caught some last-minute time for overdubs at the Magic Shop before it closed its doors for good. I sang on the mic that Bowie used for his last few albums, a Shure sm7. This was only a few months after he died, and I could feel his presence lingering."

Der Sound von „Premium" erinnert an eine in Sonne gebadete Kassette von Alben wie „Pet Sounds" (BEACH BOYS) oder „All Things Must Pass" (GEORGE HARRISON), komponiert mit leidenschaftlichen Gitarrenklängen, inkl. Pedal-Steel-Gitarre, Wurlitzern und kultigen Synths aus dem 20. Jahrhundert. Inspiriert durch Künstler wie JACKSON BROWNE, SHUGGIE OTIS, SLY AND THE FAMILY STONE, aber auch beeinflusst durch gegenwärtige Interpreten wie CASS MCCOMBS, MAC DEMARCO, CHRIS COHEN oder WHITNEY (mit denen EVIAN im Herbst in Nordamerika auf Tour ist), beinhaltet dieses Album Musik die dafür gemacht ist, sie hautnah zu erleben; weitläufig, verträumt, spaßig sowie entwaffnend offen und ehrlich.