During his acceptance speech for best actor at this year’s Screen Actors Guild Awards, Timothée Chalamet made known his desire to be remembered as “one of the greats.” A few years earlier, Chalamet starred in Greta Gerwig’s adaptation of “Little Women,” in which his character demonstratively asks his future wife, “What women are allowed into the club of geniuses, anyway?”

“Everybody Scream,” Florence + the Machine’s sixth album, is a response to that familiar, gendered notion. Across its 12 tracks, Florence Welch contends with both her desire for greatness and the constraints she understands to have been put on her as a female artist.

It’s unclear if Welch had Chalamet’s viral speech in mind when writing, “One of the Greats,” the album’s lead single. But what is apparent in her b

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