Something I most appreciate about Ethel Cain is her encouragement of patient listening. We’re living in a time where we’re flooded with easily-digestible 2-minute songs (not a dig at any of those artists, I enjoy plenty of those songs myself), so it’s really refreshing and mentally stimulating every time Hayden takes us on 7+ minute journeys with her music. These songs start soft and delicate and build into something devouring, explosive, and cathartic. Listening to songs like “Punish,” “Thoroughfare,” and “Two Headed Mother,” there comes a tipping point when I feel my whole being buzzing, as if I’ve taken the first plunge on a roller coaster. Few artists have ever made me feel that intensity of being swallowed up by sounds and I’m so excited that I get to experience Ethel Cain as she creates new art.
The monotonous sound of what seems to be an old swing set is so haunting but it feels universal. Very grateful for the exchange of energy as always. Lovely song
At first I just thought it was a distorted vocal. But it does sound like a swing, and I like that visual a lot. I was a lonely kid and I remember just swinging by myself a lot so it I like that connection.
Whatever's wrong with me I will take to bed I give in so easy Nature chews on me Little death like lead Poisonous and heavy It has always been this way It has always been this way I am punished by love I am punished by love In the morning I will mar myself again He was a natural Plauché, saying "You won't forget this" Shame is sharp, and my skin gives so easy Only God knows, only God would believe That I was an angel, but they made me leave They made me leave I am punished by love I am punishеd by love I am punished by love I am punishеd by love
@synesthesia.aesthetic Perverts is a more personal concept album, more so about the specific topic of the actual definition of Perverts. (Besides the harassment part it's known for) it focuses on its meaning to corrupt or distort from the original intent/state. So the Cain story will eventually continue, but she is going to be put to rest for a long time. Perverts will not have characters/overarching story.
3:43 "That I was an angel, but they made me leave. They made me leave" Holy shit i can already tell I'm going to go absolutely feral analysing this album. This part just hit me right in the chest
It sounds like a chair sliding back and forth on a wooden floor - almost like reference to Ethel getting up and down from the chair. Or is it something more... perverted?
Watching her walk down the corridor and the face reveal at the "they made me leave" bit oh my my freckles have floated from my body on the ceiling and the goosebumps I am receiving Absolute art. I love you mother cain so much
After reading your post about the current irony epidemic, I’ve realised that sometimes I when I want to comment something, I jump to a joke just because the current state of the internet has deemed comments that appreciate art “doing too much”, and “too serious”. For once I feel like I can really just say that this was a beautiful piece of art that means so much to me, and I can’t wait to see what’s next.
your ability to stretch only 2 verses across 6 minute songs will always impress me. you always let songs breathe and grow, it’s while they feel so atmospheric and heavy. another excellent piece of work 🖤
sometimes music speaks louder than words ever can, That’s what this song feels to me. This and "Caring Ghost" by Mysteriousic both songs hit a place deep inside me that I don’t often visit, this is a masterpiece of all masterpieces
The face emerging from the shadows at the climax of the song was so great, I was hoping that was going to happen and it did, this video is pretty impressive from a technical standpoint with the use of lighting and shadows I love everything about it
The background creaking sound idk it sounds like doors opening and closing with rusty hinges. But the more i hear it, the more it sounds like the last sound of a cattle being slaughtered. It's haunting me just the way the first time I heard it when I was young.
I'm so grateful I’ve experienced the phases of the Ethel Cain project. I've been a longtime listener who originally discovered White Silas (then Ethel later) so watching this video made me fucking proud. She got the coins to execute the vision and WOW I'm speechless at the visuals. Props to Hayden (duh) but Silken really understood the assignment. They work so well together, I'm super excited to see the future of their work ( if it continues).
I don't think a song has ever done anything to me like what this song does to me. I played it for my friend, lying in the grass in freezing weather outside our dorm at night -- she looked at me and said "nothing has ever made my brain feel so quiet". I just kind of cease to exist for 6 minutes when I listen to punish which is so silly goofy!!!! The only song that does something similar is the studio version of Georgia by Phoebe Bridgers but this is a whole new level
ive been listening on repeat this is INCREDIBLE!!! its so haunting but beautiful and i CANT WAIT for the rest of the album! i love the background noice, reminds me of a broken old rusty swing set
I just discovered your work a few weeks ago, after reading your incredible tumblr post about how we're drowning in irony, and I think the sincerity and unabashedness of your music and videos is really a liferaft from that drowning. Even though so much of it harkens back to older eras of music, and older eras of art in general, it really feels like a way forward. Thank you and don't stop being who you are.
this made me cry. her voice is so sweet and soft, yet powerful. the way she sings every word from her soul gives me chills. i can't wait to hear the album, she is truly brilliant and talented.
i listened to this for the first time last night and 3:50 took my breath away. i couldn’t stop myself from audibly reacting and just saying “oh my god.” genuinely, most music doesn’t get a reaction out of me the way yours does. i will forever appreciate your ability to create songs that completely and totally surround me. great work as always, hayden. i’m so excited to hear the new project in its full glory.
eeee i have the jitterz waiting for this drop. i am beyond excited for the journey this album will take my mind and ears on, eyes as well. you just know exactly how to express your art and i will appreciate that forever. never stop creating, i love your brain. i heart being an ethel cain fan. it’s happening to every-body.
The creaking sounds kinda sound like muffled voices or strained last breaths of someone on their death bed as their lungs give out, they’re so eerie but also weirdly familiar. They set the tone of the song so perfectly.
I just want to say this makes me feel less alone and puts to feeling something of course I couldn't in words, but you give us so much more than just concept, you give us a universe to step into and a story that builds upon itself and something primordial... I feel like I just found something floating up from my bathtub that I lost as a child "that I was an angel, but they made me leave" and then those heavy chords and ur face ahhhhh wow
Your music always leaves me with physical goosegumps and i think that means something tbh. the haunting vibe of this song really captures a specific emotion and visceral feeling that i can point to and nod to within my own life.
Perverts and it’s whole context makes me feel safe and contained with that fact that I know that I can’t feel good being in my body and even if I can’t find it at this very moment, I’ll find it one day and let it happen and I’ll be whole and complete. Love u forever and always for creating art that makes me want to be in my skin🫀🫶
I am beyond grateful I stumbled across your music, Hayden. Unfortunately, I discovered you a week after a show of yours in the Netherlands and the most recent one I was unable to attend. However, I hope you know how brilliantly haunting your music, your voice, and your poetry is. A once in a lifetime artist.
this was such an unreal experience. hayden you are such a visionary. you are such a storyteller. your imagery and the power you wield is unmatched and it genuinely feels like i’m being stabbed in the chest to listen to this in the best. way. possible. holy shit.
i forget if this project is about pd ethel or a different cain woman but something about the horrible ways people who "loved" her treated her in her life works in tangent with the overarching notion that "god loves you but not enough to save you" to illustrate this theme is so raw. in her words, she truly has been punished by "love."
This feels like when you finally realise it wasn’t ‘love’ what you experienced and went through, it was full on SA, but you won’t forgive yourself or stop blaming yourself because you loved him, and still do. But you were a child and didn’t know any better. Punished by love.
Damn. This is such an intense and painful realization. So much power within you to allow yourself to see it for what it was. May you extend compassion and the love you deserve to yourself. It can get better. It’s a very hard road to travel to love yourself and release shame, but I promise it’s worth it. We deserve true love and the good things in life.
@ i saw this and couldn’t help but respond. I’m on the healing journey and it sucks but there’s more light now. I dearly hope you find the right support so you can keep moving forward. Sending so much light your way and to those who have been dehumanized when we didn’t deserve it.
@ You are an angel. I wish you lots of strength on your healing journey as well. May you be guided, helped, and lifted up. We didn’t deserve this, but healing from it we do. Sending sooooo much love your way
I always live for the guitar near the end. Hayden has always been a master in production but there’s something so solid about this one so excited to listen to this album
The bar was set extremely high with preacher's daughter. Definitely ready for something of that caliber. This song here reminds me of Emma Ruth Rundle or Chelsea Wolfe, who are both incredibly talented as well, definitely a good direction to take
discovered your music two years ago and fell in love with it immediately. i can’t verbalize how happy it makes me to know that your new project is coming soon, i am looking very forward to listen to it ♡
Its even more haunting and beautiful than I could have imagined, thank you so much for taking us one step closer to it. I cannot wait to feel it's embrace.
After listening to the full song I really don't know what to say, like the lyrics, her vocals, and background vocals. THE GUITAR PART. I'm so excited for what's next on this album. You've done it again Hayden
Holy hell, my breath literally halted for a moment when the guitar came in, this is BEAUTIFUL. I'm so thrilled for the new album, Hayden's vocals are absolutely mesmerizing
Chills. Hayden, if you see this - I love you - this song cuts me so deep in the most beautiful way. I would have related to this up until a couple of months ago. I am in a beautiful, fulfilling relationship for the first time in my life, and it’s hard sometimes with trust, but I have never felt this much love for and from another human being. I am truly happy. Listening to this is definitely a bittersweet experience. I should also note that listening to preachers daughter the first time inspired me to write a novel - which I am still working on and love so dearly. I’m using it similarly to how you use Ethel, but with my own life. It would mean the world to me if you read it someday. Your art inspires art. Thank you for all that you do
Listening to this is a godsend. It's like I'm completely discovering the song again. The sounds, the textures, the visuals that go with it... It feels very cathartic. Thank you so much for this piece of art 🤎
Mine broke a few days before the release so I had to hear this song for the first time with only one earbud. I can’t wait to get new ones and truly experience the dimension of this song the right way.
"I am on my way there again now. I am, I am, I am! But I will not tell you the viseral details, as you already know them. You all do. It's happening to every-body."
ive been listening to you and watching your yt videos for about a year and a half. youve gotten so far and its crazy to see people admire this aesthetic, im so proud you brought light to it. i relate to you so much, and ur music has helped me realize there is people like me, im not alone in this mess of a world, someone understands my mind.
Ethel you captured such a specific feeling here. The feeling of wrestling with God. I know exactly what you mean when you say only God knows, yet I still plead with him to remember the child I used to be, before it all fell apart, and now I know what you mean when you say it’s happening to every-body.
Holy fucking shit. Where do I even begin. The visuals are beyond incredible; I’m going to give my best shot at describing them as someone who’s highly uninformed on this subject: the noise and grain, especially in the shots taken inside that room with the oven, add so much to the graphic magnificence of the video; even though the video was mostly black and white, except for that dun light blue myst, it still felt like watching a video full of colors and details to grasp form every single pixel. I don’t know who it is that shot and orchestrated this, but damn. Incredible. My favorite shot was the one taken in the hall, with Hayden walking towards the camera. But to be fair, there wasn’t such thing as a bad shot or one that I did not like. Everything, from costumes to set: astounding. I am in awe. As for the song, I’m still digesting it and still wondering how someone’s writing can be this raw and puissant, increasingly getting more visceral and linear as the years go by. It’s the first time a song doesn’t leave space for me to think of any cryptic hidden detail, or make a personal thought about what a certain line could refer to. No convictions. I get lost in the song, between sounds and words, and I can’t find a way out. It surprised me, dare I say it exceeded all expectations. Part of me almost loathes this project, I, as a songwriter and someone generally interested in art, specifically music, know for a fact my brain will never conceive anything this monumental and ephemeral. Thanks is the very least we can say, being in awe is a certainty. I’ve tried to keep it as short as possible, I’d have so much more to say but I think it’s best if I let the song sprawl inside me for a while before prolonging this commentary. Thank you Hayden, this song alone is an entire treasure, I can’t imagine what the entire project will do to me, to the others, to the world and what it’s done to you.
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Have you been punished?
@@samuwamu4299 no, I was granted what I wanted
The “got milk?” of our generation.
@@headinthewall stop omg 😭
Yes literally right now
I have been punished. And i will be punished over, and over, and over again.
It's nice to see my favorite Legend of Zelda youtuber trying out music!
Deadass😂😂😂
i was gna like this comment till i saw it had 666 likes ITS PERFECT
Very funny
damnn beat me to it😂
Something I most appreciate about Ethel Cain is her encouragement of patient listening. We’re living in a time where we’re flooded with easily-digestible 2-minute songs (not a dig at any of those artists, I enjoy plenty of those songs myself), so it’s really refreshing and mentally stimulating every time Hayden takes us on 7+ minute journeys with her music. These songs start soft and delicate and build into something devouring, explosive, and cathartic. Listening to songs like “Punish,” “Thoroughfare,” and “Two Headed Mother,” there comes a tipping point when I feel my whole being buzzing, as if I’ve taken the first plunge on a roller coaster. Few artists have ever made me feel that intensity of being swallowed up by sounds and I’m so excited that I get to experience Ethel Cain as she creates new art.
this
pinkpantheress shade
@@BValklol
this is such a beautiful way to put it ur so right
THIS!!
An actual official new track feels unreal, can’t believe it’s happening
Well it’s happening to everybody
@@mutilationangel001😼
@ and now it happened to everyone
Have we always been punished? BUT WHY?
It's happening to everybody
“it has always been this way” and then when the guitar comes in… I’m obsessed
I read your comment first and still made the stank face when that guitar came in. I wasn't ready. 🥲
OMG right!!! My chair almost gone, my body unprepared, and an album I cannot want to hear!
i had headphones in, i was never going to be ready for when that guitar comes in
the ring that she was talking about a year ago finally makes appearance
EXACTLY.
THAT WAS A YEAR AGO???
@@dean0mean0 ikkrrr time flies rapidly
it’s the cover of 004 on soundcloud aswell
YESSSSSSS
It's happening to every-body
HII OOMF
and its happening TONIGHT!!!!
OMG OMG YESSSSS IT IS
Q: I don't have a body, I have a chassis, will it still occur to me?
Nooooo
The monotonous sound of what seems to be an old swing set is so haunting but it feels universal. Very grateful for the exchange of energy as always. Lovely song
At first I just thought it was a distorted vocal. But it does sound like a swing, and I like that visual a lot. I was a lonely kid and I remember just swinging by myself a lot so it I like that connection.
she admitted it's a swing on her tumblr!
the sadness of a child bringing reminiscent tears to our hearts of stone, and we can no longer hide
Ik its a swing (chair) but at first I thought it sounded a lot like the word mom too
It’s very nostalgic I love it
Not to hype this up but I'm expecting the most transcendental album ever produced by a human being
Words can't express how much her art means to me.
Brat Summer is done, the winter belongs to Mother.
PERVERTS WINTER IS CUMING
punishment winter
perv winter
ate
Definitely cool we can have both!
Dropping this not only a new moon, but a SCORPIO new moon, a sign of rebirth, death and shadows. This is powerful diva
It truly is happening to everybody
🖤🖤‼️
TEAAA
ON HALLOWEEN TOO
Scorpio season November babies wya
Whatever's wrong with me
I will take to bed
I give in so easy
Nature chews on me
Little death like lead
Poisonous and heavy
It has always been this way
It has always been this way
I am punished by love
I am punished by love
In the morning I will mar myself again
He was a natural Plauché, saying "You won't forget this"
Shame is sharp, and my skin gives so easy
Only God knows, only God would believe
That I was an angel, but they made me leave
They made me leave
I am punished by love
I am punishеd by love
I am punished by love
I am punishеd by love
I hear the preacher's wife overcome with mourning, unfinished desire and shame.
@@synesthesia.aesthetic Ethel Cain has passed and now I must reconcile her childish behavior
@@synesthesia.aesthetic this has nothing to do with that, ethel confirmed. Preacher's Wife album is coming after
@@a.a677 oh?
@synesthesia.aesthetic Perverts is a more personal concept album, more so about the specific topic of the actual definition of Perverts. (Besides the harassment part it's known for) it focuses on its meaning to corrupt or distort from the original intent/state. So the Cain story will eventually continue, but she is going to be put to rest for a long time. Perverts will not have characters/overarching story.
this is the closest I’ll ever get to feeling spiritually enlightened
3:43
"That I was an angel, but they made me leave. They made me leave"
Holy shit i can already tell I'm going to go absolutely feral analysing this album. This part just hit me right in the chest
the creaking in the background sounds like breathing in and out weakly it's feels so emotional
or like even being on a rocking chair in pain
It sounds like a chair sliding back and forth on a wooden floor - almost like reference to Ethel getting up and down from the chair. Or is it something more... perverted?
it reminded me of those old playground swings that make the same awful creaking with every swing
At first, I thought it was moaning. I don't know, still not sure...
@@notevenbeerwith a touch of a sonar beep? They’re probably personally sampled recordings of regular things messed with in a DAW.
The use of light and darkness in this music video is hauntingly beautiful ugh this is a whole experience
are you kidding me this is the most beautiful mv ever ???
Real
Watching her walk down the corridor and the face reveal at the "they made me leave" bit oh my my freckles have floated from my body on the ceiling and the goosebumps I am receiving
Absolute art. I love you mother cain so much
I believe this is the first time I’m truly grateful for tiktok for showing me such an astounding artist
Thank you Ethel, you are a blessing 🥀
After reading your post about the current irony epidemic, I’ve realised that sometimes I when I want to comment something, I jump to a joke just because the current state of the internet has deemed comments that appreciate art “doing too much”, and “too serious”. For once I feel like I can really just say that this was a beautiful piece of art that means so much to me, and I can’t wait to see what’s next.
ur pfp i cant 😂
Well said 😊❤️
great point!!
I just scattergun the internet's comment sections - if i feel like it. Getting a little tipsy beforehand helps NGAF!
I’m so glad I exist at the same time as Ethel Cain
FR
your ability to stretch only 2 verses across 6 minute songs will always impress me. you always let songs breathe and grow, it’s while they feel so atmospheric and heavy.
another excellent piece of work 🖤
So intrigued to delve more into this album’s themes and characters, the reveal at 3:48 is ingrained into my mind
sometimes music speaks louder than words ever can, That’s what this song feels to me. This and "Caring Ghost" by Mysteriousic both songs hit a place deep inside me that I don’t often visit, this is a masterpiece of all masterpieces
I feel like I'm being set on fire when that searing guitar comes in and it feels GOOD
same. i was hoping it would happen and when it did i ascended
If you ever get bored of music, you have a good career making 1930s German horror films in your future.
Oh definitely
that part.
u strike the roots of my soul on a level that i cannot even explain
Real talk bro
There’s something so powerful to the sound, like rage mixed with suffering to express this pain described in the song, ugh too good ❤
The face emerging from the shadows at the climax of the song was so great, I was hoping that was going to happen and it did, this video is pretty impressive from a technical standpoint with the use of lighting and shadows I love everything about it
wake up babe new dissociation music dropped
The background creaking sound idk it sounds like doors opening and closing with rusty hinges. But the more i hear it, the more it sounds like the last sound of a cattle being slaughtered. It's haunting me just the way the first time I heard it when I was young.
I'm so grateful I’ve experienced the phases of the Ethel Cain project. I've been a longtime listener who originally discovered White Silas (then Ethel later) so watching this video made me fucking proud. She got the coins to execute the vision and WOW I'm speechless at the visuals. Props to Hayden (duh) but Silken really understood the assignment. They work so well together, I'm super excited to see the future of their work ( if it continues).
I don't think a song has ever done anything to me like what this song does to me. I played it for my friend, lying in the grass in freezing weather outside our dorm at night -- she looked at me and said "nothing has ever made my brain feel so quiet". I just kind of cease to exist for 6 minutes when I listen to punish which is so silly goofy!!!! The only song that does something similar is the studio version of Georgia by Phoebe Bridgers but this is a whole new level
ive been listening on repeat this is INCREDIBLE!!! its so haunting but beautiful and i CANT WAIT for the rest of the album! i love the background noice, reminds me of a broken old rusty swing set
I actually teared up at the guitar drop. I've been having a really difficult month and this is the perfect way to end it, thank you
I hope the rest of your year is easy and pleasant
Hayden, my mother has passed away last tuesday, I know for sure your new music will fulfill the emptiness I'm feeling right now...
i’m so sorry for your loss, my dad passed away last year and preachers daughter helped that fresh deep wound 😭
Sorry for your loss 🕊️
my heart is with you, im deeply sorry for your loss! ❤
im so sorry for your loss
Wishing you nothing but peace as you grieve🫂
I just discovered your work a few weeks ago, after reading your incredible tumblr post about how we're drowning in irony, and I think the sincerity and unabashedness of your music and videos is really a liferaft from that drowning. Even though so much of it harkens back to older eras of music, and older eras of art in general, it really feels like a way forward. Thank you and don't stop being who you are.
3:50 the slow melodic sounds make this absolutely soul crushing I love it so much
The vocals in the background are so unsettling but also weirdly comforting as well? Such an intelligent way to use them.
i was blasting this on aux at the halloween party
i got banned from aux 😢
@@naturalbl00dstainedbl0nde same
you had no choice
Realllll
You at the wrong party 😔
Genuinely in love with the sound and production of the music you make, there's so much texture to it and it's SOOO GOOD
I finally sat down to listen. Breathtaking 🖤 I have never felt so nervous to listen to a new piece of work because of what it may make me feel.
ON HALLOWEEN TOO. SCREAMING
this made me cry. her voice is so sweet and soft, yet powerful. the way she sings every word from her soul gives me chills. i can't wait to hear the album, she is truly brilliant and talented.
it’s happening to everybody over and over again and again
This is insanely beautiful and haunting, one of your most poignant songs yet. I can’t wait to see what you have in store
i listened to this for the first time last night and 3:50 took my breath away. i couldn’t stop myself from audibly reacting and just saying “oh my god.” genuinely, most music doesn’t get a reaction out of me the way yours does. i will forever appreciate your ability to create songs that completely and totally surround me. great work as always, hayden. i’m so excited to hear the new project in its full glory.
eeee i have the jitterz waiting for this drop. i am beyond excited for the journey this album will take my mind and ears on, eyes as well. you just know exactly how to express your art and i will appreciate that forever. never stop creating, i love your brain. i heart being an ethel cain fan. it’s happening to every-body.
I wish i had a blunt so I could enjoy this 1000% better. However, this was magnificent. I'm so glad you're back!
I'm high, enjoying it 1000x and I'm using this comment as a reminder of sobriety.
The creaking sounds kinda sound like muffled voices or strained last breaths of someone on their death bed as their lungs give out, they’re so eerie but also weirdly familiar. They set the tone of the song so perfectly.
I just want to say this makes me feel less alone and puts to feeling something of course I couldn't in words, but you give us so much more than just concept, you give us a universe to step into and a story that builds upon itself and something primordial... I feel like I just found something floating up from my bathtub that I lost as a child "that I was an angel, but they made me leave" and then those heavy chords and ur face ahhhhh wow
Your music always leaves me with physical goosegumps and i think that means something tbh. the haunting vibe of this song really captures a specific emotion and visceral feeling that i can point to and nod to within my own life.
I'll be living inside this song for a good while.
Perverts and it’s whole context makes me feel safe and contained with that fact that I know that I can’t feel good being in my body and even if I can’t find it at this very moment, I’ll find it one day and let it happen and I’ll be whole and complete. Love u forever and always for creating art that makes me want to be in my skin🫀🫶
thanks to this I was able to enter for a few minutes, thank you
😿
me-too firstntime i-did too,
I am beyond grateful I stumbled across your music, Hayden. Unfortunately, I discovered you a week after a show of yours in the Netherlands and the most recent one I was unable to attend. However, I hope you know how brilliantly haunting your music, your voice, and your poetry is. A once in a lifetime artist.
this genuinely changed my life. your art is so unique and beautiful. i’m so excited for perverts
Watching this in a haze after having a nightmare bc I fell asleep waiting for it to drop. Beautiful work Hayden, thanks
I think my life is divided into before and after I heard this song
this was such an unreal experience. hayden you are such a visionary. you are such a storyteller. your imagery and the power you wield is unmatched and it genuinely feels like i’m being stabbed in the chest to listen to this in the best. way. possible. holy shit.
i forget if this project is about pd ethel or a different cain woman but something about the horrible ways people who "loved" her treated her in her life works in tangent with the overarching notion that "god loves you but not enough to save you" to illustrate this theme is so raw. in her words, she truly has been punished by "love."
This feels like when you finally realise it wasn’t ‘love’ what you experienced and went through, it was full on SA, but you won’t forgive yourself or stop blaming yourself because you loved him, and still do. But you were a child and didn’t know any better.
Punished by love.
Took the words right out of my mouth. Thankyou.
Damn. This is such an intense and painful realization. So much power within you to allow yourself to see it for what it was.
May you extend compassion and the love you deserve to yourself. It can get better. It’s a very hard road to travel to love yourself and release shame, but I promise it’s worth it. We deserve true love and the good things in life.
@@Saavycupcake Thank you so incredibly much
@ i saw this and couldn’t help but respond. I’m on the healing journey and it sucks but there’s more light now. I dearly hope you find the right support so you can keep moving forward. Sending so much light your way and to those who have been dehumanized when we didn’t deserve it.
@ You are an angel. I wish you lots of strength on your healing journey as well. May you be guided, helped, and lifted up. We didn’t deserve this, but healing from it we do.
Sending sooooo much love your way
Hollyyyyyyyyy cowwwwwww it’s happening to us all right now finally!!!
Everybody is about to be happened to by it
I always live for the guitar near the end. Hayden has always been a master in production but there’s something so solid about this one so excited to listen to this album
your music never ceases to amaze me, literally one of the best artists of this generation. never been this excited for an album before
The bar was set extremely high with preacher's daughter. Definitely ready for something of that caliber. This song here reminds me of Emma Ruth Rundle or Chelsea Wolfe, who are both incredibly talented as well, definitely a good direction to take
Agreed
discovered your music two years ago and fell in love with it immediately. i can’t verbalize how happy it makes me to know that your new project is coming soon, i am looking very forward to listen to it ♡
The visuals are absolutely gorgeous, I specifically love the shot before you remove the veil, I would get that tattooed
Its even more haunting and beautiful than I could have imagined, thank you so much for taking us one step closer to it. I cannot wait to feel it's embrace.
After listening to the full song I really don't know what to say, like the lyrics, her vocals, and background vocals. THE GUITAR PART. I'm so excited for what's next on this album. You've done it again Hayden
i’ve never had an artist more accurately depict my thoughts and the way i feel into music before
Listening to this, playing Legend of Zelda totk, and drinking half a Dr Pepper. Best Halloween ever!!
Also crying like three times.
spent halloween by myself crying this just made me cry more
Sending love ❤
I care abt u if u ever wanna talk im here for u girl
i love you
Holy hell, my breath literally halted for a moment when the guitar came in, this is BEAUTIFUL. I'm so thrilled for the new album, Hayden's vocals are absolutely mesmerizing
So glad u are alive making these sick beats frfr this song is incredibly good something like I've never heard before!!
I can feel my cells condensing and expanding as I’m waiting 🪽
Chills. Hayden, if you see this - I love you - this song cuts me so deep in the most beautiful way. I would have related to this up until a couple of months ago. I am in a beautiful, fulfilling relationship for the first time in my life, and it’s hard sometimes with trust, but I have never felt this much love for and from another human being. I am truly happy. Listening to this is definitely a bittersweet experience. I should also note that listening to preachers daughter the first time inspired me to write a novel - which I am still working on and love so dearly. I’m using it similarly to how you use Ethel, but with my own life. It would mean the world to me if you read it someday. Your art inspires art. Thank you for all that you do
the intro and the subtle swing noise in the background are truly and beautifully haunting 🖤
Listening to this is a godsend. It's like I'm completely discovering the song again. The sounds, the textures, the visuals that go with it... It feels very cathartic. Thank you so much for this piece of art
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The way she says "it has always been this way" just absolutely fucking crushes me
No one has ANY right to be this level of ethereal, haunting and talented but Hayden. No one.
bought new headphones just for this song
Mine broke a few days before the release so I had to hear this song for the first time with only one earbud. I can’t wait to get new ones and truly experience the dimension of this song the right way.
literally frothing at the mouth im so excited rn
omg the beat to a swing set is something that I so appreciate; it’s hauntingly beautiful.
bruh i love this! i love the gentle piano and the sound of her voice. so calm yet sad and sorrowful at the same time
"I am on my way there again now. I am, I am, I am! But I will not tell you the viseral details, as you already know them. You all do. It's happening to every-body."
Where is this from?
The piece Hayden wrote: The Consequence of Audience
It's on her tumblr!!
ive been listening to you and watching your yt videos for about a year and a half. youve gotten so far and its crazy to see people admire this aesthetic, im so proud you brought light to it. i relate to you so much, and ur music has helped me realize there is people like me, im not alone in this mess of a world, someone understands my mind.
Of course the music speaks for itself.
The visual imagery too is so powerful.
Thank you for this gift.
This is beautiful 🖤I'm incredibly excited for the new album.
The voice, the visuals, the instrumentals and the video is pure art
Going to be fighting for my life for the next 6 hours waiting for this to release
Edit: HOLY FUCK GUYS
your music touches something inside me that i thought was gone. thank you for being you
Ethel you captured such a specific feeling here. The feeling of wrestling with God. I know exactly what you mean when you say only God knows, yet I still plead with him to remember the child I used to be, before it all fell apart, and now I know what you mean when you say it’s happening to every-body.
Holy fucking shit. Where do I even begin. The visuals are beyond incredible; I’m going to give my best shot at describing them as someone who’s highly uninformed on this subject: the noise and grain, especially in the shots taken inside that room with the oven, add so much to the graphic magnificence of the video; even though the video was mostly black and white, except for that dun light blue myst, it still felt like watching a video full of colors and details to grasp form every single pixel. I don’t know who it is that shot and orchestrated this, but damn. Incredible. My favorite shot was the one taken in the hall, with Hayden walking towards the camera. But to be fair, there wasn’t such thing as a bad shot or one that I did not like. Everything, from costumes to set: astounding. I am in awe. As for the song, I’m still digesting it and still wondering how someone’s writing can be this raw and puissant, increasingly getting more visceral and linear as the years go by. It’s the first time a song doesn’t leave space for me to think of any cryptic hidden detail, or make a personal thought about what a certain line could refer to. No convictions. I get lost in the song, between sounds and words, and I can’t find a way out. It surprised me, dare I say it exceeded all expectations. Part of me almost loathes this project, I, as a songwriter and someone generally interested in art, specifically music, know for a fact my brain will never conceive anything this monumental and ephemeral. Thanks is the very least we can say, being in awe is a certainty. I’ve tried to keep it as short as possible, I’d have so much more to say but I think it’s best if I let the song sprawl inside me for a while before prolonging this commentary. Thank you Hayden, this song alone is an entire treasure, I can’t imagine what the entire project will do to me, to the others, to the world and what it’s done to you.
this is hauntingly beautiful it feels like a new voice, a new sentiment, a new feeling. absolutely in love.
never stop
making music pls
Pls never
Waking up to heavy rain and then this video was the kinda dark melancholic moment I didn’t know I needed. Sonically and visually profound as always.
i love you ethel cain