Ethel Cain - God's Country (feat. Wicca Phase Springs Eternal) [Official Video]
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- Опубліковано 8 лют 2025
- Directed and Edited by Hayden Anhedönia. Shot by Salem Anhedönia. Additional VHS visuals and graphics by Salem Anhedönia. WPSE Footage shot by Adam Chase.
Thank you to Wicca for being a part of this.
Salem:
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Wicca:
/ wiccaphase
/ kournikovax
Adam:
/ adamandrewchase
I don’t care what anyone says. The kids are still making beautiful music. And this is as beautiful as being young has always been.
There are always outliers and rare epochs where good taste prevails.
This is a modern masterpiece of underground whatever genre you call it.
The 90's tech awful cameras and videography aesthetic mixed with the recurring theme of smoking and insane, meaningless brand loyalty self-destructive consumerism (marlboro) coupled with meaningful, hard-hitting lyrics.
Transplanting late late 80's-90's era white [trash] southern culture themes into a setting modern enough to identify it is some serious uncanny valley shit. It's really uncomfortable and completely brilliant.
@@SonAndHeir16 pardon my words but what the fuck! SO well said!!!! In a way that I didn’t even think was possible! 🩵
Oh, I love the new generation's music and politics. The only thing I can't agree with is their fondness for caffeine free, non alcoholic beverages
The kids... Sacrificed goats
Few artists come out the gate with their image and aesthetic so fully formed. This feels like she's been at this for a decade or more already.
right?? i knew something was so different about her and her art, and you put it into words.
god's country ethel's world
this goes crazy
( . Y . )
yes
She's god
Hayden's world
Growing up broke in the south, in the nineties no less, this song feels like it's talking directly to me sometimes. Hell of a feeling.
Don’t it, though, brother. Sheesh! eerie, sometimes....that white “church “ dress Ethel has on....
Came here to say this. Feels like stepping into the stream of our memories. Damn, we've climbed those Texas welcome signs so many times.
I grew up SE Kansas in the 90s and same. Then when I moved to the big city (Tulsa) my friends lived in the hood and I told I felt more comfortable here than the “good” parts, told them it felt like home 😂
@@YungAzn Right. West Texas, North Texas, Oklahoma, it all blends together into a beautiful vista of ... exactly! Home! 🤠🤠😎😎🎸🎸
exactly
In the 80s we had the Cocteau Twins. I’m glad lush beauty carries on. Thank you Ethel Cain
I've been listening to "Heaven or Las Vegas" for like 4 years now.
Cocteau Twins are really something special. Makes me feel so happy, even if I can't understand what the real meaning is.. you can feel it.
Imagine a Cocteau Twins, Ethel Cain, Jeff Buckley collaboration
Tapadh leat!
I did not expect someone to mention the Cocteaus here :0 Great taste I fear
From a 50 year old lesbian in North Alabama. I am so glad I found your music❤
We have a lot in common
“Our kids will grow up with half as much, trying to build something out of dust”
As a 40 year old American, this line shatters me because I know that whatever we do it’s no use. It’s the truth.
Like the call of the void
I love that her songs are just whatever length they need to be; we get to experience a whole journey she's leading us gently through with her music
U can't take the church out of the person no matter how hard u try. I am an exmormon and I miss the church every day. Not the beliefs but the community the music. I grew with catholic relatives and that's also apart of me even if I don't like. Ethel Cain thank you for singing about the experiences of us church queers who left it but still think back fondly on it
ex christian and ive been feeling this a lot lately.
I miss nice people.
crying a lot rn cuz this is exactly how i feel
recovering catholic and i agree. it's been well over a decade since i set foot in a church but i do feel a sense of nostalgia for it.
Repent for the kingdom of heaven is at hand
@@Lastchance..repaint your walls
One of the most beautiful songs I've ever heard
Yes, and I've heard a lot of music but this...this Is something special 💘
@@Umbrey_Dunctum yes indeed
I overdosed to this song last month. Now here I am laying down on my balcony detoxing to it. Day 2 I feel terrible but I made a full circle it seems
TW*
im so proud of you ❤
💜🤍🩵
Hang in there. No matter what’s up today, or if you read this months later in withdrawals again, more broke than ever… still hang in there.
I’m still here. You can stay here with all of us still too.
love u
I found you over a year ago during some of my crazy drinking nights. I'm 53 but think I"m 24 still living in America in the 80s ;) I haven't gotten drunk in almost a year now. I found your channel again by accident tonight. Your videos remind me the 80s growing up. The haunting, nostalgic music is awesome! .....the homemade nostalgic videos were the other half! ....never forget that. :) Don't let the evil corporations do bland green screen sterile music videos! Happy 2023.
it should be illegal for an ad to pop up in the middle of a music video, disrupts the vibe fr
I love Wicca phase, how have I never heard of Ethel until now. Literally minutes ago I heard “Crush” and now I’m hooked!
I haven't found a songwriter who can capture a moment in time quite like she can, this is just fantastic.
Man....Ethel's/Hayden's fashion choices are just super interesting and beautiful.
I mean, her entire aesthetic is....it's all so visually rich and captivating.
I love that I'm a straight cis guy in my 30s finding fashion inspiration from a 20s trans woman with face tattoos.
lol....I love the modern world. Seriously. It's genuinely wonderful how diverse and beautiful people are and how we finally live in a world where all sorts of voices and perspectives can now be seen for how deeply interesting they are.
As a 38 year old....I'm kinda jealous of how limitless the younger generation is. They unshackled themselves in a way my generation didn't at their age. And now I'm learning how to do that more myself....from them.
Anyway....I'm rambling. I just think Hayden(Ethel) is a perfect example of why baby boomers need to stfu when whining about younger kids and stereotyping them based on what Tucker Carlson told them.
Gah....I'm ranting now. Bye. :P
The guys wear a jumper and black shades, hardly ‘super interesting’
@@camhealey96 The sun hurt his eyes and the jumper looked fly.
But my original comment was specifically about Ethel's look...not Wicca's. They both have something cool going on. Do you? But I hard love the visual universe of Ethel Cain specifically. Hence my original comment. I win.
@@avedic Why you going so deep, its not that big a deal haha
I'm with you man, forget the salty ones. I turn 40 in January and have also been on this journey for awhile learning from them what they have to teach!
@@xcountzerox what are you even talking about
Anyone else feel like they were born to listen to this song
Fcuk I'm bein reborn
I literally feel that exact feeling shit was meant to be
🛐
We are all here to bear witness to a miracle.
I feel like this song was made for me
Lyrics
The road is longer than it is hard
With no one to guide you
And no one to hold
No best foot forward to sway the odds
Just a voice inside you
And a stone to throw
Could you be someone else
If someone else is what I need
But I shouldn't ask that of you
When you are old you will understand
But we are hurting now
So what are we to do 'til then?
Cradling pictures of you
It was a highway to nowhere, and we rode it
Cold car with no gas and we chose it
Soft bodies playing in the street
Our kids will grow up with half as much
Trying to build something out of dust
Finding out too late what they need
You have tasted love and it tasted sweet
You drank the blood and bit the meat
You hold it, you hold it, you let it go
You close your eyes and count to three
You say the word and come to me
And baby I know
Drive the pathway through the pines
And the moors of mystery
Welcome conflict and let the crisis come
And shake the ground beneath
And the family secret hiding
In the farmhouse down the street
Rushes open door on your front porch and shadow me
Taken and entirely, I embrace the bonny beast
Over hills and highlands we rode hard, the passing peaks
Danger liked the virgin wife, beside me she would sleep
Cherry was her dad's truck that she crashed at seventeen
I kneel before what temper broke the branches on the beach
And those thrilling highs and southern nights are always out of reach
I learned a lesson
I need to pray and hard
Final hours take care of me, God (take care of me God)
You have tasted love and it tasted sweet
You drank the blood and bit the meat
You hold it, you hold it, you let it go
You close your eyes and count to three
You say the word and come to me
And baby I know
The road is longer than it is hard (love overwhelms me)
With no one to guide you (it's all that I want, and it's all that we have)
No best foot forward to sway the odds (but is it enough)
Just a voice inside you (to make it worth it in the end)
Don't sink in me with your dog teeth
Don't sink in me with your dog teeth
Don't sink in me with your dog teeth
Don't sink in me
Don't sink in me with your dog teeth
You've tasted love and it tasted sweet
You drank the blood and bit the meat
You hold it, you hold it, but you'll never know
You close your eyes and cry to me
Don't sink in me with your dog teeth
We're better off if you let go
If it was harder then
It will be better now
For I am here and changed
I couldn't tell you how
There before the grace of God go I laughing to myself
Forgetting what about
Fck ❤
This song is hauntingly achingly beautiful.
And the visuals perfectly capture the innefible feeling it conjurs in me.
I only discovered Ethel Cain like 5 days ago, and I'm so so grateful. What a gem of a discovery.....
I'm having that experience right now, in real time. And I can't get enough.
Yeah, she so lovely.
Yeah. Im crushing on her for about 8 days now. Instant obsession.
This makes me realize just how much of my youth I wasted. So much talent and creativity. Exciting to see someone so young have the ability and the empathy to put this out to the universe. I can't stop listening. Makes me happy and sad at the same time.....
There’s always still time, don’t give up on your dreams until you’ve seen them through to the end
I moved to Southern Virginia around the time I was pubescent. A lot of my memories there were very rough because I had to adjust to a southern town as a brown kid. But years later I moved out of that place. This song is genuinely healing because it turns the shitty memories of my past into good ones. Love you so much Ethel Cain keep up the work ❤
COULD YOU BE SOMEONE ELSE IF SOMEONE ELSE IS WHAT I NEED???? PLS I CANT
I ACTUALLY CANNOT
as someone that grew up taking road trips to see family, this means so much and captures it perfectly
Wicca is so good in this
rly high and watching this w noise canceling headphones. i think this is the greatest song of all time
That's awesome! I totally get it. :)
this made me cry and consider whether life is worth living if it isn’t beautiful. thank you miss ethel and miss edith. cheers to the art life.
Wicca snaps always. First time hearing ethal cain... I'm impressed over all
wicca phase honestly is a musical genius if we bein fr
Some of the best lyrics in a verse ive heard in a minute fr
tigers jaw slapped with
him too
Lol
@@BurnoutBushido For real lol.
He sucks. Almost ruined a good song.
I’ve been a Wicca Phase fan for years, I’ve recently discovered Ethal. I found out they made a song together, I then melted in happiness.
Most beautiful music video I’ve seen in a very long time
Ethel’s music sounds like true worship. Praise and love to the queer survivors of religion. We are as strong as we were hurt. 💜🥹
This video just makes me want to go on long road trips to random places and have fun with the friends I don't have 😢
I played this 2 days ago for my dying grandfather. This was the last song he heard. His only words for the past 4 days were I love you. I can still hear it. I hear the aging in his voice flashing in my head all the almost 27 years I have been alive. I love you baby, forever💔 my papaw passed away last night. I will miss him up until my last breath
Wiccas voice and lyrics makes me drift off to another dimension.
ever since I heard one song on spotify and decided to listen to the album, it's like it's playing in my head 24/7 now... I am so completely enchanted! this touches my heart, and moves me in ways I can't even express
"I'm from Florida.. bitch" is the funniest thing I've heard all damn day holy shit
God I love this song so much. I’m so thankful it exists in this world. So I can live through the American Dream I’ll never get
;/
Artists like this still exist?
this a whole feature film
immaculate vhs core
Hi! I stumbled upon Crush three days ago and I have been playing your music on loop since. This trak is my absolute favorite and it's giving me much needed strength. Thank you so much for sharing you talents with the world, you are making a huge difference
💯
Wicca came outta nowhere with one of the best verses I’ve ever heard lyrically. Ever. He’s such a legend. And mark my words Ethel is gonna go down as one of the most prolific artists and songwriters of a generation!!
What a song. And the video, with the locations and the people. It's so real. I've driven through most of those places, (WITH most of those people). I get a bit emotional watching this. I smile alot, and hold back tears a few times, too. Its so beautiful. A lot of people watching this may not understand just how beautiful this really is. I do, though. Thank you, Hayden.
Ethel Cain hits a specific niche for gay preacher's kids with severe religious trauma.
yes
Tip: define your life beyond just being gay. Or straight. Whatever. Y’all are obsessed with yourselves.
@@traxcltr8721 well this is a great part of what we are and what we had to get through growing up either liking or not, it isn't being obssessive with ourselves in a shallow, meaningless way.
I’m a Christian and constantly doubting my religion and then not and then doubting yet again. Thanks for this. 🙏
This is getting me through one of the worst moments of my life. I never knew music could mend my soul the way yours does. Every song makes me feel like you are healing pain you never caused, and I’m grateful for your music.
I was going to see you at Lolla this year, but I don’t think I’m strong enough to be in such a large crowd with my mental disorder making me reclusive.
need more music with wicca. You both fit together so well it's crazy.
Your spirit knows it's way. And I feel your spirit speaking to mine. Get it girl. Cuz you got this.
i've never even been to the us but something just moves me to tears i'm not sure what it is... maybe being so much *from somewhere*, being so anchored in that culture and connecting so much with its past, that's a feeling i never really knew and it's beautiful
This song occurs in my mind remembering my childhood living and going places in a car. Couldn’t find a good home to go. Sleep in the car. My mama hold me while she waits for dad’s shift over. Broke but still happy with my parents.
one of the greatest songs + videos i have ever seen/heard
this is literally one of the most beautiful things I've ever watched and I really mean it
Goth Boi Clique with the Goth Boi Soul
Ethereally present, gorgeous, trippy musical "docureality". I love your work.
Shocked this doesn't have even more views at this point, actual masterpiece
I'm from Nevada and this is pretty much my youth in the 1990s. All we needed was a pickup truck, some beer and the desert highways. Best life ever.
you’re fucking jokingggg this is so good. the filming and editing is just immaculate. got some sort of feeling in me at 6:56 where you throw your arms up right in time with that vocalization. You’re an amazing artist, musically as well as visually. You’ve really got something special.
could you be someone else if someone else was what i need?… but i shouldn’t ask that of you.
and this shit just gets better from there. banger
...that phrasing,tho
Phenomenal, best song of the year
Nostalgic, heavenly, carefree and everything I remembered back in the day. Ethel, thanks for this!
I really enjoy listening to this song without watching the video but doing so miss the warm lovely smile of the young lady who accompanies Hayden on the road trip.
Honestly top 3 songs of the year, and wicca gave the best feature ive heard in sooo long
I didnt know i needed your music until now. It found me.
this is absolutely beautiful wow
this is so insanely beautiful
i will never stop thinking about the earnhardt snippet included in this music video UGH this song is an actual masterpiece
You keep saving me every time I come back to this song.
this song came on my spotify discover somehow and I was totally moved by it. so fresh, so beautiful and authentic. been playing it for almost 6 months now.
Ethel Cain and Wicca Phase should make more songs together
This song hurts so good
There are things in this world I don’t understand but hearing this song gives me a sense of grounding, a understanding of sorts-Thank you for sharing cause it means a lot to me.🙏🏾
I can listen to this song for hours, have listened to it for hours. What is it about this song? Found it during covid, at one of the lowest points of my life, and it always comes back to me.
This is perfection and makes me feel whole.
I want to share this beauty with everyone. Wonderful song
I came here because the ending of this song sent me to a dreamy state while biking.
Wicca is undeniably the coolest guy on earth
His swag is so effortless yet impossible to replicate
I can't get enough of her music.
listening to this is a spiritual experience
THANK you for this song - drug - miracle - magic speLL - thing of upliftment
such an incredible collaboration
Wonderous and spiritual presentation. You could teach the angels to sing Ethel. 👏👏👏👏👏👏
Fantastic stuff. I love your choice of visual style that you put with the Music.
I literally can not stop listening to all your music. I just discovered you after your calibration with Florence on Morning Elvis. Absolutely in love!
this song will forever be my favorite of all time this is pure talent
this song gives me purpose and it makes me wanna cry in a 'god speaks through me' kinda way
this is epic
Beautiful sound, beautiful girl x
revisiting this vid bc this is still one of my fave songs ever
No shoes, no budget. Just a film camera and a beautiful voice
Your music, this song specifically, has helped me immensely through a massive brain injury due to an abusive ex partnership, which was followed by the loss of any family or friends. I’m so grateful that I found your music and always will be 😭 I cry to this as a method of healing and therapy 🫶🏻 I was declared dead after that accident, twice, and this has always been the first song I ever listened to again after I was revived. Thank you. 🫶🏻
This is amazing!! One of my favorite songs on Inbred. Also, love the cameo by Jack.
Ethel you are a true artist. Thank you for making the music that you do. Recently discovered your music and saw you in LA at the Greek. Always look forward to your music. Such soul and heart in your music, vocals, and lyrics and as a vocal coach in LA I appreciate true talent like yours. Looking forward to your new music soon!
This song is so incredibly beautiful. The video feels like it was found in someone’s old camcorder. Well written, we’ll performed, great video work, directing, editing. All of it. Fucking art
i am not even joking when i say i just got into ethel a few minutes ago cus my friend was talking abt her music and i’d been meaning to listen but never got around to it so i finally decided i would.. this is the third song ive listened to so far and it rlly drew my attention because ive been listening to wicca for like six years so i haddd to listen to this and oh my god it did not disappoint at all theyre voices together is so crazy im in love
i have listen to this song now 100 times today and im not even kidding
Listening to WPSE playlist and this came up and I went through all of Ethel Cain's music on UA-cam that is on their channel and a few bonus ones and I honestly like or love every track. It hits nearly everything I want to hear in a song(s) so thank you and please keep up the good work.
Please come to Chicagoland area sometime!
Other songs pass me by like a light breeze against my skin, but this song speaks directly to my soul.
What an amazing artist, can't put it into words how good this is
Grow up trans in the south FL a lot of this music speaks to me. Cant wait to Ethel Cain in concert.
Love your sound and lyrics beautiful ❤