Strangers (Official Visualizer) - Ethel Cain
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- Опубліковано 5 кві 2022
- Official visualizer for "Strangers" by Ethel Cain.
Buy/Listen: ethelcain.ffm.to/strangers
Website: daughtersofcain.com
Instagram: / mothercain
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spoken:
god is telling you and i there is death, for all of us
but then we find that the scriptures also tell us that we have a great promise, that there is a better place for those who believe in the lord jesus christ
v1:
in your basement, i grow cold
thinking back to what i was always told
don’t talk to strangers or you might fall in love
freezer bride, your sweet divine
you devour like smoked bovine hide
how funny, i never considered myself tough
pre-chorus:
you’re so handsome, walking over to me now
chorus:
i tried to be good
am i no good
am i no good
am i no good
with my memory restricted to a polaroid in evidence
i just wanted to be yours
can i be yours
can i be yours
just tell me i’m yours
if i’m turning in your stomach and i’m making you feel sick
v2:
when my mother sees me on the side
of a milk carton in winn-dixie’s dairy aisle
she’ll cry and wait up for me
we’ll make love in your attic all night
euphoric in some strange delight
i’m happier here cause he told me i should be
pre-chorus:
you’re so handsome when i’m all over your mouth
chorus:
i tried to be good
am i no good
am i no good
am i no good
with my memory restricted to a polaroid in evidence
i just wanted to be yours
can i be yours
can i be yours
just tell me i’m yours
if i’m turning in your stomach and i’m making you feel sick
bridge:
am i making you feel sick
am i making you feel, am i making you feel sick
am i making you feel, am i making you feel sick
am i making you feel sick
am i making you feel sick
am i making you feel sick
outtro:
found you just to tell you that i made it real far
and that i never blamed you for loving me the way that you did while you were torn apart
i would still wait with you there
don’t think about it too hard
or you’ll never sleep a wink at night again
don’t worry ‘bout me and these green eyes
mama, just know that i love you (i do)
and i’ll see you when you get here
i didn’t think a song about cannibalism could be so beautiful
Fr lol
A lot of my favorite songs are about cannibalism... it's just got the horrifying story but can be twisted to be romantic in such a weird way.
@@ShadowIsStillAliveI politely demand a playlist
@@lindsayschuster302me too
i’m pretty sure cannibal is a bad word to use bc of the racist origin ofnit
The outtro sends me into spiraling anxiety, I cannot comprehend. She forgives her mother. She's leaving to heaven. She never got to say goodbye. Her mother will never know she forgave her. She's finally free. I want to hug my mom.
FOR REAL
"With my memory restricted to a polaroid in evidence"
Now if that isn't the most heartbreaking lyric :))))
Can u explain this pls 😭
@@hehehaha3396 She is dead, and her body has been destroyed. The only physical remnants left of her now are the photographs her family gave to the police for the missing posters, and perhaps the photographs taken by her murderer as he killed her.
periodT
why am i thinking of dahmer and photos he took of his victims who he cannibalised
LORD the part where she starts singing “am i making you feel sick?” and the guitar playing behind it sounds like she’s screaming it (3:55) gives me chills, this entire song makes me cry so fucking hard it’s unreal
That was her singing both parts💙
"And i'll see you when you get here." Is probably the line that makes me want to cry the most.
right?! WHY DOES THE ENDING HURT SO MUCH!
@@scoutinglegion8601 IDK, ITS SO STRANGE!! Perhaps it's the promise of a happy ending after such a tragedy, and maybe the hope of that bittersweet future makes us sad it hasn't happened sooner
It's the cruel opposite of what the mother-daughter relationship should be... mothers are supposed to be cared for and outlived by their daughters, not the other way around. There's a word for a widow (spouse has died), orphan (parents have died), but no specific word for a bereaved mother. It's not supposed to be that way, where a girl dies and tries to console her mother from heaven.
@@dsch0i cried
Her being in hell with her father, it can also mean a threat (someone Imposed this as a theory I think)
This song reminds me of what it felt like to romanticize the idea of my abusive partner killing me. It was the only coping mechanism I had. In our last conversation, he told me I made him feel sick.
wow
🌚
"Don't think about it too hard or you'll never sleep a wink of night again" makes me writhe like a demon charred by her godly words
Besides the obvious macabre theme of being cannibalized by your murderous lover, there's something very tragic in this song, in that it's... rather romantic? To me, it reads that Ethel (the character) is reflecting on her life, wondering if she ever lived up to anything, or if she just ended up disappointing everyone in her life. "I tried to be good, am I no good?" So she acquiesces, if she can't be good in the moral sense, then hopefully as her body is consumed, she will at least taste good. She constantly calls her murderer handsome, and begs to be his, because even as she leaves the material world behind, and her material remains are consumed, she still seeks some belonging, some validation. At least in being eaten, she is now a part of him. She even shows concern for him, asking "Do I make you feel sick?" and forgives him for his deed, "I never blamed you for loving me the way that you did." It just reads as a hurt soul, whose self image was so damaged, and whose life was filled with so much regret and shame, that in the act of being consumed, she looks for a semblance of what she always wanted--acceptance, belonging, acknowledgement that she is good--in her murderer and even tries to comfort him as he reflects on what he has done to her. She was so badly hurt in her life, that she is still in love with this man for the attention and desire he shows her, even if that culminated into her death and consumption. It's poetically tragic :'(
I interpret the line "I never blamed you for loving me the way that you did" as being aimed towards her mother.
I agree with @Ink Static, but your interpretation is still really beautiful.
Yes, definitely! So tragic to think she’s still seeking validation in the afterlife… To add on from this, I like to think the part in the instrumentals of her repeated asking “Am I making you feel sick?” & the sighs as relief, it feels good making him sick. It was her way of finally taking control for the first time in her (after) life over a man who has hurt her
From where I read the verse “I never blamed you for loving me the way you did” was Ethel finding her father in the afterlife. Hence her saying this verse beforehand, “found you just to tell you that I made it real far.” She’s telling him, after finding him, about her life on earth and forgiving him for treating her the way he did. I’m not saying I’m right, or that the article I read was right, but just throwing this out there for anyone who may care idk lol.
@@InkAndPoet That makes more sense in retrospect. Thank you for pointing that out!
I honestly think the last verses about "I never blamed you for loving me the way you did while you were torn apart" is talking to her mom, making sure she doesn't feel guilty about the things her dad did to her and she not being possible to rescue her daughter of the trauma and everything. That's my conception :)
i agree and tbh it drives me crazyy that most ppl think that line is about her dad or isaiah
I have a severe cannibalism phobia to the point where the concept makes me gag, but I still think this is one of the most beautiful songs ever 💕
Wth does cannibalism has to do with this
@@melodicvirginia so did you listen to the song or?
@@yelling5780 i have many times enlighten me
@@melodicvirginia
“Freezer bride, your sweet divine, you devour like smoked bovine hide”
“If I’m turning in your stomach and I’m making you feel sick”
“Your so handsome when I’m all over your mouth”
The main character in this album is murdered and in this song her murderer is eating her body.
@@retroreactiveable is there a full analysis of the album somewhere? Because it sounds like it has a lot of storytelling i didn’t catch up on.
The fact that I just learned about this album a couple hours ago is a crime. I think this is one of the best albums I’ve heard ever.
If this album isn't admitted to the ranks of the classics in a couple years, then the classics can't be worth much. She wrote such heartrendingly beautiful lyrics, the production of the songs is outstanding, it carries such personal depth.
@@dsch0, Unfortunately, this is pretty much an Indie album, which means it might not get widespread recognition. However, I think that if any album deserves to be remembered from this modern music era, I agree it should be this one.
ME RN
me. rn.
I just found her couple minutes ago
“i tried to be good, am i no good? am i no good?” makes me break down sobbing every time. this song is so tragic and so beautiful at the same time
Idk how she did it, but this woman made murder and cannibalism sound romantic and I live for it
Now THIS is how you close an album. Preacher's Daughter is going to be a classic album.
UPDATE: I just finished the whole album. I am not exaggerating when I say this is one of the best albums I’ve heard past DECADE. The storytelling, the production, pacing, outros, cinematic feeling, attention to details, sticking melodies, bitter and sweet emotions, sad and frightening moments. From now on I divide my life before and after listening to this album. It’s music and artists like you that make life worth living. Congrats for putting this masterpiece together. 👏. 👏. 👏.
Speaking of Daughter, her tone in this songs really reminds me of Elena Tonra
A child's empty bedroom, left just the way it was before an innocent daughter went missing. Maybe her favorite stuffed bear left on the bed, waiting for her owner to return.
This is easily my favorite visualizer of the record, and those belting notes at the end of the song bring tears to my eyes every time. This album is a masterpiece of a tragedy. Thank you for keeping the concept album alive.
3:48 is something so special to me omg
This song is disgusting and so sad, and I love it for it. I gag when I listen to the lyrics. Legit I’ve never had such a vivid emotional response to a song before, and I fucking love Ethel for it. Meemaw forever
i didn’t know the meaning when i first heard it but now i do and fuck it makes me nauseated but i love it
so many things to say about this song, but what's most devastating to me is how ethel romanticizes the whole situation from the very beginning; she says "don't talk to strangers, or you might fall in love" when we've all been told, usually from childhood, that we shouldn't talk to strangers because /something bad/ might happen to us, and that's exactly what happened to ethel. and yet she tells this song as if it's a love story. and the bridge of the song is terrifying when you know the context, but it's just as impactful to me without the context - it's as if a lover is asking their lover "have you grown bored of me, have you grown tired of me?" by saying "am i making you feel sick?" just insane. one of my favorite tracks of all time for sure.
Okay but as someone who had abusive parents I love this song so much. The need to be loved by someone, anyone, that you start to believe that it's your fault that no one ever has.
No one mixes horror and religion like Ethel Cain did
religion is horror
Maybe it's naive of me, but I like to think that Ethel's ( the character ) mother and any siblings she may have start searching for her and they eventually uncover her remains and are able to bring her murderer to justice. The thought comforts me after such a bittersweet ending to the album.
The line "a polaroid in evidence" makes me wonder if Isaiah is eventually tried and convicted for killing her.
i really would love to believe that but since we know that the next album preachers wife is gonna be about her after ethels death im trying to keep an open interpretation of how this could go strictly because hayden is so good at unexpected stories
Apparently the next album will be from ethels moms perspective. The first half being about her and her husband and the second about her after ethels disappearance/death so she may find out.
She’s got a point , she’s an icon she’s a legend and she is the moment. Now come on now 🤍🤍
i love how the (bridge) "Am I making you feel sick?" questions were answered by a single "No". Just shows how much of an evil Isaiah is.
Where did you hear a voice saying "No"?
Your music is like a drug. A drug that takes you on a journey... sometimes down disturbing, traumatic or maddening paths. But it does so holding your hand the entire time and returns you safely.
couldn't have said it better myself xx
And I tried to be good, am I no good, am I no good, am I no good" I just wanted to be yours, can I be yours, can I be yours, just tell me I'm yours" guts me to a level it feels literal. To be in an abusive relationship that gaslights you to feel like you have to beg for their love as you are being abused. I cannot listen to this song without crying so hard. Sure I didn't end up in the freezer but I definitely could have. I barely lived in the ER that night in 2004, sick f*ck. This is such a visceral recreation of that feeling. I have to listen to this album in a different order to get through it emotionally. Hayden (also my 24 year old son's name) you have created a beautifully dark story through some of the most beautiful music I've ever heard that can touch so many experiences in my life and although I'm not going through exactly the same kind of nightmare currently I'm hoping this music reaches someone who needs to escape before it's too late for them. I can listen to this and feel comfort knowing I got away without being completely devoured. It's truly a masterpiece you should be so proud of. ❤️
I really hope this album comes to vinyl one day.. because it would be utter perfection..
hayden wanted to make vinyls but her label said no, apparently. i hope she makes cds though
this is my first time hearing a full ethel cain song and I have no words. I listened to this on my way to college and I had to stop myself from screaming in the bus when I heard the bridge. she’s insane
ive listened to this every second of the day, cried to it, please never stop making music :ddd
I just saw the mom putting missing posters of Ethel up on her bedroom window in the visualizer and I feel sick 😭
ur kidding me the ghost (?) of ethel showing up on the bed a few mins in is so... wow
It's as though Ethel's mother leaves the room exactly as it was when she left for the last time... so even after years, she occasionally stumbles in, expecting to see her daughter again.
How can meemaw do this to us?
also around 1:20!! it's so haunting
In your basement, I grow cold
Thinking back to what I was always told
Don't talk to strangers or you might fall in love
Freezer bride, your sweet divine
You devour like smoked bovine hide
How funny, I never considered myself tough
You're so handsome, walking over to me now
I tried to be good
Am I no good?
Am I no good?
Am I no good?
With my memory restricted to a polaroid in evidence
I just wanted to be yours
Can I be yours
Can I be yours
Just tell me I'm yours
If I'm turning in your stomach
Am I making you feel sick?
When my mother sees me on the side
Of a milk carton in Winn-Dixie's dairy aisle
She'll cry
And wait up for me
We'll make love in your attic all night
Euphoric in some strange delight
I'm happier here 'cause he told me I should be
You're so handsome when I'm all over your mouth
(When I'm all over your mouth
When I'm all over your mouth)
I tried to be good
Am I no good?
Am I no good?
Am I no good?
With my memory restricted to a polaroid in evidence
I just wanted to be yours
Can I be yours
Can I be yours
Just tell me I'm yours
If I'm turning in your stomach
Am I making you feel sick?
(Am I making you feel sick?)
Am I making you feel sick?
Am I making you feel
Am I making you feel sick?
Am I making you feel
Am I making you feel sick?
Am I making you feel sick?
Am I making you feel sick?
Am I making you feel sick?
Found you just to tell you that I made it real far
And that I never blamed you for loving me the way you did
While you were torn apart
I would do it with you there
Don't think about it too hard
You'll never sleep a wink at night again
Don't worry 'bout me and these green eyes
Mama, just know that I love you
And I'll see you when you get here
"while you were torn apart, I'd still wait with you there"
love how this song is after ethel got cannibalized ❤️
@@enfpny huh? What? Can you enlighten me?
@@GoodCharacterBoy In Ethel’s Album ‘Preacher’s Daughter’, It’s Split Into Two Sections. The Second Half Starts With Thoroughfare Which Goes Through A Whole Story Of Her And This Guy.
In Thoroughfare, She Sings About Meeting A Stranger And Decides To Travel To The West With Him.
In Gibson Girl, The Guy Is Now Drugging Her And She’s Starting To Like It.
In Ptolemaea, She’s Starting To Hallucinate From All The Drugs She’s Been Given.
In August Underground, She’s Managed To Escape Her Boyfriend But She’s Chased And Killed By Him.
In Televangelism, She’s Ascending Into Heaven.
In Sun Bleached Flies, She’s Arrived To Heaven And Is Reflecting On Her Parents, Her First Love And Her Dad.
In Strangers, She Is Now Being Cannibalised By Her Killer And Leaves A Message To Her Mum From The Grave
@@JMac-27 what do these lyrics mean is Ethel referring to staying as a ghost with her mother until she dies as her mother is emotionally torn apart after her death?
The first time I heard this song I was moved to tears just due to the instrumentation and her voice, now reading into the lyrics for real, it's even more chilling and sad. What a fantastic song. The structure is incredible. Highly, highly anticipating the rest of this record.
Got introduced to this song by the "I just wanted to be yours. Can I be yours? Can I be yours? Just tell me I'm yours" lyrics and let me tell you I was not prepared for the full song. Listened through the whole album and cried 10/10 broke my heart
The hannigram edits are gonna be wild
😂😂 I was sobbing until I saw this comment ffs now I’m laughing
god i’ve been listening to this song for nine months and today was the first time i actually listened to the lyrics (i’m not a native english speaker so i tend to listen to the vibes mostly). i looked them up after hearing the cannibalistic undertones and now- i just feel like bawling. i knew the general themes of the album and that she does get cannibalized but i had no idea it was so clear in the themes of the lyrics in this song. got chills when she was singing “am i making you feel sick?” along with the guitar
The ending always makes me cry...It's a struggle listening to this in public.
The first three lines of the song, the way Ethel sings them...remind me of a warm late spring day with the smell of the gardens in the air.
The vocals, the lyrics, the vibe, the outcome... A MASTERPIECE! I love all ur music 💕 there’s no other artist that does it like you :)
imagine a Collab with Lana 🥺🥺🥺🥺
@@diamantescozec3213 that would be iconic!!! 😫🤚
im sobbing so bad. it hurts.
This song and Western Nights are my favorites on this EXCEPTIONAL album. The bridge on this song breaks me yet feels so carhartic at the same time.
You are the Hope Sandoval of this generation...
I’m crying at how beautiful this is especially if you listened to the demo 😢
Just finished listening to this album for the first time, it's 2:03 am, i'm sweating and i want to cry and this is one of the best things i've ever heard
This is actually breathtaking are you kidding the story telling and poetry, I feel like I had a spiritual revelation and went through the 5 stages of grief at the same time listening to this album but maybe that’s the brownie I ate lmao. Love you so much mother ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️
every now and then a song comes along that hits everything you've been wanting - this is that song. it is so beautiful, so lyrically unique and somehow tragically relatable when broken down, and so well produced - it just hits you.
This might be her best song
What do you comment when words can't convey how good something is...... I guess this...
Honestly one of the most beautiful/haunting songs I’ve ever heard. You hit this wayyyy out of the park. It’s perfect.
This song feels more devastating when it’s about being eaten by her murderer
Ethel! I sure hope you see this..........
Because Caroline Polachek just talked about you on a podcast that recently came out!
I got all giddy when I heard her say, _"I think the most over the top addiction to a song I've had recently is a song by Ethel Cain called Crush."_ She then goes on to talk about what it is about that song, and your music, that she loves so much. As a huge fan of your music...and Caroline's music...it made me so giddy to hear her talking up your stuff.
And I just had to find a way to tell you. I hope you somehow see this comment so it can make your day like it did mine. :)
The podcast is Lorem Life and it's the episode from Feb 18, 2022 with Caroline Polachek. It's around 25:15 that Caroline starts talking about you.
Anyway....just wanted to pass that along. I've been a huge fan of your stuff for over a year now...and I'm convinced you're going to explode into as realized and creative and fascinating an artist as Caroline Polachek herself is. So it's just so cool to see a genius like her recognizing the creativity and talent I've noticed in your own music/art for some time now.
Later!
So glad you posted this, I'm a huge Caroline fan too and can't wait to hear what she says
I know this comment is like 11 months old but they’re touring together this year I think
@@Greg-it4fu lol I know! It's so cool. I guess Caroline really loved her stuff and decided to give her this amazing opportunity.
This album is special, it has something no other album does.
This song is special, with such details! It is orobably my favourite song!
All I have to say is, underrated.
This track took my breath away.... Wow. So excited for the album! Thank you for all your amazing music. 💖
It's not very often YT random recommendations get it right but they played a blinder with this. What an amazing talent, can't stop listening to this and Hard Times. When you can write lyrics, put it to music and produce something that can absolutely draw the listener in, to the point where they feel like they are on a 5 minute journey with you...that's special.
One of the best songs I've ever discovered...
volta omggg
This whole album is exceptionally moving, musically solid, and beautifully put together. I'll look forward to future work by this artist!!!
this was my first time listening to this album and there are not words to describe what it did to me. this touched my soul in a way that has Changed me
Album of the year incoming.
petition for this to be in Yellowjackets 😮
tears mother, tears streaming down my face
Mother! You’re such an artist🖤 and your voice melts so sweetly it makes me shiver
i'm never getting over this song.. easily one of my most listened to in 2022
beyond perfect ♡
this version got me like 😭😭😭😭😭 so worth the wait to be able to stream it again
What a magnitude - voice and music! Very inspiring discovery. The New York Times ran on May 11 a raving profile of Ethel.
i love you mother. ♡
I literally jumped off my bed and go crazy when i listen this to the first time. Love you sm
the way this song fits perfectly with the end of the album even though it's been written for the longest time [that did not contain the final verse], IS SHOCKING… and from that understand this as a metaphor about a brutal love, IS PERFECT! Brazil already loves you 🤍🇧🇷
Damn, this makes me cry and get shivers every single time I listen to it, if perfection had a sound this would be it.
I'm sobbing uncontrollably. I don't know if I can find the words...
I just listened to this album from beginning to end for the first time. I've been listening to one song at a time, getting to know it and then going to another, but not in order (hello, adhd brain.). And it has by far been some of the best music I've ever heard.
And now, I am just ruined by this masterpiece (in a good way). These songs stand alone and the album as a whole is so insanely good. I have quite a bit of trauma in my past, especially my childhood/teen years, but nothing similar to the topics of Preachers Daughter. But the themes behind them: love, loneliness, grief, escapism, loss, longing, wanderlust, power imbalances in relationships, growing up, pain, healing etc... it's incredibly cathartic for me.
I don't know if Hayden did the arrangement for the album or not but if so... bravo bitch! This is something so beautiful that I am just a little bit afraid of the person who created it. I feel so grateful that I randomly clicked on American Teenager after it was recommended to me a thousand times.
❤️🔥🖤❤️🔥
i knew it would b amazing but like hearing this for the first time is INSANE. its so good like wow. one of the most talented well rounded artists at the moment.
this album is a masterpiece
This song sent chills up my spine and tears in my eyes
she's rockin out on this one .. love the guitar solo
u are a genius to have made this in 10 minutes. thank u.
this song is insane
obsessed with this
I love this song to my core
you made another very beautiful song thanks
I first listened to preachers daughter in the summer and I still can’t stop listening to it in January. I honestly can’t get over how beautiful this whole album is.
First record I've listened this '23. It's ethereal and beautiful
simplesmente o melhor álbum que já ouvi em toda a minha vida
every once in a while an ArTiSt appears that is so good they are beyond description..🖤..Ethel Cain is the one⚘
Isaiah ate and left no crumbs
CRYINGGG
I have no words, Preacher's Daughter is the best thing that has ever happened to me.
Wow I'm never gonna listen to this the same way again
This album makes me an absolute train wreck, caboose and all 😭
This song is so beautiful yet it disturbs me
Her voice is just makes me want to cry for days and then hearing about the concept makes me even more devastated 😭
Such a beautiful and sad song that tears me apart
I never thought I would sob to a concept album but I did
Your voice is amazing..and a terrible feeling💓❄️❄️
This song is just -- WOW!! Ethel Cain your music has the power to destroy me and lift me up all in one. Amazing ❤
i loved this song the moment i heard it, it's so heartwrenching it's beautiful
ik this somg is about murder and cannibalism but tbh it feels like the bitterness of forgiving my ex-abusive lover.
I simply love this ❤️
BRILLIANT album. just. absolutely perfect album.
this song is a religious experience, bless u mother 🥲❤️✨
i listen to this everyday
literally same
Samee. It's just soo good 😭😭
This song is perfection aaaaaaaahhh
I remember the day that my best friend played this song for me on her Spotify with her headphones and I had no words because of how beautiful it is and I went home and listened to the entire album and now me and her talk about Ethel and her music all the time