“It’s just not my year, but I’m all good out here.” A different kind of American dream is born in Ethel Cain’s song: One that recognizes the fractures and failures of the system, knows the stakes, and goes all-in, anyway. This is perseverance personified; resilience, reluctance,...
Ethel Cain: “American Teenager” (2022) War, whiskey, Jesus, football, NASCAR, Journey, the First Amendment: “American Teenager,” Ethel Cain’s closest brush with pop’s mainstream, scoops up morsels of Americana like penny candies from a bin. The song is stitched with threads of the si...
Ethel Cain: “Michelle Pfeiffer” [ft. lil aaron] Hayden Anhedönia’s music as Ethel Cain depicts a woman scorned by love and by society, to startlingly vulnerable, often disturbing effect. On “Michelle Pfeiffer,” the first single from her breakout EP Inbred, Anhedonia recasts Cain as ...
The drag-centric musical took home six Tonys, including best musical; best score (with music and lyrics by gay icon Cyndi Lauper); and outstanding actor in a musical, for out-and-proud Billy Porter’s comeback performance as Lola, a drag queen. 46 Ethel Cain, “American Teenager” (2022...
Ethel Cain, "Punish"Photo : Courtesy Photo It’s tempting to call “Punish,” the first single from Ethel Cain’s forthcoming Perverts, a slow-building song, but that phrase implies that eventually you arrive at something complete and definite — and that’s simply not the way this indie ...
Ethel Cain’s “American Teenager” captures the disillusionment of growing up fooled by the specters of Christianity and patriotism. Depicting the murkiness of the so-called American dream, the song’s palette is a regional mish-mash, combining the triumphant Eighties rock of Bruce Springsteen, ...
8. Ethel Cain, “American Teenager” On its surface, Ethel Cain’s “American Teenager” is a swaggering, anthemic pop song, with huge drums and vocals drowned in reverb, that could play alongside Taylor Swift on Top 40 radio. But the contrast between the song’s lyrics (in which girls...
“I could see a vision of this woman with long brown hair and a white dress, standing in front of an old house and a wheat field somewhere in the middle of the country. It was the strangest experience. I feel like Ethel Cain is a ghost nobody can see but me, and if I don’t ...
Ethel Laczko 6 years ago Hi! I need help with this. Have worked for a public school for over 20 years and have been paying my son’s student loan for the past 10 years I was surprised to learn that I do not qualify for the Teacher Loan Forgiveness Program, in fact, my bill sa...
Ethel Cain: “Strangers”Anna Calvi: “Ain’t No Grave”S. Carey: “Sunshower”Cola: “Water Table”Empress Of: “Save Me”Floating Points: “Grammar”Katie Alice Greer: “FITS/My Love Can’t Be”Gwenno: “Men an Toll”Gretel Hänlyn: “Apple Juice”...