In Dante’s inferno ‘Ptolemaea' is “a place in hell designated for traitors against guests in their home.” I think this is a really smart reference for the kidnap and murder storyline
@@bennshoutssome people think it’s where Ethel thinks her abuser should be, as he betrayed her by selling her into sex work, and some people think it’s where she is imagining herself, as she betrayed (abandoned) her mother to be with him. It’s very interesting either way. Edit: btw it was a hallucination of being in hell, due to the drugs he put her on. She wasn’t really in hell.
i believe the album tells a story, set in 1991, it details the character’s troubled relationship with religion, her old flame, her father (the preacher, a beloved member of the community even 10 years after his death), and her eventual kidnapping and murder. ptolemaea is about her tripping on drugs the man she meets, isaiah, gave her. august and televangelism are about her escape, capture, murder and ascent to heaven. sun bleached flies is her in heaven and strangers is her body, in a freezer in his basement as he supposedly eats her. there is so much more to the story.
"Ptolemaea" is my favorite song on this album. It's intense, jarring, and the *scream.* The scream towards the climax always makes my whole body tense and my eyes start to tear up. I adore all the songs on this album, but that one...it's special to me.
everytime i listen to this again it gets more heartbreaking, especially hearing her sound so hopeful when you know what’s going to happen to her, the fact august underground is the name of a snuff film and combined with her lyric about being in a polaroid picture is just so haunting, we often desensitise crime scene photos but to get to know this character and see her become a part of that just makes it feel so real, i never knew an album would make me never watch a true crime video ever again she’s just such a great writer and so talented.
when Ben is talking about “Thoroughfare” and how sweet it is, all o can think about it how the song is about the man who will eventually kidnap, kill, and consume ethel haha
✝️🙏🏼🌅~TIMESTAMPS~🌅🙏🏼✝️ Family Tree (Intro) - 1:38 American Teenager - 3:33🌟 A House In Nebraska - 6:21 Western Nights - 9:21 Family Tree - 11:58🌟 Hard Times - 15:28 Thoroughfare - 17:25🌟 Gibson Girl - 21:39🌟 Ptolemaea - 23:52 August Underground - 27:03 Televangelism - 28:45 Sun Bleached Flies - 29:53🌟 Strangers - 33:05🌟 🌟= my fave!
this whole story is tragic and heartbreaking and beautiful and I love hayden and her mind. each song hurts in its own ways. thoroughfare is such a good song because, as you were saying in the video, it gives you hope that this will finally be the one; ethel will finally be happy with the man she’s traveling with, but then it turns out he’s the one that kills her so when you’re re-listening, you know the ending so you (or at least I did) cry listening to her hope for love but know how it ends 😭😭 preacher’s daughter is my aoty so far hands down. nothing comes CLOSE
This is my current album of the year. I didn't realise when I first listened to it, the story behind it (abuse, running away, being kidnapped and murdered). It's worth listening to the album alongside the lyrics and annotations on Genius. It adds so much meaning to the music, like when you realise when she ends the album singing: "Mama just know that I love you / And I'll see you when you get here" she's singing from beyond the grave.
LETS FUCKING GOOOOOOOOO PTOLEMAEA HAD ME IN SPACE. the first two collections were mainly I believe a prologue of sorts, to introduce us to the soundscape of the world she created and the album is the start of a three part epic intergenerational tale and I cannot WAIT to see the way it plays out Lowkey the official album outro for Strangers makes me wanna cry but the first one I ever heard on the smfsp project from forever ago that she deleted will live in my head rent free FOREVER
I do suggest reading /all/ the lyrics to get the full picture of the story though, what you thought was a curse was actually a fictional cult mission statement of sorts - you have not been exposed to demons LMFAO just go look at the backstory notes it'll all make sense 😂😂😂😂
@@viniciuslessa3971 when I first heard it it was like 3am where I as at and I nearly woke my whole house because it made ME shriek 😂😂😂 she's impeccable it pains me
when i saw august underground as a track name I knew we were in for some shit… I’m a big horror movie fan and I remember reading about the august underground movies a couple years ago. it’s a film trilogy that basically is fake found footage movies that follow a serial killer and his accomplice as they film all their murders. my guess is that this confirms the idea that Ethel is murdered by isaiah (who drugged her during ptolemaea) and televangelism and sun bleached flies follows her death. crazy shit this album is SO GOOD and she’s a genius
Have NEVER hears of it omg, going to add it to my watch list hehe 🤍 I STILL CANNOT GET OVER ISAIAH doing this in the cutest song on the album omfg. Like its INSANE THIS ALBUM OMG
@@bennshouts omg NO don’t watch it like apparently it’s rlly gross and like just exploitation horror.. I mean unless ur into that HAHAHA but yes she is amazing. live love Ethel Cain bitch
it's pretty much done i think, in strangers outro she said "mama, just know that i love you. and i'll see you when you get here" is abt ethel is looking down in afterlife, waiting to see her mother in heaven and consoles her to move on rather than dwell on her death
@@bennshouts can you imagine... DEVOURED LIKE BOVINE HIDE... and I never considered myself TOUGH. I think the word TOUGH has 2 meanings... and it disgusts me. Her songwriting.
I love Ptolemaea.....but your reaction is simply priceless. lol.... I almost felt protective of you......like hey demons, leave the nice man alone, stop scaring him. But personally, I love the darker elements of her music. AND the lighter more joyful elements. Her music is as emotionally broad as actual human life is. Sometimes life is a blissful wonder....sometimes it's anxious gut wrenching agony. :)
I heard the full album for the first time yesterday and I reacted exactly like this. Then I read up on what each song represented and the entire story and just...MIND BLOWN. It's a masterpiece. Top 5 best concept albums of all time.
You're such an icon! Love you so much for this and continuing to give Ethel a platform in the RUclips reaction world. Great content as always. More people need to know about her! What a wild album The look here was so appropriate for this album too xx
yep this is my favorite album. no question. after learning the full story of the album i cant listen to sun bleached flies or strangers without crying my eyes out. such a harrowing, sad, dark story with some of the most gorgeous production ive ever heard. sobbing in the club fr
Omg I’m so obsessed with Ethel Cain and this album like I’ve been dying for someone/something like this and I didn’t even know it. I’m so excited to hear this all live and see what she has in store. Also I’d like to recommend you to listen to Gia Ford. Her single Sleeping in your Garden and her album Murder in the Dark are both so good!
omg your reaction .... so emotional Benn ... I'm dead . Watching you listen to this makes me wanna hear the album a million times over ... even more than I already did ! Edit: your reaction to Ptolemaea is too good hahahahahahah i'm dying !!! awww lysm.
I really loved watching your reaction. Everything you've said and even the facial expressions you made are exactly how I was feeling. This was a great reaction to my personal AOTY.
this reaction is one of my favorites especially after knowing the full context of each song. you calling some songs cute when ethel is singing about her death 😂😂 love it
i heard this album the minute it came out and i could not be more obsessed!! been listening to Western Nights ALL DAY! she really overcame herself with this one! also, what about the reaction to Heart shaped Bed by Nicole 🧐🧐?? still waiting!!!! hahahahahaha
@@bennshouts You had me so tickled at your "Conjuring" comments, especially since you were not aware of the whole canon of this album. 😄 She doesn't share ALL of her songs with me due to the lyrical content, so your reaction video was my first time hearing some of them. 😉 Again, I LOVE your personality. Thank you for reviewing Hayden's first full length album. 🥰
@@JulietMHorner HAHAHAHA! I was kinda on the money 😂 Learning about the canon now… OMG!!! And the movie references (it’s given me some new content to watch haha) - but makes the album so much more interesting because the meanings act like you’re hearing it for the first time again! Thank you so much!!! Ethel comments too - So blown away by both of your love and support for my reaction 🤎 Honestly means the absolute world! 🥺😭🤍🤍🤍
I've found her recently and it has been an EXPERIENCE I love how much you get that setting up the ambience to experience music is important and just adds so much. I wish I could've found a guy that understands and feels music as deeply as me. She's utterly incredible. I love listening to her in the shower but if American Teenager comes on I'm gonna have to re-shave my legs, everytime the goosebumps are indescribable and unstoppable. Her music, it's a level unto itself
Love it all. Just listened for the first time today. Makes me think of all the stuff with LDS church and how oppressive it was. And Ptolemaea is so scary. Was not expecting that
So I had initially listened to the album when it came out but didn’t allow myself to hyperfixate but now here we are in the American winter and I am hyperfixating now
@@bennshouts like I said I had listened to initially and liked it but full let it take over this past month. It just hits so well as a fall/winter album. I also have an issue that as a music listener (probably a manifestation of my autism tbh) when I listen new artists I will often hyperfixate for weeks to months. Which is what has happens with me and Ethel this past month. I have been avoiding Lana Del Ray and doing the official deep dive of her music for the same reason. I know I will hyperfixate for the next month when I do listen to her on my deep dive. I am about to give in.
Totally agree, it's soooo fall/winter vibes! I tend to get quite obsessed with artists/songs too, so totally get that! You should check out her other 2 EP's, they have some incredible songs too! AND YESSSS to Lana, when I went through her stuff, I was shook!
@@bennshouts I have listened to some Lana but not all of her things. I know I will get obsessed when I do. I will probably listen to her in January. I have listened to Ethel’s other things as well and love those!
She seems to genuinely capture something that Lana only “flirts” with Lana it’s “trailer trash” but it’s also Las Vegas and you can always go back to your parents nice home. Where as Ethel seems encapsulated and trapped behind a “wall” and having to be contented with a life that is undesirable to most. Like literally I’m certain she still lives in a small and in the middle of nowhere town and she is trans on top of everything else.
@@GNICHO you've worded it so well, i think it definitely has to do with hayden creating ethel/preacher's daughter as a character/concept album, and therefore you get to be fully immersed in the PD universe, whereas the persona of lana del rey, although still appropriating the americana aesthetic, is fundamentally still telling the story of elizabeth grant
@@anniez6817 no I think there's an untouchable darkness in both Lana and Ethel's art, but like Lana's horror is ultimately a sort of silver lined suffering and that's what's "hot" about it, where Ethel cain comes across as sort of like a biblical suffering. Like some sort of metal magdelene. lana isn't even seen as attractive in the media, and in contrast Ethel's voice is so sirene like and people really find her sexually appealing. Ethel draws you in. (in the sexual sense) naturally then it feels carnal. In comparison lana is like having sex drunk. you see glimpses of true heaven in drunken soft distortion. Where Ethel is like hellish torture, but then you have like a 10.000 year long orgasm.
please react to chelsea wolfe or emma ruth rundle! i really think you would enjoy them and i would love to hear your thoughts on their music! would love to hear your take on the album abyss by chelsea wolfe especially
If you haven't already, could you please react to DIMASH'S S.O.S. video?? He has the most insane vocal range. He is perhaps the greatest vocalist!!!! Thank you.
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i was looking forward to ur video!!! love u sm 😭♡
🖤🖤🖤
OMG this is so CUTEEEEEE😭 Love you mother!!!!!
this makes me so happy 🥺
thank u! love u too! 🤎
Queen behavior!!! 💁♀️
Ethel Cain omg I love you!!
In Dante’s inferno ‘Ptolemaea' is “a place in hell designated for traitors against guests in their home.” I think this is a really smart reference for the kidnap and murder storyline
Literally insane
@@bennshoutssome people think it’s where Ethel thinks her abuser should be, as he betrayed her by selling her into sex work, and some people think it’s where she is imagining herself, as she betrayed (abandoned) her mother to be with him. It’s very interesting either way.
Edit: btw it was a hallucination of being in hell, due to the drugs he put her on. She wasn’t really in hell.
“i wanna rock out but i’m also like ‘is this sad?’“ is the entire vibe of the album.
HAHA YES! Cannot stop listening!!!
Me with inbred title track
i believe the album tells a story, set in 1991, it details the character’s troubled relationship with religion, her old flame, her father (the preacher, a beloved member of the community even 10 years after his death), and her eventual kidnapping and murder. ptolemaea is about her tripping on drugs the man she meets, isaiah, gave her. august and televangelism are about her escape, capture, murder and ascent to heaven. sun bleached flies is her in heaven and strangers is her body, in a freezer in his basement as he supposedly eats her.
there is so much more to the story.
I cannot get over this
@@bennshoutsshe’s insane, totally insane!
"Ptolemaea" is my favorite song on this album.
It's intense, jarring, and the *scream.*
The scream towards the climax always makes my whole body tense and my eyes start to tear up.
I adore all the songs on this album, but that one...it's special to me.
FACTS
Ptolemaea is a true CLIMAX. It’s the culmination of Ethel’s journey and when it explodes with the scream, it hits an incredible peak.
It's the best one ❤
Ptolemaea is one of Ethel’s best songs ever, best song on the album
DEMONIC!!! 😂😂
everytime i listen to this again it gets more heartbreaking, especially hearing her sound so hopeful when you know what’s going to happen to her, the fact august underground is the name of a snuff film and combined with her lyric about being in a polaroid picture is just so haunting, we often desensitise crime scene photos but to get to know this character and see her become a part of that just makes it feel so real, i never knew an album would make me never watch a true crime video ever again she’s just such a great writer and so talented.
couldn't agree more to all of this! 🤎
When you said the album feels happier during thoroughfare……….HONEY YOUVE GOT A BIG STORM COMING
HAHAHAHAHAHAH LEGIT
when Ben is talking about “Thoroughfare” and how sweet it is, all o can think about it how the song is about the man who will eventually kidnap, kill, and consume ethel haha
Literally will NEVER get over this hahaha
✝️🙏🏼🌅~TIMESTAMPS~🌅🙏🏼✝️
Family Tree (Intro) - 1:38
American Teenager - 3:33🌟
A House In Nebraska - 6:21
Western Nights - 9:21
Family Tree - 11:58🌟
Hard Times - 15:28
Thoroughfare - 17:25🌟
Gibson Girl - 21:39🌟
Ptolemaea - 23:52
August Underground - 27:03
Televangelism - 28:45
Sun Bleached Flies - 29:53🌟
Strangers - 33:05🌟
🌟= my fave!
🤎🖤🤎🖤🤎🖤🤎
Love you!!!!
Didnt you like a house in nebraska??? Cant stop sobbing still
this whole story is tragic and heartbreaking and beautiful and I love hayden and her mind. each song hurts in its own ways. thoroughfare is such a good song because, as you were saying in the video, it gives you hope that this will finally be the one; ethel will finally be happy with the man she’s traveling with, but then it turns out he’s the one that kills her so when you’re re-listening, you know the ending so you (or at least I did) cry listening to her hope for love but know how it ends 😭😭 preacher’s daughter is my aoty so far hands down. nothing comes CLOSE
I cannot even comprehend it all yet 💔🖤
It's so easy to trust the wrong person, especially when you're desperate for love
this is heartbreaking to read and so true :(
Alternative title: *aussie mullet gay rides u while peacher's daughter plays in the background*
omg hahahahaha
i really cried when i listened to this album. so tragic,so dark, so heavy
This is my current album of the year. I didn't realise when I first listened to it, the story behind it (abuse, running away, being kidnapped and murdered). It's worth listening to the album alongside the lyrics and annotations on Genius. It adds so much meaning to the music, like when you realise when she ends the album singing: "Mama just know that I love you / And I'll see you when you get here" she's singing from beyond the grave.
the genius annotations aren't always right, the artist herself says she often doesn't know what is being said on genius
LETS FUCKING GOOOOOOOOO PTOLEMAEA HAD ME IN SPACE. the first two collections were mainly I believe a prologue of sorts, to introduce us to the soundscape of the world she created and the album is the start of a three part epic intergenerational tale and I cannot WAIT to see the way it plays out
Lowkey the official album outro for Strangers makes me wanna cry but the first one I ever heard on the smfsp project from forever ago that she deleted will live in my head rent free FOREVER
The spray on ptolemaea I can't with you 😂😂😂😂😂 so wholesome such pure 🥺🥺
I do suggest reading /all/ the lyrics to get the full picture of the story though, what you thought was a curse was actually a fictional cult mission statement of sorts - you have not been exposed to demons LMFAO just go look at the backstory notes it'll all make sense 😂😂😂😂
THE TASTEEEEE!! when she goes "STOP STOP STOP STOP STOOOOOOP" AND THE GUITAR COMES IN!! I literally went to the MOON!
@@viniciuslessa3971 when I first heard it it was like 3am where I as at and I nearly woke my whole house because it made ME shriek 😂😂😂 she's impeccable it pains me
HAHAHAAH ITS DEF A DEMON !!!!!
when i saw august underground as a track name I knew we were in for some shit… I’m a big horror movie fan and I remember reading about the august underground movies a couple years ago. it’s a film trilogy that basically is fake found footage movies that follow a serial killer and his accomplice as they film all their murders. my guess is that this confirms the idea that Ethel is murdered by isaiah (who drugged her during ptolemaea) and televangelism and sun bleached flies follows her death. crazy shit this album is SO GOOD and she’s a genius
Have NEVER hears of it omg, going to add it to my watch list hehe 🤍
I STILL CANNOT GET OVER ISAIAH doing this in the cutest song on the album omfg. Like its INSANE THIS ALBUM OMG
@@bennshouts omg NO don’t watch it like apparently it’s rlly gross and like just exploitation horror.. I mean unless ur into that HAHAHA but yes she is amazing. live love Ethel Cain bitch
HIGHLY recommend listening to the podcast "The Film Cult Podcast" that featured her - she goes into the whole vision and future albums.
YES I WILL!! Thank you!!!
The whole album tells an ongoing story, ending with Strangers (which takes place after Ethel is kidnapped, murdered, and cannibalized)!
🤯🤯🤯🤯 what omg
it's pretty much done i think, in strangers outro she said "mama, just know that i love you. and i'll see you when you get here" is abt ethel is looking down in afterlife, waiting to see her mother in heaven and consoles her to move on rather than dwell on her death
@@milosilas8336 OH MY
GOD
@@bennshouts can you imagine... DEVOURED LIKE BOVINE HIDE... and I never considered myself TOUGH. I think the word TOUGH has 2 meanings... and it disgusts me. Her songwriting.
@@backup153 bruh that line lmao my mouth was open the whole time I listened knowing the story better
I balled my eyes out on my first listen to Hard Times as well. Hands down one of my favorites on the album.
😭😭😭😭
I love Ptolemaea.....but your reaction is simply priceless. lol....
I almost felt protective of you......like hey demons, leave the nice man alone, stop scaring him.
But personally, I love the darker elements of her music. AND the lighter more joyful elements. Her music is as emotionally broad as actual human life is. Sometimes life is a blissful wonder....sometimes it's anxious gut wrenching agony. :)
I heard the full album for the first time yesterday and I reacted exactly like this. Then I read up on what each song represented and the entire story and just...MIND BLOWN. It's a masterpiece. Top 5 best concept albums of all time.
COULD NOT AGREE MORE!!!
The first time I listened to Ptolemaea I was afraid it was summoning a demon into my house, too! The awesome power of Ethel, what a storyteller.
hahahaha right?!
You're such an icon! Love you so much for this and continuing to give Ethel a platform in the RUclips reaction world. Great content as always. More people need to know about her!
What a wild album
The look here was so appropriate for this album too xx
Aww thank YOU so much! The support you always give is incredible 🤎 😭😭
yep this is my favorite album. no question. after learning the full story of the album i cant listen to sun bleached flies or strangers without crying my eyes out. such a harrowing, sad, dark story with some of the most gorgeous production ive ever heard. sobbing in the club fr
legit, once you know what it's about, it just adds another element to it, my album of the year!
BLESSED BE THE DAUGHTERS OF CAINNNNNNN
ptolemaea is obviously perfection but family tree has to be my favorite because of the bridge and final chorus like those vocals?! are you kidding?!
Family Tree is literally perfection 🥲🤎
Omg I’m so obsessed with Ethel Cain and this album like I’ve been dying for someone/something like this and I didn’t even know it. I’m so excited to hear this all live and see what she has in store.
Also I’d like to recommend you to listen to Gia Ford. Her single Sleeping in your Garden and her album Murder in the Dark are both so good!
Thank you! 🤎
5:45 "i do it for Dale, whoever that is" Dale Earnhardt!! He was an American race car driver who Hayden loves lol
Hahaha oopsie
@@bennshouts no oopsie! i wouldn't expect you to know lol its a little tid bit i thought I'd share
omg your reaction .... so emotional Benn ... I'm dead . Watching you listen to this makes me wanna hear the album a million times over ... even more than I already did ! Edit: your reaction to Ptolemaea is too good hahahahahahah i'm dying !!! awww lysm.
Still not over it :'((((
HAHAHHAHAHAHAHAH WE HAVE BEEN CURSED!!!!!!
i listened to Ether today for the first time ever, with this album, and THE WAY i was sobbing by the third track i swear
glad that now i have a whole lot to go through, obsessed
Omg so glad you’re getting into her and the WORLD she’s created!!! 🤎
I really loved watching your reaction. Everything you've said and even the facial expressions you made are exactly how I was feeling. This was a great reaction to my personal AOTY.
Yesssss! So glad 🥰
100% AOTY!!
American teenager is SOTY !!! Can’t stop listening 🥺
Ur so great for reacting to underrated albums ugh
always 🤎
Ptolemae tho that part when angelic voice against the demon before ‘STOPPP!!’ part. So real.
You said your lights were flickering at the start of Family Tree (Intro) and your bedside clock did a thing during "Ptolemaea". 🖤
DEMONIC!
Hard times has to be my favorite off the album. They’re all amazing but god that song is gorgeous
"the demon song" 😂😂😂😂😂😂 I'm crying you're so precious
🥺🥺🥺
This album is my current obsession and watching you react to it is giving me life 😂❤
this reaction is one of my favorites especially after knowing the full context of each song. you calling some songs cute when ethel is singing about her death 😂😂 love it
hahahaha, literally 😂
i heard this album the minute it came out and i could not be more obsessed!! been listening to Western Nights ALL DAY! she really overcame herself with this one!
also, what about the reaction to Heart shaped Bed by Nicole 🧐🧐?? still waiting!!!! hahahahahaha
This and either curdled milk or ode to Dawn Weiner 👀👀👀👀👀 he would legitimately not know what the hell to do with himself
Its stunning! And yes I knowwwww haha, gotta get to her others! 🤍
I'VE HAD FAMILY TREES ON REPEAT FOR SEVERAL DAYS NOW AND I JUST REALIZED IT IS 7 MINUTES LONG?!?!?!?!?!?????
LITERALLY HAVE HAD THIS EXACT THOUGHT HAHHAA
her album, and your reaction to her album just made my day lol your taste of music is just amazing
🤎🤎🤎🤎🤎
the “who’s dale” is so funny to me. i always forget that people aren’t from the US south
Hahaha 😂
I still don’t know who dale is
i love ptolemaea sm it gives me a feeling ive never felt before
my album of the year for sure im so obsessed
Literally
Dale in "American Teenager" is in reference to NASCAR icon Dale Earnhardt .
Thank you! 🤍
@@bennshouts You had me so tickled at your "Conjuring" comments, especially since you were not aware of the whole canon of this album. 😄
She doesn't share ALL of her songs with me due to the lyrical content, so your reaction video was my first time hearing some of them. 😉
Again, I LOVE your personality. Thank you for reviewing Hayden's first full length album. 🥰
@@JulietMHorner HAHAHAHA! I was kinda on the money 😂 Learning about the canon now… OMG!!! And the movie references (it’s given me some new content to watch haha) - but makes the album so much more interesting because the meanings act like you’re hearing it for the first time again!
Thank you so much!!! Ethel comments too - So blown away by both of your love and support for my reaction 🤎 Honestly means the absolute world! 🥺😭🤍🤍🤍
I'VE BEEN WAITING FOR THIS ONE!!!
ITS HERE HEHE
Omg king you’ve never looked better than u do here!! style icon. anna wintour needs to take notes
Omg hahahahaha 💀💀💀
“I wanna rock out but is this sad?” Gotta master the crying headbang, dude.
Haha I do!
I've found her recently and it has been an EXPERIENCE
I love how much you get that setting up the ambience to experience music is important and just adds so much. I wish I could've found a guy that understands and feels music as deeply as me. She's utterly incredible. I love listening to her in the shower but if American Teenager comes on I'm gonna have to re-shave my legs, everytime the goosebumps are indescribable and unstoppable. Her music, it's a level unto itself
i teared up with you through this whole video 😭 this album moves me so much emotionally in so many different directions
NOT YOU PROTECTING YOUR AURA WITH TOBACCO ROOM SPRAY LMAO
HAHAHAHAHHA I HAD TOO!!!
14:02 I felt that so hard, pretty sure I moved the same way my first hear 😊💜
the storyline to this album is sick and crazy oh my god
Love it all. Just listened for the first time today. Makes me think of all the stuff with LDS church and how oppressive it was. And Ptolemaea is so scary. Was not expecting that
OMG YES!!!
So I had initially listened to the album when it came out but didn’t allow myself to hyperfixate but now here we are in the American winter and I am hyperfixating now
Yessss 🤎🤎🤎🤎
Its incredible how many people have discovered the album over the year or fallen into like you 🥰
@@bennshouts like I said I had listened to initially and liked it but full let it take over this past month. It just hits so well as a fall/winter album. I also have an issue that as a music listener (probably a manifestation of my autism tbh) when I listen new artists I will often hyperfixate for weeks to months. Which is what has happens with me and Ethel this past month. I have been avoiding Lana Del Ray and doing the official deep dive of her music for the same reason. I know I will hyperfixate for the next month when I do listen to her on my deep dive. I am about to give in.
Totally agree, it's soooo fall/winter vibes! I tend to get quite obsessed with artists/songs too, so totally get that! You should check out her other 2 EP's, they have some incredible songs too!
AND YESSSS to Lana, when I went through her stuff, I was shook!
@@bennshouts I have listened to some Lana but not all of her things. I know I will get obsessed when I do. I will probably listen to her in January. I have listened to Ethel’s other things as well and love those!
I just joined this club and I'm not the same as before.
You never will be 💔
Welcome beby 🤎🤎🤎
The cuts to existential dread during House in Nebraska were hilarious
thank you angel, i love you 💌
Love YOU! 🤍
Ptolomaea makes me physically ill and I’m in love
ahahahaha yes
WAITING ON THIS ONE OMG 🥳🥳
🥰🥰🥰
React to nicoles dollanganger album
Heart shaped bed
YES!!
I will x
When I first listened to ptolemea I literally had to stop it the minute I heard the voice 😂
HAHAHAHAHAHA
Subscribed. Ptolamaea!!!
hehe yesssss!
It's been 7 months and I bet you still haven't gotten over this album...
you are correct
Hi. Can react to MOKSHA EP by Viktoria Modesta? Please?
Ptolemaea is the best song on the album by a million miles
Strangers is so beautiful. Haunting
Ethel to me is Fiona Apple and Lana del Rey's love child it's perfection
She seems to genuinely capture something that Lana only “flirts” with Lana it’s “trailer trash” but it’s also Las Vegas and you can always go back to your parents nice home. Where as Ethel seems encapsulated and trapped behind a “wall” and having to be contented with a life that is undesirable to most. Like literally I’m certain she still lives in a small and in the middle of nowhere town and she is trans on top of everything else.
@@GNICHO you've worded it so well, i think it definitely has to do with hayden creating ethel/preacher's daughter as a character/concept album, and therefore you get to be fully immersed in the PD universe, whereas the persona of lana del rey, although still appropriating the americana aesthetic, is fundamentally still telling the story of elizabeth grant
@@anniez6817 right right
@@anniez6817 no I think there's an untouchable darkness in both Lana and Ethel's art, but like Lana's horror is ultimately a sort of silver lined suffering and that's what's "hot" about it, where Ethel cain comes across as sort of like a biblical suffering. Like some sort of metal magdelene. lana isn't even seen as attractive in the media, and in contrast Ethel's voice is so sirene like and people really find her sexually appealing. Ethel draws you in. (in the sexual sense) naturally then it feels carnal. In comparison lana is like having sex drunk. you see glimpses of true heaven in drunken soft distortion. Where Ethel is like hellish torture, but then you have like a 10.000 year long orgasm.
please react to chelsea wolfe or emma ruth rundle! i really think you would enjoy them and i would love to hear your thoughts on their music! would love to hear your take on the album abyss by chelsea wolfe especially
Dude lookin like Todd Parker from Boogie Nights. 😂👍🏻
😂😂😂
@@bennshouts He was the coolest man.
Thoroughfare is about their wedding?? Oh you sweet summer child.
React 1000 formas of fear by sia please 🥺
Plss React to ALVVAYS 😭😭 I WILL DO EVERYTHING YOU ASK OF ME
American Teenager SOTY imo and I'm right!!!!!!!
STILL cry bopping to it SO GOOD!!!
@@bennshouts "and Jesus if you're there why do I feel alone in this room with YOUUU!!!!!!" SO GOOD
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If you haven't already, could you please react to DIMASH'S S.O.S. video?? He has the most insane vocal range. He is perhaps the greatest vocalist!!!! Thank you.
I have xx
“There’s more hope I think”- thoroughfare
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foreshadowing.
Great album
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There’s hope i think …… famous last word ……….
hahahaha
Ptolemaea is so amazing, wtf?! 🤣
Haha, I love it
MOTHER.
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Loveee
🖤🤎🤍
Im
In love with you
awww, loveu!!!
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why do you look like kurtis conner’s cousin
haha i get this SO much