The STOP! In ptolomea makes the hairs on the back of my neck raise and gives me goosebumps every time. I’ve listened to the album 30 times probably and I still have such a visceral reaction.
interesting that you called the story twisted. as a girl who grew up very much like this album depicts, i remember always falling asleep to gruesome Murder, R*pe, Cannibalism stories that were playing on the tv in the living room at my grandma’s trailer. so for girls who grew up like her it was so desensitized for us that we can just spit out these gruesome art forms because they really represent the raw stuff that we were exposed to.
Aww, you had to go straight from Ptolemaea to do your last college final?! That song just rips your chest open. It’s like a deep plunge into the most primal fear women & femmes live with - that we’ll become prey. “Blessed be you, girl, promised to me by a man who can only feel hatred and contempt towards you.” Men fear that women will laugh at them, women fear that men will kill them.
fun fact: she interpolated Journey's "Don't Stop Believin'" in "American Teenager". and whole story of the album is so amazing, including the cannibalistic boyfriend, nobody does it better than Ethel🛐 and Matthew Tomasi too (who produced Nicole Dollanganger's songs)
Thank you for commenting this! I've been listening to American Teenager (and the rest of PD) on repeat and thought to myself "wow, that guitar sounds very similar to Don't Stop Believing." Makes sense why now ;)
Didn't know that Matt Tomasi produced. He did awesome work with Nicole Dollanganger's songs but you can really see his influence on some of these tracks. Really great work on both him and Ethel's parts!
I definitely think the interpolation of 'Don't Stop Believin' is an intentional choice to ironically contrast between the messages of the two songs. She's basically saying that the American Dream is a scam and you should stop believing.
I just saw her live and not only is she precious, but her voice is exactly as amazing irl, if not more powerful and varied. Some of the runs she hit were insane. I related to this reaction so much, SUCH emotion.
the outro in strangers starting with the "am i making you feel skick part?" is what gives me life - easy one of my most listened to songs of the year. love her so much
that “nah bro” when she references the house in nebraska in Sun Bleached Flies was my exact reaction 🥲 i just started listening to her and i’m blown away she’s amazing also you should definitely read the genius story things!! the album has a whole narrative!!!!
Hard Times is such a heart wrenching song to listen to ESPECIALLY with its context. The emotion in her voice in that song makes my heart sink. And A House In Nebraska hits me on such a deep personal level. Ethel Cain is truly a musical genius
YESSSSS I LOVE THIS ALBUM SO MUCH!!!!! I actually had the chance to interview Ethel for a publication and she was so amazing. It's such a fantastic album
The irony of saying yes to the "Do you want to come and see the west with me?" In the context of the albums story arch made me go "umm does someone want to warn him"
I actually never read the Genius annotations cuz I never felt the need to. August Underground and Televangelism right after Ptolomaea did their job to keep me in this stasis that helped me process what just happened. And during all three, I could not stop crying, which made the transition to Sun Bleached Flies almost perfect. Almost best album of this year jesus christ.
I just heard about Ethel about a week ago. I have been in a deep obsession with Crush and House in Nebraska. It is a music awakening I can’t explain. Her music is a compete journey, I’ve been listening to her cleaning driving working eating and to fill silence. I can get enough of this album, your reactions to the song are exactly how I felt when I first heard it.
You’re so right about what you said about Lana. I am a huge Lana fan and Ethel Cain is the only other artist that has been able to intrigue me as much as her. But both completely different voices with some similar writing styles at times
The way you broke by the end of sunbleached flies IT BROKE ME!! Cause i had the same reaction on that song, for me SOTY and this album AOTY! A house in nebraska also got me sobbing so hard (still)
same. I was this close 🤏to crying at the end of sun bleached flies but when she mentiones the house in nebraska i just broke and started crying like a baby... the album is a masterpiece and should be recognized as such
strangers has to be my favourite song on the album. every time i listen to the lyrics i discover something new about the story and its such a gorgeous close to this really intimate concept album. and the wailing at the end layered over the last 2 or so minutes is just SO good. i adore ethel and im so excited for whats to come
Nice reaction, man. Hard Times, Thoroughfare, and Gibson Girl really is the ultimate wombo combo of consecutive tracks. I’m seeing her in a couple weeks and expect that I’ll have to be scraped off the floor by the end.
I’ve come back to this video like seven times now lmao. I love this album and your joy is genuinely so infectious, it’s like watching a really good show with your best friend or something. Your excitement enhances the entire experience of the album. Thanks for making this video.
This album is my favorite album of the year. Maybe the last 5 years. I’m so glad to see her getting love since none of my friends or family really listen to her and my pitch of “Preacher’s Daughter is amazing you’re gonna cry so much” didn’t really make the impact I had hoped for. Family Tree and Sunbleached flies are probably my favorite songs right now.
Such an epic and heartbreaking story... the writing and musical composition is mind-blowing... she tells a story that is... absolutely breath taking, real, emotional... just... art is all I can call it. I am seriously am blown away. Forever a fan.
this album is an instant favorite of mine and i’d rank it as my #3 album of all time right behind folklore and nfr. this album truly is FLAWLESS the story is absolutely phenomenal and heartbreaking at the same time. hayden’s voice is so unique and versatile the fact that she can go from this echoing somber hopeless house in nebraska to the happy go lucky in love thoroughfare baffles me. every single track tells a story and furthers the albums plot. god i could talk and talk and talk about this album it’s just perfect.
I do have to say if people don’t know, while there are some experiences of Hayden’s ( Ethel cains actual name ) that are similar / could be in preachers daughter, Ethel Cain is a character and her story is fictitious ( esp hard times ). I encourage you to look into it further if you’re interested
my first reaction i got scared but because of how blown away i was by the album. her music was something i have never heard. yes i got scared i had to calm down and couple days later i listened to it all over again lol.
7:48 i feel like the best way to describe it is she uses the country southern aesthetic almost against itself and shines a mirror on the actual issues. ig southern irony is the best way to describe it
So curious if you feel any differently about the thru-story after going back and looking through the story notes on Genius? I gave the album a listen straight through on its own and then another one while reading the summary and lyric notes at the same time and it just made everything hit SO much harder. The summaries are all written by Hayden/Ethel and are part of the overarching story that will have 2 more albums (and that she's also writing full novelizations for).
I love seeing someone else’s reaction to this! I just listened to this album for the first time and it’s just …SO heartrending. American Teenager is so much more poignant when you know the end of her story. Those soaring vocals, the longing and pain in the lyrics and grand instrumental swells throughout this album, are all so emotionally searing. The comparisons to Lana Del Rey are interesting because they both pull from similar aesthetics and themes, but Ethel Cain does it with genuine depth and emotional heft. Where Lana calls her lovers in her songs “daddy” and plays at Lolita themes, Ethel actually addresses childhood abuse. The glamorized stories Lana tells, it’s like Ethel’s songs are the reality behind where that mythologizing gets you.
Well I don’t think it’s fair to dismiss Lana like that since she’s dropped the aesthetic for a more brutal lyricism type of feel. Both are very good but Lana’s music definitely deals with abuse and addiction in a very candid way later on.
you clearly only listened to Born to Die, Lana doesn’t sing about daddy/lolita since 2014. when you listen to the rest of her discography, read again your comment and tell me if you feel the same way.
@@clarisselarue151 I agree with you, these women shouldn’t be pitted against each other, or at least rarely compared. Lana paved a new path, so will Ethel. They may share similar themes but their approach differs and I feel as Ethel grows we’ll continue to see more of her individuality. Ethel is new to the industry-- sadly it’s an inevitability that she’d be compared to other female artists. Smh.
Dude.... The genius notes are absolutely to be trusted in this case. They give you all the context that you'd be missing otherwise Also... If you like this you'll also like Natural Born Losers by Nicole Dollanganger. Not even a debate it's just a Thing That Happens. It's gonna slap you a few times lyrically but you're going to adore it.
ptolemaea was my intro to ethel cain & the fact that I've had PD on repeat all summer based on that track.... seeing your reactions was great, matched how i remember feeling on my first listen
20:22 Hard times is so underrated and I feel like not many people understood it like u did because a lot of reactions I saw were just people bobbing their heads and saying it was slow, but it has so many different instrumental sounds that make the emotion in the song speak louder yk? Like there is really no words to say after listening because of how important the song is to the album and story, leading up the ending.
I’m so glad to see so many people are falling in love with her like I have 😭 I never get enough of her music. I can’t wait for her to finish her demos 😫
When i first time listen to Ptolemae, i was just finish my shift at night. Coincidently, i park my car at the very quite, dark place. I was really scared that i thought i might summoning a demon. While Ptolemae was really a worst place/name in Hell as Christian believed.
Emo swiftie here- YES, American Teenager is EXACTLY how Taylor swift feels to us I had this exact same thought when I listened to this for the first time
Loved seeing your reaction to the album. I recently listened to the full thing myself after only hearing and loving American Teenager and holy shit, what a ride. Ptolemaea still fucking haunts me (but in the best way.) The switch of tone from Gibson Girl onwards is just incredibly done. Also feels fucked up to find Strangers to be such a beautiful song when we all know what it's about, but Hayden somehow manages it.
Not to get like .. woke … but I’ve seen so many men react to Ptolemaea with discomfort or fear but it’s just so therapeutic? The buildup and release is just so comforting to me. What I’ve always wanted to say and I can’t hear it without just wanting to scream along with her
Seeing your reactions, especially to the last quarter, is how I felt. I love this album because of how it affected me so viscerally and deeply. She's an AMAZING storyteller. I'm so excited to see where she takes Ethel's story next. I know she's writing a novel and making a movie for PD
i’m late to this video and haven’t even been watching for even 10m yet but the way you get excited about these songs is the exact way i feel and i’m so happy to see it :)
i literally always come back to this for your reaction to american teenager. that song is a fucking triumph. (the whole album is incredible but there’s something so brilliant about that song.)
Yeah it being a complete concept-album & understanding the story that’s played out this entire album HITS your(people’s) emotions- it’s a masterpiece 🖤
i listened to this album for the first time w my sibling in their car in the dark and we pulled into a completely empty and unlit park when ptolemaea came on and i for sure thought i was in danger when i got to strangers i was like "im strong i can make it through this without crying" and then it was "mama don't think about it too hard and you'll never sleep a wink at night again" and i LOST IT. full tears
my reactions to Preachers Daughter were really similar as yours, i can’t describe how i was in a trance and how beautiful that was. One year after I still get goosebumps listening to Ptolemaea, American Teenager, Gibson Girl or Strangers… Ethel Cain really changed my life :]
Though the album is about a fictional character and story it’s a reality for so many young girls so many that we don’t even know of and may never have what happened to them come to light. You can not listen to ptolemaea and not have a sick stomach putting you in the shoes real time of what’s going on in their head right before it’s impossible not to have that empathy I genuinely wish all men could listen to it to feel what our very genuine raw fear feels like, to have empathy for women. My dad made me sit down as a kid and watch the true crime channel to know and understand that not all people are good you can’t just trust everybody and I’m glad he did I was almost taken as a kid myself this old man in a red truck slowly followed me while I was walking to a friends stoped the truck next to me my heart sunk and the first thought in my head was I was gonna be another one of those little girls and I saw him hop out of his truck and I booked it all the way to her house thankfully not too far and he sped off. The police came an hour later but they never found him I had to be walked to and from everywhere I was so scared I would actually get taken next time. And years later I realized my fears were warranted I looked up all the child s** offenders and my neighborhood was so chock full there was one every 10 houses and we lived next to a school…
The STOP! In ptolomea makes the hairs on the back of my neck raise and gives me goosebumps every time. I’ve listened to the album 30 times probably and I still have such a visceral reaction.
100 percent with you. And there’s not a ton of relief in the remainder of the song from that either lol
it makes me instantly choke up and every time i tell myself “ok i’ve heard it enough times, i’ll be good this time” but nope
forever worshipping at the church of ethel cain 🙏
interesting that you called the story twisted. as a girl who grew up very much like this album depicts, i remember always falling asleep to gruesome Murder, R*pe, Cannibalism stories that were playing on the tv in the living room at my grandma’s trailer. so for girls who grew up like her it was so desensitized for us that we can just spit out these gruesome art forms because they really represent the raw stuff that we were exposed to.
really love this addition
Aww, you had to go straight from Ptolemaea to do your last college final?! That song just rips your chest open. It’s like a deep plunge into the most primal fear women & femmes live with - that we’ll become prey. “Blessed be you, girl, promised to me by a man who can only feel hatred and contempt towards you.” Men fear that women will laugh at them, women fear that men will kill them.
hayden actually improvised the entirety of televangelism and went with the very first recording as the one to put on the album
fun fact: she interpolated Journey's "Don't Stop Believin'" in "American Teenager". and whole story of the album is so amazing, including the cannibalistic boyfriend, nobody does it better than Ethel🛐 and Matthew Tomasi too (who produced Nicole Dollanganger's songs)
Thank you for commenting this! I've been listening to American Teenager (and the rest of PD) on repeat and thought to myself "wow, that guitar sounds very similar to Don't Stop Believing." Makes sense why now ;)
Didn't know that Matt Tomasi produced. He did awesome work with Nicole Dollanganger's songs but you can really see his influence on some of these tracks. Really great work on both him and Ethel's parts!
What you mean cannibalistic boyfriend?
@@mattskpopversion omg, will watch it! Thanks!✨
I definitely think the interpolation of 'Don't Stop Believin' is an intentional choice to ironically contrast between the messages of the two songs. She's basically saying that the American Dream is a scam and you should stop believing.
I just saw her live and not only is she precious, but her voice is exactly as amazing irl, if not more powerful and varied. Some of the runs she hit were insane. I related to this reaction so much, SUCH emotion.
the outro in strangers starting with the "am i making you feel skick part?" is what gives me life - easy one of my most listened to songs of the year. love her so much
The melody when she sings “poison in the water and unhappy” blows me away every single time
that “nah bro” when she references the house in nebraska in Sun Bleached Flies was my exact reaction 🥲 i just started listening to her and i’m blown away she’s amazing
also you should definitely read the genius story things!! the album has a whole narrative!!!!
Sun Bleached Flies is one of the greatest fucking songs I’ve heard in my life. My God, that thing has made me tear up so many times.
Not you having to take a final right after listening to ptolemaea 😭😭😭 ethel’s scream would be stuck in my head during the entire exam
Hard Times is such a heart wrenching song to listen to ESPECIALLY with its context. The emotion in her voice in that song makes my heart sink. And A House In Nebraska hits me on such a deep personal level. Ethel Cain is truly a musical genius
She makes me nostalgic for a childhood I didn’t have anything close to
Sameeee
bro, your vocals went so hard on House in Nebraska i thought it was a part of the song
Literally Same!!! ughhhhh that was so fun and wholesome to witness. You were hecka vibin' and I hope you do it more
YESSSSS I LOVE THIS ALBUM SO MUCH!!!!! I actually had the chance to interview Ethel for a publication and she was so amazing. It's such a fantastic album
Omg can I read it?
the genius summaries are correct, and at the end of televangelism where it glitches are ethel’s synapses breaking and snapping as she dies
The irony of saying yes to the "Do you want to come and see the west with me?" In the context of the albums story arch made me go "umm does someone want to warn him"
Nobody warn him LMFAO he needs it to knock him on his ass just like the rest of us 😂😂
I actually never read the Genius annotations cuz I never felt the need to. August Underground and Televangelism right after Ptolomaea did their job to keep me in this stasis that helped me process what just happened. And during all three, I could not stop crying, which made the transition to Sun Bleached Flies almost perfect. Almost best album of this year jesus christ.
i relate so much to this actually 😭
I just heard about Ethel about a week ago. I have been in a deep obsession with Crush and House in Nebraska. It is a music awakening I can’t explain. Her music is a compete journey, I’ve been listening to her cleaning driving working eating and to fill silence. I can get enough of this album, your reactions to the song are exactly how I felt when I first heard it.
You’re so right about what you said about Lana. I am a huge Lana fan and Ethel Cain is the only other artist that has been able to intrigue me as much as her. But both completely different voices with some similar writing styles at times
Ethel/ Hayden is literally a genius she's incredible
The way you broke by the end of sunbleached flies IT BROKE ME!! Cause i had the same reaction on that song, for me SOTY and this album AOTY! A house in nebraska also got me sobbing so hard (still)
same. I was this close 🤏to crying at the end of sun bleached flies but when she mentiones the house in nebraska i just broke and started crying like a baby... the album is a masterpiece and should be recognized as such
This album fucked me up. I had to stare at a blank wall in silence for like 10 minutes just to process it
strangers has to be my favourite song on the album. every time i listen to the lyrics i discover something new about the story and its such a gorgeous close to this really intimate concept album. and the wailing at the end layered over the last 2 or so minutes is just SO good. i adore ethel and im so excited for whats to come
best album of 2022, she absolutely did that
Nice reaction, man. Hard Times, Thoroughfare, and Gibson Girl really is the ultimate wombo combo of consecutive tracks. I’m seeing her in a couple weeks and expect that I’ll have to be scraped off the floor by the end.
I’ve come back to this video like seven times now lmao. I love this album and your joy is genuinely so infectious, it’s like watching a really good show with your best friend or something. Your excitement enhances the entire experience of the album. Thanks for making this video.
Like I was so hype during American Teenager 1. because it is a fantastic song but also 2. because you were so pumped up for it lmao
This is the comment of an empath 🥺
Literally have the same breakdown every time i listen to sun bleached flies and strangers, shits crazy
This album is my favorite album of the year. Maybe the last 5 years. I’m so glad to see her getting love since none of my friends or family really listen to her and my pitch of “Preacher’s Daughter is amazing you’re gonna cry so much” didn’t really make the impact I had hoped for. Family Tree and Sunbleached flies are probably my favorite songs right now.
Such an epic and heartbreaking story... the writing and musical composition is mind-blowing... she tells a story that is... absolutely breath taking, real, emotional... just... art is all I can call it. I am seriously am blown away. Forever a fan.
this album is an instant favorite of mine and i’d rank it as my #3 album of all time right behind folklore and nfr. this album truly is FLAWLESS the story is absolutely phenomenal and heartbreaking at the same time. hayden’s voice is so unique and versatile the fact that she can go from this echoing somber hopeless house in nebraska to the happy go lucky in love thoroughfare baffles me. every single track tells a story and furthers the albums plot. god i could talk and talk and talk about this album it’s just perfect.
hello fellow nfr and ethel stan
@@chaseholt7037 ❤️❤️
this is literally my favorite album of all time
Love the Ethel fandom! Thank you for expressing the feeling of listening to her. She is the best new artist in a very long time
I do have to say if people don’t know, while there are some experiences of Hayden’s ( Ethel cains actual name ) that are similar / could be in preachers daughter, Ethel Cain is a character and her story is fictitious ( esp hard times ). I encourage you to look into it further if you’re interested
my first reaction i got scared but because of how blown away i was by the album. her music was something i have never heard. yes i got scared i had to calm down and couple days later i listened to it all over again lol.
7:48 i feel like the best way to describe it is she uses the country southern aesthetic almost against itself and shines a mirror on the actual issues. ig southern irony is the best way to describe it
When I saw Ethel in concert sun bleached flies made me cry uncontrollably j couldn’t sing 😭
So curious if you feel any differently about the thru-story after going back and looking through the story notes on Genius? I gave the album a listen straight through on its own and then another one while reading the summary and lyric notes at the same time and it just made everything hit SO much harder. The summaries are all written by Hayden/Ethel and are part of the overarching story that will have 2 more albums (and that she's also writing full novelizations for).
I cry every time i listen to sun bleached flies because it reminds me of such a bad time in my life
I love seeing someone else’s reaction to this! I just listened to this album for the first time and it’s just …SO heartrending. American Teenager is so much more poignant when you know the end of her story. Those soaring vocals, the longing and pain in the lyrics and grand instrumental swells throughout this album, are all so emotionally searing. The comparisons to Lana Del Rey are interesting because they both pull from similar aesthetics and themes, but Ethel Cain does it with genuine depth and emotional heft. Where Lana calls her lovers in her songs “daddy” and plays at Lolita themes, Ethel actually addresses childhood abuse. The glamorized stories Lana tells, it’s like Ethel’s songs are the reality behind where that mythologizing gets you.
Well I don’t think it’s fair to dismiss Lana like that since she’s dropped the aesthetic for a more brutal lyricism type of feel. Both are very good but Lana’s music definitely deals with abuse and addiction in a very candid way later on.
you clearly only listened to Born to Die, Lana doesn’t sing about daddy/lolita since 2014. when you listen to the rest of her discography, read again your comment and tell me if you feel the same way.
You haven't listened past born to die have you....
@@clarisselarue151 I agree with you, these women shouldn’t be pitted against each other, or at least rarely compared. Lana paved a new path, so will Ethel. They may share similar themes but their approach differs and I feel as Ethel grows we’ll continue to see more of her individuality. Ethel is new to the industry-- sadly it’s an inevitability that she’d be compared to other female artists. Smh.
bro you have the utmost, genuine and insane reactions, this shit is euphoric, good shit bro
Dude.... The genius notes are absolutely to be trusted in this case. They give you all the context that you'd be missing otherwise
Also... If you like this you'll also like Natural Born Losers by Nicole Dollanganger. Not even a debate it's just a Thing That Happens. It's gonna slap you a few times lyrically but you're going to adore it.
ptolemaea was my intro to ethel cain & the fact that I've had PD on repeat all summer based on that track....
seeing your reactions was great, matched how i remember feeling on my first listen
20:22 Hard times is so underrated and I feel like not many people understood it like u did because a lot of reactions I saw were just people bobbing their heads and saying it was slow, but it has so many different instrumental sounds that make the emotion in the song speak louder yk? Like there is really no words to say after listening because of how important the song is to the album and story, leading up the ending.
I’m so glad to see so many people are falling in love with her like I have 😭
I never get enough of her music. I can’t wait for her to finish her demos 😫
When i first time listen to Ptolemae, i was just finish my shift at night. Coincidently, i park my car at the very quite, dark place. I was really scared that i thought i might summoning a demon. While Ptolemae was really a worst place/name in Hell as Christian believed.
i watch this weekly for my week dose of serotonin
daily. i do mean daily.
Emo swiftie here- YES, American Teenager is EXACTLY how Taylor swift feels to us I had this exact same thought when I listened to this for the first time
American Teenager brings me so much joy! Awesome! Didn't expect this at all.
Loved seeing your reaction to the album. I recently listened to the full thing myself after only hearing and loving American Teenager and holy shit, what a ride. Ptolemaea still fucking haunts me (but in the best way.) The switch of tone from Gibson Girl onwards is just incredibly done. Also feels fucked up to find Strangers to be such a beautiful song when we all know what it's about, but Hayden somehow manages it.
Love your reaction! This album is AOTY!
It’s crazy to see house in Nebraska live. It’s so grand. And only three people are playing it. ❤
Not to get like .. woke … but I’ve seen so many men react to Ptolemaea with discomfort or fear but it’s just so therapeutic? The buildup and release is just so comforting to me. What I’ve always wanted to say and I can’t hear it without just wanting to scream along with her
Seeing your reactions, especially to the last quarter, is how I felt. I love this album because of how it affected me so viscerally and deeply. She's an AMAZING storyteller. I'm so excited to see where she takes Ethel's story next. I know she's writing a novel and making a movie for PD
i also agree with your thought about the pacing, it felt a little slow for me but i still think the album works well together
Now this is the the album reaction I needed for this revolution of an album.
this is slowly becoming my favorite video on the internet
AOTY.
hard times one of the best songs i’ve ever heard
Ethel does remind me of Lana Del Ray or Mazzy Star. Ethel Cain music is top notch for that genre.
i’m late to this video and haven’t even been watching for even 10m yet but the way you get excited about these songs is the exact way i feel and i’m so happy to see it :)
during thoroughfare: “what a beautiful story”
oh my sweet summer child
this album is No Words!! aoty for meee
also she’s seen& commented on some other reaction videos so 🤞🏼
Desperately need her on a pc music instrumental
i literally always come back to this for your reaction to american teenager. that song is a fucking triumph. (the whole album is incredible but there’s something so brilliant about that song.)
also the delivery on “poison in the water and unhappy” in hard times is so fucking good lol it makes me want to rip my skin off
Feels like the ultimate combo of Chelsea Wolfe and Lana Del Rey in the best way imaginable
Yeah it being a complete concept-album & understanding the story that’s played out this entire album HITS your(people’s) emotions- it’s a masterpiece 🖤
This is THE album of the year idc
If you want to continue the gritty depressive vibes of this album I highly recommend Sam Fender's Seventeen Goin Under.
Thank you for this 🥲 I have been dying to find someone who feels the same way about this album as I do! Loved this reaction!
Didn’t know you could sing bro. You sounded amazing on house in Nebraska
i listened to this album for the first time w my sibling in their car in the dark and we pulled into a completely empty and unlit park when ptolemaea came on and i for sure thought i was in danger
when i got to strangers i was like "im strong i can make it through this without crying" and then it was "mama don't think about it too hard and you'll never sleep a wink at night again" and i LOST IT. full tears
You truly have the exact same music taste as me it’s crazy
*head bobbing to Ptolemaea* me on the train to work
my favorites are the intro, western nights, gibson girl, and strangers
9:31 ur singing in the grey part elevated the song
I've been a huge swiftie for the last 11 years and YES! she makes me feel exacty like taylor does! I
Ptolemaea has always been my fav
Your reaction towards Strangers is me. I need to sit down in silence for like 10 minutes to process what's really going on
American Teenager and A House In Nebraska are insane
I made the decision to listen to this album for the first time front to back on the bus home for Christmas. Your reaction was pretty much on par.
Album. Of. The. Year.
truly one of the best concept albums out there
my reactions to Preachers Daughter were really similar as yours, i can’t describe how i was in a trance and how beautiful that was. One year after I still get goosebumps listening to Ptolemaea, American Teenager, Gibson Girl or Strangers… Ethel Cain really changed my life :]
you truly encapsulated the feeling of listening to this album, to the absolute T! Like, it feels like a religious awakening, eh?
Its so good. You know every song is an authentic document of real events.
sun bleached flies, family tree intro and western nights are >>>
ok but your reaction to american teenager was me fr
Your reaction to Sun Bleached Flies was so real 😭
Te has convertido en mi nuevo vídeo favorito de internet
He gets it 🙏
This album is very good, I just noticed you made a video about it! I am going to see her live in Nashville in September, very excited!
Just found your channel, this album is my new thing, for me 10/10 one of the best lyrics album i ever heard and thats from a hardcore Swifty haha
You have a sub, looove your way you talk about the music, the artist.
I had heard some of her songs here and there these past few months but I have been in full on hyperfixation on her for like 3 weeks now
if only you knew how many times i’ve come back to watch this reaction…
literally i can fucking feel this album 🫂
Chorus on American Teenager is S tier
Though the album is about a fictional character and story it’s a reality for so many young girls so many that we don’t even know of and may never have what happened to them come to light. You can not listen to ptolemaea and not have a sick stomach putting you in the shoes real time of what’s going on in their head right before it’s impossible not to have that empathy I genuinely wish all men could listen to it to feel what our very genuine raw fear feels like, to have empathy for women.
My dad made me sit down as a kid and watch the true crime channel to know and understand that not all people are good you can’t just trust everybody and I’m glad he did I was almost taken as a kid myself this old man in a red truck slowly followed me while I was walking to a friends stoped the truck next to me my heart sunk and the first thought in my head was I was gonna be another one of those little girls and I saw him hop out of his truck and I booked it all the way to her house thankfully not too far and he sped off. The police came an hour later but they never found him I had to be walked to and from everywhere I was so scared I would actually get taken next time. And years later I realized my fears were warranted I looked up all the child s** offenders and my neighborhood was so chock full there was one every 10 houses and we lived next to a school…
Keep your reactions up, you have a beautiful soul. I will see you very often here :)
Your reaction at Ptolemaea lmfaoooooo it really is so scary!
This is the best album of the year