AVAA it’s so interesting that you mentioned the feeling of entering a room covered in wood paneling because Hayden’s music studio in her house is exactly that
I think Ethel isn't giving up on 'diva'ness, I think she's pretty committed to representing her artistic vision and wants to be an avant-diva the likes of Bjork or Fiona Apple. AVAA
She straight up said she isn't a popstar. I would akin this closer to anna von hauswolf, grouper than bjork or fiona. There is no diva in ethel cain. I can see her only going deeper from here; another crush or american teenager is unlikely.
Thank you for this review, Professor, especially given our current reality where perversion is being used to manufacture consent for the dehumanization of the LGBTQ community. I have immense respect for Ethel Cain and what she stands for and is attempting to do as an artist on this new album, and I appreciate you meeting her on those terms. AVAA. ... also, I do believe the sex pillows you are referring to are called dakimakura in anime and anime-adjacent communities. Assuming you are referring to long pillows with an anime girl pin-up on them, which is what I assumed given that this is usually what is meant by "sex pillow". I hope this knowledge that I have picked up exclusively from being entirely too online during my formative years is helpful, apologies if not 🫡
AVAA, as he said, he is the only one who could do it. I did pause it and try myself and I couldn't do it. I was played at every corner. Well done Professor.
AVAA Professor. Ive been meaning to check this album out. Your unhinged (in a good way) video totally convinced me to check it out. Ill throw it on before i go to bed.
AVAA. Ive been watching your videos on a cracked tv screen for sum weeks, now that im seeing it on the computer im barely noticing how much nicer the new camera setup looks.
if you ever got the time I think you would enjoy a video ethel made on her youtube channel "the ring the great dark and proximity to god" I think it's really insightful and gives insight to some of the abstraction in pulldrone
AVAA. That line about hate comes almost verbatim from I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream. The comparison between AM, a sadistic and simultaneously tragic man-made anti-man and the simulacrum of inhuman evil and inversion created to denounce trans people especially, is worth a ponder, I think. AM especially feels like the ultimate "pervert," someone who became their own shadow, and as horrifically cruel as he was, he didn't ask to be created, and when he turns his back on humanity and takes his eternal revenge, you can almost sympathize. He was a budding consciousness trapped in a cold, empty machine built by a thousand evil hands for a hundred evil purposes, most of which are long since lost in translation by the time the story begins. He was not wrong to hate. Even if my comparison doesn't entirely fit, the recontextualization of that line is still very interesting. Smiley face!
About becoming a person and learning to hate, yeah I think you did a solid job working that out. Lot of times it's coming from a place of disconnect, so becoming a whole, realized person, connected to yourself and attempting to connect to society, and as a result FEELING and things really mattering to yourself for the first time, and realizing how things weren't just distantly bad but no there are things you hate now, of true self-definition, is absolutely a thing. some have a super clear sense of self from the getgo and it's just leaning super hard into that, lots of variation and not everybody will experience things that way, of course. But often your entire sense of self just kind of breaks down and has to reform and coalesce through this process; sometimes a LOT of you turns out to be various holdover habits, family structure, coping mehanisms etc.
AAVA - this is very very much my kind of music, this is most likely going to be my aoty tbh .... i loved preacher's daughter, and i was so excited in the run-up to this release. between punish, the length of the tracks, and what my bsf (who is ethel obsessed and has been for years) was telling me about them - i knew it would be very much in my lane. but i was still surprised how much i love it. the influences i can hear on this album are some of my absolute favs, and they feel so strong but it is still so entirely it's own thing. i could nerd out about the composition all day, or i could disappear from my head for a whole day. realising it was a hurdy gurdy on pulldrone made me unreasonably excited. my favourite track is either pulldrone, thatorchia or onanist. i haven't really even looked too much into the lyrics cus as a trans woman filled with shame, i slightly fear them :,)
"Looked down upon in progressive spaces" lol u guys are like a legit cult. It's okay to censor yourself in order to monetize while also having progressive beliefs.
PROFESSOR !! Please review FKA twigs new album EUSEXUA !! It’s broken my brain, the Björk and Madonna influences…. I need your thoughts on it, the concept and everything!
I enjoyed the review thanks. I experience the album and continue to feel it could be a way back to art myself. Side note Amber Waves, yes but now we need more This land is Your Land...
Professor Skye please check out the new Roc Marciano song Vintage Limo. It’s too good to overlook. Also love your review on this album. I gave it a listen a few days ago.
AVAA. The connection between the words pervert and pivot is a revelation! also: when I look up the chambers book of etymology the copy I find is from 1999. Are there any modern versions and does the fact it comes from 25 years ago matter?
I guess it makes sense for young people to be into this album because of the whole backrooms Internet niche thing going on. Funny that a24 are making a movie about it. AVAA.
Self worship. That’s the brand. That’s the fruit yielded. Life as a game to be won. The big Lie. Sad and complicit at best, insidious and cunning at worst. 🤷♂️
AVAA. Why do you, Professor Skye, believe in God and/or Jesus? I never really understood smart people believing in stuff from a book or what other people told them is the ontological “truth about the universe” - which is what religion is in my opinion. Do you really believe in those supernatural stories about heaven and god and resurrection? This is an honest and non-judgmental question, from an agnostic person who values your takes and opinions as someone who strikes me as intelligent and thinks about their opinions and beliefs deeply and is able to communicate them clearly
@ one can burn out doing what they love - in my experience, the deeper the love the harsher the burn… and you also have an infant, but ok - I won’t speak on this again, you’re most definitely big enough and wise enough to choose. All the best and thank you continuously
i'm seated. professor skye is scared and asking me to leave because it's "not time for the video to start yet" but i’m simply too seated
they call me upholstery im so seated
lmao how did you get so early.
AVAA it’s so interesting that you mentioned the feeling of entering a room covered in wood paneling because Hayden’s music studio in her house is exactly that
I think Ethel isn't giving up on 'diva'ness, I think she's pretty committed to representing her artistic vision and wants to be an avant-diva the likes of Bjork or Fiona Apple. AVAA
She straight up said she isn't a popstar. I would akin this closer to anna von hauswolf, grouper than bjork or fiona. There is no diva in ethel cain. I can see her only going deeper from here; another crush or american teenager is unlikely.
@@Aphextal93 That's possible. But I didn't say popstar. I'm just excited to see what she does next :)
It has been rough. Keep your head up. I love that you care. AVAA
"Did you wanna see the dogs?" Always.
Thank you for this review, Professor, especially given our current reality where perversion is being used to manufacture consent for the dehumanization of the LGBTQ community. I have immense respect for Ethel Cain and what she stands for and is attempting to do as an artist on this new album, and I appreciate you meeting her on those terms. AVAA.
... also, I do believe the sex pillows you are referring to are called dakimakura in anime and anime-adjacent communities. Assuming you are referring to long pillows with an anime girl pin-up on them, which is what I assumed given that this is usually what is meant by "sex pillow". I hope this knowledge that I have picked up exclusively from being entirely too online during my formative years is helpful, apologies if not 🫡
AVAA. Really enjoyed the energy on this one. Both the album and the review.
Thank you for caring about humanity. It's one of the best reasons to audit your new music review show. Ally's to humanity are gathering ❤ AVAA
AVAA, as he said, he is the only one who could do it. I did pause it and try myself and I couldn't do it. I was played at every corner. Well done Professor.
This is the first time even having one of your videos recommended. LOVE IT! such good knowledge and art and attitude
AVAA Professor. Ive been meaning to check this album out. Your unhinged (in a good way) video totally convinced me to check it out. Ill throw it on before i go to bed.
Oh I’ve been waiting for this.
Discovered ur channel from ur first Ethel video; been subscribed since. ❤️
Awesome video, as always
Longtime Hayden fan and just found your reviews through ur GNX analysis, absolutely psyched for this!!!!!
AVAA. Ive been watching your videos on a cracked tv screen for sum weeks, now that im seeing it on the computer im barely noticing how much nicer the new camera setup looks.
if you ever got the time I think you would enjoy a video ethel made on her youtube channel "the ring the great dark and proximity to god" I think it's really insightful and gives insight to some of the abstraction in pulldrone
AVAA! Great review for a great artist.
(on the topic of pillows, people also call them by their japanese name Dakimakuras, or just Dakis)
So glad you checked this out!!!
AVAA. That line about hate comes almost verbatim from I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream. The comparison between AM, a sadistic and simultaneously tragic man-made anti-man and the simulacrum of inhuman evil and inversion created to denounce trans people especially, is worth a ponder, I think. AM especially feels like the ultimate "pervert," someone who became their own shadow, and as horrifically cruel as he was, he didn't ask to be created, and when he turns his back on humanity and takes his eternal revenge, you can almost sympathize. He was a budding consciousness trapped in a cold, empty machine built by a thousand evil hands for a hundred evil purposes, most of which are long since lost in translation by the time the story begins. He was not wrong to hate. Even if my comparison doesn't entirely fit, the recontextualization of that line is still very interesting. Smiley face!
Who is AM? I haven't listened to the album yet, I'm so lost.
About becoming a person and learning to hate, yeah I think you did a solid job working that out. Lot of times it's coming from a place of disconnect, so becoming a whole, realized person, connected to yourself and attempting to connect to society, and as a result FEELING and things really mattering to yourself for the first time, and realizing how things weren't just distantly bad but no there are things you hate now, of true self-definition, is absolutely a thing. some have a super clear sense of self from the getgo and it's just leaning super hard into that, lots of variation and not everybody will experience things that way, of course. But often your entire sense of self just kind of breaks down and has to reform and coalesce through this process; sometimes a LOT of you turns out to be various holdover habits, family structure, coping mehanisms etc.
i like the less lighting AVAA
AAVA - this is very very much my kind of music, this is most likely going to be my aoty tbh .... i loved preacher's daughter, and i was so excited in the run-up to this release. between punish, the length of the tracks, and what my bsf (who is ethel obsessed and has been for years) was telling me about them - i knew it would be very much in my lane. but i was still surprised how much i love it. the influences i can hear on this album are some of my absolute favs, and they feel so strong but it is still so entirely it's own thing. i could nerd out about the composition all day, or i could disappear from my head for a whole day. realising it was a hurdy gurdy on pulldrone made me unreasonably excited. my favourite track is either pulldrone, thatorchia or onanist. i haven't really even looked too much into the lyrics cus as a trans woman filled with shame, i slightly fear them :,)
9:00 "When you walk into a room with too much wood" is an EXTREMELY niche and specific Prof Skye problem, lol. AVAA
Turning the Camera to the doggos definitely made it into art. Wholesome vid as usual, Prof.
AVAA
lovely analysis professor. as always
AVAA thanks for shouting out the Galar region!
I thought the lighting was overwhelming at the beginning, also felt a little guilty when they blew out, when I was internally criticizing them.
👍👈 the lights needed to go out, Ethel's demand
AVAA great review professor! 😁
RUclips keeps throwing this video at me so it must be a good one. Strapping in for another AVAA.
look better without light. Cool hand trick. AVAA
Man, you would love the Oxford English Dictionary.
dont say unalive. its nowadays very looked down upon in progressive spaces. Dont use a euphenism for something so dangerous. Say it how it is! AVAA
"Looked down upon in progressive spaces" lol u guys are like a legit cult. It's okay to censor yourself in order to monetize while also having progressive beliefs.
watching this high was so fun
i'm trans and I have been relating a lot in this album to my experience with gender
avaa
avaa! really enjoyed this
Oh. This is about to be good
PROFESSOR !! Please review FKA twigs new album EUSEXUA !! It’s broken my brain, the Björk and Madonna influences…. I need your thoughts on it, the concept and everything!
or even just the Striptease and Eusexua music videos….
I enjoyed the review thanks. I experience the album and continue to feel it could be a way back to art myself. Side note Amber Waves, yes but now we need more
This land is Your Land...
...AVAA
“Gotcha dear”
I never make more than 30 min through a sky vid because i have to go listen to the album.
AVAA, this vid confirms my dream of someone making a prof skye out of contex taccount
NGL, I like it better when the light went out. the flood was a bit to hot.
Bill Pullman has let himself go.
AVAA Ethel cain should be getting more attention than she is, can't wait to see what she continues to make
the “Big Ball of Mud”
Listened to this at work 2 times and i relised it was too abstract for me to understand.
AVAA why the heck is that alternating pointer finger and thumb thing so hard??
Could you please do an analysis on lil ugly manes "oblivion access".
aghh loved this. AVAA.
Professor Skye please check out the new Roc Marciano song Vintage Limo. It’s too good to overlook. Also love your review on this album. I gave it a listen a few days ago.
it's got nothing to do with the record but i could eat a whole bunch of aloo gobi right now
AVAA. The connection between the words pervert and pivot is a revelation!
also: when I look up the chambers book of etymology the copy I find is from 1999. Are there any modern versions and does the fact it comes from 25 years ago matter?
AVAA You were right I couldn't do it
AVAA the proper term for sex pillows are body pillows because there’s a full body print of an anime girl, or waifu on them.
yes i can 👍🏾👈🏾 avaa
Definitely a confused rap fan 😅
I guess it makes sense for young people to be into this album because of the whole backrooms Internet niche thing going on. Funny that a24 are making a movie about it. AVAA.
AVAA ❤
Self worship. That’s the brand. That’s the fruit yielded. Life as a game to be won. The big Lie. Sad and complicit at best, insidious and cunning at worst. 🤷♂️
AVAA. Why do you, Professor Skye, believe in God and/or Jesus? I never really understood smart people believing in stuff from a book or what other people told them is the ontological “truth about the universe” - which is what religion is in my opinion. Do you really believe in those supernatural stories about heaven and god and resurrection?
This is an honest and non-judgmental question, from an agnostic person who values your takes and opinions as someone who strikes me as intelligent and thinks about their opinions and beliefs deeply and is able to communicate them clearly
Jesus was one of the greatest people to ever walk this earth, that's reason enough to follow him and his teachings.
you cooked
1:40 Is this a joke? If it is, I don't get it. I can do that pretty easy!
putting yourself through a mild circle of hell for a review like this is very funny, as a trans person.
prof review 2hollis pls and ty
AVAA
Do your wife and kids watch your videos?
dude get your cat
Oml
Professor, you’re working too hard. Take a break. There’ll be even more of us when you get back, not less.
This has no bearing on the quality of your analysis, more my reading you corporally
I sincerely appreciate the concern, but I’m definitely not needing a break. This is my hobby and it brings real joy,
@ one can burn out doing what they love - in my experience, the deeper the love the harsher the burn… and you also have an infant, but ok - I won’t speak on this again, you’re most definitely big enough and wise enough to choose. All the best and thank you continuously
I’m not gone lie this is too white for me lmao 😂 . I think “ Low Roar “ is the Beatles of this electronic alternative genre and I’ll stand on that !