Ethel Cain - A House In Nebraska (Live) | Vevo DSCVR Artists to Watch 2023

Ethel Cain - A House In Nebraska - Live Performance | Vevo DSCVR Artists To Watch 2023
If you want emotional depth and sweeping grandeur from rock music, seek out Ethel Cain’s ‘Preacher’s Daughter.’ The singer-guitarist’s debut album crackles from the jump. “American Teenager” is a portrait of small towns where football, Jesus, and “putting too much faith in the make believe” are important, and the artsy outsiders are relegated to the bleachers. But Cain, who also goes by Hayden Silas Anhedönia, is the main character here. The scope of this ambitious songwriting further widens when the “Baba O’Riley”-tinged “American Teenager” transitions into “A House In Nebraska.” For nearly three minutes, only spine-tingling piano chords slice through the echo of her gritty voice. Sparse. Raw. Powerful. The Joanna Newsome disciple credits this moment as a euphoric breakthrough that lit the path to the entire project. Her ‘Inbred’ EP was famously assembled in a church basement. And although ‘Preacher’s Daughter’ was crafted more meticulously, a subversive religious zeal haunts “Nebraska” and several of its other tracks. Some outlets have uttered “pop” as a descriptor for Cain’s work, but don’t be surprised at the music’s moments of challenging dissonance, a la Sonic Youth. Recent media champions include Pitchfork, Paper Magazine, and the New York Times, whose profile charted the Tallahassee born singer’s complex relationship with her Southern Baptist heritage, as well as her affinity for small town life (these days she resides in Alabama, purchasing a pickup truck with her record-deal money). Hand-drawn tattoos dot her hairline as well as the rest of her body; earlier this year, Cain made public her trans identity. This artistry is a reminder not to judge a book by a cover. In fact, just skip the judgements entirely. The singer told us she’s excited for fans to hear her ATW 2023 performances “in a way they haven’t heard before on the record.” All that’s left to do is turn the speaker up and listen.
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[@Kirb171]

Still can't grasp how Ethel invented a whole state for her song

[@nicodexx_]

the house housed, the nebraska nebraskaed

[@jacksonaucoin6028]

And did

[@ruben4788]

Seeing Ethel getting more and more attention makes me so happy, I'm so excited for her. Love you sm Hayden, you're a goddess.

[@markboyle-vd3rz]

@@JohnRiversOfficialstfu John rivers

[@JohnRiversOfficial]

@@markboyle-vd3rz simp

[@xcxarca]

ME TOO!!

[@byebyeforever4]

isn't it amazing to see? finally getting the recognition she deserves!

[@iamtravismarks]

She ok

[@shainawheeler9856]

My edible hit right before the video loaded and this just blew my fucking mind.

[@weewooweewoo906]

nice

[@cuntgettingeaten.]

YOU WERE THE ONLY ONE I WAS NEVER SCARED TO TELL I HURT!!!!

[@eleventyseven3742]

My latina sister Ethelina Catalina 💅😌✨

[@SneakyMosquito]

My gf died 4 months ago, I replace Nebraska with the street we lived on. I know she probably didn’t write it about death but every lyric hits me so hard and literal. I don’t know why I’m playing it on repeat and torturing myself crying, but it’s so hauntingly good I can’t stop. She’s amazing and this is a masterpiece 💔

[@Stargazer_27]

i’m so sorry to hear that☹️ wishing nothing but the best for you🫶

[@braydenk.8348]

I'm so sorry for your loss. Sometimes it feels good in such a backwards way to listen to things on repeat that touch that exact pain point. I don't know, it makes me feel something and feel alive again for a brief moment. Please take care of yourself.

[@PeachNEPTR]

I’ll quote one of my favorite lyrics, “I want to hear some sounds that recognize the pain in me”

[@bradleyhiggins6292]

I and others , are there with you. and for you.

[@janarchivell]

i'm very sorry for your loss. i'm glad you can find some sort of comfort in her music. i hope everything's going better now 🩷

[@statvuesque8431]

this feels like being early to the last supper

[@nosebleedin17]

OH MY GOD THIS IS AN UNDERRATED COMMENT

[@hollyhill1917]

Perfect

[@victorm829]

her best vocal performance of the song. i've got chills everywhere

[@vicenteisaias_]

so right

[@brusselsprout7634]

Her voice is just so GOOD. So lovely, haunting and ethereal all at once

[@cachuurrinho]

ethe(rea)l cain

[@ringeater]

i can’t listen to this song without ugly crying. every rendition is so beautiful

[@Umbrey_Dunctum]

"ugly crying"!!!!😭

[@RavenWolfDrum69]

😭😭😭😭😭😭🖤💔

[@APrftCrclTempest]

literally. the pain in the words and in her voice. jesus

[@shaag92]

@@APrftCrclTempest same, I can picture that girl alone

[@APrftCrclTempest]

proud to say that hearing this song nearly 6months later, i’ve graduated from the ugly crying to just tearing up, albeit with a quiet heartache that makes it kinda hard to take a deep breath sometimes...gently melancholic and devastatingly beautiful. her voice is spiritual.

[@matheus8530]

This destroys me, you really feel alone and small cause the music is SO wide and big it fills a void, the music shows the empty space that you're in and it brings the confort to the disconfort the music brought itself showing you how alone you are but you're not anymore cause there is music there now, I mean my god it hits... Am I crazy?

[@kirstinurso2285]

Well said

[@renaissance222]

shes grown so much since she was a crew member at panera bread omg

[@choilia2856]

STOPPPP

[@Umbrey_Dunctum]

That's because she kept missing shifts.

[@junlucas69]

Let's thank Sky for covering up for her

[@cesarrobles6659]

she already addressed the rumor that she is latina?

[@hhyperbaIIad]

@@choilia2856 ethel cain in ptolemaea:

[@Fjordes]

Seeing for progress as an artist from December 2018 in a tiny house in Tallahassee to now having a sold out European tour truly amazes me. I'm so proud of you

[@neapealingonsmet]

This makes me cry every time I listen to it. That's rare.

[@jasonx-ray3921]

There is an ocean of new, musical talent out there, but Ethel Cain is a lighthouse. Her voice, her lyrics, her talent creates a magic that recalls in all of us those brief, magic moments of love, loss, missteps, and fate that live inside everyone who listens to her music. The pain of it all make it so hard to listen to, but we leave feeling a blessed pain for what was never meant to be. It's that pain of love that hurts us bad, but in time, we mold it and adapt it into something more beautiful. Growth. Wisdom. Experience. It's the pain of being alive we wouldn't give up for anything. God Bless Ethel Cain for distilling the most important parts of every human life into a song that could live forever.

[@070_luna]

Very well said 🖤

[@juliannehnsn628]

So well described, thank you for sharing our thoughts and feelings towards her music

[@bingumsbongums]

Good grief she is so good it’s insane.

[@cobers4840]

She inspired my first album and the vibes it gives off. She’s my musical hero

[@Loveerowan]

This reminds me of those memes but it’s like “welcome back david Bowie” but it’s a photo of Ethel LMAO

[@wendywilson605]

We may have lost David Bowie, but we now have Ethel Cain. As Bowie once said “I don't know where I'm going from here but I promise it won't be boring”. Life has gotten so much richer for me from listening to Preacher's Daughter and watching live performances. I also LOVE that Ethel made a videotape where she shares her favorite art books. Amazing.

[@graciekinsey2735]

I remembered seeing her perform this live in gainseville. It was like she was in a trance, her eyes were closed the entire time, and she was just swaying with the music. She was purely engulfed in the song. It was so beautiful 🫶🏼

[@jasonrevelation1582]

What I would give, to have someone feel that way about me, just once in my life.

[@Officesirenwife]

Real😭💕

[@paige8556]

she has one of those voices that i hear and think she was born to sing and make music

[@zuzuthefirelord164]

feeling born again, after listening to her

[@SlimRhyno]

I'm 38, and no song has ever made me cry on the first listen... until now. It cuts deep, to parts of me that I had forgotten existed. This song is perfect, in the most painful f****** way possible. 🥀

[@Ashtree28]

This album is genuinely a masterpiece. I can’t remember the last time an entire album made me feel emotion as strong as Preacher’s Daughter did. She’s a genius!

[@collinlynch8354]

I 100 agree. It’s been so long since an album took time to get through because the songs have so much in them

[@perineumdestroyer5000]

I was raised in a Christian cult and was later shunned die to my sexuality. She makes me feel so seen. I went through conversion therapy. And it nearly took all I have.

[@QvakeOfficial]

im sorry u went thru that

[@squiishiie]

Saw her at Gunnersbury park in August. A crowd of nearly 20,000 and most if not all singing along to this. Absolutely magical atmosphere.

[@dylangaragozzo372]

I’m so jealous I would sob

[@bradleyberdecia9511]

Ethel Cain is pure art. Truly enchanting.

[@wheresmybonejuice5524]

THOSE LAST OOHS? OH MY GOD IT WAS LIKE BEAUTIFUL WAILS

[@junlucas69]

It really gave me chills whenever I heard her do it

[@mattyspice8754]

It’s wild to me that we first crossed paths in cosmo school, and then I found her again through her music so many years later. And she’s quickly became one of my favorite artists. She’s just like I remember her. ❤️

[@fruit4evr]

hey this is wildly bad time and place but i’m planning on going into cosmo school bc college is starting to seem really not for me, so you recommend cosmo school? is there anything you wish you would’ve known before it?

[@nickthequick9412]

@@fruit4evr my mom did it and would never of changed her path

[@karleeharris6942]

@@fruit4evryes if you love doing hair…100% go for it. Build your clientele, get your own little suite at a Phenix Salon Suites or SOLA…one of those and be your own independent biz owner. 💯

[@trentgreis]

the way she misconstructed and redefined what it meant to convey and obtain the concupiscent anomalistic clearance showing us that idiosyncratic is ebulliently inevitable while simultaneously substantiating the superiority of women

[@amornieves]

LMFAO PERIODTTT PURR

[@MrDadsVideos]

Thank you ChatGpt

[@pyapyaye]

It’s so holy. She turned the studio into a church.❤

[@Moonsong_]

This song changed me and formed me as a person. It is monumental, beautiful, haunting… then the part where she goes “It hurts to miss you, but it’s worse to know that I’m the reason you won’t come home” is something else.

[@ginayoung130]

That's my favorite line ❤

[@janelle9652]

this song really grows on you the more you listen

[@rennash2]

on my knees on my room floor rn sobbing like a maniac

[@aidenleeartistry]

the most song ever

[@rebeccanascimento8234]

Hayden, your voice, your beautiful spirit....I've been ugly crying for this album for so long, the lyrics awaken my nightmares but look at them straight in the face and that makes me stronger rather than how scared of those emotions I was. This is the power of art, this is the power of you. A thousand times thank you!

[@dimensionlesss]

Whoever is directing this and doing the lights needs a raise

[@Mindyours1999]

This is the most beautiful performance wow

[@cieloestrellado]

my heart is healing and aching all at once

[@annechoyrocks]

Her voice is haunting and ethereal. I love her! Soul from a young emerging artist!

[@lforhoneyyy]

Ethelreal

[@user-nn5kz9ee7d]

actually crying & shaking right now i Love U so much ethel cain

[@jess2617]

i’m seeing her live in 2 days. she’s gonna blow up sm next year

[@jess2617]

update: saw her last night. she was so good!!

[@MiguelGonzalez-hf9tr]

I need this album in vinyl

[@carlos1461]

quite literally my favorite new artist of this year and i couldnt be more excited about it bc i found such a unique connection with her and her music. dying to meet and hear her live one day 🙌🏼♥️

[@Vulni_cura]

Ethel Cain you’ll always be famous

[@bellaward29]

listen to the whole album and you’ll understand how much i ugly cried and the emotions i felt

[@mag9235]

Can't go a day without listening to her music

[@GabrielCain28]

Her family must be so proud 🤎🤎

[@JulietMHorner]

We are!

[@Loveerowan]

I get insane chills every single time I listen to her

[@dudagoulart940]

SONG OF THE YEAR!!!!!! it changed my life forever

[@xDPx-zh7vr]

You could live 100 lifetimes and not hear another artist this original and talented. The same way there will never be another Freddie Mercury there will never be another Ethel Cain cuz she means that much to so many.

[@pla5730]

I couldn't agree more.. there's something so very special about her .. I fall in love with her more and more each time I hear her voice

[@thecroft6070]

Love when the guitar comes in for the finale

[@Fiveash-Art]

This is what new music should be .. drama, poetry and power

[@faigler]

Hayden has the most insane vocals live, whether that's in a huge amazing set for VEVO or a radio soundbooth for KEXP or someone's shitty phone catching 30 seconds of Coachella every time I'm just like. Holy shit. You know when the live show's better quality than the album (which is already amazing) you've got something special. Total aside, though, this set/the lighting/the burnt orange dress with the leg of mutton sleeves?!?? holy aesthetics I would not have put together but are STUNNING. several designers need a raise

[@worldsbiggestholdthegirlfan]

I’m always in awe of how Hayden is able to capture my attention with long songs. she’s phenomenal

[@zackattakks]

For a queer kid that grew up in a small town in Florida. This is everything 🤠

[@jordankitsch108]

I’m so Proud of you Ethel🖤

[@SergioBracali]

Her potential is immense. Probably not even she understands the importance of what she did. Preacher's daughter is the same level of David Bowie's Ziggy Stardust.

[@mliyahc9464]

obsessed isnt even the word to describe the absolute admiration i feel for this performance absolutely perfect

[@carolined3024]

this song is so beautiful, I listen to it every day. the back vocals give me chills each time. thank you ethel for blessing us with quite literally the best song ever written

[@remsleep2091]

❤ yeeeeessss this song is soooo powerful

[@grayperson178]

ugh i knew i had to start following her after i saw her open for Florence and the Machine in denver this year… such an amazing voice and story

[@will-qb1sw]

This was one of my top streamed songs of the year, and I mean it when I say this: Hayden is one of the MOST polished, flourishing emerging artists and at this point this album has made such a name and brand for itself the term “new artist” is ready to retire as Ethel proves herself and her talent

[@scoobyea1538]

Labored breaths and bed sores Sing it to me all day long When the aching sound of silence Used to be our favorite song You and me against the world You were my man and I your girl We had nothing except each other You were my whole world But then the day came And you were up and gone And I still call home that house in Nebraska Where we found each other on a dirty mattress on the second floor Where the world was empty Save you and I Where you came and I laughed, and you left, and I cried Where you told me even if we died tonight, that I'd die yours These dirt roads are empty The ones we paved ourselves Your mama calls me sometimes To see if I'm doing well And I lie to her And say that I'm doing fine When really I'd kill myself To hold you one more time And it hurts to miss you But it's worse to know That I'm the reason You won't come home But I still call home that house in Nebraska Where we found each other on a dirty mattress on the second floor (When I needed you, and I need you still) Where the world was empty Save you and I Where you came and I laughed, and you left, and I cried Where you told me even if we died tonight, that I'd die yours (So I died there under you, every night, all night) You know, I still wait at the edge of town Praying straight to God that maybe you'll come back around I cry every day, and the bottles make it worse 'Cause you were the only one I was never scared to tell I hurt And I found photographs of our school, on the day we met I thought that you were so beautiful, it was love, I guess And you might never come back home, and I may never sleep at night But God, I just hope you're doing fine out there, I just pray that you're all right And I feel so alone And I feel so alone out here I feel so alone And I feel so alone out here And I feel so alone without you I'm so alone out here I feel so alone, I feel so alone I'm so alone out here without you, baby (I'm alone)

[@admj2057]

The Art....

[@tylerdavis127]

We're so proud of you Mother 🖤

[@junfanman666]

Music is in such a great place atm (if you know where to look), so many young talented songwriters.

[@Nancoman]

Nice, I live in Nebraska.

[@hvunjins2913]

Hayden, I'm so incredibly proud of you. You're definitely the artist of the year. Love you endlessly

[@alana_rawk]

This is just gorgeous. The vocals, the lighting, the continuous tracking shot. It's a departure for sure from the VHS aesthetic that permeated Inbred and Preacher's Daughter, but I love it. I've been a massive fan since Golden Age, and I'm sooo happy to see you finally get some of the recognition you deserve!

[@Umbrey_Dunctum]

It does retain something of the sparsity of the Ethel aesthetic, which she said would probably have to go anyway.

[@remsleep2091]

The power of her whole withchy-woman soul poured over this song is so enchanting

[@Vashti.Sadler]

“Cause you were the only one I was never scared to tell I hurt.”

[@evangeline819]

she’s truly something else. i was lucky enough to get tickets for the london show next week, never been more excited for a concert in my life 🖤

[@diogoroquemarques7904]

saaaame im so excited!!

[@davidosting3714]

saw her over the summer, she's phenomenal, I'm dying to see her again

[@flakeyjay]

No words to describe talent like this..

[@sam-ov5cl]

Such a heavenly voice♡♡

[@josephinepineconey]

😭😭😭 always cry to this one, meemaw served yet again ♥️♥️♥️

[@saqarkhaleefah6159]

saw her live yesterday and this is exactly how this song sounded, had chills going down my spine. Hauntingly beautiful

[@marcabelo7720]

Officer, this song right here!!!

[@peachypetals98]

My most streamed song of the year, and the song that made me cry everytime i hear it, i feel it in my veins, Ethel Cain your album will stick to me till the day i die :)

[@strangerum]

I discovered you 2 days ago and I'm so happy!! Your voice is gorgeous, your music is powerful ❤❤❤ thank you so much. God bless you all ❤

[@kaykaybee]

Listening to this song is like having needles puncture my heart, but it’s so fucking beautiful. Absolutely love it.

[@ntrntgrl]

im so in love with her, im so glad she's doing amazing and getting the recognition she deserves. perfect voice, perfect presence and concept. amazing. beautiful.

[@chuucake]

every ethel cain song makes me sob so hard it hits straight to my core, to my home, to my heart. i will never be the same ever again.

[@evemajor4165]

This song and Western Nights make me emotional every time. What a great performance too. Wow :,)

[@trannification8410]

I can’t wait till she plays giant venues but god I’m gonna miss her small concert so much.

[@sempervirenss]

shoutout to ethel cain for inventing nebraska ‼️

[@Officesirenwife]

😂❤

[@harlanthejester]

I never thought that (as a more mature listener) I would be absolutely enamoured of something new.. You are an incredible artist I have loved discovering your musical creations over the last few years and cannot express how happy I am to see you go from strength to strength and gain popularity. I will see you live in London next week and cry tears of joy... thank you.

[@isadore7221]

Yes! Ethel deserves all the attention coming to her. She makes true art ❤️

[@BonjourCassy]

Holy shit, I just astral traveled. Pure magic 🤍

[@mckennagraymusic]

Halsey gave Ethel Cain a shout-out on their podcast and that's how I found them and I love their music from what I've heard so far!!

[@internet-gf]

hayden/ethel uses she/her pronouns!

[@nargeldias7015]

girl the vocals... the stylish.... the nails!!!! serving kween!!!

[@everyoneh8smonday]

i love how she writes. it’s not straightforward, but lightly sugarcoated. giving us the ability to interpret how we want.

[@haleybee7391]

gosh what i wouldn't give to hear this in person, so freaking beautiful and one of my favorite artists of all time

[@gooba2390]

My hero is getting the recognition she’s worked so hard to achieve and I’m so proud of ger

[@ThomasParrish]

truly my artist of the year

[@f1nalguydavid]

i am so fucking proud of you, your voice gives me goosebumps every single time i hear you, ethel

[@mliyahc9464]

i just started listening to her music but i’m seeing more and more of her and i can already see her gaining the recognition she deserves 🫶🏽 also this is one of my favorite tracks on the album!

[@Fiveash-Art]

This thing reminds me of something The Doors would do for television special ... It's poetry

[@AlexThaPr0duct]

this song changed my life trajectory

[@ponykris]

we love you meemaw and are endlessly proud of you.

[@fabriciomorais5256]

She's one of a kind, honestly.

[@charlottealicebutton3312]

I can't imagine my life before I had Ethel Cain/White Silas.....such depth/pain/beauty xox

[@luanagarcia8945]

Jesus, what a perfomance