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Preacher's Daughter By Ethel Cain

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Preacher's Daughter is an album produced and written by Hayden Silas Anhedönia, known by her stage name Ethel Cain. She is a 26-year-old singer-songwriter from America, born and raised in a small town in Florida. Being from a Southern Baptist family, she has a complex relationship with religion, part of which is a result of her transgender identity. Christianity has always condemned and rejected sexual and gender minorities. This experience will inspire her and end up being one of the many themes in her debut album – Preachers Daughter. Anhedönia always knew she was different; on her 20th birthday, she publicly came out as transgender and legally changed her name. The same week Ethel Cain would be born – a character inspired by Anhedonia's …show more content…

Later, Logan is killed by police in a bank robbery and Ethel has to run. In the song Family Tree, intergenerational trauma is uncovered in a metaphor – “The fates have already fucked me sideways swinging by my neck from the family tree”. Ethel will forever be tied to her heritage; she is doomed to her curse. However, she manages to take the noose off and is now using it as a weapon. The darker side of Ethel shows through, as these are the final moments of the religious Ethel Cain that her hometown knew. The next song on the album is by far one of the toughest, in Hard Times Ethel opens up about her fathers abuse. This experience made her grow up faster, which can be read by the lyrics “9 going on 18”. She mentions how her father would use her naivety by hiding sexual abuse under a blanket of a game, which made Ethel think she deserved all the things that happened to her. “In the corner, on my birthday You watched me dancing right there in the grass, I was too young to notice that some types of love could be bad”. (Cain, Hard Times) Even though she realizes that it is not true, she still misses and loves her dad – “Praying I'd be like you Doing all of the things that you do And I still do and that scares me” (Cain, Hard Times) The father would come to Ethel every night, which hints to a continuing nature of the

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