User:Catpawhs/Ethel Cain

Early Life

 * Ethel Cain is the alter ego of Hayden Silas Anhedönia
 * Cain grew up in the deep south and was raised by a choir singer and a deacon in a small Southern Baptist community comprised of roughly 1,500 people
 * Cain's also became involved in the church choir with her mother around age five and took up piano lessons at age eight . She spent much of her childhood studying music and the Bible
 * Most of Cain's childhood and early adolescence were spent listening to church hymns and Gregorian chants . She did not begin to discover secular music until high school, which was a pivotal time period in her self-discovery as an artist
 * Cain's relationship with the church and her family grew more complicated in her teenage years when she was shunned because of her sexuality and was forced by her family to attend therapy because of it
 * Cain came out as a transgender woman shortly after leaving her church

Music Creation

 * Cain wrote her first album at age fifteen on a small Casio keyboard in her childhood bedroom
 * Cain began teaching herself how to use GarageBand at age nineteen and released her first mixtape on SoundCloud shortly after
 * Cain originally started posting her music on online platforms, notably Twitter and Tumblr,, under the pseudonym White Silas
 * The visual aesthetic representation of Ethel Cain is inspired by goth, Biblical , corrupt Preacher , Southern American , and American Gothic themes
 * Cain's consistent reference of religion and her love for Southern America are themes that are viewed by many as taboo, particularily within the queer artist sphere
 * Cain cites Title Fight, Lana Del Rey, Florence Welch, Grouper, 1980's synth-pop, lo-fi music, and her religious upbringing as musical inspirations.
 * Cain views her Christian upbringing as a major source of feelings of paranoia and guilt throughout her childhood and brings these elements into her art
 * All of Cain's music to date has been written, recorded, produced, and mixed almost entirely by her
 * Rapper and songwriter lil aaron connected Cain to Prescription Songs, Dr. Luke's independent publishing company, in early 2020 where she signed a label and publishing deal
 * Cain's music encapsulates hard-hitting themes such as poverty, trauma , abuse , and assault
 * Anhedönia notes that the alter ego of Ethel Cain is a seperate entity. Anhedönia seeks a manageable level fame for Ethel Cain and not Hayden Anhedönia

Relationship With Fans

 * Fans of Cain refer to themselves as "the daughters of Cain" . This is inspired by fans of artist Florence and the Machine refering Florence Welch as "Mother" and Cain's perspective that the term "fans" is too impersonable
 * Cain makes an active effort to engage and interact with her fans, primarily through the use of Instagram, Tumblr, and Twitter
 * The depiction of a family with cult-like roots is loosely inspired by her religious upbringing

(https://hero-magazine.com/article/189013/ethel-cains-music-is-an-unforgiving-portrait-of-southern-baptist-america) (https://www.them.us/story/artists-to-watch-ethel-cain)