It could happen, but it’s also once in a lifetime, like “what are the odds?” I wanted to tell a story that was possible and mundane, but also melodramatic and very over the top. A lot of movies are either very fantastical… a little too fictional to be real very mundane, very possible, and they bore me. There’s a specific intersection between mundane and fantastical that really scratches an itch for me. I love a good drama, a good American epic.
I read the record started as a screenplay, and now the fans on Twitter have extrapolated the plot. It definitely feels like the north star of this project, but the quest to get there falls off track with what this character endures during the course of this record. All these songs exist inside this house in Nebraska, and none of this would’ve happened if I written that song. It was always meant to symbolize this central point that everything else revolves around. I named it that because I wanted it to be this escapist place in the dead center of America. It’s always been what I’ve tethered the rest of this story to, that house in Nebraska. The song really didn’t change that much in those four years. It’s been the anchor for the whole project. It’s existed in the Ethel Cain cinematic universe for a few years. ”A House In Nebraska,” what a special song.
I was no longer listening to crazy heavy synth electronic music I was listening to Nicole Dollanganger and Grouper and Slowdive and Def Leppard… artists who aren’t making songs about partying in the club and doing drugs and drinking about riding across America and digging into dead animals with your hands. Everything I did seemed to be another step in that direction until one day I woke up and my whole closet was white dresses and my hair had grown twice as long and I had stopped coloring it. It just spilled out over this piano loop.įrom then on out, Ethel Cain just happened. This is something else.” I was making completely different types of music at the time, but I was just like, “This is what I’m supposed to do.” I think I wrote “A House In Nebraska” in 10, 15 minutes. I was sitting on the floor with my computer, going through some samples, and I found that piano sample that’s in “A House In Nebraska,” and I was like, “Holy crap, this is it. I lived in this little house with my best friend at the time. It’s down the street from the Burger King and the liquor store. I mean, everything that inspired it happened in my hometown, but the creation of this record started in Florida, in this little house. Where specifically did this project begin? What was the room? Where was the town? I was just in Paris and I’ve never left the country before, so I think that was weird on my body.
There’s a lot that’s overwhelming, but I’m trying to roll with it and not get too inundated. Well, how is Hayden doing, but also how is Ethel doing? Is she alive? Can you confirm? It’s new emotions I’ve never felt before. So it’s been really weird being on this side of the record. I get really out of my head, but also too in my head. My brain is like, “There’s nothing between you and the end of your life up next is death.” And I’m like, “No, I have to put up a wall.” It’s so dramatic.
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And now that I’m past it, I have to throw another something as far as I can and set another goal, because if I don’t have a very clear set goal I’m working towards, I feel like I’m free falling. For the past four years, this has always been my mountain on the horizon. The FADER: Preacher’s Daughter has been out in the universe for about a week now.
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