Ethel Cain - "Michelle Pfeiffer"

In honor of PRIDE month this June I will spotlight only LGBTQIA+ Artists to show you one more way in which we should be grateful for to the Queer Community and how without it we would not have the world or nation that we love so much. We should be grateful and proud.

“I feel like I’m aging against my will,” singer-songwriter Ethel Cain says, “so I’m constantly trying to use my own artwork as an escapist fantasy to fling myself back into an age before I was even born.” The emerging musician’s tender and reflective songs are calm and quiet, yet blisteringly visceral. Take her latest track, “Michelle Pfeiffer,” for instance, a haunting collab with lil aaron that yearns for someone (something?) from another lifetime. “I want my music to feel like a hot and sticky June afternoon somewhere in Mississippi,” she says. “You’re half-naked and plastered to the seat of somebody else’s car. Life isn’t perfect, but it’s chill, and you feel sexy enough to get at least half of what you want.” Cain’s transness adds to her unique perspective but certainly isn’t the entirety of who she is. “Being transgender is easily the most boring and human aspect about me,” she says. “I want people to know there’s a million and one ways to be a trans woman, just like there’s a million and one ways to be a cis woman. We aren’t following a blueprint; we’re leaving our own.” @MotherCain

So today, sticky and slow, I choose Ethel Cain’s “Michelle Pfeiffer” as my, age ain’t nothin’, remember your magic, roots deep into groundwater, song for a, let them wonder, follow the flash, open the magic door, Tuesday.