‘You’re so handsome when I’m all over your mouth’
I had a whole post written in my head with this subject line.
But then it me’d (dawned) that my beloved song “Thoroughfare” by Ethel Cain, about Isaiah, is part of a concept album.
One that ends with Isaiah fucking CANNIBALIZING her.
And that my beloved song “Strangers” is her talking about being dead and Isaiah’s freezer bride.
And that she’s talking to her mom from the afterlife.
Gives a whole new perspective to her singing, “If I’m turning in your stomach and I’m making you feel sick” and “Mama, I’ll see you when you get here.”
I don’t know what the fuck I even had in my brain before this moment.
“Don’t talk to strangers, or you might fall in love,” indeed.