Ethel Cain has released these days the second single from his next album, ‘Willoughby Tucker, I’ll Always Love You’, a 6 -minute theme called ‘Fuck Me Eyes’ that has been known since 2020 in its original version. ‘Fuck me eyes’ will be track 3 inside a 10 -track album that includes an “interlude” of more than 7 minutes and the definitive versions of two demos very dear by the Fandom of Ethel Cain, ‘Dust Bowl’ and ‘Waco, Texas’; The latter with a duration of 15 minutes.
1 – Janie – 5:00
2 – Willoughby’s Theme – 4:44
3 – Fuck me eyes – 6:04
4 – Nettles – 8:03
5 – Willoughby’s interlude – 7:27
6 – Dust Bowl – 6:26
7 – A KNOCK AT THE DOOR – 5:24
8 – Radio Towers – 5:12
9 – Tempest – 10:00
10 – Waco, Texas – 15:15
‘Fuck me you are not titled that way because an Irishman has fallen liquid into his eyes, but because he portrays eyes full of desire, which are not those of Ethel Cain, but those of a classmate who passes times next to Willoughby Tucker, protagonist of the album. Holly Reddick is a sexualized girl for her environment “from the direct church to the disco” but to which nobody wants to love.
The phrase “They all Wanna Take her out / but no one ever waks to take her home” refers to “She’s drop bette davis eyes, She’ll let you take her home” and makes sense because Ethel Cain has affirmed that ‘Fuck me eyes’ is a song inspired by the success of Kim Carnes of 1981. ‘Bette Davis Eyes’ in her most recent concerts.
The eighties inspiration of ‘Fuck Me Eyes’ is evidenced in the musical proposal, since ‘Fuck Me Eyes’ is a Synth-Pop ballad similar to those wrote Ethel Cain in its beginnings. The country-folk of ‘nettles’ gives here I pass to some synthesizer melodies that sound celestial and bigger than life.
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