“The quintessential Florida experience,” she quips.Īs far as where Hayden Anhedönia begins and Ethel Cain ends, exactly, it’s still something she’s working out. She starts a story about a pivotal acid trip she took in the woods last year with something of a disclaimer: “I don’t even know if I can say this on here…” And she loves using the word “funky” to describe everything from her sheltered religious upbringing to a Tallahassee house she once lived in that was situated in the middle of a car lot and crawling with every insect imaginable. Though her music floats along a mood of dreamy doom, her unflinching lyrics detail scenes of self-harm, toxic sex, and hopeless decrepitude, and her very active Twitter feed (which she refers to as her “ADHD ramblings”) is filled with scary-funny bon mots like “all u need to know about me is that i was the girl in middle school who wanted to fuck slenderman,” Anhedönia is nothing but polite during our chat. In 2016, she signed with Run For Cover Records and reissued two of her albums, Ode To Dawn Wiener: Embarrassing Love Songs and Observatory Mansions on cassettes, CDs, and vinyl.She’s in her pandemic best-a dirt brown sweatshirt covered in images of leaves and tree bark, and pajama bottoms dotted with skulls-her hair pulled away from her face with a scrunchie, exposing a ring of tiny tattoos lining the top of her forehead.
In August of 2015, Grimes publicly announced her creation of the Eerie Organization - a platform to "to fucking put out." Natural Born Losers was then the first album recorded outside of her home. In April of 2015, Dollanganger flew to LA to meet with Grimes and James Brooks when Natural Born Losers was in its demo stages. In May of 2014, she was signed to Yellow K Records however, no projects were released through the label. Until 2016, her music was strictly only available for purchase on Bandcamp with the exception of a few homemade CD-Rs and cassettes.
In the early months of 2014, Dollanganger dropped out of Ryerson University for the second and final time because she "was having some other problems" and had "since been making a living off of music/merch sales and working part-time".ĭollanganger began posting music to Tumblr and MySpace in 2010. In 2013, she stated that she had beaten anorexia nervosa and anorexia athletica. Everything in my life had changed and I think for the first time I kind of came into myself". Dollanganger continues, "and after that period, I was a completely different person. She states, "I could probably count on my hands how many times I left the house throughout that year, actually". In 2012, right after releasing Curdled Milk, Dollanganger "had to be admitted to a hospital program" and went on bed rest for a year - dropping out of Ryerson University for the first time.
This embarrassment around it completely unnecessary." Up until I met her I had a very warped understanding of how sexual I was allowed to be – of what was appropriate for me. That it could be honest and that honesty didn't make it vulgar. She was probably one of my first introductions to this idea that sexuality – and, in particular, female sexuality – could be explored without shame. and films that celebrated sexuality were fine. She believed that sex was a normal act and shouldn't involve shame, censoring, guilt, regret, etc., etc. "When I was in film school", Dollanganger said, "the first professor I met more or less immediately had a large talk with us about the weirdness in the West when it comes to portrayals of sex and violence in art. Before becoming a singer, Dollanganger stated that for a brief time she wanted to be a novelist.Īfter graduating, Dollanganger enrolled at Ryerson University where she studied film. In 2009, she graduated from Stouffville District Secondary School in Whitchurch-Stouffville. Over the years, however, she also bounced to and from Southwest Florida. Nicole Dollanganger was born Nicole Ann Bell in Scarborough, Toronto on September 8, 1991, to Wesley "Wes" Bell, an avid ventriloquist doll collector, and Susan "Susie" Bell, an avid early 1900's carnival doll collector.ĭollanganger mainly grew up in rural Whitchurch–Stouffville, Toronto a small town known for its agriculture and annual strawberry festival.
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