Lydia the Bard - Don't Cry for your Daughters Eve (Official Animatic Music Video)

Please be aware mistakes were made in the production of this song, the backing vocals are made up of a majority white cast and the proper steps to ensure it was representative of all women were not made. This was not intentional but it is evidence of my carelessness and privilege as a white women. The full apology statement can be seen here with more details - docs.google.com/document/d/1rhZEeJTZrHKx31gcD2kjJA…

The tired look in Eve's eyes after she's freed is because this scenario has already happened to her countless times and will continue to happen :')

I like that it’s not Lydia saving the woman but that little girl… it’s just cool because most say they’d do something and like to think they would but realistically a lot would probably be to scared to help.

“I’d help you, but I risk taking your place” Hit way too close to home :(

The part where the song says " so you'll take the fall for standing just an inch to tall" hit me so hard because metaphorically I feel I try my best not to also literally I am tall compared to all the boys

The mother shushing the little girl when she first reached forward to defend Eve destroyed me. How many of us have been silenced (metaphorically and literally) by the women who raised us? Whatever the motivation, it’s heartbreaking.

I literally just finished writing an essay on the female literary archetypes throughout history… she’s so often only ever a pure virgin or a mother— if not she’s a “temptress, siren, witch” Edit: sorry to everyone saying they want to read it— it was hand written (to help prevent again students using AI apparently 🙄) and I’m not about to transcribe it lmao

“Mothers curse daughters, daughters curse daughters, and so the cycle repeats” stuck in my head

What I find really interesting is that the lyrics are not especially hopeful in the end, but the animation is. Up to us to decide which one we want to follow ...

I have a theory that Eve's expression at the end is not necessarily a 'happening again to her many times' but more of a representation of the continuation of women being treated and punished so harshly - that it never ended, it was a cycle.

“Villainize victims, slaves to the system” kept making me cry. I really felt that so deeply

People saying "I hope we can forgive Eve"... guys, the song is about pleading with Eve to forgive us, not the other way around. We villainised her, disdained her, called her the original sinner, blamed her for our "sins", when in fact she was put in a cruel, impossible situation by an omniscient deity who knew her weaknesses and knew what she would choose and punished her when she did the very thing that was expected of her. Giving someone "free will" and punishing them when they don't make the choice you wanted them to make isn't free will at all. It is calculated cruelty. Giving humans sentience and asking them to behave like puppets is not and could never be the act of a loving god. Eve's choice to eat from the tree of knowledge embodied the pursuit of autonomy and embracing curiosity. Commendable qualities. It's not her fault humanity fell from grace. The system was corrupt and tyrannical from the beginning.

"I'd help you but I risk taking your place" That hurted

THIS WAS AMAZING, I LOVED WHEN ANA BOLENE, JOANNE DARC AND A FEW MORE WOMEN APPEARED, THAT WAS PERFECT!!!!

“You think you’ll be savior but can’t do what your preach” woah

Seeing a Native Woman with her Tattoos was SO BEAUTIFUL, I nearly cried to see that.

“Villainize victims, slaves to the system” hits so hard. Especially since women can be villainised for being a victim which is not right at all and how women can be slaves to a system that doesn’t favour them. This song is amazing and the animatic is gorgeous!

This is now my favorite song. It so beautifully and accurately depicts how women are scorn for everything we do no matter what that thing is we do. And not just people tearing us down but other women too.

I loved the reference to Anne, she was framed for heinous crimes and died keeping her cool.

This song tells the truth in every sense of the word. No matter what women do, we're forever scorned. Damned if we do, damned if we don't. I genuinely started crying while the song went on because it struck home in such a powerful way. Women tearing each other down, people around us tearing us down, you captured every bit of the struggle perfectly. This song is absolutely incredible. Much love, Lydia! ❤