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watch this not be released 😭

plz it only more confirms this bitch is hella whack ... her music slaps tho

i think everyone involved somewhat knew NFR would garner tons of acclaim and that's why they made her change the cover to make it appear more artsy. now they just let her do whatever 

The Blue Banisters album cover being the picture she keeps using would become the dictionary definition of "so not camp that it's camp" 

Ok this?? She couldn't introduce the different issues in a way that made any sense with the movie. It was so forced. The pledge of allegiance thing, the trans teacher, the tampon thing, the weed thing? I wish that she had made songs over these issues, like Strawberry Shortcake. The way she mentions all of these only once and never again??
She also introduced multiple plot points that looked SO INTERESTING and made me excited to watch it...and then they weren't even explored. The ghosts? The blood on the bus mirror? The all-black eyes? Wtf?
I wasn't expecting it to be a perfect movie, I was expecting it to be 13 music videos stitched together with a cohesive plot. There are like 3 different conflicts in this movie that are forgotten halfway through the movie, cause then they move onto another one.
And the music was absolutely boring. Nurse's Office, Lunchbox Friends, Strawberry Shortcake, and Drama Club are seriously the only songs worth listening to. The rest are plagued by their production. And the fact Gluestick is from this era and shits on all of these is angering lol
It had sooo much potential, and with four years to work on it, there's really no excuse.

Ok this?? She couldn't introduce the different issues in a way that made any sense with the movie. It was so forced. The pledge of allegiance thing, the trans teacher, the tampon thing, the weed thing? I wish that she had made songs over these issues, like Strawberry Shortcake. The way she mentions all of these only once and never again??
She also introduced multiple plot points that looked SO INTERESTING and made me excited to watch it...and then they weren't even explored. The ghosts? The blood on the bus mirror? The all-black eyes? Wtf?
I wasn't expecting it to be a perfect movie, I was expecting it to be 13 music videos stitched together with a cohesive plot. There are like 3 different conflicts in this movie that are forgotten halfway through the movie, cause then they move onto another one.
And the music was absolutely boring. Nurse's Office, Lunchbox Friends, Strawberry Shortcake, and Drama Club are seriously the only songs worth listening to. The rest are plagued by their production. And the fact Gluestick is from this era and shits on all of these is angering lol
It had sooo much potential, and with four years to work on it, there's really no excuse.

Ok this?? She couldn't introduce the different issues in a way that made any sense with the movie. It was so forced. The pledge of allegiance thing, the trans teacher, the tampon thing, the weed thing? I wish that she had made songs over these issues, like Strawberry Shortcake. The way she mentions all of these only once and never again??
She also introduced multiple plot points that looked SO INTERESTING and made me excited to watch it...and then they weren't even explored. The ghosts? The blood on the bus mirror? The all-black eyes? Wtf?
I wasn't expecting it to be a perfect movie, I was expecting it to be 13 music videos stitched together with a cohesive plot. There are like 3 different conflicts in this movie that are forgotten halfway through the movie, cause then they move onto another one.
And the music was absolutely boring. Nurse's Office, Lunchbox Friends, Strawberry Shortcake, and Drama Club are seriously the only songs worth listening to. The rest are plagued by their production. And the fact Gluestick is from this era and shits on all of these is angering lol
It had sooo much potential, and with four years to work on it, there's really no excuse.

Ok this?? She couldn't introduce the different issues in a way that made any sense with the movie. It was so forced. The pledge of allegiance thing, the trans teacher, the tampon thing, the weed thing? I wish that she had made songs over these issues, like Strawberry Shortcake. The way she mentions all of these only once and never again??
She also introduced multiple plot points that looked SO INTERESTING and made me excited to watch it...and then they weren't even explored. The ghosts? The blood on the bus mirror? The all-black eyes? Wtf?
I wasn't expecting it to be a perfect movie, I was expecting it to be 13 music videos stitched together with a cohesive plot. There are like 3 different conflicts in this movie that are forgotten halfway through the movie, cause then they move onto another one.
And the music was absolutely boring. Nurse's Office, Lunchbox Friends, Strawberry Shortcake, and Drama Club are seriously the only songs worth listening to. The rest are plagued by their production. And the fact Gluestick is from this era and shits on all of these is angering lol
It had sooo much potential, and with four years to work on it, there's really no excuse.

Ok this?? She couldn't introduce the different issues in a way that made any sense with the movie. It was so forced. The pledge of allegiance thing, the trans teacher, the tampon thing, the weed thing? I wish that she had made songs over these issues, like Strawberry Shortcake. The way she mentions all of these only once and never again??
She also introduced multiple plot points that looked SO INTERESTING and made me excited to watch it...and then they weren't even explored. The ghosts? The blood on the bus mirror? The all-black eyes? Wtf?
I wasn't expecting it to be a perfect movie, I was expecting it to be 13 music videos stitched together with a cohesive plot. There are like 3 different conflicts in this movie that are forgotten halfway through the movie, cause then they move onto another one.
And the music was absolutely boring. Nurse's Office, Lunchbox Friends, Strawberry Shortcake, and Drama Club are seriously the only songs worth listening to. The rest are plagued by their production. And the fact Gluestick is from this era and shits on all of these is angering lol
It had sooo much potential, and with four years to work on it, there's really no excuse.

Ok this?? She couldn't introduce the different issues in a way that made any sense with the movie. It was so forced. The pledge of allegiance thing, the trans teacher, the tampon thing, the weed thing? I wish that she had made songs over these issues, like Strawberry Shortcake. The way she mentions all of these only once and never again??
She also introduced multiple plot points that looked SO INTERESTING and made me excited to watch it...and then they weren't even explored. The ghosts? The blood on the bus mirror? The all-black eyes? Wtf?
I wasn't expecting it to be a perfect movie, I was expecting it to be 13 music videos stitched together with a cohesive plot. There are like 3 different conflicts in this movie that are forgotten halfway through the movie, cause then they move onto another one.
And the music was absolutely boring. Nurse's Office, Lunchbox Friends, Strawberry Shortcake, and Drama Club are seriously the only songs worth listening to. The rest are plagued by their production. And the fact Gluestick is from this era and shits on all of these is angering lol
It had sooo much potential, and with four years to work on it, there's really no excuse.

OMG THE FACTS. these leaks made me think about k-12 again and how poor everything in that era was.
 
the era was a complete mess begining from the fact that she didn't even release any singles or properly promoted it at all aside from some interviews that only stans saw. than we come to the movie and it is SO BAD. it looks very pretty of course, but the acting is below average, the script is one of the worst things i've ever seen, doesn't make any sense and was clearly just trying to stich a bunch of songs together in the laziest way possible. even mamma mia, A JUKEBOX MUSICAL had a better way to put together a plot with songs that have no correlation to each other.
 
than we have the subject matter of the songs, that for the most part are the most shallow "woke" ideas that don't say anything new. the principal = president bad  why u must fuck with our dreams. orange juice = have an ED? well but ur beautiful <3 yaayyy she's cured. strawberry shortcake = sexism baaad. and don't even have me started on how BORING and bland the production on this one was, she needs to ditch michael keenan.
 
we could've at leat got a great era with lots of music videos instead of scenes from a musical that doesn't make any sense, maybe episodic adventures in school like a little tv show? it would be definitely better than what we got. 

Not to start a fight, but rape culture and music leaking aren't comparable. Music leaking is bound to happen to any artist. It's just part of the music industry and has been for years. Hell, there's bands that leak their own music for promo. A song leeaking, regardless of if an artist advertised the song and never released it or not, is entirely ENTIRELY different from rape culture and always will be. 

I think we've already established that her fans are not "normal people" 

I dont think the movie's failure is completely Melanie's fault. She kinda worked what she had and clearly the final product ended up turning out differently than what she meant it to be. She had to literally scrap like more than half of the movie's script/story due to budget and that alone will easily ruin a movie but she also had to fit 13 songs into it (+couldnt even fit one of the songs which says alot ab how much the movie had to be changed) which took up more than half of the script, meaning the final product had about like 1/3 of actual movie script it was originally supposed to have. Imo its almost impossible to make a good movie with all of that going on, the fact that she made something somewhat watchable and that connected in some way that made sense at all is impressive especially regarding the fact that its literally the first movie she ever made and she did it all by herself. And some of yall might say that if she knew shed have to cut out so much of the story and all she shouldve just not made the movie at all which is not a good point bc I think she's really into this movie stuff and she has to start somewhere, good filmaking doesnt usually magically happen at first attempt.
 
BUT.. Salem is 100% right. She couldve done stuff to avoid some of (if not all) of these issues.
 
1. As Salem also pointed out, the location was one of the main things that messed everything up because of how much money it took to film there and stuff. She couldve gone for a simpler style for the schools setting (like those old promo pics we got for an earlier K-12 concept, when we thought "bluffington" was a thing) and that wouldve made everything WAY easier and wouldve still been very interesting to look at bc it wouldve felt very artistic. Then she could have also built up with following movies.
 
2. When she realized that she would have to completely change the movie script drastically she couldve found a experienced writer who could have helped her condense the movie in a way that would be better, it still probably wouldnt have made the best movie but it wouldve been better
 
3. She couldve not forced 13 songs into the movie and only chosen some main tracks that are important to the films story and then made music videos after the release of the movie that would go along with the movie and add to it
 
hopefully she'll find some way to avoid these problems in mm3 but since mm3 is probably gonna be in some sort of spiritual realm she'll rlly have to be smart about everything to get it to turn out well

I was really banned from that discord 

So many songs about to leak, songs with titles we didn't know in the past, yet I'm here still waiting for Night Mime :'(

I'm not listening again until the 19th. I deleted the files. I already listened to the album like 6x and White Dress more, oops, but I bought every vinyl variant, so whatever. It was my early preview. 

that deluxe was terrible  positions grew on me tbh but this is a no

Her worst album...I tried to like it SO hard and even gave it another chance with this deluxe version...how could it get worse???

Her worst album...I tried to like it SO hard and even gave it another chance with this deluxe version...how could it get worse???

Her worst album...I tried to like it SO hard and even gave it another chance with this deluxe version...how could it get worse???

Her worst album...I tried to like it SO hard and even gave it another chance with this deluxe version...how could it get worse???

Her worst album...I tried to like it SO hard and even gave it another chance with this deluxe version...how could it get worse???

Her worst album...I tried to like it SO hard and even gave it another chance with this deluxe version...how could it get worse???

Her worst album...I tried to like it SO hard and even gave it another chance with this deluxe version...how could it get worse???