lightning tears

i really do hope the next album will have no concept, just a reoccurring theme throughout the tracks (without being repetetive) 

She really had Tumblr in a chokehold with this video 
 

Just listened to Unhappy Meal for the first time, okayyyy Melanie
 

 
Are you happy now? Do you like being ignored 
(Ignored)
 

Unhappy Meal (her electropop masterpiece) finally gets the praise it deserves. I love to see it! 

she was supposed to be a twin at one point i think cuz one of the og concept covers was conjoined twins or something like that? but im pretty sure the "they call me/you cry baby" line is supposed to be melanie talking to the listener

Wait I just had a mini big brain moment. 
What if Cry Baby could have been a twin? The concept demo Twins gave me an idea for Cry Baby
- the "they call me/you cry baby and you/I don't fucking care" lyric
- in sippy cup I can see the twins similar to the twins characters in one of the horror movies (I forget the name)
- one of the twins could have died in the alphabet boy video (the angel wings/fog machine clouds)
- k-12 could have added a plot element of the remaining twin pretending to be the dead twin and at the end confess and come into her own identity
 
Anyone else think Itd work????

POW POW POWDER 

Powder should’ve made the standard edition

her writing was indeed so good prior and during the CB era, what happened after? 

she peaked with bittersweet tragedy & dead to me and i'll die on that hill 

Sweet boy, straight out of the movie screen
Candy hearts and chocolate dreams
I met my prince upon a popcorn bowl
He held my heart and let it go
Ice cream upon a summer's day
Beginnin' sweetness never stays
 
You speak sour lemonade to me
The bitter taste won't let me be
One kiss was supposed to be so sweet
But I found grapefruit in your teeth
Old gum is all you'll ever be to me
I spit you out and brush my teeth
 
Enough of your bittersweet
Your sugar rots my teeth
Clogs up my arteries

She really was a genius! The metaphor, clever lyrics and grand production make this song one of my all time favourites from her 
 
Reminds me of WTBCF and BOMM which are ALSO masterpieces 

cry baby outtakes r actually so genius... lemme list a few that r literally such genius mastermind taylor swift ended concepts
 
THE GIRLS WERE GONNA BE ENDED AND SHE SAVED THEM she said im not ready to be the youngest successful person yet so she scrapped cry baby complete edition with every single track she made for cry baby
honorable mentions that i dont think r really like mastermind but certain parts of them
 
dressed in mistakes
rotten milk

it’s like eclipse wrecks havoc everywhere he goes… 

@111 not you complaining about this thread and then spamming it.. 
 
You know, some of y'all that keep going off about the existence of this thread are exactly the reason it's so annoying in the first place!

That wasn't a flex if you were the user who caused the multiple locks
 

@Elle pls ban this user

Anyway, has anyone else seen the TikTok stans fighting over Mel's vocal damage? The ones who try to talk about it get treated like they're just shitting on her now, but I remember when all of this first started years ago, and no one acted that sensitive about it then. If anything, people were genuinely worried about her! Her fanbase has gotten so obsessive that they won't even admit when she's injured, like it's some sort of insult.
 
I just think if people keep trying to pass off her extreme vocal damage as "having a hard time in the mask"(like this hasn't been going on since 2016), "she's quitting smoking", "she's just emotional", etc., she'll never actually realise how bad it's gotten and she'll just keep pushing it. At this rate, by 2025 she'll just have to use backing tracks and won't even be able to keep up with her own music. That's not my problem of course, but I think it's alright to express concern that a singer might not even be able to sing one day if they don't change something now.

Well, Portals has been out for 3 weeks and still no update on the vinyl or signed CD I pre-ordered in early March from her official store. Got yet another bland support response that answered nothing, but gave me a 15% off coupon for a future order… as if I’d place another. 
 
Wild. 

I don't even feel guilty for thinking this. Portals is a bop with only one or two skips. 
This is the first time I have this opinion too, over Lana, so it's new to me too. I'm just accepting it 
 
Edit: meanwhile I'm still shaking over Earthquakes, Madly, Melancholia, LMLYLAW demo 

I feel guilty for saying this but I might like Portals (as a whole) better than Ocean Blvd.
I could never love Melanie as much as Lana, and the songs that I do like on Ocean Blvd, I love way more than Portals. Portals just has no skips for me. I'm having issues connecting to some of Lana's new songs. Idk pls don't arrest me 

Just saw her latest IG post and this "not like the other Earthlings" act is going to get old so fast, lol.
 
Echoing the sentiments about PORTALS being kind of all over the place, though. She needed to either commit to the theme 100% like Cry Baby/K-12, or lean fully into the personal elements and tone down the "past lives" storyline. If she would've taken more time during the writing process to blend the themes between the past lives/toxic relationships/moving on from her past, etc. Portals could've been a 10/10 for me.
 
I just feel like I'm getting 3 different albums when I listen to it, especially with the deluxe tracks.

The caption of that new post is ridiculously cringe  
Anyways, I listen to Portals regularly but I don't die for it. I definitely agree that it shouldn't have been marketed as still part of the Cry Baby story as there's nothing about Cry Baby in it. I love it being out of the Cry Baby storyline but she really shouldn't even have mentioned the character when promoting it. It should've been the album where Melanie is reborn, not Cry Baby.
Ugh this already reads as a Class Fight rehash with the repetitions sorry y'all

something that upsets me about this album is that it's not about Cry Baby at all even tho she really tried to convince us that it is
 
looking back at the lyrics from Cry Baby (album) the songs had a very very specific storytelling and you could very much tell she was painting a picture, a child who is born into a toxic family, even the kidnapping part is very specific.
 
k-12 it's were the story starts cracking aka she got tired of CB and wanted to say smth more personal, wr still got very specific lyrics that serve the storyline (namedropping Kelly, Brandon etc) but also tracks like Show & Tell where u can definitely tell it had nothing to do with the storyline and it was smth from her personal pov that she tried to force into the album, making feel unchoesive.
 
but Portals is were she 100% dropped the whole thing, even when she personally described the songs she didn't even mention CB or the events that happen to her in this album, cause there is no storyline, like, she is reborn and then what?
everything is clearly Melanie related, you couldn't have CB (album) without the storyline but you can 100% have Portals without it being about CB like she claims, it's pretty obvious she wanted to get rid of the storyline but i'm sad she lost track of the story and basically dropped it without a proper ending

Love this version.