Nightmare

I don’t usually do informative posts, but this caught my eye. There is a lot of confusion about the K-12/After School sessions and what is for which project.
 
*1  Melanie originally claimed K-12 was done around July 16th, 2016, with only deluxe tracks still being worked on. - we know this isn’t true to the final tracklist, as Recess and Show & Tell weren’t done by this time.
 
Some claim Show & Tell was an After School concept originally, but I don’t think that’s true.
 
*2  May 2017 - Melanie states that she’s “finishing up bonus tracks”.
*3  and in August 2017, in an interview, is summed up to saying: “standard tracklist is being mastered and that she’s finishing up the bonus tracks now”.
 
Erase Her, Notebook, and Trophy were all recorded in June 2017, making them bonus tracks to K-12 originally, by Melanie’s own word.
 
* She did say this in 2020 on Instagram: “I’ve been working on the After School EP since 2017."
However, I interpret this to mean when Notebook was recorded. - I doubt she had the direct concept of After School when the June 2017 sessions were being recorded, especially when she refers to the deluxe for K-12 as “bonus tracks” in August 2017.
 
1: lost the source, but is factual.
2:https://melanie-martinez.fandom.com/wiki/K-12_(album)
3:https://www.billboard.com/music/pop/melanie-martinez-interview-cry-baby-second-album-7904990/

Right? I cannot picture the Melanie that wrote A Million Men, Rough Love, Birthing Addicts, etc. writing shit like Class Fight or Nymphology. Just look at these(written around 28YO)..
VS this for example(written when she was still a kid, with no help).
We all know what made a lot of her art so special was the maturity and depth behind childish themes/titles. And her lyrics aren't all bad now, they just haven't evolved half as far as I expected them to. The leaks show that she's still capable of amazing writing if she lets herself outside of the box though so hopefully she ditches the forced concepts next time.. I can't handle another mediocre album from her. 

So no pretty dull…. No tenth anniversary gift…. No nothing. Just a tumbleweed and a tumblr pipe dream. Mama has GOT to retire

i think about this a lot. her writing was so much better when it was just her and her guitar. there are some lines in the new album that are well written, but it's really nothing compared to her earlier work. it's very strange 

she turned out to be so different from who she appeared to be back in the day and it's so sad. she got too pretentious about her art, which is not necessarily a bad thing, but girllllllll, you're doing everything wrong! just make your albums, have a normal rollout like every other pop girl and move on. enough with the expensive films, horrendous perfume bottles, overpriced cheap jewerly, nfts... wtf girl. make GOOD music and goooo.

Rough Love is actually one of her best written songs. She was 17... and it was solo-writing. The Cry Baby version even had huge potential, if it weren't for the half-baked vocals and mixing 🥴

Justice for Needle and Thread, a thorough masterclass in how good Melanie can weave a concept together 

Melanie should make more songs like this, it's still one of my favourites
Her voice just sounds heavenly here especially on the bridge 

"art with substance"
> nearly plot-less K-12 film
> NFTs of "edgy" versions of old toys
> stolen artwork merch
> awful green-screened "M&G" photos
> tacky half-baked songs like Moon Cycle coming out while decent songs like Needle & Thread fall to the wayside

she turned out to be so different from who she appeared to be back in the day and it's so sad. she got too pretentious about her art, which is not necessarily a bad thing, but girllllllll, you're doing everything wrong! just make your albums, have a normal rollout like every other pop girl and move on. enough with the expensive films, horrendous perfume bottles, overpriced cheap jewerly, nfts... wtf girl. make GOOD music and goooo.

she turned out to be so different from who she appeared to be back in the day and it's so sad. she got too pretentious about her art, which is not necessarily a bad thing, but girllllllll, you're doing everything wrong! just make your albums, have a normal rollout like every other pop girl and move on. enough with the expensive films, horrendous perfume bottles, overpriced cheap jewerly, nfts... wtf girl. make GOOD music and goooo.

she turned out to be so different from who she appeared to be back in the day and it's so sad. she got too pretentious about her art, which is not necessarily a bad thing, but girllllllll, you're doing everything wrong! just make your albums, have a normal rollout like every other pop girl and move on. enough with the expensive films, horrendous perfume bottles, overpriced cheap jewerly, nfts... wtf girl. make GOOD music and goooo.

she turned out to be so different from who she appeared to be back in the day and it's so sad. she got too pretentious about her art, which is not necessarily a bad thing, but girllllllll, you're doing everything wrong! just make your albums, have a normal rollout like every other pop girl and move on. enough with the expensive films, horrendous perfume bottles, overpriced cheap jewerly, nfts... wtf girl. make GOOD music and goooo.

teddy bear by melanie has been on repeat for me. omg Cry Baby (Deluxe) has me on something like its hitting so hard rn

Yep. She constantly goes beyond her means and pushes for the most from her label. That attitude often gets labeled as "determined" and "artistic", but it's really just unrealistic at this point.
 
It's not like Atlantic doesn't back her with millions of dollars for all of her projects, pay for all the videos she insists on making, and go along with her demanding behavior. So she's got plenty of funding- she just doesn't know how to use it. It's ruining her chances at the success she should've had.
 
I really hope in the future she learns to commit to quality over quantity instead of cutting up her ideas to cram into a budget just because she can't compromise. If $6.5M wasn't enough to make K-12 work, I don't even know what she expects out of Portals. 

PLEASEEE not art with substance 😭
 
Just make a pop song girl

This bitch crazy

she turned out to be so different from who she appeared to be back in the day and it's so sad. she got too pretentious about her art, which is not necessarily a bad thing, but girllllllll, you're doing everything wrong! just make your albums, have a normal rollout like every other pop girl and move on. enough with the expensive films, horrendous perfume bottles, overpriced cheap jewerly, nfts... wtf girl. make GOOD music and goooo.

she turned out to be so different from who she appeared to be back in the day and it's so sad. she got too pretentious about her art, which is not necessarily a bad thing, but girllllllll, you're doing everything wrong! just make your albums, have a normal rollout like every other pop girl and move on. enough with the expensive films, horrendous perfume bottles, overpriced cheap jewerly, nfts... wtf girl. make GOOD music and goooo.

i hate when celebrities undermine their own wealth. idek especially in times like this in America where the wealth gap is rising horrendously it just feels like a cop out-“i have to pay my bills too!” well yes of course, but you have so much more wealth to your name than many other Americans today, a HUGE house (thats going for sale so maybe a downsize) and an established name. it’s not like we’re supporting a small business. she can make more money if she tries hard enough- but Portals will probably not make that happen. P.S who the hell wants that alien creature perfume bottle fr. 

Maybe she should put less effort into being all artsy fartsy and spend more time learning how to manage her finances and investing her money properly. It’s like you can tell she doesn’t know how to market herself anymore. She’s way to stubborn and over ambitious; yet, it’s gotten her nowhere sadly. 

savior of pop music   

Everything she does ends in controversy can we ever win with her 

She also said this. I can't find the thread anymore so not sure if it got deleted or something but I took this screenshot when I saw it