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damn tho this cover grew on me quick, might even be my favorite album art of hers

damn tho this cover grew on me quick, might even be my favorite album art of hers

damn tho this cover grew on me quick, might even be my favorite album art of hers

damn tho this cover grew on me quick, might even be my favorite album art of hers

damn tho this cover grew on me quick, might even be my favorite album art of hers

damn tho this cover grew on me quick, might even be my favorite album art of hers

the taste

imagine being tasteless

oof this movie is so cringe

I see what you mean. Personally, I was super into Melanie during the Cry Baby era, but now that I'm older, not only do I feel uncomfortable listening to some of the material on CB, but even more uncomfortable with this new album because the strange underage aesthetic theme has dragged on. I still find her to be an incredible vocalist, and actually don't mind at all when artists never change their style since I don't believe anyone has to "evolve" from a taste, but because it's this specific adult baby theme even all these years later, it makes me cringe/feel creeped out. I interpreted CB as artistic, metaphoric and a lot more, but K-12 seems to really hone in on some sort of obsession with childhoods/children/inappropriate underage exp and all that. 
 
Regardless, I thought the film was very visually appealing (though hard to watch at times if ya know what I mean) and found her singing impressive again. Hope she explores a different direction next time.

the entiya album is EXHAUSTED and is it me or all the lyrics sayin the same damn ting like girl...we get it
probs shudnt hav listened to the album b4 the movie cuz the whole time i was itching to skip thru the scenes with the songs i hated
 
anyway i liked a couple tracks but even so im not dying to go listen to them they're just sitting there...eh
 

im just disappointed cause i went through a mel phase for a minute and then grew up and got tired of the whole cry baby concept. if she wouldve made one or two songs with these themes in the lyrics, i wouldve been 100% here for that. an entire album with these lyrics was already a bit much for me. you can listen to one song on cry baby and youve basically heard the entire album. then she had to spend four years dragging out the same concept thats already been beat to death, and to top it off the production sounds even cheaper and consistently monotone. I just hoped she could redeem herself and now I think this has just solidified my distaste for her. sorry for the negativity, again im just disappointed

that movie was baddddddddd 
 
the production value? I can appreciate it, but watching it was honestly cringy. Its not well made, the storyline lacks coherence, its not that well written or directed and its more of an ensamble of correlated music videos that an actual movie. And half of the music videos are not that impressive. 
 
The album itself isn't worthy as much as crybaby. Her first album had an actual emotional connection with its theme: Crybaby as in someone who can't stop crying, who cries a lot, someone lost and helpless in their emotions. It can be read as weird but it has an actual meaning: it questions traditional family values through old fashioned items and ¿classic? americana aesthetics. Nowadays it may sound outdated, but for the year it was released it was pretty cool. It actually reminded me a lot of Marina and the Diamonds' Electraheart. 
 
But K-12.... its just a reach. The aesthethic is only relevant for its relationship with the first album. Yes, its supposed to be a critique of society and power dynamics through the child's perception of the school. But it doesn't go further than that, and it ends up feeling cheapy and weird, in a bad way. It feels as an album from someone obsessed with childish-like themes, furniture and clothing (and I mean... not that far from reality). Its cringe-worthy. 
 
I feel bad for Melanie because she put a lof of effort into this project, and the reason for the delay it's surely not the production's fault but for the financing process. Melanie is not beyonce and a film is not easy nor cheap to make. She must have been trough hell trying to accomplish k-12, I can assure you that. But... its just not good. 

don't disrespect gingerbread man like that

choke

am i the only one who thinks all these songs sound like Gingerbread Man. its like the same instrumentals and vocal delivery

The guitar build up in the bridge literally fixed my credit score, paid my rent for the next 3 months, AND filed my taxes months in advance.

the orchestra/brass and guitar on this track slaps hard

agreed she has potential, but I just listened through this album and it sounds sooo tired already and every song sounds the exact same

wish she dropped the cry baby persona 

what does "my baby used to dance underneath my architecture" mean? makes me cringe

I think "vogues" makes the most sense with rolling stones, another magazine