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Uhm anyways someone leak I scream solo mix. 

It's sad some of our leaks are better quality audio than what's on her Spotify ?

i agree with both of you, thinking now, keenan's productions are really more linear than K&OL for example, and about melanie being limited by the theme, i agree, i think the first of K-12 would've been way more experimental but saddly we couldnt have it

Yes, I agree with this as well, however Keenan is less experimental in sound so he didn't add much to it. I'm hoping working with better teams Melanie can show how awesome she really is. 

YEP. This is why I entirely support when things leak a few days early: she pushes them back again and again and again. She almost never releases her music in the time frame she says she will and then when she does it's just... Meh. Someone needs to just leak all the demos and unreleaseds, because we need things like I scream solo, Nd I'm sure there's a copy cat solo too. 

YEP. This is why I entirely support when things leak a few days early: she pushes them back again and again and again. She almost never releases her music in the time frame she says she will and then when she does it's just... Meh. Someone needs to just leak all the demos and unreleaseds, because we need things like I scream solo, Nd I'm sure there's a copy cat solo too. 

Truly her best work 

I want the original list of k-12 to get leaked, or the full demo for the principal or SOMETHING. I miss her god tier crybaby style. 

it sounded better towards the end of the show like in the bakery and glued but up towards the beginning, especially in play date, she didn't sound like herself. I think it has a time and a place, but she needs to know when that is. 

Same, the only songs that I find consistently listenable are the bakery and glued. Test me can be but it gets annoying fast and has this religious undertone that I don't like. In general I think she made the EP *too* personal which makes the songs hard to relate to and get into beyond just liking the sound. Brain and heart I think could've been better but it was poorly done instrumentally and the vocals aren't overly unique (as expected from Keenan ?) Field trip was just *really* wordy which makes it rythmically weird, and numbers has this weird audio quality issue? Overall, you can tell it wasn't recorded to the same standards as k-12 and DEFFINETLY not the same standard as Crybaby. It is the exact low quality you can expect from Keenan productions. Nothing too much to say about Notebook other than it's very obviously a Keenan dis track and I find it hilarious. 

Same, the only songs that I find consistently listenable are the bakery and glued. Test me can be but it gets annoying fast and has this religious undertone that I don't like. In general I think she made the EP *too* personal which makes the songs hard to relate to and get into beyond just liking the sound. Brain and heart I think could've been better but it was poorly done instrumentally and the vocals aren't overly unique (as expected from Keenan ?) Field trip was just *really* wordy which makes it rythmically weird, and numbers has this weird audio quality issue? Overall, you can tell it wasn't recorded to the same standards as k-12 and DEFFINETLY not the same standard as Crybaby. It is the exact low quality you can expect from Keenan productions. Nothing too much to say about Notebook other than it's very obviously a Keenan dis track and I find it hilarious. 

I want the original list of k-12 to get leaked, or the full demo for the principal or SOMETHING. I miss her god tier crybaby style. 

I think Drama Club was a part of an earlier version of the album that was supposed to be less musicalish and more like CryBaby. The lyrics are better than other K-12 songs (besides the repetiveness of the chorus) and its a lot less literal than other K-12 songs while also holding up the school them. Its alot more like CryBaby songs which tell a story while also being able to be more relatable and written like its own thing instead of feeling more like a blend of one thing. The production is also better than most other K-12 songs although it feels like she watered it down to make it fit the rest of K-12. But I feel like theres a whole group of demos or just songs that werent even produced that were part of a K-12 that told a story through letting you build the image in your mind through good writing instead of telling it without subtleness, Drama Club was probably a part of that and the only one that made its way to the final project. The album probably originally sounded more diverse lyrically and sonically too, I kinda think that she changed the verses of alot of songs to be more musical-ish and alot of them have original versions that are more written like Crybaby but thats probably just in whatever place she writes her songs before going to the studio so we'll never get that version of the songs... but she worked on the songs for like five years so it makes sense to me that she overthought and overworked on them until she watered it all down into one thing trying too hard for it to fit together and be movie-like, so who knows, maybe there is a whole album of CryBaby style written K-12 outtakes and maybe even K-12 demos that are like that. So I think Drama Club was made more when she had started the album after releasing CryBaby and had the theme less figured out and more like... loose? Which is why it sounds like a CryBaby outtake. Also im kinda out of it rn so sorry if this doesnt make sense.

Apparently Mel is still writing with Keenan alongside Kinetics and One Love according to a friend of mine :/ I hope not. 

I think Drama Club was a crybaby outtake that she kinda edited and used for K-12, because it'd the only one with Kinetics and One Love. It fits better with Crybaby than K-12 sonically. 

because drama club leaked around the same time as Schizo, 99c store and Unhappy Meal, I always saw it as a previous demo or standalone because that's where the production fits imo. To me it sounds similar to those other songs. And like you said, even finished on K-12, drama club doesn't fit.

That does make sense, and that may be why I never liked the track: It didn't fit, and it wasn't meant to be there. I think recess was never meant to be released, but that's my personal opinion. I also don't think Drama Club, at least, not in its current form, was meant to make the album. 

Something about Recess never felt like Melanie wrote it. Its so much slower than her other songs and doesn't match the rest of the album nor the rest of her writing. Maybe it's just me but it sounds like the cowriters didn't most or all of the writing. 

I'm hoping for none at all ❤ Keenan is kinda known as being an awful producer, he's why Madison Beer struggled for so long. 

Something about Recess never felt like Melanie wrote it. Its so much slower than her other songs and doesn't match the rest of the album nor the rest of her writing. Maybe it's just me but it sounds like the cowriters didn't most or all of the writing. 

The song should have been left out of the album, it feels more like an outtake or like something that would be in separate release but still in the same era. Fire Drill shouldve been in the album in its place but I get that it wasn't and Melanie wanted Fire Drill to be the last song on the album but had to release it separately and use it as the end credits song because of budget, they didnt have enough money to make it so that the school is burned down like it was supposed to (hence some of the snippets showing things going up in flames). You can tell that Recess was supposed to be in the EP or just not be used and that she used it as last resort to keep the album 13 tracks like crybaby. It doesnt even fit in the movie either and its such a bad outro because it feels like what it is, a filler track, and thats a bad way to end an album. It wouldve been good for the EP and was probably meant for the EP, or maybe it was supposed to be what Fire Drill is now, the end credits song that would be released as its own single... which would make alot of sense because it would fit for the end credits very well, lyrically and sonically. 

Something about Recess never felt like Melanie wrote it. Its so much slower than her other songs and doesn't match the rest of the album nor the rest of her writing. Maybe it's just me but it sounds like the cowriters didn't most or all of the writing. 

Wasn't Notebook a dis at Keenan? 

Apparently Mel is still writing with Keenan alongside Kinetics and One Love according to a friend of mine :/ I hope not. 

https://youtu.be/LzA-miBqFsg I wish she still did acoustic shows like this. Sure, full studio shows are nice, but when I go to a concert I really prefer it to be acoustic to it being over heavy backing.