ButterflyBones

I'm honestly so confused at these past 3 snippets. They're not good, even compared to her shittier music. They sound childish as fuck, and the darker, mature production that we were hoping for after the leaks is clearly missing. EVIL snippet sounds especially ridiculous to me, I won't lie.. I guess this really could be K-12 all over again. Good visuals, crap music. I would chalk it up to our expectations being too high if I hadn't heard the proof myself that she can do so much better than this.

Some of these "snippets" have been really long(over a minute even). Not all, but some. Of course there's plenty of room for us to be surprised but still. It's not all just 10-20 seconds we're talking about here. And as far as the lyricism goes, Cry Baby may not have had perfect lyrics in every line, but the overall writing of the album is infinitely stronger than almost all of her later material. It delivers flow and rhythm that her new music doesn't, and the metaphors may have been on the nose at times but they weren't just corny. The names of the songs also fit way better with the theme than any of these new MM3 titles. I would love to have the same level of excitement for this album that I did a few months ago but I think I'm just going to have to wait and see what ends up coming out.

I was with her until Spider Web. Everything past that has not been for me, and the extreme vocal distortion isn't helping. I don't even mind the genre switch- my favorite new snippet segment has been "pipe down with the noise, I cannot bear my sorrow. I hate who I was before" from VOID. I just can't stand that her music seems to be regressing in maturity and quality lately. I was expecting more(or maybe less, in a good way) from all of this. But hey, it ain't about me.

I am no longer excited right now. These snippets are so disappointing, the sound quality is a mess, the lyrics are cheesy as hell.. It's not even completely terrible by itself, but it's fucking atrocious compared to most of the leaks we've heard. It's like all of the depth, maturity, and growth got tossed in the trash in between then and all of this. I would kill for the version of PORTALS that we thought we were going to get by now. I just can't with these past 3 snippets especially. They're fucking bad.

K-12 had plenty of promo. Still failed initially. This album won't fail I'm sure, but lord I'm not understanding this promo strategy. Like I said before though, I guess I'm just old now and out of touch with the TikTok way of releasing new albums

Jesus Christ can this girl just fucking release something instead of giving us a millionth goose chase for this album? This got old last year. I'm not getting any more excited by these shitty snippets, either. Just spoiling the album and visuals for nothing Like we haven't even gotten a single announcement, and we've already seen the location of the videos, several outfits, the new look, a long ass snippet of each song apparently, etc.. fucking why Just one normal album release with no gimmicks, Mel. Please

Late response, but for all the shit Atlantic Records receives(and deserves), you have to admit how gracious they've been towards her. She got signed on her first album to a huge label that immediately backed an insane tour and merch spread. Then not only did they greenlight her second album, tour, and more merch, but gave her almost 7 MILLION DOLLARS to turn the album into a full length film, and kept her signed even after going through an insane controversy where she was never legally proven innocent. After all this, and even after seeing how poorly her movie sold, they still greenlit her for a second movie, more tours and merch, and apparently extra music videos, too. She should probably be kissing their ass, lol..

The album release is literally at the end of this month and she hasn't even officially announced the single yet. If this had been a surprise release, that might've made sense, but here we are.. I'm sick of the snippets, too. The last 2 have sounded so muddy to me and some of these lyrics sound like they're going to be dumb as fuck for the sake of being unique and weird, just like the majority of K-12 and After School

Or maybe I'm just old now and am out of touch with the way music releases work these days. Either way I feel like this could be going much smoother and I'm starting to worry that we're getting something closer to "K-12 2.0 - Cry Baby on Shrooms" than the MM3 we hoped for after hearing the leaks.

They really love testing how much they can disappoint her fanbase and still have them kiss Melanie's ass, lol. This could have been such a quick, successful, and simple release but they're doing too much for nothing. Just announce the album, release a couple of teasers and a tracklist, then release the fucking album and go on tour. I don't need to hear a shitty snippet with no context of every song, see every look before we even get the visuals, and wait for a bunch of Stan pages to promote the album. This is getting fucking weird.

I'm sorry but I really don't think that's what it's about, lol.. some of those lyrics aren't even right. Even if that is what the song is about, we know she can do better than that. A lot better

Please tell me the surprise today wasn't supposed to be this. "To celebrate the release of my new album PORTALS out 3/31, I'm offering a limited edition cassette of the album exclusively for my top fans on Spotify. There are only 3,000 copies worldwide, go get your copy now!" Like.. do they have to pay for it? If so, that's kind of silly when there's better merch available on her store already. And why a cassette instead of any other piece of merch? Most people probably won't even have a player. This whole release strategy has been weird for me. I think I'm just afraid to get another "wow, that was almost really good" era, though EDIT: LIMIT OF 4 PER FUCKING CUSTOMER, LOL WOW..

Lmao, there's a bunch of fucking 12 year olds getting defensive over the snippet criticisms in her comment sections, saying stupid shit like "if you were a TRUE FAN of her work, you would love and appreciate everything she does!!1!!1!" I just..

So these moth wings.. they're basically the eyes, aren't they?

It's those dead fucking eyes 👁️ 👁️ 👁️ 👁️ 👄

Love the outfit(maybe minus the cuffs), hate the fucking song. Those pre-chorus/chorus lyrics are just not it. And why do these past 2 snippets have the worst sound quality? Would've taken any of the good leaks instead. Hope the full song is better than this teaser

Elita is just generally a shitty person on top of being an absolute failure as an actress. Wish Melanie would stop working and hanging out with her but hey, not my problem

Where are the Cry Baby writers when we need them?

Yeah but I feel like this "stylistic choice" is a product of her trying to cover up how badly her voice is suffering since the Cry Baby tours. The leaked studio sessions showed how hard of a time she was having recording MM3, and after hearing that, I have a hard time believing that's not why there's such heavy vocoder and autotune in most of these snippets/leaks.

Well it's not making her voice sound any better if that's what she thinks

This one isn't for me. I'm really not into this heavy autotune and the production is messy from what I can hear..

It's going to be interesting hearing her play Spider Web live... Those overproduced beats rarely sound good on venue sound systems, and knowing how she struggles performing Play Date, how is she going to keep up with this one without the autotune to back her up? Idk. Anyway, drop the tracklist already please

I would not give up those amazing leaks just because some people are criticizing a couple of the new snippets, lmao. Those are some of the best work she's ever done, like by far. No one is acting that snippet is the end of the world anyway, it just isn't that good compared to what we know could've taken it's place, and the instrumental we heard sounds dated already. I'm sure the song will do well no matter what a few of us think, though. It is just a discussion forum after all. There's going to be a billion different opinions.

Outside of the PORTALS leaks: 1. Maze 2. You Love I 3. History 4. Trophy Wife 5. Arts and Crafts PORTALS leaks: 1. Fingers Crossed 2. Needle & Thread 3. Faerie Soiree(OG demo) 4. Mother of Pearl 5. Death

The last fucking thing we needed on K-12 was a song about school shootings. Just imagining the lyrics she'd have written.. Yikes