ButterflyBones

It seems like no matter where she gets brought up, she's either loved or HATED. Twitter and Reddit especially, where it almost seems like the only people that like her are stan accounts. It's not like it matters in the long-run, but she really nuked her chances of being seen as anything but "Baby Gaga" to most people by releasing K-12 and After School.

@Margot_Rada on Instagram. The set looks really cute, I can't wait to see the new video.

Eyes on the prize! 😉

There's a new video of the "RIP Cry Baby" shrine that the sculptor posted, where she's standing in a grave hole in front of the mushroom taking photos. I promise you Melanie will be popping out of that grave first thing in the new music video, lol

Cry Baby was great when it was done right, but then we got "Cry Baby 2.0: Cry Baby goes to School, Kidz Bop Edition" and it sucked for a lot of us. I'm happy to see her finally move on.

The overall look is really cute, but those fucking eyes. If they would just move or blink, it would be fine, but the things just stare straight into 4 different directions

Jesus fucking Christ can we just ignore all of the Timothy shit and not talk about it all day for the millionth time? We all finally have something genuinely interesting to discuss and now we're 6 pages deep into this shit that happened a half a decade ago. Anyway. I'm really into the pink alien fairy thing, but I'm hoping the visuals look better in motion than some of the stills we've got. I'm also hoping this ends up not being as close to Fossora as it looks, because I want to see something 100% original from Melanie now and Björk is simply too unique to be copied. That being said, the music is entirely original, so at least that will be great either way.

There have been a lot of people saying that Faerie Soiree and Sirens made it onto the final album. At first I thought it was BS, but they were right about Faerie Soiree, so they're probably right about Sirens too

Well it definitely won't have a tail, so I'm curious what it will end up looking like in the next snippet. I like this one the best so far too, it sounds the most unique and I love that we have confirmation that Faerie Soiree will make it onto the album. It was one of the best leaks we heard by far

Piggybacking off what I said about how Cry Baby should've died at the end of the CB album, I *really* wish we could've gotten Portals as a second album instead of K-12. It would've been such a better concept to explore 13 lives that Cry Baby lives through after her death than have her go to school with a track for each grade.

I'm thinking the little pink jellybean might end up having a tail, too. My only basis for saying that is that we haven't seen any legs forming yet, lol.

Wow. I hope those are fake because the face on those is really poorly done. The snippet animation was ugly but cute, those pics are just.. ugly.

Really weird that this snippet is so long compared to all the ones she's released in the past. I'm super into the visuals though. Also, am I the only one who thinks "twisting all my limbs for you, two of them in knots and two of them in loops" sounds extremely similar to Glued? "And that's not what I want to do, I'm perfectly attached like a noodle in the soup".

I always thought Sippy Cup should've been the last song on CB, and Cry Baby should've died in that video. The angel costume would've made so much more sense, and it would've allowed Melanie to move on from the character a long time ago. Also would've been a lot more true to the cute childhood themes/dark adult situations thing, where K-12 just didn't fit.

That's the reason we're worried, lol. K-12 did not do well commercially and it's almost definitely one of the reasons Melanie has been having so much trouble putting out MM3. If the new album isn't promoted a certain way, she's just not going to get the attention from all of this that she could've, and the album won't do as well as it could. Again, I hope none of this happens, but the concern is valid after all that's gone wrong leading up to this era and during the K-12 era.

Also, while I 100% support the new aesthetic, it's already going to turn off a lot of fans that her visuals are changing so much for this album. It's probably not a good idea to release surprise snippets on top of that if people end up disliking them, and the way this rollout looks like it's going isn't attracting the attention she could be getting either way. I just feel like a lot could go wrong here, but hopefully not.

I hate snippets because it's basically asking you to judge an album before you've heard it based off of 5 seconds of each song. The album could be great and super cohesive, but if people don't like the snippets, they lose interest fast.

She just archived or deleted everything on her Instagram except 3 posts. Something is definitely happening now, hopefully we get an announcement soon.

Makes sense. For me, K-12 was the corniest. I thought her second album would've grown up, but stuck with the whole childlike themes/adult situations. Instead it just felt really stripped back and dumbed down, almost fanmade. It didn't help that she didn't have the writing team that she had with CB either. By the time AS came along I was just glad to hear some improvement from the writing on K-12, so it was fine, but now I only have Test Me saved, so.. guess it wasn't that fine, lol. Hoping MM3 will come soon and we'll have something new to enjoy and talk about.

Barely Juice is one of the worst leaks we got from MM3, what? Y'all amaze me sometimes

At least it's a step up from K-12! Test Me is one of the best songs in her current discography IMO, and the Bakery was a fun break from the lullaby-ish, underdone production on K-12. I agree with the people that said most of the EP sounded like fanmade beats though, and the lyrics could have a lot more flow. I wish she would've ditched the school/kid theme too, or just been subtle with it, but it was supposed to be mostly K-12 outtakes, sooo..

There is no way in hell Atlantic would let the first time the album gets played be at Lollapalooza. We're almost definitely getting microwaved Cry Baby/K-12/After School. Maybe one song from MM3, or a couple of cover songs at the most, but even that's extremely wishful thinking

It's cute, but my expectations were a little higher. And it's not that I'm tired of the leaks, but I'm getting tired of having nothing BUT leaks and low quality snippets lately(that get hoarded after being teased for months). I'm hoping the album actually comes out this year, because what we currently have isn't cutting it for me anymore and hasn't been for years.

Well we're not getting music yet, but there's more shoes coming...! *smiles through my tears* I really can't believe she missed an opportunity to call the "Cake Show" shoes "Cake Walk" shoes, too. So much cuter. Anyway..

I get these notifications from Spotify all the time, for artists that haven't and won't release for a while. I also doubt Spotify has a schedule for all of the upcoming music releases, so if Melanie herself can't tell us for sure when new music is coming, I doubt Spotify can, lol.