ButterflyBones

I'm not holding out for new music this year. If it happens, cool, but if not, I won't be surprised. Honestly, at this point I wouldn't even be too surprised if her career started to die off. People are tired of waiting on her, she's doing weird shit, she's *been* in debt her label, and she's showing little to no signs of learning from her mistakes, which she's had 10 years to do, so..

But apparently because a B-list celebrity touched them at some point and had them sitting around her house, they're priceless objects. I swear some of these people would buy a bottle of her toenail clippings for a thousand dollars, lmao. Honestly, if her fans want to spend $700 on an ugly rosary with no functional purpose, that's cool. But they're also buying into a scam just to keep a rich person from having to work to get even richer. It's a bad look for everyone involved.

It didn't even take 5 minutes for people to start selling EXACT dupes of her depop jewelry for fractions of the price, lol. Probably making more $ than her, too.

Lmao, all of this and she wonders why they aren't covering the budget for this one. Yikes

Imagine if she actually made music still instead of ugly necklaces that cost half a grand. The success she would have 😍 Seriously though, she has lost her damn mind and everyone except her most hardcore and obsessive stans is getting tired of her. I just want her to stop dragging her own career through the dirt and make a smart decision for herself.

At this point what Melanie lacks is separating her goals from her realities. If she keeps taking years to flesh out complex storylines and entire films for every album and EP, she'll go broke within another 15 years, and her fans won't be waiting around. She's scraping for a budget for the film that was supposed to be out this year, while buying $1000s in clothing, and selling her old items for excessive amounts of money that she doesn't even bother to package safely. It's not a good look, and it's no wonder she's being criticized so heavily lately. I'd rather see her loosen up on her "vision" than run herself into the ground.

I think this has been coming for a while. Her ambitions are too high, and her inability to compromise her vision for a more realistic path has hurt her. With CB, she had a great team helping her create her tracks, videos, even lyrics. But 2 years later, almost all of those people bailed, saying she was difficult to work with, and wouldn't take any constructive criticism. She is self-admittedly stubborn, which may have payed off for her in another situation, but instead left her with one acclaimed album in nearly a decade, a commercial failure of a sophomore slump, and more leaks than released music because her fans are so tired of waiting for her. If she had taken the time to listen to the people around her in 2015, and been more careful with her career decisions, she would undoubtedly be twice as successful as she is now. At the same time, if she wants to drop her music career to hang out in haute couture and sell all her things to afford her lifestyle(and clothing) instead, that's also fine.

I definitely think there could be a few songs in the movie that aren't on the album, just to draw more attention to it and sell more tickets. I just have a hard time believing she's scrapping all of those leaks. Some of them are arguably her best work yet, but we also haven't heard this other material, so 🤷‍♀️

IDK, there's still a possibility that some of the leaks will be in the film. She said "none of the songs I'm putting out this year have been heard yet", that's all. As far as we know she's rolling out the album first, which will probably mean we aren't getting the movie until around 2023. If so, all that comment might mean is that she isn't using tracks that people have already heard as her 2022 singles. It wouldn't make sense to try and build hype for a new album with songs that have been circulating for almost a year now, anyway

I think if it weren't for the mass scale of the 2021-2022 leaks, and the amount of people openly admitting to and commenting to her about listening to them, she wouldn't be scrapping so many of the songs. This is also the most material she's ever had leaked as far as everything from K-12 1.0 to the MM3 sessions. I can see why she's taking it more seriously this time around, but I hate to see such good material get wasted.

MoP was a new and experimental sound, which is what it seemed like almost all of her fans wanted at this point. You can dislike it, but you can't deny that it's unique to her usual material, and that's presumably why she made it. If anything it's just disappointing to hear that she's scrapping it because it would have been a standout from her discography, and made for an interesting video. I'll be truly shocked if she doesn't use Sirens though, I'll say that. This unleaked material had better be god-tier if she's expecting it to be better than what we've already heard. Not sure how this is going to go from here

Still betting on an Easter single. Three eggs in the pictures, three weeks 'til Easter, themes of life/death/rebirth etc.. like I said before, it'd check out. There was also that post from last year about "waiting on these eggs until they hatch". Hope the unleaked material holds up to everything we've heard so far and it's not another "unreleased is better than the album" scenario, too.

Hoping she meant that as "the singles I'm releasing this year will be new, unheard material" and not "I'm scrapping all of the leaked material for the album and film", but idk at this point. I'm also disappointed to hear direct confirmation that MoP has been scrapped, but it sounds like she hadn't planned on finishing it, and at least we have a good demo.

Okay, forget what I said the other day. After the Instagram story she posted earlier, I'm pretty sure she may be going for an Easter release for the single. Would make sense, with the themes of resurrection, rebirth, (im)mortality, etc

If they do finish the video in March, I wouldn't be surprised if she waits a few days and releases it on April fool's day. Or on 4/20. Both seem equally likely

If this first single isn't something unleaked, I feel like it's either going to be Tunnel Vision or Emerald. They both make a good segue from After School, and are sonically similar enough to her last single(Bakery) that it won't give fans of her older material whiplash. Some people were saying it'd be Sirens or Dragon's Blood, but I'm sure she's saving those for the movie.

I feel like Drama Club could've been one of the best songs on K-12 if she would've given it more body in the second half, at least for the album version. The repetition is understandable as background music for the scene in the film, but it sounds unfinished on it's own. Unfortunately though, I feel like a lot of K-12 suffers from that.

Wondering what the deluxe tracks will be for this next album. Also wondering what the original deluxe tracks for K-12 were supposed to be. I'm a curious bitch, I'd love to see the original plans.

You're not wrong, but I honestly doubt Twitter staff is going to do anything past disabling the account. That person also wouldn't have been selling leaks if so many fans weren't shelling out $100s for unreleased like crazy people. That fact is, even if they have their accounts taken down, they'll find a way to make new ones, or someone else will take their place. It sucks, but it's just the time we're living in. Hopefully in the future artists will learn to accept that this isn't something they can stop, and start working on upping their security instead of waiting for leaks to surface and getting angry.

Leaking is bad and all, but this is going to end up with some teenager being doxxed and harassed over leaks most people aren't even listening to. It's not like Melanie is going to give them a cookie for this, either, so.. Also, as far as the "buying an NFT just to troll Melanie" goes, yeah that's dumb and petty, but did she think NFTs we're going to attract normal people from her fanbase? Of course it was going to be the obsessive weirdos who would do something like this to get her attention.

I'm not going to lie, I personally like the "they covered their ears, my love" breakdown the most, but overall the V4 demo sounds best and seems pretty much finished. I'll be interested to see what changes between now and it's release. Out of any of the leaked tracks, I think Sirens is the least likely to be scrapped.

It was definitely awkward. Most of her responses seemed rushed, and like I said, uninterested. I also just find it funny that this is how so many artists and their fans interact now online, spamming each other and talking to each other like it's a chat board. I didn't expect Melanie to go into in-depth responses and spend hours talking with people, but she could've come across as more "involved" here? Idk. Her fans in the chat were being so embarrassing though, it's not like she owed them an actual conversation. I'm definitely starting to believe these were a bunch of kids who used their parents credit cards to buy an NFT, lol..

This M&G was so strange. It's a prime example of how obsessive and uncomfortable so many of her fans can be. Half the questions being asked were questions that anyone with common sense would realise were rude(mostly about her unreleased or upcoming songs), and she seemed like she wasn't even very interested or involved in the conversation. Not that it's hard to see why, but what a weird mess.

I agree. I'm honestly over Cry Baby after nearly 8 years, and at this point I only have Soap and Sippy Cup on my playlist. K-12 never really had my attention to begin with. It felt underdone, and didn't have that "listen over and over" factor that Cry Baby had. I get that she was going for a cohesive sound, but the beats don't have the standout quality that the first album had. The lyrics took a tumble in quality too, and the album ended up as more of a soundtrack to the film than an actual standalone LP. It also seems like she got tired of her own act a couple of years ago, and has been wanting to move on but wasn't fully ready to or didn't know how. I think this is a great way to do it, keeping the character and having her "transform". We'll of course have to wait and see where she goes from here, but I'm almost sure it'll be a big refresher from where she's been for nearly a decade now.

She'd have to get her label to approve it first, and let go of her "vision" of only having certain songs and albums released. I don't see it happening any time soon if it hasn't already, but it would be nice to see. She'd make a lot more money that way than selling bracelets.