radiant

the grace of XCX World is being this album that exists and don't exist at the same time
but it would be nice if someone could come with the Spike files in lossless (if they ever exist) and also Taxi + Come to My Party in a real decent quality

I think it's entirely fair to say that if they were sent to be professionally mixed, they should at least be chucked in the "these were strong contenders for release" category.

The whole XCX world debacle at this point really shouldn't have any questions left though imo, and what "questions" there is, I feel like are from fans inventing their own hurdles to jump over.

If I was to strip down and try to abstract all the details, I feel like objectively, we know:
the third album was being worked on for awhile, and then was shelved by the label a lot of material was recorded for it, and some tracks were selected and sent to be mastered tracks and album material leaked, and it played into the decision to shelve the album several songs that were in the running for the album during the "era" were mentioned and teased on twitter in various posts the producers and collabs for several songs created during the "era" were mentioned and teased on twitter in various posts several songs were performed at LA Exchange, Kimmel during the "era", lending weight to the idea that they were intended for full commercial release, but NOT confirming it j/k songs performed during the era were either already confirmed as scrapped or were still up in the air as to whether or not commercial release was a possibility shelved photoshoots that have leaked that were done during the "era" do show a coherent idea/theme was developed Charli has said in an interview that the album wasn't 100% done, and has said over the years that fans have taken what info is out there and ran with it on their own Charli has said in an interview that the covers were done, and she was about to shoot music videos, before the label decided to pull the plug on the album/project Taken altogether, the art direction was decided, a rudimentary tracklist was developed (but not fully finalized), and the "project" was rolling onwards into a "release" phase and out of a "development" phase, but before ink hit the paper on a final tracklist - shit leaked and the project was killed. We know that artists usually record a dickload of material and then spend time pairing it down to a certain number of tracks and total runtime in order to meet the label's (and contract) standard for what constitutes an album. Based on the evidence we have, I feel like we can safely infer that the album was killed and shot dead in the middle of that process, which leaves us with our infamous "Tracklist-that-isn't-a-tracklist-but-it-kinda-is-but-it-isn't."

I think any further/continued "omg what if...." "but what about?" "okay but in this one tweet it seems that...." is just fan masturbation over a time and topic that will never have a solid four walls and a roof over it's head.

she just confirmed there's a third album and i think its called NYMPHO VACATION and hopefully it has the remaining 'scraps'

I miss stanning for Melanie   
 
I remember how invested I was during the Cry Baby Era. She was so exciting, visually & musically, especially with the visual album new videos were always something to look forward to. Fast forward to the huge gap between albums along with K-12 coming... and going, plus After School still being nowhere to be seen.
 
*Sigh*
 
currently getting my alt-pop fix from Billie Eilish right now. She really reminds me so much of Melanie, their voices and music style are kinda similar too.
 
Idk, I just hope Melanie's next project is a return to form in some way. Not saying she should make Cry Baby 2.0 but give us something exciting, songs that don't age like milk in a week etc. K-12/Copy Cat just aren't it, at least not when compared to her earlier work.
 
rant over
 

I suggest 'The Way He Looks' such a cute movie  

really missing her right now...
 
I didn't realize how much I loved her and her music until I recently started relistening and going through some of her videos (Her eye for visuals are insane)
she has always been ahead of her time & was never fully appreciated... it makes me sad.
 
anyways, I hope we get more music (& an album? eventually)
her excellence is needed
 

Love both songs so far. 
Need the EP 

I was there! 🙂 It was a really great atmosphere, especially as she had most of her family there supporting and the venue felt quite small and intimate. Neon was looking really healthy & her boyfriend even brought Freedom along, who was just a bundle of smiles 😁 She mentioned how it's been 4 years since she last performed on stage. She also paid tribute to Amy with a cover of "Stronger Than Me". I brought my DSLR to take a few photos and videos, which I'll upload onto Insta at some point 

Good Ones is so... good
such an earworm and really addicting, she put her whole coochie in this

Good Ones is so... good
such an earworm and really addicting, she put her whole coochie in this

finally a new leak 
https://dbree.org/v/2fcc85

Good Ones is so... good
such an earworm and really addicting, she put her whole coochie in this

Good Ones is so... good
such an earworm and really addicting, she put her whole coochie in this

Good Ones is so... good
such an earworm and really addicting, she put her whole coochie in this

Good Ones is so... good
such an earworm and really addicting, she put her whole coochie in this

Good Ones is so... good
such an earworm and really addicting, she put her whole coochie in this

Good Ones is so... good
such an earworm and really addicting, she put her whole coochie in this

The original Reflections album cover 
https://ibb.co/G9SS9PX
 

tysm! <3

These are the highest quality I've found them in
Angel:
https://dbree.org/v/060e48
Song for Ric:
https://dbree.org/v/60e487

Release Shinigami Eyes binch

Some of you are so mean to her it’s ugly.
 
She deserves this, she deserves that, she’s a liar, she’s this, she’s that...
 
Something as sad as the lack of music is seeing so many people taking every lil opportunity to mock her.

Yes! it was the version made that was supposed to be included on the album at one point. The HQ version I posted a bit earlier is technically not meant for Crybaby at all.

Here's a few more things
 
I added in the unfortunately LQ original files of Mistakes, Night Mime (chorus vers), and Psycho Lovers. Not sure why those songs were exported with such awful quality. 
 
Also attached is the first demo of Zzzz. This is the first version of the song ever exported, so if this isn't the "concept demo" that's being mentioned than that demo is not real.

Lunchbox Friends is Melanie's best song imo