Melanie Martinez

[Veinsineon]

Just because the lyrics are literal and understandable doesn’t mean the theme makes sense? Why are u obsessed with not letting other people say what they thinkin got damn

[Veinsineon]

Imagine not understanding a song like The Principal though lmao did you do okay understanding Class Fight?

please this is the most idiotic condescending post you’ve ever made, and you make a lot of stupid ones.

[Ultra Violet]

It's not like the lyrics aren't painfully bleak, mediocre, and easy to understand or anything

 

 

and btw yes i respect melanies work, but she's made it very hard to appreciate the art recently.

she hasn't grown at all

 

I do dislike how backed into a corner the lyrics of K-12 seem. It's like, we love the themes she always commits to, but to be so literal is kinda boring because it's restrictive.

 

That's why I feel Crybaby was far more advanced in maturity, creativity and the range of themes. 

 

I think that the only way I could enjoy K-12 as much as I love CB would be if I was actually in school, like middle school, when it was released, because then I could relate on that level of actually applying everything to my daily life. 

 

CB may be about a toddler's wild adventures and environmental problems but it is way more applicable to everyone else floating around encountering these things at whatever age they are. I find that to make more sense, personally.

K-12 just seems like a project to fill in the gap between Crybabys story growing up to whatever Mel releases in the future which will catch up to her life now.

[OverYourHead]

Why are u obsessed with not letting other people say what they thinkin got damn

Almost as weird and confusing as getting an unasked for opinion on my opinion, from a stranger

This you?

[Veinsineon]

This you?

cry about it

[thelastgirlonearth]

the way afterschool is gonna be delayed again,,, chile 

[Tulips]

[Pasta]

This you?

[Veinsineon]

Not the g*ys failing to comprehend basic english

[Nightmare]

can y'all move on

[vrtvie]

I agree that Cry Baby felt more nature, besides, lyrics were more universal. I got to know Melanie ever since Dollhouse music video dropped, way before Cry Baby was out -- that felt so creative and promising. Unfortunately, I don't really like the direction she took, both stylistically and musically. Don't know why, because I enjoyed a lot even Gingerbread Man and Piggyback.

[Creyk]

Sure her second album is not as good as the first one, but she can still redeem herself with the third one.

[genghis khan]

oh are we fighting here

[house of balloons]

k-12 is melanie riding cry baby's wave 

[genghis khan]

k-12 is melanie riding cry baby's wave 

 

k-12 just comes off as someone who just discovered twitter and then tried to write a whole movie making surface level observations about literally every social issue ever 

[Creyk]

The biggest issue is that the second album has too many curse words. Unnecessarily abundant in profanities.

[genghis khan]

The biggest issue is that the second album has too many curse words. Unnecessarily abundant in profanities.

 

i don't know if you've ever seen that video of halsey covering "love yourself" by justin bieber except she replaces love with fuck for no reason, but it reminds me of melanie

[house of balloons]

k-12 just comes off as someone who just discovered twitter and then tried to write a whole movie making surface level observations about literally every social issue ever 

The lyrics that are supposed to bring awareness to these social issues in a clever way just come off as superficial and in-your-face, unlike the ones in cry baby. A good example would be Tag, you're it with child kidnapping and Orange Juice with bulimia.

[Vanilla Icy]

cry baby is very natural compared to k-12 and way more relatable which is what people who listen to artists like melanie want from her and that's why a lot of people don't like with artists put social commentary in their music, unless you're a die hard stan who just eats up everything she makes. the metaphors on cry baby were genius k-12 felt like she just collected a ton of school related words and put them into a rhyme generator 

[OverYourHead]

The lyrics that are supposed to bring awareness to these social issues in a clever way just come off as superficial and in-your-face, unlike the ones in cry baby. A good example would be Tag, you're it with child kidnapping and Orange Juice with bulimia.

TW/

 

I always thought tag, you’re it was about r*pe?