Melanie Martinez Music!

"Detention" From K-12

If you're close to me, you probably know that Detention is one of my all-time favorite songs from Melanie Martinez in general. If you include the music video, the costume design is just stunning, alongside the beautiful choreography, and on top of that, the meaning and vocals in this song are just to die for! In the album, "Detention" represents 9th grade, just like how all of the songs in order represent a different grade level from kindergarten to 12th grade.

This song can have multiple different meanings, as depending on the person, this song is ultimately up to interpretation as to how the person listening to the song may feel.

Essentially, this song talks about a few different things:

• How the music industry can make its music artists feel trapped and feel obligated to feel a certain way, not expressing their concerns and their own personal problems.
• Music artists are carefully under the watchful eye of the public, feeling this pressure to always be good and never do any wrong, alongside trying to keep up with their fans and the industry's high expectations.

Obviously, as I mentioned before, this song can be interpreted in different ways as well! At least for me, the song represents how we as people usually have to hide our own negative feelings because always expect us to be happy or generally positive. That's how I tend to feel most of the time, especially around my family. However, I am lucky enough to have friends by my side who know that it's okay to not be okay. ^^

I guess that's kinda why I tend to always listen to this song, as it's just a masterpiece of music in general. I love it sososo much and I think it deserves a lot more love. -v-

"Tag, You're It" From Crybaby

CW// S.A., Kidnapping, Stalking 

"Tag, You're It" is one of my favorite songs from Melanie's Crybaby album. This particular song is incredibly catchy and despite the dark meaning of the song, it does open up eyes to some people and form a new perspective about another person's life. I also like how the music video is a double feature as well, which adds a different perspective to the song as well!

In general, the song itself is about a story of a young girl who is being stalked by a predator who is trying to take her away and kidnap her. During the first half of the song, the girl talks about how the man follows her in their vehicle, "rolling down their tinted window," and trying to take her with him.

This then leads to the chorus mentioning how the girl is attempting to run away from her stalking, but then she's finally caught, "grab my head and push me down, took the words right out my mouth." With the kidnapper now having her in their grasp, she's taken away and is now hiding in the basement of the man who kidnapped her, wondering if "anybody hears her while she's underground" and if "anybody hears her while she's talking to herself."

As we get to the end of the song, we can notice the tone shift in Melanie's voice, implying that the girl is giving up on any hope of someone rescuing her from this madness that she was dragged into, and slowly realizes that this might be her life now.

Unfortunately, this is a sad reality for a lot of girls, and it's not often talked about. However, the way Melanie portrays this type of situation in her song provides a new perspective to her listeners, and realizing just how traumatic and awful these kinds of issues are in our society. I myself can relate to the uneasiness and uncertainty of potentially being followed and harassed, and this song is sort of a way to express how I feel as a person.

Overall, this song is really great. It's a small, simple, yet tragic story that fits into a catchy song that ties into the Crybaby lore and shines a bit of light onto those who may have experienced this sort of traumatic event in their lifetime. This is just one of Melanie's more "serious" songs, as there are plenty more that she has made in her music career, and this is one of her top ones. 

I LOVE MELANIE!! I luv how ur posting about her songss, tag you're it was the 1st song i listened to from her.

OJ is one of my faves from her, when I was listening to k-12 for the first time it was the only one that really touched me at the time since i was (and still am..) dealing with eating struggles and body image. every time i sing along to it i pour my heart and soul into every lyric because i have such a deep history with both the song and the message

The first song i played from her was dollhouse ! I love her so much and the k-12 was so goood detention was one of my favs , her outfit for it omg i loved it so much

I love all her music so much, it's insane to see how much they have grown as an artist. I remember finding her on Tumblr years ago!! Just saw her on tour and sobbed, I took 50 million photos and cried lol!!