ANONYMOUS
Staff Writer
The album “Crybaby” by Melanie Martinez came out on August 14, 2015, and since then has been a part of my top 10 albums. Every single song on that album is so well put together and is genuinely so good. I know that for a lot of people listening to Melanie Martinez, Twenty One Pilots, The Neighborhood, and other “2015 Tumblr albums” is deemed embarrassing and is typically a stereotype for a certain type of person. However, I am not ashamed to say that I literally can still listen to these albums and say that they still go incredibly hard. My music taste has changed since 2015, but I still love to go back and listen to old albums. The reason why I am specifically writing about “Crybaby” is that the album is sort of a vent for Melanie, as each song on the album is about something that has traumatized her or something that affected her life. I could sit here and analyze every song on this masterpiece album, but instead, I will only talk about 3 songs.
The whole album is written from the perspective of Melanie’s persona “Crybaby” where she speaks of her trauma or painful experiences she’s dealt with. The first song I want to talk about is “Pacify Her”, this song has been my favorite on the album for a while now. The song is about what seems like a love triangle, in which she is in with another girl and a boy. She seems to be jealous of the other girl and in the song claims that the boy doesn’t actually love her and to “pacify her she is getting on my nerves”, as in shut her up. I don’t love this song because I relate to it, I love it because it’s good and I like the concept of it. The next song is titled, “Mrs. Potato Head“. This song is a song I think a lot of people can relate to and feel some sort of connection to when listening to it. The song is a lot about insecurities, the feeling of never being enough for someone, and wanting to look different than how you look now. The song says “Don’t be dramatic it’s only some plastic, no one will love you if you’re unattractive” I think this lyric speaks a lot about the pressure girls feel to change themselves in order to feel pretty, or in order to be loved and to feel wanted by another person. And the last song is called “Training Wheels”, a lot of people say that this is the only love song on the album. I agree to a certain extent because although Crybaby seems to be in love with the person she’s singing about, the love seems one-sided and it feels as if she thinks he loves her back when in reality he is abusive to her. I think the song is about how girls can get treated so terribly by their partners and think that the behavior is normal and that he only does the things he does because he cares about her and loves her, but really he doesn’t. In the song, there is a lyric that says “I love everything you do when you call me fu*king dumb for the stupid sh** I do”. Honestly, the lyrics can be interpreted in any way the listener wants and that is one of my favorite things about the album. The lyrics are beautiful and I love her voice so much, which is why this album is one of my favorites.