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* KnifeNut: Cry Baby and her mother both favor knives when dealing violently with their spoiled romance.
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* MohsScaleOfLyricalHardness: Averages somewhere around a 6 thanks to her love for [[PrecisionFStrike shockingly placed words]] and angsty, disillusioned lyrics.
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* WhoNamesTheirKidDude: Cry Baby is the heroine's actual name, written on her birth certificate, as shown in one of the videos. Her brother wrote it in response to their mother's complaining about her newborn child being a, well, [[ShapedLikeItself crybaby]]).
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* WhoNamesTheirKidDude: Cry Baby is the heroine's actual name, written on her birth certificate, as shown in one of the videos. Her brother wrote it in response to their mother's complaining about her newborn child being a, well, [[ShapedLikeItself crybaby]]).crybaby]].
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!!"So what if I'm tropping? The best people are":
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!!"So what if I'm tropping? troping? The best people are":
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* OlderThanTheyLook: Despite the fact that Martinez is an adult woman, she can easily pass for a preadolescent, or someone in their early teens.
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* ProneToTears: Cry Baby, [[MeaningfulName as her name indicates]].
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* ProneToTears: Cry Baby, She is called [[MeaningfulName as her name indicates]].Cry Baby]] for crying often.
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* ProtagonistTitle: Cry Baby is the heroine's name. [[WhoNamesTheirKidDude Her actual name]].
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* ProtagonistTitle: Cry Baby is the heroine's name. [[WhoNamesTheirKidDude Her It is her actual name]].name.
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* CrapsaccharineWorld: Cry Baby's world has a genuinely pleasing aesthetic of pastels, retro accents, and is reminiscent of a quaint dollhouse. However, almost everyone in it beyond Cry Baby herself (at least until [[SanitySlippage the very end]]) ranges from ambiguously creepy (the Rabbit Doctor, the masked carnival people, the Nurse and Cashier) to selfish ad abusive (Cry Baby's parents) to outright evil (the Wolf) with [[ThereAreNoTherapists]] no therapists or police or anyone to help poor Cry Baby with her issues.
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* CrapsaccharineWorld: Cry Baby's world has a genuinely pleasing aesthetic of pastels, retro accents, and is reminiscent of a quaint dollhouse. However, almost everyone in it beyond Cry Baby herself (at least until [[SanitySlippage the very end]]) ranges from ambiguously creepy (the Rabbit Doctor, the masked carnival people, the Nurse and Cashier) to selfish ad abusive (Cry Baby's parents) to outright evil (the Wolf) with [[ThereAreNoTherapists]] [[ThereAreNoTherapists no therapists therapists]] or police or anyone to help poor Cry Baby with her issues.
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* WickedHeartSymbol: Hearts and broken hearts are a prominent motif in the Cry Baby interactive storybook, possibly representing her romantic entanglements and futile search for love. Notably, "Carousel" contains the lines, "Why'd you steal my cotton candy heart? / You threw it in this damn coin slot / And now I'm riding, riding, riding..."
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* WickedHeartSymbol: Hearts and broken hearts are a prominent motif in the Cry Baby interactive storybook, possibly representing her romantic entanglements and futile search for love. Notably, "Carousel" contains the lines, "Why'd lines:
-->Why'd you steal my cotton candyheart? / heart?\\
You threw it in this damn coinslot / slot\\
And now I'm riding, riding,riding..."riding...
* WidowsWeeds: Suggested in "Milk and Cookies" as to what the singer will do after her despised husband is dead.
-->9, 10, never want to see you again\\
11, 12, I pull off black so well\\
The shit behind the curtain that I'm sick of sugarcoatin'\\
Next time when you're alone, think fast when you grab the phone
-->Why'd you steal my cotton candy
You threw it in this damn coin
And now I'm riding, riding,
* WidowsWeeds: Suggested in "Milk and Cookies" as to what the singer will do after her despised husband is dead.
-->9, 10, never want to see you again\\
11, 12, I pull off black so well\\
The shit behind the curtain that I'm sick of sugarcoatin'\\
Next time when you're alone, think fast when you grab the phone
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* CryingAtYourBirthdayParty: "Pity Party" interpolates Lesley Gore's "It's My Party," is about [[TheWoobie Cry Baby]] having a OnePersonBirthdayParty despite her best efforts to invite many guests. She doesn't take it well [[{{Understatement}} at all]].
--> I'll cry until the candles burn down this place
--> I'll cry until my [[TitleDrop pity party]]'s in flames
--> I'll cry until the candles burn down this place
--> I'll cry until my [[TitleDrop pity party]]'s in flames
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* OdangoHair: Melanie sports it on the cover of the "Cry Baby" album, and as a fashion doll in "Dollhouse"'s video.
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* YourCheatingHeart:
** In "Dollhouse" Cry Baby's dad is having an affair. Her mother is aware of it, which drives her to [[AlcoholicParent drink]].
** Implied about [[AssholeVictim the subject]] of "Milk And Cookies":
--->The shit behind the curtains that I'm sick of sugarcoating
--->Next time you're alone, think twice when you grab the phone.
** "Pacify Her" is presented as the POV of a woman dating a cheating man, but it could be about a ClingyJealousGirl refusing to let go of a relationship that's fallen apart and moved on. This is supported by the video, where the new girlfriend has done nothing wrong, and Cry Baby is portrayed as an awkward and psychotic third wheel.
** This is invoked as a consequence of plastic surgery - the man urges the woman to undergo surgery to improve her appearance, but when it predictably reduces her beauty, he goes with another woman.
** In "Dollhouse" Cry Baby's dad is having an affair. Her mother is aware of it, which drives her to [[AlcoholicParent drink]].
** Implied about [[AssholeVictim the subject]] of "Milk And Cookies":
--->The shit behind the curtains that I'm sick of sugarcoating
--->Next time you're alone, think twice when you grab the phone.
** "Pacify Her" is presented as the POV of a woman dating a cheating man, but it could be about a ClingyJealousGirl refusing to let go of a relationship that's fallen apart and moved on. This is supported by the video, where the new girlfriend has done nothing wrong, and Cry Baby is portrayed as an awkward and psychotic third wheel.
** This is invoked as a consequence of plastic surgery - the man urges the woman to undergo surgery to improve her appearance, but when it predictably reduces her beauty, he goes with another woman.
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* BigScrewedUpFamily: Cry Baby has one. Her mom is a [[spoiler:murderous]] alcoholic, her dad has a mistress (and is implied to be a ProfessionalKiller), her older brother does drugs, and Cry Baby herself has issues that only get [[SanitySlippage worse later]]. "Dollhouse" and "Sippy Cup" are about them.
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* BigScrewedUpFamily: Cry Baby has one. Her mom is a [[spoiler:murderous]] alcoholic, her dad has a mistress (and is implied to be a ProfessionalKiller), her older brother does drugs, and Cry Baby herself has issues that only get [[SanitySlippage worse later]]. They also [[StepfordSmiler go out of their way to appear normal and happy]]. "Dollhouse" and "Sippy Cup" are about them.
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* DrowningMySorrows: Cry Baby's mother.
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* DrowningMySorrows: Cry Baby's mother.mother gets drunk to cope with her husband's infidelity and, later, with [[spoiler:murdering him and his mistress.]]
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* FashionHurts: "Mrs. Potato Head" is about people who are addicted to plastic surgery and the effects it can have on them.
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* FashionHurts: "Mrs. Potato Head" is about people who are addicted to plastic surgery and surgery; the song [[BodyHorror grafically describes the effects it can have on them.them]]: "They stick pins in you like a vegetable," "pain is beauty," "Baby soft skin turns into leather," "Do you swear you'll stay forever? / Even if her face don't stay together," "little girls are learning how to cut and paste / And pucker up their lips until they suffocate..."
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* WhoNamesTheirKidDude: Subverted or justified in this case, as it was Cry Baby's brother who wrote her name on the birth certificate (in response to his mother's complaining about her newborn child being a, well, [[ShapedLikeItself crybaby]]), not her mother.
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* WhoNamesTheirKidDude: Subverted or justified in this case, as it was Cry Baby's Baby is the heroine's actual name, written on her birth certificate, as shown in one of the videos. Her brother who wrote her name on the birth certificate (in it in response to his their mother's complaining about her newborn child being a, well, [[ShapedLikeItself crybaby]]), not her mother.crybaby]]).
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* WhoNamesTheirKidDude: Subverted or justified in this case, as it was Cry Baby's brother who wrote her name on the birth certificate (in response to his mother's complaining about the noise), not her mother.
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* WhoNamesTheirKidDude: Subverted or justified in this case, as it was Cry Baby's brother who wrote her name on the birth certificate (in response to his mother's complaining about the noise), her newborn child being a, well, [[ShapedLikeItself crybaby]]), not her mother.
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* ProtagonistTitle: Cry Baby is the heroine's name. [[WhoNamesTheirKidDude Her actual name]].
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* BittersweetEnding: "Mad Hatter," the last song on ''Cry Baby'', confirms that the title character has become broken by the end of the album. However, she's come to terms with how emotional, unstable, and imperfect she is, and [[BeYourself wouldn't have it any other way]].
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* BittersweetEnding: "Mad Hatter," the last song on ''Cry Baby'', confirms shows that the title character has become broken and gone insane by the end of the album. However, [[IAmWhatIAm she's come to terms with how emotional, unstable, and imperfect she is, and [[BeYourself wouldn't have it any other way]].
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* DownerEnding: While Cry Baby's entire story is a downer, the album ends with her insane and unwilling to improve.
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* BeYourself: [[TheMadHatter "Mad Hatter"]] is a dark example: things that Cry Baby embraces about herself include her emotional instability and insanity.
* IAmWhatIAm: [[TheMadHatter "Mad Hatter"]] is a dark example: things that Cry Baby embraces about herself include her emotional instability and insanity.
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* TheMadHatter: [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin "Mad Hatter"]], the album's BittersweetEnding. Cry Baby's gone crazy, but [[BeYourself she's come to terms with how emotional, unstable, and imperfect she is]] and enjoys her insanity.
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* TheMadHatter: [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin "Mad Hatter"]], the album's BittersweetEnding. Cry Baby's gone crazy, but [[BeYourself [[IAmWhatIAm she's come to terms with how emotional, unstable, and imperfect she is]] and enjoys her insanity.
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* BigScrewedUpFamily: Cry Baby has one. Her mom is a [[spoiler:murderous]] alcoholic, her dad has a mistress (and is implied to be a ProfessionalKiller), her older brother does drugs, and Cry Baby herself has issues that only get [[SanitySlippage worse later]]. "Dollhouse" is about them.
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* BigScrewedUpFamily: Cry Baby has one. Her mom is a [[spoiler:murderous]] alcoholic, her dad has a mistress (and is implied to be a ProfessionalKiller), her older brother does drugs, and Cry Baby herself has issues that only get [[SanitySlippage worse later]]. "Dollhouse" is and "Sippy Cup" are about them.
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-->Should've never said the word "love"\\
Threw a toaster in the bathtub
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* TheMadHatter: [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin "Mad Hatter"]], the BittersweetEnding of ''Cry Baby''. She's gone crazy, but [[BeYourself she's come to terms with how emotional, unstable, and imperfect she is]] and enjoys her insanity.
-->''Tell you a secret, I'm not alarmed\\
So what if I'm crazy? The best people are''
-->''Tell you a secret, I'm not alarmed\\
So what if I'm crazy? The best people are''
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* TheMadHatter: [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin "Mad Hatter"]], the BittersweetEnding of ''Cry Baby''. She's album's BittersweetEnding. Cry Baby's gone crazy, but [[BeYourself she's come to terms with how emotional, unstable, and imperfect she is]] and enjoys her insanity.
-->''Tell -->Tell you a secret, I'm not alarmed\\
So what if I'm crazy? The best peopleare''are
So what if I'm crazy? The best people
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--> '''Cry Baby:''' I'm laughin', I'm cryin', it feels like I'm dyin'...
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--->Blood money, blood money
--->How did you afford this ring that I love, honey?
--->[[FellOffTheBackOfATruck "Just another shift at the drug company"]]
--->He doesn't think I'm that fuckin' dumb, does he?
--->How did you afford this ring that I love, honey?
--->[[FellOffTheBackOfATruck "Just another shift at the drug company"]]
--->He doesn't think I'm that fuckin' dumb, does he?
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--->How
How did you afford this ring that I love,
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[[FellOffTheBackOfATruck "Just another shift at the drug
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-->''D-O-L-L-H-O-U-S-E\\
I see things that nobody else sees''
* StalkerWithACrush: The narrator's love interest in "Teddy Bear" may be this, but perhaps not for long. Cry Baby herself is like this in "Pacify Her", trying to wedge herself into a relationship that's run its course. It's implied the Wolf might be this, or at least has an inappropriate interest in Cry Baby; "Tag, You're It" mentions that he'd been watching her for a while, and that he's captivated by the sound of her breathing. Melanie also [[WordOfGod made it a point to mention]] that since she was single at that point in the album "wolves are now on the prowl."
I see things that nobody else sees''
* StalkerWithACrush: The narrator's love interest in "Teddy Bear" may be this, but perhaps not for long. Cry Baby herself is like this in "Pacify Her", trying to wedge herself into a relationship that's run its course. It's implied the Wolf might be this, or at least has an inappropriate interest in Cry Baby; "Tag, You're It" mentions that he'd been watching her for a while, and that he's captivated by the sound of her breathing. Melanie also [[WordOfGod made it a point to mention]] that since she was single at that point in the album "wolves are now on the prowl."
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I see things that nobody else
* StalkerWithACrush: The narrator's love interest in "Teddy Bear" may be this, but perhaps not for long. Cry Baby herself is like this in "Pacify Her", trying to wedge herself into a relationship that's run its course. It's implied the Wolf might be this, or at least has an inappropriate interest in Cry Baby; "Tag, You're It" mentions that he'd been watching her for a while, and that he's captivated by the sound of her breathing. Melanie also
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--->Sexual, hey girl if you wanna feel sexual.
--->You can always call up a professional, they stick pins in you, like a vegetable.
--->You can always call up a professional, they stick pins in you, like a vegetable.
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--->You
You can always call up a professional, they stick pins in you, like a vegetable.
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-->''You seem to replace your brain with your heart\\
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Those cry baby tears come out of the dark''
* ThirteenIsUnlucky: "Cry Baby" is a tragic story, and there are thirteen songs. (The deluxe-album songs are not part of Cry Baby's story, per WordOfGod.)
* ThirteenIsUnlucky: "Cry Baby" is a tragic story, and there are thirteen songs. (The deluxe-album songs are not part of Cry Baby's story, per WordOfGod.)
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Those cry baby tears come out of the dark''
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* ThirteenIsUnlucky: "Cry Baby" is a tragic story, and there are thirteen songs.(The (Though te deluxe-album songs are not part of Cry Baby's story, per WordOfGod.)
* ThirteenIsUnlucky: "Cry Baby" is a tragic story, and there are thirteen songs.
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-->''Ashes, ashes, time to go down\\
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Sing you a lullaby where you die at the end''
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Sing you a lullaby where you die at the end''end
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* {{Tsundere}}: Cry Baby in "Play Date" shows shades of this towards her lover:
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* {{Tsundere}}: Cry Baby in The narrator of "Play Date" shows shades of this towards Date." First, she denies her lover:lover means anything to her. Then, she reveals she cares after all and has some hope their relationship will work.
** Tsun:
** Tsun:
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--->This horse is too slow
--->We're always this close
--->Almost, almost
--->We're always this close
--->Almost, almost
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--->We're
We're always this
--->Almost,
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--> Gave you love
--> Put my heart inside you
--> Oh, what could I do?
--> Put my heart inside you
--> Oh, what could I do?
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* BookEnds: "Cry Baby" and "Mad Hatter" have the same beat and song structure, and both have their own self-acceptance themes pertaining to Cry Baby's life.
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* BookEnds: "Cry Baby" and "Mad Hatter" have the same beat and song structure, and both have their own self-acceptance themes pertaining to Cry Baby's life. Also, "Cry Baby" uses AliceAllusion in the video, and "Mad Hatter" is full of those in the lyrics.
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* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: "Cry Baby", the first song of the album, starts in second person, then switches to first person near the end, and the rest of the album (as well as ''Film/{{K12}}'') are sung from Cry Baby's perspective.
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* FriendlessBackground: "Cry Baby" ("You're all on your own / And you lost all your friends") and "Pity Party," where no one comes to her birthday party.
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* LipstickMark: There is one on the father's neck in the "Dollhouse" video, marking his infidelity.
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* AlbumTitleDrop: ''Cry Baby''
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* AbusiveParents: Cry Baby suffers from a more passive case of this. Her mother can't handle her husband's infidelity, so she kills him and drugs Cry Baby so she'll forget she saw anything, and she and her brother's issues are [[ThereAreNoTherapists completely ignored.]]
* AddedAlliterativeAppeal: The verses of "Alphabet Boy" use alliteration for the letters A, B, C, and D in sequential lines. This is [[LampshadeHanging lampshaded]] in the prechorus, which starts with "I know my [=ABCs=]".
* AlbumTitleDrop: The first song is titled "Cry Baby" and drops the title many times.
* TheAlcoholic: The mother in "Dollhouse", and the main theme of "Sippy Cup".
* AliceAllusion:
** Cry Baby in the titular music video floods her room with her own tears.
** "Mad Hatter", which isn't just named after the Mad Hatter character but references other elements from ''Alice in Wonderland''.
* AllLoveIsUnrequited: "Carousel" is about this. When the relationship does happen, it falls apart due to the guy's bragging ("Alphabet Boy").
* AllOfTheOtherReindeer: "Cry Baby" tells the story of a sensitive girl ([[VeryLooselyBasedOnATrueStory loosely modeled]] after young Melanie) trying to rise above her bullies.
* AmbiguousInnocence: ''CryBaby''Baby'' is a concept album based around the idea of presenting complex adult situations through the lens and metaphor of childhood, so naturally it's chock-full of this.
* AmbiguousTimePeriod: The music videos suggest little about the story's timeframe, but what technology we do see is outdated.
* AxCrazy: In the music video for "Sippy Cup", [[spoiler:Cry Baby's mother ties her husband and his mistress to chairs and stabs them to death with a kitchen knife.]]
* BabyTalk: Used in "Alphabet Boy", with phonetic "A" and "B" sounds being chanted in the interludes, and some simplified sentences in the first verse.
* BadHumorTruck: Cry Baby gets kidnapped by a wolf, who just so happens to also be an ice cream man.
* BeingTorturedMakesYouEvil: Cry Baby's personality takes a much darker turn after she gets kidnapped by the Wolf.
* BestServedCold: "Milk And Cookies" is all about this, directed at a loathed spouse. The revenge in question is poison.
* BeYourself: [[TheMadHatter "Mad Hatter"]] is a dark example: things that Cry Baby embraces about herself include her emotional instability and insanity.
* TheBigBadWolf: Cry Baby's kidnapper, keeping the stranger-danger context in a more modern situation.
* AddedAlliterativeAppeal: The verses of "Alphabet Boy" use alliteration for the letters A, B, C, and D in sequential lines. This is [[LampshadeHanging lampshaded]] in the prechorus, which starts with "I know my [=ABCs=]".
* AlbumTitleDrop: The first song is titled "Cry Baby" and drops the title many times.
* TheAlcoholic: The mother in "Dollhouse", and the main theme of "Sippy Cup".
* AliceAllusion:
** Cry Baby in the titular music video floods her room with her own tears.
** "Mad Hatter", which isn't just named after the Mad Hatter character but references other elements from ''Alice in Wonderland''.
* AllLoveIsUnrequited: "Carousel" is about this. When the relationship does happen, it falls apart due to the guy's bragging ("Alphabet Boy").
* AllOfTheOtherReindeer: "Cry Baby" tells the story of a sensitive girl ([[VeryLooselyBasedOnATrueStory loosely modeled]] after young Melanie) trying to rise above her bullies.
* AmbiguousInnocence: ''Cry
* AmbiguousTimePeriod: The music videos suggest little about the story's timeframe, but what technology we do see is outdated.
* AxCrazy: In the music video for "Sippy Cup", [[spoiler:Cry Baby's mother ties her husband and his mistress to chairs and stabs them to death with a kitchen knife.]]
* BabyTalk: Used in "Alphabet Boy", with phonetic "A" and "B" sounds being chanted in the interludes, and some simplified sentences in the first verse.
* BadHumorTruck: Cry Baby gets kidnapped by a wolf, who just so happens to also be an ice cream man.
* BeingTorturedMakesYouEvil: Cry Baby's personality takes a much darker turn after she gets kidnapped by the Wolf.
* BestServedCold: "Milk And Cookies" is all about this, directed at a loathed spouse. The revenge in question is poison.
* BeYourself: [[TheMadHatter "Mad Hatter"]] is a dark example: things that Cry Baby embraces about herself include her emotional instability and insanity.
* TheBigBadWolf: Cry Baby's kidnapper, keeping the stranger-danger context in a more modern situation.
* BigScrewedUpFamily: Cry Baby has one. Her mom is a [[spoiler:murderous]] alcoholic, her dad has a mistress (and is implied to be a ProfessionalKiller), her older brother does drugs, and Cry Baby herself has issues that only get [[SanitySlippage worse later]]. "Dollhouse" is about them.
* BittersweetEnding: "Mad Hatter," the last song on ''Cry Baby'', confirms that the title character has become broken by the end of the album. However, she's come to terms with how emotional, unstable, and imperfect she is, and [[BeYourself wouldn't have it any other way]].
* BodyHorror: Alluded to in "Mrs. Potato Head" to illustrate the negative side of plastic surgery.
-->[[FrozenFace Baby soft skin turns into leather]]
-->Does a new face come with a warranty?
-->Do you swear you'll stay forever, even when her face don't stay together?
* BittersweetEnding: "Mad Hatter," the last song on ''Cry Baby'', confirms that the title character has become broken by the end of the album. However, she's come to terms with how emotional, unstable, and imperfect she is, and [[BeYourself wouldn't have it any other way]].
* BodyHorror: Alluded to in "Mrs. Potato Head" to illustrate the negative side of plastic surgery.
-->[[FrozenFace Baby soft skin turns into leather]]
-->Does a new face come with a warranty?
-->Do you swear you'll stay forever, even when her face don't stay together?
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** In "Dollhouse", Cry Baby warns about "what goes down in the kitchen". "Sippy Cup" reveals that it's the murder of her father and his mistress.
* ChristmasEpisode: While it doesn't really count, it's invoked with "Gingerbread Man", which was released as a Christmas gift to her fans and superficially ties in to the holiday.
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** In "Dollhouse", Cry Baby warns about "what goes down in the kitchen". "Sippy Cup" reveals that it's [[spoiler: the murder of her father and his mistress]].
* ChekhovsGun: The cashier in "Tag, You're It" gives Cry Baby a bottle of poison, which she uses to kill the Wolf in the next song/video.
* CheshireCatGrin: Cry Baby's mother [[SlasherSmile gives a terrifying one]] just before murdering her husband and his mistress.
*ChristmasEpisode: While it doesn't really count, it's invoked with "Gingerbread Man", which was released as ConceptAlbum: ''Cry Baby'' tells a Christmas gift to story of the titular heroine: growing up in a BigScrewedUpFamily and being [[AllOfTheOtherReindeer bullied]], having unhappy relationships and lonely life, being kidnapped and escaping the kidnapper, [[SanitySlippage losing her fans and superficially ties in to the holiday.sanity]].
* ChekhovsGun: The cashier in "Tag, You're It" gives Cry Baby a bottle of poison, which she uses to kill the Wolf in the next song/video.
* CheshireCatGrin: Cry Baby's mother [[SlasherSmile gives a terrifying one]] just before murdering her husband and his mistress.
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* ContinuityNod: The beginning of the video for "Tag, You're It" shows Cry Baby throwing out what appears to be party decorations, referencing the previous song "Pity Party".
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* ConceptAlbum: The entire idea of the album is innocence lost through a series of sad, even dark events seen through the eyes of a child (or [[AmbiguousInnocence young woman]]), things society doesn't like to discuss, such as abuse, dark family secrets, and kidnapping, to name a few.
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* ConceptAlbum: The entire idea CreepyDollhouse: As the name of "Dollhouse" implies, this is the case with the music video and most of the album is innocence lost through songs, although it's actually used to represent a series of sad, even dark events seen through StepfordSmiler family.
* CreepyGood:
** The Bunny Doctor, who appears in the videos for "Cry Baby," "Mrs. Potato Head," and "Mad Hatter," is, well, a doctor wearing a creepy bunny mask. Other than a surreal sequence symbolizing Cry Baby's birth (where he uses her mother's pregnant stomach as a pinata), and [[spoiler:botching Mrs. Potato Head's surgery]], he seems like a normal doctor doing his job otherwise.
** The Nurse in "Cry Baby" and the Cashier in "Tag, You're It" for some reason have BlackEyesOfEvil. However, both are helpful characters; the Nurse seems sympathetic to the life Cry Baby is clearly about to live, and the Cashier is the one to give her [[ChekhovsGun the melatonin]]. Both characters reappear in "Mad Hatter," [[spoiler:and Cry Baby gets the same eyes at the end.]] It's unclear what exactly it means.
** "Mad Hatter" gives us a group ofa child (or [[AmbiguousInnocence young woman]]), things society doesn't like four gigantic [[CreepyDoll animal dolls]] (specifically, antique Rushtons), who act jerkily enough that they're sometimes compared to discuss, such as abuse, dark family secrets, and kidnapping, the animatronics from ''VideoGame/FiveNightsAtFreddys''. They are also shown stabbing a group of mannequin people to name a few. death. However, they are meant to represent Melanie's closest friends who have accepted her for who she is. In fact, the stabbing scene is them [[BigDamnHeroes saving Cry Baby]].
* CreepyGood:
** The Bunny Doctor, who appears in the videos for "Cry Baby," "Mrs. Potato Head," and "Mad Hatter," is, well, a doctor wearing a creepy bunny mask. Other than a surreal sequence symbolizing Cry Baby's birth (where he uses her mother's pregnant stomach as a pinata), and [[spoiler:botching Mrs. Potato Head's surgery]], he seems like a normal doctor doing his job otherwise.
** The Nurse in "Cry Baby" and the Cashier in "Tag, You're It" for some reason have BlackEyesOfEvil. However, both are helpful characters; the Nurse seems sympathetic to the life Cry Baby is clearly about to live, and the Cashier is the one to give her [[ChekhovsGun the melatonin]]. Both characters reappear in "Mad Hatter," [[spoiler:and Cry Baby gets the same eyes at the end.]] It's unclear what exactly it means.
** "Mad Hatter" gives us a group of
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* EarnYourHappyEnding: After all the crap she's been through, Cry Baby is alone and insane, but she's made peace with that, and WordOfGod confirms that she will finally catch a break in Melanie's next album, implying things get happier for Cry Baby.
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* EarnYourHappyEnding: After all the crap she's been through, DrowningMySorrows: Cry Baby is alone and insane, but she's made peace Baby's mother.
** "Dollhouse".
--->When you turn your back she pulls out a flask\\
And forgets his infidelity
** The topic of "Sippy Cup".
--->He's still dead when you're done withthat, and WordOfGod confirms that she will finally catch a break in Melanie's next album, implying things get happier for Cry Baby.the bottle
** "Dollhouse".
--->When you turn your back she pulls out a flask\\
And forgets his infidelity
** The topic of "Sippy Cup".
--->He's still dead when you're done with
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* HotterAndSexier: "Training Wheels" has some more overt sexual tones in its videos and lyrics.
* TheILoveYouStigma: "Soap".
-->Should've never said the word "love"\\
Threw a toaster in the bathtub
-->"Soap" was written about my current boyfriend when we were first talking. I felt too scared to say how I felt about him and thought if I told him it would be like throwing a toaster in his bath. So I washed my mouth out with soap. I think anyone really can relate to this song. I'm sure there was a time in everyone's life where they felt too scared to say how they felt so they 'washed their mouth out with soap'.
* InformedAttribute: Done deliberately with the video for "Pacify Her", where none of Cry Baby's complaints about her ex's new girlfriend are true, as she is in denial about her relationship status.
-->Should've never said the word "love"\\
Threw a toaster in the bathtub
-->"Soap" was written about my current boyfriend when we were first talking. I felt too scared to say how I felt about him and thought if I told him it would be like throwing a toaster in his bath. So I washed my mouth out with soap. I think anyone really can relate to this song. I'm sure there was a time in everyone's life where they felt too scared to say how they felt so they 'washed their mouth out with soap'.
* InformedAttribute: Done deliberately with the video for "Pacify Her", where none of Cry Baby's complaints about her ex's new girlfriend are true, as she is in denial about her relationship status.
* IntercourseWithYou: "Training Wheels" has some more overt sexual tones in its videos and lyrics.
* InternalizedCategorism: "Cry Baby" has this vibe: she tries and fails to hold back her TenderTears, gets ostracized and bullied, tries to convince herself that she doesn't care, but keeps crying because of her loneliness and makes herself laugh through her tears.
* InternalizedCategorism: "Cry Baby" has this vibe: she tries and fails to hold back her TenderTears, gets ostracized and bullied, tries to convince herself that she doesn't care, but keeps crying because of her loneliness and makes herself laugh through her tears.
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* LiteralMetaphor: This happens sometimes in the videos. One example is in "Milk and Cookies", with the line "Next time you're alone, think fast when you grab the phone". In the context of a marriage, it's a warning against cheating, but in the "canon" kidnapping context, it's shown that the Wolf's phone call distracts him from the surveillance TV, and causes him to miss the poisoning of his cookies.
* LyricalDissonance: Another recurring theme in her music. Similarly to [[Music/MarinaAndTheDiamonds Marina Diamandis]], she has a talent for mixing catchy tunes with chilling lyrics. Special mention goes to "Dollhouse", a bright, music-box song about a broken home.
* LyricalDissonance: Another recurring theme in her music. Similarly to [[Music/MarinaAndTheDiamonds Marina Diamandis]], she has a talent for mixing catchy tunes with chilling lyrics. Special mention goes to "Dollhouse", a bright, music-box song about a broken home.
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* LiteralMetaphor: This happens sometimes in the videos. One example is in In "Milk and Cookies", with the line "Next time you're alone, think fast when you grab the phone". In the context of a marriage, it's a warning against cheating, but in the "canon" kidnapping context, it's shown that the Wolf's phone call distracts him from the surveillance TV, and causes him to miss the poisoning of his cookies.
* LyricalDissonance: Another recurring theme in her music.Similarly to [[Music/MarinaAndTheDiamonds Marina Diamandis]], she Melanie has a talent for mixing catchy tunes with chilling lyrics. Special mention goes to "Dollhouse", a bright, music-box song about a broken home.
* LyricalDissonance: Another recurring theme in her music.
* TheMadHatter: [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin "Mad Hatter"]], the BittersweetEnding of ''Cry Baby''. She's gone crazy, but [[BeYourself she's come to terms with how emotional, unstable, and imperfect she is]] and enjoys her insanity.
-->''Tell you a secret, I'm not alarmed\\
So what if I'm crazy? The best people are''
-->''Tell you a secret, I'm not alarmed\\
So what if I'm crazy? The best people are''
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* MulticoloredHair: Melanie always has this, with the colors being divided down the middle, with the colors reflecting her music's juxtaposition of the dark and innocent. It's always been like this- the first time she dyed her hair, she went half-and-half because she liked the way [[WesternAnimation/OneHundredAndOneDalmatians Cruella de Vil]] wore it.
* OdangoHair: Melanie sports it on the cover of the "Cry Baby" album, and as a fashion doll in "Dollhouse"'s video.
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* OdangoHair: Melanie sports it on the cover of the "Cry Baby" album, and as a fashion doll in "Dollhouse"'s video.
* ProtestSong: "Mrs. Potato Head" tears into plastic surgery and advertised beauty standards in general.
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* SanitySlippageSong: Heavily implied in "Pity Party".
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* SanitySlippageSong: SanitySlippageSong:
** Heavily implied in "Pity Party".
** Heavily implied in "Pity Party".
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* ShoutOut: "Mad Hatter" relies heavily on some quotes from the [[Film/AliceInWonderland2010 Tim Burton Alice movie.]]
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* SoapPunishment: "Soap" is about this, but used for different purposes. Cry Baby gives herself this punishment because she keeps saying she loves a guy, but she's not sure if their relationship is actually getting anywhere.
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* SoapPunishment: "Soap" is about this, but used for different purposes. "Guess I better wash my mouth out with [[TitleDrop soap]]." Cry Baby gives herself this punishment because she keeps saying she loves a guy, but she's not sure if their relationship is actually getting anywhere.anywhere.
* SpellingSong: "Dollhouse".
-->''D-O-L-L-H-O-U-S-E\\
I see things that nobody else sees''
* SpellingSong: "Dollhouse".
-->''D-O-L-L-H-O-U-S-E\\
I see things that nobody else sees''
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* StealthInsult: In "Alphabet Boy", Cry Baby calls the subject "the prince of the playground". While it initially sounds sarcastic, the constantly demeaning tone of the song implies differently. Prince is essentially second place to queen, which Cry Baby would be calling herself.
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* StealthInsult: In "Alphabet Boy", Cry Baby calls the subject "the prince of the playground". While it initially sounds sarcastic, the constantly demeaning tone of the song implies differently. Prince is essentially second place to queen, which that Cry Baby would be calling herself.views herself as a "queen" and the love interest as someone with a lower rank.
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* SubvertedInnocence: The whole concept of "Cry Baby", which presents dark adult situations through childish visuals and music.
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* SubvertedInnocence: SubduedSection: Inverted in "Tag, You're It". Most of it is sung in [[LyricalDissonance dissonantly calm manner]], and only in the second to last chorus, she sounds as frenzied as the lyric would imply.
* SubvertedKidsShow: The whole concept of "Cry Baby", which presents dark adult situations through childish visuals andmusic.music. The tunes are childish, lullaby-esque pop songs, but the lyrics cover dark subjects and sometimes contain harsh language.
* SubvertedKidsShow: The whole concept of "Cry Baby", which presents dark adult situations through childish visuals and
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** "Sippy Cup" refers to denial, with the titular line referring to alcohol.
** "Carousel" is used to describe a relationship that isn't moving forward, but going around and around in circles.
** "Carousel" is used to describe a relationship that isn't moving forward, but going around and around in circles.
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** "Sippy Cup" refers to is about denial, with and the titular line referring to "cup" contains alcohol.
** "Carousel" isused to describe about a relationship that isn't moving forward, but is going around and around in circles.
** "Carousel" is
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** "Training Wheels" is about more of the same, about taking off the training wheels and going all-in on a relationship.
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** "Training Wheels" is about more of the same, about taking off the training wheels and going all-in on a relationship.
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** "Cake" is about objectification in the aforementioned encounters, with the singer denying her boyfriend's apparent view of her as "a piece of cake [for you] to just discard".
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** "Cake" is about objectification being objectified in the aforementioned encounters, with the singer denying her boyfriend's apparent view of her a relationship i.e. being treated as "a piece of cake [for you] the lover] to just discard".
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* SubvertedKidsShow: Her music is pretty much Subverted Kids Music. The tunes are childish, lullaby-eque pop songs, but the lyrics cover dark subjects and sometimes contain harsh language.
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* TheMadHatter: Cry Baby is clearly one of those.
--->Over the bend, entirely bonkers.
--->You like me best, when I'm off my rocker.
--->Tell you a secret, I'm not alarmed.
--->So what if I'm crazy, the best people are.
--->Over the bend, entirely bonkers.
--->You like me best, when I'm off my rocker.
--->Tell you a secret, I'm not alarmed.
--->So what if I'm crazy, the best people are.
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* TheMadHatter: TearfulSmile: "Cry Baby".
-->''I laugh through my tears''
* TenderTears: Cry Baby isclearly one a very sensitive girl.
-->''You seem to replace your brain with your heart\\
You take things so hard and then you fall apart\\
You try to explain but before you can start\\
Those cry baby tears come out ofthose.
--->Overthe bend, entirely bonkers.
--->You like me best, when I'm off my rocker.
--->Tell you a secret, I'm not alarmed.
--->So what if I'm crazy, the best people are.dark''
-->''I laugh through my tears''
* TenderTears: Cry Baby is
-->''You seem to replace your brain with your heart\\
You take things so hard and then you fall apart\\
You try to explain but before you can start\\
Those cry baby tears come out of
--->Over
--->You like me best, when I'm off my rocker.
--->Tell you a secret, I'm not alarmed.
--->So what if I'm crazy, the best people are.
* TranquilFury: [[MurderBallad "Milk and Cookies"]], thanks to LyricalDissonance, gives off this vibe. She calmly sings:
-->''Ashes, ashes, time to go down\\
Ooh-ooh, honey, do you want me now?\\
Can't take it anymore, need to put you to bed\\
Sing you a lullaby where you die at the end''
* TraumaCongaLine: Cry Baby's story. She grows up in a broken home, gets bullied, witnesses her mother murdering her father and his mistress, goes through bad relationships, suffers from constant loneliness, gets kidnapped. Little wonder she loses her sanity in the end.
* TrickedToDeath: In "Milk and Cookies", Cry Baby feeds the titular cookies that contain "a little bit of sugar with lots of poison" to the wolf.
-->''Ashes, ashes, time to go down\\
Ooh-ooh, honey, do you want me now?\\
Can't take it anymore, need to put you to bed\\
Sing you a lullaby where you die at the end''
* TraumaCongaLine: Cry Baby's story. She grows up in a broken home, gets bullied, witnesses her mother murdering her father and his mistress, goes through bad relationships, suffers from constant loneliness, gets kidnapped. Little wonder she loses her sanity in the end.
* TrickedToDeath: In "Milk and Cookies", Cry Baby feeds the titular cookies that contain "a little bit of sugar with lots of poison" to the wolf.
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* UnresolvedSexualTension: The narrator of "Carousel" bemoans being stuck not quite with someone she loves.
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* UnresolvedSexualTension: The narrator of "Carousel" In "Carousel," Cry Baby bemoans being stuck not quite with someone she loves.
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* {{Yandere}}: Cry Baby in "Pacify Her". While it's suggested that they never officially broke up, her boyfriend has moved on to someone else in Cry Baby's absence, and she can't accept it, claiming that he doesn't love her and is just lying with his compliments.
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* {{Yandere}}: {{Yandere}}:
** Cry Baby in "Pacify Her". While it's suggested that they never officially broke up, her boyfriend has moved on to someone else in Cry Baby's absence, and she can't accept it, claiming that he doesn't love her and is just lying with his compliments.
** Cry Baby in "Pacify Her". While it's suggested that they never officially broke up, her boyfriend has moved on to someone else in Cry Baby's absence, and she can't accept it, claiming that he doesn't love her and is just lying with his compliments.
** In "Dollhouse" Cry Baby's dad is having an affair. Her mother is aware of it, which drives her to [[AlcoholicParent drink]].
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** In "Dollhouse" Cry Baby's dad is having an affair. Her mother is aware of it, which drives her to [[AlcoholicParent drink]].
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** This is invoked as a consequence of plastic surgery- the man urges the woman to undergo surgery to improve her appearance, but when it predictably reduces her beauty, he goes with another woman.
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* OdeToFamily: "Dollhouse" is about a family of {{Stepford Smiler}}s where the parents are trying to keep up a HappyMarriageCharade. By the SequelSong "Sippy Cup", the mother [[spoiler:has killed her husband and his mistress.]]
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* MulticoloredHair: Melanie always has this, with the colors being divided down the middle, with the colors reflecting her music's juxtaposition of the dark and innocent. It's always been like this- the first time she dyed her hair, she went half-and-half because she liked the way [[Disney/OneHundredAndOneDalmatians Cruella de Vil]] wore it.
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* MulticoloredHair: Melanie always has this, with the colors being divided down the middle, with the colors reflecting her music's juxtaposition of the dark and innocent. It's always been like this- the first time she dyed her hair, she went half-and-half because she liked the way [[Disney/OneHundredAndOneDalmatians [[WesternAnimation/OneHundredAndOneDalmatians Cruella de Vil]] wore it.
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* DomesticAbuse: Implied about [[AssholeVictim the subject]] of "Milk And Cookies":
--->The shit behind the curtains that I'm sick of sugarcoating
--->Next time you're alone, think twice when you grab the phone.
** There's also "Teddy Bear", where the narrator's boyfriend tries to kill her (and persists after they break up).
--->The shit behind the curtains that I'm sick of sugarcoating
--->Next time you're alone, think twice when you grab the phone.
** There's also "Teddy Bear", where the narrator's boyfriend tries to kill her (and persists after they break up).
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* DomesticAbuse: Implied about [[AssholeVictim the subject]] of "Milk And Cookies":
--->The shit behind the curtains that I'm sick of sugarcoating
--->Next time you're alone, think twice when you grab the phone.
** There's also"Teddy Bear", where the narrator's boyfriend tries to kill her (and persists after they break up).
--->The shit behind the curtains that I'm sick of sugarcoating
--->Next time you're alone, think twice when you grab the phone.
** There's also
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--->Next time you're alone, think twice when you grab the phone.
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--->Next time you're alone, think twice when you grab the phone.
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* Call-Back: "Milk and Cookies" references "Dollhouse".
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* FragileFlower: Cry Baby, [[MeaningfulName as her name indicates]].
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* ProneToTears: Cry Baby, [[MeaningfulName as her name indicates]].
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''Cry Baby'' is the 2015 debut album of indie singer ''Music/MelanieMartinez'', fresh off the ''Series/TheVoice''. The album, an eerie electrop explores dark themes in the life of a sensitive young girl, [[AuthorAvatar Cry Baby]]. It was ranked at #153 on the Billboard 200.
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''Cry Baby'' is the 2015 debut album of indie singer ''Music/MelanieMartinez'', Music/MelanieMartinez, fresh off the ''Series/TheVoice''. The album, an eerie electrop explores dark themes in the life of a sensitive young girl, [[AuthorAvatar Cry Baby]]. It was ranked at #153 on the Billboard 200.
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''Cry Baby'' is the 2015 debut album of indie singer '''Music/MelanieMartinez''', fresh off the ''Series/TheVoice''. The album, an eerie electrop explores dark themes in the life of a sensitive young girl, [[AuthorAvatar Cry Baby]]. It was ranked at #153 on the Billboard 200.
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''Cry Baby'' is the 2015 debut album of indie singer '''Music/MelanieMartinez''', ''Music/MelanieMartinez'', fresh off the ''Series/TheVoice''. The album, an eerie electrop explores dark themes in the life of a sensitive young girl, [[AuthorAvatar Cry Baby]]. It was ranked at #153 on the Billboard 200.
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''Cry Baby'' is the 2015 debut album of indie singer ''Music/MelanieMartinez'', fresh off the ''Series/TheVoice''. The album, an eerie electrop explores dark themes in the life of a sensitive young girl, [[AuthorAvatar Cry Baby]]. It was ranked at #153 on the Billboard 200.
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->''""I think being emotional is this thing that people think you're not strong. They don't look at you as a strong person, and it's weird 'cuz honestly being emotional has nothing to do with your strength."''
''Cry Baby'' is the 2015 debut album of indie singer''Music/MelanieMartinez'', '''Music/MelanieMartinez''', fresh off the ''Series/TheVoice''. The album, an eerie electrop explores dark themes in the life of a sensitive young girl, [[AuthorAvatar Cry Baby]]. It was ranked at #153 on the Billboard 200.
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''Cry Baby'' is the 2015 debut album of indie singer ''Music/MelanieMartinez'', fresh off the ''Series/TheVoice''. The album, an eerie electrop explores dark themes in the life of a sensitive young girl, [[AuthorAvatar Cry Baby]]. It was ranked at #153 on the Billboard 200.
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!!Tracklist:
# "Cry Baby"
# "Dollhouse"
# "Sippy Cup"
# "Carousel"
# "Alphabet Boy"
# "Soap"
# "Training Wheels"
# "Pity Party"
# "Tag, You're It"
# "Milk And Cookies"
# "Pacify Her"
# "Mrs. Potato Head"
# "Mad Hatter"
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!!Tropes you can laugh through:
* AlbumTitleDrop: ''Cry Baby''
* BigDamnHeroes: The huge, frightening pastel plush animal "friends" of Cry Baby rescuing her from the blow-up mannequins.
* BookEnds: "Cry Baby" and "Mad Hatter" have the same beat and song structure, and both have their own self-acceptance themes pertaining to Cry Baby's life.
* BreatherEpisode: "Alphabet Boy" and "Training Wheels" are considerably lighter than the rest of the songs on the album.
* Call-Back: "Milk and Cookies" references "Dollhouse".
-->Dollhouse: Please don't let them look through the curtains.
-->Milk and Cookies: The shit behind the curtain that I'm sick of sugarcoating...
* Call-Forward:
** Cry Baby's tears come out of a dollhouse in "Cry Baby"'s music video. "Dollhouse" is the next song.
** In "Dollhouse", Cry Baby warns about "what goes down in the kitchen". "Sippy Cup" reveals that it's the murder of her father and his mistress.
* ChristmasEpisode: While it doesn't really count, it's invoked with "Gingerbread Man", which was released as a Christmas gift to her fans and superficially ties in to the holiday.
* TheConscience: The singer of "Sippy Cup", explaining Cry Baby's mother's flaws to her and disdaining her course of action, which is strengthened by shots of Cry Baby as an angel.
* CrapsaccharineWorld: Cry Baby's world has a genuinely pleasing aesthetic of pastels, retro accents, and is reminiscent of a quaint dollhouse. However, almost everyone in it beyond Cry Baby herself (at least until [[SanitySlippage the very end]]) ranges from ambiguously creepy (the Rabbit Doctor, the masked carnival people, the Nurse and Cashier) to selfish ad abusive (Cry Baby's parents) to outright evil (the Wolf) with [[ThereAreNoTherapists]] no therapists or police or anyone to help poor Cry Baby with her issues.
* CreepyCircusMusic: Unsurprisingly featured in "Carousel".
* CreepyDoll: Naturally a part of the "Dollhouse" video, with Melanie dressed as a more traditional doll (and some shots of her as a fashion doll in its packaging) and the idealized family moving and acting like dolls.
* ConceptAlbum: The entire idea of the album is innocence lost through a series of sad, even dark events seen through the eyes of a child (or [[AmbiguousInnocence young woman]]), things society doesn't like to discuss, such as abuse, dark family secrets, and kidnapping, to name a few.
* DomesticAbuse: Implied about [[AssholeVictim the subject]] of "Milk And Cookies":
--->The shit behind the curtains that I'm sick of sugarcoating
--->Next time you're alone, think twice when you grab the phone.
** There's also "Teddy Bear", where the narrator's boyfriend tries to kill her (and persists after they break up).
* DoubleFeature: The videos for "Soap" and "Training Wheels", and "Tag, You're It" and "Milk and Cookies" were released as double features, since they encompass mini-plotlines in the overarching story.
* DownerEnding: While Cry Baby's entire story is a downer, the album ends with her insane and unwilling to improve.
* EarnYourHappyEnding: After all the crap she's been through, Cry Baby is alone and insane, but she's made peace with that, and WordOfGod confirms that she will finally catch a break in Melanie's next album, implying things get happier for Cry Baby.
* EasterEgg: The breakdown section of "Teddy Bear" is the earlier line "I didn't outgrow you" repeated in reverse.
* FashionHurts: "Mrs. Potato Head" is about people who are addicted to plastic surgery and the effects it can have on them.
* FollowTheBouncingBall: Done in accordance with the word-and-letters motif in the video for "Alphabet Boy".
* {{Foreshadowing}}: At the end of the video for "Training Wheels", the most optimistic song of the album, Cry Baby's boyfriend disappears just before she can kiss him. The next song is his passive breakup with her by not attending her birthday celebration.
* FragileFlower: Cry Baby, [[MeaningfulName as her name indicates]].
* FunWithPalindromes: A musical variant in "Carousel". The main riff of the song is the same forwards and reversed to emphasize the cyclical nature of the situation.
* HappyEnding: The only one in the Cry Baby saga is at the end of the "Mrs. Potato Head" video, where Cry Baby realizes how wrong advertised beauty standards are.
* HotterAndSexier: "Training Wheels" has some more overt sexual tones in its videos and lyrics.
* IAteWhat: This imminent reaction is invoked in "Milk and Cookies".
--> Do you like my cookies?
--> They're made just for you
--> A little bit of sugar
--> With lots of poison, too
* InnocenceLost: The shots of Cry Baby as an angel in "Sippy Cup" are supposed to represent the death of her innocence after [[spoiler:seeing the dead bodies of her father and his mistress, then being drugged so that she thinks it's a bad dream]].
* IronicEcho: Done visually in the video for "Alphabet Boy". Toward the beginning of the song, Cry Baby is seen under a towering refrigerator, but by the end, she's seen sitting on a tiny fridge.
* IronicNurseryTune:
** "Milk and Cookies" has Melanie counting before verses, with the following verse rhyming with the numbers ("1,2/Melatonin's coming for you"), like a twisted version of "I, 2, Buckle My Shoe." The first verse also uses the phrase "Hush litle baby". The same song also has an allusion to "Ring Around the Rosie," a nursery rhyme that in and of itself is dark. ("Ashes, Ashes, time to go down...")
** "Tag, You're It" twists "Eenie Meenie Minie Mo" to refer to capturing women.
* InformedAttribute: Done deliberately with the video for "Pacify Her", where none of Cry Baby's complaints about her ex's new girlfriend are true, as she is in denial about her relationship status.
* KillerTeddyBear: While it's clear that the song is talking about a person, "Teddy Bear" presents the murderous once-boyfriend in this way.
* KnifeNut: Cry Baby and her mother both favor knives when dealing violently with their spoiled romance.
* LettingTheAirOutOfTheBand: Done for tragic effect at the end of "Tag, You're It", where the BGM breaks down and falls apart.
* LiteralMetaphor: This happens sometimes in the videos. One example is in "Milk and Cookies", with the line "Next time you're alone, think fast when you grab the phone". In the context of a marriage, it's a warning against cheating, but in the "canon" kidnapping context, it's shown that the Wolf's phone call distracts him from the surveillance TV, and causes him to miss the poisoning of his cookies.
* LyricalDissonance: Another recurring theme in her music. Similarly to [[Music/MarinaAndTheDiamonds Marina Diamandis]], she has a talent for mixing catchy tunes with chilling lyrics. Special mention goes to "Dollhouse", a bright, music-box song about a broken home.
* LyricsVideoMismatch: The video for "Tag, You're It" contains none of the pursuit and violence in the lyrics; instead it shows Cry Baby at the grocery store while the Wolf waits for her and gives her drugged ice cream to capture her.
* LysistrataGambit: "Cake" mentions this as a solution to the singer's objectification.
--> I'm not a piece of cake
--> For you to just discard
--> While you walk away
--> With the frosting of my heart
--> So I'm taking back
--> What's mine, you'll miss
--> The slice of heaven that I gave to you last night
* MadnessMantra: The chorus of "Pity Party", and the breakdown:
--> '''Cry Baby:''' I'm laughin', I'm cryin', it feels like I'm dyin'...
* MohsScaleOfLyricalHardness: Averages somewhere around a 6 thanks to her love for [[PrecisionFStrike shockingly placed words]] and angsty, disillusioned lyrics.
* MulticoloredHair: Melanie always has this, with the colors being divided down the middle, with the colors reflecting her music's juxtaposition of the dark and innocent. It's always been like this- the first time she dyed her hair, she went half-and-half because she liked the way [[Disney/OneHundredAndOneDalmatians Cruella de Vil]] wore it.
* MurderBallad: "Milk And Cookies" is about killing Cry Baby's kidnapper in the context of her story, and killing an unfaithful/abusive spouse in its own context.
* OdangoHair: Melanie sports it on the cover of the "Cry Baby" album, and as a fashion doll in "Dollhouse"'s video.
* OlderThanTheyLook: Despite the fact that Martinez is an adult woman, she can easily pass for a preadolescent, or someone in their early teens.
* OminousMusicBoxTune: The beginning of "Mad Hatter" and "Pacify Her", and used in "Dollhouse".
* OnePersonBirthdayParty: "Pity Party" takes this trope on, using it to depict a deceptively sweet and youthful girl left alone on her birthday. Her attempts to ignore her own loneliness throughout the song show her slipping into a dark psychosis. In the context of the story, Cry Baby's boyfriend essentially dumps her by not attending, and she soon finds him with another girl in "Pacify Her".
* ProfessionalKiller: It's implied Cry Baby's father might be one in "Sippy Cup".
--->Blood money, blood money
--->How did you afford this ring that I love, honey?
--->[[FellOffTheBackOfATruck "Just another shift at the drug company"]]
--->He doesn't think I'm that fuckin' dumb, does he?
* {{Sampling}}: "Pity Party" samples Lesley Gore's hit, "It's My Party", which also discusses a birthday gone wrong.
* SanitySlippageSong: Heavily implied in "Pity Party".
--->It's my party, and I'll cry if I want to, cry if I want to, cry, cry, cry
--->I'll cry until the candles burn down this place,
--->I'll cry until my [[TitleDrop pity party's]] in flames.
* ShoutOut: "Mad Hatter" relies heavily on some quotes from the [[Film/AliceInWonderland2010 Tim Burton Alice movie.]]
* SillyLoveSongs: Melanie admits that "Training Wheels" is the only true love song on her debut album.
* SoapPunishment: "Soap" is about this, but used for different purposes. Cry Baby gives herself this punishment because she keeps saying she loves a guy, but she's not sure if their relationship is actually getting anywhere.
* StalkerWithACrush: The narrator's love interest in "Teddy Bear" may be this, but perhaps not for long. Cry Baby herself is like this in "Pacify Her", trying to wedge herself into a relationship that's run its course. It's implied the Wolf might be this, or at least has an inappropriate interest in Cry Baby; "Tag, You're It" mentions that he'd been watching her for a while, and that he's captivated by the sound of her breathing. Melanie also [[WordOfGod made it a point to mention]] that since she was single at that point in the album "wolves are now on the prowl."
* StealthInsult: In "Alphabet Boy", Cry Baby calls the subject "the prince of the playground". While it initially sounds sarcastic, the constantly demeaning tone of the song implies differently. Prince is essentially second place to queen, which Cry Baby would be calling herself.
* StepfordSmiler:
** Cry Baby's entire family, as seen in "Dollhouse". The video shows that anyone who gets a glimpse of the truth is forced to play along with the lie.
** The next song, "Sippy Cup", continues on the theme, with guilt and denial playing a part in the act after [[spoiler:the father's murder]].
* StepfordSuburbia: Cry Baby is implied to live in one, especially given the suburb-like town depicted on the cover of the ''Cry Baby'' album (that Melanie is flooding with her tears).
* SubvertedInnocence: The whole concept of "Cry Baby", which presents dark adult situations through childish visuals and music.
** "Cry Baby" is about a troubled girl compared to an infant.
** "Dollhouse" is about a screwed-up family putting on a front of perfection.
** "Sippy Cup" refers to denial, with the titular line referring to alcohol.
** "Carousel" is used to describe a relationship that isn't moving forward, but going around and around in circles.
** "Alphabet Boy" is about a love interest whose academic ego led to friction.
** "Soap" uses the soap punishment to relate to feelings of anxiety and regret about moving a relationship forward.
** "Training Wheels" is about more of the same, about taking off the training wheels and going all-in on a relationship.
** "Pity Party" is about loneliness and instability on a larger scale than a forgotten birthday.
** "Tag, You're It" compares a kidnapping to a game of tag.
** The titular "Milk and Cookies" are poisonous.
** "Pacify Her" compares a pacifier to kind words that may be false.
** "Mrs. Potato Head" references the mentality of plastic-surgery addicts, who want to do anything to their bodies.
** "Mad Hatter" twists Wonderland to relate to real insanity.
** "Play Date" refers to casual sexual encounters that the bitter singer wishes would turn into a meaningful relationship.
** "Cake" is about objectification in the aforementioned encounters, with the singer denying her boyfriend's apparent view of her as "a piece of cake [for you] to just discard".
** "Teddy Bear" refers to a relationship that was built up and put together with a lot of effort, which has turned sour by her boyfriend's {{Yandere}} tendencies.
* SubvertedKidsShow: Her music is pretty much Subverted Kids Music. The tunes are childish, lullaby-eque pop songs, but the lyrics cover dark subjects and sometimes contain harsh language.
* TakeThat: "Mrs. Potato Head" to plastic surgery and those who feel it is necessary for beauty.
--->Sexual, hey girl if you wanna feel sexual.
--->You can always call up a professional, they stick pins in you, like a vegetable.
* TheMadHatter: Cry Baby is clearly one of those.
--->Over the bend, entirely bonkers.
--->You like me best, when I'm off my rocker.
--->Tell you a secret, I'm not alarmed.
--->So what if I'm crazy, the best people are.
* ThirteenIsUnlucky: "Cry Baby" is a tragic story, and there are thirteen songs. (The deluxe-album songs are not part of Cry Baby's story, per WordOfGod.)
* TroublingUnchildlikeBehavior: Due to her neglectful and unhappy childhood, Cry Baby shows a proficiency in spelling profanities with her "alphabet toys".
* {{Tsundere}}: Cry Baby in "Play Date" shows shades of this towards her lover:
--->[[SuspiciouslySpecificDenial I don't give a fuck about you anyway]]
--->Whoever said I give a shit 'bout you?
---> You never share your toys or communicate
---> Guess I'm just a playdate to you.
** She reveals by the end that she does have some hope in the relationship after all.
---> You know I give a fuck about you every day
---> I guess it's time I tell you the truth
---> If I share my toys, will you let me stay?
---> Don't wanna leave this play date with you
* UnresolvedSexualTension: The narrator of "Carousel" bemoans being stuck not quite with someone she loves.
--->This horse is too slow
--->We're always this close
--->Almost, almost
* VagueAge: Cry Baby. In the music videos, she's played by Melanie herself (who's an adult), but illustrations of the character gives her the appearance of a child. There's no indication of her age in the songs themselves (especially [[SubvertedInnocence given]] [[AmbiguousInnocence their]] [[LyricalDissonance subject matter]]), and the music videos have Melanie (and her love interest in "Training Wheels") dressing like kids. Then again, [[FridgeBrilliance that could be the whole point]].
* WickedHeartSymbol: Hearts and broken hearts are a prominent motif in the Cry Baby interactive storybook, possibly representing her romantic entanglements and futile search for love. Notably, "Carousel" contains the lines, "Why'd you steal my cotton candy heart? / You threw it in this damn coin slot / And now I'm riding, riding, riding..."
* WhoNamesTheirKidDude: Subverted or justified in this case, as it was Cry Baby's brother who wrote her name on the birth certificate (in response to his mother's complaining about the noise), not her mother.
* {{Yandere}}: Cry Baby in "Pacify Her". While it's suggested that they never officially broke up, her boyfriend has moved on to someone else in Cry Baby's absence, and she can't accept it, claiming that he doesn't love her and is just lying with his compliments.
** "Teddy Bear" is about how the narrator's boyfriend tries to kill her. What's more, he starts stalking her after she breaks up with him, implying that he ''really'' wants her dead. However, the song suggests that at some point he's a StalkerWithoutACrush, returning no love to the singer.
--> Gave you love
--> Put my heart inside you
--> Oh, what could I do?
* YourCheatingHeart:
** In "Dollhouse" Cry Baby's dad is having an affair. Her mother is aware of it, which drives her to [[AlcoholicParent drink]].
** "Pacify Her" is presented as the POV of a woman dating a cheating man, but it could be about a ClingyJealousGirl refusing to let go of a relationship that's fallen apart and moved on. This is supported by the video, where the new girlfriend has done nothing wrong, and Cry Baby is portrayed as an awkward and psychotic third wheel.
** This is invoked as a consequence of plastic surgery- the man urges the woman to undergo surgery to improve her appearance, but when it predictably reduces her beauty, he goes with another woman.
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->''"So what if I'm crazy? The best people are."''
[[caption-width-right:300:''"Your heart's too big for your body, that's why it won't fit inside."'']]
''Cry Baby'' is the 2015 debut album of indie singer ''Music/MelanieMartinez'', fresh off the ''Series/TheVoice''. The album, an eerie electrop explores dark themes in the life of a sensitive young girl, [[AuthorAvatar Cry Baby]]. It was ranked at #153 on the Billboard 200.
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!!Tracklist:
# "Cry Baby"
# "Dollhouse"
# "Sippy Cup"
# "Carousel"
# "Alphabet Boy"
# "Soap"
# "Training Wheels"
# "Pity Party"
# "Tag, You're It"
# "Milk And Cookies"
# "Pacify Her"
# "Mrs. Potato Head"
# "Mad Hatter"
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!!Tropes you can laugh through:
* AlbumTitleDrop: ''Cry Baby''
* BigDamnHeroes: The huge, frightening pastel plush animal "friends" of Cry Baby rescuing her from the blow-up mannequins.
* BookEnds: "Cry Baby" and "Mad Hatter" have the same beat and song structure, and both have their own self-acceptance themes pertaining to Cry Baby's life.
* BreatherEpisode: "Alphabet Boy" and "Training Wheels" are considerably lighter than the rest of the songs on the album.
* Call-Back: "Milk and Cookies" references "Dollhouse".
-->Dollhouse: Please don't let them look through the curtains.
-->Milk and Cookies: The shit behind the curtain that I'm sick of sugarcoating...
* Call-Forward:
** Cry Baby's tears come out of a dollhouse in "Cry Baby"'s music video. "Dollhouse" is the next song.
** In "Dollhouse", Cry Baby warns about "what goes down in the kitchen". "Sippy Cup" reveals that it's the murder of her father and his mistress.
* ChristmasEpisode: While it doesn't really count, it's invoked with "Gingerbread Man", which was released as a Christmas gift to her fans and superficially ties in to the holiday.
* TheConscience: The singer of "Sippy Cup", explaining Cry Baby's mother's flaws to her and disdaining her course of action, which is strengthened by shots of Cry Baby as an angel.
* CrapsaccharineWorld: Cry Baby's world has a genuinely pleasing aesthetic of pastels, retro accents, and is reminiscent of a quaint dollhouse. However, almost everyone in it beyond Cry Baby herself (at least until [[SanitySlippage the very end]]) ranges from ambiguously creepy (the Rabbit Doctor, the masked carnival people, the Nurse and Cashier) to selfish ad abusive (Cry Baby's parents) to outright evil (the Wolf) with [[ThereAreNoTherapists]] no therapists or police or anyone to help poor Cry Baby with her issues.
* CreepyCircusMusic: Unsurprisingly featured in "Carousel".
* CreepyDoll: Naturally a part of the "Dollhouse" video, with Melanie dressed as a more traditional doll (and some shots of her as a fashion doll in its packaging) and the idealized family moving and acting like dolls.
* ConceptAlbum: The entire idea of the album is innocence lost through a series of sad, even dark events seen through the eyes of a child (or [[AmbiguousInnocence young woman]]), things society doesn't like to discuss, such as abuse, dark family secrets, and kidnapping, to name a few.
* DomesticAbuse: Implied about [[AssholeVictim the subject]] of "Milk And Cookies":
--->The shit behind the curtains that I'm sick of sugarcoating
--->Next time you're alone, think twice when you grab the phone.
** There's also "Teddy Bear", where the narrator's boyfriend tries to kill her (and persists after they break up).
* DoubleFeature: The videos for "Soap" and "Training Wheels", and "Tag, You're It" and "Milk and Cookies" were released as double features, since they encompass mini-plotlines in the overarching story.
* DownerEnding: While Cry Baby's entire story is a downer, the album ends with her insane and unwilling to improve.
* EarnYourHappyEnding: After all the crap she's been through, Cry Baby is alone and insane, but she's made peace with that, and WordOfGod confirms that she will finally catch a break in Melanie's next album, implying things get happier for Cry Baby.
* EasterEgg: The breakdown section of "Teddy Bear" is the earlier line "I didn't outgrow you" repeated in reverse.
* FashionHurts: "Mrs. Potato Head" is about people who are addicted to plastic surgery and the effects it can have on them.
* FollowTheBouncingBall: Done in accordance with the word-and-letters motif in the video for "Alphabet Boy".
* {{Foreshadowing}}: At the end of the video for "Training Wheels", the most optimistic song of the album, Cry Baby's boyfriend disappears just before she can kiss him. The next song is his passive breakup with her by not attending her birthday celebration.
* FragileFlower: Cry Baby, [[MeaningfulName as her name indicates]].
* FunWithPalindromes: A musical variant in "Carousel". The main riff of the song is the same forwards and reversed to emphasize the cyclical nature of the situation.
* HappyEnding: The only one in the Cry Baby saga is at the end of the "Mrs. Potato Head" video, where Cry Baby realizes how wrong advertised beauty standards are.
* HotterAndSexier: "Training Wheels" has some more overt sexual tones in its videos and lyrics.
* IAteWhat: This imminent reaction is invoked in "Milk and Cookies".
--> Do you like my cookies?
--> They're made just for you
--> A little bit of sugar
--> With lots of poison, too
* InnocenceLost: The shots of Cry Baby as an angel in "Sippy Cup" are supposed to represent the death of her innocence after [[spoiler:seeing the dead bodies of her father and his mistress, then being drugged so that she thinks it's a bad dream]].
* IronicEcho: Done visually in the video for "Alphabet Boy". Toward the beginning of the song, Cry Baby is seen under a towering refrigerator, but by the end, she's seen sitting on a tiny fridge.
* IronicNurseryTune:
** "Milk and Cookies" has Melanie counting before verses, with the following verse rhyming with the numbers ("1,2/Melatonin's coming for you"), like a twisted version of "I, 2, Buckle My Shoe." The first verse also uses the phrase "Hush litle baby". The same song also has an allusion to "Ring Around the Rosie," a nursery rhyme that in and of itself is dark. ("Ashes, Ashes, time to go down...")
** "Tag, You're It" twists "Eenie Meenie Minie Mo" to refer to capturing women.
* InformedAttribute: Done deliberately with the video for "Pacify Her", where none of Cry Baby's complaints about her ex's new girlfriend are true, as she is in denial about her relationship status.
* KillerTeddyBear: While it's clear that the song is talking about a person, "Teddy Bear" presents the murderous once-boyfriend in this way.
* KnifeNut: Cry Baby and her mother both favor knives when dealing violently with their spoiled romance.
* LettingTheAirOutOfTheBand: Done for tragic effect at the end of "Tag, You're It", where the BGM breaks down and falls apart.
* LiteralMetaphor: This happens sometimes in the videos. One example is in "Milk and Cookies", with the line "Next time you're alone, think fast when you grab the phone". In the context of a marriage, it's a warning against cheating, but in the "canon" kidnapping context, it's shown that the Wolf's phone call distracts him from the surveillance TV, and causes him to miss the poisoning of his cookies.
* LyricalDissonance: Another recurring theme in her music. Similarly to [[Music/MarinaAndTheDiamonds Marina Diamandis]], she has a talent for mixing catchy tunes with chilling lyrics. Special mention goes to "Dollhouse", a bright, music-box song about a broken home.
* LyricsVideoMismatch: The video for "Tag, You're It" contains none of the pursuit and violence in the lyrics; instead it shows Cry Baby at the grocery store while the Wolf waits for her and gives her drugged ice cream to capture her.
* LysistrataGambit: "Cake" mentions this as a solution to the singer's objectification.
--> I'm not a piece of cake
--> For you to just discard
--> While you walk away
--> With the frosting of my heart
--> So I'm taking back
--> What's mine, you'll miss
--> The slice of heaven that I gave to you last night
* MadnessMantra: The chorus of "Pity Party", and the breakdown:
--> '''Cry Baby:''' I'm laughin', I'm cryin', it feels like I'm dyin'...
* MohsScaleOfLyricalHardness: Averages somewhere around a 6 thanks to her love for [[PrecisionFStrike shockingly placed words]] and angsty, disillusioned lyrics.
* MulticoloredHair: Melanie always has this, with the colors being divided down the middle, with the colors reflecting her music's juxtaposition of the dark and innocent. It's always been like this- the first time she dyed her hair, she went half-and-half because she liked the way [[Disney/OneHundredAndOneDalmatians Cruella de Vil]] wore it.
* MurderBallad: "Milk And Cookies" is about killing Cry Baby's kidnapper in the context of her story, and killing an unfaithful/abusive spouse in its own context.
* OdangoHair: Melanie sports it on the cover of the "Cry Baby" album, and as a fashion doll in "Dollhouse"'s video.
* OlderThanTheyLook: Despite the fact that Martinez is an adult woman, she can easily pass for a preadolescent, or someone in their early teens.
* OminousMusicBoxTune: The beginning of "Mad Hatter" and "Pacify Her", and used in "Dollhouse".
* OnePersonBirthdayParty: "Pity Party" takes this trope on, using it to depict a deceptively sweet and youthful girl left alone on her birthday. Her attempts to ignore her own loneliness throughout the song show her slipping into a dark psychosis. In the context of the story, Cry Baby's boyfriend essentially dumps her by not attending, and she soon finds him with another girl in "Pacify Her".
* ProfessionalKiller: It's implied Cry Baby's father might be one in "Sippy Cup".
--->Blood money, blood money
--->How did you afford this ring that I love, honey?
--->[[FellOffTheBackOfATruck "Just another shift at the drug company"]]
--->He doesn't think I'm that fuckin' dumb, does he?
* {{Sampling}}: "Pity Party" samples Lesley Gore's hit, "It's My Party", which also discusses a birthday gone wrong.
* SanitySlippageSong: Heavily implied in "Pity Party".
--->It's my party, and I'll cry if I want to, cry if I want to, cry, cry, cry
--->I'll cry until the candles burn down this place,
--->I'll cry until my [[TitleDrop pity party's]] in flames.
* ShoutOut: "Mad Hatter" relies heavily on some quotes from the [[Film/AliceInWonderland2010 Tim Burton Alice movie.]]
* SillyLoveSongs: Melanie admits that "Training Wheels" is the only true love song on her debut album.
* SoapPunishment: "Soap" is about this, but used for different purposes. Cry Baby gives herself this punishment because she keeps saying she loves a guy, but she's not sure if their relationship is actually getting anywhere.
* StalkerWithACrush: The narrator's love interest in "Teddy Bear" may be this, but perhaps not for long. Cry Baby herself is like this in "Pacify Her", trying to wedge herself into a relationship that's run its course. It's implied the Wolf might be this, or at least has an inappropriate interest in Cry Baby; "Tag, You're It" mentions that he'd been watching her for a while, and that he's captivated by the sound of her breathing. Melanie also [[WordOfGod made it a point to mention]] that since she was single at that point in the album "wolves are now on the prowl."
* StealthInsult: In "Alphabet Boy", Cry Baby calls the subject "the prince of the playground". While it initially sounds sarcastic, the constantly demeaning tone of the song implies differently. Prince is essentially second place to queen, which Cry Baby would be calling herself.
* StepfordSmiler:
** Cry Baby's entire family, as seen in "Dollhouse". The video shows that anyone who gets a glimpse of the truth is forced to play along with the lie.
** The next song, "Sippy Cup", continues on the theme, with guilt and denial playing a part in the act after [[spoiler:the father's murder]].
* StepfordSuburbia: Cry Baby is implied to live in one, especially given the suburb-like town depicted on the cover of the ''Cry Baby'' album (that Melanie is flooding with her tears).
* SubvertedInnocence: The whole concept of "Cry Baby", which presents dark adult situations through childish visuals and music.
** "Cry Baby" is about a troubled girl compared to an infant.
** "Dollhouse" is about a screwed-up family putting on a front of perfection.
** "Sippy Cup" refers to denial, with the titular line referring to alcohol.
** "Carousel" is used to describe a relationship that isn't moving forward, but going around and around in circles.
** "Alphabet Boy" is about a love interest whose academic ego led to friction.
** "Soap" uses the soap punishment to relate to feelings of anxiety and regret about moving a relationship forward.
** "Training Wheels" is about more of the same, about taking off the training wheels and going all-in on a relationship.
** "Pity Party" is about loneliness and instability on a larger scale than a forgotten birthday.
** "Tag, You're It" compares a kidnapping to a game of tag.
** The titular "Milk and Cookies" are poisonous.
** "Pacify Her" compares a pacifier to kind words that may be false.
** "Mrs. Potato Head" references the mentality of plastic-surgery addicts, who want to do anything to their bodies.
** "Mad Hatter" twists Wonderland to relate to real insanity.
** "Play Date" refers to casual sexual encounters that the bitter singer wishes would turn into a meaningful relationship.
** "Cake" is about objectification in the aforementioned encounters, with the singer denying her boyfriend's apparent view of her as "a piece of cake [for you] to just discard".
** "Teddy Bear" refers to a relationship that was built up and put together with a lot of effort, which has turned sour by her boyfriend's {{Yandere}} tendencies.
* SubvertedKidsShow: Her music is pretty much Subverted Kids Music. The tunes are childish, lullaby-eque pop songs, but the lyrics cover dark subjects and sometimes contain harsh language.
* TakeThat: "Mrs. Potato Head" to plastic surgery and those who feel it is necessary for beauty.
--->Sexual, hey girl if you wanna feel sexual.
--->You can always call up a professional, they stick pins in you, like a vegetable.
* TheMadHatter: Cry Baby is clearly one of those.
--->Over the bend, entirely bonkers.
--->You like me best, when I'm off my rocker.
--->Tell you a secret, I'm not alarmed.
--->So what if I'm crazy, the best people are.
* ThirteenIsUnlucky: "Cry Baby" is a tragic story, and there are thirteen songs. (The deluxe-album songs are not part of Cry Baby's story, per WordOfGod.)
* TroublingUnchildlikeBehavior: Due to her neglectful and unhappy childhood, Cry Baby shows a proficiency in spelling profanities with her "alphabet toys".
* {{Tsundere}}: Cry Baby in "Play Date" shows shades of this towards her lover:
--->[[SuspiciouslySpecificDenial I don't give a fuck about you anyway]]
--->Whoever said I give a shit 'bout you?
---> You never share your toys or communicate
---> Guess I'm just a playdate to you.
** She reveals by the end that she does have some hope in the relationship after all.
---> You know I give a fuck about you every day
---> I guess it's time I tell you the truth
---> If I share my toys, will you let me stay?
---> Don't wanna leave this play date with you
* UnresolvedSexualTension: The narrator of "Carousel" bemoans being stuck not quite with someone she loves.
--->This horse is too slow
--->We're always this close
--->Almost, almost
* VagueAge: Cry Baby. In the music videos, she's played by Melanie herself (who's an adult), but illustrations of the character gives her the appearance of a child. There's no indication of her age in the songs themselves (especially [[SubvertedInnocence given]] [[AmbiguousInnocence their]] [[LyricalDissonance subject matter]]), and the music videos have Melanie (and her love interest in "Training Wheels") dressing like kids. Then again, [[FridgeBrilliance that could be the whole point]].
* WickedHeartSymbol: Hearts and broken hearts are a prominent motif in the Cry Baby interactive storybook, possibly representing her romantic entanglements and futile search for love. Notably, "Carousel" contains the lines, "Why'd you steal my cotton candy heart? / You threw it in this damn coin slot / And now I'm riding, riding, riding..."
* WhoNamesTheirKidDude: Subverted or justified in this case, as it was Cry Baby's brother who wrote her name on the birth certificate (in response to his mother's complaining about the noise), not her mother.
* {{Yandere}}: Cry Baby in "Pacify Her". While it's suggested that they never officially broke up, her boyfriend has moved on to someone else in Cry Baby's absence, and she can't accept it, claiming that he doesn't love her and is just lying with his compliments.
** "Teddy Bear" is about how the narrator's boyfriend tries to kill her. What's more, he starts stalking her after she breaks up with him, implying that he ''really'' wants her dead. However, the song suggests that at some point he's a StalkerWithoutACrush, returning no love to the singer.
--> Gave you love
--> Put my heart inside you
--> Oh, what could I do?
* YourCheatingHeart:
** In "Dollhouse" Cry Baby's dad is having an affair. Her mother is aware of it, which drives her to [[AlcoholicParent drink]].
** "Pacify Her" is presented as the POV of a woman dating a cheating man, but it could be about a ClingyJealousGirl refusing to let go of a relationship that's fallen apart and moved on. This is supported by the video, where the new girlfriend has done nothing wrong, and Cry Baby is portrayed as an awkward and psychotic third wheel.
** This is invoked as a consequence of plastic surgery- the man urges the woman to undergo surgery to improve her appearance, but when it predictably reduces her beauty, he goes with another woman.
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->''"So what if I'm crazy? The best people are."''
