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** "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's not moving forward.
** "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.
** "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 untrue words of encouragement and support.
** "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.
** "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's not moving forward.
** "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.
** "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 untrue words of encouragement and support.
** "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.
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* AllLoveIsUnrequited: "Carousel" is about this. When the relationship does happen, it falls apart due to the guy's bragging ("Alphabet Boy").
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* 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.
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* 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".
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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.]]
* BreatherEpisode: "Alphabet Boy" and "Training Wheels" are considerably lighter than the rest of the songs on the album.
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* StealthInsult: In "Alphabet Boy", Cry Baby calls the subject "the prince of the playground". While it initially sounds sarcastic, 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, prince 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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* TakeThat: "Mrs. Potato Head" to Plastic Surgery.
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* TakeThat: "Mrs. Potato Head" to Plastic Surgery.plastic surgery.
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* MulticoloredHair: Melanie usually has this, with the colors being divided down the middle.
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* MulticoloredHair: Melanie usually has this, with the colors being divided down the middle. middle, with the colors reflecting her music's juxtaposition of the dark and innocent.
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* DomesticAbuse:
** Implied about the [[AssholeVictim subject of]] "Milk And Cookies":
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**DomesticAbuse: Implied about the [[AssholeVictim subject of]] the subject]] of "Milk And Cookies":
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* IronicNurseryTune: [[MurderBallad "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 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 come down...")
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* IronicNurseryTune: [[MurderBallad "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 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 come down...")
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** The next song, "Sippy Cup", continues on the theme, with guilt and denial playing a part in the act after the father's murder.
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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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---> Sexual, hey girl if you wanna feel sexual.
---> You can always call up a professional, they stick pins in you, like a vegetable.
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---> 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.
---> 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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* CallForward:
** 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 [[spoiler: the murder of her father and his mistress]].
** 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 [[spoiler: the murder of her father and his mistress]].
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* MadnessMantra: The chorus of "Pity Party", and the breakdown:
--> '''Cry Baby:''' I'm laughin', I'm cryin', it feels like I'm dyin'...
--> '''Cry Baby:''' I'm laughin', I'm cryin', it feels like I'm dyin'...
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* SillyLoveSongs: She admits that "Training Wheels" is the only true love song on her debut album.
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* SillyLoveSongs: She Melanie admits that "Training Wheels" is the only true love song on her debut album.
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* AliceAllusion: Cry Baby in the titular music video floods her room with her own tears.
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* AliceAllusion: AliceAllusion:
** Cry Baby in the titular music video floods her room with her own tears.
** Cry Baby in the titular music video floods her room with her own tears.
* DarkReprise: Downplayed, but "Mad Hatter" intentionally uses the same beat as "Cry Baby".
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* 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.
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* StepfordSmiler: 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 thelie.lie.
** The next song, "Sippy Cup", continues on the theme, with guilt and denial playing a part in the act after the father's murder.
** 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
** The next song, "Sippy Cup", continues on the theme, with guilt and denial playing a part in the act after the father's murder.
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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, not her mother.
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* BabyTalk: Used in "Alphabet Boy", with phonetic "A" and "B" sounds being chanted, and some simplified sentences in the first verse.
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** This might also be "what goes down in the kitchen" in "Dollhouse".
* FollowTheBouncingBall: Done in accordance with the word-and-letters motif in the video for "Alphabet Boy".
* FollowTheBouncingBall: Done in accordance with the word-and-letters motif in the video for "Alphabet Boy".
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* StealthInsult: In "Alphabet Boy", Cry Baby calls the subject "the prince of the playground". While it initially sounds sarcastic, prince is essentially second place to queen, which Cry Baby would be calling herself.
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* 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 bridge, which starts with "I know my ABCs".
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* 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 bridge, which starts with "I know my ABCs".[=ABCs=]".
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* 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 bridge, which starts with "I know my ABCs".
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** And, of course, there's "Mad Hatter", which isn't just named after the character but references other elements from ''Alice in Wonderland''.
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* FragileFlower: Cry Baby, [[MeaningfulName as her name indicates]].
* IronicNurseryTune: [[MurderBallad "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."
* IronicNurseryTune: [[MurderBallad "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."
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* 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.
* SubvertedInnocence: The whole concept of "Cry Baby", which presents dark adult situations through childish visuals and music.
* SubvertedInnocence: The whole concept of "Cry Baby", which presents dark adult situations through childish visuals and music.
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* AliceAllusion: Cry Baby in the titular music video floods her room with her own tears.
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* 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.
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* BigScrewedUpFamily: Cry Baby has one. Her mom is an alcoholic, her dad has a mistress, 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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* SanitySlippage: Heavily implied in "Pity Party".
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* YourCheatingHeart: In "Dollhouse" Cry Baby's dad with his slut. Strongly implied later in "Pacify Her"
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** In "Dollhouse" Cry Baby's dadwith his slut. Strongly implied later in is having an affair. Her mother is aware of it, which drives her to [[AlcoholicParent drink]].
** "PacifyHer"Her" is from the POV of a woman dating a cheating man.
** In "Dollhouse" Cry Baby's dad
** "Pacify
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'''Melanie Adele Martinez''', (born April 28, 1995) is a former contestant on [[Main/TheVoice The Voice]] and a current singer/songwriter specializing in [[LightIsNotGood disturbing electropop]]. Come spring of 2014, she announced that she had signed with Atlantic Records and would be touring soon.
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'''Melanie Adele Martinez''', (born April 28, 1995) is a former contestant on [[Main/TheVoice [[Series/TheVoice The Voice]] and a current singer/songwriter specializing in [[LightIsNotGood disturbing electropop]]. Come spring of 2014, she announced that she had signed with Atlantic Records and would be touring soon.
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* YourCheatingHeart: Her dad with his "slut". Strongly implied later in "Pacify Her"
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*TakeThat: "Mrs. Potato Head" to Plastic Surgery.
---> Sexual, hey girl if you wanna feel sexual.
---> You can always call up a professional, they stick pins in you, like a vegetable.
---> Sexual, hey girl if you wanna feel sexual.
---> You can always call up a professional, they stick pins in you, like a vegetable.
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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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--->Almost, almost
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--->Almost, almostalmost
* YourCheatingHeart: Her dad with his "slut". Strongly implied later in "Pacify Her"
* YourCheatingHeart: Her dad with his "slut". Strongly implied later in "Pacify Her"
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* AllOfTheOtherReindeer: "Cry Baby" tells the story of a sensitive girl(modeled after young Melanie)trying to rise above her bullies.
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* AllOfTheOtherReindeer: "Cry Baby" tells the story of a sensitive girl(modeled girl (modeled after young Melanie)trying Melanie) trying to rise above her bullies.
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* OneOfUs: She's an [[Series/AmericanHorrorStory AHS]] fangirl.
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* UnresolvedSexualTension: The narrator of "Carousel" bemoans being stuck not-quite with someone she's in love with.
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* UnresolvedSexualTension: The narrator of "Carousel" bemoans being stuck not-quite not quite with someone she's in love with.she loves.
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* SillyLoveSongs: She admits that "Training Wheels" is the only true love song on her debut album.
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* SillyLoveSongs: She admits that "Training Wheels" is the only true love song on her debut album.album.
* UnresolvedSexualTension: The narrator of "Carousel" bemoans being stuck not-quite with someone she's in love with.
--->This horse is too slow
--->We're always this close
--->Almost, almost
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--->This horse is too slow
--->We're always this close
--->Almost, almost
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-->''They call me cry baby, cry baby,''
-->''But I don't fucking care.''
'''Melanie Adele Martinez''', (born April 28, 1995) is a former contestant on [[Main/TheVoice The Voice]] and a current singer/songwriter specializing in [[LightIsNotGood disturbing electropop]]. Come spring of 2014, she announced that she had signed with Atlantic Records and would be touring soon.
Her popular single [[OnePersonBirthdayParty "Pity Party"]] was praised as "mixing the bright and bubbly with the dark and twisted", a review that turned out to be accurate to her debut album as a whole. Appropriately, another of her songs was featured in a promo for [[Series/AmericanHorrorStoryFreakShow Freak Show]] after she contacted FX herself.
!!Discography
* ''Dollhouse EP'' (2014)
* ''Cry Baby'' (2015)
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!!Tropes include:
* AllOfTheOtherReindeer: "Cry Baby" tells the story of a sensitive girl(modeled after young Melanie)trying to rise above her bullies.
* BestServedCold: "Milk And Cookies" is all about this, directed at a loathed spouse.
* CanNotSpitItOut: The narrator in "Soap".
--->"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'.
* CreepyCircusMusic: Unsurprisingly featured in "Carousel".
* DomesticAbuse: Implied about the [[AssholeVictim 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.
* 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.
* MohsScaleOfLyricalHardness: Averages somewhere around a 6 thanks to her love for [[PrecisionFStrike shockingly placed words]] and angsty, disillusioned lyrics.
* MurderBallad: "Milk And Cookies".
* OneOfUs: She's an [[Series/AmericanHorrorStory AHS]] fangirl.
* 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.
* SanitySlippage: 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.
* SillyLoveSongs: She admits that "Training Wheels" is the only true love song on her debut album.
-->''But I don't fucking care.''
'''Melanie Adele Martinez''', (born April 28, 1995) is a former contestant on [[Main/TheVoice The Voice]] and a current singer/songwriter specializing in [[LightIsNotGood disturbing electropop]]. Come spring of 2014, she announced that she had signed with Atlantic Records and would be touring soon.
Her popular single [[OnePersonBirthdayParty "Pity Party"]] was praised as "mixing the bright and bubbly with the dark and twisted", a review that turned out to be accurate to her debut album as a whole. Appropriately, another of her songs was featured in a promo for [[Series/AmericanHorrorStoryFreakShow Freak Show]] after she contacted FX herself.
!!Discography
* ''Dollhouse EP'' (2014)
* ''Cry Baby'' (2015)
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!!Tropes include:
* AllOfTheOtherReindeer: "Cry Baby" tells the story of a sensitive girl(modeled after young Melanie)trying to rise above her bullies.
* BestServedCold: "Milk And Cookies" is all about this, directed at a loathed spouse.
* CanNotSpitItOut: The narrator in "Soap".
--->"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'.
* CreepyCircusMusic: Unsurprisingly featured in "Carousel".
* DomesticAbuse: Implied about the [[AssholeVictim 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.
* 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.
* MohsScaleOfLyricalHardness: Averages somewhere around a 6 thanks to her love for [[PrecisionFStrike shockingly placed words]] and angsty, disillusioned lyrics.
* MurderBallad: "Milk And Cookies".
* OneOfUs: She's an [[Series/AmericanHorrorStory AHS]] fangirl.
* 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.
* SanitySlippage: 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.
* SillyLoveSongs: She admits that "Training Wheels" is the only true love song on her debut album.
