History Music / MelanieMartinez

** "Mad Hatter" gives us a group of four gigantic [[CreepyDoll animal dolls]] (specifically, antique Rushtons), who act jerkily enough that they're sometimes compared to the animatronics from ''Franchise/FiveNightsAtFreddys''. They are also shown stabbing a group of mannequin people to 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]].

Melanie Adele Martinez (born April 28, 1995) is a former contestant on ''Series/TheVoice'' and a current singer/songwriter specializing in [[LightIsNotGood disturbing electropop tv tropes]]. Come spring of 2014, she announced that she had signed with Creator/AtlanticRecords and would be touring soon.

-->''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 [[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 Creator/AtlanticRecords 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.

* AxCrazy: [[spoiler:Cry Baby's mother stabs her father and his mistress to death in the music video for "Sippy Cup".]]

* 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.

* ProfessionalKiller: It's implied Crybaby's father might be one in "Sippy Cup".

--->[[FellOffTheBackOfATruck "Just another shift at the drug company."]]
--->He doesn't think I'm that fucking dumb, does he?

* 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.

* 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.

* ArsonMurderAndJaywalking: "Dollhouse" describes Cry Baby's dysfunctional family, including her father's infidelity, mother's alcoholism, and brother's... pot smoking.

* 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/101Dalmations Cruella de Vil]] wore it.

* AllOfTheOtherReindeer: "Cry Baby" tells the story of a sensitive girl (modeled after young Melanie) trying to rise above her bullies.

* BabyTalk: Used in "Alphabet Boy", with phonetic "A" and "B" sounds being chanted, and some simplified sentences in the first verse.

* BestServedCold: "Milk And Cookies" is all about this, directed at a loathed spouse.

* TheConscience: The singer of "Sippy Cup", explaining Cry Baby's mother's flaws to her and disdaining her course of action.

* LettingTheAirOutOfTheBand: Done for tragic effect at the end of "Tag, You're It".
* 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 kidnapping context, it's shown that the Wolf's phone call distracts him from the surveillance TV, and causes him to miss the part where his cookies are poisoned.

* 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.

* OdangoHair: On the cover of the "Cry Baby" album, and as a fashion doll in "Dollhouse"'s video.

* 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.

!!Tropes include:

** 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.

'''Melanie Adele Martinez''', (born April 28, 1995) is a former contestant on [[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.

* 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=]".

* StalkerWithACrush: The narrator's love interest in "Teddy Bear" may be this, but perhaps not for long.

* TakeThat: "Mrs. Potato Head" to plastic surgery.

** "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.

* OminousMusicBoxTune: The beginning of "Mad Hatter".

** "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.