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* ConceptAlbum: ''Cry Baby'' tells a 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 sanity]].
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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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* AxCrazy: [[spoiler:In the music video for "Sippy Cup", Cry Baby's mother ties her husband and his mistress to chairs and stabs them to death with a kitchen knife.]]

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* AxCrazy: [[spoiler:In In the music video for "Sippy Cup", Cry [[spoiler:Cry Baby's mother ties her husband and his mistress to chairs and stabs them to death with a kitchen knife.]]
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* VocalDissonance: Melanie's singing voice is high and can get into the upper soprano range. Hearing her speaking voice, which is is much lower, can be jarring for those that have only hear her sing.
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* 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.


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* 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.
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* 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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"Play Date" is a deluxe-album song and is not part of Cry Baby's story, per Word of God.


* {{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.

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* {{Tsundere}}: Cry Baby The narrator in "Play Date" shows shades of this towards her lover:
--->[[SuspiciouslySpecificDenial -->''[[SuspiciouslySpecificDenial I don't give a fuck about you anyway]]
--->Whoever
anyway]]\\
Whoever
said I give a shit 'bout you?
--->
you?\\
You never share your toys or communicate
--->
communicate\\
Guess I'm just a playdate to you.you''
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* ProtestSong: "Mrs. Potato Head" tears into plastic surgery and advertised beauty standards in general.
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* 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''
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* ''K-12'' (2019)

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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.



* ContinuityNod: The beginning of the video for "Tag, You're It" shows CryBaby throwing out what appears to be party decorations, referencing the previous song "Pity Party".

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* ContinuityNod: The beginning of the video for "Tag, You're It" shows CryBaby Cry Baby throwing out what appears to be party decorations, referencing the previous song "Pity Party".
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** ''Cry Baby'' as a whole is a sanity slippage album. The protagonist starts as a depressed StepfordSmiler, goes through breakups, kidnapping and torture and ends up becoming a MadHatter.

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** ''Cry Baby'' as a whole is a sanity slippage album. The protagonist starts as a depressed StepfordSmiler, goes through breakups, kidnapping and torture and ends up becoming a MadHatter.TheMadHatter.
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* The MadHatter: [[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.

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* The MadHatter: 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.
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* 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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* TearfulSmile: "Cry Baby".
-->''I laugh through my tears''

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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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--->Sexual, -->''Sexual, hey girl if you wanna feel sexual.
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You
can always call up a professional, they stick pins in you, like a vegetable.vegetable''
* TenderTears: Cry Baby is 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 of the dark''
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!!This singer provides examples of:

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!!This singer provides examples of:
!!"Hey, girl, open the walls, play with your tropes":

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* MadHatter: [[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.

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* The MadHatter: [[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.



* 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.
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** Main topic of "Sippy Cup".

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** Main The topic of "Sippy Cup".
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* MadHatter: [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin "Mad Hatter"]], the BittersweetEnding of ''Cry Baby''. She's gone crazy, but [[BeYouself she's come to terms with how emotional, unstable, and imperfect she is]] and enjoys her insanity.

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* MadHatter: [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin "Mad Hatter"]], the BittersweetEnding of ''Cry Baby''. She's gone crazy, but [[BeYouself [[BeYourself she's come to terms with how emotional, unstable, and imperfect she is]] and enjoys her insanity.



** ''Cry Baby'' as a whole is a sanity slippage album. The protagonist starts as a depressed Stepford Smiler, goes through breakups, kidnapping and torture and ends up becoming a MadHatter.

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** ''Cry Baby'' as a whole is a sanity slippage album. The protagonist starts as a depressed Stepford Smiler, StepfordSmiler, goes through breakups, kidnapping and torture and ends up becoming a MadHatter.

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* DomesticAbuse: Implied about [[AssholeVictim the subject]] of "Milk And Cookies":

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* DomesticAbuse: DomesticAbuse:
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* MadHatter: [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin "Mad Hatter"]], the DownerEnding of ''Cry Baby'' where she is insane and unwilling to improve, but at least she enjoys her insanity.

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* MadHatter: [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin "Mad Hatter"]], the DownerEnding BittersweetEnding of ''Cry Baby'' where Baby''. She's gone crazy, but [[BeYouself she's come to terms with how emotional, unstable, and imperfect she is insane is]] and unwilling to improve, but at least she enjoys her insanity.



** ''Cry Baby'' as a whole is a sanity slippage album.

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** ''Cry Baby'' as a whole is a sanity slippage album. The protagonist starts as a depressed Stepford Smiler, goes through breakups, kidnapping and torture and ends up becoming a MadHatter.
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* TheILoveYouStigma: The topic of "Soap".
-->''Should've never said the word "love"\\
Threw a toaster in the bathtub''

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* SanitySlippageSong: Heavily implied in "Pity Party".

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** ''Cry Baby'' as a whole is a sanity slippage album.
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* MadHatter: [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin "Mad Hatter"]], the DownerEnding of ''Cry Baby'' where she is insane and unwilling to improve, but at least she enjoys her insanity.
-->''Tell you a secret, I'm not alarmed\\
So what if I'm crazy? The best people are''
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--->When you turn your back she pulls out a flask\\

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--->When --->''When you turn your back she pulls out a flask\\



---> He's still dead when you're done with the bottle

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---> He's --->''He's still dead when you're done with the bottlebottle''
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* DrowningMySorrows: Cry Baby's mother.
** "Dollhouse".
--->When you turn your back she pulls out a flask\\
And forgets his infidelity''
** Main topic of "Sippy Cup".
---> He's still dead when you're done with the bottle
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-->''D-O-L-L-H-O-U-S-E\\
I see things that nobody else sees''
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*ContinuityNod: The beginning of the video for "Tag, You're It" shows CryBaby throwing out what appears to be party decorations, referencing the previous song "Pity Party".
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* SpellingSong: "Dollhouse".

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