I’ve written them, but it still has to be finished being produced. For the next album, I can’t say what it’s called, but it’s basically done as far as the songs go. I want this to just be the beginning of Cry Baby’s story. I really want to make sure that all of my albums connect and tell a bigger story in the end. Looking ahead, do you think you’ll always sing as the character Cry Baby? Cry Baby is just so close to my heart in a way that I feel so connected to the character, or like I am the character. That’s what they’re also interested as well. So the parents can understand the more adult content behind it. There will be 8-year-olds who come to the show, and I feel like they’re super into it because of the aesthetic and the colors, or the story and the visuals, and their parents are there, and their parents might understand more of the lyrics than the kids do. What does your average fan look like? There are so many 13- to 18-year-old girls, but there are also a lot of older people who come with their children who also relate to the music but in a way that’s not. It can be emotionally draining a lot of the times. I just know a lot of the feelings that they have, so it gets me overwhelmed meeting them and sharing those kinds of feelings. I mean, it makes me super-emotional because I know how it feels to. They really are connecting to it in a deeper way that’s really. ![]() You know, it gets really overwhelming and it’s definitely really emotional meeting people all over who are being helped by the music. Who do you think is connecting with your music? I definitely have a good idea of who the people listening to my music are because I meet a lot of them on tour, and I’ve met people who have told me that they’ve been struggling with either depression or attempted suicide. You have such an incredibly fervent fan base. We spoke to pop’s greatest anomaly a day before she played Lollapalooza about fantasy versus reality and what we can expect from her sophomore album. All in all, she’s come a long way since she stepped into Atlantic Records’s office wearing a necklace made of doll parts and hair dyed two different colors-an aesthetic she picked up from Cruella de Vil. Her first and only album has been certified gold, and she has plans for a second tour in the fall. It didn’t take long for Martinez to develop her fiercely loyal fan base, which is now millions deep. The lyrics are a twisted blend of childhood naïveté, teenage angst, and adult apathy, all of which are sung over creepy synths and hard-hitting hip-hop beats. Martinez’s debut 2015 album, Cry Baby (which is also the name of the singer’s alter ego), details the existential crises that one faces at the brink of adulthood. Her music tells tales of drug abuse, depression, and family dysfunction through the optics of a wide-eyed teenage girl. ![]() But there’s a complexity behind her baby doll aesthetic. Seuss: The 21-year-old singer-songwriter wears oversize hair bows and a bright-colored lip, and she sometimes paints graphic teardrops on her cheeks. Melanie Martinez is like a pop star plucked from the imagination of Dr.
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