Dollhouse · 12:53am Oct 13th, 2015
by Melanie Martinez
Hey girl, open the walls, play with your dolls
We'll be a perfect family.
When you walk away, it's when we really play
You don't hear me when I say,
Mom, please wake up.
Dad's with a slut, and your son is smoking cannabis
No one ever listens, this wallpaper glistens
Don't let them see what goes down in the kitchen.
Places, places, get in your places
Throw on your dress and put on your doll faces.
Everyone thinks that we're perfect
Please don't let them look through the curtains.
Picture, picture, smile for the picture
Pose with your brother, won't you be a good sister?
Everyone thinks that we're perfect
Please don't let them look through the curtains.
D-O-L-L-H-O-U-S-E
I see things that nobody else sees.
(D-O-L-L-H-O-U-S-E
I see things that nobody else sees)
Hey girl, look at my mom, she's got it going on
Ha, you're blinded by her jewelry.
When you turn your back she pulls out a flask
And forgets his infidelity.
Uh-oh, she's coming to the attic, plastic
Go back to being plastic.
No one ever listens, this wallpaper glistens
One day they'll see what goes down in the kitchen.
Places, places, get in your places
Throw on your dress and put on your doll faces.
Everyone thinks that we're perfect
Please don't let them look through the curtains.
Picture, picture, smile for the picture
Pose with your brother, won't you be a good sister?
Everyone thinks that we're perfect
Please don't let them look through the curtains.
D-O-L-L-H-O-U-S-E
I see things that nobody else sees.
(D-O-L-L-H-O-U-S-E
I see things that nobody else sees)
Hey girl (hey girl, hey girl, hey girl, hey girl)
Hey girl, open your walls, play with your dolls
We'll be a perfect family.
Places, places, get in your places
Throw on your dress and put on your doll faces.
Everyone thinks that we're perfect
Please don't let them look through the curtains.
Picture, picture, smile for the picture
Pose with your brother, won't you be a good sister?
Everyone thinks that we're perfect
Please don't let them look through the curtains.
D-O-L-L-H-O-U-S-E
I see things that nobody else sees.
(D-O-L-L-H-O-U-S-E
I see things that nobody else sees)
Melanie Martinez is the mother of all pastel goths. She takes something child-like and frivolous, and puts a dark twist into it. She might be a little too sick in the head for my taste, but I can't help but admire how she's able to set such an eerie tone in her first album. Definitely separates her from other musical artists who write about drinking, partying, and sex.
3465809 YESSS YOU ACTUALLY REPLIED TO ONE OF MY BLOGS
yeah i like creepy dark stuff
and pastel stuff
and yeah i dont really like all of her songs, and she obviously has had some sort of family issues, but her eery melodious songs are somehow appealing
3465851 Melanie said in an interview that the character "Cry baby" is a representation of herself, though she did not experience all the things Cry Baby does. Which things she did and didn't go through, I'm not sure, but she paints a pretty sickening picture in that album of hers. Nearly all the songs are just. . .icky.
Tag You're It --> Cry Baby gets kidnapped and sexually harassed by an ice cream man
Cookies and Milk--> Cry Baby kills said sex offender with poison cookies and milk
Sippy Cup--> Cry Baby's mother kills her husband and her husband's other lover, then proceeds to overdoes on cough syrup
Pity Party--> Nobody comes to Cry Baby's party, so she goes insane. Clinically insane. So very insane that she stabs her stuffed animals with knives and eats them. Lovely.
Carousel-- Might be interpreting the video too literally, but as far as I gathered, Cry Baby falls in love, but her lover ties her to the carousel and she's stuck there until she pukes
Pacify Her ---> Cry Baby becomes a homewrecker after being sexually assaulted
But have you heard of Marina and The Diamonds? :)
3465908 i have, but i havent really listened to them (her? idk if its just marina or if she has a band making it "them" instead of "her")
3466092 I don't know what her deal is either, whether she has a band or is just one lady X3 Anyway, she's a lot like Melanie Martinez, but less creepy.
I've heard this song before... But where?
I can't remember...
3466663 no idea