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Cry Baby (Album) (Music)

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Cry Baby is the 2015 debut album of indie singer Melanie Martinez, fresh off the The Voice. The album, an eerie electropop composition, explores dark themes in the life of the sensitive young girl Cry Baby. It was ranked at #153 on the Billboard 200.It is the first installment of the Cry Baby Universe. It is followed by the 2019 film K12.
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All Men Are Perverts
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All Men Are Perverts: Well, a lot of them are, anyway. Cry Baby's dad is a cheating sleazeball, her crush in "Pacify Her" is easily led back to his strained relationship at the sight of boobs, and the Wolf who kidnaps her has an odd fascination with her beyond the threat of killing her. There's also Mrs. Potato Head's lover, who only likes her based on how attractive he finds her and moves onto a hotter girl when her surgery is botched.
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Parenting the Husband
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Parenting the Husband: In "Milk and Cookies", the singer sarcastically compares her despised boyfriend/husband to a crying baby, telling him to "drink his spoiled milk" and threatens to "sing him a lullaby where he dies at the end".
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Madness Mantra
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Madness Mantra: The chorus of "Pity Party", and the breakdown:
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Ambiguous Innocence
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Ambiguous Innocence: Cry Baby is a concept album based around the idea of presenting complex adult situations through the lens and metaphor of childhood, so naturally it's chock-full of this.
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Big, Screwed-Up Family
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Big, Screwed-Up Family: Cry Baby has one. Her mom is a murderous alcoholic, her dad has a mistress (and is implied to be a Professional Killer), her older brother does drugs, and Cry Baby herself has issues that only get worse later. They also go out of their way to appear normal and happy. "Dollhouse" and "Sippy Cup" are about them.
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Protest Song
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Protest Song: "Mrs. Potato Head" tears into plastic surgery and advertised beauty standards in general.
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Internalized Categorism
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Internalized Categorism: "Cry Baby" has this vibe: she tries and fails to hold back her Tender Tears, 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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One-Person Birthday Party
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One-Person Birthday Party: "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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Being Tortured Makes You Evil
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Being Tortured Makes You Evil: Cry Baby's personality takes a much darker turn after she gets kidnapped by the Wolf.
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Alice Allusion
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Alice Allusion: Cry Baby in the titular music video floods her room with her own tears. "Mad Hatter", which isn't just named after the Mad Hatter character but references other elements from Alice in Wonderland.
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Ode to Family
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Ode to Family: "Dollhouse" is about a family of Stepford Smilers where the parents are trying to keep up a Happy Marriage Charade. By the Sequel Song "Sippy Cup", the mother has killed her husband and his mistress.
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Chekhov's Gun
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Chekhov's Gun: The cashier in "Tag, You're It" gives Cry Baby a bottle of poison, which she uses to kill the Wolf in the next song/video.
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Ironic Echo
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Ironic Echo: Done visually in the video for "Alphabet Boy". Toward the beginning of the song, Cry Baby is seen under a towering refrigerator, but by the end, she's seen sitting on a tiny fridge.
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Easter Egg
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Easter Egg: The breakdown section of "Teddy Bear" is the earlier line "I didn't outgrow you" repeated in reverse.
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Ax-Crazy
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Ax-Crazy: 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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Crying at Your Birthday Party
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Crying at Your Birthday Party: "Pity Party", which interpolates Lesley Gore's "It's My Party," is about Cry Baby having a One-Person Birthday Party despite her best efforts to invite many guests. She doesn't take it well at all.
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I Am What I Am
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I Am What I Am: "Mad Hatter" is a dark example: things that Cry Baby embraces about herself include her emotional instability and insanity.
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Fashion Hurts
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Fashion Hurts: "Mrs. Potato Head" is about people who are addicted to plastic surgery; the song graphically describes the effects it can have on them: "They stick pins in you like a vegetable," "pain is beauty," "Baby soft skin turns into leather," "Do you swear you'll stay forever? / Even if her face don't stay together," "little girls are learning how to cut and paste / And pucker up their lips until they suffocate..."
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Best Served Cold
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Best Served Cold: "Milk And Cookies" is all about this, directed at a loathed spouse. The revenge in question is poison.
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Concept Album
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Concept Album: Cry Baby tells a story of the titular heroine: growing up in a Big, Screwed-Up Family and being bullied, having unhappy relationships and lonely life, being kidnapped and escaping the kidnapper, losing her sanity.
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Stalker without a Crush
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"Teddy Bear" is about how the narrator's boyfriend tries to kill her. What's more, he starts stalking her after she breaks up with him, implying that he really wants her dead. However, the song suggests that at some point he's a Stalker without a Crush, returning no love to the singer.
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Crapsaccharine World
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Crapsaccharine World: Cry Baby's world has a genuinely pleasing aesthetic of pastels, retro accents, and is reminiscent of a quaint dollhouse. However, almost everyone in it beyond Cry Baby herself (at least until the very end) ranges from ambiguously creepy (the Rabbit Doctor, the masked carnival people, the Nurse and Cashier) to selfish ad abusive (Cry Baby's parents) to outright evil (the Wolf) with no therapists or police or anyone to help poor Cry Baby with her issues.
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Plastic Bitch
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Plastic Bitch: In "Sippy Cup", Cry Baby doesn't have a high opinion of her Stepford Smiler mother or her plastic surgeries.
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Bittersweet Ending
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Bittersweet Ending: "Mad Hatter," the last song on Cry Baby, shows that the title character has become broken and gone insane by the end of the album. However, she's come to terms with how emotional, unstable, and imperfect she is, and wouldn't have it any other way.
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Spelling Song
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Spelling Song: The chorus of "Dollhouse".
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Tricked to Death
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Tricked to Death: 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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Tranquil Fury
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Tranquil Fury: "Milk and Cookies", thanks to Lyrical Dissonance, gives off this vibe. She calmly sings:
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The Conscience
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The Conscience: The singer of "Sippy Cup", explaining Cry Baby's mother's flaws to her and disdaining her course of action, which is strengthened by shots of Cry Baby as an angel.
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Cheshire Cat Grin
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Cheshire Cat Grin: Cry Baby's mother gives a terrifying one just before murdering her husband and his mistress.
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Friendless Background
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Friendless Background: "Cry Baby" ("You're all on your own / And you lost all your friends") and "Pity Party," where no one comes to her birthday party.
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Break the Cutie
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Break the Cutie: By the time the album ends, Cry Baby's gone from a sad but quiet girl to one who has severe body image issues, took pills either to get thinner or to balance her mental health, can't hold onto a romantic relationship for long, and got kidnapped.
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All of the Other Reindeer
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All of the Other Reindeer: "Cry Baby" tells the story of a sensitive girl (loosely modeled after young Melanie) trying to rise above her bullies.
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Attempted Homewrecker
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Attempted Homewrecker: In "Pacify Her," the singer sees her ex-boyfriend with another girl and becomes determined to take him back, even if it means ruining their relationship.
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Downer Ending
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Downer Ending: The in-universe story of Mrs. Potato Head ends with the titular character learning her lover immediately moved onto another woman once he sees that her surgery was a dud. She's left with a ruined face, alone in her house, wondering why she even allowed the whole surgery to happen. Cry Baby is only a little better, learning not to change herself like Mrs. Potato Head did and throwing away her wig and bra-filling tissues.
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Early-Installment Weirdness
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Early-Installment Weirdness: "Cry Baby", the first song of the album, starts in second person, then switches to first person near the end. The rest of the album's songs (as well as K12) are sung from Cry Baby's perspective.
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Body Horror
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Body Horror: Alluded to in "Mrs. Potato Head" to illustrate the negative side of plastic surgery.
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Unresolved Sexual Tension
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Unresolved Sexual Tension: In "Carousel," Cry Baby bemoans being stuck not quite with someone she loves.
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Sampling
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Sampling: "Pity Party" samples Lesley Gore's hit, "It's My Party", which also discusses a birthday gone wrong.
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Drowning My Sorrows
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Drowning My Sorrows: Cry Baby's mother gets drunk to cope with her husband's infidelity and, later, with murdering him and his mistress. "Dollhouse". The topic of "Sippy Cup".
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Bookends
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Book Ends: "Cry Baby" and "Mad Hatter" have the same beat and song structure, and both have their own self-acceptance themes pertaining to Cry Baby's life. Also, "Cry Baby" uses Alice Allusion in the video, and "Mad Hatter" is full of those in the lyrics.
 Cry Baby (Album) (Music) / int_5313c266
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 Cry Baby (Album) (Music) / int_5313c266
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 Cry Baby (Album) (Music)
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Cry Baby (Album) (Music) / int_5313c266
 Cry Baby (Album) (Music) / int_58db779e
type
Letting the Air out of the Band
 Cry Baby (Album) (Music) / int_58db779e
comment
Letting the Air out of the Band: Done for tragic effect at the end of "Tag, You're It", where the BGM breaks down and falls apart.
 Cry Baby (Album) (Music) / int_58db779e
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1.0
 Cry Baby (Album) (Music) / int_58db779e
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 Cry Baby (Album) (Music)
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Cry Baby (Album) (Music) / int_58db779e
 Cry Baby (Album) (Music) / int_590eb583
type
Domestic Abuse
 Cry Baby (Album) (Music) / int_590eb583
comment
Domestic Abuse: "Teddy Bear", where the narrator's boyfriend tries to kill her (and persists after they break up).
 Cry Baby (Album) (Music) / int_590eb583
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1.0
 Cry Baby (Album) (Music) / int_590eb583
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1.0
 Cry Baby (Album) (Music)
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Cry Baby (Album) (Music) / int_590eb583
 Cry Baby (Album) (Music) / int_59196f87
type
Baby Talk
 Cry Baby (Album) (Music) / int_59196f87
comment
Baby Talk: Used in "Alphabet Boy", with phonetic "A" and "B" sounds being chanted in the interludes, and some simplified sentences in the first verse.
 Cry Baby (Album) (Music) / int_59196f87
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1.0
 Cry Baby (Album) (Music) / int_59196f87
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 Cry Baby (Album) (Music)
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Cry Baby (Album) (Music) / int_59196f87
 Cry Baby (Album) (Music) / int_59f4d283
type
Ominous Music Box Tune
 Cry Baby (Album) (Music) / int_59f4d283
comment
Ominous Music Box Tune: The beginning of "Mad Hatter" and "Pacify Her", and used in "Dollhouse".
 Cry Baby (Album) (Music) / int_59f4d283
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 Cry Baby (Album) (Music) / int_59f4d283
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 Cry Baby (Album) (Music)
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Cry Baby (Album) (Music) / int_59f4d283
 Cry Baby (Album) (Music) / int_67a70f33
type
Creepy Circus Music
 Cry Baby (Album) (Music) / int_67a70f33
comment
Creepy Circus Music: Unsurprisingly featured in "Carousel".
 Cry Baby (Album) (Music) / int_67a70f33
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 Cry Baby (Album) (Music) / int_67a70f33
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Cry Baby (Album) (Music) / int_67a70f33
 Cry Baby (Album) (Music) / int_68f27ba0
type
Wicked Heart Symbol
 Cry Baby (Album) (Music) / int_68f27ba0
comment
Wicked Heart Symbol: Hearts and broken hearts are a prominent motif in the Cry Baby interactive storybook, possibly representing her romantic entanglements and futile search for love. Notably, "Carousel" contains the lines:
 Cry Baby (Album) (Music) / int_68f27ba0
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 Cry Baby (Album) (Music) / int_68f27ba0
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 Cry Baby (Album) (Music)
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Cry Baby (Album) (Music) / int_68f27ba0
 Cry Baby (Album) (Music) / int_6f6ab063
type
The "I Love You" Stigma
 Cry Baby (Album) (Music) / int_6f6ab063
comment
The "I Love You" Stigma: "Soap".
 Cry Baby (Album) (Music) / int_6f6ab063
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 Cry Baby (Album) (Music) / int_6f6ab063
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 Cry Baby (Album) (Music)
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Cry Baby (Album) (Music) / int_6f6ab063
 Cry Baby (Album) (Music) / int_71e8a5c5
type
Trauma Conga Line
 Cry Baby (Album) (Music) / int_71e8a5c5
comment
Trauma Conga Line: 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, and finally gets kidnapped. Little wonder she loses her sanity in the end.
 Cry Baby (Album) (Music) / int_71e8a5c5
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 Cry Baby (Album) (Music) / int_71e8a5c5
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Cry Baby (Album) (Music) / int_71e8a5c5
 Cry Baby (Album) (Music) / int_77ed6b7d
type
Troubling Unchildlike Behavior
 Cry Baby (Album) (Music) / int_77ed6b7d
comment
Troubling Unchildlike Behavior: Due to her neglectful and unhappy childhood, Cry Baby shows a proficiency in spelling profanities with her "alphabet toys".
 Cry Baby (Album) (Music) / int_77ed6b7d
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 Cry Baby (Album) (Music) / int_77ed6b7d
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Cry Baby (Album) (Music) / int_77ed6b7d
 Cry Baby (Album) (Music) / int_7a82c3d2
type
All Love Is Unrequited
 Cry Baby (Album) (Music) / int_7a82c3d2
comment
All Love Is Unrequited: "Carousel" is about this. When the relationship does happen, it falls apart due to the guy's bragging ("Alphabet Boy").
 Cry Baby (Album) (Music) / int_7a82c3d2
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 Cry Baby (Album) (Music) / int_7a82c3d2
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 Cry Baby (Album) (Music)
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Cry Baby (Album) (Music) / int_7a82c3d2
 Cry Baby (Album) (Music) / int_7aea8bae
type
Murder Ballad
 Cry Baby (Album) (Music) / int_7aea8bae
comment
Murder Ballad: "Milk And Cookies" is about killing Cry Baby's kidnapper in the context of her story, and killing an unfaithful/abusive spouse in its own context.
 Cry Baby (Album) (Music) / int_7aea8bae
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 Cry Baby (Album) (Music) / int_7aea8bae
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 Cry Baby (Album) (Music)
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Cry Baby (Album) (Music) / int_7aea8bae
 Cry Baby (Album) (Music) / int_7b66bc3b
type
Big Anime Eyes
 Cry Baby (Album) (Music) / int_7b66bc3b
comment
Big Anime Eyes: In the music videos for "Soap", "Training Wheels", and "Pacify Her", Cry Baby displays unnaturally wet and large eyes when she's interested in a boy. The first two videos have her do it when she's wondering what to do about her relationship with Johnny; and in the latter song, she gives the Blue Boy a wide-eyed stare as she's expecting him to come play with her.
 Cry Baby (Album) (Music) / int_7b66bc3b
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 Cry Baby (Album) (Music) / int_7b66bc3b
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 Cry Baby (Album) (Music)
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Cry Baby (Album) (Music) / int_7b66bc3b
 Cry Baby (Album) (Music) / int_7eb2bc15
type
Ambiguous Time Period
 Cry Baby (Album) (Music) / int_7eb2bc15
comment
Ambiguous Time Period: The music videos suggest little about the story's timeframe, but what technology we do see is outdated.
 Cry Baby (Album) (Music) / int_7eb2bc15
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 Cry Baby (Album) (Music) / int_7eb2bc15
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 Cry Baby (Album) (Music)
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Cry Baby (Album) (Music) / int_7eb2bc15
 Cry Baby (Album) (Music) / int_7eebe99c
type
The Alcoholic
 Cry Baby (Album) (Music) / int_7eebe99c
comment
The Alcoholic: The mother in "Dollhouse", and the main theme of "Sippy Cup".
 Cry Baby (Album) (Music) / int_7eebe99c
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 Cry Baby (Album) (Music) / int_7eebe99c
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 Cry Baby (Album) (Music)
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Cry Baby (Album) (Music) / int_7eebe99c
 Cry Baby (Album) (Music) / int_7ef728b1
type
Tsundere
 Cry Baby (Album) (Music) / int_7ef728b1
comment
Tsundere: The narrator of "Play Date." First, she denies her lover means anything to her. Then, she reveals she cares after all and has some hope their relationship will work. Tsun: Dere:
 Cry Baby (Album) (Music) / int_7ef728b1
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 Cry Baby (Album) (Music)
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Cry Baby (Album) (Music) / int_7ef728b1
 Cry Baby (Album) (Music) / int_7f080f98
type
Vague Age
 Cry Baby (Album) (Music) / int_7f080f98
comment
Vague Age: Cry Baby. In the music videos, she's played by Melanie herself (who's an adult), but illustrations of the character give her the appearance of a child. There's no indication of her age in the songs themselves (especially given their subject matter), and the music videos have Melanie (and her love interest in "Training Wheels") dressing like kids. Then again, that could be the whole point.
 Cry Baby (Album) (Music) / int_7f080f98
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 Cry Baby (Album) (Music) / int_7f080f98
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Cry Baby (Album) (Music) / int_7f080f98
 Cry Baby (Album) (Music) / int_806b07e7
type
Black Eyes of Evil
 Cry Baby (Album) (Music) / int_806b07e7
comment
The Nurse in "Cry Baby" and the Cashier in "Tag, You're It" for some reason have Black Eyes of Evil. However, both are helpful characters; the Nurse seems sympathetic to the life Cry Baby is clearly about to live, and the Cashier is the one to give her the melatonin. Both characters reappear in "Mad Hatter," and Cry Baby gets the same eyes at the end. It's unclear what exactly it means.
 Cry Baby (Album) (Music) / int_806b07e7
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 Cry Baby (Album) (Music) / int_806b07e7
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 Cry Baby (Album) (Music)
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Cry Baby (Album) (Music) / int_806b07e7
 Cry Baby (Album) (Music) / int_80a247a9
type
Breather Episode
 Cry Baby (Album) (Music) / int_80a247a9
comment
Breather Episode: "Alphabet Boy" and "Training Wheels" are considerably lighter than the rest of the songs on the album.
 Cry Baby (Album) (Music) / int_80a247a9
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 Cry Baby (Album) (Music) / int_80a247a9
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 Cry Baby (Album) (Music)
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Cry Baby (Album) (Music) / int_80a247a9
 Cry Baby (Album) (Music) / int_83a903f6
type
Stepford Smiler
 Cry Baby (Album) (Music) / int_83a903f6
comment
Stepford Smiler: In "Dollhouse", Cry Baby's entire family puts on the outward appearance of being a loving, picture-perfect suburban family, covering up their problems like the mother's alcoholism, the father's infidelity and the brother's weed smoking. The video shows that anyone who gets a glimpse of the truth is forced to play along with the 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 (Album) (Music) / int_83a903f6
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 Cry Baby (Album) (Music) / int_83a903f6
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 Cry Baby (Album) (Music)
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Cry Baby (Album) (Music) / int_83a903f6
 Cry Baby (Album) (Music) / int_863fa679
type
What Happened to the Mouse?
 Cry Baby (Album) (Music) / int_863fa679
comment
What Happened to the Mouse?: Cry Baby's family pretty much stops being mentioned in the album after "Sippy Cup", with the rest of the songs focusing on her romantic relationships.
 Cry Baby (Album) (Music) / int_863fa679
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 Cry Baby (Album) (Music) / int_863fa679
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 Cry Baby (Album) (Music)
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Cry Baby (Album) (Music) / int_863fa679
 Cry Baby (Album) (Music) / int_8b68d9a7
type
Stalker with a Crush
 Cry Baby (Album) (Music) / int_8b68d9a7
comment
Stalker with a Crush: 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. It's implied the Wolf might be this, or at least has an inappropriate interest in Cry Baby; "Tag, You're It" mentions that he'd been watching her for a while, and that he's captivated by the sound of her breathing. Melanie also made it a point to mention that since she was single at that point in the album "wolves are now on the prowl."
 Cry Baby (Album) (Music) / int_8b68d9a7
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 Cry Baby (Album) (Music) / int_8b68d9a7
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 Cry Baby (Album) (Music)
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Cry Baby (Album) (Music) / int_8b68d9a7
 Cry Baby (Album) (Music) / int_8bff32a8
type
Creepy Doll
 Cry Baby (Album) (Music) / int_8bff32a8
comment
"Mad Hatter" gives us a group of four gigantic animal dolls (specifically, antique Rushtons), who act jerkily enough that they're sometimes compared to the animatronics from Five Nights at Freddy's. 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 saving Cry Baby.
 Cry Baby (Album) (Music) / int_8bff32a8
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 Cry Baby (Album) (Music) / int_8bff32a8
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 Cry Baby (Album) (Music)
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Cry Baby (Album) (Music) / int_8bff32a8
 Cry Baby (Album) (Music) / int_8c00901a
type
Creepy Good
 Cry Baby (Album) (Music) / int_8c00901a
comment
Creepy Good: The Bunny Doctor, who appears in the videos for "Cry Baby," "Mrs. Potato Head," and "Mad Hatter," is, well, a doctor wearing a creepy bunny mask. Other than a surreal sequence symbolizing Cry Baby's birth (where he uses her mother's pregnant stomach as a pinata), and botching Mrs. Potato Head's surgery, he seems like a normal doctor doing his job otherwise. The Nurse in "Cry Baby" and the Cashier in "Tag, You're It" for some reason have Black Eyes of Evil. However, both are helpful characters; the Nurse seems sympathetic to the life Cry Baby is clearly about to live, and the Cashier is the one to give her the melatonin. Both characters reappear in "Mad Hatter," and Cry Baby gets the same eyes at the end. It's unclear what exactly it means. "Mad Hatter" gives us a group of four gigantic animal dolls (specifically, antique Rushtons), who act jerkily enough that they're sometimes compared to the animatronics from Five Nights at Freddy's. 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 saving Cry Baby.
 Cry Baby (Album) (Music) / int_8c00901a
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1.0
 Cry Baby (Album) (Music) / int_8c00901a
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 Cry Baby (Album) (Music)
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Cry Baby (Album) (Music) / int_8c00901a
 Cry Baby (Album) (Music) / int_8cf6aa
type
Literal Metaphor
 Cry Baby (Album) (Music) / int_8cf6aa
comment
Literal Metaphor: In "Milk and Cookies", 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 "canon" kidnapping context, it's shown that the Wolf's phone call distracts him from the surveillance TV, and causes him to miss the poisoning of his cookies.
 Cry Baby (Album) (Music) / int_8cf6aa
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 Cry Baby (Album) (Music) / int_8cf6aa
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Cry Baby (Album) (Music) / int_8cf6aa
 Cry Baby (Album) (Music) / int_924bfd78
type
Creepy Dollhouse
 Cry Baby (Album) (Music) / int_924bfd78
comment
Creepy Dollhouse: As the name of "Dollhouse" implies, this is the case with the music video and most of the songs, although it's actually used to represent a Stepford Smiler family.
 Cry Baby (Album) (Music) / int_924bfd78
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 Cry Baby (Album) (Music) / int_924bfd78
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 Cry Baby (Album) (Music)
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Cry Baby (Album) (Music) / int_924bfd78
 Cry Baby (Album) (Music) / int_92d2fe52
type
Tearful Smile
 Cry Baby (Album) (Music) / int_92d2fe52
comment
Tearful Smile: "Cry Baby".
 Cry Baby (Album) (Music) / int_92d2fe52
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 Cry Baby (Album) (Music) / int_92d2fe52
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 Cry Baby (Album) (Music)
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Cry Baby (Album) (Music) / int_92d2fe52
 Cry Baby (Album) (Music) / int_997392ec
type
Killer Teddy Bear
 Cry Baby (Album) (Music) / int_997392ec
comment
Killer Teddy Bear: While it's clear that the song is talking about a person, "Teddy Bear" presents the murderous once-boyfriend in this way.
 Cry Baby (Album) (Music) / int_997392ec
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 Cry Baby (Album) (Music) / int_997392ec
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Cry Baby (Album) (Music) / int_997392ec
 Cry Baby (Album) (Music) / int_99c36bb5
type
Ironic Nursery Tune
 Cry Baby (Album) (Music) / int_99c36bb5
comment
Ironic Nursery Tune: "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 first verse also uses the phrase "Hush litle baby". 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 go down...") "Tag, You're It" twists "Eenie Meenie Minie Mo" to refer to capturing women.
 Cry Baby (Album) (Music) / int_99c36bb5
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 Cry Baby (Album) (Music) / int_99c36bb5
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 Cry Baby (Album) (Music)
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Cry Baby (Album) (Music) / int_99c36bb5
 Cry Baby (Album) (Music) / int_9a50173f
type
Follow the Bouncing Ball
 Cry Baby (Album) (Music) / int_9a50173f
comment
Follow the Bouncing Ball: Done in accordance with the word-and-letters motif in the video for "Alphabet Boy".
 Cry Baby (Album) (Music) / int_9a50173f
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 Cry Baby (Album) (Music) / int_9a50173f
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 Cry Baby (Album) (Music)
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Cry Baby (Album) (Music) / int_9a50173f
 Cry Baby (Album) (Music) / int_9a692ae9
type
13 Is Unlucky
 Cry Baby (Album) (Music) / int_9a692ae9
comment
13 Is Unlucky: "Cry Baby" is a tragic story, and there are thirteen songs (Though the deluxe-album songs are not part of Cry Baby's story, per Word of God).
 Cry Baby (Album) (Music) / int_9a692ae9
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 Cry Baby (Album) (Music) / int_9a692ae9
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 Cry Baby (Album) (Music)
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Cry Baby (Album) (Music) / int_9a692ae9
 Cry Baby (Album) (Music) / int_9d12bbc1
type
Foreshadowing
 Cry Baby (Album) (Music) / int_9d12bbc1
comment
Foreshadowing: In "Dollhouse", Cry Baby warns about "what goes down in the kitchen". "Sippy Cup" reveals that it's the murder of her father and his mistress. "Training Wheels" has a couple: Johnny's relationship with Cry Baby is seen as him learning how to ride a bike. In one major scene, him falling off the bike and getting hurt is compared to him dealing with Cry Baby's tantrums, and not liking it. Come the end of the video, and he's well and truly gone once he learns how to properly ride. At the end of the video, the most optimistic song of the album, Cry Baby's boyfriend disappears just before she can kiss him. The next song is his passive breakup with her by not attending her birthday celebration.
 Cry Baby (Album) (Music) / int_9d12bbc1
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 Cry Baby (Album) (Music) / int_9d12bbc1
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Cry Baby (Album) (Music) / int_9d12bbc1
 Cry Baby (Album) (Music) / int_9dab0a6e
type
Continuity Nod
 Cry Baby (Album) (Music) / int_9dab0a6e
comment
Continuity Nod: The beginning of the video for "Tag, You're It" shows Cry Baby throwing out what appears to be party decorations, referencing the previous song "Pity Party".
 Cry Baby (Album) (Music) / int_9dab0a6e
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 Cry Baby (Album) (Music) / int_9dab0a6e
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 Cry Baby (Album) (Music)
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Cry Baby (Album) (Music) / int_9dab0a6e
 Cry Baby (Album) (Music) / int_a040ed2e
type
Silly Love Songs
 Cry Baby (Album) (Music) / int_a040ed2e
comment
Silly Love Songs: Melanie admits that "Training Wheels" is the only true love song on her debut album.
 Cry Baby (Album) (Music) / int_a040ed2e
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 Cry Baby (Album) (Music) / int_a040ed2e
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 Cry Baby (Album) (Music)
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Cry Baby (Album) (Music) / int_a040ed2e
 Cry Baby (Album) (Music) / int_b1191cb2
type
I Ate WHAT?!
 Cry Baby (Album) (Music) / int_b1191cb2
comment
I Ate WHAT?!: This imminent reaction is invoked in "Milk and Cookies".
 Cry Baby (Album) (Music) / int_b1191cb2
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 Cry Baby (Album) (Music) / int_b1191cb2
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 Cry Baby (Album) (Music)
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Cry Baby (Album) (Music) / int_b1191cb2
 Cry Baby (Album) (Music) / int_b11ac9f5
type
Abusive Parents
 Cry Baby (Album) (Music) / int_b11ac9f5
comment
Abusive Parents: 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 completely ignored.
 Cry Baby (Album) (Music) / int_b11ac9f5
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 Cry Baby (Album) (Music) / int_b11ac9f5
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 Cry Baby (Album) (Music)
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Cry Baby (Album) (Music) / int_b11ac9f5
 Cry Baby (Album) (Music) / int_b2d848af
type
Lipstick Mark
 Cry Baby (Album) (Music) / int_b2d848af
comment
Lipstick Mark: There is one on the father's neck in the "Dollhouse" video, marking his infidelity.
 Cry Baby (Album) (Music) / int_b2d848af
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 Cry Baby (Album) (Music) / int_b2d848af
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 Cry Baby (Album) (Music)
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Cry Baby (Album) (Music) / int_b2d848af
 Cry Baby (Album) (Music) / int_b5049d76
type
Added Alliterative Appeal
 Cry Baby (Album) (Music) / int_b5049d76
comment
Added Alliterative Appeal: The verses of "Alphabet Boy" use alliteration for the letters A, B, C, and D in sequential lines. This is lampshaded in the prechorus, which starts with "I know my ABCs".
 Cry Baby (Album) (Music) / int_b5049d76
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 Cry Baby (Album) (Music) / int_b5049d76
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 Cry Baby (Album) (Music)
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Cry Baby (Album) (Music) / int_b5049d76
 Cry Baby (Album) (Music) / int_b53077b3
type
Take That!
 Cry Baby (Album) (Music) / int_b53077b3
comment
Take That!: "Mrs. Potato Head" to plastic surgery and those who feel it is necessary for beauty.
 Cry Baby (Album) (Music) / int_b53077b3
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 Cry Baby (Album) (Music) / int_b53077b3
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1.0
 Cry Baby (Album) (Music)
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Cry Baby (Album) (Music) / int_b53077b3
 Cry Baby (Album) (Music) / int_c1d1d6ad
type
Who Names Their Kid "Dude"?
 Cry Baby (Album) (Music) / int_c1d1d6ad
comment
Who Names Their Kid "Dude"?: Cry Baby is the heroine's actual name, written on her birth certificate, as shown in one of the videos. Her brother wrote it in response to their mother's complaining about her newborn child being a, well, crybaby.
 Cry Baby (Album) (Music) / int_c1d1d6ad
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Cry Baby (Album) (Music) / int_c1d1d6ad
 Cry Baby (Album) (Music) / int_c3448a6f
type
Informed Attribute
 Cry Baby (Album) (Music) / int_c3448a6f
comment
Informed Attribute: Done deliberately with the video for "Pacify Her", where none of Cry Baby's complaints about her ex's new girlfriend are true, as she is in denial about her relationship status.
 Cry Baby (Album) (Music) / int_c3448a6f
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1.0
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Cry Baby (Album) (Music) / int_c3448a6f
 Cry Baby (Album) (Music) / int_c601fc37
type
Professional Killer
 Cry Baby (Album) (Music) / int_c601fc37
comment
Professional Killer: It's implied Cry Baby's father might be one in "Sippy Cup".
 Cry Baby (Album) (Music) / int_c601fc37
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1.0
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1.0
 Cry Baby (Album) (Music)
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Cry Baby (Album) (Music) / int_c601fc37
 Cry Baby (Album) (Music) / int_c9020420
type
Double Feature
 Cry Baby (Album) (Music) / int_c9020420
comment
Double Feature: The videos for "Soap" and "Training Wheels", and "Tag, You're It" and "Milk and Cookies" were released as double features, since they encompass mini-plotlines in the overarching story.
 Cry Baby (Album) (Music) / int_c9020420
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1.0
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1.0
 Cry Baby (Album) (Music)
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Cry Baby (Album) (Music) / int_c9020420
 Cry Baby (Album) (Music) / int_c9a71d47
type
Innocence Lost
 Cry Baby (Album) (Music) / int_c9a71d47
comment
Innocence Lost: The shots of Cry Baby as an angel in "Sippy Cup" are supposed to represent the death of her innocence after seeing the dead bodies of her father and his mistress, then being drugged so that she thinks it's a bad dream.
 Cry Baby (Album) (Music) / int_c9a71d47
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1.0
 Cry Baby (Album) (Music)
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Cry Baby (Album) (Music) / int_c9a71d47
 Cry Baby (Album) (Music) / int_cb54721a
type
Fun with Palindromes
 Cry Baby (Album) (Music) / int_cb54721a
comment
Fun with Palindromes: A musical variant in "Carousel". The main riff of the song is the same forwards and reversed to emphasize the cyclical nature of the situation.
 Cry Baby (Album) (Music) / int_cb54721a
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1.0
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 Cry Baby (Album) (Music)
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Cry Baby (Album) (Music) / int_cb54721a
 Cry Baby (Album) (Music) / int_ce27dc3f
type
Protagonist Title
 Cry Baby (Album) (Music) / int_ce27dc3f
comment
Protagonist Title: Cry Baby is the heroine's name. It is her actual name.
 Cry Baby (Album) (Music) / int_ce27dc3f
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Cry Baby (Album) (Music) / int_ce27dc3f
 Cry Baby (Album) (Music) / int_d0db85d0
type
Lyrics/Video Mismatch
 Cry Baby (Album) (Music) / int_d0db85d0
comment
Lyrics/Video Mismatch: The video for "Tag, You're It" contains none of the pursuit and violence in the lyrics; instead it shows Cry Baby at the grocery store while the Wolf waits for her and gives her drugged ice cream to capture her.
 Cry Baby (Album) (Music) / int_d0db85d0
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Cry Baby (Album) (Music) / int_d0db85d0
 Cry Baby (Album) (Music) / int_d1673f5c
type
Bad Humor Truck
 Cry Baby (Album) (Music) / int_d1673f5c
comment
Bad Humor Truck: Cry Baby gets kidnapped by a wolf, who just so happens to also be an ice cream man.
 Cry Baby (Album) (Music) / int_d1673f5c
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1.0
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Cry Baby (Album) (Music) / int_d1673f5c
 Cry Baby (Album) (Music) / int_d294e6ba
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Subdued Section
 Cry Baby (Album) (Music) / int_d294e6ba
comment
Subdued Section: Inverted in "Tag, You're It". Most of it is sung in dissonantly calm manner, and only in the second to last chorus, she sounds as frenzied as the lyric would imply.
 Cry Baby (Album) (Music) / int_d294e6ba
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Cry Baby (Album) (Music) / int_d294e6ba
 Cry Baby (Album) (Music) / int_d6eefac3
type
Soap Punishment
 Cry Baby (Album) (Music) / int_d6eefac3
comment
Soap Punishment: "Guess I better wash my mouth out with soap." Cry Baby gives herself this punishment because she keeps saying she loves a guy, but she's not sure if their relationship is actually getting anywhere.
 Cry Baby (Album) (Music) / int_d6eefac3
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Cry Baby (Album) (Music) / int_d6eefac3
 Cry Baby (Album) (Music) / int_d71073b5
type
Subverted Kids' Show
 Cry Baby (Album) (Music) / int_d71073b5
comment
Subverted Kids' Show: The whole concept of "Cry Baby", which presents dark adult situations through childish visuals and music. The tunes are childish, lullaby-esque pop songs, but the lyrics cover dark subjects and sometimes contain harsh language. "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" is about denial, and the "cup" contains alcohol. "Carousel" is about a relationship that is going around in circles. "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. "Training Wheels" is about taking off the training wheels and going all-in on a relationship. "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 kind words that may be false. "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. "Play Date" refers to casual sexual encounters that the bitter singer wishes would turn into a meaningful relationship. "Cake" is about being objectified in a relationship i.e. being treated as "a piece of cake [for the lover] to just discard". "Teddy Bear" refers to a relationship that was built up and put together with a lot of effort, which has turned sour by her boyfriend's Yandere tendencies.
 Cry Baby (Album) (Music) / int_d71073b5
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Cry Baby (Album) (Music) / int_d71073b5
 Cry Baby (Album) (Music) / int_d93c5989
type
Stepford Suburbia
 Cry Baby (Album) (Music) / int_d93c5989
comment
Stepford Suburbia: Cry Baby is implied to live in one, especially given the suburb-like town depicted on the cover of the Cry Baby album (that Melanie is flooding with her tears).
 Cry Baby (Album) (Music) / int_d93c5989
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Cry Baby (Album) (Music) / int_d93c5989
 Cry Baby (Album) (Music) / int_da360137
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Prone to Tears
 Cry Baby (Album) (Music) / int_da360137
comment
Prone to Tears: She is called Cry Baby for crying often.
 Cry Baby (Album) (Music) / int_da360137
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Cry Baby (Album) (Music) / int_da360137
 Cry Baby (Album) (Music) / int_dbc664dd
type
Album Title Drop
 Cry Baby (Album) (Music) / int_dbc664dd
comment
Album Title Drop: The first song is titled "Cry Baby" and drops the title many times.
 Cry Baby (Album) (Music) / int_dbc664dd
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Cry Baby (Album) (Music) / int_dbc664dd
 Cry Baby (Album) (Music) / int_dbfd6b8
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Lyrical Dissonance
 Cry Baby (Album) (Music) / int_dbfd6b8
comment
Lyrical Dissonance: Another recurring theme in her music. Melanie has a talent for mixing catchy tunes with chilling lyrics. Special mention goes to "Dollhouse", a bright, music-box song about a broken home.
 Cry Baby (Album) (Music) / int_dbfd6b8
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 Cry Baby (Album) (Music) / int_dbfd6b8
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Cry Baby (Album) (Music) / int_dbfd6b8
 Cry Baby (Album) (Music) / int_dbfe8427
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Intercourse with You
 Cry Baby (Album) (Music) / int_dbfe8427
comment
Intercourse with You: "Training Wheels" has some more overt sexual tones in its videos and lyrics.
 Cry Baby (Album) (Music) / int_dbfe8427
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1.0
 Cry Baby (Album) (Music) / int_dbfe8427
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Cry Baby (Album) (Music) / int_dbfe8427
 Cry Baby (Album) (Music) / int_dc835463
type
The Big Bad Wolf
 Cry Baby (Album) (Music) / int_dc835463
comment
The Big Bad Wolf: Cry Baby's kidnapper, keeping the stranger-danger context in a more modern situation.
 Cry Baby (Album) (Music) / int_dc835463
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1.0
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Cry Baby (Album) (Music) / int_dc835463
 Cry Baby (Album) (Music) / int_e2cd1428
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Widow's Weeds
 Cry Baby (Album) (Music) / int_e2cd1428
comment
Widow's Weeds: Suggested in "Milk and Cookies" as to what the singer will do after her despised husband is dead.
 Cry Baby (Album) (Music) / int_e2cd1428
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1.0
 Cry Baby (Album) (Music) / int_e2cd1428
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Cry Baby (Album) (Music) / int_e2cd1428
 Cry Baby (Album) (Music) / int_e35a1ad4
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Sweets of Temptation
 Cry Baby (Album) (Music) / int_e35a1ad4
comment
Sweets of Temptation: In “Cake", the singer uses a Lysistrata Gambit to punish her boyfriend who she feels is only using her for sex. In "Milk and Cookies", Cry Baby kills her kidnapper by poisoning his milk and cookies.
 Cry Baby (Album) (Music) / int_e35a1ad4
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Cry Baby (Album) (Music) / int_e35a1ad4
 Cry Baby (Album) (Music) / int_e3847ee8
type
Cigarette of Anxiety
 Cry Baby (Album) (Music) / int_e3847ee8
comment
Cigarette of Anxiety: After Cry Baby throws a tantrum over no one showing up to her birthday party, she sits in the trashed and burnt remains smoking a cigarette for the (chronological) first time in the music videos. She is also shown smoking in the beginning of "Mad Hatter".
 Cry Baby (Album) (Music) / int_e3847ee8
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Cry Baby (Album) (Music) / int_e3847ee8
 Cry Baby (Album) (Music) / int_e3c36782
type
Call-Forward
 Cry Baby (Album) (Music) / int_e3c36782
comment
Call-Forward: Cry Baby's tears come out of a dollhouse in the music video for "Cry Baby" (released in 2016). "Dollhouse" (MV in 2014) is the next song.
 Cry Baby (Album) (Music) / int_e3c36782
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Cry Baby (Album) (Music) / int_e3c36782
 Cry Baby (Album) (Music) / int_e69efe7f
type
Lysistrata Gambit
 Cry Baby (Album) (Music) / int_e69efe7f
comment
In “Cake", the singer uses a Lysistrata Gambit to punish her boyfriend who she feels is only using her for sex.
 Cry Baby (Album) (Music) / int_e69efe7f
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Cry Baby (Album) (Music) / int_e69efe7f
 Cry Baby (Album) (Music) / int_e7dfebe8
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I Have Boobs, You Must Obey!
 Cry Baby (Album) (Music) / int_e7dfebe8
comment
I Have Boobs, You Must Obey!: The girlfriend in "Pacify Her", once she realizes she could lose her boyfriend to Cry Baby for real, steps in between them and undoes her top for the Blue Boy. He immediately stops coming to Cry Baby, and the fractured pair leave Cry Baby's crib arm-in-arm.
 Cry Baby (Album) (Music) / int_e7dfebe8
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 Cry Baby (Album) (Music) / int_e7dfebe8
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 Cry Baby (Album) (Music)
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Cry Baby (Album) (Music) / int_e7dfebe8
 Cry Baby (Album) (Music) / int_eb81c601
type
Big Damn Heroes
 Cry Baby (Album) (Music) / int_eb81c601
comment
Big Damn Heroes: The huge, frightening pastel plush animal "friends" of Cry Baby rescuing her from the blow-up mannequins.
 Cry Baby (Album) (Music) / int_eb81c601
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Cry Baby (Album) (Music) / int_eb81c601
 Cry Baby (Album) (Music) / int_ece948d8
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Tender Tears
 Cry Baby (Album) (Music) / int_ece948d8
comment
Tender Tears: Cry Baby is a very sensitive girl.
 Cry Baby (Album) (Music) / int_ece948d8
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Cry Baby (Album) (Music) / int_ece948d8
 Cry Baby (Album) (Music) / int_ed371675
type
Til Murder Do Us Part
 Cry Baby (Album) (Music) / int_ed371675
comment
Til Murder Do Us Part: In the music video for "Sippy Cup", Cry Baby's mother stabs her father and his mistress to death after catching them cheating, then drugs Cry Baby so she won't remember witnessing it.
 Cry Baby (Album) (Music) / int_ed371675
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Cry Baby (Album) (Music) / int_ed371675
 Cry Baby (Album) (Music) / int_ed6d2a0a
type
The Mad Hatter
 Cry Baby (Album) (Music) / int_ed6d2a0a
comment
The Mad Hatter: "Mad Hatter", the album's Bittersweet Ending. Cry Baby's gone crazy, but she's come to terms with how emotional, unstable, and imperfect she is and enjoys her insanity.
 Cry Baby (Album) (Music) / int_ed6d2a0a
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Cry Baby (Album) (Music) / int_ed6d2a0a
 Cry Baby (Album) (Music) / int_ee9bf817
type
Sanity Slippage Song
 Cry Baby (Album) (Music) / int_ee9bf817
comment
Sanity Slippage Song: Heavily implied in "Pity Party". 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 The Mad Hatter.
 Cry Baby (Album) (Music) / int_ee9bf817
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Cry Baby (Album) (Music) / int_ee9bf817
 Cry Baby (Album) (Music) / int_fec2b522
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Happy Ending
 Cry Baby (Album) (Music) / int_fec2b522
comment
Happy Ending: The only one in the Cry Baby saga is at the end of the "Mrs. Potato Head" video, where Cry Baby realizes how wrong advertised beauty standards are.
 Cry Baby (Album) (Music) / int_fec2b522
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