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Melanie Martinez
American singer-songwriter (born 1995)
Melanie Adele Martinez is an American singer-songwriter. Born in Astoria, Queens, and raised in Baldwin, New York, Martinez rose to fame in 2012 after appearing on season 3 of the American television talent show The Voice.
Following the show, she was signed to Atlantic Records and released her debut single "Dollhouse", which was certificed 2× platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA). It was followed by her debut extended play of the same name (2014).
genres: emo pop, EDM trap music, indie pop, electronica, alternative music, rhythm and blues
plays: voice, guitar
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indie popalternative popcreepy poppop2010s2020s
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Early life
Melanie Adele Martinez was born on April 28, 1995, in Astoria, Queens, to parents Mery and Jose Martinez who are of Dominican and Puerto Rican descent. Her family moved to Baldwin, New York, on Long Island, when Martinez was four.
Martinez's music has been described as pop, alternative pop, art pop, electropop, and dark pop. Cry Baby and K–12 were seen to have hip hop and R&B undertones. Portals saw Melanie venturing into experimental sounds and pop-rock.
Martinez listened to Christina Aguilera, Brandy, Britney Spears, The Beatles, Tupac Shakur, Shakira, and Biggie Smalls growing up, and wanted to be a singer from a young age.
Melanie Martinez (born April 28, 1995) is an American singer and songwriter. Born in Astoria, Queens, and raised in Baldwin, New York, Martinez rose to fame in 2012 after appearing on season 3 of the American television talent show The Voice. Following the show, she was signed to Atlantic Records. In 2014, she released her debut extended play (EP), Dollhouse. Martinez later released 4 studio albums; Cry Baby in 2015, K-12 in 2019, PORTALS in 2023, and HADES in 2026
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Liner notes
Melanie Martinez, the records, oldest first
Dollhouse EP
2014 ep
Cry Baby
2015 album
wanted
Pity Party EP
2016 ep
Cry Baby’s Extra Clutter EP
2016 ep
K–12
2019 album
wanted
After School EP
2020 ep
PORTALS
2023 album
wanted
The Cry Baby Collection
2026 album
HADES
2026 album
Take Me to the Moon
year unknown ep
[unknown title]
year unknown ep
Records from MusicBrainz; covers from the Cover Art Archive.
"Carousel" is a song by Latin American singer-songwriter Melanie Martinez. The song was featured on Martinez's debut EP, Dollhouse (2014) and her debut studio album Cry Baby (2015).
"Carousel" was released on September 1, 2014, as the second single from Dollhouse. A music video accompanying the song was released on October 15, 2014.
Background and composition
In 2014, the song was featured in a preview of season four of FX's horror anthology series, American Horror Story, with the theme also being a riff on the song. Martinez told the Huffington Post that American Horror Story is "'absolutely, hands down' her favorite show" and mentioned that she contacted FX about the song as soon as she heard about the season's carnival theme. She later received a call from the network two days before the promo aired.
Critical reception
Lyndsey Parker of Yahoo! Music praised the song and Martinez, saying, "Melanie Martinez has moved on from The Voice to American Horror Story. And her new song and video are so good. The two-toned-haired Goth girl wonder, one of the most unique contestants to ever appear on The Voice ... While her new video for the song, out just in time for Halloween, isn't quite as twisted as anything on AHS, it's still totally creepy-cool, depicting a doomed romance that literally spins out of control at a dark, deserted Long Island carnival".
"Death" is a song by American singer-songwriter Melanie Martinez. It was released on March 17, 2023, through Atlantic Records as the lead single from her third studio album, Portals.
It became her first song to chart on the US Billboard Hot 100 since 2012, peaking at number 95.
Background
In March 2023, Martinez uploaded a post to Instagram featuring a cryptic message and a photo showcasing the alter-ego pink fairy or nymph character "emerging from a prone human form". The post also showed a set of lyrics, a release date, and the title of the lead single. The song was later released on March 17, 2023.
Music video
The video begins with five masked dancers glancing into Cry Baby’s grave, where they place plants. Cry Baby is in the grave with an open wound on her heart. A version of Martinez with pink skin, multiple eyes, and fairy-like wings then appears from Cry Baby's heart and elevates to the surface. Throughout the video, the camera cuts to the dancers on an island with Cry Baby's grave, and this version of Martinez with blue hair singing or on a hoop performing tricks with dancers, still elevating. She then stabs Cry Baby's corpse with nine swords. Near the end, the elevating Martinez rips a cord connecting her alter-ego, Cry Baby, trying to escape the grave. As the dancers finish burying Cry Baby, Martinez pops out of the ground and the video...
"Pity Party" is a song by American singer-songwriter Melanie Martinez based on Lesley Gore's 1963 hit "It's My Party". It was released as the lead single from her debut album, Cry Baby (2015), on June 2, 2015.
The music video was released on June 1, 2015. It impacted contemporary hit radio on March 22, 2016.
Background and composition
An alt-pop and electro track, the song uses the chorus from Lesley Gore's "It's My Party" released in 1963, as an interpolation, and also employs the iconic repeating-note horns hook from the original song as the recurring theme throughout. On July 28, 2016, the song was certified Gold by the RIAA, having sold 500,000 copies.
Music video
The music video for "Pity Party" was released on June 1, 2015. However, the video was leaked 3 days prior to the official release.
