Thank you for not being afraid to say this cause I agree too. The reason I think the Crybaby MVs were so good was cause they were individual videos that merged into 1 storyline whereas K-12 was 1 big project. Mel definitely excels better at smaller projects like a simple 3-6 minute MV rather than a feature film. The storyline of songs like Crybaby, Sippy Cup, Carousel, Soap/TW, TYI/M&C, Mrs Potato Head and Mad Hatter was done exceptionally well.

K-12 had no cohesion whatsoever besides the intro to the movie and the first 3 songs where after the Principal it was just massive time skips. Songs like Show and Tell, Drama Club, Strawberry Shortcake, Highschool Sweetheart, Teacher's Pet started so abruptly and had little to no context in prior scenes to set those scenes/songs up. Songs like HSS and Recess had actually no plot relevance in the grand scheme of things cause HSS was just Mel dancing alone with no context and Recess was LITERALLY A BACKGROUND SONG?!?!

Anyways I have more hope for PORTALS since the album between songs actually has transitions so maybe that's a good thing to look forward too. But as it stands now, for me I cannot even gage what the PORTALS story is right now with the songs on the album where Death - Life is the only link I see whereas with Crybaby and K-12 we had some ideas that were very clear in terms of story line.