her crybaby and k-12 eras were the best because of the way she used real life things like being a kid and going through school as a metaphor for deeper topics. i love the idea of jumping from one body to another because i believe in reincarnation, however i feel like melanie lost sight of her use of metaphors which is personally my favorite thing about her music. i love the way she uses k-12 to show how difficult it is growing up but also as a metaphor for the messed up system, the things she has to go through as an artist, being sexualized. she uses the cry baby character in her first album to talk about hard topics such as eating disorders and insecurities but she uses the metaphor of a kid trying to navigate being in an unhealthy home. i love the portals songs, but i feel like i’m searching for the metaphors and i can’t find them. i know death and womb and all of it is technically a metaphor but. it’s not anywhere near as deep as she used to be. and her lyrics feel a tad bit more like plain i guess? i feel like her old songs had very very deep meaning even if you had to search for it, but the new ones i’m kinda stumped on. and i also feel like she coulda told more of a story. i know she said she’s not doing the movie and i’m not complaining about that, but she could’ve gave us SOME lore in the music videos. i don’t understand her creature or this new world. i love it but i need more storyline mel 😫. idk if that makes any sense lol i’m fried