Song Meanings and Facts

Song Meanings and Facts

Tagged: Melanie Martinez

The Show

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“The Show” by Melanie Martinez

The show expresses about a little girl who is caught in the web of love in a world that she hardly understands. After realizing that she may have made a rash decision of falling...

Crazy

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“Crazy” by Melanie Martinez

The song “Crazy” essentially describes the inability of society to actually understand the behaviors of certain characters in society and what they go through. It stresses that society usually perceives certain things to be...

Lights

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“Lights” by Melanie Martinez

This track expresses the inability to sleep when the lights are turned off. The narrator (Melanie Martinez) essentially describes the mood she feels and what runs through her head whenever the lights are turned...

Hit the Road Jack

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“Hit the Road Jack” by Melanie Martinez

“Hit the Road Jack” captures the demands a tired partner makes when they want their significant other to leave for good, and never come back to hurt them. The narrator is so determined to...

Toxic

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“Toxic” by Melanie Martinez

Melanie Martinez sings about an addictive love affair in “Toxic”. She describes her feelings as deep and addictive. The kind of love that makes her want more and more. Despite her awareness of the...

Bulletproof

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“Bulletproof” by Melanie Martinez

In the song “Bulletproof”, the narrator (Melanie Martinez) reminds herself as well as the antagonist that she will no longer be hurt by the things that used to affect her emotions, especially in a...

Too Close

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“Too Close” by Melanie Martinez

On “Too Close”, the narrator (Melanie) simply confesses her desire to part ways with a significant other although she doesn’t mean to cause him pain. The singer’s guilt is evident in the fact she...

Seven Nation Army

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“Seven Nation Army” by Melanie Martinez

The writer, Jack White has mentioned that as a child, he used to call the Salvation Army, the “Seven Nation Army”. Therefore when he created the riff for this particular song, he named it...

Mrs. Potato Head

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“Mrs. Potato Head” by Melanie Martinez

In “Mrs. Potato Head”, Melanie Martinez simply addresses women who undergo plastic surgeries. She suggests that they have been brainwashed to accept what the media and society define as beauty without thinking. She advises...

Piggyback

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“Piggyback” by Melanie Martinez

Melanie Martinez’s “Piggyback” goes straight to the point in addressing fake people or friends who try to take advantage of others. Melanie begins to recount her childhood and describes it as living in a...