Vocal Coach Reacts to Melanie Martinez - Death

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[@tristanparedes]

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[@Rabbyrabbit]

Have you ever heard of cocorosie? It's not new if I had to suggest which song it would be between werewolf or lemonade.

[@Randon-mu7gs]

Naurrrr it’s private

[@3verlastinglove]

The way I wanted to scream when you paused it right before I knew the beat drop was coming 😂

[@RoseRoyalREAL]

Sameeeee

[@durkith]

it's also worth noting that there are 9 swords in the scene with melanie's body and the nine of swords is a card in tarot which is associated with anxiety and fear, basically all the things that keep you up at night, death being an idea that causes many anxiety, or some may be afraid of death. I don't know if that was intended but it makes sense

[@cherishhicks6701]

It's also amazing how she did a whole concert with that face application... that has to be so hard to breathe in, let alone perform in.... she truly is amazing!

[@chelseas.horizon2222]

Yeah. I was wondering if she will stop doing the face thing after some time. It must be exhausting to perform with that on. Give her trouble breathing and also so much additional heat, which is already very hot on stage with all the lights and the bouncing around.

[@jesslynnden]

⁠​⁠​⁠@@chelseas.horizon2222 believe she is wearing a mask now instead of the prosthetics so I’m thinking it’s a bit easier to breathe in and perform in, although I’m sure it can still cause problems if she continues wearing it almost every night, especially with it being warm on stage.

[@Cheesetheburgergirl]

Oh i had no idea it was a mask i thought she got plastic surgery lol sorry i am a fan but i haven’t heard her in awhile lol❤

[@hihowareya6861]

When she first released this song i didnt really like it because its so new and out of her style(which is the point) but it grew on me after a few listens and its one of my favorites because of how ethereal and rock it sounded like 😭

[@salmadeloera253]

We weren’t ready but we needed it!!!!

[@rzephh]

SAAAMEEE

[@HauntedJan6]

i disliked it at first now i'm obbessed lmfao

[@ninikiwiah]

shes really amazing even after she stopped smoking she can still sound so good!!

[@bonesnpink9428]

Well yeah, it’s not like smoking was helping her.

[@silverwear]

she stopped smoking??

[@JJEVEHH2]

Weed

[@KillMyPetHorse1988]

Long time ago!

[@Nac444]

@Jennah Eve Thompson yeah she is in her 20's she can smoke

[@richeretrudeau226]

She is using the symbolisim of the Tarot de Marseille. Specifically, the 10 of Swords Arcana. The transformation process has come to an end. Very cool!

[@kaha4835]

I noticed this too omg.. Death is also the "closure"

[@awintersbloom]

Mhm I agree! I love when artists explore deeper, darker concepts that, to the normal consumer, may seem off putting. Death is such a versatile and deeply layered topic with so many notions of how it’s perceived and it’s not talked about nearly enough. Melanie isn’t really evoking fear of death I think, for of the opposite and that’s just so cool to me! Even during the whole Crybaby era, the way she has always visually and lyrically painted things is something you never see artists do. NF has done it quite a lot, so has BTS. But I really can’t recall other artists taking that artistic route so I completely agree, this is very cool :0

[@wendyallen9089]

I know what the songs about but when applying it to my own life, she's the first artist to make me feel peace about the love of my lifes death. She helped me a lot

[@mylesaye]

everybody dies by billie eilish is another good one about death :)

[@softlyyourss]

im so so so proud of her, seeing her grow was the most amazing thing to experience

[@tfaide]

when she whisper screamed 'im back!' it reminded me of when she did the same thing in her song 'detention'. chills (omg why are there so many likes!!)

[@jmouay]

i couldn’t figure out why the "i’m back" whisper kept scratching at my brain, that makes sense now- thank u

[@etherealnerd]

Also class fight now that I think about it!

[@tfaide]

@@etherealnerd omg yes!!

[@softboinard]

Melanie Martinez is incomparably a very creative artist. SHE'S ONE OF A KIND. 🧚‍♀️💗✨

[@esmeraldaalvarado3919]

Love your input on Melanie, I've always loved how she tackles more difficult topics in her work, but this is like beyond amazing and I'm so happy she's getting a lot of recognition for her work and creativity. Also I can't imagine how difficult it must be to perform live in her costume and still sound so amazing!!

[@i_love_band_whoo_band_whoo]

In her movie her and her friend Anglitia are talking and Anglita say " I dont understand why people are so scared of death." To which Crybaby(Melanie) responsed with " You start in the womb and end in a tomb." Just adding to the song

[@iheartheadphones5256]

SHE DROPPED HER DELUX ALBUM!!!! WE NEEEEDDDD

[@bottle429]

He reacted to it live already you can see it in his channel

[@bottledsodapop12]

for context: crybaby aka melanie has special powers that makes her immortal and more. in her movie ‘k-12’ they explain that she morphs into different bodies whenever she dies, and bc she’s immortal she continues her life from the dead. and finally after years she released her reincarnation from her last form in ‘k-12’. hope you understand

[@BValk]

Melanie never disappoints cause she always delivers and commits to her artwork

[@elegantdisarray]

I need to be asleep right now, but I had to watch this before I do. This album was one of the most amazing experiences I've ever had. Melanie is a true artist, and I respect her talent and efforts so much. She is a treasure ✨

[@thundercloudss]

4:37 whispering in songs actually reminds me of Kesha's Crazy Kids. She whispers at the end of the chorus as well

[@tomatoeggs48]

Your analysis of her style is so cool, fun and informative!

[@depressionismything8032]

No notice how deep it was

[@cats_are_cool_too145]

You mentally okay? Something wrong at home? Something ain't going right? Do you need help?

[@depressionismything8032]

@@cats_are_cool_too145 no I mean the thing she flew up really deep down

[@kimberlyfloyd1009]

this song hits so hard live too.... absolutely love her singing.

[@kimberlyferreira8522]

this is her best album yet, she’s very outstanding

[@DOMOLOVER199912]

An actual immediate notification???? What the hell… lol

[@canalesglo]

10:08 its because of the constume/prosthetics is extremely heavy and hot so its a bit hard

[@nievesnadia3]

Im so glad you reacted to this one! So happy for Melanie. She's amazing.

[@pimsooriyo2596]

Omgoshh Tristan, i loved your reaction so much !! That was so much fun to watch💞

[@pillbobaggins2766]

this new sound makes me think of Kerli's "bubble goth"

[@Ponce17]

Seriously though, death is a scary thought.

[@Ginnytonny]

Omg!! It’s been years since I saw you and you look amazing!! Love the hair and you seem sooo at ease and happy 😊

[@zaaaaazaaaaa]

I’m just now realizing that the tarot card death means change which is so cool because she had a tarot reference in the music video

[@KrewFan]

she was working on portals for 4 whole years

[@IdontLoveYou.1]

its giving weirdcore and dreamcore the scenes

[@Hyeinxahyeon]

She is genius

[@thevarietychannelofyoutube4769]

1:31: This stuff usually gets classified as "art pop", thats the genre term your looking for. Listen to Mary Magdeline by FKA Twigs and compare it and youll see what I mean.

[@Denise-qh9oe]

She made void music video

[@megthehappygoth]

I wonder if the sword scene is a reference to the tarot card?

[@MartinAston00]

Whooaaaa I haven’t seen this guy in a while, didn’t even realize it was him cause of the hair.

[@YanaFzain]

When Tristan went, "oH". I felt that too.

[@Itszahia]

Love the first half of the song. I listen to it often

[@Ash-re2fe]

This song is groundbreaking

[@Kyledillon]

Kind of reminds me of ashnikko. Style of music i don't know im hearing almost techno goth like you said but also somthing innocent idk

[@vitorfreitasdecastro4921]

You look so good here! Great vídeo! Have a nice day.

[@maomi3672]

i read the title as melanie martinez is BACON??😭😭

[@johnvincentbandiola4864]

I’m backkkk! Ohhhh gives me so much chill!

[@afternoonteawithbonbon]

Melanie is everything. There is NO ONE doing it like her - love to see the cute ass fairy baddie minorities winning

[@ST4R-MM2-d3y]

I love Melanie’s new character ❤❤❤

[@-_-pan96-_-45]

That terrified me for a second 💀 I was like: REACTS TO WHAT LIKE WHEN DID SHE D!E 💀

[@viisqe]

She never left

[@vandapereira895]

Since I first heard one of her songs, I was absolutely in love with her music, she's unbelievable ❤❤❤❤ !!!! I'm a 🪭 ,🫶

[@Wiley_Coyote]

She's certainly talented at invoking creepy shiate. Even with reinventing herself.

[@laurenribeiro5107]

Happy Easter!! Tristan, would you mind reacting to a Brazilian singer called Antonia Medeiros? She's so unique. Tks for your content

[@shaikhaalholi]

The bunny people remind me of the guards in K-12

[@thedyllymane]

My theory is like.. The album crybaby, is the "birth" of said crybaby like age 0-5, k-12 is crybaby's life age 5-18,maybe 21ish, and she eventually "dies" and portals is crybaby's afterlife or "spirit" like in the beginning of void she's in her "dead heart" but after she crawls out she's then "reborn" into crybaby's spirit and in Death she acknowledges she's Dead. But still living thru her Spirit.

[@thedyllymane]

I made this comment before learning more about crybaby n I'd say I'm pretty much very accurate on that.

[@bellabraden9310]

pls post the reaction to the deluxe tracks if you can🥺🥺🥺

[@yamina1028]

Love you ❤️

[@YouAreDreaming-]

me realizing that portals is the album that there is no cussing

[@namiezofiapadasas4154]

Ig her new self forgot how to swear?-

[@jesslynnden]

Nymphology, Evil, The Contortionist, Milk of the Siren and Moon Cycle have swears in them don’t they?

[@namiezofiapadasas4154]

Ohh yes it does i just realised 🥲 but definitely not as much at k12

[@YouAreDreaming-]

@@jesslynnden i just realized this

[@MonZtera]

you should listen to banshee!! shes a screamo metal artist! i recommend listening to FAIRY METAL or KILL ALL PREDATORS

[@tylerhackner9731]

Very interesting song

[@albemio114]

Oh my... i didn't watch you for a while.. and you had long hair now Look soooo cooolll thoooo❤❤

[@WRBRDXIII2023]

Listen to THE CONTORTIONIST, SPIDER WEB & BATTLE OF THE LARYNX 🥺💕

[@leo-ib6eb]

until the sheets disolve, and we cause an earthquake.

[@rayshawnbrown3973]

EARTHLINGS WHERE U AT 🌍💅 ✨

[@josephhmurciaa]

crash album by charli xcx or let me drown by orville peck 😭😭

[@fr0oggyy]

In death she's saying that crybaby her old self is dead and now something new is born from her dead body and she's saying yeah I'm back don't say I'm dead

[@SharonAvery]

Omg I hope you do K-12

[@jasonhaslem3456]

Can you react to Glass Animals???????

[@alexmcdonald15]

YOU NEED TO LISTEN TO NEVER FELT SO LONELY BY LABRINTH AND BILLIE EILISH

[@pinkcheems]

😍

[@KUKI921]

anyone know how melanie martinez got a cat like mouth

[@ciganyveszely]

Day 702 of requesting a Billy Raffoul song example: You Be Love (acoustic), I’m Not a Saint (acoustic), The Ballad of James Howlett, Hell or High Water, etc...) he has a very unique voice and I think u would like it.

[@thatpanfairy7176]

Her main aesthetic is pastel gore.

[@myasbias7517]

She now has Oliver DNA in her music

[@IDONTWANTANAMEARGH]

No.

[@HauntedJan6]

what

[@1doru]

PLS LISTIN TO NYMPHOLOGY

[@raelin09]

He did a video where he listened to all the songs

[@Nevelepride]

Please look up Angelina Jordan here on youtube! A Young artist with a magical voice! New album coming soon!👌💫❤️

[@aspect_muzic]

React to the kid laroi

[@aekimo12]

Watch K-12 and you'll understand

[@ne-uz3xw]

Addison Rae has a new song you need to see 😂😂😂

[@tristanparedes]

really?? where?

[@ne-uz3xw]

this is the third time i tried to answer you, but for some reason youtube deletes my comments 🥲 but i love you💚🇧🇷

[@ne-uz3xw]

@@tristanparedes again my comments have been deleted l, but is on tictok and Spotify

[@dennyjones5549]

Not going to lie I don’t like the new character design

[@MissPanda-b3u]

That was the best song ever. What do you mean?😢😢😢😢😢

[@maxsunshine]

I'm gonna be honest I really don't like the new Mel. The like new fit is cute I like the alien weird thing that's like cottage core fairy core. But the lyrics are ok for this one but... I hate the auto tune. Also she had another song that just so cannibalism and I can't its disgusting and it's kinda my breaking point tbh.

[@raelin09]

💀

[@Erisblackstone]

Let's not forget that Melanie and her fanbase harassed fellow KZbinr Brad Taste in Music *and* his fiancé, sending them death threats and gore :)

[@melanieadelemartinez4758]

Why?

[@Blinkpink_Editor]

@@bludbrat you do not wish that on no one you have no manners whatsoever.

[@a_cabbage]

not trying to defend the harassment here because that genuinely is terrible, but he also does keep labeling melanie as guilty of something that she very likely did not do according to public evidence, so it's not like he is entirely in the clear either. both sides just need to chill and go at this in a more civil manner but hey, the internet will always be the internet.

[@a_cabbage]

​@@bludbrat please stop, behavior like this is why melanie and the fanbase gets dumped on all of the time, which makes it even harder to convince anyone that she's innocent

[@slayerrr1328]

the way u tried to sneak in Melanie in there 😭 she's not done anything

[@Jack2729o]

She copied Bjork .. in everything 😅

[@-Melanie4EversAlt-]

Girlie BJØRK and Melanie are two whole ass different styles in everything tf, you have to be blind and deaf or something.

[@erinlord7585]

an explanation to DEATH : basically melanie has had the “character/persona” of crybaby since around 2014/2015, she’s gone through being born to her death, death is about the evolution of crybaby and how she is growing in a spiritual aspect , as in the album CryBaby, we saw mel grow and in K-12 we saw her go to “school” and learn, now she’s growing spiritually. In K-12 there’s a part where they say “you start in the womb and end in the tomb “something along those lines… if you look at the track list , DEATH is first and Womb is the last song, portraying that mel is in fact starting a new journey :)

[@Duckyluv2.0]

Omg so many like and no comments? I’m changing that

[@erinlord7585]

@@Duckyluv2.0 thank you hahahaha

[@elitecreepy3175]

Don’t mean to offend but u didn’t exactly say the meaning of death u just kinda told the plot. For example towards the end of the song she says something about even tho her appearance seems morbid she is still the same person and you shouldn’t worry. I just think you left out some things yk 🙃

[@erinlord7585]

@@elitecreepy3175 no i completly agree, her saying it’s morbid is about crybaby dying it was more of a quick run down of the whole ideaology of crybaby and how that’s ended :) feel free to add to it 100% though!! :)

[@niamhduffey5990]

@@erinlord7585 it’s start in the womb and end in the tomb…

[@ashspellman6868]

The coolest thing about this album is that it’s a full cycle if you listen in order at the end it says again life is death is life is… and then death startes playing again it’s beautiful

[@luxleia]

I love that she is getting so much love for this album. She's been working on it for so long and I feel like it's her favorite album she's ever done ❤

[@Blinkpink_Editor]

Melanie is so unique with this album and death is one of my favs from portals. Definitely I would rank this album first, then k-12, then crybaby. All are amazing tho❤ Can’t wait for the portals movie!!

[@VonderfulVal]

If you want to hear another artist who sings about different topics please listen to MARINA (fromerly Marina and The Diamonds) her most recent album is probably the most about topics that other artists dont sing about .(Ancient Dreams in A Modern Land)

[@Hkkilla33]

Top tier! I love her so much, too! Before I listened to Melanie, I kept Marina on repeat along with Lana and Gaga! Gaga was first though and always will be 🥰🫶🏼💓

[@kimberlyferreira8522]

yes oh my god

[@alexandra3252]

Had the deluxe version of this album on repeat constantly. Haven’t listened to a personal no-skip album like this in years

[@johnvincentbandiola4864]

Same! I discover new fave song everyday because of that! Hahahaha!

[@kryslynnortega8030]

Songs I thought I didn’t vibe with for the first few listens, I’ve grown to absolutely love. I listen to the full deluxe every day. Super up there with Crybaby deluxe

[@marissab4193]

Me and my friend were discussing this genre which grimes falls under sometimes and some other artists. We decided on calling it “Celestial Feminine Pop” bc it feels so out of this world fr

[@theyoga.nutritionist]

😫accurate

[@TheDagger-px4ei]

I wasnt a big fan of this song when i first heard it but this helped give me a fresher perspective! I liked the sceaming part a lot i hope she goes more into something darker since shes always possesed that quality

[@Kiyaa930]

One of her songs from K-12 “Nurse’s Office” also has some really cool whispering in it

[@Hkkilla33]

It’s very bubblegoth, kinda like Kerli’s style! I didn’t think she was ever releasing her new music and now that it’s finally out, it’s even better than I thought it would be 🥲🤍

[@pillbobaggins2766]

i just commented that holy shit

[@Seabasstard22]

So the song WOMB ties back into the story if the SONG death. Where the fetus being the soul is being born from the womb, that is, the human body. The worldly experiences shaped who she is in spirit and so that soul is being reborn into this being that isn’t crybaby and she’s telling the fans that she’s evolving and that their words mean nothing (words being their discontent about her changing her sound etc) and to just meet her here in this world of change.

[@Bekisutton]

She is honestly a genius. The lyrics, effects, everything. She is so unique and I am in love with her new album.

[@arabellapearl9925]

Her music videos are always super cool and creative and wayyy more interesting to watch than mainstream artists

[@Not_Gee]

3:58 the noise 💀💀

[@candyblunt]

she’s saying death 😭

[@Not_Gee]

@@candyblunt i was on about the noise tristan made

[@psychotickomachan8910]

The “I’m back” sounds like an evp playback when a spirit tries to talk to the living

[@Madivl]

I don’t talk about death for many of reasons, one reason is 3-4 years ago my step mom talked about death and I was not ok after it it took me 2 years to recover from the trauma it gave me also I was around 7 years old so the thought of death scared me and I would constantly have bad dreams and cry at the topic and sometimes my eyes water and my anxiety kicks in when I think about how I will die someday

[@GuineveresRoses]

Sis same. I get anxious whenever I think about it. Still the song is amazing.

[@KlayExterior]

It’s more pastel goth

[@nootcoourt]

the whole second verse transitioning into the chorus gives me so many shivers idk why but it sounds incredible lmaoo