Cry Baby

by Melanie Martinez

Cry Baby cover art

The debut from the former television talent show contestant is a highly stylized concept album centered around a deeply flawed, hyper-emotional titular character. Sonically, it subverts innocent childhood aesthetics and nursery rhyme melodies by wrapping them in heavy, booming trap-pop beats and distinctly mature themes of family dysfunction and mental illness. It achieved massive, slow-burning viral success among a heavily devoted fanbase.

Genres

  • Alt-Pop
  • Electropop
  • Contemporary R&B

Tracklist

  1. Cry Baby
  2. Dollhouse
  3. Sippy Cup
  4. Carousel
  5. Alphabet Boy
  6. Soap
  7. Training Wheels
  8. Pity Party
  9. Tag, You're It
  10. Milk and Cookies
  11. Pacify Her
  12. Mrs. Potato Head
  13. Mad Hatter