Not many artists can create a song that has a great tune and catchy lyrics, while also being somewhat dark, but Melanie Martinez's Dollhouse is all of this and much more. Dollhouse was Melanie Martinez's debut song after competing in The Voice. It mostly has an AABB rhyme, with outlying lines that have no rhyme throughout the song. Dollhouse talks about a young girls dollhouse and its inhabitants, a perfect-seeming family with many issues. The song is narrated by the daughter in the family of dolls- named Crybaby by Melanie- and her observations. In Dollhouse, Melanie Martinez uses rhyme and music to convey the theme that however perfect a family may seem on the outside, they all have their own issues below the surface. “Hey girl, open
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21) I believe this means that Crybaby’s mother is good looking, wealthy and potentially looked up to, because she’s ‘got it going on.’ the next line is ‘Ha! You’re blinded by her jewlery” (L. 22) so, like everything else in her family, Crybaby’s mother is different then she seems. lines 23 and 24 go “When you turn your back, she pulls out a flask, and forgets his infidelity.” This continues the idea that the father is a cheater and the mother is using alcohol as an escape from the reality of her relationship. “”Uh-oh, she's coming to the attic. Plastic, go back to being plastic” (L. 25-26) mean that the girl is coming back to the attic, so the family must once again become the plastic ‘perfect family’, ready to be played with. The chorus repeats, followed by a repeat of lines one and two, and an encore of the chorus before the song ends. In conclusion, Melanie Martinez’s Dollhouse discusses a girl's view of her dysfunctional family and how we’re not all exactly how we seem. It is a song about a failing relationship, and how no matter how beautiful someone is, they almost always have some issue. Dollhouse uses the power of music to tell the story of a girl and her family, and it does a great job of it. I believe that Dollhouse is a great song, and that we could all learn that everyone has their own problems, we just need to look through the
21) I believe this means that Crybaby’s mother is good looking, wealthy and potentially looked up to, because she’s ‘got it going on.’ the next line is ‘Ha! You’re blinded by her jewlery” (L. 22) so, like everything else in her family, Crybaby’s mother is different then she seems. lines 23 and 24 go “When you turn your back, she pulls out a flask, and forgets his infidelity.” This continues the idea that the father is a cheater and the mother is using alcohol as an escape from the reality of her relationship. “”Uh-oh, she's coming to the attic. Plastic, go back to being plastic” (L. 25-26) mean that the girl is coming back to the attic, so the family must once again become the plastic ‘perfect family’, ready to be played with. The chorus repeats, followed by a repeat of lines one and two, and an encore of the chorus before the song ends. In conclusion, Melanie Martinez’s Dollhouse discusses a girl's view of her dysfunctional family and how we’re not all exactly how we seem. It is a song about a failing relationship, and how no matter how beautiful someone is, they almost always have some issue. Dollhouse uses the power of music to tell the story of a girl and her family, and it does a great job of it. I believe that Dollhouse is a great song, and that we could all learn that everyone has their own problems, we just need to look through the