After announcing her new album dubbed ‘Portals’ last month, Melanie Martinez has now teased that the album’s first single will be released on Friday, March 17, to the delight of fans.
Earlier this week, Martinez bid farewell to “Cry Baby” — the alter-ego child version of Martinez portrayed on both her Cry Baby debut and follow-up album and in feature film K-12 — with a viral TikTok. The visual zoomed in on the words “RIP Cry Baby” carved into a giant mushroom as Martinez sang in a seemingly new song: “My body has died but I’m still alive. Look over your shoulder, I’m back from the dead.”
Goodbye, Cry Baby. On Wednesday, Melanie Martinez announced her return after four years with the release of her third studio album, Portals. To accompany the announcement, she shared a video of herself hatching from an egg as a pink, deep sea-styled creature. Portals is set to release on March 31, and it’s Martinez’s first record since leaving behind her “Cry Baby” persona.
“Portals screams death is life is death is life is death is life,” she said in an ominous press statement. “A continuous loop. A circle.” “What is incomprehensible to us as humans, Is home to us as souls, Death is life is death is life is death is life is,” the single announcement post says.
Martinez’s new album is taking a vastly different artistic approach from her previous albums, finding the artist taking a new creative approach that is much more abstract, ethereal, and mystical.
Martinez also portrays a new character, a pink alien-like creature that many fans theorize is a reincarnation of her previous Cry Baby persona from ‘K-12′ (2019) and ‘Cry Baby’ (2015).
The single, called ‘Death’ was announced in a cryptic post on Martinez’s Instagram account, with a caption that is presumably the lyrics from the song. The post also featured what appears to be Martinez’s pink alien alter-ego emerging from a prone human form.
The album announcement on Wednesday captured the singer, covered in pink and with Shape of Water-reminiscent facial prosthetics, as she burst out of a giant egg while a new song played in the background.
Portals is Martinez’s first release since her After School EP in 2020, which was featured on an extended version of her 2019 LP K-12. The LP included tracks like “Show & Tell,” “Drama Club,” and “Wheels on the Bus.” Her follow-up After School EP featured the single “The Bakery.”
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