Four years after her alt-pop debut LP Cry Baby made her a cult hero, Melanie Martinez has revealed her sophomore record, K-12, which incorporates her persona from her first release, “Cry Baby,” into a story ostensibly about school, but which incorporates far more.
While the project began as a concept album, K-12 quickly evolved to incorporate a full-length feature film of the same name when Martinez drafted began drafting a script in 2017. Nearly two years later, it has come to life as a visual dream world of the 24-year-old’s own making, picking up from where her debut album Cry Baby left off. “My main goal [with the film] was to display school as a condensed version of life and to show the parallels between the two,” Martinez tells Billboard.
Martinez, who revealed in 2017 to Billboard she’d be working on a film to go alongside her sophomore album, has maintained a distinct creative voice throughout her career. Two years following her stint as a contestant on The Voice, the Queens native signed to Atlantic Records and released her debut EP, Dollhouse, whose creepy pop single “Carousel” was memorably featured in the preview for FX miniseries American Horror Story: Freak Show.
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