Melanie Martinez - Tag, You're It (Possible Idea)
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| Extract from the Cry Baby book that comes with the album. |
Lines like "Let me take you for a joyride//I've got some candy for you inside" are sung from the perspective of her attacker or "the wolf". The distortion of her voice lends a sense of sinister intentions as that is a stereotypical convention of a deep/distorted voice - it also links to the idea "the wolf" being male as a male's voice is usually deeper than a female's. "Candy" and "joyride" are typical attributes associated with paedophiles (since Cry Baby is still a adolescent at this moment in time of the story).
Throughout the chorus, "Tag" is used a metaphor for sexual assault. The repetition of "Tag, you're it, tag, tag, you're it" shows that this traumatic event has taken a toll on Cry Baby - forcing her to replay the scenario over and over again in her mind. "Running through the parking lot, he chased me and her wouldn't stop//Tag, you're it, tag, tag, you're it"
The following song is called "Milk and Cookies" where Cry Baby poisons her attacker with melatonin filled cookies. Due to the meaning behind this song being maybe the deepest/darkest track on the album, it would allow us to explore mature themes. However, in the Cry Baby story book; the man is represented as a wolf who is an ice cream man - playing on the child-like dark concept of the album. Because of this, we could approach the song as being hunted in the woods by someone.
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