Unchained Melanie

The enormously popular American singer-songwriter, actress, and director Melanie Martinez (b. 1995) is somewhat sui generis; The Guardian describes her music as “off-kilter, sweary electropop.” Her debut studio album, Cry Baby (2015), which went on to be certified platinum, contains a song called “Mad Hatter,” obviously based on the two Disney movies (1951, 2010) rather than the book. She created two videos for the song, one comparatively tame, the other a rather edgy take, which one of our members describes as “Murderous Teletubbies meet Alice in Pinkland.” At this writing, it’s had 62 million views.

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