Melanie Martinez - Numbers [Official Audio]

POV: it’s really late on a school night and your favorite music artist just spoiled you with a lot of music

*Basically everyone sleeping * Melanie: *drops a whole EP*

She's REally Pouring Out Her Heart on this ONE. She's talking about how the industry doesn't care about her Creativity, they only care about her making a record hit. and she is exhausted, and just feels like just a number that can just be cut off and replaced so easily. They play A LOT of GAMES in the industry. As the TEMPO INCREASES it's like how the music hits the charts, sometimes you'll rise and sometimes you'll numbers will DROP- as the tempo slows is like when you are no longer popular and your dead and useless to them and they just throw you away.

I love how she sounds less and less human as the song goes on... it really portrays the message she's trying to convey and it makes my brain tingle

Crybabies: * hating school * Also crybabies: * loving melanie her songs about school *

I still can’t believe K-12 was a year ago-

I love the “ am I just a numberÆÄÊĄGH “ part 😍😍

Hot take: After School has some of her absolute best works on it and is criminally underrated. This is the best damn song they’ve ever made no joke.

Her vocal technique is very different in these new songs. It's quite refreshing actually. It's harder, darker, more mature. I really like the edge that her voice has.

You can really tell she played with her style and voice and it’s something I didn’t know I needed until now

Unpopular opinion: This is one of the best songs of mel.

lyrics for me <3 Count up your portions, count up your checks Feeding your fam while you're coming at my neck When ya gonna freeze with the cruel dramatics? I'm not inspired by your foolish practice Butter your bullshit, set up your fence I'm just the chicken giving you the egg Soon you're gonna see that your breath was wasted Don't speak too soon on your doubts, you're making A big deal out of a little thing Why should I try to conform to formulated paths? When clearly all my instincts led to something more magical? Am I just a number? 'Cause it seems like that's your goal You push us past our limits just to watch decimals grow Oh, I need a reason why I'm looked at like a joke Until I prove you wrong like I've done time and time before And all your idle teaching and your criticism lack The potential to penetrate my solid golden path To decide what my future is, I'm my own clairvoyant There's no controlling me Imagination on ascend Take me to Venus, let me explode I'm ready to pop like a volcano Jump over me like you're playing hot lava Emotions on one hundred thousand, who's gonna Shake me like soda creme, but, of course Use all your words to distract from the source Of where all the growth on the paper happens Leave me alone in my own concoction Pricking all my fingertips to carve out many roads Pushing out the petals from the bud of what I know Am I just a number? 'Cause it seems like that's your goal You push us past our limits just to watch decimals grow Oh, I need a reason why I'm looked at like a joke Until I prove you wrong like I've done time and time before And all my intuition says is, "Expansion comes first" But not just by material, I'm talking 'bout in here My heart space and my cranium must be loved too, my dear Don't push me to the edge until I'm useless and can't feel They replaced their search for knowledge With the reach of many material gains They lack the tenderness of the sensitive Empathetic bodies crying from the pain It's too late to grow their frame Of mind it seems that it's already made No use in arguing with someone who doesn't Wanna prioritize birthing of creation Am I just a number? Am I just a number? Am I just a number? Am I just a number? Am I just a number? 'Cause it seems like that's your goal You push us past our limits just to watch our numbers grow Oh, I need a reason why I'm looked at like a joke Until I prove you wrong which I've done time and time before And all my intuition says is, "Expansion comes first" But not just by material I'm talking 'bout in here My heart space and my cranium must be loved too, my dear Don't push me to the edge until I'm useless and can't feel

Melanie: here, full album Everyone: -SCREAMING TRYING TO WATVH LITERALLY EVERY SINGLE ONE BEFORE SCHOOL ads: so.. ya like batterys?

The way that she takes her time with her creativity and actually puts a story behind her music instead of just pushing out music to make money is so beautiful.

Here's something I noticed- in this song she says "Take me to Venus" and in one of her songs from PORTALS she says "Somewhere on Venus they're searching for me"

"Take me to venus" "They're looking for me on venus"

Show & Tell: Who are you? Numbers: I'm you but deeper and more sad.

It’s cool how she can turn “ Am I just a numbeHEARARRRREWARSRE “ into beautiful lyrics

Happy birthday Melanie!!! 🎉🎊✨️👼🏻💗

I come back to this song every so often because this is something I can’t put into words. The way the school system has treated me is completely unfair to my emotions or personal wants. I could not force myself to go to school because of how bad it made me feel for falling behind, how horrible being in a classroom full of ignorant people was, how the curriculum itself was constructed so you couldn’t be creative if you tried. Am I just a number to them? Do I need to be numb to the system’s abuse in order to understand? Leave it to Melanie to voice mine and so many other’s pain so clearly through song