earlgraytay:

scammer:

anti-ddlg-mawile:

cipherotl:

noahfence but 2017 should be the year we start treating melanie martinez like the shit that she is

her music is all about rape, trauma, abuse and glorifying mental illness (especially psychosis) and that’s broadcasted to her audience which is literally just middle school girls

you wouldn’t believe how many girls my age say shit like “ugh im such a psycho!!” or “sorry, im totally insane” thinking its cool. and I know girls have always done this, but it’s so much worst now that a popular artist like melanie perpetuates these ideas in their brains

its so damn toxic. I remember when I had this mentality I literally denied help from ANYONE and its because of artists like melanie martinez

lyrics like “you think im gonna tell the psychiatrist something is wrong” and “all the best people are crazy” shouldn’t be listened to by little girls.

melanie martinez makes shit music and her career belongs in the garbage, bye

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we arent just gonna ignore that she made the song “tag you’re it” about being a child and being kidnapped and raped by a predator.

I don’t have a Pokemon in this fight- I literally give zero fucks about Melanie Martinez as a musician and I think her Sad Crazy Baby Girl persona is irritating. But… as an artist, I have beef with this. 

I’m a PTSD survivor myself. A lot of my work winds up being about stuff that has to do with my trauma, whether I mean it to or not. In my case, the trauma stuff is a lot less Grossly Controversial than child sexual assault, so no one really complains. But it’s still there, it’s still a factor in my work, and taking away my ability to write about it would cripple my recovery and my artistry. 

Most artists don’t talk about these things explicitly, because there’s a huge amount of shame and stigma that goes along with having mental illness and dealing with trauma and being a victim. But again: we still gotta work through it somehow, and art is one of the best and least harmful ways to do it. 

How do you know she’s not singing about rape, trauma, abuse, being a child victim, and mental illness because she’s had to deal with those things? How do you know she’s not using her ~crazy girl~ persona as a way to express her frustration with a society that treats her like a crazy person and both infantalizes and demonizes her for being a victim? 

Unless she comes out and says something? You can’t know. And if you mock any artist who talks about this stuff in a way you don’t approve of, the chances are, you’re mocking and harassing survivors for talking about their trauma. Is that really a thing you want to be doing?

Also, while I’m ranting – you do realize that most teenagers in the USA don’t have access to proper psychological care, right? You realize that the teenagers who need it most are likely to live in poverty or have abusive parents who restrict their access to care? You realize people without access to psych care need some kind of coping mechanism so they can hold themselves together? 

 I didn’t have access to proper psych care until I got into college. I’m autistic. If I didn’t hold onto the phrase “all the best people are mad” (and a couple other mantras- the Bene Gesserit Litany of Fear is a good one), I would probably not be here to shout at you right now. 

Was it toxic? Enh, probably; I could have done without the nerdy-autistic-people-are-superior-to-everyone-else thing I had going on. Did it keep me alive? Hell yes. Did it keep me from becoming even more of a self-loathing wreck? Hell yes.  

Until we live in a world where every teenager has access to good, quality mental healthcare? A world where abuse is unspeakably rare and adults don’t write off mentally ill teenagers? Kids and teenagers are going to need ‘toxic’ coping mechanisms, because treating ‘craziness’ like a good thing is better than feeling utterly broken and alone. 

TL:DR; You’re hurting the people you want to help. The social norms you want to enforce will make it harder for survivors to talk about their experiences and harder for people without mental health care to survive.