The eighth song on the album is Lunchbox Friends; an ode to what its like having fake friends and how their criticism affects Crybaby. This first starts off with Kelly briefing "befriending" Crybaby when she's gathering her lunch, and singing:
"Hey, girl, will you sit with me? Table in the back of Cafeteria C?We can be friends if you want to be"
Then Kelly pushes Crybaby to the side and admits that after 3, she'll ignore her again. And Crybaby then sings how she wants real friends, not the plastic ones Kelly has, instead quoting...
"I don't want no lunchbox friends, no I want someone who understands, oh, oh, no Come to my house, let's die together Friendship that would last forever"
...implying that real friends with stick with her until the very end, even until death. In the second verse, Melanie talks about what other people want from her, including...
"Want a baby in the back with the man of their dreams That isn't the life for me"
...and...
"Throw it on TV, people have high expectations of me Wanna be my best friend, then judge me"
Instead, Crybaby chooses to focus on her real friends, the other girls that she has met along the way.. even if they're the outcasts.
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K-12 (Melanie Martinez) Analysis
RandomK-12 is Melanie Martinez's second full-studio album of late 2019. In this work, she used her baby and school themed aesthetic to seem cuter on the outside, however there are definitely more stories within if you think more considerably about what sh...
