Melanie Martinez's 'Death' music video hidden meanings explained

Melanie Martinez is back after a 4 year hiatus, and just dropped the video for her new song "Death." Now fans are wondering what it all represents. Here's a rundown of some of the hidden meanings people have uncovered so far!

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[nalu]

The tarot card that Melanie represented here is the ten of swords. Which means a painful but necessary ending of something that is hurting you, mostly emotionally. it means ending, ruin, collapse, severing ties, goodbyes. which will lead you to an inevitable change. you literally have to come back from the dead after that card. It's a card for the painful endings. Amazing symbolism Melanie!

[InsaneLaughter]

She’ has butterfly wings and four eyes. In Greek lore, Psyche is granted butterfly wings and dubbed the goddess of the human soul. Also in Greek lore, humans use to be conjoined twins with their soulmates. But the gods decided to split them apart before birth. This is why we have two eyes, two arms and two legs. We have to find our soulmates to be complete again.
In K-12, crybaby and Angelita are talking about being conjoined twins in a past life.

[pxsteI]

FUN FACT:
Dead Crybaby in her grave, her heart was not inside her body. In the song “Cry Baby” the song says “You’re hearts too big for your body, that’s why it won’t fit inside.”

[JesusChrist_]

I didn't realize she was gone that long. For some reason the wait between Crybaby and K12 felt longer, but that hiatus was only 3 years...

[Valentine._.]

If you listen to the entire album form DEATH to WOMB it’s actually a loop ending it with “death is life is…” then when you restart the playlist “..death is life”

[saanasalonen]

this album is peak art. i feel so many things through this journey of visuals and music. just an amazing addition to the world of music that is going down in history.

[RDL]

Actually Evil is about him, not Death, the melody of Death came to her while she was in her ‘Portal’ room while at home from a disembodied voice of a spirit. She talks about it in her song explanations. She actually said that Evil is about her latest ex.

[larabailey]

She also changed all other videos on her channel (every video except for the portals album ones) to a picture of the “RIP Crybaby”.

[Animeyani]

Let's not also forget the RIP crybaby on the mushroom by the grave! She's also absolutely done with that era.

[shineevelvet]

I like really did like the whole umbilical cord scene and basically how painful it was to snatch free from the corpse. which goes hand in hand with the ten of swords tarot card that someone mentioned in their comment on here

[Call_me_the_commenter]

Five people around her grave. Five people went into the portal…. What do we think who’s who?

[NOAH_DA_SIGMA]

Also, in K-12 at the end of the scene with the song "Show and Tell" its shows the doll Melanie, bleeding and guts and insides showing. Now look when Crybaby comes put of the grave in the beginning of the "DEATH" music video. I realized this a couple of days ago and I'll never get tired of sharing it.

What's your favorite Melanie Martinez song? Anyone can answer and anyone can say anything I missed<3 my favorite is currently "NYMPHOLOGY" but it might change after I listen to the rest of the album with one of my friends<3

[RioDelight]

I already knew what the "DEATH" MV meant, mainly because it's like a new you being born. But I appreciate you letting those who don't know now know.

[kennylovesyouu]

in the k-12 movie, the angel says to melanie, “you will have many bodies after this.”. so DEATH is her rebirthing into her new body, melanie didnt go in the portal and t the of the movie, so her friends though she died and made a grave for her.

[FAR]

Actually, in a TikTok talking about the release of void, it was revealed that she wrote the whole album off of hypnotherapy type themes and the cycle of life and death. (Or something very similar)

[WHAL-E]

Also death is tarot can mean a re-birth in some situations. Which fits quite well for this!!

[imateakettle]

By “I’m back”, it may also signify Crybaby’s return in her true form (Portal).

[yessica]

I grew up with crybaby and I remember being sleepless because she would drop a mv for almost every one of her songs so I didn't want to miss it. I hope she does the same thing with the new album.

[artemis]

It's a video about being reimcarnated/reborn, it's not that hard to figure out what's it's about. I hate it when videos say, "Hidden Meaning", treating viewers like we are dumb

[jaihamilton]

She never stopped making music, she would have been working on music this whole time, for this album as well as others