ALICE IN WONDERLAND VILLAIN SONG - I Only Paint in Red Now | Song by Lydia the Bard & Tony

Told ya I’d turn her into a villain one day! As usual make sure to read the story below otherwise you will be well and truly lost ✌️ make sure to show some love to Lazyeule (animatic artist) amd Tony (music) in the comments! Thank you both youre the best!

STORY

There once lived a young girl named Alice, who found herself in a strange and mysterious place called Wonderland. The world she had entered was dark and beautiful, full of magic and mystery. At first, she was mesmerised by what she saw, but there was a darkness in the air, a quiet chaos in the very ground, almost as if the land was living, breathing.

Alice’s wonder slowly turned to a growing unease. She began to find herself doing and saying things the past Alice wouldn’t have dreamed of, as whispers in her ear tempted her towards a new version of herself, scrambling her thoughts. It was almost as if Wonderland itself was infecting her with its madness. One moment, she was the curious and polite girl from her village, and the next, she was a twisted reflection of herself. Her laughter became a cackle, her smile a smirk, and her once-bright eyes glinted with a sinister light. Desperate to get back home and return to her normal self, Alice frantically searched for a way out. But each step forward seemed to pull her deeper into the clutches of Wonderland’s madness.

In the depths of the woods, she met the Caterpillar, who eyed her with a knowing look.

“Who are you?” he asked.

“I... I don’t know anymore,” Alice replied, her voice a mixture of confusion and despair. “I need to find my way home.”

Alice’s desperation grew as she felt herself almost split in two, watching this darker version of herself slowly take over. If she could just find her way home before the Wonderland version of herself took full control, then the nightmare would finally be over. But Alice couldn’t have possibly known just how deep Wonderland’s roots were inside her. Sure, she could leave Wonderland, but Wonderland was never going to truly leave her ever again.

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[LydiatheBard]

Moral of the story is - if you’re gonna follow a rabbit down some random hole don’t. Just don’t . Any normal day that’s a weird thing to do, so yaknow maybe not?

[Megamorg]

What's even scarier is that Wonderland is a dream. Her own dream made her go insane; almost like she was destined to go mad all along.

[tamaradelsohn]

The way she turned everyone into twisted versions of themselves makes me wonder - how many of the other denizens of Wonderland were once perfectly normal people/creatures themselves, who found themselves in Wonderland and had their true selves locked away as these alternate versions of them were revealed?

[madebymaryssa]

I like how her hair bow looks like rabbit ears at the end - the rabbit unintentionally led her into Wonderland, and now Alice is the new rabbit, leading Wonderland back into the world she came from.

[sophiegerlofs]

"if you found yourself in Wonderland then you'll find yourself in Wonderland" a quote from the original voice actor of Alice from Alice's wonderland Bakery. So this is what would happen if she didn't find herself in wonderland.

[eee]

The irony of having 'I only paint in red now' as the iconic line but not a single drop of red in the whole video.

[kardanvrsx]

0:43 it's such a small detail but i just found it so cool at how the transparency of the hands and arms display her evil self instead of just being see-through

[xoinkersx]

This is the first villian protagonist song that that the protagonist was not in control. The others had motives based on suffering and some won in the end. Alice was just hopelessly screwed lacking both control and a happy ending.

[SindianStar]

This is not "Alice's" Villain song, this is "Wonderland's" Villain song.... And I am all for it!

[Cheletiba]

The thing that really stands out to me is the emphasis of Alice being a child in Mad Alice's temper tantrum on Mad Hatter's tea party table and how genuinely happy she seems when Wonderland breaks out into the real world. This isn't an evil Alice, this is a child acting childishly even as she goes mad.

[VAMP_PUPPY]

The fact that all the childish wonder she had shifted into grotesque monsters all because she was frustrated and confused by the world and how that directly turned to her being turned to a twisted version of herself and all the hand imagery is just SO GOOOD!!! She stayed in wonderland so long she became a wonderland creature herself.

Edit: TYSM FOR THE LIKES

[SolEquinox]

I love that at the end, once her mind has truly broken, Dark Alice is wearing the striped socks from Alice: Madness Returns. Very cool detail.

[dragovidd]

I feel like Mad Alice treated his victims depending of how they treated her.
People who were Useless/Rude to her got: Death (White Rabbit, The Flowers, Caterpilliar, Chesire(?), Cards)

Queen Of Hearts: She wanted Alice's head, Alice took hers instead and left her alive to torture her.

People who were nice to her (Her Parents, Mad Hatter and the Tea Party Guests): Corruted but, Alive and by her side for all eternity. While Mad Hatter gave her riddles he also gave her cake and tea. He was being nice in his own twisted way. And the tea party guests celebrated her Unbirthday. As weird as this might be, this was their own twisted way of showing kindness.

And get this, in OG when Queen Of Hearts was about to say "Off with her head" Mad Hatter shows out of nowhere and makes her forget what she was about to say by giving her a cake. Only Mad Hatter could distract her from this. Not even the King was able to stop her further than he already had. And when Alice was trying to flee Mad Hatter puts her into a teacup, and the teacup teleports Alice almost near the exit of Wonderland. And in the next scene Mad Hatter is chasing her to prevent Queen of Hearts from knowing he was trying to help Alice. He is playing for both sides, but he was secretly trying to help Alice.

[matt]

I like this idea of Wonderland "consuming" Alice in a bad end for the story. Like the final scene is of another child who fallen down the rabbit hole coming across her to show how far she's fallen.

[jess-a-men]

Interesting Detail: The Cheshire Cat remains unwarped. You never see Alice alter it in any way and it looks pretty much the same at 3:08 as it does at 0:20 (you can't see it's eyes, but I think that might just be because of the perspective, and even if - it would be a significantly lighter change than what happens to the other characters). It's also not among the characters that Alice attacks and destroys at the end.
Now, this might just be a coincidence, but while the Disney version of the Cheshire Cat is rather rude, the version from the original book is the nicest and most helpful character in all of Wonderland; one of the few characters who DOESN'T offer riddles or threats, to the point where, during its second appearance, Alice is genuinely happy to see it again. So maybe the reason the Cheshire Cat escapes fairly unscathed is because Alice, even dark and insane, isn't frustrated with its behaviour.

[fredlueplaystudios]

One of the things I loved most about this incredible song is that you didn't get the Disney characters, which impressed me since your songs are focused on the stories of that company.
The designs are completely original and that made me extremely happy, only the rabbit looks like his Disney counterpart.

[Joel-ir]

I think the song is alluding to that she herself went mad, and not in the level surface of it. One of the first things we hear is "We're all mad here" which then makes the "You're one of us now" of Wonderland Alice seem like it has a far darker connotation.

[delphoxhoopa]

"I'll embrace this Wonderland Crown. I only paint in Red now." Has no right to go so hard.

Also, I love the little detail of Villain Alice's bow getting more pointed like a rabbit or devil's horns. Reminds me of Darla Dimple.

[FinchTornado]

Just realized at 0:45 that through the blue hands that you can see that Alice is already crazy like her sunken blue pupils that look insane.

[squiggle]

Firstly, i have to say, i'm truly eating these incredible designs up.

Secondly, it took a few watches because the song's so fast-paced, but here's what i got for it:
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Alice, done with how unhelpful Wonderland's denizens are, finally snaps, harming them all. Everything we see Mad Alice do is actually what the actual Alice did. The first time we see Mad Alice, it's a reflection in the water. this is when Alice drowned the Cheshire Cat. then, we see the white rabbit look scared of Alice. the next time we see him, he's dead. we know that Alice snapped his neck. The first time we see Mad Alice interact with Alice, she's standing over the dead White Rabbit. We never see what she did to the Mad Hatter, March Hare, or Queen of hearts, but we can assume she stabbed the Hatter in the back, and cut the Queen of Heart's head off ( couldn't think of what she might have done to the March Hare). She massacred the card soldiers, and we see that she also crushed the Blue Caterpillar with a rock, and ripped up the talking flowers. Then, we can assert that the sane Alice being trapped in the mirror is the indicator that Alice has truly gone mad in the real world. Turning her parents into chess pieces is probably just how Alice sees killing her parents. and finally, similar to Alice: Madness returns, that game from 2011, Alice sees London and Wonderland merged, which here means that she's definitely snapped and gone do-lally.