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"Toyland" is an unreleased album by American singer Melanie Martinez. It was planned to be her second studio album, however, she later scrapped it since the project would not fit onto the budget of the film given by her label. It would be released at some point in October of 2018.
Background and Theme[]
The existence of this project was leaked on a forum by an anonymous user (nicknamed by fans as "Jack") who claimed to be a former member of Melanie's team that started working with her in 2014 and left in 2017. In the post, he revealed some information such as unpublished images of the film's recordings that were shoot in United States, an unfinished version of the album's official cover and that the standard edition of the album would have in about 14 tracks. A few days after, the user deleted the post and never spoke about it again, before asking some fans questions about the album.
A month later, a group of hackers broke into Melanie's manager (Ron Shapiro) computer and obtained access to several privates documents, one of them being a document with a lot of information about the album, including titles of some tracks intended for the project. Unfortunately, almost no audio files were found on his computer, just some unfinished demos and recording sessions of some songs. Some tracks originally intended for Cry Baby were also planned to be reworked for the album such as Rocking Horse and Xylophone.
After a week, Melanie spoke about the album through an Instagram storie revealing that she scrapped it due to the budget of her film that would not fit into her planning. So, she decided that instead of cutting parts of the film and leaving it incomplete, it would be easier to create a new album completely from scratch. Melanie in the same day confirmed in a now-deleted tweet that the album would be released in October of 2018, and due to this statement, fans speculated the album would have a very dark theme inspired by the Halloween, as Jack said that actually the album was scrapped due to its very heavy theme that could have traumatize Melanie's younger fanbase.
Tracklist[]
Regarding the information found on the privates documents and Jack's allegations, we were able to assemble part of the tracklist of what could be the real one:
- "A Dolly for President"
- "Building Blocks"
- "Gabby Duck"
- "Jack Out of the Box"
- "Play-Doh"
- "Rocking Horse"
- "Sketchy Barney"
- "Sock Monkey"
- "This is Toyland (Do U Wanna Play?)" (Track 1)
- "Uno!"
- "Xylophone"
Possible Songs[]
These songs were not confirmed by a primary source, but came from reliable insiders and leakers who claimed that these songs were planned for the album:
- Battle Strategy
- Card Games
- Resources
- Tamagotchi
Trivia[]
- Some tracks titles presents in the private documents such as "Play-Doh" and "Sketchy Barney" were wrote as "PlayDough" and "Barney draft idea".
- "Play-Doh" was confirmed as the real title by Jack and also reconfirmed by reliable insiders.
- "Sketchy Barney" was confirmed as the real title by a name of a scene in the scrapped film recordings.
Credits[]
- Originally owned by Rlelenennenenen7 (Currently Inactive)
- Songs ideas by Four Eyed Sphere and SnoeLeopard and Quartz097.