Everafter

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Everafter
Studio Album
Artist	Melanie Martinez
Released	Standard : February 22nd, 2022 Deluxe : April 30th, 2022
Recorded	2020-2021
Genre	Alternative Pop • Art Pop • Dark Pop • Dream-Pop • Electro-Pop • Indie-Pop • Pop • R&B • Soft Pop
Length	50:51(Standard) 1:14:49(Deluxe)
Label	Atlantic Records
Producer(s)	Dan Auerbach David Kahne Felix Snow Jack Antonoff Justin Parker Kinetics & One Love Melanie Martinez (Exec.) Michael Keenan Rick Nowels Robopop Sacha Skarbek Zach Dawes
Melanie Martinez Chronology
Previous	After School
Current	Everafter
Next	Cypress Canyon

"Everafter" is the third studio album of Melanie Martinez. Martinez began writing and recording songs for it and her fourth extended play, After School, simultaneously. She began to divert her full attention just for the album by the EP's release. The album had 12 tracks, and was released on February 22^nd, 2022.

Background and Promotion

Martinez had planned out a film that comes along with the album. The filming was started late-2020, however it was postponed due to the CoVID-19 pandemic, and unfortunately was discontinued for good. She said in an interview that she didn’t want to risk all of the actors and producers involved to CoVID-19, despite having a vaccine and everything. This majorly affected the actual album’s tracklist and was ultimately cut down from 16 to 12 tracks. She began writing songs for the album whilst recording songs for K-12, but most of the songs that are in the album now weren't recorded up until after the release of her fourth extended play, After School. Throughout 2021, she’d send hints and the status of her work-on-progress album.

On February 22^nd 2021, she posted a picture of herself with some ivory-colored butterflies on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram, with a caption saying “Finally, here arrives the sunrise, the dark’s gone as time flies, never happy or cheery, a year later, save the date for me.” The former part of the caption samples lyrics from the fourth track of her album, Avalon. Turns out that February 22^nd of next year was the album’s release date.

On March 27^th, 2021, she posted two photos of herself, this time exclusively to Instagram. It was a photo of her holding a crowbar, and the second one just her in a white dress. These seemed to be song references which are now both known as Velvet Crowbar and Ultraviolence. A week later, April 3^rd, she posted two extended snippets covering both Velvet Crowbar and Ultraviolence by Lana Del Rey on Facebook.

On April 17^th 2021, she further hyped up her album by posting a snippet of her title track Everafter on Twitter. With the caption being the snippet’s lyrics. She confirmed in an interview a few days later that that wasn’t even the snippet she meant to send out to Twitter, however she went for it as it was a song that is for sure going to be included in the album.

On May 23^rd, 2021, she answered a question on Twitter about the film, and she revealed that the planned film was ultimately discontinued due to the CoVID-19 pandemic. A week later, May 30^th, she posted another extended snippet of another song, now confirmed to be Wild Goose Chase, exclusively on Twitter.

On August 21^st, 2021, she posts another extended snippet, now known as Treadmill, on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram. It had a caption saying, “Track 9. <3”

On September 16^th, 2021, she posts five pictures of her with a polaroid and photographs, with the background getting darker and the last one having blood included. The song she was referencing is now known as Final Photographs Pt. II.

On October 19^th, 2021, she posted her final extended snippet, exclusively on Instagram. The song, now known as Thorn, is said by Martinez to be the second shortest track of the album, with the shortest one being an introduction track.

Arriving November 7^th, she reveals that the album has 12 tracks, and it was supposed to have 11, but she had to add an introduction track. She answers a question on her Instagram story the next day, asking what track did she have a hard time composing, she blatantly says, “Track 4.”

On January 18^th, 2022, she revealed the album’s name, Everafter, its tracklist, and its release date, being February 22^nd on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram. The next day, she releases a cinematic album teaser, featuring the introduction piece that she produced, Black Canvas, on YouTube. She further revealed that she used all of the footage they got from the discontinued film for the teaser.

Finally, February 22^nd, 2022, arrives, and the album is released on all media-platforming services. She even released lyric videos for all of the tracks on YouTube.

In an interview on March 1^st, 2022, she teased that it will have a deluxe version and it will have 7 exclusive tracks, and it will be coming very soon. Two weeks later, March 15^th, 2022, she posted two extended snippets of two songs in the Deluxe version which are now known as Depths of Blue and Heart Flag, exclusively on Facebook.

On March 21^st, 2022, she shared an extended snippet of a song, now known as Eclipse on both Twitter and Instagram. All the snippets that she shared for both the standard and deluxe albums were taken down on March 30^th, 2022.

On April 1^st, 2022, she hyped her deluxe album up and said that it will be released the very next week on April 8^th. As expected by numerous fans it was nothing more than a cruel April Fools joke.

On April 16^th, 2022, a day and a week after her little prank, she shared the deluxe tracklist on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram, but it only had 6 new tracks, and not 7 as she said in the interview in March. Turns out she had to cut the song as it didn’t really fit the overall theme of the album, nor did it fit as one of the transitions towards the next one, confirming that it may not even be released despite it being one of the favorite songs she recorded overall. The song turns out to be one of the extended snippets she posted on March 15^th, and was Heart Flag. She further revealed that it will be released very soon, “Maybe about a week or two?” she tweeted on Twitter a few hours after the tracklist reveal.

She kept her word as on April 30^th, 2022, the deluxe version of the album was released on all media-platforming services, and she released lyric videos for all of them just like what she did for the standard album.

Recording Sessions

The following is a list of known dates on which Martinez was in the studio, either writing or recording songs for the album.

2020

• February 19^th
• February 26^th
• February 27^th(Treadmill draft reemerges and gets repurposed.)
• March 14^th
• March 18^th
• March 21^st
• March 25^th
• April 6^th(Concepts for Black Canvas and Lost Cause.)
• April 10^th
• April 15^th
• April 23^rd
• May 4^th
• May 17^th
• May 18^th(Guertena is conceptualized and is in the works.)
• May 21^st
• May 25^th
• May 26^th
• June 2^nd
• June 11^th
• June 12^th
• June 13^th
• June 17^th
• June 18^th(Treadmill is completed and finalized.)
• October 4^th
• October 14^th
• October 15^th(Lost Cause lyrics are complete.)
• October 18^th(Both Avalon and Thorn are conceptualized.)
• October 21^st
• October 25^th
• November 20^th
• November 21^st
• November 28^th(Black Canvas piece finalized and complete.)
• December 1^st(Avalon demo recorded.)

2021

• January 12^th(Everafter, Bandage, and Earl Grey concepts and demos.)
• January 30^th(Avalon being revamped.)
• February 16^th
• February 18^th
• February 21^st
• February 22^nd
• February 27^th(Thorn is completed and finalized.)
• February 28^th
• March 1^st(Everafter and Earl Grey complete.)
• March 13^th
• March 14^th
• March 16^th(Brown Study is registered at both ASCAP and BMI Repertoires.)
• March 17^th(Velvet Crowbar and Ultraviolence cover concepts.)
• March 21^st
• March 25^th(Velvet Crowbar and Ultraviolence completed; Wild Goose Chase conceptualized.)
• April 28^th
• April 30^th(Wild Goose Chase is done and finalized.)
• May 6^th
• May 13^th
• May 16^th(Final Photographs Pt. II is in the works.)
• May 20^th
• July 22^nd
• July 23^rd
• July 26^th(Revamped version of Avalon is complete and finalized.)
• July 30^th
• August 3^rd
• August 4^th
• August 8^th(Bandage is completed.)
• August 13^th
• August 14^th
• August 17^th(Final Photographs Pt. II is done and finalized.)
• August 18^th
• August 21^st
• September 15^th
• September 16^th
• September 17^th
• September 18^th(All the tracks are now being remastered and polished for the last time.)
• September 19^th
• September 20^th
• September 28^th
• October 1^st
• October 6^th
• October 10^th
• October 11^th(Tracklist ordering.)
• October 12^th(Album is officially done.)

Theme

The album was overall much more bittersweet and melancholy. Talking about themes like grief over a loved one, desperation of love from them, blood and gore, rags to riches, etc. All ended off with a sultry cover of Velvet Crowbar.

Tracklist

No.	Title	Writer(s)	Producer(s)	Length
1.	"Black Canvas"	Melanie Martinez	Martinez	2:12
2.	"Everafter"	Martinez, Kinetics & One Love	David Kahne, One Love	4:15
3.	"Bandage"	Martinez, Michael Keenan, Felix Snow	Keenan, Snow	5:00
4.	"Avalon"	Martinez, Keenan	Keenan, Snow	4:33
5.	"Lost Cause"	Martinez, Rick Nowels, Dan Auerbach	Auerbach	4:02
6.	"Earl Grey"	Martinez, Kinetics & One Love	One Love	4:13
7.	"Guertena"	Martinez, Sacha Skarbek, Robopop	Skarbek, Robopop	4:49
8.	"Thorn"	Martinez, Keenan	Keenan, Jack Antonoff	3:53
9.	"Treadmill"	Martinez, Kinetics & One Love	One Love, Robopop, Snow	4:06
10.	"Wild Goose Chase"	Martinez, Antonoff, Zach Dawes	One Love, Dawes	4:20
11.	"Final Photographs Pt. II"	Martinez, Antonoff, Skarbek	Skarbek, Snow, Robopop	5:11
12.	"Velvet Crowbar"	Lana Del Rey	Justin Parker, One Love	4:10

Deluxe Edition
No.	Title	Writer(s)	Producer(s)	Length
13.	"Depths of Blue"	Martinez, Snow, Robopop	Robopop	4:50
14.	"Monochrome"	Martinez, Kinetics & One Love	One Love, Nowels	3:44
15.	"2007"	Martinez, Robopop, Kahne	Kahne Robopop, Nowels	5:04
16.	"Money"	Martinez, Nowels, Antonoff	One Love	4:31
17.	"Asleep"	Martinez, Kinetics & One Love	Keenan, One Love, Nowels	4:07
18.	"Eclipse"	Martinez, Nowels, Keenan	Martinez, Antonoff, Keenan, Robopop	3:22

Cut Songs

Italic typing indicates that the song, snippets of the song, or lyrics have been leaked/posted/performed at some point.

Underlined typing indicates that the song's full studio version has been leaked or released.

• A Word Scheme
• Blindfolded
• Brown Study
• Heart Flag
• Ultraviolence

Trivia

• The album was completed on October 12^th, 2021.
• Unlike the other albums, this one didn't have a tour dedicated for it. Probably due to the pandemic.
• The longest track on the album is Final Photographs Pt. II, being five minutes and eleven seconds long.
  • Meanwhile, Black Canvas is the shortest being two minutes and twelve seconds long.
• Melanie answered in her Instagram story that her favorites in the album were Wild Goose Chase and Thorn.
  • Additionally, Lost Cause was her least favorite.
• Treadmill is the very first song that is recorded for the album.
  • It is also the only K-12 outtake in the album.
• Avalon was the hardest song to compose in the album, evident as it was the only track that needed a revamp.

Gallery

The tracklist/back cover of Everafter..

External Credits

• Ib Wiki.
• K-12 (Album) - Melanie Martinez Wiki.
• Sachiko Ever After - Corpse Party Wiki.
• Ultraviolence (Album) - Lana Del Rey Wiki.
• Ultraviolence (song) - Lana Del Rey Wiki.
• Velvet Crowbar (song) - Lana Del Rey Wiki.
• I Scream (song) - Melanie Martinez Wiki.

Special Thanks

• SnoeLeopard
• Cherriii.com
• And everyone who saw this album on its release.^^ <3

Inspirations

• Ambrosial (EP) by Crybabyxteardrop;
• Growntown (Album) by MelsCandyTown;
• Kingdom (Album) by ImAmy.X;
• Pencil Case (album) by CallMehPizza
• Sorrowland (Album) also by MelsCandyTown.