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Dollhouse . Composed by Melanie Martinez 2014, www.youtube.com/watch?v=HcVv9R1ZR84.
Dollhouse , 9 Feb. 2014 , genius.com/Melanie-martinez-dollhouse-lyrics.

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Pathos is used in the video to make you feel the mom's sadness when she realized that her husband is cheating on her and family distance in the family photo

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It uses logo in the video to show the family's drug problem the mom with alcohol and the brother with smoking weed.

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Melanie Martinez - Dollhouse (Official Music Video)

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The song "Dollhouse" uses several appeals throughout the lyrics and in the video to convey that Crybaby's family is dysfunctional and has a lot of problems. Both the lyrics and the video can stand alone in showing the song's meaning and overall message. Overall, Melaine is effective in both the lyrics and the video in convincing his audience that Crybaby's family is dysfunctional and has a lot of problems.

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"Dollhouse" is about a family that appears to be perfect on the outside looking in, yet it's far from it. It was later revealed that it serves as a prequel to "Sippy Cup," in which we find out what goes down in the kitchen.

In "Dollhouse," her mother is an alcoholic due to her husband's infidelity, and the son is engulfed in the life of drugs. The daughter is the only one that sees the tragedy surrounding her.

However, "Dollhouse" has a different meaning to Melanie:

Personally, it's about how everyone has their problem and you're never gonna truly see them. There's always gonna be a front to everything. You think that things are perfect, but everyone has shit that they go through.

This family is visualized as the dolls living inside of a playhouse that belongs to a little girl. Since the daughter knows the truth about her dysfunctional family, she narrates the song in an attempt to get the girl to understand her reality.

The story and illustration for this song appear on the fifth page of the Cry Baby storybook, reading:

And in her picture-perfect home
Momma's drunk while daddy moans
Her brother always comes home stoned
She watches in her room alone

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Dollhouse Lyrics: Hey girl, open the walls / Play with your dolls / We'll be a perfect family / When you walk away is when we really play / You don't hear me when I say / "Mom, please wake up / Dad'

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Ethos in lyrics

Melanie uses a lot of ethos in her lyrics in her songs as there is a lot of connections that you need to make in the song one lyrics where she does that is in the line “Put on your doll face” the reason why this is a ethos appeal is because you would need to understand that when you refer to something being a doll face is that it looks fake and plastics and looks to perfect to actually be a real things which is what she wants to convey in her song as Crybaby feels that she needs to be prefect all the time for her family.

She also uses ethos in the line “she pulls out a flask and forgets his infidelity” because you would need to have the connections of the a flask usually holds an alcoholic beverage and that the mom is using drinking as a coping mechanism to forget about all of the infidelity that the dad is doing.

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Logos in the lyrics

Melanie uses a lot of logos in her lyrics we can see this in when we are looking at the line Dad’s with a slut“ this is logos because of how literal it is. She is directly telling you that her dad is with a slut and this is effective because it shows how dysfunctional her family is with her dad cheating with her mom.

Another line where she uses logos in the lyrics is in the line “picture smile for the picture” because she is literally telling you  that she needs to force herself to smile for these family picture even when she doesn’t want to this is effective in showing how she need to portray that her family is happier than what it actually is.

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Thesis

Crybaby acting as the speaker attempts to tell people who are interested in her story that her family is very dysfunctional. They use the appeals of logos and ethos in the lyrics and the appeal of logos and pathos in the video to get this message across.

In analyzing the lyrics and video, it appears that their use of appeals is effective in convincing their effective in convincing their intended audience.

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Introduction – Soaps
The song “Dollhouse” appears to have Melanie Martinez character Crybaby as the speaker of the song who is also the speaker of the whole album called “Crybaby”. The song does have reason for its existence, the occasion for this song is that it’s a prequal to one of Melanie’s other songs called “Sippy Cup”. This song was supposed to give backstory to her character’s Crybabies life and most importantly her family life and how her homelife looks like.

Her audience is people who are interested in her story and her life. The purpose of creating this song was to make something giving backstory to Crybabies’ home life. The subject piece is Crybabies’ dysfunction family with the infidelity that dad is doing, mom’s alcoholism, the brothers drug problem, and lastly how crybaby is trying to deal with it.  The song overall has a very spooky tone as that is Melanie’s favorite way of portraying her music