I just wanted to mention that after some research- my father and I both respect this music video and understand the meaning behind the music. I believe that after we go back and watch her other music videos, we will have a better understanding of what is going on here. This video was requested so much and so I decided to do this one first because I had no idea who this artist even was beforehand. Seeing her in this with no context or story of how she got here threw us off (as you can see). So, I apologize if any of this video was offensive toward her and her creative team. This was an amazing piece of work and a deep meaningful song.
PS- My father says the song sounds "happy"- in which he means the musical portion. We know the lyrics and the video itself are quite the opposite.
Thank you everyone for watching!

I still cant believe that she didn't win the VMA for the best visual effects. Like she's the only one who makes those incredible effects and creative stories

I think it's best to watch Melanie's discography in the correct order because she tells a story which can be confusing to understand if you start in the middle. Her art is pretty surreal. Crybaby album is the starter of this story. I highly recommend you check out the MVs she did for that album.

she can dance, but her friend actually made this choreography. in my opinion it really matches the song, and music video, cause you know the song is about anxiety, and when you’re having an anxiety attack. you start to breathe heavy, and shake. feel dizzy. its all so perfect, but again we all have opinions and i respect yalls opinion!

HAHAHA MY FAVOURITE PART WAS WHEN HE MENTIONED THE LYRICS WERE MISERABLE AND THE BEAT WAS HAPPY😭😭 THATS THE WHOLE IDEA OF MELANIE MARTINEZ BROO

this being your first introduction to melanie is so funny 😭

Melanie has been writing, self-directing and co-editiong all her MVs, Performances, etc since the beginning of her career (even wrote and directed a feature length film for her sophomore album titled “K-12”). She's quite passionate about visual art and used to be a photographer in high school before making music. This song is from her 3rd studio album called PORTALS; the final part of the “Crybaby” trilogy! Crybaby is this character/alter-ego she has created from whose perspective melanie tells a story throughout her albums. PORTALS depicts that crybaby has died now and reincarnated into a new vessel as she goes through the different stages of afterlife.

99% yapping 1% listening 💀😭

Melanie is a great rabbit hole to dive into. She creates the concept and directs all of her MVs, and they are all connected between them telling one big story. This song is about mental health struggle and you can see in the MV that she's inside her own body and the intrusive thoughts and self criticism (represented by many forms, including a incubation of bad thoughts inside her) are bringing her down and trying to harm her. And she tries to scape and get rid of them but they keep coming back till the end. Her own eyes are staring and judging her. She is herself inside her heart, but when she's out she goes straight to her mind which is flashing those bad thoughts...

As someone who has been a long time fan of Melanie since her first album it’s hilarious to see two people who’ve NEVER SEEN ANY OF her content or music and not know what to expect, like the utter shock from the very first moment had me cackling, I was like “oooooh buckle up buddy”

In this song its acualy not meant to be happy. melanie directly said this song was about anxiety, so it makes sense why theres so many things on the mv because it's supposed to represent anxiety.  As a person who has anxiety, melanie made the lyrics so great on anxiety. And what i love about melanies film directing is you cant tell which are props or which are cgi.

Melanie Martinez is my all time favorite artist. She is so special in my heart because she talks about sensitive things most artists won’t. Shes not afraid to show her true self in every piece of work she puts out. VOID is my #1 favorite song and I think its worth noting she self wrote and produced this song on her own, but also directed this music video along with most (if not all) of her other music videos. Shes a very visual artist and has creative design behind everything!!

Fan fact, she directed and produced this video. Like she does to most of her videos. You guys should do more of her. Plus to understand Melanie's videos, you need to know the whole story from the Cry baby album. Its why this may not make sense... lol

I’ve personally never seen a better visual representation of what it feels like to have your own head be your worst enemy. I think her whole album concept and the new look is supposed to represent the feeling of not being your body and wanting to crawl outside of yourself and be who you really are

“it’s like an alice in wonderland” MAD HATTER

Dad gets it with the symbolism !

I honestly look so deep into her music videos, The song is really about anxiety and suicidal thoughts, The eye represents how anxiety watches her closely. the song in general is her trying to escape from those empty thoughts

About your eyeball theory, the eyeball does not represent all eyes on her, she has a song called Show and Tell for that. The reason why there is an eyeball is because she has insecurity escaping her body. And all the other replicas of her are more insecurities attacking her. Hope this helps <3!

She performs in that costume. She said she can barely see out of it. She’s amazing

I LOVE Melanie, she is just so quirky and different from everyone else! If you are interested, her first album CryBaby has a music video for every single song on the standard edition. You'd want to watch them in order. Her second album, K-12 shows Crybaby going through school, there is a full film on YouTube (the music videos are part of the movie). This music video is from her third album Portals. It's the afterlife of the character. We are hoping for a film but so far this and "Death" are the only music videos.