Portals (Album)

## Portals

### Writers

CJ Baran, Dark Waves, Glen Garth, Hoskins, Kinetics, Melanie Martinez, Omer Fedi, One Love, Phil Garth & Simon Says

***PORTALS*** (stylized in all uppercase) is the third studio album by Melanie Martinez. It was released on March 31st, 2023, while her second feature film is planned to come out the next year. This album marks Melanie's first release to be credited under the role of music producer. The deluxe version was released on April 5th, 2023, featuring three bonus tracks.

## History

Coinciding with the release of *K-12* in September 2019, during an interview with *People Magazine* Melanie announced how she had planned out her next two films after *K-12*, "I have my next film planned out, as far as what I want to do – and the film after that and they both have albums attached to them." During an Instagram Q&A on January 8th, 2020, where Melanie asked fans for questions relating to her musical future in the new year, a fan asked "Will we have a new film?" and Melanie replied, "I'm planning on putting out music videos for this year. As for the next film I make, it will be attached to my third album and that will probably take a while to conjure up."

In an interview with The KnockTurnal, Melanie touched on Cry Baby's growth in her upcoming projects: "She's gonna be evolving and transforming as a being. Her growth isn’t going to be as literal. She’s not gonna go to college, you know, it’s not going to be like that. But she’s definitely going to transform and evolve, but I can’t say anything or else it’ll be a spoiler".In an interview with *Billboard*, Melanie was asked "What can fans expect from your in-the-works music?" and she responded, "A completely new dimension of the world I've created thus far," stating how her future music would be different from her past work.

On November 9th, 2020, Melanie revealed on the Travis Mills Show that she would be making the album with the same producers who helped on her debut album, *Cry Baby*, commenting on her session with *Kinetics* and *One Love* that was already booked. In the same interview, she also stated that the movie would "ratio out" to have "more film than musical scenes."

On December 16th, 2020, during an interview with *Hollywood Life,* Melanie revealed that the second film will "pick up" where the first one “left off” with a cliffhanger, saying that: “You’re not going to see like a clip from K-12 in the next movie, it’s not gonna be like that type of picking up, but it will be technically picking up from where it left off.” On January 7th, 2021, during an interview with the Grammy Museum, Melanie confirmed that there will be 13 tracks on the album just like her previous two albums. Additionally, in one of the slides of the Instagram post, she was seen performing/singing an unknown song. This was later confirmed as "TUNNEL VISION" Also in 2021, Melanie was also seen on an Instagram story dancing, recording, and singing to an unknown song from her third album. The song was later confirmed to be "FAERIE SOIRÉE".

On January 24th, 2022, Melanie stated she would try to release the album's first single during March or April.On February 21st, 2022, during a meet and greet, Melanie confirmed that the album would have 13 songs and some form of a deluxe. She also stated that the lead single would be released sometime in spring 2022 along with a music video, and there would be no featured artists on the album. Additionally, she said that she would like to create music videos for her favorite songs on the album, and release the film separate from the album.

On March 20th, 2022, Melanie Martinez posted a photo shoot she did with Verde. Following this, Coach Wave proceeded to post a behind-the-scenes video of the shoot to his Instagram, captioning the post "Mother of Pearl". On July 31st, 2022, Melanie posted an Instagram story, where she announced that the album is in the mixing stage and that she hopes to release it in the earlier part of 2023. In the same story, she also said that she will put out a couple of songs and music videos in 2022, to start the new era.

## Tracklist

1. DEATH
2. VOID
3. TUNNEL VISION
4. FAERIE SOIRÉE
5. LIGHT SHOWER
6. SPIDER WEB
7. LEECHES
8. BATTLE OF THE LARYNX
9. THE CONTORTIONIST
10. MOON CYCLE
11. NYMPHOLOGY
12. EVIL
13. WOMB

### Deluxe Tracklist

1. POWDER
2. PLUTO
3. MILK OF THE SIREN