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MOON CYCLE

Melanie Martinez
Track 10 on PORTALS (Deluxe) 

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CJ Baran & Pearl Lion
“MOON CYCLE” is a song by singer-songwriter Melanie Martinez, featured as the tenth track on her third studio album, PORTALS. “MOON CYCLE” was firstly released as a snippet… Read More 
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“MOON CYCLE” is a song by singer-songwriter Melanie Martinez, featured as the tenth track on her third studio album, PORTALS. “MOON CYCLE” was firstly released as a snippet, and was soon performed on March 18, 2023. It released alongside the album on March 31, 2023.

The song deals with the stereotypes of women during their menstruation. Popular media portrays women to be weak and undesirable when on their period, but Martinez begs to disagree:

With the conflict of patriarchal society brainwashing straight cis men to believe they should have any kind of say over other people’s bodies, I wanted to make the song extra uncomfy for them by going on to describe a man who lives for period sex.

Some lines of the song are a possible jab to her ex-boyfriend Oliver Tree’s song “revival,” where he makes stereotypical and misogynistic statements about women on their periods.

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What did Melanie Martinez say about "MOON CYCLE"?
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I wrote this song in the portal room alone over a guitar loop by Pearl Lion. On each of my albums, I like to include at least one ‘taboo’ song about something many people deal with, but no one talks about in music: I wanted to write a fun, light-hearted song about being a person who experiences menstruation, how blood represents vitality and life. I wanted the chorus to be pretty and to use analogies for bleeding that were sweet. The rumbling sounds that lead into the song are my actual period cramps, recorded on my phone. With the conflict of patriarchal society brainwashing straight cis men to believe they should have any kind of say over other people’s bodies, I wanted to make the song extra uncomfy for them by going on to describe a man who lives for period sex.

—via Apple Music

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PORTALS (Deluxe) (2023)
  1. 1.
    DEATH
  2. 2.
    VOID
  3. 3.
    TUNNEL VISION
  4. 4.
    FAERIE SOIRÉE
  5. 5.
    LIGHT SHOWER
  6. 6.
    SPIDER WEB
  7. 7.
    LEECHES
  8. 8.
    BATTLE OF THE LARYNX
  9. 9.
    THE CONTORTIONIST
  10. 10.
    MOON CYCLE
  11. 11.
    NYMPHOLOGY
  12. 12.
    EVIL
  13. 13.
    WOMB
  14. 14.
    POWDER
  15. 15.
    PLUTO
  16. 16.
    MILK OF THE SIREN
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March 31, 2023
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