Melanie Martinez Skewers Toxic Masculinity, Online Haters, Climate Change and Lots More on the Intense Yet Accessible ‘Hades’: Album Review

By Jem Aswad

Jem Aswad

Executive Editor, Music

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Melanie Martinez may be the most reluctant star ever to sell out two nights at Madison Square Garden. Even as she rose to stardom as a teenager on “The Voice” a dozen-plus years ago and platinum status with her early albums, she never seemed comfortable with the trappings of fame, especially as a female artist, and became less so as the years went on. That situation that seemed to reach a conclusion with the imagery around her last album, 2023’s “Portals,” which found her wearing a bulbous, Bjork-esque mask (that she also wore onstage for the album’s tour).

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