Melanie Martinez: Alphabet Boy Meaning

Alphabet Boy Lyrics

You're always aiming paper airplanes at me when you're around
You build me up like building blocks just so you can bring me down
You can crush my candy cane but you'll never catch me cry
If you dangle that diploma and I deck you, don't be...

1. anonymous

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   Sep 26th 2017 !⃝

   I always thought that it was about her older brother from Cry Baby who wrote "Cry Baby" on her birth certificate. And maybe when she says "f*** your degree, alphabet boy" I thought it maybe ment those little certificates you get from graduating Kindergarten and preschool and all that.
2. anonymous

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   Sep 25th 2017 !⃝

   I feel this song is about those kinds of popular boys who tease innocent girls about being "stupid" and what not. Melanie is trying to prove that she isn't dumb, and that they need to stop treating her like crap. I have been through this, and I am relating to this song so hard right now.
3. meh

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   Aug 12th 2017 !⃝

   i think it is about her crush at school and she wants him to stop teasing her so she tells him to f*** off.

   This interpretation has been marked as poor. view anyway
4. anonymous

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   Aug 12th 2017 !⃝

   This is about Cry Baby with the guy from Carousel. (Also one of Melanie's past boyfriends) Cry Baby was stuck in this relationship, and he was also teaching her things she already knew. So she broke up with him. That's what Alphabet Boy is. Cry Baby's break up song.
5. anonymous

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   Aug 4th 2017 !⃝

   I think the point of the song "Alphabet Boy" was a relationship going the wrong way between her and the guy that she was dating
6. anonymous

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   Jul 10th 2017 !⃝

   I think the meaning of the song is her trying to tell other people that they cant boss her around and that you should stick up for the people "bringing you down."
7. anonymous

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   Jun 20th 2017 !⃝

   Crybaby is in a fight with a boy named alphabet boy and she is saying all that to alphabet boy because there in a fight so she is being mean to him and when shes says but you one the spellimg bee now but are you sanetre then me now he is saying that to her as pay back.
8. Grey_Assassin

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   May 30th 2017 !⃝

   This song is about the boy from Carousel. He tries to help her write better songs, and he's acting superior. Crybaby realized that, so with this song, she is saying, "I can write my own songs, and I don't need your help. I am smart, and I don't care if your a college grad, wazz off!"
9. anonymous

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   Apr 12th 2017 !⃝

   This song is about her teacher who always called her dumb and thought she wasn't able to learn and be smart so she called him bad things like poop and chip wrappers
10. anonymous

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    Mar 21st 2017 !⃝

    This song is about Crybaby getting over her crush once she realized he didn't love her back.
11. anonymous

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    Feb 20th 2017 !⃝

    I think she's telling the boy that eventhough she didn't get a degree, it doesn't mean he's smarter. I think she's trying to say that she is smart as well.
12. anonymous

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    Feb 5th 2017 !⃝

    It's about a guy who's throws inderects at her while they are together even after the realationship (if any)she says fuck his degree although he keeps teaching her is about just when you think you have life figured out it never fails to surprise us that makes us realize we never stop learning life's lessons.. but she'll get up get herself together and be on her own without the having to be codependent on him..
13. anonymous

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    Jan 4th 2017 !⃝

    I think its about her authority figures testing her intelligence and they may only care about money
14. anonymous

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    Nov 29th 2016 !⃝

    Its the teacher duh. Him with his stupid degree she talks about and how he is always counting his coins (teaching the class how to count) she knows her abcs he keeps teaching her he is alphabet boy he knows poetry it is obvious she wants to get big and spell her name on the fridge "the prince of the playground" or the superviser
15. anonymous

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    Nov 26th 2016 !⃝

    I think it's about a boy being condescending towards Crybaby, and she's telling him to fuck off.

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