Reasons why Melanie Martinez' new single from her latest album is anti-capitalist.

1) During the first verse of the song, the lyrics, "pack it, box it, flip it, top it," are sung in a very precise manner and with allegro "sung fast." This is very symbolic of a factory line both lyrically and tempo-wise (speed of the rhythm).

This is a musical allegory to labor and the repetitiveness and mundanity of the tasks. Hence why the lyrics also involve physically boxing products at "the bakery."

2) Also regarding lyrics, we move into the second verse which is shorter than the first one in which she discusses her employer "mother Mary" which is a metaphor for both the Christian mother Mary and societies' zealots. Which has dual-meaning.

It first means that the employer listed is benevolent, offering up things in exchange for the labor (virgin Mary) but also indicates a ruthlessness behind the kindness and a motive (society).

In this verse of the song, the employer assesses Melanie's productivity (the profit after labor is deducted from the price of total goods sold) and is unimpressed. She ruthlessly stamps out Melanie, probably indicating her spirit and demeanor, and sends her to "purgatory"

Purgatory is defined by Google as, "a place or state of suffering inhabited by the souls of sinners who are expiating their sins before going to heaven." A reference to both sexism and the ruthless doctrine of capitalists above.

3) The third verse is self-explanatory. It references overtime labor/5 day work weeks and the ruthless brainwashing of members of capitalist society to, quote on quote, "get that bread."

The lines, "it ain't for me to roll it out, it's just for me to raise the dough," is indicating her role in capitalism isn't to profit but to be exploited under her capitalist leaders. Her job is to make the product puff, pretty, and ready to sale.

End of thread/ I want to point out that the song is in every way also about sexist views of women and how they dress and many of my examples are also evidence of that. "Mother Mary" is society and not reaching societies/religious standards of women's sexuality/promiscuity.

But I felt it was a fun/interesting take on what I personally took the meaning of the song to be. As "fuck 12 and fuck the leaders who created this exploitative, unjust system."