Soap by Melanie Martinez Song Info
''Soap'' is the sixth track on Melanie Martinez's debut album, Cry Baby, and was released as a single on July 10, 2015. The music video was released on November 18, 2015 as a double feature with Training Wheels. In an interview with ELLE, Melanie stated that the song is about being vulnerable and being afraid to express deeper feelings such as love, so it feels like 'washing your mouth out with soap', a technique used in older days where adults used to wash with soap the mouth of a child who would say obscenities. Her struggles to say how she felt about her crush to him in this story feel exactly like this, they make her feel ashamed and vulnerable. She is afraid by saying "I love you" she would be putting their relationship in an awkward position. He'll have to either respond similarly or reject her advances. Either outcome will hurt, in the long or short run. The lyric, "threw a toaster in the bathtub" is a metaphor for the quick electric shock of change she made by saying what she said. It might mean sudden death for their friendship.
