Melicious
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"Melicious" is the title of the second album by singer Melissa Lefton. The album was due for release on September 11, 2001 on Jive Records but that release was suspended indefinitely.
The album featured well-produced pop songs that, when given a closer listen, were filled with bitterness, anger and social commentary. The song "Radio Rainbow" addressed date rape; "Sunnyville" was a song about occultism. The song "My Hit Song" was an ironic ditty imploring the listener to make the song itself a hit.
Lefton's image was tooled intentionally to mime that of other successful young pop stars like Britney Spears, when in fact Lefton is nearly thirty years old. This led to comparisons to Cyndi Lauper, who also wrote socially conscious pop songs geared toward a young audience when she was in her thirties.
As evidence of what was intended to be a heavily promoted project, the only songs commercially released by Lefton appeared on soundtracks. "He Blinded Me With Science," a cover of the Thomas Dolby classic, appeared on the soundtrack to "Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius." "I Love Life" appeared on the soundtrack to The Princess Diaries.
The only copies of the album that exist are full length promotional copies. There are two variations; one is an acetate promo which has a stick-on label and comes in an orange jewel case. The other comes in a cardboard sleeve and features Lefton in a t-shirt with a jolly roger on it. Though the image displayed here was the publicized actual album cover, no actually produced albums in circulation feature it. A three song sampler also exists which plays the songs "My Hit Song," "Ozone" and "Sugar Daddy".
A promotional short film was created to promote the album. Called "Behind the Muse", it was a fictionalized mockumentary spoofing the Behind the Music program and format. In it Lefton is depicted as an already-famous musician who rose to fame as a pop star only to succumb to an IV addiction to Sunny Delight. After a nearly fatal car crash she records an album called "Ow!", and then revitalizes her career as a Las Vegas lounge singer. The humor in the film is decidedly not for young people; for example, regarding her addiction, Lefton states: "I was making love to sweaty bums just to score a hit of Sunny D, and it didn't feel good on my vagina."
Despite Lefton's moderate level of fame, copies of the promo frequently sell for $50 or more on ebay.
[edit] Tracklist
- My Hit Song
- ...Now I Got Punk Rock Fever
- Radio Rainbow
- Ozone
- Last Summer
- Sugar Daddy
- Bionic Man
- Sunnyville
- I Love Life
- Who Shot Jennifer?
- I Know You Want Me (How Can I Blame You?)
[edit] Sample lyrics
"My Hit Song"
- This is my hit song/This is my one chance/To be a rock star/Come on adore me/I have a cool band/We have a stylist/Our lyrics convey a certain youthful rage
"...Now I Got Punk Rock Fever"
- Baby, tell me, when you hit that vein/how long does it take to get to your brain?/(Read books, rollerblade/Wash your hair and get good grades)/Bangin' my head against the wall/helps me to say 'just screw it all!'/(Milk, milk, lemonaid/Round the corner fudge is made)
"Radio Rainbow"
- I remember thinking what I was drinking tasted so strange/Like a hurricane to my brain/All my thoughts became rearranged/I see radio rainbow/as I run from the party
"Ozone"
- There's a million people crashing every day on the open highway (Whoo hoo!)/There are Texacos and chemicals contaminating DNA (Ow!)/...Oh what a crime, what a crying shame/I know that the world is full of pain/We're all gonna die and that ain't no lie!/(Shake your booty!)
"Sugar Daddy"
- Sugar daddy, my heart belongs to you/Sugar Daddy, I'll give it up to you/And it won't be long until you die/...for me
"Sunnyville"
- Children now, don't delay/The dawning of a brand new day in Sunnyville/It's in the guide book, page 83/Sever ties with the family for eternity/You can fly away to Venus/Shoot on over to Mars/Then you're just one more pill til' Sunnyville
"I Know You Want Me (How Can I Blame You?)"
- I'm cuter than you/and all of your friends too/Please don't dare to be as cute as me/When you see my tight behind/You might feel the need to grind/But you're not the only one so inclined
