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Livingston’s music is the sound of reality and fiction colliding. The 22-year-old singer/songwriter and producer from Denton, Texas would spend much of his isolated youth honing in his passion for music to escape his anxiety. The sonic world he created pairs deeply personal, intimate, emotional lyrics and melodies alongside larger-than-life arrangements, production and musical layers. 

Having reclaimed his independence from a major record label one year ago, Livingston has been defining his world one song at a time, which has been building momentum exponentially across socials, streaming, and with true fan conversion. 2025 is off to a very exciting and impactful pace for Livingston, and isn’t slowing down any time soon.

Melanie Martinez's creative drive and talents have always distinguished her from other musicians. After releasing her platinum-certified 2015 debut album, Cry Baby—which reached No. 1 on Billboard's alternative albums chart and has amassed over two billion streams worldwide —she conceived and directed a video for each song on the album. These mini-movies traced the traumas and insecurities experienced by the album's character, Cry Baby.
 
Melanie’s sophomore album and film, K-12, is another ambitious triumph. K-12's music is a vibrant and singular melting pot of low-key hip-hop, soulful pop and indie-leaning electro. K-12's universe is an expansion of the one introduced in Cry Baby. Using lyrics rich with metaphor, songs address the struggle to find a place to belong—including within friendships, the physical world and romantically—even when fitting into society feels like an uphill battle.
 
To accompany the album, Martinez wrote and directed a 90-minute movie (also called K-12) that incorporates the album's music and mirrors the themes and characters introduced. Filmed on location in Budapest, Hungary, the movie focuses on Cry Baby (portrayed by Martinez) and a class of students who find themselves trapped in a horror house-like residential school. As they experience the usual grade school rites of passage—a lunch room food fight, the embarrassment of gym class, a romance with nefarious intentions, courses taught by checked-out teachers— they have to figure out a way to escape.

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