Why was Melanie scary? Because she’s Black? Because she has big curly hair?
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Mel basically got this nickname because she was loud as fuck. She had a loud flamboyant and almost rude personality & she couldn’t care less. Of course the hair and the tongue piercing helped TOTP mag to name her Scary, but the main reason was the fact she’d say whatever came across her mind (i.e. the most outrageous things). She was the spiciest one.