I’m pretty excited for people to listen to the story of each song. It’s definitely like a giant book with different stories in it. They are all very child-like but also a balance between light and dark.
MELANIE MARTINEZI’m not used to writing about happy emotions, I’m just used to pulling from my sad or angry – happy emotions are very hard for me to portray in music.
More Melanie Martinez Quotes
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When I create it is the only time the past, present and future all meet me at once.
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Cry Baby is a character so I think that the next album is going to be about a specific thing in her life or another place in her world. It’s going to be a bit deeper into a bigger picture.
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Love starts inside of you.
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I definitely fall in love quickly, and I’m very in love with being in love. But it is hard for me to write about love.
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Just wanna be held once in a Blue Moon.
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I’m happy that I get to work with people that I enjoy being around. It’s really cool when people understand and want to help your vision and are like rooting for you. I just, I love them a lot.
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I was very vocal about how I wanted to be portrayed on the show, and how I wanted the stage setup to be.
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Just as quick as you receive my magic, I can take it away.
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It’s just weird because like when I was writing Cry Baby I like the only thing that I was thinking about, when writing it, was the concepts and the visuals, and the way that it sounded kind of happened naturally.
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I always mention toy sounds when I go into any session.
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Indulging in the pleasures of creation.
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There is a certain level of patience you have to have with yourself to get to the finish line.
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I have a few songs that I’m figuring out and writing. I’m still figuring out the whole concept and how it’s gonna connect to Cry Baby, but I have some ideas, yes.
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I’m insane, I’m emotional, but I’d rather be that than a robot. So that’s definitely something that I wanted to get out there. Especially with Cry Baby’s story, because the album is about Cry Baby but I realized that me and her went through the same change.
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We all have holes, chips and scratches on us but these wear marks represent our journey, our wisdom, our knowledge, our lessons learned, our strength, and our vitality.
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I don’t really think about what people think of my music, and how they listen to it or what my demographic is.
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Dollhouse was definitely inspired by the whole Edward Scissorhands vibe where all of the houses are perfect, but inside each home there are very messed up families.
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I’m very, very in touch with my emotions.
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Mark Ryden is my favorite visual artist.
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Doing music is time consuming, will drain you, and stress you out at times. But in the end if you love doing it, and you’re putting out music you’re proud of, it will never feel like work. It’ll just feel like love.
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My love language is chocolate.
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Cry Baby is just a character in this world that I’m trying to create, and the music videos are really important to me, and I’ve fought to obviously get all of them approved.
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I’m obsessed with the venue and the people so it’s going to be really fun.The last couple of tours I didn’t have anything like that because of the budget, so I’m super excited because this is really going to bring the album to life.
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Make sure this [music industry] is what you love to do, and you can’t imagine doing anything else.
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I’m happy that I get to work with people that I enjoy being around. It’s really cool when people understand and want to help your vision and are like rooting for you. I just, I love them a lot.
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I never had a lot of friends growing up so having this insane amount of love and support really means a lot to me.
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